- DESIGN 3 / INDA International Program / Chulalongkorn faculty of architecure / BANGKOK - The studio follows the general brief and schedule given to all second year students.
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20110930
Pimmy's concept and presentation
20110929
question
20110928
review.... postponed to Tuesday
PRINT for Friday's tutorial (not necessarily concept and research pages) but all new drawings. (even in progress)
Drawings should now be at scale 1/50.
We will work on them on paper.
Plug, here is the plug-in you will need:
http://blog.rhino3d.com/2008/09/rhino-membrane-released.html
and tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDowdjdrqHA
good luck! it's quite exciting...!
20110927
Yes - in your case, the scale can be smaller - BUT
you need to detail the structure and material at scale 1/50 (on the plate related to structure for example).
A specific level of detail comes with each scale and everyone should have documents at 1/50 (even if only partial).
You need to make proper plates for all documents.
Layout plans, sections, elevations and axos with name of the view, scale, orientation, plus all information necessary to understand your drawings.
AND, you need to have the context (choose what to show in relation to your project) on the drawings and eventually people, activities, animals, vegetation etc.
This is required for EVERYONE (each in a specific manner, depending on your project).
HERE for example, a very nice way to present your sketchbook.
scale of model
For the plan elevation and section
do we need to format it like our conceptual board with boarder and title
or just print it out separately to scale.
And for Me and Tyre case, can we print it in 1:100 scale as well as our physical model
because if it were to be 1:50, our paper would be 2.5 metres long. each
:D
Thank youuu
Dream
20110926
question - InDesign
Also, for the radius map, I tried saving the file from photoshop in jpeg, then opened it in InDesign but the image is pixelated.
updates and questions
once again
You are walking down along Payathai Road. Before you, piling up six metres from the footpath, stands a heap of concrete blocks. Beyond them you see a bridge with the crumpled -paper-like surface. Glass panes, pieces of mirror and fragments of concrete are randomly placed at different angles forming the structure, on which either the sky is reflected or the glimpse of the other side of the transparent glass can be seen. The stairs at the four corners of the structure give the impression of tubes that poke into the central space. Right at your feet is a stair with an extraordinary orientation. Its steps are around the shape of the enclosed space. Some steps are at the position of the openings on the wall and they reposition the openings to the ceiling. You move through the space while observing the surrounding through the openings at different angles.
Along the walkway, you are now under the crumpled-paper-shelter and again, like the outside, different views are seen at different angles. The same spots of the sky are seen, as far as you could remember. Like the sky exists on its surface. However, what you saw through the glass from the outside has now become the reflection of the interior space. You haven’t seen the outside at the south yet but expect the same effect.
You can see the narrow exit at the far end while moving southward. It gradually expands as you go down and, by the time you reach the ground again, its width has doubled
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If you were to walk back the same way you have passed: entering the expanding stair to exit from the rotating one. Apparently, the width would keep shrinking along the way up. The route would be familiar to you and you would see similar views, but different angles from what you have just seen. However, the feature that would get your mind bewildered now is the size of the panes above your head that is getting smaller and smaller while directing your way to the exit.
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Another stair at the westward exit, which is not the one you have used, consists of a series of unequal steps. You would be given the freedom to choose your own path. The width and height of the steps vary without a definite pattern as if you were to climb up a rocky hill.
On the bridge, it provides you with various views through different mediums which are different in shape and size. Towards the end of the walk, you come to realize that the bridge and its stair share a similarity about the inequality of their elements despite their appearances.
The exit leads you to the South whose exit is a stair with a different material from others, excluding the steps, the rest are made of glass just like those panes on the bridge. It allows you to see the surroundings of the bridge as you are walking down before you come to realize that what reflected on it is yourself and the surrounding at the outside.
At night it goes another way round. Throughout the walkway with lights on, your endless, uncountable reflections appear on both side along the forever-expanding width of the stair. On the bridge it is no different: those spaces through which you have seen the outside now reflect thousands, perhaps more, of the You who stand there, staring aimlessly.
20110925
COLOURS!
The (hopefully) last draft!
After my desk crit with ajarn Komthat, he suggested me with the idea of the stealth air plane, having many edges on its surface to weaken down the radar signal. It can be adapted to use with my idea of seeing and hiding by creating such a surface with using different materials like reflection mirror panes, transparent mirrors, glass panes and concrete as I have thought about. So here is my new scenarios :
You are walking down Payathai road and ahead of you is a stack of concrete blocks which would bring 6 meters up above the ground. In your sight now is a bridge with a crumpled -paper-like surface . At some point, it reflects the sky, where at some other you see through the glass. Glass panes, mirror and concrete are randomly placed at different angles to form the structure. Stairs at the four sides are tubes that poke into this space. Ahead of you is a stair with an extraordinary orientation. Its steps are around the shape of the enclosed space. Some steps are at the position of the openings on the wall and they reposition the openings to the ceiling. You move through the space while observing the surrounding through the openings at different angles.
Along the walkway on the bridge, you are now covered in the crumpled paper shelter and again, alike the outside, different views are seen at different angles. Sky is still seen at the spots it was reflected as far as you could remember. Like the sky exists on its surface. However, where you saw through at the outside, they are reflecting the inside now. You did not experience seeing the outside at the south yet but expect it to be similar.
Upon your way down is a narrow exit, situated towards the South. It expands as you move down and at the last step to the ground, it doubles the width.
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If you are to walk back the same way you have gone through, entering the expanding stair to exit the rotating one. Apparently, now the width keeps shrinking along the way up. The route is familiar to you and you remember seeing the sky.
When you are moving to another side, you see similar views at different angle from the time you walked from another side. However, the feature that mingles your mind now is the size of the panes above your head that is getting smaller and smaller while directing your way to the exit.
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On the West side, another stair, apart from the one you used as the exit, consists of a series of unequal steps. You are given the freedom to choose your own path along the way. The width and height of the steps vary without a format like you are climbing up a rocky hill.
On the bridge, it provides you with various views through different mediums which are different in shape and size. Towards the end of the walk, you come to realize that the bridge and its stair share a similarity despite their appearances.
The exit leads you to the South, it is now a stair with different material from any other. Apart from the steps, they are made out of glass, similar to those on the bridge. It allows you to see the surroundings as you are walking down before coming to realize that it reflects you and the surrounding at the outside.
When at night comes, it goes another way round. Like having x-ray eyes, you see through the mirrors that reflected you earlier. Along the walkway with lights on, your reflections appear on both side with the never-ending width of the stair, so does the multiply of you. It is no different on the bridge either, through those spaces that you saw the outside, they are replaced with your reflection.
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Drawings and others will come afterwards. I think by doing it this way, the bridge can provide different impressions for users from different directions as I have suggested to you earlier. For the rotating stair, I think I prefer to keep it a steady one because what I want from it is just the illusion of moving. My experiment with the "going down when actually going up" stair was not very successful. It is qutie convincing in 2D but not really in 3D.
20110923
Pimmy's experiment
20110922
Updated draft
20110921
tutorials back on usual track...?
I have understood that most of you actually prefer to keep the tutorials on Saturday in order to produce more work.
That's totally ok with me. Please confirm now and make a list
from 1 to 5pm - 20 minutes each.
Merci!
20110920
draft
You are walking down Payathai road, towards Samyarn. Looking to the West is another side of the road where your destination lies. Ahead of you is a stack of concrete blocks which would bring you up 6 metres above the ground. From a distant, you are wondering how this rotating walkway would lead you up to the floating platform. After a few steps, it moves 50 centimeters to the left. The steps lie on wall where openings were and openings move up to position on the ceiling. The sequence last until the very last step where a revolution is nicely completed. Along the way up, ascending view of the surrounding is observed through vertical stripes without concrete filled.
As you were approaching the bridge, it appeared to you as a mega structure blocking the view across the other side with giant pieces of reflected mirrors that reflect things behind you back into your sight again. Along the walkway overhead the roads, the attention is threw to the another end where the path to the destination lies. Appearing to be an enclosed space from the outside, the inside provides the view as far as your eyes can reach. The mirrors reflect all the surrounding view that it blocks outside to the inside, the eye level changes unpredictably as if you are on the back of a flying pigeon that is moving up and down . The things you see are banal but kind of extraordinary with the illusions that the bridge creates to the surrounding through the reflection. Upon your way down , on the left, there lies a narrow way down which constantly expands towards the ground. On the right is a slope of unequal steps with its shelter that seems to be its cut off piece. It depends on how you would want to lead your way up and down the way.
20110918
next friday - invitation to a 4th year review
Free shuttle van from code, KMUTT (graduate program) at BTS Sathorn.
It leaves at 11:10, 11:40, 12:10, 12:40 (30 minutes ride to BKT).
Taxi is around 200 Bath...
This said, i completely understand of you prefer to work on your project!
Tutorials will be on Saturday 24th, from 1 to 5 pm - at TCDC
20110916
20110915
review comments
-we will now start working intensively on the book - the book is your project!
remember the reference given by Lara, Victims, a work by John Hejduk - he also wrote a book (collection of poems) entitled Such places as memory
-continue working on your drawings - keep their simplicity but now they should be detailed and very precise!
also consider your project in plan, and the boundaries between the different parts - do you want such strong ruptures??
-the book should mix texts - short fictions - poems? and drawings... start experimenting with this
- finally continue developing your models and devices but think about your story(ies) - it would be much better to be inspired by Edgar Allan Poe than by Jules Vernes - don't you think?
Tyre
Simply put yourself to work! or the rest of the semester will be very difficult-
If you have real issues with the work we can discuss them tomorrow.
Prompt
great presentation!!
Now you have to start designing this roof structure, "as the plants want it to be".
Even the interesting geometry of the leaves' cells looked at the microscope (look at voronoi diagrams) follow "pure" geometric rules that are then being perverted by the plant's reactions to the environment during its growth. Research more on that subject!
In your case the geometry has might first be serving structural purposes (for the roof), then could allow deformations according to the growth of the plants.
Continue working on the "implantation" plan, then on your gardening tools (nutrients, sun etc.) and their strategies. All this according to the factor time (which really needs to be represented).
Dream
the politics of movement? maybe poiesis?...
Since your concern has always been very political, it would be fantastic to develop a real project, based on your mature understanding of the forces behind Bangkok urban policies. What can be your strategy, and your action?
You really need to understand the failure of the Pink Bicycle.
maybe look at artists such as Genral Idea
Plug
Start working on those models!!! get the book Magic Patterns and begin your work now.
Your sketchbook is full of little treasures, they need to come out and take shape!
And now is the time!
Refine your design strategy according to your main concept, you might consider keeping the bridge, and creating clothes for it (wouldn't it make more sense?) - unless you are ready to develop a whole new structural system as well ?? It se(a)ms much more interesting to keep the bridge, and transform the way we perceive it through creating pret-a-porter or haute-couture garments especially for it... have fun with models!
Marc
Articulate your 2 concepts and you need to understand vernacular architecture (get the book we talked about: Architecture without architects by B. Rudovsky + a lot of references on thefunambulist - see older pages as well).
You need to redefine your idea of communication in this project. You could be much more abstract and adventurous in ideas!
If you cannot do it now, so focus on the vernacular idea (finish modelling all found objects, making a well organized and precise catalogue +, very important now, start playing with those materials and shapes in rhino, cut them, assemble them etc.)
You will later on be able to think about what this is all communicating about the faculty.
A
Look at the work of OMA Rem Koolhaas - especially the written work and the diagrams.
I think you should also start questioning the boundary between art and architecture. Write your ideas on this subject.
Lebbeus Woods works consists also of a lot of texts- see on his blog. http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/
Keep on developing your project through refined and more an more spatial diagrams, and in parallel, by making more and more models, purely intuitively, then trying them at different scales.
This process will be super interesting!
Pimmy
The articulation between your work on structure and the circulation and interaction of people seems finally to appear!
Look at the great table by Junya Ishigami - and get the book Why buildings stand up.
- look also at suspended bridges -
Keep experimenting with the existing structure, dismantling and weakening it - basically modifying completely its structural principle in order to have it rely on the presence of people (+ changes if 2 or 3, and depending on their possible encounters...).
The structure of the bridge is dependent on the people walking on it - but also - the movements and reactions of the people taking the bridge are dependent on the structure of the bridge.
this is the relation you have to work on.
Pae
Your project is a device first (of which the purpose still needs to be refined) and secondly a bridge!
The way it is also a bridge has to be thought about carefully, i don't think it can be by default or accident - it has to be something! maybe in relation to the device....
You are working on the idea of the perception of time and its varying length and duration according to our days - twilight and dawn are very interesting and inspiring moments of the day
Think about the misplacement and the change in perception you can operate while giving time...
Also it is a good idea to research on the symbolic of time and clocks in institutions.
tip: To test all your models, you need to make one with the arch of the sun at this precise location (with a lamp fixed to it that can travel along the arch as the sun would)
Jun
As we all agreed, you need to refine your position on this new brief you have discovered/created.
What is your frame? a competition? a collaboration with the engineers working on the monorail? an alternative? (then the whole system has to be thought) a counter-project? an anticipation of the future? of a failed future? an exaggerated one? a dreamed one? etc.
Keep on working on those small models of different approaches to the design. They are very useful to understand your different approaches.
20110914
20110913
additional to concept
20110912
Noc's bridge scenarios
As you are walking down Payathai road on the east side , a few metres apart from the gate of Trium Udom School, there lies a very tall overhead bridge unlike any other you have seen and used before. You walk up on tiny steps to get to the height of 6 metres above the ground. The width of the walkway is large enough for six people to walk in a role without banging on one another. You are directing yourself to the left exit of the bridge over the other side. While you are walking along the way, you thought you have come many more metres higher. You are seeing the Bangkok city view at the point where a flying-low little bird sees. Now the questioning about the tallness of the bridge is answered. You took this divert route earlier today, you got up and down the same kind of stairs but you did not know why the ceiling needs to be so high. The fascinating view did not come through your eyes, you experienced something else while you know you are on the very same bridge.
Another stairs on the east side locates just a few steps away from the Chulalongkorn University's gate. It looks totally unlike the one opposite. The stairs play with your eyes and mind, the illusion on each step makes you feel like you are walking down while you are climbing out and vice versa for the users who are walking down. Your way down this time is on the right over the road. That stairs play with you again, it looks so unique with its unequal steps and its shelter which seems to be the cut-off piece from the stairs. If you have never taken another two stairs, you must have wondered how they would be like. Now, it provides you with uncountable ways to reach the ground, you are left to decide for yourself weather which is going to be your next step. It is not playing with you alone, you make it your toy too. It welcomes multi-players and each time to play, it will never be the same.
On the way up with this unequal steps, it is more fun than stepping down. When looking down on it from above, it is just a series of concrete blocks with varying height. On the other hand, there lie missive pieces of concrete when seeing from the ground. You may play with them, but choose thoughtfully which path will be the best for you and to add a little more for them to do, each different step is indicated with the amount of calories burn. So you can decide how each interaction of you with the stairs will result to.
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There'll be more and edited. Right now, I'm still unsure with my approach to another view from the bridge.
20110910
review...
for the coming review, prepare:
- analysis and personal approach to the given site
- concept and references
- sketches (hand or mouse)
- researches / material / structure / ...
- first drawings (scale 1/100) and renderings of your design in progress
- study models
- model at 1/100
This can vary depending on your project (as discussed individually today).
interesting fashion designers for Plug
http://www.husseinchalayan.com/#/home/
http://www.maisonmartinmargiela.com/
http://www.alexandermcqueen.com/
http://www.viktor-rolf.com/index.htm
tutorial offer - IN DESIGN & ILLUSTRATOR
Let us know if you are interested and what time will suit you best.
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20110908
20110907
references
I recommend that you have a look at the great work of the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister.
And i have a question for you... what are you currently using to compose your plates? do you know how to use Adobe InDesign? would you like to have a tutorial?
You should all be starting 3d modelling now - i recommend Rhino (take the tuesday class! it will help you A LOT)
Pimmy
structural experimentations by
Frei Otto
Buckminster Fuller
eccentric structures in architecture - a book which will interest you
Robert Maillart bridges also
For a building technology , i would recommend fiber glass to you
reminding the Royal Albert bridge, with a contemporary strategy - Mutsuro Sasaki's work (engineer)
innovative structure group
Prompt
It might be interesting for you to explore the relationship between nature's growth and (sacred) geometry.
Here for an introduction.
+absolutely fantastic drawings by Macoto Murayama - example s
also - a naturally optimized 3d truss!
Maybe you will like to read On growth and form by d'Arcy W Thompson.
Dream
Santiago Calatrava
Green Gorgon by R&Sie
a great korean idea - the bike hanger
also, have a look at velodrome designs
and formula 1 circuits within cities
+ a few other examples, more or less successful
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/05/01/danish-pavilion-at-shanghai-expo-2010-by-big/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/27/nanhe-river-landscape-bridge-by-wxy-architecture/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/30/melkwegbridge-by-next-architects-and-rietveld-landscape/
urban design presentation (maybe inspiring) http://www.archdaily.com/category/urban-design/page/5/
that will be it for now!...
A
About stairs.. have a look at this Why Don’t We Do It On The Stairs?’ / Re-Make Re-Model
bodies in movement/space bu William Forsythe - http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/
Marc
(in case) http://superuse.org/ & recycled toy furniture by Greg Lynn
a DETAIL issue on recycling and architecture - order it maybe?
other examples - this one really amazing made with beer crates
make your catalogue!!
Pae
more observatories
a good study of Jantar Mantar
Jun
Have a look at the monorail in the film Fahrenheit 451 by Truffaut! maybe a good idea to propose a new monorail as wel...
And please post your research on the blog! Aj. Fredrik is very curious about it.
20110906
20110905
20110903
Pae's new proposal
To all, a reminder for next tutorial:
- NAME of project
- layout and design of A2s
- PRINT FOR TUTORIALS (smaller than A2 for now...)
- study models + sketches (for both, all media accepted!, computer/manual/collage/montage/pencil/charcoal/ink/oil/threads/origami/wax/resin/etc.)
+ individual tasks as discussed yesterday
(ref for Plug / shelter / idea for cloth and architecture / search more!
and for Noc, a very interesting artist, Vik Muniz (i could not remember his name during the tutorial!) + really, get the book Fictions by Borges)
... interesting interview about High Line project
The final is in 3 weeks - start hyper-production now!
20110902
Proposal and site analysis
project -
20110901
Question
What do you mean by 'passive energy production'
I have googled it and there seems to be nothing on it ( as far as I'm concerned)
Is it the same thing as 'passive solar energy'?
I don't think you have covered this topic during the comment section of the review
Regards,