Sunday, June 28, 2015

Submission - Moving Elements

Lecture Hall Light Blocker

The light blocker in the lecture hall features black screens that cover the windows as soon as the computer connected to the projector is turned on. The lecturer can also control the blocker at will. The light blocker will retract after the computer has been turned off. It darkens the room for the projector and blocks views out of the room.

Gallery Moving Facade

The moving facade outside of the walls of the gallery is stimulated by activity within the room. Using sensors, the facade moves to restrict the views outside of the room, to allow the focus of the guests inwards, rather than outwards. After the room no longer has any activity going on within it, the facade will retract, opening the room up to the surrounding views.

Submission - Textures




















In my bridge, I used three textures, one from my Linear category, Rotation category and Sway category. The Linear texture was used on an elevator that leads people to the Gallery. 
I Photoshopped my Rotation texture into a purple fabric texture. I then used this as the flooring in the study room.
And finally, I used the sway texture in the workshop to represent the rooms use for design purposes.

Experiment 3 - Draft Lumion Images

"The Arch"


View from Anzac Parade, in front of NIDA.


View of the building from behind


Lecture Room


The Arch's location  on the UNSW campus.


The bridge shown above connects the Square Building with NIDA. The building was originally going to just be the arch portion, however, I added another one of my "cross" perspectives to increase the size of the building. 

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Experiment 3 - Inspiration






I want my building to consist of a timber facade. I believe this will allow my building to stand out among the existing buildings on the UNSW campus, as well as add a warm and welcoming feel to the building.

Friday, June 26, 2015

Experiment 3 - Moving Element Research and Inspiration




Among the three selected examples, my favourite would have to be the second one. I like the way the room is concealed in such a simple way and that it can open in such an elegant way that looks good. I would like to do something of the sort for my gallery.

Experiment 3 - Textures

The Rotation, Scale and Linear textures were requirements of this part of the experiment. We were then tasked with coming up with the kind of movement we do day to day so I chose Shift, Sway and Bobbing. These were chosen as I do not get much time to move around much, due to being busy with assignments, as well as my chronic back pain. So I chose Shift, as I shift my position whilst working, and Sway and Bobbing because, depending on my current mood, I like to dance.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Experiment 3 - Turning Floor Plan into Section

This week, we were given the task of choosing the floor plan of a famous building, altering it to work with the requirement of the Bridge, and the turning this into a section which would then be used as a section within our bridge.

Our group chose the Villa Mairea.

I Modified the floor plan to become the following:

I then recreated the modified floor plan in Sketchup and turned it into a section:



Experiment 3 - Placing the Perspective in Location

Aerial view of bridge

View from behind

 View when approaching bridge from Anzac Parade

 Location in respect to UNSW campus



Experiment 3 - One and Two Point Perspectives

Week 1

Altering the 3D cross in one and two perspective form.

I turned the cross into the following perspectives:


Friday, June 19, 2015

Experiment 3: Article Mashup

Something as important as architecture cannot be founded upon arbitrary bases. One of the most interesting trends in architectural materials of recent years is the increase in use of weathering steel - more commonly referred to by its trademark name, Cor-Ten. Thought the material has been around for decades, first being used for architectural purposes in the Eero Saarinen-designed John Deere Headquarters in 1964, the material has seen a surge in popularity in the last decade or so, being used in everything from individual houses and tiny kiosks, to SHoP's design for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

For the best part of a century, architectural discussion has been dominated by modernism and other related forms of futurism and functionalism. We would prefer an architecture that is consistent with human feeling, and in which design decisions are based on observation and empirical verification. For some, this constant invocation of the radically new has begun to look quite tired. In the 1980s looking backwards for inspiration famously brought us the adaptive and populist postmodernists, but also emerging at this time was New Classical architecture, which completely rejected any continuity with modernism and returned instead to traditional rules.

Salingaros, Nikos 2015, Unified Architectural Theory, Chapter 13, ArchDaily, Accessed 19 June 2015, <http://www.archdaily.com/636876/unified-architectural-theory-chapter-13>

Stott, Rory 2015, AD Round-Up: 9 Projects that make Creative Use of Cor-ten Steel, ArchDaily, Accessed 19 June 2015, <http://www.archdaily.com/628127/ad-round-up-9-projects-that-make-creative-use-of-cor-ten-steel>

Goodwin, Dario 2015, 6 Classical Building That Are Younger Than You Think,  ArchDaily, Accessed 19 June 2015, <http://www.archdaily.com/621256/6-classical-buildings-that-are-younger-than-you-think>