An Architectural Portfolio

 

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My first formal submission for architectural history 2 required three informal essays or 'academic articles' which required explaining the architectural significance of three otherwise normal words. My assignment is presented as submitted, however, much of the presentation has been lost due to the blogger conversion, regardless I hope that you give it a read and that it abides by its praise of intellectual stimulation and overcomes the rather valid critiques of convolution. Enjoy! High Tech High-tech’ emerged as one of the “several persuasions”  of modernism which aimed to reinvigorate its ideals through a proper engagement with the “mind of technology” . A fusion of engineering and architecture, the movement captured the zeitgeist of 1960’s ‘Technological Utopianism’ and envisaged mechanised, adaptive environments. Initially derived as an experimental fusion of Archigram’s science fiction, Buckminster Fuller’s ‘Superstructure’ and Joesph Paxton’s ‘Crystal Place’, it went on to...

Stage 1: Conception  Introduction  Experiment two was a very prestigious assignment since it involved the design of a school of architecture which should be considered the pinnacle of one’s practice. To help ease the burden of planning, designers were told to consider only a hundred students and to not fuss over any monetary or engineering limitations. This was combined with a unique prompt, ‘the bridge’, to allow flourish new ideas within open architecture. The building should be required to connect between spaces and areas, whilst centring around the Squarehouse, one of the main hubs of architectural learning within UNSW, an important focus also placed on the dynamism, symbolism and timelessness as qualities to be desired.  Initial Perspectives  The design process began with abstract perspectival sketches of cruciform elements, which would become the backbone of any future design.  Initial Element  The element was then selected constructed ...