2010年5月6日星期四
Precendent Studies and Site Analysis
Site options (taken from Anuradha Chatterjee 2008 blogsite)
Our project might
1 set on the side of a cliff face
2 set in a valley
3 submerged into a sloping hill or cut into it to join two roads at an upper or lower level
4 bridging a creek or a river
5 set at the waterfront (harbor or river)
6 inserted into an existing urban fabric or a building or set in an empty car park
My final model is cut into a sloping hill in Katoomba, which is the largest town in the Blue Mountains and is home to the famous Three Sisters.
I looked at Tadao Ando's architecture mainly for my precedent. The first picture is the Church of light, notice how the openings on the wall bring light to the room. The wall casts a cross of light down the aisle. I also looked at his Place for Contemplation in Paris and Koshino House. All of the buildings use concrete as the material for the walls. Concrete has a hostile sense to Japanese people. It had to bring a sense of softness and refinement. Ando was trying to make people understand that it is about space, not concrete; light within the space and how the space receives the light. This is exactly what I want to present in this project.
I also gained inspiration from a 2008 student who used corrugated paper as materials for site making. First I tried to use Hebel block which is a kind of soft concrete material but I found it hard to shape without any professional tool and it produced a lot of dust. Then I found corrugated paper best fit here for it has a very representative cut pattern for the rock. And by stacking up corrugated paper layer by layer, a beautiful section can be revealed.
Our project might
1 set on the side of a cliff face
2 set in a valley
3 submerged into a sloping hill or cut into it to join two roads at an upper or lower level
4 bridging a creek or a river
5 set at the waterfront (harbor or river)
6 inserted into an existing urban fabric or a building or set in an empty car park
My final model is cut into a sloping hill in Katoomba, which is the largest town in the Blue Mountains and is home to the famous Three Sisters.
I looked at Tadao Ando's architecture mainly for my precedent. The first picture is the Church of light, notice how the openings on the wall bring light to the room. The wall casts a cross of light down the aisle. I also looked at his Place for Contemplation in Paris and Koshino House. All of the buildings use concrete as the material for the walls. Concrete has a hostile sense to Japanese people. It had to bring a sense of softness and refinement. Ando was trying to make people understand that it is about space, not concrete; light within the space and how the space receives the light. This is exactly what I want to present in this project.
I also gained inspiration from a 2008 student who used corrugated paper as materials for site making. First I tried to use Hebel block which is a kind of soft concrete material but I found it hard to shape without any professional tool and it produced a lot of dust. Then I found corrugated paper best fit here for it has a very representative cut pattern for the rock. And by stacking up corrugated paper layer by layer, a beautiful section can be revealed.
Project 2 18th century Dutch Painting
Johannes Vermeer - The AstronomerThe painting is a portrait of an astronomer in his office, examine a globe. The astronomer is seated by a glass window, the only source of light in an otherwise dark room. This direct light diffuses throughout the room, replacing any stark shadows with a gentle 'glow'. Architectural features of the room seen are somewhat plain and unassuming.
With a book open on his desk, he reached for the globe, staring past it with a facial expression which reveals that he may just made a great discovery.
The globe, the light from the window, and the dark, floral-patterned cloth that drapes the front edge of the table, are the key pictorial and symbol objects.
The globe may represent equilibrium, perfection, the universe.
The light may indicate inspiration from the God.
The cloth may be seen as struggles of human life because the folds and patterns of leaves and blossoms are in all variations of darkness.
The composition Vermeer's painting is divided right through the middle into an upper and lower zone by a nearly horizontal line. I came up with the idea of Upper and Lower.My Narrative is
"A tower for a man of science who is contemplating, in sensitive, the meaning and purpose of life via the stars."
2010年4月4日星期日
Final Model
We chose to do the section cut here because this is the most distinctive view to show the relationship between the roof and the platform as the core concept in this building is the platform. Firmness and security are what we feel to the fact that they stand on a platform with the same outline as that of the roof or sometimes even of larger size, depending upon the importance of the building. There is magic in the play between roof and platform.
Utzon substitutes solid walls with mullioned, glazed screens, columns or posts allowing the eye to trace along the horizontal plane with minimal interruption. Eliminating the solid wall reduces the sense of interiority and shifts the role of enclosure to the sheltering roof or to a space within a second layer of walls. 
Jorn Utzon's design of Can Feliz encompasses the architectural pursuits of his career; his use of natural materials connects with his interest in 'the platform' and in the ancient Mayan and Chinese architectural culture.
Utzon and Platform
Can Feliz, as the new home was named, expressed Utzon’s love for the concept of platforms. In many of Utzon’s poetic works, the constructed plateau and platform are designed to intensify the experience of space stretching to the horizon under a vast sky.
As an architectonic element, the platform is fascinating.
Utzon gained great inspiration from the Mayan platforms when he was visiting Mexico, where they build the platforms on the level of the roof of the jungle, the platform is a worthy place for the worship of their gods. From there, they had the sky, the clouds and the breeze, the platform is like a great open plane. On these high platforms -many of them as long as 100 metres-, they built their temples. By means of this architectonic device they had completely transformed the landscape and presented their eyes with a grandeur that corresponded to the grandeur of their gods.
The raised platform and constructed plateau in Utzon’s architecture often appear as a Cartesian plan, a plane that is completely flat, with a grid geometry (square), singular material texture and color, and with visual continuity stretching to infinite space. In this sense, Utzon’s platforms and plateaus stand in contrast to the natural ground and have a sense of another world or a sacred place.
Utzon’s raised platform is essentially a place set apart from the common level of earth. The wonderful experience is going from the denseness of the jungle to the vast openness above the platform.
On this platform or square, you may have a strong feeling of remoteness and complete calmness. The feeling under your feet is the same as the firmness you experience when standing on a large rock.
As an architectonic element, the platform is fascinating.
Utzon gained great inspiration from the Mayan platforms when he was visiting Mexico, where they build the platforms on the level of the roof of the jungle, the platform is a worthy place for the worship of their gods. From there, they had the sky, the clouds and the breeze, the platform is like a great open plane. On these high platforms -many of them as long as 100 metres-, they built their temples. By means of this architectonic device they had completely transformed the landscape and presented their eyes with a grandeur that corresponded to the grandeur of their gods.
The raised platform and constructed plateau in Utzon’s architecture often appear as a Cartesian plan, a plane that is completely flat, with a grid geometry (square), singular material texture and color, and with visual continuity stretching to infinite space. In this sense, Utzon’s platforms and plateaus stand in contrast to the natural ground and have a sense of another world or a sacred place.
Utzon’s raised platform is essentially a place set apart from the common level of earth. The wonderful experience is going from the denseness of the jungle to the vast openness above the platform.
On this platform or square, you may have a strong feeling of remoteness and complete calmness. The feeling under your feet is the same as the firmness you experience when standing on a large rock.
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