Kemeng Dong: May 2016

Thursday, 19 May 2016

EXP3_Draft Plan and Concept Sketching

Herzog and de Meuron

house for a new media collector

Draft Plan-to-plan Sketching

Concept Sketching in Response to Urban Context

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

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

http://mam.org/info/details/quadracci.php

How Santiago Calatrava's Buildings Marry Engineering With Biology

fastcompany.com/1514559/how-santiago-calatravas-buildings-marry-engineering-biology

The Milwaukee Art Museum

http://www.arcspace.com/features/santiago-calatrava/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Concept 1:‘Bigness’ - dismiss scale and proportion as no longer applicable to contemporary architecture: Rem Koolhaas
The 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

Station View

The organic shape, use of warm colour materials, relation to nature match the concept of humanity and warmth.

Shadow Casted On the Floor

Shape of pools is designed to coordinate with the curved edge of shadow.

Light Texture On the Roof

Medium Texture On the Elevators
Two stone elevators as the retaining structure lift up the railway to the height of nearest campus building. The elevators are tall with thick wall showing the concept bigness.