ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO: EARTH S1, 2016 EARTH BOOK
Liang Chen 743080 Dani Mileo STUDIO15
MODEL BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
POINT/LINE/PLANE MASS FRAME&INFILL
SECRET
REFLECTION BIBLIOGRAPHY
POINT/LINE/PLANE MODEL BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
IDEA DEVELOPMENT Point on the same plane, the lines cutting through the panel, intersecting with each other, work as pattern and decoration. The multi-surface building introduces the ideas of complexity through the number of planes and lines as well as twisting and folding. Top point gives a sense of ending with a complex lines and planes underneath it.
WORK BY McBride Charles Ryan, 2014
POINT When this idea comes to the model, it starts with a single point with several straight lines radiating from the starting point.
LINES The second portion of the model is planes may develop between two lines, however, the main element in the second part is line. Lines can be in various direction and different length.
PLANES The last part is about plane. Planes need lines and points to limit its boundaries and to enhance its complexity.
MODEL BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
MASS
WORK BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
WORK BY WENDELL BURNETTE, 2014
IDEA DEVELOPMENT End with a Usually mass architecture gives out a sense of heavness and solidness. Inspired by Burnette's application of adding thin elements on heavy building to creat strong contrast. Applying this idea to the section drawing by using glass with led lights to creat this
close space c a n
b e
seen but no sense of strong contrast, also provides light source since the openings to sunlights are not enough for lighting the whole space.
entrance.
Mass suggests large volume, however, the massive volume can not come from no where. Where the mass digging out from the ground, the uderground space will automaticlly create nagetive space with identical shape and volume. The whole underground space will be a large hall with no solid wall but glass panels and lights on top. Through the glass walkway on the ground level will be sunlights coming in, which helps enhance the sense of fragileness.
MODEL BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
The frame provided has already given the richness of square with no solid space. The infill elements will stay with the shape of square or volume of cube. The only curve element in the model is the ground floor extending out roof. Solid cubes with two sizes and grass on the bottom of the large one. Same as the curve roof, both help creates the sense of antigravity. Even the hollow out decoration for the wall has utilised the same pricipled used in former projects, which is about the light and shadow. All elements are in horizontal or vertical lines that help to keep the overall theme neat, tidy and respond to square.
FRAME&INFILL HUMAN EYE VIEW
PROGRESS WORKING DRAWING
DRAWING BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
HERRING ISLAND
SECRETS
MODEL BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
The main theme of the secret is usually about hiding from others. This project is trying to
REVEAL
the secret by putting the secret in
front of you but you will not be able to realise it.
Thinking the cube as the secret in this project, then dissolving it to six seperate volumes, which could add up to a complete cube. When placing those elements in various directions and in a linear horizontal way. The change of the order of the elements has also changed people's first impression of the project, which help keeping the secret present in front of people.
IDEA DEVELOPMENT WORK BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
CONCEPTACLE
DRAWING BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
TERRAIN ANALYSIS
NORTHWEST SIDE
WHOLEISLAND
HERRING ISLAND North East Side
PHOTO BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
HUMAN ACTIVITY DENSITY HIGH
LOW
DRAWING BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
SITE CHOICE
For site choosing, better to choose a place where initially provides the space that the project needed. For this reason I chose the north-west side of the site since the plant covering is less here, the terrain is relatively gentle and kind of seperated by a small sharp hill with the rest of the island. And less tress need to be cut in this area since the plants grew here are bushy not high trees. Across the river is the M3 freeway, whcih could help with the idea of REVEALING. Since the large amout of people passing by from M3, it may help people realise the secret hiding in this project.
DRAWING BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
ROOF PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
PLANS GROUND PLAN
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BASEMENT PLAN
DRAWING BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
PERSPECTIVE
DRAWING BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
JOURNEY THROUGH THE PROJECT After the first large building, the journey will continue with the second functional building, which enbeded in with toilets, and a stroage room with two door openings, internal and external openings. The material application changed on the roof of this building but choosing different transparancy glass.
The main buidling part of the project. For providing wide view of the overall buildings and their shape, help people realising the secret.
SECTIONS 1ďźš50
In the last part of the project will be three small elements joining together. The first part is a slope with gentle angle leading people to the second part. The triangle decoration on the both side of the wall in the first part is the hint for this part for people realising it a triangle.
The second part is a staris towards u nderground space. The width only allowed one person to get through it. The window opening is placed on the top of the wall for creatinga sense of overwhelming together with several concrete columns accrossing the space above the stairs. In front of the functional building is a open stairs space with its roof attched to the second building. From this opening people can see a small gap between the first and second buidling, which could be seen as another secret hiding in it.
DRAWING BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
L a s e p a r t , which is the undergrond space is a single room with a sloping wall. A chair and a table with a hand-size cubic model could divide to each parts that represent the building shape and volume. After playing with the model, people might realise the shape of the model part can match to the buidling shape. Since it is a one way journey, people need to go back the same way. When they walk through the buildings the second time, they may obtain better understanding of the secret.
SECRET REVEALING
PHOTOS BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
DAY&NIGHT LIGHTS
In the night time, the lights inside the buidling will be on. Due to different materials used for the finishing of the outside of the building, the contract of dark and light surface will be stronger than the daytime. This kind of strong contrast will help people with realizing the h i d i n g secret.
In the daytime, the shape of each building will be more exposed to the poeple than the shapes of different materials used in the outside surface. The lights used in this project is to enhance the hints provided in the project and creates different conditions of the project during the day and the night.
PHOTOS BY LIANG CHEN, 2016
REFLECTION From the first project, which is point/line/plane, I tried to create a transition from one single point to lines then to multiple planes. I tried some experiments with the lights and shadows since I believed that the shadow of a line could also be a line, 1+0=2. Since the first model is too high according to the brief, I learned that if people are going to break the brief, there must be reason behind it to support this idea.
The second project, mass. I tried to draw a section of the building first instead of drawing a perspective of the project then image its section. After I done the section, I drew the perspective of the building, turns out that the perspective and the section can be so different even does not look like a same building. From this task, I learned that the section drawing could be the most useful drawing for people to understand the inner space of a project.
Frame and infill. I found that it is difficult to keep the infill clean and tide for a project whose frame is complex. Thus, I used square or cubic elements as infill. Through this way I found that one curve element in a all-square project will be fairly noticeable, so I used this curve roof to create a fake opening for the building while the true door is around corner in the next wall. Besides, the progress drawings are quite challenging as well. The elements are in various size and shape, it is hard to keep them in a drawing with each of them in right position.
For the last project, secret, I found that things need to be considered are far more in a real project. Functional rooms need tobe palces along the buidling. And the conceptacle can be quite similar to the actual building form if the buidling forms stay in geomatrical forms. And I found that if it comes to the real building, the outside finishing of the building and decorations can be part of how the ideas are be illustrated. Night and daytime conditions can also be considered for this project. One thing I found chanlleging is the drawing since my model is all in geomatical forms which makes the sectiona and elevation quite similar and undistinguishable. How to make the project corresponding to the site is another thing I learned from this project. First, cutting less trees for the project is dominant for me, so I chose a flat and bushy site.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Klein Bottle House by McBride Charles Ryan 2012, photos, Dezeen magazine, viewed 03 June 2016, <http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/11/klein-bottle-houseby-mcbride-charles-ryan/>. Desert Courtyard House / Wendell Burnette Architects 2014, photos, Archidaily, viewed 04 June 2016, <http://www.archdaily.com/531473/desert-courtyardhouse-wendell-burnette-architects>. Igualada N1 / Jaime Prous + Damiรกn Ribas 2013, photos, Dezeen magazine, viewed 04 June 2016, <http://www.archdaily.com/454197/igualada-n1-jaimeprous-damian-ribas/>.