Architecture Desing Studio Air Semester 2 Tisara Samarasuriya
Hello my name is Tisara Samarasuriya. I’m a 3rd year architecture student. Dint always want to be an architect, started my uni career off as an engineer but learned that I love design more than the engineering aspect. Looks like the engineering aspect has come back to haunt me with vectors. At least I can use some of the Experience gained in my first year. I’ve used basic forms of digital architectural programs such as sketch up 8 thus long for my Environments course. I’ve had a little experience with Rhino and thus not completely alienated by it. Have never used grass hopper before and well dreading it and also intrigued by it. Some programs that I’ve heard about it revit and #ds max which I’ve been meaning to learn in the future and have heard many design projects are based though this level and digital programming software. Although these programs help in the productivity, presentation and overall quality of the project I do believe that using digital architecture kills an individuals creativity to a certain length. I guess I’m antic but I do believe architecture to its purest form should be done using pencil and paper.
The Sri Lankan Architect Geoffrey Bawa is now regarded as having been one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the twentieth century. Bawa’s work is characterised by a sensitivity to site and context. He produced “sustainable architecture” long before the term was coined, and had developed his own “regional modernist” stance well in advance of the theoreticians. His designs broke down the barriers between inside and outside, between interior design and landscape architecture and reduced buildings to a series of scenographically conceived spaces separated by courtyards and gardens.
Another of my favorite works of architecture comes from japan from an infamous kazuyo sejima. Her recent works of architecture seem to exactly what I strive to achieve in the future. Which is a futuristic blend of minamalism and invasion. Her 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is one of favorite buildings since it blends in with the surrounding not in the way bawa planed with tropical architure but in a more eye catching subtle way. He work seem to be both complex and simple at the same time.