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CONTENTS ONE. 1.1 Personal Background 1.2 Digital architecture experience 1.3 Precedents
ABOUT ME I’m Lola and currently undertaking my third and final year studying Architecture within the Bachelor of Environments at The University of Melbourne. Born and grew up in Melbourne but being half German, I have spent a lot of my time abroad as well as living over there for periods at a time. I think this has had a huge impact on my interest in both architcture and urban design- the way in which cities do and don’t function. As well as studying I have a huge passion for travelling, photography and also designing some of my own jewelry.
DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE EXPERIENCE Over the past two years undertaking my undergradute degree, I’ve been exposed to many different computer aided design programs. My skills however vary, I feel comfortable communicating my designs through programs such as the Adobe Suite and AutoCAD to bring plans to life. While not being entirely compitent with my 3D modelling skills, I did become familiar with Rhino earlier in my degree. This required me to generate a model digitally and then flatten its surface in order to assemble it as a physical being, as pictured above. That being said, I feel that all digital programming should be used as a tool for enhancing and aiding the architecture industry and the greater world of design, not as a way of producing and churning out designs*. *change word/s. lecture and readings from week 1 to discuss architecture as a discourse.
PRECEDENT PROJECTS Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank O. Gehry & Partners, Los Angeles. Frank Gehry’s work has always resonated with me but it is the Walt Disney Concert Hall (2003), with it’s bright silver gleam shining in a historically prominent part of downtown L.A that intrigues me. It provides an almost furturistic exterior, yet the project begain in the late 1980’s. It’s scupture like shell is meshed with a soft interior, a mixture of timber and whites. Initially, physical models were made, stacking forms together to create shapes without any computer modelling at all. It was all about spontanious experimentation and from that process, a pattern emerged of sail like forms (pg 152, architecture in the Digital Age,). kjsdgflllllllllja ;eflafu glugflsagfhljsgsda ggggfjds fdhfgjsad,fg sdfh,sdf ,sdfhjgsa dfghjsaf hjlF kjsdgflllllllllja ;eflafu glugflsagfhljsgsda ggggfjds fdhfgjsad,fg sdfh,sdf ,sdfhjgsa dfghjsaf hjlFkjsdgflllllllllja ;eflafu glugflsagfhljsgsda ggggfjds fdhfgjsad,fg sdfh,sdf ,sdfhjgsa dfghjsaf hjlF kjsdgflllllllllja ;eflafu glugflsagfhljsgsda ggggfjds fdhfgjsad,fg sdfh,sdf ,sdfhjgsa dfghjsaf hjlF This design challanges the way modern architecture of today interacts with digital technology and programming. Here is a design which has come firstly from the head and the hand and then undergone a series of digital* remodelling. This style of designing really resonates* with me, where 3D programming* is used secondary to designing from the mind.
PRECEDENT PROJECTS Helios House by Johnston Marklee, Los Angeles. Helios House (2007) is the perfect example of how good design can help break down social moulds without compromising on cutting edge design. Designed to ‘take small steps towards a sustainable future’ (Johnston Marklee, 2013 website http://www.johnstonmarklee.com/?n=archive&id=2&info), Helios House is aiming to be the gas station of the future. From a design point of view, its stainless steel triangle shaped shell, mimics the way in which programs such as Rhino are able to create a tessellated mesh like structure. And in the case of Helios House, it is the cladding which has integrated technical innovation with careful design. It’s prefrabricated panels allow the whole design to unify in to one structure through its complex geometry (http://www.metalmag.com/industrialprojects/helios-house.aspx).