Dd module01 journal

Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2018 JADE LAVANA HSU 916583 Siavash Malek / Studio 18

Week One

Reading: Zeara Polo, A. 2010. Between Ideas and Matters.

According to Zeara-Polo, the diagram does not play a representational role in the design process but provides an organisational and can have a performative quality depending on how it is deployed. Explain how Diagram is different from Signs and Symbols? (100 words Maximum)

Diagram refers to a variety of factors which serves a more pragmatic idea than representational forms that drew from signs and symbols. A diagram not only can describe concepts and relationships among objects but also prescribes performances in space. Moreover, it relates to the process that may occur not only in three-dimensional space but in some other dimensions of reality, which may generate complicated organizations whereas signs and symbols represent dynamic object directly and formally.

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Week One

Precedent Analysis

Image1(top-left). Section reference Image2 (top-right). Parts include Inside benches with the supporting structure and garden hole.

Image3 (left). Final modelling.

Firstly, I imported the plan and section drawings and adjust the size into the right scale. As there was a difficulty to find the actual length and width of the pavilion, I used a plan with a 1:50 scale bar as the standard. After tracing and extruding the roof structure lines from the section drawing(Image 1.), I made the box with the inside corridors by using array command then trim the overlapping parts at the corners. Then, I traced the lines of the inside structure such as the bench with its supporting and the hole for plantations (Image 2.). Connecting the outside box and the inside structure and cutting out the doors (total six outside and four for inside), the final modelling was completed. (Image 3.)

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Week Two

Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture.

Herzberger discusses how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use. (100 words Maximum)

Aim to be a ‘garden within a garden’ pavilion, Peter Zumthor’s 2011 Serpentine Pavilion allows people to experience the space through the darkness in narrow corridors and then enter the central garden in the middle of the pavilion. This embodied Herzberger’s ‘in-between’ concept which discuss the flexibility of space that encourages people to behave in different ways in the most comfortable position. With the bench and several tables around the central garden, it brings out the core consideration of Zumthor’s thought, which is to make people feel relax and pleased by siting and exploring around the garden gallery inside the pavilion.

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Week Two Isometric

Zumthor 2011 Serpentine Pavilion The isometric view is taken from the South-East viewpoint since the level of light and darkness and part of the structure under the angular roof are clearer and more visible from this angle. In the modelling process, it is not a difficult precedent to model in Rhino as it has a symmetrical and geometrical form to shape. The only problem that I faced is that the imported plan and section view were too blur which had a trouble to find the right scale of this pavilion.

Despite the threshold is shaped by the structure itself, it is also defined by the light conditions and pathways. As people starts to walk on the pathways, the experience of the pavilion begins. They would follow the path and feel curious about what is inside since the inner space are seperated from the outside which creates a sense of mysteriousness. The circulation is informed by the double solid walls and openings, which finally gathering people from outside into the centre of the pavilion and creates chances for people interacting with each others.

Whereas this pavilion has a simple main structure and shape, it consists of a great variety of contempletion and thoughtful intention from Zumthor which he called this pavilion ‘the house of the poem‘ that he designed it for the purpose that people who experienced the space could enjoy the relaxed moment and start to write a poem within their minds.

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Week Two

Diagrams

12pm 3pm

8am

Threshold ww Diagram

Circulation Diagram

As the threshold is the point which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be produced, it is defined by not only the structure itself but the light condition generated by the sunlight which creates a ‘light-dark-light’ experience from the pathways to the central garden.

The circulation paths demonstrate the movement of people while the form of the structure may differ people’s speed as the dark narrow corridor encourages people to keep moving while in the central garden, which is the focal point, they may stop to see the view or have a sit on the benches.

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Appendix Process

Testing different ways of cutting the pavilion to demonstrate the most sutible perspective view of the internal corridor and the central garden.

Cutting through the long axis of the pavilion.

Hard to show the connection among inside and outside doors.

Cutting out the whole roof to show different spaces defined by the walls and it is easily to generate the circulation paths from primary to second primary space.

Cutting from the diagonal line. This cutting damaged the form of the structure which is hard to tell the actual shape from the perspective view.

Cutting through the short axis of the pavilion.

Able to show doorway indide but difficult to make people movement through the whole building.

Delete the lines of two external walls and keep the pathways in order to present the outside entrances. This 2D drawing is able to describe concept that the form of structure may affect the speed of people’s movement.

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Appendix Process

12pm

Diagrams and Isometric view makiing 3pm

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+ Overlapping sunlight from 8am to 11am.

Overlapping sunlight from 12pm to 3pm.

+ Framed the dark spaces within the pavilion

8am

Join together as a diagram with adding sun symbol and time.

= Adding gradiation of the area around the middle courtyard with the entrances

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Final shadow diagram

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Appendix Process

Rendered screenshot with shadows

Outline

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CurveBoolean to emphasize the form

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Final version of the isometric elevation with the texture of the pavilion and a shaded platform

First version of the isometric elevation with the texture of the grass. Though it could show the landscape material, it looks too colorful on the templete.

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