Seek Light as a Discovery
Conceptual explorations of light pavilion Representation II Zihe Jin a 1737636 2019
Contents
Place
02-09
Site description Site analysis Photography view analysis Accessment and movement Site feature Case study one - luminosity
Idea
10-17
Concept development Description Spacial exploration A B C Design precedents Case study two - reflection
Form
18-22
Final Design Plan Section & Elevation Access and Movement Case study three - Opacity
Material 23-28 Light & Texture Internal Details Visual experience Room atmosphere Case study four - Filtration
Site Description
2 PLACE
Site Analysis Summer - 9 am
Summer - 12 pm
Summer - 3 pm
Winter - 9 am
Winter - 12 pm
Winter - 3 pm
PLACE 3
Photography - day
4 PLACE
Photography - night
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Access and movement
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SIte feature Walking area These areas are covered by the grasses where students and public can walk though. By occasionally the areas are used for events.
Sitting area These areas contained forty tables and benches. Students are reading and relaxing on these spaces.
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Case study one- Luminosity Linguistic Definitions LUMINOSITY is the intrinsic brightness of a celestial object also as distinct from its apparent brightness diminished by distance. The brightness in the dark, shining and giving out light, reflecting light, it is the contrast of darkness.
Philosophical Meanings Luminosity is a word that indicates the brightness and light. It is can be an objects that represents the goal to achieve, a concept that is not only being a normal phenomenon. it could be an adjective word which represented some thing get instant results, just like the speed of the light, it is very fast and we can see shadows under the light. Luminosity also can be described as the edges of the interior luminaries echo the sharp concrete lines, the soft, diffuse inside and outside illumination in a way counteracts the energy of the building's forms in architecture. From human realistic vision, it can be imagined as the dream, the ending and the science truth, and it can be a reflection of ourselves.
"A dreamy exception in which light patterns react to the flexible movement of a membrane and are embedded in her parametric architectural language."
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The Architectural Lighting of Zaha Hadid In this project, the desire for natural light will lead to the world’s tallest atrium. The translucent chasm between the two building halves aims for a life with daylight all around. Through this, and all of her previous projects, she has traced a remarkable path from fragmented light lines to a luminous fluidity by day and night.
After a period of raw, cool, concrete buildings, Hadid turns for the first time to a warm, golden and glossy atmosphere with the Guangzhou Opera House (China, 2010). The design of the auditorium is driven by fluidity and seamlessness. Thousands of light pixels in the ceiling remind the audience of a dream-like starry sky. Light patterns on the cascaded balconies evoke the impression of reflections in waterfalls. These waves stand in a clear contrast to the crystalline exterior with the triangular facade pattern.
Surprisingly, while pushing numerous formal and technical boundaries, Hadid hardly ever translated the movement of her paintings into dynamic lighting for her architecture. Her temporary installation Parametric Space (Copenhagen, 2013) represents a dreamy exception in which light patterns react to the flexible movement of a membrane and are embedded in her parametric architectural language. In this project, the desire for natural light will lead to the world’s tallest atrium. The translucent chasm between the two building halves aims for a life with daylight all around.
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Concept development Light as a discovery
10 IDEA
Description The curves are inspired by the building on the site, the Molecular Life. On the second level, the curves of the glasses room create the bright spaces during day time.In my design, there is a curve stage lead to the second level.
There is a street light on the street and I stand under the light. The shadows are created when I go through the street. In my imagination, there are some mountain-like shapes created under the light. when I went into these shapes, they become a 3-dimension space where people can go in. The light source therefore be immensely brighter because it is used as a decoration on the pavilion. The glasses are used on the pavilion, the light go through the roof. The light can not go through the solid building, and there are some colapse under, the light shows under the building, and the light will be a signal for passengers. When the passengers go though the street in the night, the passengers can see clearly. The building are constructed by solid concrete so the light will not be passed.
IDEA 11
Spacial Explorations A
12 IDEA
Spacial Explorations B
IDEA 13
Spacial Explorations C
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Design Precedent The Yellow Diamond
A combination of bright color and rhythm will give the building the impact to support its proposed use. The exterior is angled planes of gold-yellow frit-pattern glass representing a unique gem. As the visitors approach from either direction, they encounter changing sparkle and enjoy glimpses into the retail spaces.
IDEA 15
Case study two- Reflection Linguistic Definitions REFLECTION is the process by which light are sent back from a surface and do not pass through it. The reflection of a beam of light off a mirror. It is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated.
Philosophical Meanings Reflection can be a mirror in psychology study, when people thinking about something, the emotions and movement are shows what they are thinking about. When someone is laughing or crying, the others would show the reaction. There is two parts in mental, an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus and a learned or acquired reflex after a stimulation. And this could be the reflection of human-being in thinking. In design, reflection can be a "second-hand" from, like representation in architecture, designer create an shapes, the clients indicates it after appreciate the shapes.
“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.�
16 IDEA
Reflective Facades The intriguing imagery of brilliant reflections on transparent glass facades is fortunately not limited to those outside the building; it also offers interesting views for those inside. However, for closed exhibition or concert halls, the concept of veiling an entire building with brilliant reflective effects has been adapted with other shimmering panels. The precursor to the Elbphilharmonie, which first showcased Herzog & de Meuron’s desire to transform the mirror effects of modernist glass skyscrapers, was the Prada Epicenter in Tokyo, completed in 2003. The glazing shell consists mainly of rhombus-shaped elements, but selected parts create distinct distorted reflections due to the convex exterior shapes of the glass – comparable to a contact lens resting on the facade.
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. 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.
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Final Design Light as a discovery
The light on the street and I stand under the light. The shadows are created when I go through the street. In my imagination, there are some mountain-like shapes created under the light. when I went into these shapes, they become a 3-dimension space where people can go in. The light source therefore be immensely brighter because it is used as a decoration on the pavilion. The glasses are used on the pavilion, the light go through the roof.
18 FORM
Plan (1:100) 0
5 Small library
Storage space
Saminar room
Reception area
Exhibition space
Toilets(M, F, D)
Disable access
FORM 19
Section & Elevation (Southeast) Site Analysis Roof parts
Ground level
20 FORM
Access and Movement
In this pavilion, the entrance and the exit pathway is flexible, students are able to access the pavilion from southwest to northeast. The wall of each function wall is stable, but the movement of people is uncontrolled. The arrows in the spaces are just the recommended routes.
FORM 21
Case study three - Opacity Linguistic Definitions OPACITY is the fact or the phenomenon of being difficult to see through, the fact of being opaque. It is the quality or state of a body that makes it impervious to the rays of light and being ambiguity. It is the obstacle of directly visible light.
Philosophical Meanings If the light is the truth, then the opacity means something have misunderstood. The light become a intentions, the true way to go, and the opacity like the fog that become a obstacle of people when they walk though a way. It is a prevent not only the light itself but also the receivers. There is an object scatter one light seed in many different ways, because the number of the light is too much, they have been miss leaded. During the delivery, the journal of the light happened from the opacity.
“Light originates somewhere, but man does not need to know where. Lighting is not an end in itself. But its meaning is to create a feeling of the infiniteness of eternity.�
21 FORM
Whiteness in Nordic 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 characteristic of the Nordic built environment.
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.
FORM 22
Light & Texture The parallel light from the sky
The Sunshine go through the glass ceiling and shining between the collapse, the shadows are created in the roof. The sunlight from the sky have been filtered by the collapse of the roof, and the light have been opacity by the glasses.
23 MATERIAL
Internal Details
MATERIAL 24
Visual experience
25 MATERIAL
Room atmosphere Library
Yellow glasses are used for the library cupboard under.
Barthroom
The middle of the room is the toilet for the disable people who have to walk with Rolling chair. The rooms inside are hermetically with no light because these areas are private spaces. There is an automatic electrical lift in the middle, and it is convenient for the people who are unable to walk.
MATERIAL 26
Case study four - Filtration Linguistic Definitions FILTRATION is the quality of a material that does not allow light to pass through it. It is the quality of being opaque, the quality of being difficult to understand or explain. It is the process of filtering a liquid or light.
27 MATERIAL
Philosophical Meanings As the processes on light, it seems to become as a metaphor, it becomes a truth that is looking for. After filtered, the result shows there are something have been purified and cleaned. Filtration represent a answer that have been asked. the light appeared first, then people rise questions from this existing "answer", then more and more people would have different opinions. When the others collected these opinions, the light have been filtrated. Filtration is not the exactly truth but after a process it become significant.
Le Corbusier and the Trinity of Light A rectilinear light cannon projects the intense warm sunlight onto the interior wall while a cool sky blue falls softly through the stellar windows. Here the cosmic scenes of day and night appear mysteriously together.
Le Corbusier’s light techniques emerge as a multifaceted language to consecrate his sacred buildings. His dynamic layers of light transcend the static building volumes - a cosmic cycle that changes with the course of the day, year and with a clear or overcast sky. His structural elements range from tiny stellar openings to large tubes, but even small interventions are used to generate remarkable light patterns that reflect cosmic power.
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.
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References and image links Case study : Luminosity https://www.archdaily.com/868157/fluid-luminosity-the-architectural-lighting-of-zaha-hadid Case study : Reflectioin https://www.archdaily.com/796974/veiled-in-brilliance-how-reflective-facades-have-changed-modern-architecture https://www.archdaily.com/130815/the-yellow-diamond-jun-mitsui-associates-architects-unsangdong-architects?ad_source=search&ad_ medium=search_result_all Case study : Opacity https://www.archdaily.com/catalog/us/products/13473/experimentarium-velux-modular-skylights-velux?ad_source=neufert&ad_medium=gallery&ad_ name=close-gallery https://www.archdaily.com/542503/light-matters-whiteness-in-nordic-countries Case study : Filtration https://www.archdaily.com/597598/light-matters-le-corbusier-and-the-trinity-of-light
Representation II Zihe Jin