EXP 3 Week 3 #1 Draft Model v2.0

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao - Frank Gehry 

 Barcelona Pavilion - Mies van de Rohe

Abstract Perspectives

EXP 3 Week 3 # 1 Draft Model

Model Drafts implemented in SketchUp. Unfortunately, both were lost to file corruption.

EXP 3 Week 2 #2 Demonstration in Lumion

EXP 3 Week 2 #1 Two-point perspectives

EXP 3 Week 1 #3 Article Mash-up

[Millau Viaduct] is a particularly fine example of the arts of architecture and engineering working seamlessly together, and of how a hugely strong structure can appear to be lightweight. This motorway bridge, whatever you think of motorways, has been welcomed by local people. Millau can now happily turn its back on levels of traffic brought by the motorway generation, while, for a minute at a time, motorists will be transfigured by one of the great works of art of our time.
[The Helix Bridge] sought a delicate, lightweight contrast to the vehicular bridge, the concept evolved of a double helix structure. This form enabled the canopy, required by the brief, to be integrated as segmented panels of glass and perforated steel, unlike other bridge structures. The structural typology also proved highly effective in working to a curvilinear plan, and in generating an intriguing sense of movement flow along the journey. The plan concept was to curve the bridge away from an adjoining linear vehicular bridge, such that it touched at a point for pedestrian interconnection, yet descended in each direction to fluidly continue along existing promenades at each end. The double helix structure was conceived as both a highly efficient and exciting form that integrated with the curvilinear plan. It forms a dynamic spatial experience as well as, unlike other bridge structures, enables the canopy to be integrated into the segments between the helix tubes and their interconnecting ties.
Mixing architecture, engineering, product design and interaction, it expects fluency in computational methodologies from future designers, including abilities to use performance criteria to guide form, employ computation in fabrication and use sophisticated data management. The program acknowledges limitations of school environments and stages close collaborations with innovative designers, engineers, scientists and manufacturers.

Millau Viaduct
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/nov/16/architecture.france

Helix Bridge by Cox Architecture
http://www.archdaily.com/185400/helix-bridge-cox-architecture-with-architects-61/

Frontier land: the future of architectural education by Stanislav Roudavski
http://architectureau.com/articles/frontier-learning/

EXP 3 Week 1 #2 The Valley

The Valley

Kashmir Valley, Kashmir, India

Appropriation in Lumion

EXP 3 Week 1 #1

One Point Perspectives

Week 3 #5 Concepts

Integration (Betrand Goldberg)

Goldberg’s vision was a combination of technical knowledge and personal insights that cut across more traditional understandings. Belonging within a larger modernist agenda, his work was notable for its individualistic, unique solutions to complex planning and building problems and suggests a way in which ideas and architectural solutions could be combined to create something more profound. 

Emergence (Jeanne Gang)

Gang's careful attention to the materials, and a constant research leading to innovations in terms of sustainability and fabrication, allowed to an emergence in distinctive architecture that did not rely on the old modernist expressions, but rather delved into a more reductionist and curvilinear form of articulation of space. Paul Goldberger described her as “reclaim[ing] the notion that thrilling and beautiful form can still emerge out of the realm of the practical.”

Week 3 #4 Lumion Files + Sketch-up

Final Product

Week 1 #3 Concepts

CONCEPTS


Goldberg:
"Certain buildings, even neighborhoods, can’t be altered without being ruined. But all buildings exist in the real world, as do we"
"Current American architecture is not a matter of art but of business. A building must pay or there will be no inverstor ready to meet its cost. This is at once the curse and the glory of American architecture." Barre Ferrree
Nature isn't filled with right-angles
Architecture suffers at the hands of its functionality
Good architecture predicts the movement of time and accommodates it.
Landmarks transcend time, however the immortality of monuments is an obstacle in front of scientific progress - meeting the needs of the science of today.
Goldberg thoroughly believed to design a "city with a city" that could fully accommodate people's everyday needs and activities.
Separate components integrated together to give the structure a sense of rhythm and curvilinear form. Replication of elements and varying scales.


Gang
Studio Gang Architects confronts pressing contemporary issues and seeks to answer questions that exist locally but resound globally.
Aqua Tower in Chicago, an 82-story high-rise, which critic Paul Goldberger described as “reclaim[ing] the notion that thrilling and beautiful form can still emerge out of the realm of the practical
when the unusual becomes beauty
reflecting the culture of the city and reviving the neglected
a pioneer; the aqua tower and is the tallest building in the world to have a woman as lead architect
"every building is a product and comes from its own unique set of purposes"
the sky's the limit

Week 3 #3 Final Product (Lumion Captures)

Lumion Captures

Much like the transition from day to dusk to night, the protagonist ventures past the light forms and through the integrated textural forms of the surfaces, from light to dark.

We are all souls seeking each other, searching past monumental adversities. And when we come together, even the darkest emergence seem brighter when we're hand in hand.

Wide spread "arms" of the structure hold the land together and vice-versa. They work hand-in-hand, nature and the monument, as one entity. And from that, there emerges a form inspired by Goldberg's style of brutalist and reductionist forms.

Though, some people can't appreciate that sentiment. Oh well. 

"That is what was once light will become dark, and that which was once dark will become light, if you just let it shine" -Dad.

Custom Textures Applied

I chose to do 4 textures because I wanted distinction between what was a connection between monument and nature, and within monument.

Dark: The texture emulated a sense of emergence when it came to placement on the monument. I enjoyed the way the gaps joined together to give a diamond shaped opening and look like stars in the night-sky when the environment's dark.

Medium: The medium texture expresses the transition between light and dark, a purgatory where the observer can stand after having walked from the light valley to the dark monolith emerging from the structure. 

Light: The two light textures are have a interesting patter I find on the surface of the monument. They give character and definition to the curve which would otherwise be boring and undramatic.