ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO: EARTH S1, 2015 SUBJECT STUDENT BOOK
Shuchen Victor Lu
613204 Rebecca Graham Group 9
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Project Brief To provide a sheltered place for a small number of people and a place where are recording must be listened to by only one family at a time.
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1.0 THREE RELATIONSHIPS 1.1 Point/Line/Plane 1.2 Frame & Infill 1.3 Mass 2.0 CONCEPT MASS 3D MODEL 2.1 Design development intro & Digitization 2.2 Outcome 3.0 HERRING ISLAND. SOMETHING LIKE A PAVILION 3.1 Site analysis and Conceptacle 3.2 Concept and Sketch design 3.3 Design Development 3.4 Final Design drawings 3.5 Final Design Model 4.0 Reflection 5.0 Bibliography
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Zheng Wang, 2011
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Milan EXPO Tour, 2015
Nigel Young, 2014
1.0 THREE RELATIONSHIPS
Point is the basic element for drawing. Moving a point to form a line, then sweep a line to generate a plane. This is mathematical relationship among these three elements. Point/Line/Plane was the beginning point for Earth studio, then we turned to the Frame and Infill, which was developed from line and plane. Finally, we moved to Mass, which could be treated as combination of serial planes. In terms of architecture, those three elements could work individually or in-cooperate together. The photos on the right hand side showing three example of those three exercises respectively. Kunming International Airport uses unconventional form to construct the structural element of the terminal. They use continuous waving curve for load columns. They looks like Sine and Cosine curves. The Germany Pavilion of Milan EXPO 2015 is an interesting example, which inspired me with my secret project. Actually there is no traditional infill of the frame. The architect use green plants to infill it. It has never seen somewhere else. Queen Alia International Airport use mass concrete to generate a neat space for public.
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1.1 POINT / LINE / PLANE Point is the basic element for drawing. Moving a point to form a line, then sweep a line to generate a plane. This is mathematical relationship among these three elements. In this exercise I was inspired with RMIT Design Hub, which used a series of circular glasses to form the facade of building. The circular glassed could be treated as plane when look at it closely. And if put them into a larger scale, they could be the points on the facade. In my project, the circular platform plays as plane in small scale while it is point in larger scale. A series of light columns surrounds the platform. They are actually the points in this project. And the pathway could be the line to connect the platforms.
RMIT Design Hub, 2014
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1.2 FRAME & INFILL In this project, I was inspired by glazing pyramid in the Louvre Museum. It made me think about facade material diversity. Therefore, I tried different material to generate my infill of the frame, such as fiber string, membrane, and timber stud .
I.M.Pei, 1989
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1.3 MASS In the mass project, I touched the underground architecture. I was inspired by iceberg beause the icebery is a mass obeject which consist of water. The most of part of iceberg is hidden under the sea level. And the ice is transparent, which could refract the light into inside. My project was pouched the holes at the top of roof, which allows the light exposing into interior. And the form of the project looks like a iceberg.
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2.0 CONCEPT MASS 3D MODEL 2.1 DIGITIZATION & Design Development Intro
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2.2 OUTCOME
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3.0 HERRING ISLAND. SOMETHING LIKE A PAVILION
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6m Approx. 27.3m² (Ring)
Herring Island
Site Analysis
Private Jetty
Herring Island
Site Analysis Activity Points
Topography
9m Approx. 42.3m² Gallery & Toilet
9m Approx. 25m² BBQ
9m Approx. 61m²
Observation Point
10m Approx. 39.3m² 8m Approx. 29.1m² (Ring)
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Public Jetty
Herring Island
Site Analysis
Sunpath & Wind
3.1 SITE ANALYSIS AND CONCEPTACLE
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Initial idea: green wall on concepticle model
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Inspiration from Frame and Infill exercise
Green frame open space at the end of pavilion
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Reflective mirror facade, in order to hide the pavilion in surrounding environments
3.2 CONCEPT AND SKETCH DESIGN
Initially, my idea was from the Mass exercise, which was inspired by iceberg. The most part of iceberg is hidden under the sea level, and this makes me think out “secret�. At the beginning, I want to set up a green wall on the concepticle structure to make it adapt to surroundings, where is a natural forest island. And then I rethink and abstract a cube (ice) from iceberg, and combine the idea from Frame and Infill exercise. The major secret of my pavilion is the architecture itself. Herring Island is a man-made island in Yarra River, but nobody knows that without any background knowledge. The island becomes a natural things now. It has trees and plants, which grow naturally. My final concept was from here, which was man-mand and natural. Timber frame forms a green wall in pavilion, allows people seeing this building on the island and the plants on the green wall are natural. And the mirror cladding forms an invisible surface. If people standing the river bank which is opposite to island, they might not recognise there is a building because the mirror reflects the surrounding and hide itself into them visually. And the mirror is man-made things. Therefore. the green wall and mirror facade reflects the main concept of architecture, which picked from the property of Herring Island. The process of manmade island
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3.3 DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
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3.4 FINAL DESIGN DRAWINGS 27
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3.5 FINAL DESIGN MODEL
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4.0 REFLECTION Earth is the second architecture design studio I took after Waster studio. These two studio is quite different from each other. Water required to design a boat house in the Yarra River Bend Park. It emphasized the function much more than form whereas Earth studio paid much attention on working as an artist, which form was emphasized. Form and function is an interesting topic. I think it is always being arguing in architecture industry. Personally, I believe that the basic purpose of architecture is providing a shelter for people, and it should reflect the social aesthetics value then bring some idea from future. Therefore, I put the function in priority to form in my mind. However, this opinion caused struggle to me especially in the early phases of this subject. In the P/L/P, Frame and Infill and Mass exercises, I always thought what the function my building should have first, and then generated the form of them. Actually, the function sometimes limits the freedom of form generation. Therefore, I am just thinking whether the form could take priority in my future design. In terms of time management, I think I gain myself more than Water Studio. As we know, there is no finish for an architecture. It always could be refined and revised further and further. However, for a project, we should have an ending point, which means we should know where and when to stop refining and revising and turn to next phase. I saw some of people did not print the final presentation on time. I know some of them were refining the work until the deadline. I can not say that is not right for an architecture but for a project, they did wrong. A project aims to complete all of design and documentation on time. As a architect, we should always know where to finish although there might be a little defect on design on that stage, but I could say architecture is a kind of arts with defect.
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4.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY
I.M., P. 2011, , Glazing pyramid in the Louvre Museum. Available: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6712f02d0100rvzj.html [2015, 05/21]. Milan EXPO 2015, , Germanny Pavillion. Available: http://www.chla.com.cn/uploadfile/2011/new2011617/images/2013/11/20131112075941. jpg [2015, 05/05]. Nigel, Y. 2014, , Queen Alia International Airport. Available: http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/jordan/queen-alia-internationalairport-f220313-n2.jpg [2015, 05/15]. RMIT 2014, , RMIT Design Hub. Available: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/sYklvMhdiVky-IdycWgN519GzhDCo2N3r4u1fE4A-E0=w1249-h829no [2015, 05/15]. Zheng, W. 2011, , Kunming International Airport. Available: http://free32.photoby.cn/ uimg/44/%C0%A5%C3%F7%B3%A4%CB%AE%D0%C2%BB%FA%B3%A1/_MG_4437.jpg [2015, 04/03].
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