- 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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help for diagrams and presentation of information (in a personal manner!)
lecture 01
lecture 02 - diagram/mapping (remember the mind maps)
+ copy of the great Envisioning Information by Tufte
man on wire
Work hard for our first review!! We might have a guest critique coming for you.....
good luck to all
20110826
world bridge case study

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
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QUESTION
The Little People ; A Collage . Dream


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moving forward + pin-up 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.
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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.
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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.
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Deep Ecology Summary by Plug
Prompt's collage remake
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
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Deep Ecology Summary - Pimmy
bridges
- 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.
Deep Ecology Summary - Pae
In this new century, there are several global problems, interconnected to each other, such as an overpopulated in world population, poverty, or extinction of animals and plants species. Those problems may be considered as a whole different causes and resolutions, but in fact, caused by mainly a problem which we called, a crisis of perception. Approximately fifty years, physicists and philosophers have been debated about this change in paradigm where, according to Thomas Kuhn, changes in paradigm occur in discontinuous and revolutionary breaks which so-called paradigm shifts
Not only in physics field where paradigm shifts occurred in twenty-five years ago, whereas they can be found in a much larger arena throughout the world; which is now to be concerned as a cultural transformations rather than physics itself. What is happening now is that the revolution of paradigm, for instance the view of human body as a machine or the achievement in technology growth, has shaped up our society for over decades and as well as influenced the rest of the world.
The new paradigm, generally, can be called either holistic or ecological worldview. However, ecological seems to be more applicable to the term since ecological sees things within how it functioned, as same as holistic, and addition to the effect on communities and environment. In deep ecology, according to Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosophers, it prioritizes human as same as other existence. Another characteristic is to question more, which considered as another kind of paradigm shifts as well. Within ecology schools, social ecology and ecofeminism schools seem to be interesting as well since social ecology does much more on cultural characteristic and patterns while ecofeminism concerns more on the context of patriarchy.
Moreover, even though expanding our perception is very important, however, having values is another necessarily aspect as well. In the past patriarchy in society plays a major role that gives power, self-assertive, and prioritizes men as an upper class of women. However, according to new paradigm, it shifts social organization to networks.
When comes to daily life, deep ecological ethics is needed especially in sciences which what scientists do today is not life-preserving but life-destroying. Yesterday we might have separated facts from our values, whereas today’s society has corresponded perception and behavior as a psychological connection.
Deep Eco's summarize
Deep Ecology's Summarize
What the writer wrote and stated in this book is about deep ecology, the new paradigm. The writer was trying to convey that nowadays environmental concerns have become a very important topic. He stated that we are now facing the whole global problems that are harming the world itself and all the lives on it, and that it may soon become unalterable. The writer did suggest that some of the solution might be very simple, but yet no one, even the higher up see how different problems are interrelated, and yet, they refused to understand. The writer’s main interest has been about how concept changes over time, and so he suggest about Kuhn’s idea which the writer later called it “Paradigm Shifts”. This paradigm sees the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts with the terms “holistic” and “ecological” where holistic is less appropriate then one other. Ecological can be separate into twos, one is shallow and the other is deep; where deep ecological awareness seems to provide the ideal philosophical and spiritual basis for an ecological lifestyle and for environmental activism. The writer mention that we need a power to expand not only our perception and thought, but also our values in order to creates a shift of paradigms. Simply putting things together from the writer’s opinion; we need to start thinking mainly not for our self but to the surrounding that we were surrounded by to create a shift in our mind where problems can be solve.
Prompt Udomdech 5334766425
Pimmy's Project Zero, remake
Nowadays people whom living in city consume some products that they desire rather than necessity. From our closest thing, food. I'm using the illustrated work of Andy Council having red devil's hands as fast food side, easily demanding attention from people. At the same time these people, trying to grab the fast food, are stepping on the painting of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The painting called 'Vertumnus', the god of seasons and abundance, representing healthy side. The green living tress turning into red dead trees below are representing your life, your body how is it going to be if you were at the side you've chosen. And all of these is happening on the city we're living, full of neon signs and advertisements everywhere, and almost every time.
Thank you
Pimmy
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Deep Ecology Summary - A
Deep Ecology is about how our new scientific understanding of life is based on a new perception of reality. The problems in the world today are interrelated. They can't be understood separately. Together, it's a crisis of perception which can be solved by a radical shift in our thinking. But somehow higher authorities seem to have not dealt with these issues with proper solutions. Accordingly, a paradigm shift, not only within science but in a larger social realm, is needed to change how people view and shape their modern reality. The new paradigm can be defined as deep ecology which is comprised of holistic and ecological worldview. Deep ecology sees the world as a network of phenomena that is interconnected and interdependent and is concerned with the perspective of our relationships to others. We need to shift not only our ways of thinking but also of our values which are essential aspects of life. Moreover, the new paradigm longs for a kind of power that is influential to one another. The idea of hierarchies need to be replaced with networks in order to form a stronger foundation of our modern way of living. However, the notion of the old scientific paradigm hasn't been forgotten. It has along the way helped carry out a shift from physics to the life sciences as it is nowadays.
Noc's summary for Deep Ecology
The author of Deep Ecology is trying to convey us with the idea that everything on Earth is related. The global problems that we are facing are interconnected - they are the causes of another problem and the main cause for all these problems is the matter of perception in which our leaders, or people who have the authority to decide what to happen, are not up to date and foresee enough to deal with the issues. Therefore, the shift in paradigm is in need as it will change the way people think and live. The new paradigm can be seen as a deep ecology in which human is seen as a part of the whole natural system and not above it. The idea of the old paradigm is more likely self-centered rather than earth-centered as the new one would be. The shift in paradigm also requires the shift in values to balance with the thinking to bring out the good outcomes as they are interconnected ecologically. The idea of gaining power and domination over the others in the old paradigm should be replaced with thought of sharing and influencing the other to a better position together. Basically, we have to apply the ecological concept of the nature in our living that we are all interconnected and interdependent and that is the values to enable us to shift to the new paradigm.
COLLAGE ON THE BLOG
Please, all, post your collage on the blog (you can improve it according to the comments made today).
It was a great afternoon, filled with very promising work.
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Prompt's Project Zero
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IMPORTANT - request for fridays 19 and 26
As i may have 2 engagements,
I would like to ask you if it is possible for all of you to pre-pone our studio classes of Friday 19th and 26th of August PM to Thursday 18th and 25th or, possibly Friday morning.
Please let me know.
Thank you!
Answer to Mark
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Noc's Project Zero
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answer to A
welcome to our blog!
20110511
last meeting - dinner?
First of all my sincere congratulations for your final review!
You have managed to produce a lot of work in those final weeks, and i know you had a lot to do!!
I hope the ones who were late have learnt the lesson once and for all: you will get F for all presentation grades.
And it will seriously impair your grade for this semester.... it's sad, is this really the only way to get you to be on time??!
We could meet next week -say Tuesday evening after SuperCrit? - we will have more time once all BACC events are over and the exhibition up.
What do you think?
And i expect to see you all on Saturday in order to set up our Y2 exhibition, meeting at 1pm at BACC.












