Mixing Ideas

We have been asked to choose the weakest work in each group for "Sustenance" and "Waking up" projects and  link them somehow in an invisible way and do the similar drawings.
We chose Soni's Sustenance project and Sang's Waking up project.
I wasnt too sure that if I needed to keep the buildings separate or not. In this case I didnt keep them separate so I might redo the drawings.

 Material 

My precedent building had been made out of steel and fabric. Sang's idea was that he wanted to reuse the place in the way of replacing old parts with the new ones. In his drawings he had replaced the old (well original) railway station with metal parts and Soni's modern building has lots of metal parts as well so I was thinking to link these buildings using this material. I changed parts in this drawing, I used a similar metals from Millennium dome (they look a bit different though) and there are also similar metal parts from Soni's building as well. 

These are just some sketches while I was thinking

Millennium Dome

Material: Steel & Tensioned Fabric
Type: Exhibition space
Location: England
Architect: Richard Rogers

Material

Structure

Philosophy

To say more about this philosophy, Millennium Dome was supposed to show "hope and optimism" in this stressful life but it failed. It costed 789 million pounds and after that the government did not know what to do with it so it started demolishing some parts of it. I think it was like a disaster so I decided to show it in my drawing.

Sustenance Matrix

Sustenance, Peer Review, week 2-3

Yoo,Kyunye
Kyunye was working on the mental side of sustenance which keeps us going in hardship of life. He was saying that we need our own space to rearrange our thoughts. A place that he was thinking about was the balcony in the residential buildings. The problem with the balcony is that it is an exposed area to public therefor not much privacy, he said. He was thinking about enclosing it in a way. There could be a door going through the little enclosed area connecting it to the inside. He used a kind of fabric because he wanted to give the feeling of enclosed and privacy but not "Too enclosed" at the same time. During the day when the sunlight hits the fabric, it soften the light and makes a cozy place inside. During the night there will be a light inside which makes it a very nice view from outside. I personally really liked his drawings and his model was very neat and carefully made. Nice job.
His advice:
Build your model as soon as possible.

Koh,Kyung Min

Basically he was looking for a toilet when he was out in the streets and he felt that is his sustenance. He was linking this to his first project as well, as in waking up we all need to eat, go to the toilet and etc. His model was 1:5 and he wanted to give the confident and privacy to people. He wanted to give them a choice to close the door or not when they are using the toilet depending what they choose. It is made out of concrete and steel/aluminium and wavy shaped. The thing is people can do their work in the place which is like a hallway and drink from the other side of the wall.
I think the idea is both a bit gross and interesting at the same time. The things that made me think was if they gonna do their work on the wall then it gonna smell badly which will affect the other side of the wall. I was also thinking that how this thing would work and how healthy it would be. Another thing is its only for guys so as a girl I wouldnt be happy haha
His advice:
Make the final model as sharp and neat as possible. Make something that looks good. Something that moves or folds, focus on details. Its better to think what is there, environmentally materials. Think about the history of the place as well.


Chen, Linbing
Coffee was her sustenance (physical sustenance). She was thinking about a kind of building that could be changed so she designed a place that people could take out the seat, the table and etc. out from the wall by one small push. It saves space and it could have coffee art pattern on the whole thing.

Ideas for sustenance

I started trying to get ideas by sketching on a piece of paper. I was thinking about what sustenance means to me and how I should show it in a physical sort of way that we can use our senses to identify it.

In my first project I used prisms/ sun catcher crystals to break the sun rays into rainbow colors as the light passes through them, so playing with the light.  In this project I was thinking To use the light in a different way. Light could be the little light on the phone when we get a text message and keeps blinking till we open the text message. It could be the light of a little part of the screen of the computer showing that someone is available to talk. The light could be the light of a candle on a table and etc.

As I was thinking about digital language/communication tech, I was trying to find my own way of showing it. I did some sketches and tried to use different shapes but then I started thinking about screens, screens of different sizes places beside each other or merged into each other. Some of the screens are kind of transparent so we will be able to see the view outside. Using some of the screens people inside the room will be able to communicate to other people in other places and they will be able to see each other. The borders of the screens will cast bright light. When I was surfing the internet I got to a website saying "Light can measure, sense, and identify materials without touching them"(source: http://www.fotonik.dtu.dk/English/About/MoreAbout.aspx). This sentence made me start thinking about different things, even going to the world of science fiction. I was thinking what if people could teleport using the light! Creating keyboards using the light for communication. Creating other equipments out of light that if they get touched they can do some functions. Or they could do a scanning with light from the whole room and do some changes in the room.

In order to form my thoughts I logged into second life and picked a random place and started trying just to see how things would be like. 

What is Architecture?

Architecture is... 

• Alive - Has character and changes
• Personal - We all interpret it differently 
• About changes - "Evolution"
• Has an element of visual manipulation
• And almost sensory information
• Is repulsive of our culture
• Is human intervention
•  Relational

Not 10 from the studio though

• Creation
• Trials & Errors

3D Max

We have been asked to make a 3 dimensional bowl using 3D Max and then use it in second life on a prim.

 

Sustenance,Week 4-5

This week we have been asked to think about "Sustenance" and work with Digital/Reactive Architecture. Of course the first thing that came into my mind was the general meaning of sustenance, Support & Strengthen physically or mentally. We have been asked to think about things in a more detailed way than just the general meaning.There are different levels to thinking about in Architecture like layers. Everyone in my group chose a topic that what sustenance meant to them and I chose Digital language/ communication for back ground.
To me digital language (communication technology) is very important. I believe that this technology had brought people close to each other that the distance had became meaningless. That is true people might spend less time physically together in real life but they can always see each other using a web camera within a very short time or just grab the phone and call. It had make this possible to people to connect with people from the other side of the earth. It has different effects on people, one of them can be on people who live alone. When someone lives alone need of connection with other people will be felt more. In this case this person can easily use this technology, go into a social networking website and socialize. With answering to the need of connection and communication, people will do better in other aspects of their lives and will have better health. It is like people feeding their souls and spirits.

Peer Review, week 2-3

Peer Review- Week 2-3

I talked to three people from different groups about the works that they have done in the past 2 weeks. They were all working on Architecture Reality.
The first person who I talked to was LinBing Chen (Fatina). She had started her thinking from passing through the nightmare to the place which is safe then she kept pushing her idea to create a place which is safe and comfortable, a place that can clearly show the confusion phase (The place in between) between the real world (state of being fully awaken) and the dream world. I like the idea that how she had used three different colors with different transparency levels so that the person inside would physically experience what had been experienced by our brain virtually before. The movement of the transparent balls inside the main ball is interesting. The entrance is good. The only thing that I think might get better with reconsidering is the fur that had been used in the building. All in all, interesting work :)

The second person who I talked to was Louie Tong. With this design he wanted to show that as we waking up everything is dark and all our senses are shocked, everything is black but as we fully wake up things get more clear. The site that he chose was next to Bravo Hospitality with shops and stores underneath. He showed it in his design by scripting the black box in a way that it expands as the person wakes up and things inside come out of the darkness and show themselves, things that are important like shops selling food and etc. everything that a person needs after waking up. The thing that got my attention in this design was the way the box used to expand from a tiny black box to a big black box.



The third person who I talked to was Kibeom Parke. his design he was trying to bring the reality to the reactive architecture in second life. He started moving on from thinking about barriers between the buildings which move every day and the path will be changed. That was quite interesting that how the path would be unexpected like in real life. Then he pushed his idea further more to a design showing how a person from the feeling of secure (the place of waking up) gets to the feeling of insecure (the real world out there). As he pushed his ideas further more he created a building that its walls would gradually disappear and go away as the sun rises and a new day begins. He was trying to show how someone would wake up going from the closed space (the dream world) to the open space and the real world. I liked the idea that how the walls surrounding the person would go away and the world outside, in this case the sea and the sunrise would appear. It is like as we wake up, we see the world and the light.

Week 1

In the first week of design we have been asked to go to a preselected site near our uni and work on a concept. In my group we were making two models, 1:100 and 1:500. After making our models and a lot of work we have been asked to cut our models and make our site. In the beginning it was a scary idea but after the first cut things got interesting...

The site- A place to wake up

This is where I decided to place my design. It is unilodge at Anzac Ave. Unfortunately they did not let me to take a look at the last level and the roof of the building but I tried to imagine how things are up there using the online map. This site is 1:500 (that is the closest I could get using the internet). The red spot on top of the building is where I placed my design. I chose that place because It is a new modern looking building and oval shaped which goes well with my design. I wanted somehow change the life in that building in a way and fit my design in that building. I thought it would be nice to add a little bit of green on the roof as well. I also wanted to have some privacy since the material in my building is glass/crystals. Waking up there, seeing the movement of the rainbows created by the prisms which move by the displacement of the sun, feeling safe, looking at all the little buildings from above and seeing how nature and man made blend together would be something that I would love to experience in real life, although I can experience it in my mind already.

Designing a place to wake up, Design 2, 2011

Sketches

As I was thinking about the baby in the uterus I was thinking about a place which is safe and strong. Then I started thinking about some structures like in diamond atoms. I believe the other meaning of waking up is when someone suddenly find out about something and its like he/she can see things more clearly, its like a light had been turned on. As I kept thinking about this idea I decided to use prisms or sun-catcher crystals in my building. The crystals will play with the sun rays and make small beautiful rainbows in the room. As the sun gets located in different places in the sky these little rainbows will move inside the room as well.
I chose metal frames in the form of diamond atom structures and placed the prisms into the frame.