comments from the review

Dears,


Although you should all from now on take your own notes during reviews (or ask a friend to take them for you, or again record your session in order to analyze it later),
 i will for this time give you a summary of what you have to improve and in some cases, ideas on how to move forward:





Prompt
- the way you present should now be accorded to your interests
- work on the idea of growth and its multiple interpretations and aspects
- inter-connectedness (networks, roots etc.)
- further study of these trees and parasites behaviors
- more case studies--- explore the blog thefunambulist and search accordingly

A
- more information on the radius map! ZOOM IN and enlarge - be more curious and exploring!
- from now on, relate your investigations to your theme (art production and display in Bangkok)
- all ways of moving/seeing/interacting on and around the bridge could be envisaged
- make better and specific use of your case studies (more research is needed in relation to your topic)

Pimmy
- yes it would be interesting to develop a project through structural experiments but you have to explore the possibilities through their meaning and implications (individual, urban, social, political... levels)
- think also of processes of construction (and deconstruction in our case!)
look for example at the Sagrada Familia by Gaudi in Barcelona (research)
- translation and manifestation of ideas into structures and (de)construction processes

Jul
- you are being way too shy and reserved when presenting your ideas!
- get more info on the monorail - contact the official company in charge if needed! - we need to know their plan for the station etc. - pursue your research
- interaction/influences/conflicts... between the monorail and your bridge project should be explored
- a science fiction project? ... write down and draw your scenario

Mark
- what does "vernacular" mean?
- idem for "sustainable", historical, educational, commercial ... (really try to give your answer, your point of view)
- draw, write, model ... the blurred vision you seem to have - even (and especially if its manifestations appear to be contradictory)
- what about providing space for spontaneity? for uselessness?

Dream
- map out Bangkok bicycle
- what could be your appropriate site? how far could you influence the city and citizens?
- passive energies production?

Plug
- architecture can be seen as an extension of our bodies, the same way as clothing is a protection (and much more since it then merges into becoming an identity, a social code etc.)
- look at the work of Philippe Rahm architects (climate-based), especially the way they represent wind, temperature, humidity, smells ...
- here you seem to be interested in the idea of SKIN - if so, go further - look at architecture using fabrics - at fashion design and its technologies
- to complete your site analysis also, observe people clothing here, the way they react and adapt when it starts raining, being super sunny or other climatic phenomenon - document all this precisely

Pay
- swiss-army knife... other analogy maybe? find your own inspirations
- what programs/activities can you here propose? (a lot!)
- think about the possibilities of having different states of the bridge through time (hours, day/night, seasons, holidays etc.)

Tyre
- you need to improve your diagrams and have them fit the data and subject you are talking about!
- why an X-shape? from where(s) to where(s)?
- circulation and suspension - relation between those two concepts? how does a structural system influence your proposal? what are its advantages? what else could you use?
- shorcuts is an interesting idea --- what are shortcuts?
- what are the existing networks and structures you can link your proposal to?

Noc
- where is the rest of your research gone? as we discussed before, you do not have to use it but think about it again... would you be able to draw something out of it? i am sure it can somehow help you
- you still have 2 main topics: view and movement - how can they relate and work together?
- have you ever heard about the idea of a cinematic architectural promenade? look at cinema vocabulary and way of thinking about space and time
Maybe you would be interested in Eisenstein's writings about montage and architecture  - find your own interpretation of course!




Aj B mentioned it during the review, a reading is assigned to you for this semester, 
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Please get the book and start reading it - select a few stories (one or several) that particularly interest you.


We will be able to discuss them in tutorials - Friday or next week.
Ultimately, they will help you writing the scenario of your project.




Best of luck!

Site analysis : chulalongkorn university history

A picture of Chamchuri 1 building. Estimately before 1960. It shows the existence of the street isle and 3 car lanes, these indicate that there was a renovation of the road by shortening the street isle to create more lanes.( 4 lanes each side in the present)

This picture shows the existence of the bridge without roof and another two bridges.

Case Study : LuPu Bridge

Structure analysis

Site analysis : Public transports

Prompt Udomdech

site analysis - circulation

The Sinous Pythonbrug

Marc's case study "Python Bridge"

History of Phaya Thai Road (First Draft)

Project Zero

As the world population has been increasing, the way we perceive things is so limited that we somehow overlook the reality or what has been happening to the world in the mean time. We should rebel our mind and take a deeper look into other people's lives because our perception of reality is not adequate to deal with the global problems of the overpopulated world nowadays.

This collage portrays the aspect of the problem with an emphasis on African society that most people often overlook. Aid has not been provided enough in order to help them suffer less. The red water in the cracked earth represents water scarcity and also blood from the killing. The cloud made of umbrellas, rather than providing protection, is firing out bullets in depiction of the war. The healthcare helicopters are not giving enough aid save lives of diseased children. Poverty is illustrated as a man trying to catch a money butterfly as they're flying away.

Case Study: London Millennium Footbridge

Prompt's Case study and further research

"The Living Bridge"

Started constructing by "The War-Khasis" which is one of a tribe in Meghalaya in India.

At least 500 years old now.

Considered to be one of the most sustainable bridge of all.

What I am interested in this bridge is that this bridge itself is living.

This means that it is now growing, bigger and bigger overtime, strengthen itself which makes it very strong.

The "Rubber Tree" is the main construction of this bridge

Scientific name : Ficus Elastica

Native to northest India and Southern Indonisia.

The same specie can also be found in Thailand, but will not be as strong as the above.

In wilderness, this kind of tree can reach up to 60 metres tall, with the stout trunk up to 2 metres diameter.

Prompt Udomdech

Royal Albert Bridge

Pimmy's case study, the Royal Albert bridge.

help for diagrams and presentation of information (in a personal manner!)

Do not forget what you learned last year...!

lecture 01
lecture 02 - diagram/mapping (remember the mind maps)
+ copy of the great Envisioning Information by Tufte

man on wire

Probably still the best bridge ever created....

Philippe Petit walking in the air between the Twin Towers of NYC in august 1974.

See about it the great fiction-documentary Man On Wire.

Work hard for our first review!! We might have a guest critique coming for you.....
good luck to all

world bridge case study

World Bridge Case Study

Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany

It is located Hohenwarthe near the town of Magdeburg, Germany, which was designed by Ingenieurburo Grassel GmbH Beratende Ingenieue Bauwesen and HRA Bochum for responsible engineer. The construction started in 1997 and taking 6 years to complete, aiming to connect Elbe-Havel canal and Mittellandkanal by crossing over the Elbe-Havel. The bridge is known as the longest aqueduct, which now connects Berlin’s island harbor network with ports along the Rhine River.

Previously, the opposite side of the Elbe River was a meeting place where these two rivers join, where it has a lower elevation level. The idea of creating this bridge is to reduce time and distance from crossing the river, instead of 12 kilometers to 918 meters. Also avoiding unreliable passage along the rivers when low water level occurs. With these 918 meters in length, 34 meters wide, and 4.25 deep; the bridge is capable of carrying 1350 metric tons. The bridge was constructed as truss bridge where mainly use 24,000 tons of steel and 68,000 meters cube for the concrete piers. The force and bearing load of the water depends on the speed of the boat and water is distributing the load by its flowing.

The Helix Bridge, Singapore

The Helix Bridge is a pedestrian bridge that links Marina Center with Marina South in Marina Bay area in Singapore. It is located beside the Benjamin Sheares Bridge, which also accompanied by a vehicle Bayfront Bridge, where they connects at its mid-point; also having Singapore’s first art park, the Youth Olympic Park, at its entrance as well. It is expected to link cultural, recreational, entertainment facilities all together. This helix shaped bridge was designed by comprising Australian architects, The Cox Group, and engineer, Arup; also Singapore based architects 61. The Collaboration of Sato Kogyo Pte Ltd and TTJ design and Engineering Pte Ltd took the construction and completed it in 2 years.

The concept of the bridge came from a desire in creating curved plan bridge which having it sweeps down onto promenades either side. Within 280 meters long, steel tubes were used to form both major and minor helixes; crossing over each other in opposite direction. Many canopies, made of fritted-glass and perforated steel mesh, are incorporated along inner spiral parts providing shades to pedestrians. Additionally, arranging all steel tubes that were used would create a 2,25, meters of straighten steel. This pedestrian bridge provides 5 viewing platforms sited at strategic locations providing amazing visions of the Singapore’s skyline and also events in Marina Bay.

At nighttime, the bridge will be lighted up by series of light that highlight the double-helix structure, giving special visual experience to audiences. Also pairs of colored letter C, G and A, T will be lit up in red and green; which each letter represents 4 bases of DNA: Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine, and Thymine. Moreover, the Helix Bridge was mentioned as ‘life-giving’ and ‘sustainability’ because of organic design of multiple connection joints, the use of stainless steel, and an utility of steel which is five time less steel than a conventional box girder bridge. Therefore, these facts give an impression to Singapore as ‘green walking city’. Helix Bridge design won the winner place of the World Architecture Festival 2010

QUESTION

Does the presentation this thursday includes a personal research on 'other pedestrian bridge i Bangkok' ?

The Little People ; A Collage . Dream

The Little People ; A Collage

New Version ; After the Critique

Poverty is one of the major social problems most countries in the world

are facing. It is one of the most important and sensitive issue not only

for ourself but for the whole world. Poverty can cause other social problems

like thelf, bribe, corruption, adultery, lawlessness, and injustice.

I believed that the reason behind a lot of major riots around the world

up to and including the most recent one, the London Riots happened because

of poverty, because these people sufferes

from poverty, from starvation. They cannot fullfill their basic needs

in the other word, clothing food and shelter.

Therefore, the only things that they can do is to strike back.

One or to people can cause burglary and the other form of social

problems mentioned above.

But when hundreds of people get together, it is a whole new level.

This collage is to portrait we, as part of in the society is ignorant of the social problems

that is happening is this current time because we do not think that it will effect us.

I think that we DONOT understand the matter and tackled this problems

in a totally wrong approach.

BEEs represent the little people, people suffering from poverty and their characteristics.

This people are like bees because they are hard working and they are humble

but yet when they needs to defend themselves, to save their families and their community,

they do not have any other choices but to attack and sting eventhough they would died.

Also the reason these people are represented with bees is to show

that people in the society i.e. those legs might think that they are stepping on the little people

but yet they can be stepping on something so dangerous.

LEGS represent us and people in the society. They were all facing the same direction

to represent how people are so selfish and they

only cared about their journey and they were hunger for the destination

and what is there. They do not care about what and who is along the way.

CRACKs portrait that each steps that they tooked crack the floor to represents how they

are destroying their country by being ignorant and neglected the social

problems because they donot think that it would effect them

The BACKGROUND is a strips of pictures of NICE ACCOMADATIONS, HOSPITALS,

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES and OFFICE BUILDING which represents things that

the little people or in the other word, people sufferings from poverty

do not have access to. These are what segregate the so called BIG people

and these people apart. Illiteracy, WORK status, Hospital access, and HOUSE

FIRE represent the rage of the people and things that they are capable of doing.

SMOKE means that eventhough the fire cause might not

effect the bigger people, the smokes would

rise and this says that the bigger people will be effected one way or another.

We cant expected to individually fan the smokes away from us and expect to have clear air.

Or put out the fire and expected it not to be started again.

We cannot expected to individually fan the smokes away from us and expect to have clear air.

Or put out the fire and expected it not to be started again.

These raged riots cannot come to and end unless we look into the matter

of poverty seriously.

We cannot control it by enrolling thousands of police men.

Riots, thelf and social problems mentioned previously cannot come ot an

end through tight legislation but by demolishing poverty.

moving forward + pin-up next Tuesday

Dears!

We had a meeting yesterday and decided on a group pin-up on next Tuesday.

For this pin-up you should aim to present the personal direction you are willing to pursue for the design of the bridge.
You have to continue collecting information, but from now on you need to be strategic.
We will discuss on Friday your argument (=  the way you understand and react to the given brief and site, as well as your personal interests and references, the way you would like to pursue).


For the review on Tuesday, we should be able to understand that
- you have a broad understanding of the site and are able to identify a situation,
- and that from that particular situation, you are willing to develop a specific project according to a concept (argument or idea) that you will have to explain and show.



There is no logical objective way to move from an analysis, and as a matter of fact what we call analyzing is already subjective and already includes personal involvement, projection and thus what we usually call design.
What you choose to look at, the way you choose to look at it and the way you present this information are your first steps into discovering your point of view, your argument and the direction you will take.
It is important now that you become aware of this.

Now, consider what everybody has been researching on, remember and write (for yourself) your first impressions on the given brief, as well as the reference projects you chose to study, and the way you studied them.
All this, well articulated, should give you a very strong basis in order to start the actual process of designing.
We will discuss this on Friday in individual tutorials.

The lipstick head in tuxedo symbolises female and coloured skin people as leaders. The World map falling off the edge represents the condition of our Earth that is not going to become positive. Crowd of hands say about people who seem to be helping to improve the world situations while the two hands that are trying to gap the map represents people who are really helping but it is not enough to make the condition better.Characters and letters of languages forming the map implies about globalisation and also mixed-culture. Cracks in individual letters expresses about local unrest. Heads at the bottom suggests about people to choose to ignore about what is going on in the World and see the world falling off without any feeling and a head up says about the percentage of the world population that seem to care. Grey background at the top expresses about the past that we are full of regret of our actions to the world.

Jun Collage

what seem to be a very big problem for us now is a continually growing of human population and in there future, there wouldn't be enough natural resources for all of us. There are 7billion people all around the world who share and use natural resources together. In the year 2010-2011, global production is expected to be not enough for global consumption. Soon enough, people will have to pay more for natural resources and might fight for it in the future. WIthout knowing, while people are reaching for natural resources, they are also creating trash and pollution to the environment. So, they are reaching for both resources and pollution.

Dream collage; The Little People

http://fromthedraftingtable-withlove.blogspot.com/2011/08/little-people-collage.html

;D

Deep Ecology Summary by Plug

          With too many global problems occurring around our world, all of the crisis are recognized by people as entirely different issues. But the more we learned about the problems, the fact that they are interconnected and somehow are influencing one another is undeniable. The new way of perception, or the new paradigm suggests the idea of the existed "links" which connect between everything in the world. For example, poverty is the consequence of the raising of human population, and more. It's crucial for us to have a radical change in our perception and also our way of questioning the world. 

          We as well as scientist, philosophy determine science the rules of reality and thus cannot be changed. The change of Physics laws in Newton era gave birth to many new reality and thus challenged the fact. We have to accept the new way of seeing and paradigm to see the new possibility to all solutions.

          The new paradigm includes the terms holistic and ecological. Holistic worldview places human above all elements in the environment, shortly, human centered. The ecological worldview appreciates all values in the environmental at the same level, perceiving human as one of its network.

          Ecofeminism states the dominated condition not only that of the women, taken as lower position than men, but also that of every class, and society. The new way of seeing suggests to reconsider the old organization formed by the leaders with old perception.The ideal society in which everybody have the equal rights and opportunity can be achieved by the shifting our paradigm.

          

Prompt's collage remake

Prompt's Project Zero : Remake

Title : Sorry...

This collage is under the concept that no matter what happens in the political issues [all those fights between countries, people] that we received into our mind; the one who really lost, is this country itself.

Prompt Udomdech 5334766425

Deep Ecology Summary - Mark

This article presents a new branch of study called Deep Ecology. According to Dr. Capra, deep ecology is different from shallow ecology because it does not separate humans or anything else from the nature environment; “It sees the world not as a collection of isolated objects, but as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent.” Capra suggests that perhaps the atom is not only composed of electrical particles but also a “soul” since it “cannot be weighted or measured in accepted ways.” Later, scientists such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and more help to overcome the assumption against the revolutionary concepts that resulted in “The Paradigm Shift” in Capra’s term. The overly intelligence words scientists use to explain the revolutionary concepts are later made understandable to common man; which has impacted everyone through the increasing environmental practices of recycling and conservation. Furthermore, Capra also links diverse elements in a complex world through the idea called “web of life”; he notes that less advanced brothers are helped in their evolutionary journeys by the higher evolved brother although the help may not be noticed. This supports the ancient saying that “Nature unaided fails.” It points out the ways like good teachers do and then it’s up to the learners to make the progress. In this model of the new reality, women are also brought into attention. Women have the kind of power that can keep peace and harmony within a large society. They tend to emphasize the “heart doctrine” and men as the “head doctrine.” In the end, the definition of “life” remains indefinable because it always changes and progresses.

Deep Ecology Summary - Pimmy

For centuries, man has seen the world around him as something that should be controlled. A person is defined by the power he exerts over the society he lives in and by how much wealth he can accumulate. But, with an ever growing population and the world moving towards becoming a single community, rather than separating states, this model needs to be re-examined. Human existence needs to be viewed as working as part of a finely balanced system, rather than a fight to control it.

Most people view the world as an individual living within an individual society. Our actions are judged in, not fully define their impact on the world around us, and ‘success’ is failure to accept that all life is interrelated and interdependent. These traditional views are no longer sustainable.

Since the time of Newton, Science has been seen as a way of understanding, ordering and remoulding our world. We celebrate the sciences to suit our demands. Sciences are seen as logical and ‘right’. In current state, they may lead to the downfall of all species that populate this Earth.

Deep ecology seeks to work in harmony with the world around us and create a system that is sustainable in a world which is becoming more singular. It involves the coming together of various social, economic and psychological aspects. It requires a shift in how we view our own lives, our aspirations and the way that the world as a whole is perceived. 

For life on this planet to be sustained, we need to reject many of our current values and see each individual working as part of a caring system where selflessness is the only way to secure the existence and well-being of the individual. We need to create a world where destruction and domination need to be replaced by care and conservation.

Pimmy

bridges

Some references to begin with:

- the Rope Bridge by Gordon Matta-Clark  (even if you cannot find this particular project, it is more than crucial  and delightful to discover his work!)

- Scarpa's bridges in Venice

- Gustave Eiffel bridges (Porto for a realized example)

- the bridge of no-return between north and south Corea

- the Bridge Problem / 7 Bridges of Konigsberg, resolved by Euler

- Loophole by R&Sie

- Moses...

- diverse projects to connect Great Britain to the Continent (before Eurostar)

- the rotating bridges of Chicago (and other)

- Sergio Musmeci's fantastic structural work (also Pier Luigi Nervi)

- Chenonceau Bridge-Castle

- Millennium Bridge in front of the Tate Modern in London

- Tacoma Narrows bridge (and other mechanical resonance phenomena stories)

- Lowentor Pedestrian bridge

- etc.

See you all on Tuesday!
Don't forget to post your summaries before 1pm tomorrow.

Deep Ecology Summary - DREAM

In this current time, most people are buying the wrong, outdated idea of the world. They have failed to realise that major problems the world is facing are systemic problems, interconnected and interdependent , and are fragments of one intergrated crisis in which cannot be understood on its own. This will not be solve until a paradigm shift into an ‘ecological paradigm’ has occurs and people undergoes an utter change in thier perception, thinking and value.

Ecological Awareness is an acknowledgement of the earth-centred values rather than just a human-centred values. This can be break down into ‘shalow’ ecology which excludes humans from the narural environment and ‘deep’ ecology which recognises value of all living beings and views everything as one unified whole.

Additionally, social ecology and ecofeminism is also an important philosophical schools of ecology that addresses important aspects of the ecological paradigm. Social ecology is the acknowledgement of cultural characteristics and that patterns of social and economics structures along with their technologies are rooted in the ‘dominator system’ of social organisation, whereas ecofeminism views the men domination over woman as a prototype of all domination and is deliquently adopted in various hierarchical forms.

Thus, the shift of paradigms requires not only our changes in thinking but also values in a healthy and dynamically balanced way, it is less self-beneficial and therefore founded difficult by most people. Hence why its viewed most urgent to introduce an ‘ecoethical ethics’, a new systems of ethics related to the understanding of deep ecology that every lifes are connected, to the world especially to the science field. Unless the understanding of ecoethical ethics and a deep ecology paradigm shift has occurs, humans perception of the world can becomes life-threatening to all living beings on this planet in the end.

Deep Ecology Summary - Jun

Understanding the reality of a new world is what the author wants to imply to our modern society. Understanding the new world is to be able to accept the theory of seeing the world in a whole cannot which cannot be separated. People have studied about problems in this world and start to realize that they cannot look at the world as in isolated parts. The world we are living in is all connected. However, their politic leaders do not care about problems and fear to receive any fundamental changes from the new world because not only their thinking that has to be changed, but also their values. If changes were able to do so, we might be able to achieve a ‘sustainable’ world. So, a new paradigm or paradigm shift has been brought up to urge people to change their way of thinking and be able to accept any radical changes. The new paradigm can be seen as in two views, holistic view and ecological view. Holistic view sees the function as a whole and acknowledges all parts of the function. And for ecological view, author also introduces two more ways, deep ecology as a way to look at the world wholly and see humans as part of nature, and shallow ecology as humans being a center of all living beings. If people start to realize the importance of deep ecology, they would probably accept the radical changes and the equality of humans and nature.