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.