BENV2426 Experimantal Modelling: April 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

Task for week 7: Final 12 sources

There are 2 main and 10 supporting sources to support my discussion in essay:

Main source 1) Zevi, Bruno, Towards an organic architecture, London: Faber and Faber Limited.

(I have taken a chapter of this book to discuss about the meaning of the term "organic strucuture" and discuess through the diferent meaning and how it approach to architectural design aspect.)

Supported by :

1.1) Sergeant, John, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Houses: The case for organic architecture, New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1976.

(This book is to support the idea of how the organic architecture is like by loking at some of Frank Lloyd Wright's works to gain this understanding)

1.2) Curtis, William J.R., Modern architecture since 1900, New York: Phaidon Press, 1996.

(More of the organic architecture works by different architects, this is to shape the idea and support the undersatnding of the meaning of organinc architecture)
1.3) Wright, Frank Lloyd, An Organic Architecture, London: Lund Humphries & Co.Ltd., 1939.

(An example of organic architecture from Frank Lloyd Wright, an architect whose famous in designing organic architecture)

1.4) Sullivan, Louis; Benton, Tim; Benton, Charlotte, Ornament in architecture 1982, London : Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1975.

(Some of theelement on the architect which is related to organic reference term, this source is used to establih the idea and understanding toward organic strucutre, in terms of meaning and its design)

1.5) Pearson, David, Earth to Spitit: In Search of Natural Architecture, Australia: An Augus & Robertson Publication, 1994.

(Another perspective toward architecture, naturlism is focused in this book, help to link the term organic and natural together and so realte it back to organic architecture)

Main source 2) Powell, Kenneth, Architecture of the future: Richard Rogers, Switzerland: Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture, 2006.

(This is the second main source , discuss about the floating architecture, with an example of building to discudd in essay in terms of design approach, space and location)

Supported by:

2.1) Bognar, Botond, Hiroshi Hara: The ‘Floating World’ of his Architecture, Great Britain: Wiley-Academy, 2001.

(The book is to explain the meaning of floating architecture, establishing the great understanding to the meaning of this term)

2.2) Heuvel, Wim J. Van, Structuralism in Dutch architecture, Amsterdam: Cutch Ministry of Welfare, Health and Culture Affairs, 1992.

(Some if the Dutch archiecture are clissified as floating architecture, understand more of the aspect of floating architecture and wher to location is, can help to support the idea in the review of the main source)

2.3) Giedion, Sigfried, Space, time and architecture, Cambridge Cambridgeshire: Harvard University Press, 1967.

(This book chpter focus on the term "space" since it is realted to the space and location of the topic, understand this text then help to support the idea toward the reviews)

2.4) Behne, Adolf, No longer shaped space but designed reality, Santa Monica, CA: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities 1996.

(Another text that talk about pace but in opposite direction, the text creating a contrast between to two architects so give more information and detail to the discussion)

2.5) Rowntree, Diana, Buildings face the future : is there perhaps more to architecture than you think?, Corbridge, England: Architype, 1994.

(The text about the architecture that could possibly built in the future, as floating architecture seem to be like a future architecture, this text guide through the rough idea of what the future architecture is and so lead to undersatnding of floating architecture)

Week 6 Studio : Lexicon

These are some of the words that poped up when I thought about the two topic that I will be writing about, Organic Architecture as in the design aspect and Floating arcihtecture as in the building technique strucuture.

Organic Architecture:

Self formation

Naturalism

Formative Art

Reasonable beauty

Multiformity

Realism

Irregular Forms

Anti-Composition

Floating architecture:

Adaptive Architecture

Shaped Space

"Freely Path"

"Variety og direction and forms"

"Free transportation"

"Imply weightless"

"Floating field"

Fixed Vs Unplanned

"Moving through air or water"

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Task to be completed for week 6 studio : Research

The research below shows the geometry of the building that form the different aspect of design of architcture.

Image1 : Helsinki University of Technology, main lecture theatre

This piece of architecture is a based on the design of abtraction of sphere. The building consisted of curve. In the relation the the image below the idea of how the semi-circle structure form into this bulding.(under the same idea)

Image 2 : Alvar Avalto, sketch of the amphitheatre at Delphi, Greece, 1953

Image 3 : Church if St Francis of Assisi

Another building that is construted by the basic shape of geometry. It is the implementation of curve and represented in organice form of architecture.

Image 4 : Oscar Niemeyer, Church of St Francis of Assisi, Pampulha, Minas Gerais, 1943, axonometric drawing

Diagram above show the basic structure un axonometric drawing. Clearify the idea of basic geometry being formed into the building.

Image 5 : Vladimir Tarlin, project for a Monument to the Third International, 1919-20

Another picture that shows the formation of building with is twited by stell structure. Focusing on steel structure, basic triangle is consisted and formed the unique structure.

Reference:

Image 1: Figure 575, Curtis, Modern architecture since 1900, p. 461.

Image 2 : Figure 576, Curtis, Modern architecture since 1900, p. 461.

Image 3: Figure 480, Curtis, Modern architecture since 1900, p. 389.

Image 4 : Figure 479, Curtis, Modern architecture since 1900, p. 389.

Image 5 : Figure 237, Curtis, Modern architecture since 1900, p. 204.