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Week 12 Studio Tasks
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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
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tasks to be Completed over the break for Week 8 Studio
The video in that blank space couldn't be visible maybe because i export it into image so i can put it here in the blog but the actual pdf file which can be downloaded at the link below is workable as you can see the short animation and moving the 3d model.
Link: http://www.filefront.com/17293918/Guggenheim Museum_ARCH1390_Z3336027.pdf
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tasks to be Completed for Week 6 Studio
The hut can be found near trees and mushrooms in candy forest in Japan.
And it is built by food collected in the forest. It is an open space concept, has the organic element
and minimalism concept. Food can be stored in the trees or beneath the hut. If anything had gone worst, he still have options to stay in the tree. The hut is built to cater Sneaky's habitat and the concept is based on Javier Senosiain a mexican bioarchitect who is inspired by organic style. Not only that the organic style is blend in with minimalism concept. Both approach similar characteristics such as open space, environment that
is close to nature, materials used are naturals, organics and so much more, and the structure is simple.
Sneaky is like any other creature, its home is developed based on its habitats. The reason
every creature has its own home is to have a place to shelter them from any danger, a place to store their food they collect and a surrounding which has climatic conditions that are well suited for them to survive, reproduce and flourish. The hut has a salmon sushi as roof and maki roll as wall to support the roof and wood planks to stabilize the structure and because of the height of the structure is abit higher above ground I used marshmallow mushrooms as platforms to make Sneaky go in and out of the hut easily. The marshmallow mushrooms allow Sneaky to bounce higher and quicker weather it is going in or out. The hut is surrounded by plants and big trees. Sneaky can feed on its prey which is the gummy insects that lands on nearby plants.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tasks to be Completed for Week 5 Studio
I chosed Javier Senosiain, a Mexican bio-architect from Arquitectura Organica.
The house above is a blend of modern architecture and contemporary art. The sculptural whimsical house features a striking entry cut into a wall of colorful stained glass. From the outside, it’s enough to draw you in; while inside it casts multi-colored spots of light onto walls. But surprisingly, that’s still not the most unusual feature of the house. This interior “grass carpet” is just amazing, leading residents and guests through a network of stone paths to the various areas of the home. The bathroom is simply amazing. In it, you actually feel like you’re under water with the sandy walls, gorgeous blue tiles and the window overhead. This cool home comes together using “ferrocement constructio,” which involves a frame of steel-reinforced chicken wire covered in a two-inch layer of composite of concrete. Not only is the result beautiful, it’s also earthquake-proof and maintenance-free.
One of his structure which is called The Mushroom built in year 2009 inspired me during progressing my assignment 1 but i'd like to share another building by him which is so bizarre. It is called Quetzalcoatl Nest built in 2005.
Javier Senosiain born in 1948 is a Mexican architect. He is also a member of the movement "organic architecture", a building style that follows the models and patterns of great geniuses like Frank Lloyd Wright, Hundertwasser, Paolo Soleri or Antoni Gaudi, who sought the integration of natural principles of buildings interspersed with plants or animal forms with a purpose : humanize architecture, create lines and shapes as natural as possible, as close to nature. He is currently also a professor of architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. One of his most interesting modern architectural accomplishments is the Nautilus House which he built for a couple with two children. The Organic Nautilus House was built in 2006. The inside decor is all about smooth rounded surfaces, rich colors, and greenery all over the place.
It is an extraordinary giant space age snail. Nautilus is a kind of sea snail with a smooth,coiled and chambered shell. His other great work can be found in this website www.arquitecturaorganica.com
The house above is a blend of modern architecture and contemporary art. The sculptural whimsical house features a striking entry cut into a wall of colorful stained glass. From the outside, it’s enough to draw you in; while inside it casts multi-colored spots of light onto walls. But surprisingly, that’s still not the most unusual feature of the house. This interior “grass carpet” is just amazing, leading residents and guests through a network of stone paths to the various areas of the home. The bathroom is simply amazing. In it, you actually feel like you’re under water with the sandy walls, gorgeous blue tiles and the window overhead. This cool home comes together using “ferrocement constructio,” which involves a frame of steel-reinforced chicken wire covered in a two-inch layer of composite of concrete. Not only is the result beautiful, it’s also earthquake-proof and maintenance-free.
One of his structure which is called The Mushroom built in year 2009 inspired me during progressing my assignment 1 but i'd like to share another building by him which is so bizarre. It is called Quetzalcoatl Nest built in 2005.
(Please click to enlarge picture for clearer view.)
Located on an irregular parcel of land with over 12.36 acres to be covered, the Quetzalcoatl Nest provided many challenges for its Mexican designer. Since the lot was covered with a ravine that had oak trees running the length of the area, the construction of the Quetzalcoatl Serpent proved most difficult especially since the designer wanted to preserve the greens on the property. The solution lay in making use of the slopes and the depressions on the land for designer purposes which left 98% of the land to free space and forests. The remainder of the very flat terrain was utilized for parking purposes which helped in retaining the natural environment and at the same time gave a very modern touch to the architectural project. This home was also featured on an episode of "World Most Extreme Homes".
Reference:
- Official Website ( There is video of each of his masterpiece and other informations as well) http://www.arquitecturaorganica.com
- Pictures taken from : http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/look-quetzalcoatl-nest-by-javier-senosiain-044167 and http://www.roadsidescholar.com/2008/02/27/funky-house-design-quetzalcoatl-nest/
- The Nautilus House : http://dvice.com/archives/2008/02/fantastic-nauti.php?p=0#more
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