Assignment 2 Final submission
DA:
Sunday 17 November 2013
Friday 11 October 2013
New Brief
Room List:
1. Master bedroom – with changing
room, toilet, and great view.
2. 2 guest room – share one
bathroom, with separate shower.
3. Studio – 2 big tables for modelling
+ 1 table for working.
4. Living room.
5. Dining area – does not need to
be big.
6. Toilet.
7. Kitchen.
8. Laundry – an outside area to hang
up close.
9. 2 car garage space – connect to
the studio.
10. Gym.
11. Swimming pool.
12. A small living area in next to
the guest rooms.
13. Kids play room and
informal family area are removed from the list, - as they don’t have children.
Relationships:
1. Living area and bedroom area
should be separated.
2. Windows and walls should be designed
to protect their privacy.
3. The swimming pool should be
connected to the house, not being separated to the house.
4. Great view in the gym.
Comments:
1. Privacy is important to the family.
2. We like Nature lights.
3. We want to feel the house is Spacious,
especially the living room.
4. A long swimming pool.
Friday 13 September 2013
Brief
Jeanne Gang - Studio gang architect
Jeanne is a 49
years old female, she is married to Mark Schendel (48 years old), he is her
business partner at Studio gang architect.
Jeanne and mark
has no children, they don’t need the house to be big, as it will be hard to
keep it clean. But they do want at least one guest bedroom for their relative
and friends when they visit them.
She and her
husband do yoga together in the weekend, they will need a gym in their new
house.
Monday 9 September 2013
Final assessment
Sketch up and PDF file:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-eS4Lk9rUv4ZUtlYWlsSlV6TVU&usp=sharing
Furniture reference:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=901e7c28140899a8e3f7a74e12a274ef&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=670f0a4f47e40017a412ea3a625c6de5&prevstart=12
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=390b9f4d96f0c9a927eb00c151c6f711&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3e4fb5dd15f3a67041381216feb7ebde&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b6ac23d327248d72627bb9f102840372&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=66ac53f9bbe5a79fd810b14a81e12eca&prevstart=12
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=85bdd3e50ef40accc664bdd962e4ea39&prevstart=12
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c9804eb49b206473955bd553fc0664e2&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=890a6efdeec1d0d3470bf45fc879fe62&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=aefd039a7a533595c2c449c0c0579ec3&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=a83653ad2ba5562b713429629f985672&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d4221bcfe5b5155b362845c6edb57fc&prevstart=12
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f89d777baa3cdf766cc9b30bb61e2633&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=103f0eb370d64fe532149015b3e64c&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c138e2879f315fd684042c9557e7f2cb&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=32f5a291682a2c91d9cc9318f4254eef&prevstart=0
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=43553b5efc2674cee4b68d3b17c43658&prevstart=108
Friday 30 August 2013
Sunday 25 August 2013
Week 4 - Studio Exercise 3 & Research Exercise 2
Aqua Tower
Owner: Aqua Realty Holdings LLC
Designed by: Studio Gang Architects
Location: Chicago, llinois, U.S.A
Construction started: 2007
Completed: 2009
Architecture style: modern architecture
Height: 261.8m
Floor count: 82
Floor area: 184,936.0 m2
Images of Aqua Tower
Inspiration
The exterior of Aqua Tower was influenced by Gang's childhood experiences. “When I was younger I would travel a lot with my father,” she says. “I remember seeing these really interesting rock formations around Lake Michigan with the same kind of striated topography as the building’s balconies. From a distance they’re not so obvious, but up close they really give the building an organic, fluid feel. The outside of the building is like a vertical landscape.”
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| Limestone in The Great Lakes |
Concept, analysis and details
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| Site Plan |
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| Typical Floor Plan |
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| Typical Floor Plan |
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| Groud Floor |
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| 3rd Floor and Roof Garden |
The Facade
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| Curves of the balcony |
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| All 82 slab plans overlaid show transformation over the height of the tower. |
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| Facade pattern |
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| The design is the result of cumulative strategies and responses to specific conditions. |
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| South Elevation/Section |
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| Section |
Stage 2
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| Blue - Public area Purple - semi-private area Red - Private area |
Research Exercise 2
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| I like the style of this board, it has a lot of information in different ways and has a nice looking. |
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| Drawing can be used in my presentation board as well, specially the hand drawing effects, i like it. |
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| In this one, it shows the color of different area, clearly give you the information about private and public area. |
Image reference
http://realestatejava.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/aqua_tower-5.jpg
http://api.ning.com/files/0*l2ZxVD0h2G0T-VkrK1VswoVFHcg7sesuc3C3P-rKztZ*hxG-Nba5UXzODMvPbSxjihOC5bGQAX7eYXjrkqVg__/AquaTower6.jpg
http://www.arqred.mx/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1918_5_Aqua5.jpg
http://cdn.freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/aqua-tower-studio-gang-architects1589.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS4Umh2yTvE/UaxARWNUDgI/AAAAAAAACIo/EqJgyONNXbM/s640/aqua+tower.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Aqua-chicago.jpeg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8440/7883256384_aaf33b1e85_o.jpg
http://florenseusa.com/Uploads/files/1632012-174427_DSC_1035x.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2379/3532950408_c30f29b49e_o.jpg
http://plusmood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ullswater-presentation-board.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/europaconcorsi/project_images/3586785/FINALE_full.jpg
http://24.media.tumblr.com/2d935c29597c8ce81d0eb076687e80a0/tumblr_mgy4etFYwm1ruxsr5o1_1280.jpg
Thursday 22 August 2013
Week 3 - 4 Progress
Room and Primitive detail
Room |
width X length | area | total area |
| Master room | 6x5 | 30 | |
| Bedroom 1 | 4x4 | 16 | |
| Bedroom 2 | 4x4 | 16 | |
| Study/Guest room | 4x4 | 16 | |
| Bathroom | 3x3 | 9 | |
| 87 | |||
| Living room | 5x5 | 25 | |
| Kitchen | 3x4 | 9 | |
| Dinning room | 3x3 | 9 | |
| Toilet | 2x4 | 6 | |
| 49 | |||
| Laundry | 2x4 | 4 | |
| Parking are 2 cars | 5x6 | 30 | |
| 34 | |||
| 170 | |||
| Primitive | width | length | area | height | volume | % |
| Box | 4 | 14 | 56 | 2.5 | 140 | 0.207407407 |
| Pyramid | 6 | 9 | 54 | 2.5 | 135 | 0.2 |
| Cylinder | 8 | 20 | 160 | 2.5 | 400 | 0.592592593 |
| 675 | 1 | |||||
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| First Floor detail |
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| Second Floor detail |
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| Room and Primitive detail |
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| Room and Primitive detail 2 |
More Earlier experiments:
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| Option 1 |
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| Option 2 |
Thursday 15 August 2013
Week 2 - Weekly progress
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| Test 1 |
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| Test 1 -a |
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| Test 1 -b |
I have tried different positions and combinations with the same geometries, just testing in sketch up to get some ideas for my assessment one.
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| Test -b |
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| Test -c |
Friday 9 August 2013
Week two class
exercise
Step 1
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| Nature Boardwalk At Lincoln Park Zoo |
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| Nature Boardwalk At Lincoln Park Zoo |
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| Step 1 model |
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| Step 2 model |
I chose Nature Boardwalk At Lincoln Park Zoo for my step one. In this exercise, first I folded my paper many times from the left hand side to the right hand side and from the top to the bottom, because want to soften the paper and also give the paper some sort of grid, so I can cut some holes later. I only cut few lines of hole on the paper, because the paper is thin and weak comparing to the actually object, cutting too many holes on the paper will make it weaker and it wont probably be able to stand. After I have softened the paper and cut holes to it, I have made my first paper model.
Step 2
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| Marble Curtain |
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| Aqua tower |
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| Solar Carve Tower |
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| Step 2 model |
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| Step 2 model |
I have picked three of Studio Gang Architects
work for my step 2, I think they are the best of their work and very inspiring
to me as well. I’m in love with their architectural style,
very organic and natural, when I looked like it, it just makes me feel
comfortable and relaxed.
In my step 2 model, I tried to make the shape of it to
look very smooth and comfortable in a cylinder (like the Marble Curtain ). The Aqua tower’s waving layering surface looks so
comfortable and pretty, I have added that to my model as well, the waving lines
on the surface of my model is related to the Aqua tower. I have also put the
Solar Carve Tower’s feel into my model, like one part of building
looks like is cut out by a big knife. Same to my model the top and bottom looks
like is cut by something else.
Step 3
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| Step 3 model |
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| Step 3 model |
When I use multiple papers to make this model, I felt a lot more free and easy to do it, some places are easy to show the details. It can actually allow me to make my model more creative than before. I can also look into one part of the model check and change it when ever I want, as my model is made of 3 parts. It can be modified. However, I felt with more paper I will spend more time on it, on the details of the model.
Image reference:
Thursday 8 August 2013
Week 1 - Studio Gang Architects
Studio Gang Architects
I chose Studio Gang Architects for learning
this semester.
I think their architectural style is very
interesting, the shape and form of the buildings are inspiring. I’m a visual
person, I like things have interesting or pretty looking, that’s the main
reason why I chose them for researching, I want to leaning more about their
architecture specially in shape and form of building, look into details and take
it as inspiration and use it in my design someday.
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| Aqua Tower - Chicago-USA - 2010 |
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| Aqua Tower - Chicago-USA - 2010 |
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| Stack Solution - Chicago - USA - Concept Completed 2012 |
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| Stack Solution - Chicago - USA - Concept Completed 2012 |
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| Solar Carve Tower - New York City - USA - Anticipated Completion 2015 |
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| Solar Carve Tower - New York City - USA - Anticipated Completion 2015 |
Reference:
http://studiogang.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/aqua1.jpg
http://studiogang.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/SolarCarve3.jpg
http://studiogang.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Prentice3.jpg
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