review debriefing

Before we start the new project on Friday, we will do a group (and maybe also individual) review debriefing.
Come with your notes, questions, insurrections, etc.

Great work today! congratulations
Now take some rest and get ready to start again soon!

....and

of course.....

post your completed project!

update about our guest crit for tomorrow

Francois Roche (from the studio R&Sie) will be able to come for a few hours only, at the beginning of the review, i will make the order of presentation accordingly:
first idea about the order (for you to be ready):
Dream
Prompt
Marc
.....

All of you anyway should be there and ready to present at 1pm sharp.
See you tomorrow!

YOUR WORK'S EXHIBITION....

review preparation

To all,



Since not all of you came with prints today (and one did not come at all...)
PRINT YOUR DRAWINGS for yourself this week-end - at required scale - it can be only a part of your drawing, on a A4 for example, in order to test it and see how they come out (high risk of bad surprises if you do not test once).
Post your drawings this week-end if you need advice and comments.


Then you will certainly realize that you have to:
- seriously edit all lines exported from Rhino in Illustrator = erase the object's construction lines that do not correspond with reality, change the line-weight and sometimes type, etc.
- and draw details of construction and junction on the drawing. Scale 1/50 does not allow for imprecision!
- do not forget ground line and fill, selected and meaningful context ....


Optionally, you can show the relation between the different views on your plates, by connecting with construction/connection lines, as you did in 1st year.
In some projects that would make sense and look better.



All of you should be critical about each drawing 
- what can this point of view show of your project ?
- which views do you need to have ?
- what other view or type of drawing or document do you need to better explain your project ?
- what is your rendering media ?

DO NOT FORGET TO PRESENT ALL THE PROCESS OF WORKING - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION - NOT SO MUCH THE FINAL DOCUMENTS, BUT THE WAY YOU DEVELOPED THE PROJECT, THE QUESTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS YOU WENT THROUGH ETC.

BRING ALL STUDY MODELS, RESEARCHES AND SKETCHES

Marc, you are going to love this :  Gangster who built world's tallest log cabin
and Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral


Dream, a few examples of staircases supported by cables
http://www.bernsteinarchitecture.com/pages/index.asp?page=001_suspendedspaces/004_floatingstairschicago
http://tensegritywiki.blogspot.com/2010/08/tensegrity-staircase-made-of-glass.html
http://www.stairporn.org/category/metal-stairs/
http://www.new-territories.com/I'vehe2.gif

And Noc, do a quick search on technical drawing to see what you should be aiming for...


And.... a great surprise!
We might have a guest crit, Francois Roche from R&Sie(n), joining the review.
Be ready and be good! ..and you will get a lot out of it.

Pimmy's concept and presentation

Dear aj. Camillee, here are my concept and order of presentation (bullet points)

My concept:

The pedestrian bridge is a very unique infrastructure. For the first time we see the pedestrian bridge , we recognized its outstanding staircases on the both sides of the road with long and endurable slab to obviously separate the users and the vehicles on condition of providing safety. According to this pedestrian bridge, there are two important majors; the structure and the users. Therefore I modify this pedestrian bridge while simultaneously keep the existing one and allow two users to interact to each other, not physically or visually interaction but by their awarenesses.

My presentation:

- My concept

- Research = The five types of bridge, material

- Case studies = The construction and innovation of royal albert bridge, the thin table, earthquake-support building

- Site analysis = Our bridge component, the comparison between our bridge and other two bridges, users: the feeling of danger and reliance, 

- My experiments

- My functions = X-column, slab, cantilever, material } their alterations. 

- My development (roughly at the end of presentation)

Regards

Pimmy

question

aj camille

im working on the support of the bridge thus the skin of the bridge itself is a monocoque structure which would support part of its own weight the columns supporting the bridge do not need to be so thick and harsh

which one do you like ?

review.... postponed to Tuesday

Make the best use of the extra time you now have!
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.

It is always extremely recommended to print at least once before a final presentation.

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...!

I redid it wit a semi- Circle on top, on the left side i made a new form of semi circle form a bigger window .

Is it going to be okay if I put the light pole to handle the structure of the roof? or it is not vernacular?

(could i also render it white?)

AJ Camile, for the woodshop, i am doin the facade(the structure) with wood, but how about the floor ?, can i also do it with wood or do it with Chaan Oy???? thank you

(Marc)

Aj Camillee, for the additional space on my bridge, I'm thinking of attaching a design that does not have to deal with actual people being on it because I'm keeping the old structure so I don't want to modify it too much according to the concept. But rather I will add something that still somehow contribute to the proposed design. I'm thinking of what it could be right now.

The answer to the previous question might be interesting for all of you...

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).

I recommend that you have a deep look at the RIBA Presidents Medals Student Awards website for inspiration on project presentation.

HERE for example, a very nice way to present your sketchbook.

scale of model

Aj camille
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

question - InDesign

Aj.Camillee, is there a way to import layers from Photoshop to 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

for the colour of the structure

i think that the ring's colour will continuous graduates in a shade of black white and greys

I will use use the gradient to emphasis turns and intersections and maybe the landing

so that in the space inside people could see from the gradient as they are moving through if it was about to reach the turns yet and if the slope is about to end

I think the middle of the bridge where the space will be the most opened the rings will be white because it gives the feelings of a wide opened space and as it get to the sharpest of the turn

the ring will be black and graduates to white again in the middle of the slope and back to black at the end of the slope where it touches the floor

and also

can my final model be 1:100 because if it is 1: 50 then my final model

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

--

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.

--

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.

COLOURS!

I cannot find the perfect colour palette for the bridge

i think it could somewhat be reminiscent of the green-ness, eco-friendly way of transportation and is not a totally different language from the trees and fields that it will be passing through

But still have that modern-futuristic vibe that is a reminiscent of movements and motions

Also so that it is not misleading into being inspired by trees, branches-like, weavings ivy plants in which the crossing of lines could be leading to.

*the closest view to the final bridge is the last picture

everyone pls feel free to suggest :D

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.

--

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.

--

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.

Pimmy's experiment

From the picture, I'm trying to find the tension/compression by counting the amount of elastic bands which gives the existing stair angle.

I adapt it as the bridge function.

Hope you understand :)

Regards

Pimmy

aj camille

i cannot find anything on 'Genral Idea', an artist you have suggested
perhaps a miss-spelling?
i have only searched on the internet though

regards,

Updated draft

You move along Payathai road towards Samyarn. Looking toward the West, where your destination lies. The journey starts by entering the enclosed stair ahead of you. Observing the bridge from this point, it is a totally covered up space, from the ground high up to the air. The mirror planes on top of the structure reflect everything behind. Undoubtedly, they block your eyes from seeing the opposite side. You see North while you are walking down South, and you see South when you move towards North.

All the entrances to the platform overhead are shaped alike, enclosed with concrete and installed with different walkways inside. The one ahead is a series of rotating concrete stair. After a few steps, everything shifts smoothly to the left, leaving you unnoticed with the movement. The steps move up to the wall, replacing the openings positions and the openings relocate themselves on the ceiling. The ceiling is shaped like a boulder of the stair. By the time you get up to the highest edge, one revolution is completed.

Looking over to another stair, coming from an opposite direction. Openings on both sides are situated only at another far end which supposes to be the end of your way down to the ground but it appears to your eyes as if you are underground and that path will lead you up above the soil.

Looking to the West, twenty-eight-metre concrete floor is waiting for you to cross over. Along the way lie long triangle glass stripes, lying up one after another all along the way. Some of them allow the external mirrors reflect the view from the outside of the bridge to the inside while some are dull. Through the spaces, you see the outer surroundings with additional elements added into them. On the right, buildings are turning anti-clockwise like you are walking in a sphere. Whereas on the left, the scenery is viewed ascendingly as if you are walking up a hill.

Towards the very end of another side, two directions of descending steps lay on both sides of you. The narrow exit leads you down to the South. The width of the stair starts off one-meter long and, little by little, become twice as wide when it reaches the ground. On the other hand, the path on the right looks complicated with unequally wide and high steps and its shelter is the boulder of that. It does not lead you the way down but you have to lead yourself along the way down to the ground.

On the other hand, if you enter from the West and exit on the East, what that is seen then is not in the sight now. The closed planes along the way from another side become transparent. On your left, the sky is rarely seen and is replaced with a cut-off piece of the surroundings. Where looking toward another side, the openings are frames of the view, each frame enlarges a little by little but it is obvious that they become larger and larger as you are approaching the East end.

_______________________

i'll come up with the new ideas for the viewing on the bridge.

tutorials back on usual track...?

Update about Friday/Saturday tutorials.

Unfortunately the review i was supposed to attend has been postponed to next Tuesday (and thus i will probably not attend it).

Therefore we can have tutorials at school on Friday ---- sorry about all this!


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!

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.

(Last week presentation board)

next friday - invitation to a 4th year review

Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2011 - 1.30 PM

Venue: SoA+D, Bangkhuntian, BKK

directions=
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

Concept, Site Analysis, Research Structure

review comments

Noc
-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.

opening at WTF

addiction to diagrams

Researches, Site analysis

More changes will be made....

Prompt Udomdech 5334766425

additional to concept

Today i came up with additional idea that could be added to the concept and also narrow down the thoughts and go deeper to one aspect. Previously i wanted to have many activities occur in the bridge such as reading, waiting ( as mentioned in last desk crit) but for now i want to focus on the reading only.

The idea for reading is to read time by using light since time is an important factor for people especially who lives in this very busy city. People react and do things, unintentionally, according to time whether when they should go to sleep or to eat even though they are not feel like doing it at all. Time, psychologically, tells people what to do. Also with the site and surrounding, many schools are located which they run their schedules according to time as well. Therefore i want to raise awareness of time by using light, sunlight mostly, that reflects the bridge as a tool for users for time realization.

So now i'm working on more research that would be more direct to the proposal

what i have come up so far with the time awareness,

characteristic of time

- continuous flow

- repetitive

- flexible/ elastic

- uncontrollable

importance of time to users at different time of the day

- morning: high-very high

- noon: moderate

- evening: low

for the design, i will try having light reflect on different materials which they give different feeling to people because of its luminosity, directions, and colors.

what do you think with the change?

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.

review...

Following discussion in tutorials,
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).

Most of you really really need to work hard now - 

try things, techniques, materials!

sketches, computer models, study models etc.

this phase of the project should be dedicated to a lot of production and experimentation

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

GOOD LUCK ALL

tutorial offer - IN DESIGN & ILLUSTRATOR

Ajs Lara, Fredrik and myself are proposing to give an In Design and Illustrator tutorial next thursday pm.
Let us know if you are interested and what time will suit you best.

Site Analysis

Improved Map

references

To all,
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.

ACTUALLY EVERYONE SHOULD POST ON THE BLOG NOW!!

Plug

Go to Material Connexion at TCDC

Noc

Look at the work of Monika Sosnowska

and Carsten Holler

Site Analysis: Water, Shading, Usage

AJ ' Camille I have been searching all over Chulalongkorn University, and had found a spot where they would dump all the unwanted stuff. I am now trying to put these un use resources in to my vernacular design concept. And i would also like to know the website you told me to look for on the washing machine. thank you.

Pae's new proposal

dear, aj camillee

I'm now getting back on track to focus on what u suggested since our last pin-up :) Therefore, with the multi-function bridge, i decided to have it able to conduct several activities but all events are due to light! The bridge will have many functions but each activity and circulation on different time of the day is different depends on time, sunlight, shadows, etc. This way i can focus and dig deep on one thing at a time.

Please leave me some comments and references to look for

Thank you, Pae

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!

Proposal and site analysis

Updated info. Sep 1st

- portable bicycle are allowed on both BTS and MRT and there are slots for them on the front and the back bogie of the train

-Carrying bicycle up the train are made free of charge by the STATE RAILWAY OF THAILAND on the 1st of Febuary 2011

* full screen can zoom in to read


project -

Question

Dear aj Camille

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,

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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!