Madeleine Ingham 382423
My name is Madeleine Ingham. I am originally from Hepburn Springs in country Victoria but have since moved to Melbourne to pursue territory study. I am currently a third year Bachelor of Environments student with a major in Architecture. I hope to continue into a Master of Architecture in the upcoming years with a focus in sustainable and functional design. Over the years I have gained some experience in digital software in Photoshop and InDesign and have basic skills in Rhino from Virtual Environments in my first year. In this subject Architecture Studio: Air I hope to broaden my very limited skills with digital software for design and in turn broaden my design capability as an Architect.
Discourse In Architecture Precedents
Source: http://aldorf.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/amazing-paperhouse-by-shigeru-ban/
Shigeru Ban Paper House Lake Yamanaka, Yamanashi, Japan, 1995 Shigeru Ban has created discourse in the architectural industry by creating a new building material. Ban’s use of paper to create load bearing building elements was Source: http://aldorf.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/amazing-paperhouse-byshigeru-ban/ revolutionary to the building industry. Ban came up with the material as a design solution in providing temporary shelter to residents affected by the Kobe Earthquake in Japan. Ban used paper as it was a material readily accessible, made sturdy enough to support a structure and could be broken down and recycled after use. He transformed this make shift shelter solution from paper tubes into a more permanent solution in structures such as Paper House (Lake Yamanaka, Yamanashi, Japan, 1995). Ban uses his paper tubes in a curving dynamic manner to create the walls in between the static floor and the roof elements. The floor and roof looks to reference back to Le Corbusier’s simple design principle of a flat floor and ceiling separated by columns but Ban has made it strictly his own style through the use of the paper tubes. The use of paper has become a defining element in Ban’s work and he continually experiments to push the boundaries with the material.
Source: http://www.designboom.com/history/ban_paper.html
Source: http://www.designboom.com/history/ban_paper.html
Discourse In Architecture Precedents
Source: http://upall.co/helsinki-rock-church-1556.php
Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen Temppeliaukio Church (Church of Rock) Helsinki, Finland, 1969 The Church of Rock is very unique in its design features but does incorporate many ideas from other building of the past in response to the landscape and topography which surrounds it. The Church of Rock is Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Temppeliaukio_Church_1.jpg built directly into the bedrock of the landscape and the only thing visible from above the ground is the copper dome roof which has the appearance of floating within the landscape due to the large panelling of glass directly below it. The idea of using the natural topography to form a feature in the landscape can be seen in earlier inspirational buildings such as Frank Llyod Wright’s Falling Water. Like Wright, brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen have used the landscape around the site to create features in the building. Wright used some of the natural rough stone surface in the interior of the building and contrasts it against smooth concrete and stone elements and this can be seen again in the Church of Rock. Most of the rock surfaces have been left rough, but there is the contrast of smooth stone and of course the very smooth and perfectly rounded dome. The dome references back to the original idea of a dome within a church but the use of glass and copper has fundamentally changed the antiquity representation of the church and dome.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Temppeliaukio_Church_1.jpg
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wrightfallingwater.jpg