ARCHITECTURAL JOURN ZHEN TONG 502944
Understanding the Course: Architecture as Discourse
Barcelona Pavilion Mies van der Rohe
Understanding from Lecture and Readings:
According to what Mies van der Rohe’s developing for this project is that the free flowing space which using walls as planes in isolation, joined by sliding elements or glass and wall expressed as a single element with space flowing around it which has been regarded as an aesthetic feature of his work.
Precedent studies: From Lecture: How does architecture discourse come out? Because of design challenges comes To Products challenges To Good service challenges To Interfaces challenges To Multiuser systems and network challenges To Projects challenges Finally Discourse comes
From Reading: I understand architecture as a system of communications
Design features: curved forms covered with titanium and huge glass walls
This is essential quality of the form that it assumes in this instance also evokes a subtle traditional resonance. Material approach Glass, steel and four different kinds of marble (Roman travertine, green Alpine marble, ancient green marble from Greece and golden onyx from the Atlas Mountains) were used for the reconstruction
The museum has succeeded in creating an iconic identity for Bilbao. twisted forms that break conventions of building design. This sculpture piece is tryint to communicate with us that it is representing art in Bibao, attract people to go in.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao http://www.archidose.org/Jul99/071299.html
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Pavilion http://www.archdaily.com/109135/ad-classics-barcelona-pavilion-mies-van-der-rohe/
Architectural expression summerize
Design intelligence is collective intelligence that envolves within its own self-referential network of communications. Use dwgs, written words from website, books, magazines to communicate,focus key distinctions, concepts, codes. Values, methods and media
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO Bilbao, Spain 1991–97
Singapore art-science museum
The welcoming hand of Singapore Refer back to reading , “Functional inquiry can become an engine of innovation for the further evolution” ArtScience Museum is one of the latetest iconic architecture in singapore with a form reminiscent of the lotus flower, designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie has been called “The Welcoming Hand of Singapore” This building can also be understood as a discourse as not only because the unique for m but the implementation of technology it used to achieve sustainability in architecture.
The dish-like roof form collects rainwater and drains it through an oculus, creating a waterfall through the center of the museum that feeds an interior pond. which shows the idea that Architecture is a functional systems of modern society. http://www.archdaily.com/119076/artscience-museum-in-singapore-safdie-architects/ http://www.marinabaysands.com/Singapore-Museum/Architecture/ http://inhabitat.com/lotus-shaped-singapore-artmuseum-collects-rain-and-light/
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING IN ARCHITECTURE
New Technology - Key to Creation Case study:
Watercube by PTW architects
From Reading:
Engage with new design techniques
It is a dialogue between goals and solutions
CSCEC proved the Arup geometry worked mathematically with a script using the Weaire and Phelan solution. This was then exported as a wire frame model into a structural analysis package. This collaboration continued throughout the entire design phase with the architect, engineer and design partner frequently exchanging 3D information models in multiple software formats, reducing all future coordination and design issues.
design is a process of discovery generates insights
Digital architecture Designer’s creativity should not be limited by the very programs Digital architecture create potentials in innovative hybrid materials, digital fabrication and non – standard customization, as well as innovative strategies for environmentally sustainable responsive and intelligent buildings. This new phase of production emphasize greater control over the symbiotic relationship between technique, process, an outcome. fab*hab operates at a scale between industrial object, furniture and building, where the exterior and interior, form and content, are explicitly and inextricably linked.
Reference : https://coursecatalog.harvard.edu.
Cross-Fabricated Scaled (CFS) is an investigative prototype of experimental cross-fabrications between geometry and materials research allow fast speed in production.
Rapid prototyping was used to physically model the complex structure, both to convey the idea to the judges of the design competition which is an ideal way to create a model of the Water Cube. Arup used two separate types: sintered nylon powder and solidified epoxy resin. The process is also called stereo lithography. To create the rapid prototype model, Arup exported the Microstation 3D model to an STL file (stereolithography). Innovation
By introducing Rapid prototyping in design technique, more variety can be generated in a shorter time frame compared to normal prototyping, which is considered a new creation in computational architectural design technique nowadays.
Reference : http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/watercube/
Understanding of Scripting programming/culture What I see scripting culture is a productivity tool as it could produce different patterning for the design by changing the input setting, it’s really an efficient way to achieve as many as we need to get the best of the design suit to architect’s need. -Scripting culture is a way to combine geometry and mathmetics. scripting can be seen as offering an alternative view of creativity. with a set of knowledge of mathmetics. thus, we need to think in a algorithmical way instead.
A chosen project I have choosen this project done by Guallart which is denia castle cultural park . we can see that its continusion the theme of mountainous architectural landforms. for the town. Gullart’s design intention is to blur the exterior and interior through the fluid design connecting the landscape into architecture form with consideration of the site context and geographic factors. Guallart’s goal was to “ create an artificial topography understood not as a skin, but as a genetic expression of the structure of the original stone of the quarry. “
Relation to digital architectural discourse Though digital movement, Guallart has acheived the rhombohedra calcite crystal form. He use digital scripting tool to create modular object and geometric patterning to form a skin covering the whole mountain with crystalized spaces inside( can refer to the interior perspective and the section)Without scripting tool, its really hard to achieve such a large scale crystallized form in an efficient way.
Inspired by the angular forms of the limestone and the rhombohedra calcite crystals that make up the structural system for the hill.
Interior perspective the interior of the space will include a commercial zone with restaurants and cinemas known as the agora. the interior spaces reference the basis of three systems of crystalization characteristic of calcite.
Reference:
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/8183/artificial-mountain-design.htmla Antoine picon,2010, digital culture in architecture an introduction for the design professions
Grasshopper definition exploration:
Performative architecture: what performative architecture is and its role in the design process and product. In the scope of performative architecture the aim is to focus what a building does rather than what it is and the fact that architecture should have the capability of being adaptable to changing time, conditions and environment. A design problem is taken under consideration and designed from the scope of performative architecture. Architecture can be given performative capacity through the movement of people around and through a building. The experience of structures spatial presence and materiality along with the engagement of the eye and the body which makes architecture performative.
Our design philosophy: Our intention is to create an advanced innovative spatial experience, which connect with the great city’s development, exchange idea with suburban fringe area. Our idea is that the building itself start engagement with people who pass by this gateway It brings new thoughts to people and challenge people to figure out the Make people involve in the development progress of the city. As people pass by this gateway with active response towards what they see, and trying to question and figure out what happens around, create engagement among people and city. The gateway project encourages discourse. What they see on site: the gateway project demonstrate the changes of building appearance which symbolize development of city , use of idea of ” form follow performance”
Thus, Exciting, eye catching design starts... What’s existing on site ? Nature zone: Werribee Open range zoo Werribee Park mansion National equestrian centre Water treatment plant Ramsar convention Wetlands
Our intention is to create an advanced innovative spatial experience, which connect with the great city’s development, exchange idea with suburban fringe area. Citizen of wyndham city will witness the evolution that technology brings in our life.
Slicing, reflection
layering, voronoi patterning
Hills Place “Fibre optics to generate a coloured moiré pattern providing dynamic visual interest and a feeling of depth to what would otherwise be a blank wall” (Arch Daily <http://www.archdaily. com/34887/10-hills-place-amandalevete-architects/>, 2012)
Airspace Tokyo “A series of digitally-generated geometric patterns which were then overlaid and projected as voids which puncture the two layers of the façade.” (Ben, 2010,p.88)
Kinetic, making the invisible visible, air,
Perforation, layering, weathering
Articulated Cloud “ Translucent white acrylic panels that flutter in the wind, creating a dynamic surface that responds to air movemen.” “Its appearance changing dramatically with variations in light conditions, weather, and time of day.” (Christine and René, 2008, p.112)
De Young Musuem “The copper façade was designed to simulate the effects of natural light filering through a canopy of trees.” (Ben, 2010,p.75) “A series of plaster mockups to study the variable parameters for the perforation and debossing techniques.” (Ben, 2010,p.76)
Perforation, image mapping, layering Dior Ginza “ The facade was developed as a double-layed skin comprised of two independent surface, perforated layer and inner layer with fiber-optically illuminated. “ (Ben, 2010,p.105)
Contouring BANQ Restaurant Below the ceiling, the functional aspects of a dining space are fabricated with warm woods and relaminated bamboo amplifying the striping affect already at play throughout the space. (Arch Daily <http://www.archdaily. com/42581/banq-office-da/>, 2012)
Perforation, tiling, repetition Andre de Gouveia Residence “Arrangement of two different sizes of slotted perforations produces an image reminiscent of calcada patterns.” (Ben, 2010,p.69)
Stacking, Rotation, Image mapping “ As the surface of each brick reflects sunlight differently according to its angle relative to the facade, the building surfaces appear from a distance as a pixelated composition.” (Ben, 2010, p.180)
Colour and cut surface
Case for Innovation Floating, Sculptural Form Burnham pavilion Architect Ben Van Berkel Location Millenium Park, Chicago, USA 2007 Image: UN Studio, 2012, www.unstudio.com/, accessible on 18 March 2012) â&#x20AC;&#x153;... introduces a floating and multi-directional space... The pavilion is sculptural, highly accessible, functioning as an urban activator.â&#x20AC;? UN Studio <www.unstudio.com/> , 2012
Colour La Defense Offices Architect Ben Van Berkel Location Almere, Netherlands 1999-2004 “The malleability of colors” achieves “phenomenological”. Kolarevic, 2003. P9
The exterior façade reflects the larger urban condition, while the interior façades of the courtyards have been designed with the office tenants in mind. These façades are clad with glass panels in which a multi- colored foil is integrated and, depending on the time of day and the angle of incidence, a variety of different colours are reflected, animating the courtyards. Image: http://www.buildingbutler.com/bd/UNStudio/Almere/La-Defense/621
Perforation Pattern on Continuous Surface Aoba-Tei Restaurant Architect Hitoshi Abe Location Sendai, Japan 2005 “Unfolding the digitally-generated three-dimensional shapes into a limited variety of discrete, two-dimensional sections, installers were able to accurately deform each area on-site and assemble the steel surface as a smooth and continuous membrane.” (Ben, 2010, p. 56) Reference Ben Pell (2010) ‘Restaurant Aoba-Tei’, in The Articulate Surface : Ornament and Technology in Contemporary Architecture (Basel, London:
Digital design can create unfolding and continuous form that conventions Birkhäuser ; Springer distributor) p. 54 - 59 can not create.
Lighting to engage public
Big Heart Gets a second chance in Times Square Architect Freecall Studio Times Square US 2012 “ Four-hundred LED-lit acrylic tubes wrap a cube that bounds a suspended heart” “when touched the heart grows brighter” (Big Heart Gets a Second Chance in Times Square ( http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/31954> 2012)
Lighting to engage public White Noise/ White Light Höweler + Yoon / MY Studio Location Athens 2005 “Depending on the time of day, number of people, and trajectories of movement, the project is constantly being choreographed by the cumulative interaction of the public. “
Big Heart Gets a Second Chance in Times Square Architect Freecell Studio Location Times Square, US Year 2012
Reference Big Heart Gets a Second Chance in Times Square (2012) http://blog. archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/31954 accessible on 25 April 2012
Aqua Tower Ripple effect facade Create dialogue with community “ Curve cantilevers of exposed floor edges at the building periphery that give this building a remarkable amorphous feel“ It create a strong connection to the outdoors and the city, as well as form the tower’s distinctive undulating appearance
(http://www.studiogang.net/ work/2004/aqua)