Arch1390 - 2013 Christopher Tee

Monday, 9 September 2013

1. 3X3D Views

2. Floorplans

Ground

First

Second

3. Cross sections

Cone

Rectangular Prism

Trapezoid

4. Elevation

Back

Front

Left

Right

5.Animation

6. Room Schedules

Second Floor

Corridor 8.7 m2

Master Bed 16.5 m2

Ensuite 7.4 m2

Balcony 3.7 m2

Children Bed 1 13.1 m2

Children Bed 2 13.7 m2

Shared Bathroom 5.5 m2

Study 6.7 m2

First Floor

Kitchen 15 m2

Family 14 m2

Living 16 m2

Circulation 11 m2

Total Volume: 890 m2

Second Floor total area: 71.6 m2

First Floor total area: 56 m2

Total Overall Area: 127.6 m2

Friday, 30 August 2013

Examples graphic presentation styles

Qingdao Port

This image is elegant on showing formation of design through transparent yellow lines that overlays on top of the building then moves in triangular angles up the page with red text. It suggest direction and/or how the way the port is built up on the idea.

Trendy Geometric Lines Design

Though not architectural i included this design poster as a way to communicate to the audience with strong bond colours and the design of the lines running across it with a faded text. Large text prioritises the way information is read and importance.

Adam Lansdown Bridge

Wireframe of the building with information scattered around the poster next to directed particular parts of the building. Looks a bit mess however it does communicate well if the poster is full of colour reason being that colour can control the way information can be read.

Poster Design

After the analysis of different graphical poster above, I've decided to incorporate my own poster design particular features from each I believe help communicate the following and include:

Movement - show the process/progress from start to finish
Level of thought
Scatter of information to solidify ideas
Images overlay into eachother
Miniumal text if any be elegant and light

Images Sources:

Qingdao Port
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles4/100392/projects/801431/49746d376682188b3f3f4d44760f0540.jpg

Trendy Geometric Lines Design
http://print24.com/de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/poster-design36.jpg

Adam Lansdown Bridge
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/images/pictures/collections/U11_11_AdamLansdownBridge_4

Friday, 23 August 2013

Week 4 - Studio Exercise 3

Section of the Valencia Opera House

Conceptual section part of Valencia Opera House

Close up of the side balcony

Perspective of the Valencia Opera House

Highlighted spaces in section

Blue: Public spaces
Red: Semi-public spaces
Orange: Semi Private spaces
Yellow: Services

For this task it was very difficult to obtains sections and plans of the opera house. However our task is to identify the spaces in the building is used for such as public and private.

Materials Used to construct the building
Concrete
Laminated Steel
Mosaic Tiles

Sources:
Section of the Valencia Opera House: Screenshot image from slideshow from http://www.calatrava.com/#/Selected%20works/Architecture/Valencia%201?mode=english
Conceptual section part of Valencia Opera House: Screenshot image from slideshow from http://www.calatrava.com/#/Selected%20works/Architecture/Valencia%201?mode=english
Close up of the side balcony:
Perspective of the Valencia Opera House: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02547/filename_2547488k.jpg

Monday, 19 August 2013

Week 3 - Continuation of the composition

After consultation with Weasley about my composition, I've made a minor changes to my composition that would satisfy the criteria for the assignment such as calculation and solidify the design furthermore and develop it to the next stage to planning the layout.

The following points briefly describes what the building will have.

Curtainwalls + large spiral staircase - this would be one of the main design feature of the building along with the cut off pyramid that extruded out from the main body of the building.
It 2 to 3 levels of functional spaces. - Split ground level for kitchen, living and first level mainly bedrooms
Building volume doesn't exceed 900m3

Here are some calculation to show that my building does satisfy the brief.

Cone Volume

Rectangular Prism Volume

Pyramid Volume

Cone:                               81.2m3, proportion percentage(%) 21*
Rectangluar Prism:          403.2m3, proportion percentage(%) 44.7*
Pyramid:                          228m3, proportion percentage(%) 25*
* from the max 900m3

Total:                               712.4m3

Week 2/3 - Composition

I've chosen the following primitives shapes for the basis of my design:

Cone
Rectangular prism
Pyramid

Chosen primitives shapes

I've assigned the chopped of cone one of the main feature of the design, it would present a spiral stairs surround with a curtain wall, Rectangular prism as the main body of the design and pyramid turned into a a trapezoid as an extrusion from the main body perhaps representing a balcony or room.

First Rotation

Second rotation

My cone shape will be the only shape that is parallel to the ground as it will be the connection with the ground and between each levels of my building. So in order to satisfy the criteria, the other two primate must be rotated and twisted. I've applied two different rotation on the rectangular prism as in in the pictures above. The first rotation is at the minimum 10 degrees along its length and the second rotation on its width at 15 degrees. As I manipulate the main body in SketchUp, its give me further ideas to develop designs and thus the building will have 3 levels and slanted roof shape.

Chopped Pyramid with dimensions

Top Elevation

Side Elevation

For the pyramid I've chopped its pointed end and turned it to a trapezoid and that my main body of the rectangular prism was plain and wanted to dress up the its facade to bring further uniqueness to the design. This was achieved by rotation on its axis on two different sides by 15 degrees in relation to the main body seen in the picture above.

The cone is attached to the opposite side of the main body. The above photos shows the relationship between the shapes and its volumes in an exploded view.