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Lightmos Thonglor, Bangkok ArchitectKidd

Repetition and Pattern • common compositional technique in architecture as it gives a sense of coherence and helps to create a visual rhythm for architecture .

• Provokes curiosity of people and to encourage them to approach to the site.

• Irregularity in pattern will cultivate opportunities to amplify the characteristics of other key aspects: light, movement.

• Surface of different pattern can be distinguished in relief, seaming, material, texture, colour, reflectivity and translucency, it is because surface is sensitive to both changing light conditions and changing view angle.

Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud Kengo Kuma

Light and Shadow • Characteristics of lights plays important roles in creating experience of a journey through path way of one destination to another destination by creating different sense of environment and spatial journey.

• Give us pause for thought and encourage us to look at our surroundings with new eyes and be freshly engaged by the peripheral subtleties that normally pass us by.

• A“topological space” from which the view can frame portions of scenery, a filter between the nature and the observer .

• Expected to integrate a visual perception interaction translate by observer’s experience through the journey.

Voussoirs Cloud Movement / Motion • Parametric modification can be accomplished with a spread sheet, script or by manually changing dimension text in the digital model.

• The collaboration of parametric design and Antonio Gaudi’s hanging chain method were used for the surface’s form-finding to create a structurally efficient form.

• Using complex calculations that delimit architects and allow a diverse range of complex forms to be created with great ease using computer algorithms.

Airspace Tokyo, Thom Faulders

Light and shadow Air Space is a zone where the artificial blends with nature, sunlight is refracted along its metall surfaces, rainwater is channelled away from exterior walkways via capillary action and interior views are shielded behind its variegated and foliage-like cover.

Pattern ( Voronoi) The double layer screen is derived from a compressed combination of unique patterns generate with parametric software, and is constructed using a composite metal panel material used for billboard backing and infrastructural protective coverings. To allow the cellular mesh to visually

Movement There are a series of digitally-generated geometries patterns overlaid as voids with puncture t 2 layers of the faรงade, resulting the interstitial cellular are acts as a visual dynamic threshold between the private and public, framing and fragmenting views as one moves around and thro the building.

Materials The dual layered skins are constructed of an aluminium and plastic composite material. float, a matrix of thin stainless steel rods is threaded from top to bottom, to which the panels ar affixed.

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The driveways adjacent to the sites run in two directions, there are highway toward the city facing the east, and west toward the country. The road between site A and site B takes the most traffic.

The best view for installation to catch the most views for people who enter the city is the site A and Site B, which is one of the major highway between the interchange of entering city and country.

Design Concept: Threshold of a New Journey • starting point for a new state or experience.

• The interchange of the highway road represent the different pathway, experience and direction in a journey.

• The transition of spaces, environment and moments in the process of entrance to the Gateway, a journey of exploration for the user.

Design Intention: • • •

A visual sense for the site.

Exploring a way that architecture is the catalyst in which people experience this perpetuated journey.

Focuses on how the journey, lighting, pattern and movement affects its users and appreciate the existing experience as well as the destination.

Function: Public Art

• providing opportunities for artistic self-expression, community dialogue, education and enjoyment, inspiring participation in appreciation and creation of art, and enhancement of the physical infrastructure and environment.

Design method and materials: Steel structure • Free form through complex computer-aided technologies • The structure itself is characterized by complex curvatures that made necessary the development of an independent structural system to support the form.

• Vertical and horizontal planes can be used for the assembly of the surface and resulted in curves that defined the axes of the tubular structure.

• The tubular metal structure required advanced technology to meet the complex geometry and experimentation in the approach.

Plywood Skin • wood panel made from thin sheets of wood veneer which refers to thin wood slices (usually not over than 3mm).

• Waterproof grade glue is used to stick and hold the sheets of wood veneer together. It is the one of most used wood materials due to its low cost, flexibility and etc.

• Throughout the experiment and outcome with plywoods by Alvar Alto, plywood is proved to form structural shape and to achieve curvature through bending and cutting.

• Bending and cutting enables plywood to form arches • Thin plywood cannot transfer load safely down to the ground without support, and therefore, at least two layers of plywood might require to support by the steel structures

Reference: 1. Meiss, P 1990, Elements of Architecture: From form to place, Spon Press, p.

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2. Grozdanic, L 2011, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Temporary Timber Pavilionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, eVolo Magazine, viewed 20 April 2012, <http://www.evolo.us/architecture/temporary-timber-pavilion/?utm_ source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Evolo+%28 eVolo%29.> 3. Contemporist 2009, Lightmos Thonglor by Architectkidd, viewed 21 April 2012, http://www.contemporist.com/2009/11/23/lightmos-thonglor-by-architectkidd/.

4.Belmonte, N 2010, Voronoi Tessellation, viewed 18 April 2012, http://blog. thejit.org/2010/02/12/voronoi-tessellation/.