EXP3 The Bridge. Moving elements+spaces

Links

Lumion:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0kEm0HAlZocWFZVZ1hESjdZb0U&usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0kEm0HAlZocZHM3d3VlLUtWQ0U&usp=sharing

Sketchup:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0kEm0HAlZocVnlmeXpSWUJrdGM/edit?usp=sharing

The school is purposely built to resemble a bridge rather than a building. From what I understand, this is what this experiment is about, "your challenge is to design a school that forms a bridge spanning a valley". Hence circulation around the school is minimal and has been made "one-way" as one would experience walking through a bridge. The strong building element of this school is the research area. This architecture has a mixture of both building and bridge focusing mainly on it being a bridge.

Ascending ramp with ascending texture assigned leads to area of high brain activity i.e Research space, workshop and student meeting. Blocks are placed close together to represent the concept of "building is a hive of activities"

Moving element moves vertically down in a linear manner taking down to the folly.

Lecture space has a very spatial arrangement. Although this school would consist of 100 students, during days of orientation/open days/seminar/workshop, number of participants may soar and that is what this spatial arrangement has been thoughtfully considered for. It is never risky to have more space than needed.

Flythrough view. More effort has been put to make the school function and look like a bridge. Making a bridge allows to stretch for thousands of feet. The arch shape allows this bridge to support itself without the use of beams or piers. It can cope well with bending forces

Tea gardens in Sylhet, Bangladesh are planted in rows across high lands. They are not really hills but I thought I could use the concept and integrate to my landscape without disrupting the original one.

Under construction

Too sleepy..Making of  lumion environment and bridge with moving elements separated.

SU Model

Circular junction of the bridge has open studio spaces. Concept of Architecture has been wrongly entitled to  demolition of nature and forests. Hence, in studio spaces, students work close to nature, in open spaces with the outstanding natural view to inspire them and in this way they would value conserving. The long rods(moving elements) stand out and have high altitude that "encourges love of facts" (mashup).

This is ought to be the busiest part of the building. Hence it is placed at a distance connected to an ascending ramp (with an ascending texture assigned)and receives minimal distractions. The building consists of Research space, Workshop and Student Meeting.

This design is inspired by the Seattle Library where progressive levels are at an altitude and connected by stairs.

Moving elements

The "disc" has two functions. It acts like an elevator, coming down from the bridge and creates passageway to climb the steps of the folly.

Rotating rods that extrude from the folly spreads to form junction with the inner circumference of the bridge. When the rods "spread", they form a cross shape which was our theme to work for on perspective sketches

Folly again..

I have been constantly emphasised to think dynamically, in 3d. Hence, I re-did my folly for students to move around, centrally meet and have an assembly. Also...

                                                             

relating my sketches to the folly.

2 point perspectives

Lumion Environment

Hill tracks of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

36 custom textures

folly

Draft section

top view

Draft plan

1 Point Perspectives

Mashup of 3 different articles

COLLATION OF ACADEMICS AND TRANSITIONS

An architectural element that is isolated from a project, and one generally accepts that, if there is a protagonist, it must be related to its global conception. Long-standing attitude … encourages a love of  facts, evidence, and being practical, which is combined with an open-minded pleasure to be sought from innovation, experimentation, and novelty. A complex whose internal structure is perceived through the spatial connections and resonances among the pieces that form it, also allows acknowledging the meaning that one single principle can acquire through the mechanism of the series. A contrast between architecture understood as landscape and the traditional conception of buildings as independent objects with their own internal structure. Long-established focus on the design project and the studio as models for both architectural practice and pedagogy. A canvas for commissioned works of art, keeping with the museum’s original philosophy of openness, provide spacious galleries for temporary exhibitions while improving the overall circulation of the building” spanning the length. Building is a hive of activity. Engineering students in studios, students and seminar groups in study spaces, academic staff toing and froing between offices and labs, and below, running the length of one side. Light-filled spatial armature, an internal street that is an organizing spine of circulation. Form could follow function, multipurpose learning spaces. Height changes depending on the spatial needs of the interior. These multiple transformations provide the mechanism that enables the unit’s adaptation to different circumstances.

 Auditorium And Congress Center Expo 2008 / Nieto Sobejando Arquitectos, Archdaily, 20 May 2014.

http://www.archdaily.com/506770/auditorium-and-congress-center-expo-2008-nieto-sobejando-arquitectos/ accessed 22^nd May 2014

 Advanced Engineering Building, Architecture Australia, February 2014

http://architectureau.com/articles/advanced-engineering-building/

accessed 22^nd May 2014

 Grimshaw extends Queens Museum in New York , Architecture Today, 15/04/2014

http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/?p=31134

accessed 22^nd May 2014

Why....?

The computer I have been using at the lab to create my lumion, crashed at the very end when I was about to copy the file. Therefore, I lost my lumion folder for the unexpected surprise this lab computer had to offer me. This situation was out of my control and was a mishap, I hope you kindly consider my circumstances of not being able to upload my Lumion folder.
Luckily I have just managed to upload my sketchup model before crash.

Final Submission

Fluid Texture form Light(above) to dark (bottom) have been used to indicate the frequency and probability of ocean water hitting the surface closer to the ground more often with rigorous waves or storms.

Airy Texture used for part of Rectilinear structure. The higher one goes above the ground, closer to the sky, the thinner air becomes, i.e, less dense and drop in pressure. Hence the texture lightens and becomes less dense with progressive levels above.

Stippling texture used to represent each floor experiencing amount of rain drops. Levels that have been sheltered by monumental structures, would receive little rain drops compared to grounds that are not.

V4

Making of Monument

V3

Version 1

Concept 1 Goldberg:

• Separate components integrated together to give the structure a sense of rhythm and curvilinear form. Replication of elements and varying scales.

Concept 2 Gang:

• the sky's the limit

Outcome Concept:

Separate components help create levels of stepping stones, one on top of another, to reach high above the ground, closer to the sky.

Parallel projections

Concept 1, Goldberg:

• Goldberg thoroughly believed to design a "city with a city" that could fully accommodate people's everyday needs and activities. 

Concept 2, Gang:

    The sky is the limit.

Concept 1, Goldberg:

• Landmarks transcend time, however the immortality of monuments is an obstacle in front of scientific progress - meeting the needs of the science of today.

Concept 2, Gang:

• a pioneer; the aqua tower and is the tallest building in the world to have a woman as lead architect

Concept 1, Goldberg:

• Separate components integrated together to give the structure a sense of rhythm and curvilinear form. Replication of elements and varying scales.

Concept 2, Gang:

• the sky's the limit

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