My final year portfolio

STATES SATTANAN ANUMAT ANU 14436763 BA INTERIOR & SPATIAL DESIGN CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ARTS

PREFACE

Water has its own cycle that runs all the time in three different states which are gaseous, liquid, and solid.

It is an important element for every living thing. It is a thing that everyone uses in daily basis. We have it or can have it whenever we want and many time we waste it.

I use water as a main idea for the design concept.

I explore the process by observing, doing research, experiment, drawing and crafting. Starting from abstarct and back into theories.

For the Little Venice Craft Biennale, I designed a set of coherent pavilions for the Little Venice London.

I cummunicate the fabrication techiniques throughout this portfolio and will present the project visually during the exhibition.

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CONTENTS

STAGE 1:

History Research & Site Context

STAGE 2:

Primary Research Precedents

STAGE 3:

Concept Ideas & Experiments

STAGE 4:

Design The Project

STAGE 1

HISTORY RESEARCH & SITE CONTEXT

LONDON CANAL HISTORY

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Carlo Gatti was one of the talented

migrants in the 19th century. He came to London in 1847 and started to construct the ice wells on the site during 1857-63. He imported the ice from Norway to London and transferred the cargo from ships in the Regent’s Canal Dock.

Gatti made an agreement with the Regent’s Canal Company to harvest ice from the canal.

When winter comes, he sent out men workers to cut the ice and take it to underground storage for selling in summer. However, the quality of the ice was poor and proved insufficient for his business demand.

Towards the end of the 19th century, technology has been gradually developed that allowed ice to be produced in the UK so, the ice trade decrease sharply.

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After 1906 the building was converted into a horse-and-cart disruption depot. Offices and accommodation were built at the front of the building. The building wasabandoned for a period before taken by the Canal Museum Trust in 1989. No structuralalternations were done but only the hole on the ground floor to suggest a view inside the ice well.

LITTLE VENICE Little Venice is an area that located between Paddington and Maida Vale. It was just an outskirts of London then became an important waterways hub in 1801. Before becoming Little Venice, there were many houses built around the canal and new roads laid down.

The recent area is more beautiful than in the past yet become less ‘Venice’ than in the 1930’s. The Italian houses on the East side of the Brownings Pool and the Georgian terraces on the South has gone even though the amount of water space has been reduced.

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SURVEY MAPPING I recorded my journey along the way that I walked. I mapped down all the details from small scale objects such as interior and exterior decoration on the boat houses to architectural structure.

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Westbourne Terrace

These photographs are from the first visit to the site. I choose them because they suggest the route that I walked and the details that I found interesting along the way which is the brick pattern. From the images below we can see that there are several arrangement in bricks work since from the past which I consider it as a part of crafts as well.

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Another set of photographs taken in Spring. More activities going on within the area and people commute through the route more than in Winter. Below are the details of windows on the boats. Some of them has interesting decoration and some introduce themselves through message.

STAGE 2

PRIMARY RESEARCH PRECEDENTS

VENICE BIENNALE PAVILION 2015 PAMELA ROSENKRANZ

The materials that Rosenkranz used to filled the pavilion are chemicals that we are familiar with from everyday usage such as bionin, necrion, silicone, and more. The result of the combination between them is purely beautiful and also giving a timeless aesthetic qualities. The colour of the water is also suggest the standard skin tone of the Northern European people. The synthetic sound of water echoes throughout the atmosphere and generated by a real time algorithm.

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I would like to take a concept from ‘Blur Building’ pavilion which is a pavilion from the Swiss Expo 2002. The architecture is located in Yvesdon-les-Bains, Switzerland and was designed by Charles Renfro of DS+R. It is a pavilion that creates an atmosphere by using artificial fog machine. The fog was created by pumping up the water from Lake Neuchatel which is the lake that the building sits on.

BLUR BUILDING DS+R

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This design plays with the visualization of the audience and the contrast between the high-definition technology and the low-definition of the visual.

20:50 RICHARD WILSON

I take the concept from Richard Wilson’s exhibition at Saatchi Gallery called ‘20:50’. Instead of using oil like Wilson, I used black ink mixing with water.

I found that even though the reflection may not be as opaque as Wilson’s work, by applying the similar concept of using dark surface to reflect, the result came out nicely.

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STAGE 3

CONCEPT IDEAS & EXPERIMENT

REFLECTION I was fascinated by the reflection of the view by the canal. I was walking from Edgewater Road station towards Browning’s Pool. Boat houses are occupied on the both sides of the canal along the Regent’s canal to Delamare terrace and so on.

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I visited the site several times and took photographs in different areas. I went there during winter time and also in spring so as to see how the atmosphere changes between different weather.

While in spring, more visitors commute through the site which makes the space becomes lively. The blue sky brings up colour to the area and also the reflection.

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During winter, the area is muted and very cold due to the fact that it is a low space that sits by water. The photographs that I took shows the almost silhouette reflection.

I like the fact that the cloudy sky enhances the contrast between the objects and the background.

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EXPERIMENT & CRAFTING I would like to test out the quality of the reflection by using darker coloured-water to see whether the reflection will show up more or less than in the pool. I filled up a tray with water and drop in the ink little by little until completely dark.

From the experimentation I found that, the clearer the water is, the less reflection shows. On the other hand, when water becomes darker, the reflection shows up clearly with high contrast.

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Structure Model Test Out #1 Black Hub: The model is done by using papermache method. The purpose of using this method is to achieve a rough texture of the shape so as to suggest craft making idea. The ideal material for the actual building is concrete-using the same construction technique as Teshima Art Museum, Japan by creating the mould of the structure from steels before pouring concrete to form the building.

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I test out the model with lighting to see the possible effects. The photographs suggest a strong contrast the lightness and darkness as well as enhancing the finishing of the structure.

Structure Model Test Out #2 Light Up: The model is cast from balloons using PVA glue and wrap around with strings. After let dry, the glue gets harden and becomes strong enough to stay on itself and creates translucent finish. The strings also help to maintain the shape of the structure even though the shape is not perfect, it suggests an idea of the shape.

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Structure Model Test Out #3 Cloud: This model suggests the concept of crafting space. Space can be build up bits by bits using small materials. I explore the idea through tracing paper by cutting small circles and sticking them together to build a structure that has similar shape to the other models.

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Moreover, the skin of the model appears differently depending on the area where light could get through which creates a more interesting details.

MY design intention to the project is to cre-

ate atmospheric space for visitors. I would like the audience to experience the space actively. The space will transform each visitor to become an active participant, not just a passive viewer. Visitors will experience through four senses which are; Sight - Exploring thorought the pavilions Hearing - The background envirionment and the sound effect from the installation Smell - The dampness of the atmosphere and the smell of water Touch - Fog in the air within the space

- Mist splashing to their body from the installation of the Water Pavilion

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WATER is transparent and colourless. It refers only to the liquid state at the standardtemperature and pressure, but it could changes to solid (ice) state and gaseous (steam or vapour) state as well. Water is the main component for the planet and the living things. It is so important that no one can live without it.

I would like to take an element that everyone uses in their routine and, sometimes, regardless of as a main concept to my design. I want to create pavilions that involve either the water cycle or water states within the building in order to enhance the beauty and make use of everyday element.

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The concept developed from the experimentation that I have tried out including the reflection testing, crafting models, and playing with water.

After seeing what could be done with water and test out the possible effects from it, I am most interested in the different states of water.

Glass mezzanine inside the V&A Museum

GLASS MATERIAL

Glass is made of opaque sand but it is transparent that we can clearly see through. Although glass is solid, it has liquid-like appearance.

Glass is actually transform from solid sand into liquid sand at a very high temperature, and when the molten sand gets cold, it does not turn back. However, it never really set into solid yet becomes a frozen liquid that the scientists named it as ‘amorphous solid’.

I choose glass as a main material structure for the pavilions. I am highly interested in the fact that glass is very hard and strong but it is not completely categorized as solid similarly to water that changes the states depending on the temperature.

30 NARCISSUS,1975 by Erwin Eisch - Mould-blown, silvered and glued

STAGE 4

DESIGN THE PROJECT

THE 1970 PEPSI PAVILION Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) E.A.T is a collaboration between the two communities, artists and engineers. The architecture turned into a sculpture by using artificial fog by an artist, Fujiko Nakaya. It was the largest fog installation that has ever been done during that time.

HOUSE OF GLASS AND FOG PHILIP JOHNSON Fujiko Nakaya also transformed Johnson’s House of Glass from a no-privacy guest house to a short period private space. The architecture together with the installation suggest the balance of the opposite.

I design two of my pavilions into a reverse effect from Nakaya installation by diffusing the fog from inside the buildings.

SAYAMAIKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM TADAO ANDO The walkway behind the curtain water of the significant reinforced concrete building of Ando.

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I would like to achieve the similar effect to my design. Instead of letting the water expose directly to our body, I design to allow the water running downward the glass.

ANCIENT YEW Cast crystal from a 2000 year old tree This piece of work is done by a glass artist, Max Jacquard who was, before, trained as furniture designer. I choose this work to exhibit in the the Ice Pavilion because shape and texture of the crystal looks similar to the ice texture and similar to snow flakes as well.

FOREST OF LIGHT Glass and ceramic lighting Vezzini and Chen created a forest frosted glass pendant light inspired by the traditional neoclassical glass chandelier. I would install this light into the Mist Pavilion to create a mystery atmosphere. Although the fog around the pavilion may make it looks cold, warm light will bring back the balance.

ENIGMA

Harry Morgan created this amazing sculpture by combining two contrast materials together, glass and concrete, one very fragile and the other one very strong. This art work suggests the shape of falling water which then becomes the most concept-related work to the Water Pavilion.

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Glass and concrete

ICE

SOLID STATE

Solid Pavilion Isometric - Scale 1:50

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A. Section - Scale 1:50 B. Close up detail - Scale 1:20 C. Study sketches of melting ice

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Elevetion - Scale 1:50

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ICE PAVILION MODEL

I use a fog maker to create an eect that suggests the coolness of ice.

The texture and colour of the model represent the colour of ice when it is at a very low temperature, for example, iceberg.

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The colour lighting changes constantly and could make the pavilion looks more interesting and lively at night.

MIST

GASEOUS STATE

Mist Pavilion Isometric - Scale 1:50

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A. Section - Scale 1:50 B. Sketch idea for possible structure

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Elevetion - Scale 1:50

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MIST PAVILION MODEL

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This model does not only create an enclose space that fills with fog but follow with the water drop after a while. As we all know that water turns into vapour at any temperature, this pavilion makes the process even faster. The machine keeps producing fog and when the fog fill out the space there is no escape so, the vapour starts to form up in a water drop.

WATER

LIQUID STATE

Water Pavilion Isometric - Scale 1:50

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A. Section - Scale 1:50 B. Close up detail - Scale 1:25 C. Sketch idea for liquid pavilion with context

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Elevetion - Scale 1:50

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WATER PAVILION MODEL

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The Water Pavilion model represents the way the water pumps up, flows, and fall s towards the pool as a law of gravity. It is almost like a cycle, water goes straight up then spread out to different directions before falling down.

CIRCULATION PLAN As important as the design, I also concern about how to make the project becomes a local friendly. Our neighbours owned a boat house, some are big, some are small, and there is also a sight seeing tour during summer time. The boat house residents have to commute through the pool so, I decided to locate the three pavilions by the side so that the boat can still circulate around the small island.

Boat Circulation Map

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REFERENCE

History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gatti http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/ice/iceimport.htm http://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/regents-canal/index.htm

Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water http://www.explainthatstuff.com/glass.html

Precedents

http://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/13753251 https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/historical-museum-sayamaike/ http://www.arcspace.com/features/tadao-ando/sayamaike-historical-museum/ https://www.dezeen.com/2014/04/30/fujiko-nakaya-veil-glass-house-philip-johnson-mist/

Crafts related in the design

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http://www.harrymorgan.info/enigma/ http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/harry-morgan-talent-spot/ http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/directory/maker/max-jacquard/project/waymarking/ http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/directory/maker/vezzini-chen/project/forest-of-light/