INTERACTIVE PDF CLICK HERE:- http://www.mediafire.com/file/exitnz33ohy/VITRA FINAL.pdf
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
FINAL PRINT PDF VERSIONS + INTERACTIVE VIDEOS
FINAL PRINT PDFS:
WEEK12- PEER REVIEWS + SECOND DRAFT 3XA1 POSTER + 500 WORDS
SECOND DRAFT 3XA1 POSTERS:
PEER REVIEWS:
500 WORD POSTER TEXT:
Canadian born architect Frank Gehry designed The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein in Germany in 1989.Gehry is well known for his “Deconstructivist”style and this museum reflects this architectural style.Architectural structures that fall in this category are said to go beyond current modalities of structural definition, whereby the structures do not reflect the belief that form follows function.
His deconstructed architectural style began to emerge in the late 1970s when Gehry, directed by a personal vision of architecture, created collage-like compositions out of found materials. Instead of creating buildings, Gehry creates ad-hoc pieces of functional sculpture.
Gehry's architecture has undergone a marked evolution from the plywood and corrugated-metal vernacular of his early works to the distorted but pristine concrete of his later works. However, the works retain a deconstructed aesthetic that fits well with the increasingly disjointed culture to which they belong.
The exterior structural style of the museum reveals a combination of cuboid and sculpure like curves to enhance and mystify the aesthetic collage of compositions to blend in with the environment.
Gehry has applied disjointed curveous forms with deconstructive massing to form this impressive 8000 square foot museum to cater for the exhibition of furniture.
The museum is a functional masterpiece which stands out in the agricultural background amongst the cherry trees again emphasising its deconstructive nature.
Gehry, amid orchards and vineyards, created an extraordinary collage of a building. Outside, its jumble of forms suggest almost any imagery you care to apply - a church, a ship, a swan. Inside, it is simply one of the best new galleries anywhere, a masterly sequence of spaces that are each utterly different, each beautifully and naturally lit, and each visually linked most ingeniously with the others.
The Vitra museum takes ordinary elements - ramps, stairs, a corner with a window, a lift tower - pulls them apart and re-assembles them to challenge our notions of what a building should be.
My inspiration behind my design concept for the re-envision of the museum came from the idea of analysing the existing Vitra museum geometry consisting of prismatic and curve shapes of the building and hence allowing me to envisage a Vitra Night Club From my perspective, therefore a comparison arose between the theory of Re-envisioning the museum as a night club in which different types of music being played under the same roof with diverse types of people with different tastes is inherent in its shape and form providing a structural significance in Frank Gehry’s “Deconstructivism”
Site context:
The Vitra club would need to be allocated to the city so that it blends in with city night life.
Vitra club Matriality :
As to the building materiality environmently friendly aspects were considered such as color L.E.D backlit pannels, powered with photovoltaic systems, harvesting solar energy by day to make it organically self sufficient.
Also the use of materials such as perforated precast concrete wall systems and the use of “Magic glass” which changes to opaque during the day and clears up at night were used in some areas.
Another environmentally friendly aspect would be the use building materials to curb the noise within the Vitra club to make it accoustically viable.
BIBLIOGRAPHY :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitra_Design_Museum
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Vitra_Design_Museum.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Frank_Gehry.html
http://www.hughpearman.com/vaults/gehry.html
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Vitra_Design_Museum
PEER REVIEWS:
500 WORD POSTER TEXT:Canadian born architect Frank Gehry designed The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein in Germany in 1989.Gehry is well known for his “Deconstructivist”style and this museum reflects this architectural style.Architectural structures that fall in this category are said to go beyond current modalities of structural definition, whereby the structures do not reflect the belief that form follows function.
His deconstructed architectural style began to emerge in the late 1970s when Gehry, directed by a personal vision of architecture, created collage-like compositions out of found materials. Instead of creating buildings, Gehry creates ad-hoc pieces of functional sculpture.
Gehry's architecture has undergone a marked evolution from the plywood and corrugated-metal vernacular of his early works to the distorted but pristine concrete of his later works. However, the works retain a deconstructed aesthetic that fits well with the increasingly disjointed culture to which they belong.
The exterior structural style of the museum reveals a combination of cuboid and sculpure like curves to enhance and mystify the aesthetic collage of compositions to blend in with the environment.
Gehry has applied disjointed curveous forms with deconstructive massing to form this impressive 8000 square foot museum to cater for the exhibition of furniture.
The museum is a functional masterpiece which stands out in the agricultural background amongst the cherry trees again emphasising its deconstructive nature.
Gehry, amid orchards and vineyards, created an extraordinary collage of a building. Outside, its jumble of forms suggest almost any imagery you care to apply - a church, a ship, a swan. Inside, it is simply one of the best new galleries anywhere, a masterly sequence of spaces that are each utterly different, each beautifully and naturally lit, and each visually linked most ingeniously with the others.
The Vitra museum takes ordinary elements - ramps, stairs, a corner with a window, a lift tower - pulls them apart and re-assembles them to challenge our notions of what a building should be.
My inspiration behind my design concept for the re-envision of the museum came from the idea of analysing the existing Vitra museum geometry consisting of prismatic and curve shapes of the building and hence allowing me to envisage a Vitra Night Club From my perspective, therefore a comparison arose between the theory of Re-envisioning the museum as a night club in which different types of music being played under the same roof with diverse types of people with different tastes is inherent in its shape and form providing a structural significance in Frank Gehry’s “Deconstructivism”
Site context:
The Vitra club would need to be allocated to the city so that it blends in with city night life.
Vitra club Matriality :
As to the building materiality environmently friendly aspects were considered such as color L.E.D backlit pannels, powered with photovoltaic systems, harvesting solar energy by day to make it organically self sufficient.
Also the use of materials such as perforated precast concrete wall systems and the use of “Magic glass” which changes to opaque during the day and clears up at night were used in some areas.
Another environmentally friendly aspect would be the use building materials to curb the noise within the Vitra club to make it accoustically viable.
BIBLIOGRAPHY :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitra_Design_Museum
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Vitra_Design_Museum.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Frank_Gehry.html
http://www.hughpearman.com/vaults/gehry.html
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Vitra_Design_Museum
Thursday, October 8, 2009
WEEK11- RE-ENVISIONED MODEL ,TEXTURES & 3XA1 DRAFT POSTER
RE-ENVISIONED MODEL:
http://www.carbonsales.com
http://www.creativefluff.com/architecture/zero-energy-the-greenpix-wall/
3xA1DRAFT POSTERS:
*3D MODEL MATERILA'S & OBJECTS REFERENCES:
www.vray-materials.de
www.turbosquid.com/
www.sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse
www.revitcity.com
TEXTURES & MATRERIALS:
TEXTURES AND MATERIALS I'M WILLING TO IMPLEMENT IN MY RE-ENVISIONED DESIGN FOR THE MUSEUM.
*MATERILA'S REFERENCES:
http://www.macrovitro.com/news/
http://www.designersparty.com
http://www.modbargains.comhttp://www.carbonsales.com
http://www.creativefluff.com/architecture/zero-energy-the-greenpix-wall/
http://www.commons.wikimedia.org
3xA1DRAFT POSTERS:
WEEK10 - A3 Expressive montage & Grid Layout + 150 DRAFT TEXT
GRID LAYOUT:
150 WORD DRAFT TEXT:
My inspiration behind my design concept for the re-envision of the museum came from the idea of analysing the existing Vitra museum geometry consisting of prismatic and curve shapes of the building and hence allowing me to envisage a Vitra Night Club From my perspective, therefore a comparison arose between the theory of Re-envisioning the museum as a night club in which different types of music being played under the same roof with diverse types of people with different tastes is inherent in its shape and form providing a structural significance in Frank Gehry’s “Deconstructivism”
The Vitra club would need to be allocated to the city so that it blends in with city night life.
A3 Expressive montage:
My inspiration behind my design concept for the re-envision of the museum came from the idea of analysing the existing Vitra museum geometry consisting of prismatic and curve shapes of the building and hence allowing me to envisage a Vitra Night Club From my perspective, therefore a comparison arose between the theory of Re-envisioning the museum as a night club in which different types of music being played under the same roof with diverse types of people with different tastes is inherent in its shape and form providing a structural significance in Frank Gehry’s “Deconstructivism”
The Vitra club would need to be allocated to the city so that it blends in with city night life.
A3 Expressive montage:
REFERENCES:
http://news.architecture.sk/2006/08/sage-music-art-gallery-modern.php
http://www.busyboo.com/2007/12/11/dynamic-architecture-design/
http://www.chatfield.k12.mn.us/
http://www.egypt21.blogspot.com/
http://www.architecturesdesign.com/search/dutch+landscape
WEEK09 - 3D MODELLING ,PHOTO COMPARISONS & CASE STUDY
----------CASE STUDY---------
Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently celebrated a decade of extraordinary success on October 19, 2007. With close to ninety exhibitions and over ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao forever changed the way the world thinks about museums, and it continues to challenge our assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a collection of interconnected blocks housing galleries, an auditorium, a restaurant, a museum store and administrative offices. These buildings have as their central focus a single architectural composition. With its towering roof, which is reminiscent of a metallic flower, the museum will enliven the riverfront and serve as a spectacular gateway to the city.
From the beginning, the architecture of the building that would eventually house the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was recognized as a decisive factor in making the project the international landmark of artistic excellence it was designed to be. This approach continued the tradition begun by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation when it commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the original museum on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Frank O. Gehry was entrusted with the task of designing the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, largely because his conceptions reflected the project's enormous potential by integrating the building into the fabric of the city of Bilbao and into its ongoing urban regeneration plan.
Gehry’s huge sculpture-like building is fashioned from a surprising array of materials and endowed with an extraordinary, unmistakable silhouette. Under the apparent chaos caused by the juxtaposition of fragmented volumes with regular forms finished in stone, curved forms covered with titanium and huge glass walls, the building revolves around a central axis, the atrium, a monumentally empty space crowned by a metal dome. Daylight floods in through the glass walls and the skylight set high up in the dome. Leading off from this central space, a system of curved walkways, glass lifts and stairways connect 19 galleries that combine classical, rectangular spaces with others of unusual proportions and forms. The wealth and variety of spaces makes the museum exceptionally versatile. The notion of the collection as encyclopaedic overview is reflected in the chronological distribution of the works in rectangular galleries housed in the regular, stone-covered volumes. This overview is complemented by the in-depth spaces devoted to specific artists, for whose work 9 galleries of special forms and spectacular dimensions are reserved in the titanium-finished volumes. Temporary exhibitions and large-format works are housed in an exceptional, 30 metre wide gallery which stretches along nearly 130 metres of column-free space located in the impressive volume that runs under the imposing La Salve bridge. This space culminates in a tower which integrates the bridge itself into the intersection of volumes that configure the building.
REFERENCES:
FROM Paul Catermole with Ian Westwell. BIZZARE BUILDINGS. p12-14.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Guggenheim_Bilbao.html/cid_bilbao_004.html
http://www.bm30.es/homegug_uk.html
http://www.guggenheim.org/bilbao
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/guggenheim-museum-bilbao-landmark.htm
http://www.students.sbc.edu/muglia07/arthsrsem/GNYfloorplan.gif
GROUP WORK MODELLING IN REVIT:
EXTERIOR PHOTO COMPARISON:
ORIGINAL IMAGE
RENDERED IMAGEINTERIOR PHOTO COMPARISON
ORIGINAL IMAGE
RENDERED IMAGEThursday, September 17, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
A2 2.5D AND INTERACTIVE POSTER_FINAL
The poster above is my final 2.5D poster for assignment 1, showing all the information on it but having the 3D model area blank.--------------------------------------------------
The poster above is my final 2.5D interactive poster for assignment 1, showing all the information on it, and having an animation where the the 3D model is placed, but as i could not include it in the image i've uploaded the video seperately.
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