Getting started at UNSW architecture studies: 2014

2014年6月30日星期一

VIDEO SHOWS THE BRIDGE AND THE MOVEMENT

Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRdWO5GzJ5g&feature=youtu.be

The quality on the youtube is much better.....really.

RESOURCES

SU MODEL：https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m5dtxuh5ot3bfg4/AADI-OC3SjW52wUFriu_f8RMa

LUMION：https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dvnix8fb96isgg3/AACzWCR-bbGne48fCDeIo_EPa

The shape of the bridge looks quite simple, not that strange or amazing. However, even if it looks "less" , there are lots more content under the appearance. Every element of the school is designed differently on location, size, orientation and even the material, because of the difference of the function, the need of the students and stuffs. Instead of using a lot of glass to make the building looks cooler, I consider more about the acquirement of privacy.Instead of shaping all the elements in the same (or familiar) size and orientation to make the building looks more in order, I treat each of them differently.With those consideration, I tried to make my bridge look unique and distinct and interesting.

There are so many things to think about on the architectural issue. Every step takes tons of thinking but I know what I consider right now is just like a small piece of cake compares to the real design for the architects in the future. Thus, more respect to the architects and architecture rises."Looks less" is not less. It is huge amount of thinking that makes the architecture "more".

WATER ROOF AND THE SIGHT OF THE HALL INSIDE

The water roof and walls keep the air temperature being mild for human beings.Besides, the water running inside the wall just keep the bridge being energetic and refreshing.

IMAGE OF THE CORRIDOR

Inspired by the corridor of the red center at M floor, I designed the glass wall on the both sides. The corridor connects the main building and the private space.The glass walls provide safety and a different feeling of view when getting through the corridor.

ELEMENTS

COMPUTER LAB------PUBLIC SPACE

The computer lab is designed as public space. Glass walls and high roof ensuring the sunlight gain and a wide range of view.

GALLERY------PUBLIC SPACE

Gallery is settled just at the entrance. It is open for everyone for anytime.

DESIGN STUDIO------OPEN SPACE

LECTURE THEATER------PUBLIC SPACE

The lecture theater is an open space because it is suited for everyone but it also requires some privacy when the classes are in progress. Accordingly, I designed the stairs on the side and a screen on the back for blocking sight outside.

LIBRARY------OPEN SPACE

Resulting from the consideration of saving space I create the library just on the stairs(Actually, it is a large slope)! The stairs' width is 3m which is wide enough for 100 students to find books and get through at the same time. The texture I used is from the linear movement and provides an interesting feeling when walking up.

WORKSHOP------PUBLIC SPACE

MEETING SPACE FOR STUDENTS------PUBLIC SPACE

The meeting space for students is on the 2nd and 3rd floors outside. Students can talk with each other, share ideas and do some sports outside here with good ventilation and sunlight. Trees are settled on the roof provide shades and oxygen for students.

MEETING ROOM FOR STUFF------PRIVATE SPACE

The meeting room is just at the end of the corridor. The walls ensure the privacy inside.Besides, the location makes sure there will not be too many students get here if not necessary. Thus, it will be quiet and private space for most of the time.

OFFICES FOR STUFF------PRIVATE SPACE

RESEARCH SPACE FOR STUFF

The research space is located just beside the meeting room at the end of the corridor. The location keeps the space quiet and is apart from the main building.

2014年6月29日星期日

PEER ASSESSMENT

2014年6月4日星期三

DRAFT PLAN

ORIGINAL PLAN

(Mies van der Rohe brick country house )

MY DRAFT PLAN

draft SU model + how does it move

THE ORIGINAL BRIDGE MODEL

THE CHANGE OF THE FIRST MOVING ELEMENT( 2nd AND 3rd FLOOR)
THE 2nd AND 3rd FLOOR WILL GET UP AND TURN FOR 45 DEGREES AND 90 DEGREES, RESPECTIVELY.

BESIDES THE COLUMNS WILL ALSO GET TWISTED(NOT GOOD ABANDONED IT)

FINAL TWISTED ONE

2014年5月21日星期三

“LESS” IS NOT LESS, MORE IS MORE

We humans live in two worlds --the outer world of appearances, and the hidden world, how these things actually function, their anatomy or composition, the parts working together and forming the whole. Dwelling in a house is not only a functional issue, but also a spiritual one. The spiritual one is not something visible to the eye, but it enhance this sense of the spiritual. Fashions come and go, and if houses are not built out of spiritual issue, they contain no truth and find no organization in chaos. We must make ourselves study as deeply as possible the technology we use, the functioning of the group we work in, the economics of our field, its lifeblood. A Building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. To let individual elements arise and shine at the expense of final repose is, for the architect, a betrayal of the locus of god. The house is the locus of mind, and the mind is the locus of god. Dwelling in a house is a search for the mind as the locus of god. Life is complicated and Life is messy and Life is hard and Life is endlessly fascinating, so is architecture. Visually Less is not less, more is more.

REFERENCE LIST:

Jin Baek, Nothingness: Tadao Ando’s Christian Sacred Space. Routledge, 2009.ISBN 978-0-415-47854-0

http://www.pbs.org/flw/legacy/essay1.html

http://www.archdaily.com/321403/how-santiago-calatrava-blurred-the-lines-between-architecture-and-engineering-to-make-buildings-move/

VALLEY

This image is captured in Beijing(The building is a part of the Great Wall.)

This is the landscape I created in the Lumion.

2014年5月6日星期二

MONUMENT SU MODEL and LUMION ENVIRONMENT

The SU model can be download from 3D warehouse at"
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=ua5e03f15-3046-4c6a-aad3-ea38815c4f56

The Lumion environment can be download from dropbox at:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3bskjbyxain2v77/Lumion%204%20%EF%BC%88ARCH1101-2014%20z3488231%20Zhang%20Zhongqi%EF%BC%89.rar

2014年5月5日星期一

SOME CHANGES

ORIGINAL ONE COMPARES TO THE MONUMENT

I used the artisan and added some details and textures.Instead of abandoning the original shape, I chose to keep the original one and make it transparent like glass with texture on it. The change makes it really interesting and keeps the concept at the same time.

SOME DETAILS

Resulting from the structure of my monument is one combines another, it is not suitable for creating space inside the monument so I designed an amphitheater for students to gain knowledge and communicate with each other. The columns around it conveys the same concept of vertical emphasis to greater beings, god etc..

This image shows the stairs I designed for the amphitheater indicates the concept which creates united atmosphere of inside and outside

If you only focus on the structure, the eaves I designed as the detail of the monument only conveys one concept of the united atmosphere. However, During the night , the light will show you how vertical emphasis involved in it harmoniously.

FIVE IMAGES FROM LUMION + 3 CHOSEN TEXTURE

IMAGES FROM LUMION

ELECTROLIQUID: Vertical emphasis involves in the united atmosphere (outside and inside of architecture) and highlight connection to greater being, god and also the grandness of religion.

light goes up from the ground and vertically heads to the sky joining the united atmosphere of the eaves harmoniously.

The lightening part of the monument is hidden in the walls which actually do not have the clear definition of inside and outside indicating that the two parts are combined with each other and equal in importance.

The shining vertical column goes directly to the sky which highlights the greater beings and involved in the connected atmosphere which created by the walls surround it.

THREE TEXTURES

IN ORDER TO FORM THE MONUMENT BETTER I DID A FEW CHANGES FOR THE CHOSEN TEXTURES

LIGHT:

MEDIUM:

DARK:

TWO CONCEPTS and ELECTROLIQUID AGGREGATION CONCEPT

Concept from Grose Bradley:

Atmosphere – join (connect, unite) Unite the atmosphere of outside and inside the architecture.

PLUS+

Concept from Edmund Blacket:

vertical emphasis to highlight connection to greater being, god, and also the grandness (importance) of religion.

EQUAL TO=

ELECTROLIQUID AGGREGATION CONCEPT:

Vertical emphasis involves in the united atmosphere (outside and inside of architecture) and highlight connection to greater being, god and also the grandness of religion.