LTarch: May 2013

Friday, 31 May 2013

Saturday, 11 May 2013

In architecture, the golden rule was that buildings had to be stable and stationary. For Kahn, form did not necessarily follow function; nor did his projects celebrate all the new possibilities of industrial materials. Inside this complex structural web, there will be a "media village" (more like a city actually), complete with places to eat and play, and a sensational public viewing gallery.

It is a rollercoaster of radical ideas. most challenging, controversial and critically acclaimed ultramodern buildings Calatrava felt the desire to break up this rigid convention He stated that nature served as his guide, inspiring him to create buildings that reflected natural shapes and rhythms. He was intensely interested in the architectural use of zoomorphic forms, a passion evident in such buildings as Turning Torso (1999–2005), his unique apartment tower in Malmö, Sweden. Its sculptural shape suggested a twisting spinal column. For the Lyon (France) Airport Railway Station (1989–94), he created a building that resembled a bird with outspread wings; the interior skeletal steel frame reinforced this birdlike effect. The bird allusion had symbolic meaning as well, since the station served as the end point of the route from Lyon to the airport.Created from monolithic masonry, and drawing on primary geometries with great circles, semi-circles and triangles sliced out of their weighty walls, his buildings exude a timeless and sometimes sinister presence.

They look like the hastily vacated remnants of a future cosmic civilisation. from utopian urban-planning to scientific discoveries of molecular structures – all brought to life through his personal ephemera and correspondence. It became a shape of a 3D Chinese character, its steel structure forms a continuous spatial loop climbing up and around the volume of the building. The screen had two ribbed panels that opened and closed like the wings of a giant seagull, putting the entire edifice into motion, and giving the sense of a building that could take flight.

Black - Louis Kahn: the brick whisperer
Green- Welcome to the future
Red - How Santiago Calatrava blurred the lines between architecture and engineering to make buildings move

Saturday, 4 May 2013

EXP2:The Space Between [FINAL SUBMISSION]

The Two Concepts

Variations of Space/Industrial

Dorothe Mandrup-Poulsen
Dorothe Mandrup is famous for her angular and well structured buildings. Her architectual designs are based on conventional shapes such as triangles, rectangles etc. Here she would develop them and transform into spatial schemes that could anticipate a sense of 'conceptual clarity and accuracy'. She utilises pre-fabricated structure as well as lightweight mobile elements to bring out translucency and minimalism. 1

Humble/Humanism

Karen Clemmensen
Karen Clemmensen embraces the features of the surrounding environment to allow her architectual design to assimilate nicely within it. This allows her building to express a sense of humble and humanly nature to it. Here people would feel included and more connected to the nature.

18 Axonometrics

36 Custom Textures

Light is used in most of the floors that faces to the sun. The texture is rather organic which relates to the surrounding environment. It also allows light reflection and provides a brighter and fresher presence for the participants.

Medium is used in predominantly in the second level of the monument. The texture is placed on a solid square-shaped monument which gives it a more edgy and refined touch to the square.

Dark is used in the higher levels and the slender structures. This strengthens the slender structures and empowers their stability.

5 Real Time Captures

Front View

The front part represents the concept 'subdued intimacy' which means the intimate spaces are subtle and the client would feel open and expressive rather than enclosed. They would also enjoy the beautiful Danish air and ocean as they out-look from the Denmark coast.