Rep.2 - Yingxuan Xiong - stage 1

LIGHT

REPRESENTATION II Yingxuan Xiong A1729611

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SITE DESCRIPTION

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SITE ANALYSIS

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SCALE & HISTORY

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IDEA 1

IDEA 2 & 3

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FINAL IDEA

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3D MODEL

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CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

LIGHT &SHADOW

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FILRATION

PLACE The site of project is located in the Maths Lawns space, in front of the Barr Smith Library’s East elevation, which is bordered on the southern side by the Mathematics and Engineering Building, and on northern side by the Physics Building and the Braggs Lecture Theatre.

SITE DESCRIPTION 1

AMBIENT

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shading study

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FEB 12AM

FEB 5PM

AUG 9AM

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AUG 5PM

CIRCULATION STUDY

Movement 1 Movement 2 Human usage (chairs)

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measurement study

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site history This site is a relatively large area where people can host festivals and teaching activities, which allows the math lawn to reflect the campus value and culture of the University of Adelaide.

The library on the west side of Maths Lawns is unique.

Barr Smith and Elders are well-known philanthropists and are very interested in the social and cultural development of the colonies. The University of Adelaide was founded in 1874 and Robert Bar Smith has been a member of its board of directors for 19 years.

Throughout his life, he has donated more than 20,000 to the university, including 9,000 to improve the library.

In 1899, the University Council decided that the name of its library should be “Bal Smith Library.�

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Zaha Hadid’s projects are remarkable not only for her innovative way of handling tangible materials but also for her imagination regarding the medium of light. Her theories of fragmentation and fluidity are now well-known design techniques which enabled her form-finding. However, her advances in using light to render her architecture have often been neglected—even though they became an essential element in revealing and interpreting her architecture. The three-decade transition from minimal light lines at her early Vitra Fire Station to the world’s tallest atrium at the Leeza SOHO skyscraper, which collects an abundance of daylight, shows the remarkable development of Zaha Hadid’s luminous legacy.

Light closes the gap between architecture and our perception. We sense forms and materials with our eyes not directly but through the reflected light. Zaha Hadid’s use of light might appear graphical at first sight with her light lines. Nevertheless, the grand dame operated very skillfully to enhance her architectural imagination.

Luminous lines—either as luminaires or windows—characterize her early work, Deconstructive Lines of Light

LUMINOSITY

Decisive non-parallel lines mark the explosive energy of her first building: The Vitra Fire Station (Weil am Rhein, 1993)—a lucid expression of tensions with in-situ concrete walls. Light lines in the ceiling, or between wall and ground or between the wall and the flying roof reinforce the linear architecture with sharp edges. In the interior, the light gaps between the wall and ceiling deconstruct conventional building structures as well. Even the design of the distinctive sun blinds intensify the linear pattern language. The precise light lines emerge as built manifestations of her suprematist paintings. Although the edges of the interior luminaires echo the sharp concrete lines, the soft, diffuse inside and outside illumination in a way counteracts the energy of the building’s forms.

Decisive non-parallel lines mark the explosive energy of her first building: The Vitra Fire Station (Weil am Rhein, 1993)—a lucid expression of tensions with in-situ concrete walls. Light lines in the ceiling, or between wall and ground

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Transforming Urban Lines into Luminous Strips Zaha Hadid’s explorations with abstract paintings have led to several graphical interpretations of lighting and luminaires. In order to interweave the surrounding landscape with her new structures, Hadid analyzed abstracted urban transport patterns and transformed them into luminaire patterns.

At Strasbourg’s Hoenheim-Nord Terminus and Car Park (2001), she became fascinated by the white road markings and converted them into white linear diffuse luminaires—either integrated as strips in the concrete roof or as tilted poles for the car parking spaces.

Coherent Forms Flow From Windows to Ceiling The Phaeno Science Centre (Wolfsburg, 2005) was a decisive turning point in Hadid’s lighting imagination. The windows and luminaires in the building’s surface share the same form, creating a holistic design approach and thus moving on from Hadid’s earlier period of lines and sharp corners. The elevated concrete structure generates a large shaded area, with the view to daylight on one side intensifies the impression of a dark void. As a counterpoint, diffuse ceiling luminaires intervene in the dim atmosphere. The diagonal building structure has been translated into rhombus-shaped windows for the façade. In contrast to earlier projects with sharp edges, Hadid’s forms here took on curved shapes, marking a transition to fluid designs. In order to form a coherent exterior surface, the rhombus contour has also been applied to the underside of the elevated museum.

Thereby the visitors perceive a holistic formal approach encompassing both daylight and artificial lighting.

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IDEA SEEK LIGHT IS

DISCOVERY

The core of this project is seeking light is discovery. When it comes to exploration, it is generally compared with the word invention.

Exploration is the discovery of what exists, and invention is the creation of new things. In the three design idea, the author focuses on human exploration of what is exists but isn’t knows.

The first inspiration is to explore the universe.

Does Mars have life? The existence of aliens?

All kinds of problems are undoubtedly the direction that leads human progress.

The second inspiration is human exploration of DNA. Everyone’s DNA is different. There are no two identical people in the world. Human exploration of DNA is also looking for new light.

The thired idea is that Columbus explored the New World and then proceeded to the journey of Europeans. They explored the world in the world and searched for a new continent.

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IDEA1 concept diagramming

PLANET

visual references

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IDEA2 concept diagramming

DNA

visual references

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IDEA3 concept diagramming

Age Of Discovery

visual references

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The American architect Frank Gehry transferred this aesthetic of brilliance from glass to metal with the titanium cladding of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 1997. While the connotations range from a ship for the larger form to fish scales regarding the reflective panels, the building as a whole has turned into an urban jewel that kicked off numerous urban redevelopments with its iconic signature.

Many an aspiring metropolis assumes that the structural form is the key successful factor in “Bilbao effect.” However, with the sparkling light qualities of the titanium sheets and its changing appearance, Frank Gehry has not only brought a dynamic composition of forms to Bilbao but reinforced his design with a distinctive, dynamic image which varies with every cloud and sunbeam.

Though they are less than half a millimeter thick, the titanium sheets evoke an interesting, almost corrugated- tactile dressing – an association which the New York Times critic Herbert Muschamp connected with Marilyn Monroe: “Frank Gehry’s new Guggenheim Museum is a shimmering, Looney tunes, post-industrial, posteverything burst of American optimism wrapped in titanium (...) The building is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.” With the Walt Disney Concert Hall, opened in 2003, the lustrous gesture subsequently arrived in the glamorous Hollywood scenery.

Later Paul Andreu covered the monumental dome of the National Grand Theatre of China with a shiny titanium skin and heightthe overall form offers hardly any clues

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Celebrating the expressive materiality of transparency and reflective imagery for entire building skins emerged during the early 20th century, when Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut envisioned a new glass culture made of “colored glass” “sparkling in the sun,” “crystalline shapes of white glass” which make the “jewel-like architecture shimmer.” Mies van der Rohe absorbed this vision when he discarded the rectangular tower in favor of a free-form glass skin in his proposal for the Glass Skyscaper in Berlin in 1921. In a 1968 interview, Mies explained his skepticism regarding the urban monotony of glass mirror effects: “Because I was using glass, I was anxious to avoid dead surface reflecting too much light, so I broke the facades a little in plan so that light could fall on them at different angles: like crystal, like cut crystal.” Norman Foster materialized this glass dream with his Willis Faber & Dumas Headquarters in Ipswich in 1975 and SOM presented it in its tallest manifestation with the Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai in 2009.

Tower in Dubai in 2009.

Undoubtedly the glass façade at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron refers to the visionary glass culture of Scheerbart, and indirectly to the golden shimmering skin of Berlin’s Philharmonic by Hans Scharoun as well. Inwardly and outwardly curved glass elements distort the perception of the city, water and sky. They build a fresh contrast to the uniform plane glass curtains of the International Style. The environment is not appreciated as a clear mirrored picture, but instead goes through a process of modification and reproduction.

Due to the curves of the balconies, the building reflects points or lines of brilliant light streaks. With a blue or diffuse sky the distinctive curves reflect the light as bright lines, similar to the horizontal lines seen in the designs of the automotive industry. Under direct sunlight, bright glossy points appear and evoke a jewel-like shimmer. Additionally, the vertical and horizontal convex curves of numerous single glass elements reinforce the shiny distorted reflections of the sky. Overall the curved façade with its printed dot screens evokes a vivid and liquid image, which expresses a close link to the water around. Built upon the historic brick warehouse below, and with its abstract choreography of complex distorted light reflections, the Elbphilharmonie operates as a magical eyecatcher.

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FORM -PLAN -SECTION -ELEVATION

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Reception Presentation Room Seminar Reading Room Small Library Storage Toilet

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3D MODELS

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Entrance

Small Library Reading Room Disable Access Storage

Reception Toilet

Seminar 1

Seminar 2

Presentation Room

ACCESS AND MOVMENT

LIGHT THOUGH THE LIGHT PAVILON

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OPACITY The Scandinavian countries have developed great buildings that resonate with both the scarce light in winter and the long summer days. Henry Plummer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has very carefully studied the various daylight phenomena in the Nordic countries, with extensive photo journeys and brilliant writing that combines an analytical perspective with a poetic touch. His view of daylight looks beyond the practical advantages of using reflective white spaces to facilitate bright rooms; the passionate photographer is much more interested in the light effects that play with the local beauty of nature and touch the human soul.

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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. In his book “Nordic light: Modern Scandinavian Architecture,” Henry Plummer points out that although Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland are dissimilar in topography and vegetation, they share the same subdued light.

Whiteness is a central aspect of how Nordic architects responded to their local environment, as Plummer reveals in his studies from the 15th century up to contemporary buildings like Steven Holl’s Herning from three directions, as Plummer explains: “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

Herning Museum of Contemporary Art. Without doubt, white surfaces offer a high reflectance in order to maximize interior brightness for dark winter periods, but for Plummer the affection for whiteness is also linked to the beauty of snow-covered landscape.

Early examples of white architecture could already be found in Denmark´s medieval churches, and this design approach still influences modern sacred buildings like the Dybkær Church by Regnbuen Arkitekter.

For example, the sophisticated daylight concept arrives from three directions, as Plummer explains: “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.” Further on, the nave walls are animated by an irregular texture of white brickwork. In a similar way, the Bagsværd Church by Jørn Utzon plays with white, as the architect elucidated to Plummer: “Light is the most important feature of the church. I provided white walls and white ceilings so that daylight, which is limited in Denmark for much of the year, is fully used and produces an intensity of light always greater than that outside.”

The concept of white diffusion, using white-painted plaster, white-enamelled steel and white linoleum, was introduced by Alvar Aalto for the Paimio Sanatorium in the 1930s, and achieved a peak at the Nordyjllands Art Museum in 1972, according to Plummer. Shades of white cover the walls, floors and ceilings as well as the expressive daylight scoop. However, the power of pure white volumes is not the only characteristic of the Nordic built environment. The pulse of nature with vibrating patterns of light or the transiency of dramatic light and shadow belong to the distinctive Nordic light approach as well.

The concept of white diffusion, using white-painted plaster, white-enamelled steel and white linoleum, was introduced by Alvar Aalto for the Paimio Sanatorium in the 1930s, and achieved a peak at the Nordyjllands Art Museum in 1972, according to Plummer. Shades of white cover the walls, floors and ceilings as well as the expressive daylight scoop. However, the power of pure white volumes is not the only charac-

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MATERIAL 3D CONSTRUCTION DETAILS WALL FINISH WALL FINISH CONCRETE CONCRETE INSULATION INSULATION CONCRETE CONCRETE

WATERPROOFWATERPROOF MEMBRANE MEMBRANE

BRICK

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INSULATION INSULATION CONCRETE CONCRETE

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INTERNAL VIEW 2 The final design is an advanced reflection of IDEA 3, with two large triangles roof window scattered in the reading room and small classroom. At the same time, a lot of space is done with the design of the floor-to-ceiling windows, because a gap is made outside the window, and the glass is sealed on the surface layer but allows sunlight to enter. Space thinking is to make a circular walkway connection function space, reference to the road to Rome and the interpretation of the discovery, the existing things are always there, will eventually find. The user can feel the sunlight shining into the gap next to most of the space, and has been enlightened.

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FILTRATION 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 Ronchamp, the monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette, and the parish church of Saint-Pierre in Firminy reveal distinctive and individual approaches that each render contemplative spaces with light. In his book “Cosmos of Light: The Sacred Architecture of Le Corbusier,” Henry Plummer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has analysed these projects with outstanding photographs taken over 40 years and brilliant writing. Light has been linked with divinity and holiness in many different religions. In Christianity the Bible speaks of God who “is light” or Christ as “the light of the world”. Even if the divine light and visible light are not the same, visible light appears as the most similar to the heavenly and thereby links both spheres.

40 years and brilliant writing. Light has been linked with divinity and holiness in many different religions.

In Christianity the Bible speaks of God who “is light” or Christ as “the light of the world”. Even if the divine light and visible light are not the same, visible light appears as the most similar to the heavenly and thereby links both spheres.

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Studying Le Corbusier’s sacred buildings for more than four decades has led to a deep fascination for Henry Plummer regarding the transformative power of light: “Instead of serving as a tool of religious persuasion, as it generally has in the past, light has become a quiet force to visually resist and elude, erode and outshine, the Church´s mandate. Light eats away and weakens institutional discipline, while exerting its own dazzling powers to draw attention out to the sky and its commonplace marvels – in effect using light to consecrate the natural universe”. many different religions. In Christianity the Bible speaks of God who “is light” or Christ as “the light of the world”.

Even if the divine light and visible light are not the same, visible light appears as the most similar to the heavenly and thereby links both spheres. Each epoch has formed a new language of light: The glow of the Romanesque apse, the golden shimmer of Byzantine mosaics or the luminous walls of Gothic stained glass. As an artist as well as an architect, 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.

The main characteristic of the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (1950-55) comes, for Plummer, from the continuous circle of solar events. The dawning sun illuminates the alcove of the side chapel and turns the red-painted void even redder. For Plummer this reddish morning light is a clear analogy to human birth. 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 cycle culminates finally in a warm glow from an opening in another side chapel at sunset.

The light orchestration at La Tourette is more complex and widely dispersed in comparison to Ronchamp, remarks Plummer. The Monastery of Sainte Marie de la Tourette at Éveux-sur-l’Arbresle (1953-60), with its rectilinear geometry, embodies a clear counterpoint to the poetic forms of Ronchamp and Firminy. Due to the fact that all corridors have an open side facing one of the four cardinal directions, the believers encounter diverse light experiences. Additionally, the corridors are distinguished with different window arrangements.

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