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Portfolio

I decided to do a portfolio of everything to best express my thoughts and how I have been influences and the conclusions I have for my designs. This way there is a better understanding of the design process and provides more clarity to different aspects of experiment three as a whole.

The Folly

These images of the folly is to show the textures more clearly and also gives an idea of the scale using people as comparisons.

5 Lumion Environment Images

A view of the whole environment; school, bridge, folly and moving elements. 

A view from one end of the bridge facing the school.

The integration of the bridge and the school, shown is the workshop.  

Shown is one of the Computer Labs where the students are able to appreciate the view of both sides of the valley due to glass replacing the walls.

A closer view of the school, bridge and moving elements.

Links to Models and Scenes

http://www.4shared.com/zip/hFrhnotAba/Lumion_and_Models.html 

Moving Elements

36 Textures

With my textures beside trying to just relate with movement, I also tried to link some of the textures to the theory I have mashed up; mostly focusing on the nature aspects. So some textures were inspired by natural things such as the wood texture and water droplets.

18 Two Point Perspectives

Words that relates to Arch Comp Theory. I also decided on being more creative on the shading so as to provide more interest and engagement with the perspectives. 

Placement Idea

I had a the thought of representing the school positioned at the center. It having a 360 clear view of the valley. The moving element will serve as a support of the school (along with the bridge)as well as a vertical circulation from the school to the folly. The folly is surrounded by trees and people will be directly surrounded by nature.

School Plan - Vitra Fire Station

For the school floor plan I decided upon Zaha Hadid's Vitra Fire Station to work as a Section. Hadid as an architect uses computers to construct most of her works as the forms that she produces are quite complex in shapes and requires a lot of geometry. I decided to use this relevance to apply my School Plan, also integrating the sort of space I wanted my school to acquire.

As shown, I have included a bridge part. The bridge passes through the school space and will serve as a bridge that leads to a two way entry and exit, providing more flexibility.

18 One Point Perspectives

A lot of my theories tried to focus on the advancement of technology in regards to architecture and the benefits that comes with this advancement.

Valley - Lumion Terrain

I settled on Jamison Valley as I thought it was the valley that suits the placement of my bridge and how it represents my design as a whole. My hometown doesn't have any valleys due to it's minuscule size and flatness of the land so I decided to pick an Australian valley. Jamison is also a valley that I have seen before and experienced it's surroundings so there is a familiarity with it.

(Jamison has a great amount of trees however Lumion aren't able to show this very well, so some parts look empty, however when you pan in closer in the scenes you are able to see them)

Arch Comp Theory

Part of the theory that I had in mind was influenced by Ito's Sendai Mediatheque ( a case study I did for enabling skills). I found that this design related to Arch Comp with the combination of technology/media with nature.

References:

Light Blue - Ho, Josephine. "Toyo Ito | Sendai Mediatheque" 8 Dec 2009. Wordpress. Accessed 25 Jun 2014. <http://josephineho.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/ho-space-sendai-mediatheque.pdf>
Light Green - Quirk, Vanessa. "Frontier Learning: The Future of Architectural Education / Stanislav Roudavski" 27 Nov 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 Jun 2014. <http://www.archdaily.com/?p=298112>
Yellow - Nikos Salingaros. "Unified Architectural Theory: Chapter 1" 17 Sep 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 Jun 2014. <http://www.archdaily.com/?p=429404>