Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2019 Veronica Lee 994460
Kammy Leung & Chun Fok Studio 24
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)
Pierce classifies signs into three categories: icons, indexes and symbols, all three of which play a representational role for the “qualties of its dynamic object” in communication. Contrastingly, the role of the diagram is not to express the physicality of what is already there, but rather to mediate between the physical constructs and concepts or percepts”. As such, diagrams plays an organisational role in communicating to its audience.
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Week One
Precedent Analysis
bottom left: top view of the unrolled, planar shapes of the pavilion. top left: NE isometric of first version of the modelled pavilion (2d planar pieces). top right: NE isometric of the final rhino model with thickness and structural ‘ribs’added.
Image (above): Daniel Libeskind, Serpentine Pavilion, 2001, colour photograph, from: https://app.lms.unimelb.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_ id=_383819_1&content_id=_7326053_1
The most challenging part of the process was at the begining, where you needed to figure out form of the pavilion, especially without any angles given. After an already failed first I attempt, I changed my method to first figuring out the pieces that will be found on the ground, and maneuver the pieces in bertween so that they somewhat touched each other - this allowed for the basic form to be made. From there, ‘tweencurve’[d] lines for the structural ribs. Then I ‘offset’ surfaces to add more depth into the form.
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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)
Herzberger argues that extreme functionality limits the “utility”and “accomedating potential” of a space. Libeskind’s Serpentine Pavilion is the opposite of functionality. It instead fosters a sense of discovery and revelation through its abstract and entangled form, encouraging the need of movement in order to fully absorb the complexity of the pavilion. Its asymmetrical composition allows for a different perspectives of the pavilion to be shown at every unique angle, as such, creating a multitude of different spaces. The scale of the pavilion also allows for the gathering of people in certain spaces, as well as resting spaces around and within its form depent of the time of day.
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Week Two
Isometric
North-East View with Shadow at 3pm 07/07/2001 (London, UK) The isometric view shows both the material of the pavilion as well as the projected shadow on the 7th of July, 2001 at 3pm the hotest time of the day in the hotest month of in London. It shows some circulation, where people are strategically using the shadows casted by the pavilion.
shadow - 3pm 07/07/2001 (London, UK)
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Week Two Diagrams
Construction & Horizontal Plane Threshold There are two types of thresholds within this pavilion; one influenced by the the ground plane and one influenced by the verti-
fold edge
ground plane threshold
Circulation & Vertical Plane Threshold
vertical plane threshold
This digram shows the circulation of people as well as the verti-
circultion around pavilion
cal thresholds defined by the ‘folded’ vertical planes of the
circultion within pavilion
cal plane. This diagram shows the ground plane threshold, along
structure. It also highlights the key space where people may
with the constrcution, to illustrate a relationship between the
spend stationary for a longer period as it provided many differ-
form (especially the folds in how the thresholds were identified).
ent framed views through the pavilion.
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defining vertical plane
key ‘stationary’ space
Appendix
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Appendix Process
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Appendix
Process
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