Sunday, September 26, 2010

ARCH1142 rotation2 workshop4

1. In class task - the combination of the simple box shaped buildings in different materials.



2. Balsa model of the "Church of Light"


3. In class task 2 - I was given a section to create 3 different buildings. They all have the same section but look totally different.




4. Site model of the Fisher house by Louis Kahn


5. 1 to 50 model of the Fisher house


The last picture shows how the model can be decomposed to show the interior spaces.

ARCH1142 rotation1 workshop3

1. Drawings
2. Model with white mountboard only after reading the article "The Fold: -Leibniz and the baroque" by Gilles Deleuze
From the article "The Fold" I captured one phrase that really touched me.
"Matter is folded twice, once under elastic forces, a second time under plastic forces, but one is not able to move from the first to the second."
I made a simple box-shaped building and tried to fold it so that spaces will be divided and cannot travel across each other.


3. 2D collage - my experience in the city

When I first came to Australia, I was shocked with the view of the city: huge park with numerous number of exotic plants right in the middle of the CBD; singing birds next to singing people; and the harmony of old and new buildings. They were the things that caught my sight.
Therefore I made my collage to express my shocked experience of the city.

4. 3D aspect - The models are to allude the transition of the architecture from the simple box shaped to the complex buildings. The bridge in the middle of the model is connecting these two different types of architecture.


5. Collage - Deconstruction
Since my theme was deconstruction and the collage was about my experience throughout the course, I actually deconstructed my previous collage to use as background. The collage also expresses my feeling of confusion in the course. That is why all those photos are messed around.


6. Final balsa model extended from the collage
Since the theme was 'deconstruction' I did not use any glue to stick each other together. As an architect I really think the buildings should be easy to deconstruct. Also I broke my balsa model to express the deconstructional forces and its unstable status.