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Introduction
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WHo am i? I am Sue Wang, 3rd year environments student majoring in Architecture. My hobbies include drawing, drawing and also reading. I have very little experince in regards to computer designing whether it be Photoshop or Rhino and I am keen to learn any new techniques that will help me in the future.
What have I done? To the right you can see my lovely first year Virtual Environments project which I am so so proud of (sarcasm). The brief was the create a working lanturn which could be worn and light up, and was to be based on the natural process.
Virtual environments - 2011 semester 1 combustion The laturn was to be based on a natural process, and I chose to focus on combustion. Combustion I related to fire, focusing me laturn on flames, engulfing a person. The lanturn was to be located on the arm engulfing it in flames. Fire, has the attributes of wild and uncotrollable. However, in my project I explored flames/fire in a controllable manner, making the flames spiral up in a symmetrical and systematic manner.
Beijing national aquatic centre PTW Architects, CSCEC, CCDi, arup beijing, china 2007 Beijing National Aquatic Centre was originally conceived as a swimming competition ground for the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China. It has since been transformed to a water theme park, still retaining the theme of water.
The Aquatic Centre, is The structure of the Aquatic centre is based on the natural form of bubbles which was made possible through the use of the WeairePhelan structure. A complex 3-Diementional structure that represents an idealized foam of equal sized bubbles. This building could only have been made through the use of digital designing technologies. Digital fabrication allows for easy organization of each bubble segment and the precise measurement of each individual section which would not have been possible through the use of traditional methods. The precise measurement is also highly important the sheer number
and variety in bubble size means by traditional methods would take a long time to calculate to perfection and also to make individualized in form, however, through digital fabrication it can be easily achieved. The Aquatic Centre appears to be made from many individualized curved panels of glass, it however is made using Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (EFTE) a type of plastic. A material rarely seen in Architecture even in modern times. The plastic allows for a lighter alternative to glass and also has to extra benefit of easily being able to be fabricated to the precise dimension specifications. The Beijing National Aquatic Centre truey is an architectural achievement made only possible through the use of digital fabrication.
reading between the lines gijs van varenbergh limburg, belgium 2011 While it is intended to be a sculpture rather than architecture it still employs a new way of thinking and causes one to think what defines architecture.
And to provide a unique visual experience of experiment, reflection, a physical involvement with the end result and the input of the viewer.
Designed to be in the form of a church, emulating the church spire, dome, cross and arches as seen as common church elements. And borrows architectural elements in the form of scale and ground plan. However, it does not fulfill the basic requirements of architecture unable to provide a basic shelter, through the sculpture being completely transparent. Nor does it provide the basic classical function being too small in size.
Never before has there ever been something created to be transparent in this manner, especially without glass. While not explicitly stated, the church must have some elements of digital fabrication specifically for each individual steel panel and column preemptively calculated to perfection with the use of digital technology and especially the exact placement of each steel layer, one wrong dimension could ruin the integrity of the piece.
The sculpture is based on the idea to always be able to see the neighboring surrounding environment and seen through its transparency. And to provide a unique visual experience of experiment, reflection, a physical involvement with the end result and the input of the viewer.
While the building is classified as a sculpture it quite clearly pushes the boundaries of how we define architecture. Is it art? A habitable living space? Or is even just the form able to classify Reading Between the Lines as architecture?
The church has become “an transparent object of art" - Architizer.com