EXP 3: Final Submission

The School of Design featuring a very rectilinear layered structure that reflects the rice fields of Indonesia

First floor down is dedicated to students with second floor down for teachers, both have eating areas located in the middle 

Offices for teachers and meeting point under ceiling window for natural lighting

First floor "courtyard" for students where they enter after class. Rooms separated for natural ventilation

Folly that shares open spaces and glass for sustainability. Reached by elevator

Description:

Regarding my theory, my design fits it nicely where it does consist of features that maximise sustainability seen from abundant use of glass for natural lighting, the separated rooms for natural ventilation and ceiling windows. The rectilinear form helps in the organization of the rooms during the digital construction which supports the community architecture. The rooms are structured to be organized around a “center point” for social meeting areas for the students.   

Youtube Video:

Download Links:
Lumion Folder:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/128ltqbypxok581/AACdaEZJf_0UGJgWIunFj7-ia
Sketchup File:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/larvb0i4p80u01f/Final%20EXP.skp
Folly File:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/palsbjrokpq4pei/Final%20Folly.skp

EXP 3: Week 5: Feedback + References

Marking Sheet

Object References:

Table- https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=e33873b06d7c5fb579f2851ba674ebe8

Table - https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=ef575c402b734f8d810b14a81e12eca

Drafting Board- https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=653e1ef82be148a0820018801b237b3d

Chair- https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=8ba6735a8a8dd00f15986f586c09dd3d

Desktop- https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=3c771c96cec5cd6092d02c240ba13d62

Office interior- https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=6d34e79c8ebebfb9f840b090414a8df8

Table-https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=477bf9e513d8341f4fb4dee5181bee

Coffee Table set- https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=bf16bc48fa90fd47eb1e02e996f3801e

Coffee Table set-

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=afd94ba7ee98a27d166928578f16a6bc

Outdoor Table-

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=f2f5699afeee87edf4fb4dee5181bee

Book shelf

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=704e5237bfe45aed809222e4341a7d65

Lecture Chair-

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=feab80af7f3e459120523e15ec10a342

Chair and table set-

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=f2f5699afeee87edf4fb4dee5181bee

Bench-

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=3b8d16dc796f667af155d75bbf62b80

EXP 3: Week 4: Draft and Textures

Here you can see the final draft. From the previous model, I've added the rooms, added colours and textures, stairs and railings, furniture and other additions.

Floor Plan of Teacher floor

Floor Plan of Student Floor

Elevation 1

Elevation 2

Draft Lumion Environment: 

Landscape formed using dirt landscape

Bridge connects top of rice field plain and cliff top

River in middle and dirt reflects Indonesia's landscape

Open valley and river to allow for strong winds in between

EXP 3: Week 4: 36 Textures

Textures

 Textures (from Left to Right):

Linear

Rotational

Scalar

Abduction

Gliding

Sway

EXP 3: Week 3: First Draft

• In developing my design, I started off in setting out the outputs of the design to ensure that I didnt miss out any essential rooms. I used a guide from last year on dimensions.

Lecture Theatre----------------------- (find out)

Studio Spaces ------------------------ 2 x 3 x 10m x 5m Black

Offices for Academic Staff
1 Dean-------------------------------- 5m x 6m    Red
3 Program Heads--- -------------------3x 3m x 2.5m    Orange
9 Staff ---------------------------------9 x 3m x 2.5m    Brown

Offices for General Staff (5)- ----------8m x 8m   Yellow

Workshop---------------------------- 10m x 10m   Light green

Computer Labs------------------------1m x 1.5m per desktop Pink

Gallery---------------------------------NA Blue

Research Space for Academic Staff---- 5m x 4m Purple

Meeting Rooms for Staff--------------- 6m x 4m black

 / 3m x 2m Grey

Meeting Rooms for Students----------- no. x 5m x 4m Silver

Kitchen for Cafe ----------------------------------- 4m x 3m White

Library--------------------------------- NA

• From there I began to organise the rooms into the plan to get an overall idea of the structure.

•  I organised the school to have an upper roof which acts as the bridge and then lower levels for the school to give shade in the weather. The far left shows the gallery and below the large rectangular piece will be like a food court. I dedicated the first floor down to be for the students, so it will consist of workshops, studios, classrooms.

• The second level down will be dedicated for the teachers and the last level will be where the Deans office will be located (bottom level of the library) and a pathway to the elevator to reach the folly. 

• From here I began to customise each room specifically for its purpose.

In organising my rooms, I wanted to have a focus on sustainability and community. To achieve this, I used an abundance of glass for natural lighting. I also had the rooms organised to be located around a centre point. So most of the study rooms and offices are surrounding an open area for meetings and social points. This brings into attention the theory of attraction and repulsion of people concentration. Since this school is quite open and doesnt have completely surrounding walls, I've separated the rooms to have spaces between them. This is so that there is natural ventilation throughout the meeting points. 

In an environment of such high temperatures and delicacy like the Indonesian environment, I wanted to respect the environment and restrict electricity usage to a minimum such as lights and air conditioners.

EXP 3: Week 3: Plan and Sections

Plan from Russell's Lecture.
 This plan intrigued me by its rectilinear form. By seeing this plan as a section, my design would have layers that reflect the landscapes form of contours. In the above photo, I extruded the long horizontal levels, seeing each square room as a room itself  having vary sizes.

Draft:

As you can see there is a very rectilinear shape towards my design. My theory consists of values of Sustainability, community architecture and the idea of "Attraction and Repulsion". 

EXP 3: Week 2: Moving Elements

For the Moving Elements I have decided to make an Elevator and Sunroof to move in the structure.

The decision behind these objects were that I wanted the guest to have a "moment" or experience. This meant using an abundance of glass. For the elevator, as obvious as its function to reach the folly, the transparent glass allows the person to look around the valley as they move. The sunroof will be located at the top layer where it covers the "courtyard" where the students exit their rooms to meet. This allows for natural lighting and a means for when it rains as Indonesian climate has an abundance of rain.

EXP 3: Week 2: Axometrics

Architectural Folly Development:

Using Concepts of Attraction and Repulsion and Containment and Escape, I combined these to make a folly that was very sheltered and supported the mash-up of environmentally friendly and reflected the environment. This will reinforce the design of the school as there a combination of openings and windows. This allows for natural ventilation and lighting in a country where there is high heat in the climate and also rainy weather. 

EXP 3: Week 1: Image and Mash-Up

The Valley for the landscape will reflect the plains of my ethnic background of Indonesia. The key feature of the valley will consist of distinct layers of contours that get smaller as it gets higher. I also intend to reflect this landscape in my design.

Mash-Up

Catalyzing Communities written by H. Lwei, D. Nichols, P. Goad, K. Smith and J. Willis. Published in Architectural Review Australia September Issue 2011

Published by Nadav Malin “Building Information modeling and green Design---http://www2.buildinggreen.com/article/building-information-modeling-and-green-design 

Published by- Jordan Kushins 11/20/13 http://gizmodo.com/digital-fabrication-gone-wild-1459781279

Working in two dimensional basic CAD drawings, you had to do all this heroic behavior to create an environmentally sensitive design. With advent of Bim, technology is facilitating a much bigger movement around sustainability in the building space. Bim opens up building performance modelling to the entire building construction community. Making virtual modelers that subject the model to the buildings much anticipated weather and usage patterns allows designers to experiment with their resources to optimize the best design for the overall structure in real-time environments. This becomes more cohesive when an organic approach is established, where by allowing the design to evolve whilst having certain physical constraints. These can be in the form of algorithms and computer simulations that test the materials making them interact in unexpected ways that can give an unpredictable physical result. This notion of Geometric adventurism shares the notion of how by using computer programs, the overall design can evolve under restrictions and considerations to give new optimized results. By using computer systems, they speed up the process of getting to an optimized design. Though programs alone can still achieve this if scripting isn’t used where experimentation is standard. With these programs it is much easier to organize structure to have a certain “rule” or principle such as community architecture. Community architecture in modernism had a goal of social betterment through the provision of responsible buildings, environments and landscape for the people. In the late 20^th century there was a shift in the aesthetic aspirations of architecture to serve community needs. Services and lifestyles or activity centres promoted as the heart of new community life in developer built, suburban estates have, in many cases, replaced earlier kinds of small public institutional types.

EXP 3: Week 1: Axometrics

EXP 2 Final Submission: Two Monuments

Lumion Images (Screenshots as Fraps showed the toolbars of lumion)

As sets of repeated shapes creates patterns they can form to reflect nature's designs in their seemingly homogenous form.

In this long distance shot, you can see how the stacking of the monuments has allowed for a somewhat homogenous form to become prominent that looks similar to the other mountains yet contrasts the notion of natural vs man-made.

As you can see in this interior shot, the overlapping of the curvy surfaces and rectilinear shapes give the impression of the shape of bubbles that intersect introducing that notion of nature’s influence

In this shot, you can see the natures being reflected by the monuments, mountains by the top half and sea by the bottom, through their repeated shapes that connect to the meeting point that joins them together to become one.

Download Link for Sketchup:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=ub830ffb8-02f5-4d9c-ae1b-fb70ff6d701d

Download Link For Lumion Scenes:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vctdqugv9a4wwv3/2xdKD4QDg2?n=295367176

(Update: Lumion scenes cant work correctly, this is a link for only the final monument scene. It is however different from the one seen above but have similar landscapes:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/siu16dois2ksaes/hw7z4ZSugD)

EXP 2: Week 3: Consideration of Landscape

Because of the shape of the monument, I have a number of considerations to keep in mind:

• Be somewhat surrounded by a cliff of small mountain range
• Be close to the sea
• Cliff cant block out lighting
• Have appropriate size for walking around

EXP 2: Elaboration of Final Design

•  Top Monument: Rectilinear representing Alisa Andrasek has a sort of repeated shape of vertical rectangles that lower in height to reflect nature's mountains with the geometric texture to further augment how it is a homogenous form. I've incoporated Otto's Curvilinear shapes of the monument into the interior of the open spaces a person can walk in.

• Bottom monument: Curvilinear representing Frei Otto has a sort of overlapping of curvy cubes that I took inspiration from bubbles. The textures help to give that sense of marine nature. The bottom halves of the stairs are curvilinear while the top are straight as well as the interior which has rectangular surfaces inside to show incorporation of the top monument's concept.

• Overall monument, one thing I wanted to address was how the size of the monument is not entirely large and would be around the size of a 4-storey building. This was so that there was appropriate spacing for the person to walk around in. I wanted this to be functional for the person to be able to walk throughout the monument through the stairs to also give them moments of seeing nature, which is what inspired me through the clients.

EXP 2: Week 3: 36 Custom Textures Light to Dark + Refining of Monument

Chosen Textures
Dark:

Medium:

Light:

EXP 2: Week 2: Monuments in Lumion and Electroliquid Aggregation

New Concept from Electro-liquid Aggregation

Alisa Andrasek Monument at Top

 Network of patterns creates homogeneous form 

Frei Otto Monument at Bottom

Nature has ready designs.

Electroliquid Aggregation New Concept

As sets of repeated shapes creates patterns they can form to reflect nature's designs in their seemingly homogenous form.