Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2018 Renqi Cao
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Week One
Reading: Zeara Polo, A. 2010. Between Ideas and Matters.
According to Zeara-Polo, the diagram does not play a representational role in the design process but provides an organisational and can have a performative quality depending on how it is deployed. Explain how Diagram is different from Signs and Symbols? (100 words Maximum)
As stated by Charles Peirce, icon is a dynamic object. Which means an icon(image/ symbol) is a material expression of qualities, functions and porperties of the object itself. Diagrams, as opposed to signs, symbols, indexs or icons, do not play a representational role for their dynamic object, and mediate between physical contructs and concepts or percepts on an organisational level. Their performance depends on how they are deployed.
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Week One
Precedent Analysis
isometric view
isometric view without the roof
cross section of right view
Zumthor’s pavilion, 2011
I modelled this pavilion through extrude the main structure and then trim the overlapping parts of the four coners. I also attampted to model all the supporting frames. supporting frames
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Week Two
Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture. Herzberger discusses how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use. (100 words Maximum)
As it is explained by Peter Zumthor, the aim of his design is to “help its audience take the time to relax, to observe” ,and the concept is “the hortus conclusus, a contemplative room, a garden within a garden”. Hence this pavilion is minimalise in its funcitionality, providing only a long bench along the gard for people to rest and corridor around the lanscape. Through offering places to sit and enough potential spaces in the corridor, it achieve its aim of “to relax” and “to observe” and engage with the surrounding environment.
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Week Two
Isometric
Isometric (shaded and cross-section with transparancy) This is my final isometric model which has colored with adobe illustrator. Zumthor’s pavilion seems to be a recutangular black box from exterior. But it has complex structures hidden inside. The second image shows the hidden parts clearly. Doors on two walls are seperated. This provides privacy for the building. As it is shown in the first image, we can only see darkness from the three exterior doors. The building has its complexity through a simple structure. The structure is well considered. For the inner part of the building, the roof provides shadow which prevents people from sunlight, but gives exposure to the center for the plants. There is also a bench along the corridor. Space is used quite effectivly.
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Week Two Diagrams
Circulation Zumthor’s pavilion concludes six entrances for the outer structure but only four for the inner structure. Population are forced to converged at the four inner entrances. And the circulation are mainly focused in the inner cloister-like space, which is indicated through the grey recutangular path.
Structure(supporting frame)
Primary circulation space
Circulation paths
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Threshold As stated by Peter Zumthor, this pavilion is a “contemplative room, a garden within a garden�. The thresholds are defined through two sections. Because of the asymmetrical arrangement of the entrances, it can hardly be seen through from the exterior of the building. The hallway, the in-between area of the outer wall and the inner wall, creates a dark threshold which seperates the pavilion from outside. After entering the inner section of the garden, another threshold is defined through shadowing and lighting. People and the lanscape are seperated and yet connected. Plants are surrounded by the corridor and exposed under sky while people are sheltered from sunlight. People colored by blue represent the transition from the exterior to the interior of the garden. Pink silhouette shows the activities of people within the interior of the garden. The second threshold is the boundary between pink silhousttes and the plants. Those thresholds forms a enclosed garden with a strong constrast of light and darkness which gives a unique interpretation of exterior and interior.
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Appendix Process
Cross section of the structure
Right elevation of the first model
This image gives me a clear idea of how the structure of Zumthor’s pavilion is composed. I traced it and built the basic structure through extrude.
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Appendix
Process
Model after composition
Footprint of the model
Cross section after trim
After that I trimed the overlapping section in the four corners and the doors them composed them together.
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Appendix Process
Top plan Supporting frames
Measurements are proceed through this top plan and the cross section plan. As it is shown on the photo of the building process of this pavilion, the building is buit through rows of supporting timbers. Based on thses, I modelled the aboving supporting frames.
Real life building process
Appendix Process
Diagram of the threshold
These pictures give me inspirations and help me gain an insight into the idea of threshold for this pavilion.
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