“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.

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

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.

6 AXOs of combination

1.THE FIRST ONE(and the chosen one)

+=

 

2.THE SECOND ONE

+ =

3.THE THIRD ONE

+ =

 

36 CUSTOM TEXTURES (LIGHT TO DARK)

12 AXOs

12 AXOs

concepts from Edmund Blacket

1.Changes materials, such as Stone, to create ornament and forms that are symbolic of (religion, nature, universe) rather than reflective of the material itself.

INSPIRED BY:

St Pauls Anglican Church 

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

INSPIRED BY:

St Johns Anglican Church

3.Create a unassociated relationships between human habitation and the natural environment

INSPIRED BY:

Bidura( In 1857, Edmund designed and built the home for his family)

concepts from Grose Bradley

1.Create a harmonious relationships between human habitation and the natural environment

INSPIRED BY:

Mending Wall

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

INSPIRED BY:

Mending Wall

3.Uses a combination of numerous materials but keeps them in their pure and simple form

INSPIRED BY:

Alinghi Residence