Imagine you are the Dean of a school of Architecture or Engineering. Your school has 100 students who are drawn from all around the world and are supported by scholarships. Your challenge is to design a school that forms a bridge spanning buildings in an urban environment. The urban environment is the lower part of the "UNSW Sydney" Kensington campus; the central building is the Squarehouse (building E4 on this map). In addition, you will design two moving elements that modify the students' view of the school when they see it from locations on the ground plane vs locations above ground level. These different points of view will reinforce or challenge your particular "Theory".
Initial Perspectives
Initial Element
Final Element
Stage 2: Inspiration
Inspiratory Article
Human Movement in Public Spaces: The Use and Development of Motion-Oriented Design Strategies
Words chosen: Experience, temporal, delimitation, observer, sensory perception, space, tactile.
Vroman, Liselotte, and Thierry Lagrange. ‘Human Movement in Public Spaces: The Use and Development of Motion-Oriented Design Strategies’. The Design Journal: Design for Next: Proceedings of the 12th European Academy of Design Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, 12-14 April 2017, Edited by Loredana Di Lucchio, Lorenzo Imbesi, Paul Atkinson, ISBN 978-1-138-09023-1 20, no. sup1 (2017): S3252–S3261. Accessed DOI:10.1080/14606925.2017.1352830.
Theory of Architecture
True architectural experiences elude temporal delimitation, enchanting an observer’s sensory perceptions of light, space and tactility.
External Inspiration
External Inspiration served to personalise the task so that my design philosophy would be prevalent within my submission so that it seemed like a building was created rather than just meaningless tasks strung together. The pictures below help to illustrate the foci of my research and building development.
Cubist forms and De Stijl inspired were found when researching about Meis Vna Der Rohe's brick country house, this helped me work within a gridded form and allowed for a simple yet complex final interpretation of a seemingly blocky building. It also served to high light the importance of element thickness especially in a facade, along with cementing the importance of a splash of colour.
The importance of Skylights within buildings is obvious, being important for building sustainability as well as the health of all those who inhabit them I had a look at some interesting implementations. These were wide-ranging from simple shopping malls to great libraries and parliament buildings but imbued the spaces in my final building to have a sense of decorum within their lighting.
Being Rather captivated by that last picture I adopted a mezzanine style approach, opting for vertical complexity as well as horizontal completely by allowing for various platforms at many different sizes. however, I still needed to use glass to let in the light. This caused another problem, So I examined building with prevalent glass facades.
This was awesome, the picture above seemed to embody all that I stood for as an architect and engineer, the use of the laminar plywood in such simple forms along with those curving ramps, it was rather beautiful. So I chose to attempt to use those ramps to connect my mezzanine levels, and begun research into timber structures. This turned out to be a masterstroke with many of the final pictures below acting as a direct inspiration for the external railings, roof, gallery and organisation for the design.
Stage 3: Planning
Perspective Animation
Axonometric animation
Floor Plan
Section
Additional Infographics
The notion of a bridge implies accessibility and connectivity which were two key elements within my design, as can be seen below. This spans a clear path between the university's most major traffic and pedestrian thoroughfares including ANZAC parade, High Street and Union Road.
Part of my inspiration was Mies Van Der Rohe's Brick country house which places great importance on the presence of boundaries, between spatial components as well as between the interior and exterior. I decided to subvert these theories to produce a building which is in harmony with the landscape, my adaptive roofing blurring the bounds between roof and sky, which is combined with open plan design to ensure a mediation between inside and out. The fact that this mediation isn't resolved is one of the most powerful aspects, as regardless of where you are in the building ti prevents you from being alone; by keeping you connected to the surrounding nature.
One fo the fundamental design consideration during the initial conception was the orientation of the site, this allowed for a building which aimed to use the natural sunlight present throughout the day to completely illuminate the interior during the day. Below is a sun study that visualises this effect from 4:00 to 22:00 hours during a summers' day.
Begun translating mys section into a 3D Design, currently the exterior of the upper floor and gallery is complete. Two Stairs need to be either redesgined or added, and lansdcape modelling is incomplete. Basic progression in the build is shown through the images below. The following section has been chosen for construction. Diffuse Striation The hexagonal dome was the most obious part of the section and so was intially constructed, a smaller dome being madw within to act as a sort of photography studio for the Kyza. The stright parts of the section were elongated into a trapezoidal shape to accomodate a geodesic structure at the edge. The edges expand to emphasise the experience of the widening of the space and the panoramic views of the landscape offered. The first floor was similarly articulated with basic geometric shapes and considerations for natural lighting through galss windows. To increase the complexity of the stuructre curves were added into the roof to metonomise...
In this blog post I detail my procedure for making various architectural models of my room at different scales and through different media through snapshots of the design process. Whilst initial models were made for this task, they seemed to be messy and inadequate as reflections of my skill, and so were remade as follows. The card model 1:20, the cardboard model 1:10 and the paper model 1:50, respectively have their construction shown below . Please take time to read the text and use the images as a flip book, a sort of timelapse detailing the construction. Card Model The first task allowed for the construction of a paper/card model, initially a paper model was made but it became flimsy for proper photography, hence a new one made of card was constructed. Due to isolation restrictions all materials used were recycled, with the main white card being old manilla folders , other materials included cling wrap and recycled advertising sheets. This model is made on a 1: 20 sca...
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