The course has taught me the variaty of tutors, and the importence to adjust according to their perspectives. Coming out of the fluid thoughts workshop, where the tutor had encouraged wild approaches to the projects, I did not adjust well to the model making workshop. The resulting model I produced was recugnized to be well made, but did not fit in with the marker's approach. Whether the concept was architectural was personal, but the low mark I received shows me that since the tutor is marking it, their view is the one that counts. The same applies in the future where while creative flair is important, it more vital for the scheme to be consistant with the target audience's taste.
The drawing workshop tutors seemd to be more open to more wild concepts, and from the feedback, I am hoping that they can recognize the enormous amount of effort put into the projects, appreciate the experimentation with concepts, and not dismiss because they have a different view.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Architetural Drawing Workshop- Tetris Botta House
The layout was done in response to the way spaces slot together in the Botta house. From top to bottom, on the left are floor plans (form top to bottom) section and elevation all aligned towards the same direction. On the right are these images exploded into tetris pieces, which are falling into the contour lines. The viewers feel like gamers trying to pieces of the house together, according the template provided, the create the spacial quality of the interiors.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Modeling Workshop-Pickled Building, in Slices.
This model failed.
This person produced the failed model. Completely hopeless at model making. Please help him if you see him around FBE.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Fluid Thoughts Workshop-Out of Nothingness
Drawings by Stella Im Hultberg, where tea stains are transformed into female figures with minimal addition of lines and shading to define form.
Fluid Thoughts Workshop-Collaboration
12 pictures of the opera house together to create a three dimensional view of the north face (and a rainbow).
Opera House Monster.Fluid Thoughts Workshop-Shell, Shadow, Swan
To find opera house-like shell forms (and other things) out of scribbles.Fluid Thoughts Workshop-Spiegel From the Fatherland
Title pages from the German magazine Spiegel, Architecture and Design special issue. With emphasis on the tone, and the lines it define. In the second drawing, the tonal relationship of the building and sky is inverted across the page.
Fluid Thought Workshop-Concept to Form
Three dimensional sketching with wires.
Developing the geometry with mathematical methods.
Transferring ideas into communicable forms.
Fluid Thought Workshop-Utzon Research
Utzon was motivated, like many of his peers, by the task of rebuilding the post-war Europe. His idea of Architecture was a place for good thoughts to come together and a place for architecture students to visit, a powerhouse of inspiration.
The marine environment was a major source of inspiration, being the son of a talented marine engineer and his sailing experiences as a kid. He saw boats as symbol of the human ability to live in tune with their surroundings, just as fish and birds have found their solutions to the sea and wind.
For the Sydney Opera House, he envisioned acoustically shaped shells enclosing the performance venues. A big concrete structure that ages beautifully. A space that is unimpeded by traffic and from each seat offers a niche + view similar to the fiords of Denmark.
He listed major influences from Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Gunnar Asplund.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Peer Review-Extreme Marking
Peer pressure.
Comments on safety issues.
Happy.
Not quite up to the next grade yet.
English is just too limiting...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
UT2004 Final Solution-Plugin/Egg Farm
The upper space belongs to Versace. She is a fashion machine that has brought the Versace brand back from bankruptcy to the frontier of the fashion industry. Treasured by the fashion house as people treasured golden hens in fairy-tale land.
Connected to idea-laying farm headed by Dotella is the Steve-Jobs-plugin-device. Jobs, with his unique style of brand marketing and keynote presentation, has succeeded in transforming Apple (and Pixar) into industry leading companies. His specialty is in translating ideas into marketable product, and to engages with the market with his iconic persoanlity (and heroic comeback story). Job's office is a plugin device that allows Dotella to export her ideas effectively (just as SketchUp needs a plugin to export Ut-compatible forms).
The Job-plugin-device comes with a meeting space for Dotella and Jobs to consult, Steve's office space to prepare his product keynote, and a stage for the presentation to the world.
Here Dotella hatches her ideas, in the form if models wearing her designs. These ideas then roll down, and are collected at the bottom, similar to industrial scale egg farms. 
Each of Dotella and Jobs operate their careers from their nest. The nest defines an invulnerable zone where they have the security to focus on producing ideas, and absolute power within their company, industry and the market.
The meeting space takes an egg-shape form. Physically, it is the platform that orchestrates the fusion of each client's cocoon lifts into the main egg body; metaphorical for the creation, birth and hatching of new ideas which also occurs here. Here Dotella's ideas are processed by the Jobs-plugin-device.
The table is consistent with the avian theme of the meeting space. The table allows Jobs and Dotella to sit on the egg, hatching ideas.
Job's office space, surrounded by screens where he can prepare for his speeches, or simply admire at his reflections. Here the idea becomes ready to hatch.
Jobs then descends from the nest of ideas to the lower level, where he presents his keynote launch of new products, with the aid of earth facing screens. The idea hatches and is released.
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