FINAL SUBMISSION

PROJECT THREE FINAL SUBMISSION

RENDERS

 

 

PRINT PDFS

FILE UPLOADS

Below is the media share links to my interactive poster, cryengine video, and cryengine file.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9uc76j4276g9mu4

WEEK 11 DRAFT

This week was dedicated towards developing a draft of my outputs.

Modelling development
With consideration of feedback, I decided to remodel particular elements of my architecture. I decided to emphasise the monumental concept of ‘the absence of form’ by dramatizing the canals which lead into the center of the complex. I also began to incorporate the staggered apartments. I am thinking of applying a rock/stone texture to the complex to draw a connection between the architecture and it’s landscape.

 

Landscape
I have constructed a narrative to accompany my architecture in its landscape, with context. It was suggested to develop a natural Sydney Harbour environment, untouched by urban development. The setting would be a newly discovered area, wherein the emergence of architectural development, must all be severely environmentally concerned. This would allow me to further my concept of connection with the natural landscape through various techniques such as materiality. I plan to place my architecture within the area of Sydney Harbour, where Ruschutter’s Bay is located.  To accentuate my concepts, my architecture will be placed within the harbour’s body of water- unconnected to the mainland.

 

Proposal
Name: The Peninsula
Function: High density residential
Programme: apartment complexes (ranging in room size), communal facilities (pool, gym, laundrette etc)
User groups: ranging demographics (Single occupants, couples, small families, leasing opportunists, investors)
Location : unurbanised Sydney Harbour- Ruschutter’s Bay area
Materiality: stone, steel, glass

WEEK 10

SITING MONTAGE

The Montage below demonstrates the environment I intend to place my architecture within. The central image highlights the vacant Sydney Barrangaroo site. I feel that this location is of great relevance, as it demonstrates the conceptual notions of connection between landscape, as well as the breaking of the traditional grid (city grid) structure.

WRITTEN BRIEF

My architecture is based off several architectural precedents such as, Eisenman’s City of Culture, Memorial to the Murdered Jews and BIG’s Maritime youth centre. The architecture derives concepts from the precedent studies- being the absence of form, the use of the grid, and connection. 

The function of the architecture is high density residential housing. Each individual apartment will typically consists of the same programme, each arranged in a unique manner, according to the unique positioning of the condo within the building as a whole. Bedroom and bathroom numbers will range to cater to a greater market and demographic. This will widen the diversity of user groups within the complex (eg. Single occupants, couples, small families, leasing opportunists, investors etc)
The apartments are designed in a staggered notion, demonstrating the presence of the grid. The types of spaces included within the building are the apartments consisting of varying numbers of bedrooms/bathrooms, a kitchen and dining space and living area. Each condo will also consist of a balcony terrace. There will also be communal garden space courtyards and docking areas for the water canals.

The site of the residential complex is Sydney’s Barangaroo site. The urban waterfront will enable a creation of a canal atmosphere, wherein several water canals will be drawn from Sydney Harbour, emphasising the absence of form. This site is suited to the conceptual notion of connection within the architecture. The piece will enable a continuation of Sydney’s landscape, demonstrating a contrived landscape- another of BIG and Eisenman’s architectural focuses.

I designed the architecture as a unique building, creating an unusually innovative experience for the users. The building will be made road accessible from Bradfield highway. The water canals are a significant element of the design, in that the apartment buildings are water accessible, creating a harbour within Sydney harbour. The building unites Sydney’s urban landscape with the harbour through a strategic design, entwining conceptual notions from both architects into a functional residential complex. 

ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATION TECHINQUE

I plan to use Cryengine sandbox as my representation technique. I have chosen this medium to convey my architecture as it will enable me to demonstrate my design within its context appropriately. I plan to recreate Sydney Harbour in Cyrengine as an environment for my design placement. In regards to the interactive element of the representation, I plan to include moving elements of the building- in which it will respond to certain conditions. For example, creating a system to control and manage the canals, whether it be closing and opening passageways.

PRECEDENT STUDY

1.       A brief project outline of project 1

·         The City of Culture- Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman’s ‘City of Culture’ is a monumental piece of architecture, exploring the relationship between the building and the landscape. The design incorporates various techniques to achieve the increased awareness of the existing environment. Eisenman employs his trademark technique of the overlayed grid to segment the piece, in a manner that reflects the inconsistencies of the land. The absence of form within the building leaves us wanting to connect the piece, unifying the architecture’s independent elements. This connection is further explored through the recurring organic forms , all of which are slightly dissimilar, but have a unified effect as a whole.

Concepts:

®     Absence of form

®     The grid

®     Connection to  the landscape

®     Repetition and variation

 

Chosen precedents

·         The memorial to murdered Jews- Berlin, Peter Eisenman

 

·         Maritime youth center, BIG

Concepts:

®     Absence of form

®     The grid

®     Connection to  the landscape

2.       A visual analysis of x2 precedent studies as a pair

3.       A design proposal and design draft for assignment 3

Building types
 

®     Residential high density (apartments)

®     Educational facility (lecture theatre, studio classrooms, conference rooms)

®     Hotel (lobby, function rooms, hotel rooms, casino, gymnasium, restaurants)

Building placement

The vacant Barangaroo site for a location providing waterfront views for terraced housing, whilst maintaining an urban landscape setting.

 

Ways of challenging ideas and concepts (residential high density)

·         Maintaining large portions of the form whilst subtracting selected elements to create internally open spaces & demonstrating the absence of form

·         The overlay of a grid serves as a pivotal point of the form’s manipulation- allowing staggering to create terraced housing

·         Strategic placement of the architecture (Barangaroo) resembles the topography, creating an artificial landscape of continuity

Basis of the concept design

 

 

 

4.       A short description on your prescribed additional representation

 

I have chosen to use the Cryengine 3 Sandbox editor as my representation format. This is because I think it is the best representational tool for demonstrating my residential piece of architecture within its context. The interactive tools will serve as a great advantage in portraying how the architecture will change over time, and how it will respond and fit into its surrounds- a key element of connection to the landscape. The real-time environment tools can demonstrate key selling points of the architecture, such as the changing views of the harbour through movement entities, flow graphs, environment changes etc.

PRECEDENT STUDY DEVELOPMENT

My nominated architect Is Peter Eisenman. As I chose Eisenman’s ‘City of Culture’ project for assignment one, I have chosen the Wexner Center of Arts for my second assignment. This is a university building which is designed to exhibit architectural theories of deconstructionism, as well as other foundational concepts from Eisenman.
The building I have chosen to compare it to is BIG’s 8 House, an innovatively designed residential complex.

 

CONCEPTS & CONVERGENCES

Prominent themes that run through both architectures continue off assignment one. They are as follows:

·         Variation :

§  WEXNER: using several elements such as remnant castle elements to reveal deconstruction, whilst integrating  other components, like the exposed skeletal frame

§  8HOUSE: Modifying tradition form by stacking, twisting and sloping to achieve innovative shape. Use of repetition of layers with modification to display variation

 

·         Connection:

§  WEXNER: continuity drawn through recurring components such as the different forms of appearing grids within the building

§  8HOUSE: Mobius strip form implies continuity  and connection to the landscape

 

·         The Grid

§  WEXNER :several occasion ( exposed steel grid frame, overlay to join disjointed elements- seen on glass, positioning of building aspect in relation to city grid surrounds)

§  8HOUSE:  apartment grid structure

8 HOUSE REFERENCES

 

 

 

WEXNER CENTER REFERENCES



A2 FINAL SUBMISSION

DRAFT MODELS

below are two draft models, from previous weeks of work in lead up to the final model. These models were explored, evaluated and resigned to produce a design that bets conveyed the selected concepts

MARKERS

From left to right:
Absence of form
Repetition
The Grid
Connection
Completion

PHYSICAL OBJECT

The physical object which I created was a modfied rectangual prisim. I though this was suiting, in regars to Eisenman's experimentation with traditional form by breaking the simple form apart and reinventing the peice as a whole.  each sie was unique and displayed the marker in an innovative way which was relevant to the notion it was conveyeing.

Absence of form: sliding door to reveal marker, can easily be hidden from view
The Grid: a missing grid piece must be placed to complete the marker
Repetition: an extended sliding pannel from the box to mirror the animation's construction of growth
Connection: the marker has been cut in half, needing to join together both pieces to complete the marker
Comlpeted final: simple reveal on a fave of the model

 

BUILD AR Below shows the video screen capture of my physical model and build AR scene in use. There is one screen capture for each marker.

 

RENDERS

INTERACTIVE POSTERSThe interactive poster incudes three renders, the Build Ar screen capture, five screen shots, text and th piece name.

 

 

3DS MAX

http://www.mediafire.com/?3zs8fvkt8uwzsxu,vj174lg733j71gc,n3j7wbr0w5331ww,ac2168095mqxmf0,d6sg5kj99jqdnua