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WALKING TRAFFIC FROM FROME ROAD WALKING TRAFFIC FROM VICTORIA DRIVE ROAD TRAFFIC IN FROME ROAD
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The site (maths lawns) is located on the north eastern side of the university of adelaide. the barr smith library acts as the main attraction of the area. The braggs and mls buildings are located on the north side whereas ingkarni wardli, engineering and maths sciences and santos building are located on the south side the area is a very popular spot to hold most of the university’s events. It has become a great area for students to relax and enjoy the company of fellow students. One of the main events that gets held on the math lawns is the open week (o’week). New students come to the event to learn more about their future course or to learn about the different clubs.
Luminosity can be defined as the total amount of light that gets radiated from a light source or a celestial source (eg: a star, galaxy, or other astronomical object) per unit time. Luminosity also being the density of light; is always distributed equally to its surrounding and can be measured in joules per second or watts. Luminosity, brightness and illumination are all correlated. If the luminosity of an object is the amount of light that gets radiated from the light source then the brightness is the amount of light that is received from the source. The light (luminosity) that is received (brightness) can always change according to different factors for example natural occurrence (weather) or human made occurrences (buildings). Luminosity doesn’t get effected by brightness or from illumination because it is constant however the relationship between brightness and illumination is inversely
proportional. If the area of illumination increases then the brightness decreases and vice versa. Philosophically speaking, luminosity is a factor that helps render imagination or feeling into a real life object. When light falls on an object it is illuminated thus being visible to our conscious brain because when consciousness is directed towards an objected it has a unique way to make it experientially present. This occurrence helps us to separate presence of reality from idealism. Thus making luminosity and illumination very important in manifesting the reality because without light there is no reality and without reality there is no conscious life. Light is universal. It plays an essential role on the existence of life and is used by every creation; natural or manmade. Light is such an important factor in architecture that without its occurrence the existence of architecture would be beyond the bounds of possibility. Light
Light has been a part of architecture and religion for centuries. A perfect example is The Pantheon, build by Apollodorus of Damascus. It served the purpose of worshipping all god in one temple as pantheon is an greek adjective meaning “honour all gods�. The fascinating part of this temple (which became a church after 609 AD) is the eye of the pantheon or the oculus; which is a giant hole on the top of the giant dome. This oculus which is 7.8m in diameter is the only source of light into the dome. The light that shines through is the connection between the temple and the gods above. Nor only this light has a religious meaning; it also shapes the dome by illumination. The presence of shadow on different times of the day with different brightness produces a unique ambience that makes this oculus so renowned. Luminiosity has also been a major inspiration for renowned architects
to design world famous buildings. One of the architects being Zaha Hadid with her latest design of the world’s largest atrium; Leeza SOHO which is set to be completed in 2018. The building located in the Lize financial business district of Beijing has an atrium on the centre which rises the full height of the 190 m building, uniting two twisting sections which contain 172,800 square meters of office and residential space. This building relies on the abundance day light that comes through the open atrium which gives the structure its own unique character. Hadid has manifested a remarkable way to interpret luminosity into a unique design. The use of luminosity by Hadid has been visible since her first ever building; Vitra Fire Station. The use of light coming through the distinctive sun blinds intensifies the linear pattern of the building. The use of light to produce an affective use is
clearly demonstrated on Strasbourg’s Hoenheim-Nord Terminus and Car Park (2001). Zaha Hadid has carefully transformed abstracted urban lines into white linear diffuse luminaires- either integrated as strips in the concrete roof or as tilted poles for the car parking spaces; her main inspiration being the simple traffic white strips. Another design of Zaha Hadid that correlates luminosity with architecture is the Nordpark Railway Station. Hadid was highly influenced by the ice formations and glacial moraines thus creating a building that reflects light instead of being absorbed by the concrete; making the building a source of luminosity itself. Due to the reflection, the building doesn’t stay isolated instead the reflection shows the feature of the surrounding landscape. Moving from concrete focused buildings, later on Zaha Hadid designed the Guangzhou Opera
House in 2010. She used thousands of light pixels to give the audience a dream like starry sky. She also added the light patterns on the cascaded balconies to produce the impression of reflections in waterfalls giving the perfect example of luminosity with architecture. Zaha Hadid concentrated in the light itself and treated it as an important dimensions in her design instead of using luminaire designs just to increase the visual effects. Her idea of luminosity also reflects on several of her other buildings such as Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre, Heydar Aliyev Centre and Port House but the Leeza SOHO building has set an example of perfect luminous fluidity by day and night.
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The former st. Johns church building in North Lincolnshire, UK was redesigned by designer Liz West; who works with light installations, sculptures and public art. The redesigned interior of the church is filled with the colour palette derived from traditional stained-glass windows, the different sized circular mirrors are mounted onto clear acrylic cylindrical stands and strewn across the stone floor. The beautifully random placement of the primary and secondary coloured discs ignites a spark of joy, since it looks as if the disks filled the room after a confetti cannon explosion and were left to rest where they fell. This play of light and reflections will amplify the sensory awareness of the viewer, tapping into human’s deeply entrenched relationship with colour and reflection and exploring how it can move viewers, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
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The unity in reflection: here the model shows the different reflections as hexagons of the same size. the idea behind this design is to teach humans that no matter or race, sexual orientation or disability; everyone is equal and there should be no prejudice; just how the reflection doesnt show any prejudice.
The dancing of light: in model 1 the idea shown as the coloured reflection coming together as one - representing all different kinds of human beings coming together as one despite of the colour of their skin, abilities or sexual orientation.
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Reflection is a response to light. Reflection is the change in course of a wave front at an interface between two unique media with the goal that the wave front returns into the medium from which it began. Examples of reflections are the response from light, water or sound. light is a part of reflection itself thus it only occurs in the presence of light. Reflection is a way of light and light is the source of energy which binds us together. Reflecting on self is reflecting overall human race. Reflection doesn’t judge nor does it treat you different than others. Reflection always is equal to everyone thus giving hope to the humans to be equal and to not treat each other differently regarding their color of the skin, their abilities or their sexual orientation. Self-reflection helps to identify a person’s flaws and initially improve the state of their mind. Reflection can be very powerful and can
teach people valuables lessons and can prevent future problems from happening. If every human has a moment of self-reflection then it is entirely possible to see themselves as one and not separate themselves in a group of social conduct thus making the world a better place as unity is strength and is one of the reflections of equality. Reflection has been the basis of most designs from the beginning of time. Reflection in architecture has changed throughout the history and it doesn’t seem to stop anytime soon. From the Taj mahal to Bruno taut’s glass pavilion; use of reflection has influenced several designs throughout history. With the start of modernism in architecture; glass facades have been a foremost constituent in designing space. Even Mies van der rohe used glass mullions to break his façade despite of the consciousness of the monotony of large glass facades at the time.
In the modern time; to express the materiality of transparency to cover the buildings; architects Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut envisioned a new glass culture made of “coloured glass” “sparkling in the sun,” “crystalline shapes of white glass” which make the “jewel-like architecture shimmer.” The use of glass to create crystal like reflections was celebrated so much by Mies van der rohe that he discarded the rectangular tower in favour of a free-form glass skin in his proposal for the Glass Skyscraper in Berlin in 1921. The glass façade at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron is the perfect example of “power in reflection”. The glass façade changes the whole look of the city by creating an illusion by distorting the perception of the water, city and the sky. The curves of the building creates reflection of some amazing light streaks. The curves of the balconies
serves its purpose when the bright sky reflects its light to create bright lines of reflection. Overall, the curved faรงade with its printed dab screens brings out a clear and fluid picture, which communicates a nearby connect to the water around. Following the Elbphilharmonie; with glazing shells stood the Prada Epicenter in Tokyo in 2003. These shells consist mainly of quadrilateral shaped elements. It creates distinct reflections resulting from the convex exterior shapes of the glass. The reflections of material were never exclusive to glass nor it was just an exterior skin for buildings. When Frank Gehry build the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao in 1997 with the same aesthetic but with titanium cladding instead of glass; he created a whole different idea of illusion of distortion in architecture. He proved that the effect of reflection will still be in effect from the interior perspective of
a building just like from the exterior perspective. This building has become a jewel of art in modern world because of its ship like shape and fish scales like walls with reflective panels. Furthermore, another examples of building that celebrates the art of reflection and light is the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide; which was built in context to shading from the harsh sunlight by covering the whole building with aluminium sunshades.
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In Linguistic terms opacity translates to transparency however; there are several meanings to the word that ranges from luminosity to psychology. In terms of Light; opacity means the relative capacity of matter to obstruct the transmission of radiant energy. In psychological terms; opacity means the quality or state of being mentally obtuse with the obscurity of sense. It simply also means the amount the light can travel through an object. If high amount of light travels through an object that means the object has less opacity or is less opaque and vice versa. Opacity in philosophy is all about the mental state of a mind. We as humans are vaguely opaque to our thoughts and surroundings. Human mind is unclear within the human world itself; for example, not being able to see the virtuosity in people rather, focusing on the undesirable facets instead.
This is called the opacity of knowledge. It all comes down to the human eye and the way the creation is perceived and processed by the unimaginable intelligence we call our subconscious. People who are obliviously opaque can’t fathom the diversity in anthropological ethos thus making them oblivious to the real world. Opacity ranges within the humans; and the change of transparency to the reflections of the sophisticated interpretations is what will save our humanity from obliteration. Opacity in architecture is all about light manipulation and material choice. From the article “Light Matters: Whiteness in Nordic Countries”, the writer has translated the light manipulation using white background and white materials and allowing lights to enter through different corners of the buildings. If it can be described in few terms it would be “the light effect in north”. The extreme
changes in weather and daylight have led to unique light situations in Scandinavia, where architects have played with white surfaces to counterbalance the long and dark winter days. The low position of the sun in northern regions creates long shadows and therefore daylight enters the buildings more from the side than from above. In contrast, summer evenings emanate a diffuse light. White backgrounds have been used in Nordic countries for centuries. Without doubt, white surfaces offer a high reflectance to maximize interior brightness for dark winter periods, also it reflects the beautiful landscapes filled with snow. The art of using white has been passed down in generations. One of the examples being Dybkær Church by Regnbuen Arkitekter. Henry Plummer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
mentions that the sophisticated daylight concept arrives from three different directions; “Low from the north to emphasize a black steel crucifix; more broadly from the south as a glancing wash; and as a shower directly behind the altar, guided down through a sluice of wall.” Another masterpiece is Bagsværd Church by Jørn Utzon which celebrates light. The use of white walls and the white ceilings is to attract the daylight that is so scarce in Denmark. These features are fully used and produces an intensity of light always greater than outside. However other architects, like Aarno Ruusuvuori, avoided the drama of harsh sunlight that distracts from the liturgical service. His interpretation of sunlight comes from a more abstract presence of light, as he states: “Light originates somewhere, but
man does not need to know where. Lighting is not an end. But its meaning is to create a feeling of the infiniteness of eternity.” All these celebrations of light is playing with the opacity of luminosity itself. Manipulating the human mind with the use of white materials gave the presence of light and warmth in a rather dark and cold are such as Denmark and rest of Nordic countries.
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In Linguistic terms filtration is a process of untying different elements. In other words; filtration is the process of separating suspended solid matter from a liquid, by causing the latter to pass through the pores of some substance, called a filter. The liquid which has passed through the filter is called the filtrate. Filtration is vital and is used in several aspects of life and architecture in general (in context with luminosity). Filtration in philosophy is as important as water and light. One of the several approaches to filtration would be the filtration of human personality and the perspective it creates. The chaos of human life is on its prime now. One of the ways to condense the hate and improve the way of life is to limit abhorrence from getting in to the sub conscious. This process can also be called the process of filtering hate and allowing the love pass
through. Filtering the hate will only leave us with love and the composition of love and compassion will be a revolution in the human world. Filtration will help us to consider the world differently. When you filter certain aspects of your observance that you don’t want to come across then a whole new world will be discovered only to find out that it was there all along. The only reason it wasn’t perceptible was because of the superfluous elements that was hindering your vision. The filtrate is the new world and full of love; which is strong enough to stop humanity from annihilation. Filtration in architecture is all about filtering the light and the concept within. The use of material and the manipulation of light and space is what results in a filtrate. In the case of Le Corbusier and the Trinity of light; Le Corbusier has carefully manipulated light to define the space. He used
the concept of filtering and filtered the light into a space which can be measured in metrics. For his three sacred buildings, Le Corbusier has played masterfully with orientation, openings and textures to create kinetic architecture with daylight. His pilgrimage chapel at Ron champ, the monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette, and the parish church of Saint-Pierre in Firminy reveal idiosyncratic and individual approaches that each extract contemplative spaces with light. The article, mostly talks about light and its divinity. Different kinds of lights have been filtered through architecture such as the glow of Romanesque apse, the golden shimmer of Byzantine mosaics and the luminous walls of gothic stained glass in catholic churches. These have their own perception of divinity which proves the several different kinds of filtrates. As an artist as well as an archi-
tect, Le Corbusier expressed an exceptional sensitivity for the interaction of colours and light in his sacred buildings. His position as an outspoken agnostic seems very ambivalent in combination with his desire to open the soul to poetic realms. Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ron champ (1950-55) is a great example of filtration in architecture. The dawning sun illuminates the alcove of the side chapel and turns the red-painted void even redder. Later, sun floods the tall slot between the east and south walls, continuous with the rays of light through the deep cavities of the south wall. The small horizontal crack of ten centimetres lifts the roof from the wall and creates a harsh contrast to the glow of the vertical brise-soleil at the southeast corner. The Convent of La Tourette being another masterpiece by Le Cor
busier; embodies a clear counterpoint to the poetic forms of Ron champ due to the use of rectilinear geometry. This monument filters the light into diverse experiences due to all the corridors having an open side facing one of the four cardinal directions. The irregular window arrangement also contributes as a filter to the composition of light and shadow which appears as smooth as a symphony composition.
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