Final Submission
SketchUp Model
Moving Elements Video
Real Time Images
Lumion Environment
Reviews
Monday, 27 June 2016
EXP3_Developed Model With Moving Elements and Textures
Moving Elements
The first moving element is shown below as a cable car for which I get the inspiration from Santiago Calatrava's 'Sharq Crossing' project. It is specifically designed for staff of the faculty as it would save time from getting through the passage beside the SqaureHouse and it would send staff directly to the Café for rest. During the travel, they would have a good view of the campus.
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| View To Campus |
Inspiration
The second moving element is 'waterfall' around stairs in the central teaching zone. As the roof is open to the sky for sunlight, there would be downpour into the building. Therefore, the waterfall is from collected and recycled rain which is placed between the glass layers. It brings external nature into the interior.
The last one is shading device on the north façade of lecture theatre. This system consists of fabric which can be spread to allow both low and high angle sun shading as it shades both horizontally and vertically.
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Textures
The textures I used is from sets of 'fluid' and 'vibration' to decorate walls, mark the circulation and emphasizes functional rooms. |
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| Vibration |
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| Decorate |
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| Emphasise Stairs |
EXP_Draft Model
The building has an organic and wavy form which responses to the theory of getting inspiration from nature by Santiago Calatrava. The façade is mainly glass windows for a connection between the landscape and human. However, adjustable shading devices should be considered especially for north façade in Sydney. Therefore, one moving element might be rotational brise soleil during the day. Another moving element is to connect separated zones to avoid influence on the existing building thus could be a cable car going above the Squarehouse.
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| Learning and Teaching Zones |
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| Office Zone |
Thursday, 19 May 2016
EXP3_Draft Plan and Concept Sketching
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Herzog and de Meuron
house for a new media collector
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| Draft Plan-to-plan Sketching |
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| Concept Sketching in Response to Urban Context |
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
EXP3_MashUp
Nature and
evolution take things down to their most elegant form, no more material than
absolutely necessary, but also build in redundancy. Calatrava’s designs are often inspired by nature, featuring a
combination of organic forms and technological innovation. A biomimetic infrastructure is what's inherent
in Calatrava's work. He has this insight that natural processes create
efficiencies. His art museum in Milwaukee has wings that open to the sky. In
the crowning element of the brise soleil, the building’s form is at once formal
(completing the composition), functional (controlling the level of light),
symbolic (opening to welcome visitors), and iconic (creating a memorable image
for the Museum and the city). Calatrava's understanding of natural engineering has allowed him to build
radically innovative structures, some of which seem to defy gravity.
Milwaukee Art Museum Information
Milwaukee Art Museum Information
How Santiago Calatrava's Buildings Marry Engineering With Biology
The Milwaukee Art Museum
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
EXP2_Final Submission
The Space Between
Concept
Concept 1:‘Bigness’ - dismiss scale and proportion as no longer
applicable to contemporary architecture: Rem KoolhaasThe philosophical approach of bigness results in taller and deeper-BIGGER structures than ever before conceived. I realises his concept by creating the urban context with tall elevator and simple prisms to reduce mass.
Concept 2: Create a sense of warmth and humanity as opposed to sheer function: Alvar Aalto
Aalto has a focus on tight relationship between nature and architecture rather than straightforward functions. Therefore, in my model, the curvilinear or organic form with open space between columns gives an open view of surroundings, which relates back to the concept - humanity and warmth gained from nature.
Electroliquid Aggregation
Creating a sense of warmth and humanity is consistent with the methodology of ‘bigness’ as opposed to sheer function.Both of the concepts jump out of the constraint of functions to follow the humanity.
Inspiration
Inspiration of the Station: Pools in Brazilian Museum of Sculpture
The pools with plants are designed by a famous Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Marx apppreciates use of enormous scale, lighting and reflection particularly in his use of water.
Theme: sustainability
Reducing the use of materials by making the one prism be substracted by other four prisms is sustainble.
The use of natural materials from austrlian nature such as the stone slab and elevators is sustainable.
The use of lightweight materials such as timber station shelter is sustainable.
Lifting the Station to avoid impact on the existing environment - busy Anzac Parade is sustainable.
The elements of green plants and pools are sustainable and also give people humanity and warmth feeling which is related to the concept.
Textures
Dark: The dark texture with randomly intersected lines like grasses is used to highlight the circulation.
Medium: This texture gives a sense of solid and heavy like stones. Therefore, it is used to show the stone elevators' walls and the slab.
Light: Straight lines with light weights show the patterns of timber structures.
Images
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Station View
The organic shape, use of warm colour materials, relation to nature match the concept of humanity and warmth.
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Shadow Casted On the Floor
Shape of pools is designed to coordinate with the curved edge of shadow.
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| Light Texture On the Roof |
Medium Texture On the Elevators |
| Dark Texture On the Floor |
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| Overall Night View |
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Night View of Pools
This one involves test of green colour lighting. The lighting is not that strong for sustainability.
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| Night View of West Facade |
SketchUp WareHouse
Dropbox Link
Sunday, 1 May 2016
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