Sketchup additions + cryengine

teacher's meeting space separated from main campus, yet open with view of valley. Admin buildings are closed to the  main campus, but have view of valley running either side (--> gradual transition from public to private )

holistic view

view of valley from teacher's outside/open meeting space

holistic view

holistic view

Second Draft Sketchup Model

Blue signifies potential admin spaces (modulated, private spaces, closed, repetitive)

Red: open campus walkway (public, bridging)

White: "Special Spaces" e.g. Library, Gallery, Lecture Theatre, Workshop

First draft skethup model

Cryengine scenery update + architectural folly/Elevator added... explorations with Flow Graph

Architectural Folly added

View from moving "Elevator"

News Article Mash-up

The built environment is a conceptual playground where the imagination roams free. More and more there are landmarks bursting from within the confines of their rectilinear and physical law-abiding realities. Contemporary schools of Architecture should reflect this avant-garde notion that there is no fixed form in the ever-developing world. My proposal for the design of this school should include a gradual transition from public to private - from cultural to civic - from conference to residential, a plan that turns a stroll around the block into an experience of continuous variation. Interweaving the mutability and mechanical beauty of construction sites with top-down organisation and bottom-up complexity harnesses the essence of striking yet rational architecture, a poignant vision with a kaleidoscopic inventory.

"One way to be an architect is to believe that the voluntary constraints of good design transform the involuntary imprisonments imposed, unseen, by everything else."

                                                                            

Personal additions.

Surreal 3D Architecture mods, http://blog.ponoko.com/2011/07/29/surreal-3d-architecture-mods/ (May. 15, 2013).

Kriston Capps, “Big Proposal Brings the Heat in Miami,” Architect, May. 15, 2013 (http://www.architectmagazine.com/commercial-projects/big-proposes-miami-beach-square-convention-center.aspx).

Thomas de Monchaux, “Back to the Future,” Architect, May. 15, 2013 (http://www.architectmagazine.com/books/back-to-the-future.aspx).

Cryengine Inspiration: Mekong River

EXP 3: The Bridge. Week 1

Image 1. Less is more / Form follows function

Image 2. The house is a machine for living / Avant-garde

Image 3. Metamorphosis / Touch the earth lightly

Image 4. Mekong River - South East Asia

5 Images capturing Cry-engine Valley

EXP 2: The Space Between.

Architectural Concepts

Hans Scharoun:

Kinks in layers and the breaking of repetition opens the solid, and liberates the spaces.

Daniel Libeskind:

The angular exists in contrast to the monolithic, revealing precise openings and skewed paths of light.

Electroliquid Aggregation

Monolithic forms can be broken by angular geometries and kinks in layers, revealing an open meeting space for the exchange of contemporary architectural ideas.

12 Sketch Axonometrics

6 Parallel Projections

36 Custom Textures

Light

Medium

Dark

5 Images Captures

A pathway circulates through the scenery from the bottom level, through a darkened tunnel populated by a disturbing sculptural piece, a piece tinged blood red and covered in violent graphics, up to the higher level, where students are welcomed by a clean, guiding path to a free and open meeting space.

Libeskind's massive, daunting monument is liberated by an amalgamation of finer, angled forms. This liberation of space allows architecture students to gather and exchange ideas in an open atmosphere. Juxtaposed with changing light, the architecture itself becomes the nexus through which a perspectival lens is cast upon form, stimulating creativity through cast shadows on the landscape and the structure itself.

Students follow a path that snakes up and towards Scharoun and Libeskind's structure, surrounded on one side by rushing rapids, on the other by a vertical drop to rapids below. Carved out of the natural landform, the path provides a significant and memorable entrance by adopting an 'incan-esque' grand stepped rise to the monument at the top.

Sketchup Monument

Crysis Landform Model

36 Textures