Wednesday 14 May 2014

EXP3 MASHUP OF THREE NEWS ARTICLES

Three phrases chosen: Architecture begins where engineering ends
                                  Form ever follows function
                                  Architecture must burn


Form and function exists as a flow rather than a causal relationship. Form follows function implies a causal relationship between form and function, where form ever follows function implies a delicate balance and a need for both to be emphasized. We want architecture that has more to offer. Architecture that bleeds, exhausts, that turns and even breaks, as far as I am concerned. Architecture that glows, that stabs, that tears and rips when stretched. Architecture must be precipitous, fiery, smooth, hard, angular, brutal, round, tender, colorful, obscene, randy, dreamy, en-nearing, distancing, wet, dry and heart-stopping. Function often accommodates form.  Dead or alive. If it is cold, then cold as a block of ice. If it is hot, then as hot as a tongue of flame. Architecture must burn! People were not looking for harmony and synthesis, but instead, they sought fragmentation, chaos, contrast and movement in their designs. On the one hand the architecture focuses on projecting and construction of buildings to house human activities, while engineering allows the formalization of infrastructure works which require live only periodically and his role is relegated to provide a timely service to humans.“Form ever follows function” allows us to start with our emotions, gesture or happenstance and create designs where we can conceive of something that is completely impossible and somehow figure out how to make it function.

Summarizing
Form and function exists as a flow rather than a causal relationship. Function often accommodates form. Functional designs make impossible form useful and actrul.

Architecture burns: Designs is more about fragmentation, chaos, contrast and movement but rather than harmony and synthesis.

Architecture vs Engineering: Architecture should incorporates all of the engineering disclipines and puts them into use in an asthetically appealing form or function. 



Theory
Designs is more about fragmentation, chaos, contrast and movement but rather than harmony and synthesis. The contrast between form and function with a flow relationship, staight and curve, plane and convexity, movement and motionless, floating and stable, appealing architecture and engineering disclipines. 

















Reference
Form Follows Function – A Truism That Isn’t True, Robert Weitz, March 21 2013 http://www.thebrandwash.com/2013/03/21/form-follows-function-a-truism-that-isnt-true/

From the Coop Himmelb(l) - Sculpture International Rotterdam, http://www.sculptureinternationalrotterdam.nl/collectie/kunstenaars/Coop_Himmelblau.php?lang=en


Does the architecture begins where engineering ends?, Sea Tejerina, Sept 13 2010 https://www.interempresas.net/FrontPage/Articles/43134-Does-the-architecture-begins-where-engineering-ends.html



the vally ---- Yarlung Zangbo River & draft lumion environments











Wednesday 7 May 2014

links of Sketchup Model and Lumion 3 File

Lumion 3 File
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bzw0tXbMA_1JaHBmSGhiakhoQTg&usp=sharing


Sketchup Model

Sunday 4 May 2014

5 image and the two concepts


The pedestrian path is surrounded by arcs and blocks, which are inspired by Ricardo's works. These details is speaking of the structural mass and voided span. However, it is organised, with boundaries and just a significant contrast of decentralization to maintain the two different concept.



The meeting space is located at the bottom centre of the whole structure. It is also the intersection of the two monuments----it can get the students came from monument one and two together and enforce the two concepts of the monuments.



Three blocks of the entire monument are been curved to soft and smooth structure in two different parts. There is no boundary of these curved blocks and also, the two extended directions are opposite to present the decentralization and also the right angle ceiling to present large span.





There is no boundary for void or distance and even the mass can be concentrated, it might be distributed when built for spans. 

The excessive decentralization could lead to empty or null. The endless mass likes universe just has no boundary. Decentralization plus decentralization might equal to intersection, interconnection or boundary. Stacking mass, connecting mass can create distance for void. 

Original concepts:
Decentralization and absence of boundary &
Contrast of structural mass and large voided spans