Experiment 2

Exp 2: A Facelift For The School of Architecture

Cross Task - found in earlier blog post.

Week 1

Article Task:

Key words: Canvas, Landscape, Community, Connection, Porous

Great architecture has an innate ability to draw on the canvas of a landscape and create something magnificent. In doing so, this work should build a connection between this landscape, its context and the community who are exposed to it. This architecture should form a harmony between the organic and the mechanical, "(a) porous cellular arrangement", to bring create exciting spaces that people engage with.

Reference:

 Laura Harding. "Defiant and spirited: The Architecture Symposium, Brisbane". ArchitectureAU, 2020. <https://architectureau.com/articles/the-architecture-symposium/>

 

Week 2

Plan exercise:

Mies van der Rohe Skyscraper:

   

After tweaking with the plan, I came up with the below form. This was used as inspiration for my school design:

 

Designing the School:

My initial plan for the placement and identity of the school:

The process of design is often lengthy and features many changes. As seen, I had initially planned to situate my bridge as an external aspect of my school, granting access to higher floors in the form of a ramp. 

Early concept design for central support for the bridge. This will support the raised structure via radial angled struts.

After some feedback from peers and my tutor however, and following inspiration from the plan activity above, I chose to undergo a large redesign of my design. This is shown in the updates below.

Further development of the school

This revised form was developed from the segmented style of the hexagonal structure above, which i morphed into a more triangular oriented shape, inspired by Mies van der Rohe's work explored above.

 

Using this model, I have developed the following as my new rough design:

 

 

Perspective Drawing Task:

Axonometric front view animation: a rough model of 1 of my 3 school buildings and its attached bridges.

2 Point perspective animation: rear view of the above structure.

 

36 Textures Task:

Unlike my hand drawn style I explored in the first experiment for ARCH1101, I chose to use a digital medium on my phone to draw my textures for this task. I felt that although probably more time consuming, these textures turned out far better than my hand drawn efforts earlier in the trimester.


Adding to my model:
 
In the above image, I have added in one of my 'Random' textures to provide a change of texture in some of my bathroom entries. Placed on the entrance privacy wall, this recessed plane serves as a good medium for such a bold texture.

 
A 'Linear' texture was added to the student labs at various workstations, again changing the textures of the space through and interesting and eye catching medium.


 
Additionally, the above 'Flowing' finish was used to frame the lecture hall's presenting surface. This helps to add a border to projections onto this plane.