3 WORDS...

CREATIVE WORKS

Revival Cycle:

noun: mechanism

verb: accelerate

adjective: vintage

Steinway and Sons:

noun: framework

verb: assemble

adjective: skeletal

Heisten Blumenthal:

noun: reflection

verb: devour

adjective: celestial

EVALUATIONS

THE MODEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74xWEG8go6w

The following are screenshots and a video walk through of my Architectural model. This model is set in the Chittagong Hills in Bangladesh. Generally Bangladesh is a low lying country and so the hill reflect this. This being the case, the bridge is also quite close to the ground and imitates the openess of traditional bangladeshi buildings in the villages. It also does this through the use of wood, bamboo and straw rooves with a modernistic twist to it.

This building also reflects my concept of integrating public and private space, natural and built environment as well as imitating its surrounding environment and transcending on the  large scale agile elements of architecture.

The building below shows a full view of the bridge

The image to the left and the image below depicts my
 first moving element. Considering my building is a large scale building, both in width and height and depth, the shelves run very high up have this scaffold to move across and up and down mechanically. They respond to a computer controlled system that pick out books that somebody requests.

Below is my second moving element. This circular building element consists of the lecture theatre and design studio.This circular element rotates giving the people a 360 degree view of their surrounding.

The photograph below is the entrance into the school and also the reception area. As can be seen, it is quite open to the outside environment with its large windows, open platform and balcony lowered walls. It has panels for support which are made of compressed bamboo wood. This helps internalise the natural elements of the surrounding environment.

 This is a small bridge which leads from entrance to the gallery. Here we have a linear circulation so that the first thing people see is the gallery. The gallery represents the work of the students and the school as a whole. This is why it is the first thing that the people should see as they walk in. The gallery also has the wooden panels and also has a straw roof. The roof is lifted to internalise the natural environment along side the use of straw and bamboo.
These elements also allow for a contrasting effect in the public and private spaces. This is also created through the variation in wall sizes.

This is a much larger bridge made of compressed bamboo wood and bamboo. It imitates the natural bangladeshi environment in the villages and well cultural connotations. This bridge is very open and allows for a full view of the hills and the built environment on both ends.

The picture below is the folly which depicts its position within the natural environment. It also shows its circulation front he bridge to it as well as the post modernistic values it holds in its design. It greatly contrasts the use of wood and transnational Bangladeshi village elements but it does cover the correlating issues of privacy and public spaces. This is achieves through the variation in wall heights, open structure and open rooves. There is also timber screen openings at the entrance of the staff building which is lead on from the folly. This again creates a sense of integrated space.

MASHUP

            The goal of architecture is to create structures to house humans and their activities. Humans are parts of the earth’s ecosystem, even though we tend to forget that. Let us turn to nature and study complexity in living things, instead of just the dead works of man. Here we find constructs whose complexities thrill us with awe. The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.  The landscape and nature invites interpretation.

              Logically, architecture has to have a theoretical basis that begins with the natural ecosystem. The act of building orders materials in very specific ways, and humans generate an artificial ordering out of materials they have extracted from nature and transformed to various degrees.Public Space in Australia is often tentative. The outdoors is where Australians expect to find trees, birds, views. In Europe the outdoors is full of people. Since the Australian experiene does not encourage engagement with the social realm, there is pressure to find models that reconcile outdoor spaces with an enriched experience of the public domain. This idea also connotes to that of Bangladesh.

              You see, we believe that agile architecture comes from the behavior of agile architecting. Itʼs primarily about mindset and actions, not the use of a particular design pattern. And part of that mindset is thinking ʻgrowingʼ or ʻgardeningʼ over ʻarchitectingʼ. Architecture is walls with openings in them. The task is to create enclosure, territory. The games here concern with inside/outside, and whole/parts. Inside/ outside expectations are subverted in various ways.

Articles Used:

Donovan Hill D House Brisbane, Queensland Australia, UME 15

http://www.umemagazine.com/issues.aspx

Large Scale Agile Architecture: Ways of Working

http://www.infoq.com/articles/large-scale-agile-design-and-architecture

Unified Architectural Theory: Chapter 1

http://www.archdaily.com/429404/unified-architectural-theory-chapter-1/

TEXTURES

The following textures all have a relationship to movement

PERSPECTIVE DRAWINGS

The following pictures are drawings showing the one point perspectives.

                                     

                                                                       

                                   

                                 

The Following pictures are my two point perspectives:

     

FINAL MODEL

Although this building reiterates many of the overlapping concepts demonstrated in Meid Van Der Rohes and Natalie De Vries, the two main concepts were:
 -Complementing the local environment by the juxtaposition of its form, materiality and scales with the surrounding landscape
-Encouraging social and environmental interaction through shared circulation of open and enclosed spaces.

 The two scenes above show the importance of lighting in the aesthetic value of the monument as well the way it challenges the spatial communication, similar to Natalie De Vries eccentric approach to her work and its spatial communication. Through her work, she compliments the surrounding environment by integrating the  outdoor and indoor elements together and juxtaposing dark and light spaces.

This is a view from behind the building, showing the landscape which the building is facing. It also shows how the sun path is an important factor in the the human interactions with the surrounding environment alongside the corresponding circulation of the building.

This structure has both open and closed spaces. The open spaces, such as the outdoor platform, engage greatly with the environment much like the rest of the exterior building. The  overall experience changes from day to night similar to the way Mies Van Der Rohes, integrates the buildings fundamental elements with its surrounding environment. This is also done through the juxtaposition of scale where the buildings human interactions are stretched out far from the building as the ocean, horizon, animals, plants 

and landscapes all communicate a part of the scene. 

This scene corresponds to Mies Van Der Rohe portrayal of how his work complements the local environment by the juxtaposition of its form, materiality and proportions with the surrounding landscape. This is because all the textures are visible, as are its contrasting attributes of the rectilinear and subdivided structure. 

Again, its environmental and scalar elements are demonstrated in this picture. here there is a clear reflection of the environment in its structural form where the curved element of the building almost mirrors a rock like/ trunk like structure. This  part of the building both acts as an open and enclosed space as there is room for circulation both under it and over it articulating some of Natalie De Vries work and concepts.

Textures Used

 This texture was used on the planar elements of this monument to to

contrast the uneven and layered nature of the texture itself. Although the texture holds a sense of irregularity, its repetitive nature exemplifies an identifiable unification.

     The texture  was used in the curved surface and although it is still dark. This texture, both when projected and placed using the materials tool was seen to become distorted. Although this was the case, i liked the marble graphic effect that it gave. The texture has an almost fluid pattern and in a way imitates the shared circulation which integrates the community and environment- a concept evident in Natalie
Der Vries work.                  

This was the darkest shade and i put them on the doors so that they could correspond with the rectilinear elements of the openings. The dark boldness imitates the unknown nature of an indoor space while the light patches allow for the exploration of depth and integration between the outdoor and indoor spaces.  

The full model can be found in lumion, in the public skydrive folder shared below.                                                      

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2834665ACB3139A0%21105