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Link to Interactive PDF with embeded model download:
Thursday 18 October 2012
Assignment 3 - Gallery Modular
The SANAA Zollverein Design School focuses strong on the concept of a grid design while also playing with the viewer’s perception of scale. By having a large unorganised grid of windows it doesn’t allow the viewer the ability to establish sizes of area or heights of floors which draws back on its impact on the local setting. Similarly BIG’s design the Wall in Taipei City also uses similar concepts in that it has a grid design and at first look it appears to be quite a regular grid but to increase their building floor space they have wrapped the building along a curved path. The Wall in Taipei City also has a strong concept of a porous scale with the large openings allowing light and atmosphere to pass through reducing the perception the viewer has of the size and impact of the building. I have therefore decided to follow these two concepts of the grid design and the use of this porous scale theme to design an art gallery. The art gallery follows the cube and irregular window layout to reduce the sense of scale achieved as well as establishing itself along a path that weaves through the local setting leaving it with a minimal impact.
Renders:
Wednesday 10 October 2012
Assignment 3 - Update
Similarly to the Wall in Taipei by BIG Architects as you walk through the gallery you will follow a path created by the building footprint as well as the interior allocation of spaces with the grid concept in mind.
Continuing with the fllowing of a path the building will wrap over the landscape in the cryengine environment which is suggested in this photo with the changing floor levels.
Thursday 20 September 2012
Project2 - Week 8
The building I studied for Project 1 was SANAA’s Gifu
Apartment Block where I follow the two themes of a Light Controlled Design that
has a reduced impact on the local environment as well as following a Grid
structure and layout throughout the building.For Project 2 my new SANAA
building is the Zollverein School of Management and Design as well as a new architect’s
building that will be BIG Architect’s Wall Taipei City Wall which is an
apartment building.
Some of the themes and programmes that as evident in these
two new buildings can be seen in the Project 1 building and some new ones have
been introduced:
Light Controlled Design
This is evident in Zollverein School of Management and
Design with the many windows and openings that are randomly located throughout
the building allowing light to travel through and helping with reducing its
impact on the local environment. This can also be discussed with the use of a plain
white finish on the concrete walls as they are not imposing and not necessarily
attention grabbing. BIG’s Wall also displays this concept with the building
continually having almost a checkerboard look to it allowing many openings in
it. By allowing light and vision to pass through people don’t see the building
as big and imposing as it may actually be.
Sense of Scale
Within the Zollverein School building through the use of
randomly sized and placed windows anyone viewing from the exterior has trouble
gaining a sense of scale of the building as they are unable to find where floor
levels start and begin and therefore the building is able to invoke a certain aspect
of curiosity. The Taipei Wall apartment building also uses this concept with
their build by looking at it you get the sense that it is much smaller than
what it really is but as you come closer and see people living in it you gain a
sense of how big it really is when you are able to gather a sense of scale from
these people.
Use of Grid through Design
The use of the grid system can also be explored through both
these buildings the Zollverein School uses this ununiformed grid to confuse the
viewer in relation to the scale of the building. But by keeping to this
structured concept it achieves this grid concept where the aim is achieved. BIG’s
Taipei Wall use the grid layout in their checkerboard looking building as they
originally wanted to reduce the impact on the local land space so they used
this concept to build upwards and then by following the grid format they were
able to create a light, non-imposing building that also plays with the viewer’s
sense of scale.
For Project 2 I have decided to design a residential house
that is inspired by the two concepts of Light Controlled Design as well as this
Sense of Scale that is seen evident in the two above buildings. This will be a
house that will be both functional as well as a mark on design and concepts. My
concept Designs are as follows:
A cube orientated design where by using the grid system and stacking them to reduce the impact on the local land they also create undercover outdoor areas which are both private and protected.
Through the use of the randomly placed and scaled windows and openings on the façades viewers find it difficult to read and understand the size and program of the building.
Thursday 13 September 2012
Project 2 - Comparative Visual Analysis
For Project 2 I have SANAA's Zollverein School Management and Design in Essen, Germany as well as BIG Architect's "Wall" Taipei City Wall.
In the Following images SANAA's Zollverein School is on the right hand side and BIG's Apartment Wall is on the left hand side:
Thursday 23 August 2012
Name: Punctured
Introduction:
The apartment building in Gifu designed by
SANAA Architects tested the boundaries to original concepts throughout
apartment designers. Their mission was to create a building which would not
impose on the local environment through a light controlled designed with lots
of openness to it. By designing the building with terraces and balconies that
go from one side through to the other face allows light to pass through
creating the feeling that the building isn’t big and imposing on the local environment.
Another one of their concepts was to develop a systematic grid structure where
various aspects of apartments all fitted to this single sized module. By then
varying the layouts and floor plans of each apartment they were able to have
many variations that would suit each prospective family to live in. This also
ensured that they steered away from the systematic and structured look of many apartments
buildings and were able to develop a more interesting and varying façade. Through
this use of the grid with different styled apartments placed throughout
developed a lot of suspicion from local eyes as they were never quite able to
decide where each apartment started and finished.
A3 Poster Composition:
2 Progress Iterations of Model:
Electronic Submission:
Thursday 16 August 2012
Thursday 2 August 2012
Assignment 1 Electronic Submission
Here is the link to Electronic Submission Folder download from mediafire.com.
http://www.mediafire.com/?wuujwr67ivocxud
http://www.mediafire.com/?wuujwr67ivocxud
Assignment 1 Blog Submission
The Gifu Apartments by SANAA are a great example to demonstrate that although apartment buildings can often come off as an eyesore within the local environment through a strategic and unconventional design process these building can be highly regarded. They were able to come up with a new concept of having standard sized modules for different sects of the apartment and then arranging them in various ways to suit the needs of various families and people. With a focus of reducing the impact of such a large scale building on the local environment they were also able to come up with a unique building that incorporates a light controlled design. The concept of the standard floor plans with the grid layout design as well as the low impact nature of the building are explored below.
A3 Presentation:
A3 Presentation:
Refences for Images:
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Bottom Left - http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/gifu,kitagata/Interesting
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References for Archetypes:
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Top Right - http://afasiaarq.blogspot.com/2011/12/sanaa.html
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Bottom Left - http://afasiaarq.blogspot.com/2011/12/sanaa.html
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3 Renderings:
2 Paper Folded Models:
Thursday 26 July 2012
Week 1 - Independent Task
6 Photographs:
(4 were already included below)
(4 were already included below)
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6 Archetypes:
(1 was already included below)
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Floor Plans:
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Wednesday 25 July 2012
Week 1 Task - Part 2
This diagram was found on a blogsite from a student who I presume has also studied the same building. It shows the relationship between the same space in a variety of different arrangements to provide the variations in the various apartments within the SANAA design.
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This folded form is a representation of the the diagram above by showing the various block forms that can be achieved from the same amount of paper space similarly to the way SANAA has created variations in their apartments through the use of the same original spaces.
Week 1 Task - Part 1
These folded forms represent the spaces and interrelationship between the apartments. The idea was to provide a sense of the spaces and how they interrelate with the adjoining apartments in the pattern that they do.
SANAA - Gifu Apartments
I chose to follow and study the Gifu Apartment Building in Japan which was designed by SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. The basic concept behind the building is a standard sized block for each aspect of each apartment which has then been rearranged to create many variations layout for various apartments.
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