G2.Yu Minxu Rep2.17

PART I PLACE CONTENT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

PLAN ELEVATIONS 3D VIEWS SHADE&SHADOW ACCESS&MOVEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY SOCIAL&CULTURE LIGHT STUDY 1

1| To Scale Plan 1:850

The Braggs

Molecular Life Sciences

Barr Smith Library

2| Elevations Ingkarni Wardli

Engineering and Maths. Sciences

Arial view

3| 3D VIEWS Arial views & Ground views Ground view

Ground view

Arial view

4| SHADE & SHADOW Summer | Winter

SUMMER 9AM

WINTER 9AM

SUMMER 12NOON

WINTER 12NOON

SUMMER 3PM

WINTER 3PM

5| ACCESS MOVEMENT T

his site is quite an open area, passeners are allowed to enter the site through Barr Smith Lawns, Hub Central and the gate at Frome Road. The Maths Lawns is surrounded by pedestrian and it is allowed to walk through the Lawns. So it is free to walk inside the site

PEDESTRIAN

PEDESTRIAN

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PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF AMBIENT LIGHT A

s it is shown in the photography, there are plenty of street lamp in the site. Also the light from building itself is strong enough . Especially Barr Smith Library, there are two extra spot lights projecting to its front side.

7| SOCIAL / CULTURE T

his Maths Lawns is surround by five buildings. It offers large enough public space for students in thiese five buildings for their relaxing or activities. In the Orientation Week, this lawn is chosen to hold different welcome-activities. During the semester, free BBQ is hold in this site also. So this site offers lots of opportunities for students and teachers to have their extracurricular activities

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ccording to dictionary, luminosity have different meanings in different category. Basically it stand for luminous intensity, but it become a unit of energy that emitted from stars or galaxy in astronomy. The luminosity I will talking about in this article is related to the lightness and brightness and its relationship with architecture.

The Phaeno Science Centre (Wolfsburg, 2005)

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n philosophy aspect, luminosity is a topic worth discussing in all ages. As we all know, we can see everything because we have eyes and eyes can received all the luminosity reflected by substance. In other words, luminosity is a medium transmitting information between substance and human beings, this process is what we called cognition which is the way how human beings know the world. If anything cannot be perceived by human beings, it is called null in science. So in a sense, information is the whole of this world, including space and time, and luminosity is the medium transmitting information to us.

Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) Hoenheim-Nord Terminus and Car Park (2001)

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n addition, Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland which is also an amazing building which relies on nature light as the major luminous of the building itself. As what its designer Steven Holl said, for this museum, the most important material is light. For the sun in Helsinki never reach above fifty-one degree, so twenty-five galleries which made up this museum all have slices of natural light. With the dependence to nature light, people inside the building have unique experience with the change of natural light condition: passing cloud brings shadows or brightness varies as the interior experience varies. However, the exterior of Kiasma’s lack of conventional lights made it projecting its light from inside to outward at night so it needs artificial light when the sun goes down.

I kiasma museum of contemporary art

kiasma museum of contemporary art

n the aspect of architecture, luminosity is acting an important role in all the buildings and environments. Zaha Hadid, one of the most famous architectural designer of the world, is well-known for her remarkable masterwork. The reason why she became such a successful architectural designer is not only her theory of fragmentation and fluidity which is a well-known design technique all over the world but her advanced in using light to decorate the building. Light is a medium between our perception and architecture. We cannot sense all the forms and material without light. What Zaha Hadid is good at using is the luminous line, either as decorative lighting or windows, it completely present the character of her design in earlier stage. Therefore, Zaha Hadid is apt at combining her structure with surrounding landscape, for example, for Strasbourg's Hoenheim-Nord Terminus and Car Park (2001), she was attracted by the white traffic marks on the road so she created linear light through creating gap on the façade and let the nature light go into the parking area to made light patterns on the road. However, Zaha Hadid’s design form changed to fluid curve shape but not edge shape since The Phaeno Science Centre (Wolfsburg, 2005) which was a decisive turning point in Zaha Hadid's lighting command. According to all her masterwork, we can find that her application of luminosity is not depending on using magnificent decorative lighting but combining luminosity with the building itself, using simple lights to create grand luminous effect.

kiasma museum of contemporary art

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n all these examples I mentioned above, the designers have their unique perspective on luminosity in architecture but what they have in common is that they do not rely on magnificent decorating light to made their buildings looks luxury and imposing but skilfully control natural light and combine it with surroundings and itself harmoniously.

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