Project 3: Final Design

Final Design

from the entrance into underground

Library on the first floor

Balcony view from the first floor

Study area with computer to research and printers

Meeting rooms can be found when walking up the stairs

Ground Floor-  computer labs and bathroom can be seen

Aisle to each class room

Classroom interior

Workshop with tools ground level

view from the bridge entrance to exhibition centre

2 levels of exhibition centre. Elevator can be used to get to first floor and then stairs

Bridge crossing Anzac Pde. to NIDA to enhance collaboration between Faculty of Architecture and Drama

Project 3: The Moving Element

Moving Element

First Moving Element 

The moving element can be seen in the meeting room where the curved walls can move up and down to give privacy.

Second Moving Element

Can be seen in classroom to expand space or enhances collaborative work

Project 3: 36 Textures

36 Moving Textures

Using photoshop, I was able to pain (with brush tool) and explore the effect like motion blur, liquidfy and smudge etc. to create motion texture.
1. Linear
2. Rotational
3. Scalar
4. Gradient
5. Liquify
6. Nature

Project 3: Draft Model

2 Draft Lumion Environments

I was scared at first that digging a hole in Lumion and playing with the terrain would be difficult. Turns out, it wasn't bad.

Project 3: Design Development

Design Development

Taking from the article, I wanted to create a concept of an underground architecture. The idea initially came from merging from Architecture and Computational design faculty have in common and that is creativity. Creativity comes from inspiration of the influenced of the surroundings and the connection between your mind and nature. We look up at the sky when we think, but we never really looked down. I believe creativity should derive from all aspect of your surroundings, thus creating an underground based on the concept of Earth, to really explore what it is like when Earth is opened up.

Studying the Earth structure and its movement

 

Brainstorming the architecture of Earth

Final Design Sketch

Floor Plan with UNSW

The Faculty needs to bridge to the square house as the starting path. I chose this site due to the open space and its flexibility to travel. Due to the site being a "design" faculty, when driving pass on Anzac Parade, people are able to sto (during traffic) and see through the exhibition (in the mountain top design). The site also bridge to NIDA to make it convenient for students to collaborate with the drama department .

Project 3: Theory

Architecture Article

I found an Architecture article from the Harvard Magazine which is about biomimicry. Biomimicry was introduced to me when I started this course, something I have never heard of it before and I was fascinated by it and how it was used in architecture. From the article, I have picked 4 key words that could developed my theory.

Key Word: Moist, Nature, Gradient, Morphology 

Project 3: One Point Perspective

18 One Point Perspectives

I wanted to experiment with Earth tone colour and play around the opacity of the colour through PhotoShop as my project will be based on Earth and its inner core. 

Earth tone colour palette