Thursday, October 29, 2009

Final Posters





Filefront links for interactive PDFs:

Poster 1
Poster 2
Poster 3

Filefront links for printable PDFs:

Poster 1
Poster 2
Poster 3

Peer Reviews - Looks like some competition...

Lachlan Stanton

Hayley Ng

Text - to be included in poster

The Walt Disney concert Hall was gifted to the city of Los Angeles on October 23 2003. The design of the building was done by Frank Gehry, with the acoustics being designed by Yasuhisa Toyota. The shapes of the building are based on sails – much like our opera house, but through more of an inverted way. The entrance has been designed so that you feel like you are at the helm of a great boat, with the sails billowing either side of the entrance. Gehry was upfront in his desires for the building, stating that this building is to be about music and music alone – bringing the importance of the function of the building.

In an interview with Frank Gehry, he is quoted as saying “what makes you forget about all the trivial things, is with how the light hits the material, how the reflections add a dimension that you didn’t have in the models or drawings”. This shows how his design takes on a whole new aspect, quite different from what he had first designed. Not knowing just how each reflection would interact with its surroundings, it can then be seen as something different all together. Something which he describes as a living thing – not bound to the way we see Architecture today.

Gehry describes the process of designing the Walt Disney Concert Hall as like being a good neighbor – taking into account the buildings that are already around in the immediate area and not taking away from them. The building itself is clad in stainless steel panels molded around undulating curved surfaces which flow around the building. The geometry of the building is much like a lot of Gehrys other designs, with a mass of geometry clad with differing materials. Throughout this design there has been no conformity to industry standards or normality – which makes the design that little bit more intriguing.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Reinvisioned Vitra

My idea here within the reinvision of the musuem, is to keep it as a musuem. But by mirroring the museum around a central courtyard - which can also be used to present peices of art, I have brought symmetry into something which was not meant to be symmetrical, thereby bringing in something which shouldnt be.



Draft 2 Posters

I'm quite happy with the layout which I have come up with. Here are my second draft posters, all I need to do now, is put the images on.....





Here are the file front links to my PDFs:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3

textures









Here is a sampling of some of the textures which I am thinking of using with my model.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

A1 layout grid

Just been playing around with sizes etc.

Black/White - Denote different pages
Red - Minor images
Purple - High Quality images
Blue - Text
Green - Headings
Yellow - Video

Montage!


Just a short montage with images that I thought were appropriate in regards to the ideas im developing.

My ideas for reinvisioning the museum

What I would like to do is encaptulate the building as a model and alter it in a way that I ave never seen done before. My vision is that basically, the first museum which was designed by frank gehry, received such a well reception that the museum could not keep up with the amount of people wanting to display thier art within its walls. So what I am looking at doing is mirroring the building, then constructing a glass terrace, and bridges that will connect them.

I am a fan of symmetry, so I will create an axis line beside the existing building and mirror everything, to its side. Maybe meld them together? still in the designing stages at the moment.


Thursday, September 24, 2009

Case Study - Walt Disney Concert Hall


Designed by architect Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall, new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is designed to be one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world, providing both visual and aural intimacy for an unparalleled musical experience.

Through the vision and generosity of Lillian Disney, the Disney family, and many other individual and corporate donors, the city will enjoy one of the finest concert halls in the world, as well as an internationally recognized architectural landmark.

From the stainless steel curves of its striking exterior to the state-of-the-art acoustics of the hardwood-paneled main auditorium, the 3.6-acre complex embodies the unique energy and creative spirit of the city of Los Angeles and its orchestra.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

Lillian Disney made an initial gift in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and the city. The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 23 2003. Both the architecture by Frank Gehry and the acoustics of the concert hall (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota) were praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Independant Study Week 9





Here are a few pictures of my museum, dont worry about the colours too much, I plan on importing the file into 3Dsmax once the modelling is complete so I can apply materials and do a proper rendered image.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Week 8 - The beginnings of a new assignment!

Here is my PDF of Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water.



Filefront PDF

Friday, September 4, 2009

Photos




These are some photos which I have taken of my assignment!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Final Poster


Here is my final A2 Poster which I have printed out. Photos to come of the final peice with laser cutting applied!

Peer Reviews





Here are the peer reviews which I have done for Joanna and Keyang

Laser cutting images!



Here is an image of what I am getting laser cut for my poster.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Burj al Arab







The shape for the Burj al Arab is what I have designed my poster around. I love how the building looks however you orientate it. Having the shapes as they are allow the view to view the building differently in each aspect.

I really liked the way the helipad was added to the building, which refers heavily to the way I saw my civilisation to live. Having living above the landscape in futuristic style building which defy gravity in the way that they are viewed and work into the geography.

Abu Dhabi Plaza


The first peice of architecture which I have chosen is the Abu Dhabi Plaza, which is being built in Abu Dhabi. It shows a mix of buildings basically built out of a grid, which then each building in the complex is pulled out of.


I really liked how this building was being presented as a visual peice of architecture. Having the picture looking down at the building through use of an airial perspective gives the viewer a sense of the granduer of the building. Having such a simple plan and diversing it in a way which provokes a real emtion from the viewer is a feat which is accomplished through this picture.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Poster Layout

This is my draft for my final poster! Still a work in progress though. I'm thinking for the blank spaces where I have written landscape background, I might actually have a series of curved lines which I can get cut out with the laser cutting and maybe paint over them in a certain way that they will bring out the lines.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Section Perspectives




I thought I would add these section perspectives as they show alot more detail than the normal perspectives, besides, they look cool!

Final Perspectives




Some perspectives of my final alien house.


Friday, August 14, 2009

Progress Report


These are 2 perspectives showing the work in progress that I have for my Slendoon Final buildings.
Stay tuned for more images!