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.