Seung Woo Kim ARCH1101

Theory

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170605-the-psychology-behind-your-citys-design

Affect, Psychology, Geometry, arrangement, inhibit

The architecture of the building can influence its residents, and the effect changes depending on its architecture itself as well as how it complements with the surroundings.

In specific, the architecture of the building can, and must, educate and convey ideas to the residents, in a way it fits its purpose.

the designs changed from the initial plan throughout.

Perspective Drawings

The 36 Textures

Texture -Used

The Render Models

Draft 1 - building

floating above ground since interfered with other buildings.

Draft 2 - bridges

Final Modeling

The building has semi-organic floor shape, but rigid and geometric vertical. The complementary of organic and geometrical shapes allows the students to experience different combinations of organic and geometric shapes, be it bizarre or revolutionary.

Ground floor plaza, with the lecture hall and library just above.

The actual 'inside' of the building is very minimum in a way as many of its rooms stick outwards from it. Such unusual design element is to convey the concept of creative thinking and encourage breaking the convention, as architect's design should not be bound by unnecessary structural stereotypes.

lecture hall

There is a heavy emphasis on the verticality in its rigid rise from the ground. the facade patterns also emphasise the verticality of this building. Architecture students should understand the ideas of verticality and suppression of it, and students realise the concept as they use this building.

Bridge to Squarehouse looks childish and artistic in a few ways. it was done so that even the smallest part of the building attempts to convey ideas to its residents, for this case being the importance of artistic sense in architecture.

There is a limitation on how much the student can see around their surroundings and environments in eye-level. The completely glazed, circular classrooms sticking outwards from the main building allows students to see their surroundings architecturally in a higher, unrestricted viewpoints.

The middle rooms are used for staff offices.

Moving Elements - Videos

digital noticeboard rotating on ground floor

follow-up shot of moving elevator capturing verticality along with it

automatic library access shutter opening.

Model embed

Sketchup: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GKwTV29TkznCh0wn485jjey_qLRnUBuo/view?usp=sharing

Lumion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16QNohnuLXaO6HB2BUlB_VxcuPptWZOhH/view?usp=sharing

ARCH1101 EXP2 Final Submission

concepts

The Five Concepts

Zaha Hadid

Generally goes with asymmetric shapes. Even for a relatively symmetric architecture, there is at least one part of the building which suppresses the symmetrical nature.
Heavy uses of curved walls and facades. Little emphasis on geometrical but mainly organic shapes and curvy lines, as we would call her “the queen of curves”.
Generally no use of regular geometric shapes. The shapes give the impression of the challenge in construction.
Heavy urban and modernity nature are embedded in her work, supported with the splendid execution of materials such as glass, concrete and steel.
The process, or the way it seem to be constructed intimidates the current style and technology of construction method, which is revolutionary in many aspects and convey what futuristic really is.

Herzog & de Meuron

heavy stacked nature. Small element or a storey is repeated throughout the building, but they are not stacked exactly on top of each other, adding complex verticality and horizontality.
geometrical shapes. The works show rigidity and geometricality.
the buildings does not rise vertically, but rise up slanted, with differing areas between each storeys.
the geometrical shapes are distorted in various ways that diminish the symmetry of the buildings, along with randomised window patterns on the facade, although exceptions exist, especially diamond pattern glazed walls.
general architectures are high buildings. This overwhelming verticality is balanced with heavy implementation of cornices.

The concepts of the station

Zaha Hadid's dominant theme evident in majority of her works were the nature of organic shapes and curves, using contemporary materials like concrete, steel and glass. This major concept of Zaha Hadid was highly suitable for the basis of the design of the light rail station itself.

There are many concepts dominantly evident in the works of Herzog & de Meuron, but the asymmetrical stacking of small elements of buildings was a characteristic unique to Herzog & de Meuron. This concept seemed ideal for the basis of the how the station blends into its environment.