ARCHITECTURE
REPRESENTATION II | STAGE 1: PLACE | AUGUST 2017 EDITION
PING XIU GAN A1702234
A REPRESENTATION OF SPATIAL AWARENESS TO LIGHT
ELEVATIONS
Three rendered elevation images of the Maths, Engineering and Barr Smith Building
FEATURED VIEWS
3D rendered arial and ground view within the site area
ANALYSIS
Sun-cast projections for both winter and summer, access movement, photographic study of ambient light,and qualities of the site
L U M I N O S I T Y
“Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merly create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.� - Richard Meier
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SITE MODEL Site Plan and Measurements
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ELEVATIONS Maths Building | Engineering Building | Barr Smith Library
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3D VIEWS Arial and Ground Views
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SITE ANALYSIS Suncast 3D Models | Access Movement | Photographic Study | Social and Cultural Qualities
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LUMINOSITY Linguistic Defination | Philosophical Meaning | Meaning In Architecture - Fluid Luminosity
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CONCEPT 01 Site Plan | Section | Concept | Spatial Diagram
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CONCEPT 02 Site Plan | Section | Concept | Spatial Diagram
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3D VIEWS OF CONCEPT 01 AND 02 Arial and Ground Views
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PRECEDENT Elbphiharmonie
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REFLECTION Linguistic Defination | Philosophical Meaning | Meaning In Architecture - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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S I T E P L A N & E L E V AT I O N S & S E C T I O N
SITE PLAN
SECTION OF SITE PLAN
BARR SMITH LIBRARY ELEVATION
MATHS AND ENGINEERING BUILDING ELEVATIONS
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of Barr Smith Library, lunch time and in the afternoon when classes end.
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Often students allocate themselves at the seats provided at the maths lawn area as they wait The Braggs or Ingkarni
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for their classes in either Wardli buildings. Rarely there is anyone near the lawn next to gate 6, only the students who who
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enter the university from the medical building.
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uminosity is the presence of light
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that in the architecture industry, the term has been studied as intensely as building materials. Luminosity creates different
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atmosphere, open spaces, and projects based on how you look and feel about
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them. The mood and ambiance of a space will be transformed when the space is illuminated.
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In western thoughts, light is often deeply connected with “existence�. It is the invisible medium that disclose information
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of the world. Platonic light is invisible after much observation from Blumenberg, but to experience the object as visible, it can
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only be done as a sight with form or an idea which is light as illumination. Light comes from an origin and not just a basis
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of visibility, that is why the term has been generally associated with metaphorical and visual tool within the art industry. Light
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was denoted as wisdom, illumination, and objective during the period of Enlightenment, and it came about as a
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metaphor representing knowledge.
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LEEZA SOHO by
Zaha Hadid
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aha Hadid buildings are remarkable
due to her innovative technique of managing tangible materials in relation to her imagination on the medium of light. Her theories on fluidity and fragmentation are the techniques she used for her formfinding. Leeza SOHO has the four qualities of luminosity, reflection, filtration, and opacity. The glass facade on the building reflects the surrounding buildings, and provides an orientation. Filtration occurs because the building which is split into two halves diffuses the natural light that passes through the building and spreads it out. Natural light which filters through the building creates a different kind of atmosphere and ambiance within the atrium space. Throughout the day, light
Bille, M. and Sorensen, T. (2007). An Anthropology
changes as time pass, creating different
of Luminosity. Journal of Material Cuture, 12(3),
luminosity in a day.
pp.263-284.
Constructed within the Lize Financial
to the type of wall system used. The
District, Leeza SOHO atrium will be
presence of the building by using this
well connected with the city due to the
scheme is to achieve the LEED gold
subway interchange which runs beneath
certificate, by using low e-glazing and
the site. Structurally, the luminosity
being a self-shading atrium to provide
building uses a doubled-insulated,
a comfortable environment to all
unitized glass curtain. steps the glazing
individuals. Leeza SOHO atrium will be
units on each floor at an angle, it allows
envisioned as a new indoor public space,
ventilation registers to pull in outside air
and acts as a continuation of the plaza
through an operable cavity when required
that is currently present.
due
Due to the atrium being connected by
Running up either side of the tower are
a huge central atrium the subway splits
translucent convex openings that are created
the tower into two halves. Orientation of
by the split shape of the atrium. The twist of
the building was designed according to
the building’s opening allows plenty of natural
the diagonal axis through the site defined
light in and providing views of the city at the
by the subway tunnel is re-aligned by
center of the building at each level and within
twisting the volume at 45 degree as the
a single cohesive envelope, a double insulated
atrium rises to orientate the higher floors
glass facade conjoin the two halves together.
with the east-west axis of Lize Road - one of the main streets on the west of Beijing.
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION 13
CONCEPT SKETCH
AXONOMETRIC SPATIAL DIAGRAM 14
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION 15
CONCEPT SKETCH
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Hafen City, the Elbphilharmonie on the Kaispeicher is situated in a place that people in Hamburg knows but never
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noticed. For the people in Hamburg and around the world, the building has now set to become a new cultural, social, and daily life. Elbphilharmonie is like a vertical city,
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where all the areas are intertwined, from the Plaza, public spaces, concert halls, foyers, residentil units, hotel, restaurant,
Herzog & de Meuron
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he foundation of the Elbphilharmonie
was built upon is the old Kaispeicher A with red brick façade, it was designed by Werner Kallmorgen, and constructed between 1963 and 1966. It was an old
Below the glass superstructure also
The new glass building (Elbphilharmonie)
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museum, and car park.
consists an expressive dynamic. The sky can be seen along the edges of the Plaza through vault-shaped opening, it shows both views of the downtown Hamburg and
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ELBPHIHARMONIE
River Elbe. Deep vertical openings situated further inside projects an ever-changing visual interaction between the foyers and
has been extruded from the shape of Kaispeicher with 1,100 individual glass façade panels, some of them carved open, patterned with individual grey chromed points and intricately curved. Creating an appearance that keeps on changing as it catches the reflection of the water, sky and city.
Floating stairs and bold curves.
two-meter-long escalator that extends
Herzog & de Meuron conjured dramatic
right across the building. To create the
access ways and entrance ideas for
feeling of an atmospheric tunnel, the
the Elbphilharmonie. Starting from the
“tube” escalator is slightly curved so that
entrance on the east side of the building,
the end of the escalator is not visible from
visitors travel to the Plaza via an eighty-
the beginning. Setting the tone
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the Plaza at different levels.
warehouse for cocoa, tobacco, and tea.
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“The Elbphiharmonie - a place for outstanding music an 19
of urban living.”
within the building’s atmosphere,
The center: foyers and concert halls.
paillette are reflected and bend light and
The interior of the Plaza opens into the
an extravagant cantilever curved stair
voluminous foyer. Large doomed ceiling,
connects the Plaza and concert halls
slanting concrete pillars, and curved and
together.
sculptured staircase creates a challenge for
nd the experience
and structural engineer. The weight of the large concert hall above is bear by the ceiling and the few pillar elements.
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eflection occurs when light bounces
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off an object, it can be divided into three, mirror, specular and diffuse reflection.
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Specular reflection occurs on a smooth
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surface, where reflected light travels in the same direction. Diffuse reflection occurs
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on a rough surface, where reflected light rays hit on an object and scatter in multiple directions.
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Reflection can also be a process of questioning and exploring our actions, experiences, perspectives, and attributes
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to many things. By reflecting on it, a person would deeply consider certain things that might not have been given
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much thought to it before. It helps us to see and provide an understanding of life skills, by analyzing on actions and events
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and considering the consequences in the future and learn to move forward. By gaining this life skill to reflect on academic
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and professional practice in this way would make a person’s expectations, beliefs, and biases more prominent to a
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person. Understanding yourself would help carrying out task more successfully, as you will be aware of the assumptions
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being made automatically or uncritically.
by Frank
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Gehry
ub as one of the mist admired works
of modern contemporary architecture designed by architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial and located in Bilbao. The museum was to be part of the larger development plan that was meant to modernize and renew the industrial town. Opening in 1997, the presence of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao created an astounding impact in the socio-economic world. Approximately four million tourists visited the museum in the first three years of operation, generating about five hundred million profits. Furthermore, over hundred million in taxes spent by the tourists were collected from hotel, shops, restaurant, and transport; which is more than enough to offset the cost in constructing the building.
Set amid rolling green hills, The
to get there, visitors must pass through
Guggenheim Museum cuts a scabrous
both history and geography because
dash on Spain’s northern Atlantic
the construction and design have
coastline. The building is inspired by the
coincided during a period when American
shapes and texture of a fish, seen from
architecture were lost.
the river the form resembles a boat, but when the museum is seen from above it strongly resembles a lotus flower. Despite never to be an actual flower, however, Gehry designed the form of the building to look like one instead. The approach of the museum is through time and space,
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a threedimensional abstract form that represents something which exists in nature. The museum is mostly made up of organic curves and reflective materials that reflect the free forms of nature and light. But
“The randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light.� - Frank Gehry
also, the muscular architecture reflects
chemical factories. Bilbao was the grip of
on the success as a nineteenth-century
an economic recession and identity was in
industrialized maritime center, however,
precipitous decline. Bilbao was not constructed
to overcome the perilous regional politics
for the sake of having an iconic building, but to
and narcotic effects of defunct heavily
resolve problems such as, unemployment rate,
industry, the museum has been struggling
violence from extremist Basque separatists,
in the recent years.
urban deterioration, poor public transport, and
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pollution. If the Guggenheim Museum was
Guggenheim Museum, the site was a
not constructed, new subway line, water/ air
highly congested river port that was
clean-up systems and drainage and an airport;
purely an industrial city, such as steel and
leisure, residential, and business complexes
iron industry, shipbuilding, and
will not be built.
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