Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 August 2010
sectional model
site section and intervention approach. a sequence of planes that releases the landscape
Monday, 9 November 2009
making models
Sometimes i feel like Colonel Aureliano Buendía (one hundreds years of solitude). Tinkering away in my study, glueing tiny shreds of card together, scoring plastic in impossibly straight and repetitive lines... In the same way he trades his tiny gold fish for gold coins, from which he makes more goldfish from - i cut and glue cardboard, to give to tutors who in turn expect more from me, sending me back to my study to once again build a model that outdates the last.... It is a neverending cycle.. But the the cycle is therapudic.... If only someone would give me gold coins for these things. perhaps one day?
Below are some photos of my final model presentation. In the end the basic form of the Architecture studio ended up being a simple series of rectalinear boxes that are floating and suspended within eachother... by doing this i was able to create one single open space, separated by mezzanines levels. Philisophically, i decided internally the ideal studio should have no doors and no closed spaces to encourage a communal approach to design, creativity and critique.
The apparent simplicity came out of long and hard work at technical details in its construction, which enables the building to appear almost as one solid form, as well as a community of floating spaces.... details to come!
Below are some photos of my final model presentation. In the end the basic form of the Architecture studio ended up being a simple series of rectalinear boxes that are floating and suspended within eachother... by doing this i was able to create one single open space, separated by mezzanines levels. Philisophically, i decided internally the ideal studio should have no doors and no closed spaces to encourage a communal approach to design, creativity and critique.
The apparent simplicity came out of long and hard work at technical details in its construction, which enables the building to appear almost as one solid form, as well as a community of floating spaces.... details to come!
Monday, 17 August 2009
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
excitement
yesterday i spent the entire afternoon deliberating over elective choices. Uni begins again on monday, and we (first year) are now faced with our introduction into a vertically intergrated design system, where we are learning (and presenting!) along side second and third year students. This is going to be intense!
So, yesterday we listened to the tutors offering their design studios with empahasis ranging from; the outcomes of design amongst volcanic activity in western victoria, liberation from the oppressive work place, building vertical gardens in urban environments, computer based design and algorithms, The effect of the body within architecture and the list went on for 15 studios! so much to choose from! I laid down my 4 preferences, and am actually happy with whichever studio ends up taking me through for the next 13 weeks.
After all this my friend Simon and I decided we hadn't yet had our fill of architecture for the day and went to the Architecture Institute of Australia AIA jury presentations, where representatives talk about why certain buildings were selected out of the hundreds of newly built designs. It was so great to hear Architects heckling eachother! Arguing over what makes a good building, and what makes a buliding utterly awful! good to hear the disputes never end.
So, yesterday we listened to the tutors offering their design studios with empahasis ranging from; the outcomes of design amongst volcanic activity in western victoria, liberation from the oppressive work place, building vertical gardens in urban environments, computer based design and algorithms, The effect of the body within architecture and the list went on for 15 studios! so much to choose from! I laid down my 4 preferences, and am actually happy with whichever studio ends up taking me through for the next 13 weeks.
After all this my friend Simon and I decided we hadn't yet had our fill of architecture for the day and went to the Architecture Institute of Australia AIA jury presentations, where representatives talk about why certain buildings were selected out of the hundreds of newly built designs. It was so great to hear Architects heckling eachother! Arguing over what makes a good building, and what makes a buliding utterly awful! good to hear the disputes never end.
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