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Envisioned Playhouse is architectonically a multi purpose hall for events, exhibitions, stage play, and can be function as an esplanade. Originally it is Vitra Museum by Frank O.Gehry located in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The design museum houses temporary exhibitions on themes of furniture design, and Gehry’s building makes a suitable host for them - in keeping with the theme, but - once inside - supporting, not competing with, the exhibitions. The geometry of the building does not feel contrived, or particularly noticeable, as you go around the exhibitions. From the outside it does feel both those things, but it is at home among the other architectural showpieces that make up the Vitra site. I proposed to revolutionize his remarkable building and relocate it to Paris Platz ( Paris Square) in Berlin, Germany.
Envisioned Playhouse is coated with concrete and glass. The glasses that coat the building structure is not just pure see through glass you usually witness but its a color changing type of glass. Its actually glazing and surfacing material in seamless architectural sized glass and acrylic panels that has dichroic, (“di”=two, “chroic”=color) thin film technology built right into the material that actually changes color in full spectrum color shifts according to viewing angle. Certain part of actual Frank O.Gehry’s building still remains like the cross on the rooftop and the front entrance. But i closed up the entrance and made the huge sliding particle as the entrance which you need to walk in. Reason why i made it this way is to make people visualize the colors being cast on each side of the concrete wall with natural lighting. The back building is utilized as store room, toilets and changing room. Envisioned Playhouse can be used for events, festivals, exhibitions, stage plays,
concerts, and at the same time functions as an esplanade. Removeable stage can be custom built to fit the space and can be kept in the store room, removeable seats can be applied as well depends on the event situation.
The concept; imagine a huge piece of odd shaped prism that refracts light and as result we can see spectral colors and sometimes can be a substitute of mirror as certain angle the light is reflected. That is where i got the idea from and not only that i made the interior visible to public viewers its because of the idea from “ through the naked eye experience”. Have you ever wondered how the situation and atmosphere will be in a theater ? Where famous plays are showing? Or a concert ? Probably exhibitions of arts or grand events? All this which occurred usually in a structure where walls are blocking our sights and people who never had a chance to witness it can never know how it is. Why not share the experience with everyone? Viewers from the outside can only see but hardly hear as the glass is soundproof but sight seeing is more then enough like the saying “picture is worth a thousand words or picture is more then just a mere art or visualization”. The glass is also soundproof and combination of glass and concrete is good in controlling sound transmission. And the cross shaped dome above the ceiling controls sound acoustics. The idea why i made the building half concrete and half glass is because i wanted to provide certain area with shade and at the same time as the natural lighting goes through the glass it will reflect the colors on the concrete side. Colorful glasses; colors do effect our emotions, body and vision not only that, as a fact colors also effect our business & marketing, computer, science, design and art, ecology and usability.
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Envisioned Playhouse is architectonically a multi purpose hall for events, exhibitions, stage play, and can be function as an esplanade. Originally it is Vitra Museum by Frank O.Gehry located in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The design museum houses temporary exhibitions on themes of furniture design, and Gehry’s building makes a suitable host for them - in keeping with the theme, but - once inside - supporting, not competing with, the exhibitions. The geometry of the building does not feel contrived, or particularly noticeable, as you go around the exhibitions. From the outside it does feel both those things, but it is at home among the other architectural showpieces that make up the Vitra site. I proposed to revolutionize his remarkable building and relocate it to Paris Platz ( Paris Square) in Berlin, Germany.
Envisioned Playhouse is coated with concrete and glass. The glasses that coat the building structure is not just pure see through glass you usually witness but its a color changing type of glass. Its actually glazing and surfacing material in seamless architectural sized glass and acrylic panels that has dichroic, (“di”=two, “chroic”=color) thin film technology built right into the material that actually changes color in full spectrum color shifts according to viewing angle. Certain part of actual Frank O.Gehry’s building still remains like the cross on the rooftop and the front entrance. But i closed up the entrance and made the huge sliding particle as the entrance which you need to walk in. Reason why i made it this way is to make people visualize the colors being cast on each side of the concrete wall with natural lighting. The back building is utilized as store room, toilets and changing room. Envisioned Playhouse can be used for events, festivals, exhibitions, stage plays,
concerts, and at the same time functions as an esplanade. Removeable stage can be custom built to fit the space and can be kept in the store room, removeable seats can be applied as well depends on the event situation.
The concept; imagine a huge piece of odd shaped prism that refracts light and as result we can see spectral colors and sometimes can be a substitute of mirror as certain angle the light is reflected. That is where i got the idea from and not only that i made the interior visible to public viewers its because of the idea from “ through the naked eye experience”. Have you ever wondered how the situation and atmosphere will be in a theater ? Where famous plays are showing? Or a concert ? Probably exhibitions of arts or grand events? All this which occurred usually in a structure where walls are blocking our sights and people who never had a chance to witness it can never know how it is. Why not share the experience with everyone? Viewers from the outside can only see but hardly hear as the glass is soundproof but sight seeing is more then enough like the saying “picture is worth a thousand words or picture is more then just a mere art or visualization”. The glass is also soundproof and combination of glass and concrete is good in controlling sound transmission. And the cross shaped dome above the ceiling controls sound acoustics. The idea why i made the building half concrete and half glass is because i wanted to provide certain area with shade and at the same time as the natural lighting goes through the glass it will reflect the colors on the concrete side. Colorful glasses; colors do effect our emotions, body and vision not only that, as a fact colors also effect our business & marketing, computer, science, design and art, ecology and usability.
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Tasks to be Completed for Week 12 Studio
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tasks to be Completed for Week 11 Studio
My concept is changing the whole building into a full glass building functioning as a multipurpose hall / theater. The glass will be soundproof to avoid noise pollution. The glass that coat the building structure is not just pure see through glass you usually witness but its a color changing type of glass. More information about the glass type below. I will redesign the building to not only function as a theater , it can also be used for events, concerts, exhibitions, and etc. Certain part of the actual building will be removed but will try to not dramatically change the whole outlook of it. The interior itself will also be glass coated too. Imagine a huge piece of odd shaped prism that refracts light and as result we can see spectral colors and sometimes can be a substitute of mirror as certain angle the light is reflected. That is where i got the idea from and not only that reason why i made the interior and exterior visible to public viewers its because of the idea from " through the naked eye experience". Have you ever wondered how the situation and atmosphere will be in a theater ? Where famous plays are showing? Or a concert ? Probably exhibitions of arts or grand events? All this which occurred usually in a structure where walls are blocking our sights and people who never had a chance to witness it can never know how it is. Why not share the experience with everyone? Viewers from the outside can only see but hardly hear as the glass is soundproof but sight seeing is more then enough like the saying "picture is worth a thousand words or picture is more then just a mere art or visualization".
Remember the color changing glass i mentioned above?
Its actually glazing and surfacing material in seamless architectural sized glass and acrylic panels that has dichroic, ("di"=two, "chroic"=color) thin film technology built right into the material that actually changes color in full spectrum color shifts according to viewing angle.
Photo courtesy of Metropolis, November 2005 issue, ©2005 Bellerophon Publications, Inc. Permission granted byMetropolis http://www.metropolismag.com/
Bloomberg Executive Offices, New York, NY. Fourteen foot high sheets of Dichrolam Green in laminated glass create light boxes of unreal color-changing infinite-mirror FX. Designer - Studios Architects
http://www.colormatters.com ( A site that explains how important color is, one of the reason why i have the glasses that surrounds the building colorful)
More Idea Example :
Prisme - Aurillac Hall, France
French building by Brisac Gonzalez Architects
Jan 2004 - Dec 2007
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/france/aurillac_building.htm
The ‘Prisme’, a new 4,500 person capacity multi-purpose hall designed by London-based Brisac Gonzalez. Aurillac is at the edge of France’s Massif Central mountain region. The building is situated near the city’s main train station, an area that is under regeneration to provide a stronger link with the city’s historic centre.
This the first completed building in France by Brisac Gonzalez is be a new venue for theatre, concerts, fairs and sports events. It contains retractable seating and demountable stage for versatility.
Three ribbons of concrete that vary in shape and texture define the building. Their juxtaposition delineates the different zones of the building: entry, storage and back of house facilities.
The upper ribbon is made of prefabricated concrete panels with a regular grid of glass bricks. The glass bricks were custom-designed by Brisac Gonzalez and Normandy-based glass specialist Saverbat. The pyramidal shape of the 25 000 glass bricks produces a glimmering effect and dramatic shadows with sunlight. At night the textured glass surface similar to a Fresnel lens increases the intensity of the coloured lighting scheme.
Week 10 Studio Tasks
Interior render(above)...It seems i cant upload the actual picture because i don't have the license to use it??
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tasks to be Completed for Week 10 Studio
Case Study : Frank Gehry's Dancing House, Prague (1996)
Frank Gehry's exuberantly gestural new office building on the edge of the Vitava river is a bold symbol of Prague's architectural, economic and political renewal.
[1]The history of the site now occupied by Frank Gehry's Nationale-Nederlanden Building on the edge of Prague's Vitava river is as Byzantine as any plot devised Kafka. In 1945, an American bomb devastated the Neo-classical apartment block on the corner of two streets (Jiraskovo Namesti and Rasinovo Nabrezi) narrowly missing the neighboring Art Nouveau house of Vaclav Havel, the distinguished writer and future president of the Czech Republic. During the post-war Communist era, the site where the bombed apartment block stood remained vacant and attempts to find a use for it only gained ground after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution of 1989. Havel, now the president ordered the first architectural study from Vlado Milunic. Then the Dutch bank ING agreed to build a house there and asked Milunic to invite a world-renowned architect. Milunic first asked Jean Nouvel who rejected the invitation because of the small size of the site. He then asked Frank Gehry who accepted the challenge and had almost unlimited budget because ING wanted to create an icon in Prague. The construction started in 1994 and finished in 1996.
[2]In early sketches, Gehry envisaged the building as a scrummage of boxy and pillow-like forms, to which Milunic added a geyser-shaped tower. The site turns the corner, so a pivotal tower was a logical point of departure; corner towers are also characteristic of Prague's rich urban texture. However, Gehry apparently considered a single tower too overtly masculine, so the idea of a feminine counterpart evolved, a female yin balancing the male yang, giving rise to the analogy of a dancing couple, whimsically described by Gehry as 'Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair'. Each of the two towers is essentially a distorted cylinder; the diameter of the dominant, solid male tower expands as it extends upwards, while its glazed female partner is dramatically cinched at the waist like a melting hour-glass. A small forest of columns peeks out of Ginger's wispy transparent skirts, a fizzy froth of metaphorical legs and petticoats suddenly tumbling on to the street below, marking the entrance to the building on Jiraskovo namesti. Fred's more robust contours are clad in neutral stucco, animated by a wavy bas-relief pattern and undulating lines of windows that extrude slightly from the curving wall planes. A fractured mesh bauble resembling a traditional onion dome crowns the top of the tower. The syncopated external vocabulary of stucco and windows is carried around the corner into the Rasinovo nabrezi elevation overlooking the river; it also buttresses the gap between the ethereal hour-glass tower and Havel's Art Nouveau building on Jiraskovo namesti.
Behind the swirling facade is a relatively simple plan form based on a conventional relationship of lettable space organised around a compact, L-shaped circulation core. The generous protuberances of the towers provide convenient enclaves for meetings or conferences. Six floors of offices are topped by a bar and restaurant with stunning views of Prague. There are shops on the ground and lower ground floors, and a small cafe at pavement level, set back under the fat circular legs of the larger tower. By providing a degree of animation and public interaction at ground level, the building is much less insular than many traditional office developments, which consciously exclude the public.
[3]The building is an example of deconstructivist architecture, with an unusual shape.Construction is from 99 concrete panels each of different shape and dimension, each therefore requiring a unique wooden form.Its unusual shape and technical solutions caused a big public debate. Afterten years emotions are over, and the house has its place in modern Prague. In 2005 the Czech National Bank issued a gold coin with the motifof the Dancing House, as the final coin of the series "10 Centuries of Architecture."
References:
[1]Frank Gehry's Dancing House history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_House
[2]Frank Gehry's indepth of dancing house concept http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1202_v201/ai_20757187/?tag=content;col1
[3]Gold coin with the motif of the Dancing House http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/dancinghouse/index.htm
Pictures taken from :
http://blog.addicted2decorating.com/2008/01/architecture-dancing-house-prague.html
http://forum.globaltimes.cn/forum/showthread.php?p=30961
http://www.hotels-in-prague-czech.com/touristinformation_major_sights_of_prague.php
http://praguegallery.net/source/prague-dancing-house-3.html
http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/?page=article&article_id=1095&catID=26
Frank Gehry's exuberantly gestural new office building on the edge of the Vitava river is a bold symbol of Prague's architectural, economic and political renewal.
[1]The history of the site now occupied by Frank Gehry's Nationale-Nederlanden Building on the edge of Prague's Vitava river is as Byzantine as any plot devised Kafka. In 1945, an American bomb devastated the Neo-classical apartment block on the corner of two streets (Jiraskovo Namesti and Rasinovo Nabrezi) narrowly missing the neighboring Art Nouveau house of Vaclav Havel, the distinguished writer and future president of the Czech Republic. During the post-war Communist era, the site where the bombed apartment block stood remained vacant and attempts to find a use for it only gained ground after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution of 1989. Havel, now the president ordered the first architectural study from Vlado Milunic. Then the Dutch bank ING agreed to build a house there and asked Milunic to invite a world-renowned architect. Milunic first asked Jean Nouvel who rejected the invitation because of the small size of the site. He then asked Frank Gehry who accepted the challenge and had almost unlimited budget because ING wanted to create an icon in Prague. The construction started in 1994 and finished in 1996.
[2]In early sketches, Gehry envisaged the building as a scrummage of boxy and pillow-like forms, to which Milunic added a geyser-shaped tower. The site turns the corner, so a pivotal tower was a logical point of departure; corner towers are also characteristic of Prague's rich urban texture. However, Gehry apparently considered a single tower too overtly masculine, so the idea of a feminine counterpart evolved, a female yin balancing the male yang, giving rise to the analogy of a dancing couple, whimsically described by Gehry as 'Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair'. Each of the two towers is essentially a distorted cylinder; the diameter of the dominant, solid male tower expands as it extends upwards, while its glazed female partner is dramatically cinched at the waist like a melting hour-glass. A small forest of columns peeks out of Ginger's wispy transparent skirts, a fizzy froth of metaphorical legs and petticoats suddenly tumbling on to the street below, marking the entrance to the building on Jiraskovo namesti. Fred's more robust contours are clad in neutral stucco, animated by a wavy bas-relief pattern and undulating lines of windows that extrude slightly from the curving wall planes. A fractured mesh bauble resembling a traditional onion dome crowns the top of the tower. The syncopated external vocabulary of stucco and windows is carried around the corner into the Rasinovo nabrezi elevation overlooking the river; it also buttresses the gap between the ethereal hour-glass tower and Havel's Art Nouveau building on Jiraskovo namesti.
Behind the swirling facade is a relatively simple plan form based on a conventional relationship of lettable space organised around a compact, L-shaped circulation core. The generous protuberances of the towers provide convenient enclaves for meetings or conferences. Six floors of offices are topped by a bar and restaurant with stunning views of Prague. There are shops on the ground and lower ground floors, and a small cafe at pavement level, set back under the fat circular legs of the larger tower. By providing a degree of animation and public interaction at ground level, the building is much less insular than many traditional office developments, which consciously exclude the public.
[3]The building is an example of deconstructivist architecture, with an unusual shape.Construction is from 99 concrete panels each of different shape and dimension, each therefore requiring a unique wooden form.Its unusual shape and technical solutions caused a big public debate. Afterten years emotions are over, and the house has its place in modern Prague. In 2005 the Czech National Bank issued a gold coin with the motifof the Dancing House, as the final coin of the series "10 Centuries of Architecture."
References:
[1]Frank Gehry's Dancing House history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_House
[2]Frank Gehry's indepth of dancing house concept http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1202_v201/ai_20757187/?tag=content;col1
[3]Gold coin with the motif of the Dancing House http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/dancinghouse/index.htm
Pictures taken from :
http://blog.addicted2decorating.com/2008/01/architecture-dancing-house-prague.html
http://forum.globaltimes.cn/forum/showthread.php?p=30961
http://www.hotels-in-prague-czech.com/touristinformation_major_sights_of_prague.php
http://praguegallery.net/source/prague-dancing-house-3.html
http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/?page=article&article_id=1095&catID=26
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