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.

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.

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.

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.