Daniel Olivera - ARCH 1390

Thursday 18 October 2012

Posters

Animations

Images

Game File

http://www.gamefront.com/files/22577792/Arch1390.zip

I plan to use a minimalistic approach in the materials used in the museum as well as sticking to wooden products. The exception to that ruling is for the glass windows situated throughout the building.

This darker wood is being used for the flooring.

This lighter wood is being used for the wall, and roofing. It provides a bump map that if viewed correctly creates extruded beams of wood that poke up at various areas.

Week 10

Siting Montage

As part of my siting exercise I decided that a big open space would suit my museum proposal well. It could be placed within the center of the space with roads or rivers that lead to it creating a network of movement towards the museum. The sites that I researched included Parramatta park, Cockatoo Island and the Sydney Bangaroo Site.

I finally decided to go with Cockatoo island as it provided a central area within Sydney Harbour that has rivers and channels all the way around it portraying the network concept. The access to Cockatoo Island would be by boat that would connect to it through the various routs that it takes, again portraying a network.

Written Brief

My Architecture is based from the concepts of Network and Extrusion. These concepts are derived from the architecture of Peter Eisenman in his Houses and the Memorial To The Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as from Zaha Hadid's Zagreb International Airport.

The concepts of Extrusion and Network seem to join together in making an architecture. I have taken the view that one cannot work without the other. In order to create a network that breaks the traditional grid, one must start from connected points and extrude into various levels of the 3D plane in order to create a unique architecture.

The function of my Architecture is that of a Museum. The Museum entrance point will be that of the shape of a pentagon. It will then extrude from three corners in a clockwise direction which connects to a new row of museum space. This space will conform to a set space with a broken grid. It will also extrude out from the corners to create large spaces for museum exhibits, also following the broken grid structure in the 3D plane.
This continued extrusion process and connections to spaces will continue a further 2 more times in order to create the finished architecture. The museum spaces will be placed on different levels in order to incorporate the breaking of the grid in the third dimension.

Additional Representation Technique

I plan to use Cry-engine 3 as my additional representation technique. It will provide me with the best advantage of representing my architecture in the best way. I plan to remodel the network of rivers around cockatoo island as well as the surrounding land masses in order to recreate the site. The museum will be placed on what is now occupied by a camping site on the island.

Thursday 20 September 2012

Precedent Task

1) Brief outline of Project One

For Project One my nominated Architect was Peter Eisenman. I decided to focus on his House designs, specifically on House 2.

From this design I discovered the concepts of Grid and Extrusion. The way that he uses simple shapes, places them in a grid and finally extrudes them in unique ways, as a result breaking the grid in a certain fashion but creating an architecture which still retains a hint of a grid was a very different way to creating architecture that I had ever seen before.

As a result I created a Monument piece of Architecture that encapsulated these concepts within it.

2) A Visual Analysis of x2 Precedent Studies as a pair

Grid

Both the Memorial by Peter Eisenman and Zagreb Airport by Zaha Hadid have an evident grid/network structure when viewed from above or as a plan. Although the Zagreb Airport doesn't have a normal grid layout like the Memorial it still serves the function of a grid/network. It provides a structured plan to the design which is needed when designing such a large piece of architecture.

Extrusion

The blocks in the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe can all be seen to be on different planes as viewed in the image. The squares, as highlighted, continue to change height in different ways as your view progresses through the image, highlighting the sense of scale the Architecture has and is trying to achieve through the Memorial. As a likeness the Zagreb Airport has many irregular shapes that create openings into the building which are used as windows. It allows light to extrude itself into and out of the building creating great spectacles especially at night.

The highlighted areas show the different views that can be achieved through the use of extrusion on certain objects or shapes within an architecture. The Peter Eisenman Memorial creates a wave like structure and appearance through the extrusion of the blocks in an up and down fashion. The Zagreb Airport creates a web like appearance through the extrusion of shapes from the roof, allowing light in. This extrusion pushes some of the roof up and downwards in certain areas creating a unique design.

3) A Design Proposal and Design Draft for Assignment 3

Public Transport Terminal: i.e. airport, train station
Pathways between buildings: Futuristic, bridge
Museum

4) A short description on your prescribed additional representation

The main representation I will use for Assignment 3 is CryEngine. Since my two concepts are network/grid and extrusion I feel that they would both be expressed in the greatest way possible through an interactive environment. It would allow me to highlight the pathways being created by my grid as well as showing extruding objects such as bridges or walkways that could form part of my final design.

I may also use Build Ar to again highlight some interactive elements that would show my concepts in greater depth.
The main modelling program i will use is 3DS Max as stated in the course outline.

Wednesday 19 September 2012

Independent Task Week 6

Peter Eisenman

Memorial To The Murdered Jews Of Europe

Berlin, Germany

http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=1194

http://sfac.wustl.edu/portfolios/jesse_wilks?page=2

Eisenman, Peter, and Peter Dal Co. 2000. "Peter Eisenman." Casabella 64, no. 675: 32-43.Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCOhost (accessed September 16, 2012). (720.5/103)

Eisenman, Peter, and Peter Dal Co. 2000. "Peter Eisenman." Casabella 64, no. 675: 32-43.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCOhost (accessed September 16, 2012). (720.5/103)

Canetti, Elias, Edmond Jab�s, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche. 2005. "Peter Eisenman: Memoriale per gli Ebrei assassinati d'Europa a Berlino." Casabella 69, no. 735: 4-21.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCOhost (accessed September 16, 2012). (720.5/103)

Eisenmann, Peter. 2005. "Peter Eisenman: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany 1998-2005."
A & U: Architecture & Urbanism no. 8: 36-53. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCOhost
(accessed September 16, 2012). (720.5/107)