Design Sketches



 Study model sketch

 

Plan 1

Section 1

 Plan 2 & Section 2

 Plan 3 & Section 3

Site Scaled Model

Assignment 11 - New Concept Development Model

Assignment 10 - Part 2 (Concept Models)

Site Impression:

 

The long-narrow site doesn't has to be limited. There should be more possibilities happen on the waterfront end. Color rods, wood sticks and circle give energy to the site and can be see through the site itself.

The free form materials are wrapping around the long piece card board (can be form into arch or edges). The combination represents the freedom landing on the site, and make the site even more attractive.

Inspired from the paper boat on the dead sea, the model is form by three elements, the triangle shape boat which wants to getting away from the area, the transparent plastic water base and the white foam block like surrounding buildings. 

 

Edge:

 

The free form shape in the center of the model in limited by the edges all around made by the steel wires. The edge of the wire keep expanding out for further restriction. That's the same feeling what gold fish in the bag has in the collage. 

Edges can always form by different shapes. The hollow box and the triangle piece intersect with each other to create the edge of the box and the three edges of the triangle. Edges are no longer live out of the objects but been part of the objects.

Different from the previous edge model, edges may exist when objects just simply glued one by one. Each circle has different width and positions which are also effects the way how edges formed and translated.

 

Programs:

 

The dynamic shape formed by a piece of thick paper represent the main performance art stage in the design, and it should be the focus point in the building. Two additional elements are attaching to show the interactions of other programs.

 

Three pieces come together to tell the relationship between the programs. The middle piece represents auditorium which is connected by the orange foam and the pattern extruded piece. The whole idea is to points out the importance about how people circulate through the spaces.

The middle piece of the art-like paper figure was inspired by the performance art image in the collage. Other programs then become more specific and has their own functions and styles. However, the connections will be always concerned.

 

Assignment 10 - Part 1

 

Site Impression

The site is located near the waterfront, where used to be a fish market area. We went to the site by walk; I found that the subway station is pretty far away from the site. And there are no high risers or landmark buildings around the area. Nothings are really attracting people. All those things make me feel alone by standing on the edge of the site. The fishbone represents the history of the site, and the paper ship travels on the dead sea represents the first impression what I see the down side of the site. The blocks show the hierarchy of the neighborhood. However, the pocket like site has its own potential, it is long and narrow. I felt the tendency how the site is going towards the water which might be a good point in the design process. So I think we should not restricted by the existing site condition, and make it more creative and reasonable design. That’s why I have the freedom image on the top left corner.

 

Edge

Edge can be anything. It can be visible or invisible, can be good or bad, and can be limited or unlimited. What I put into the collage are different types of edge and different situation of facing the edge. The goldfish in the plastic bag willing to get out the edge of the living container; a man is riding really carefully on the edge of tightrope, otherwise he will fall down to the ravine; the edge of the water is something what people loves very much, but sometimes it is dangerous; a man is wearing the shirt which has the same pattern of the wall he leans on. The edge is blurred, and I call it “edgeless”; two leafs fall on the sphere stone and they can’t even go through the edges.

 

Program

As I planning to design a performance art center, the most important programs in my design are the performance stage and the auditorium. Obviously, the focus point is the performance stage. I decided to put the attractive human arts images in the center of the collage to emphasis the main theme of the design. It translate the feeling well by the contract black and white and the interesting idea. It is about art and performance. Then I have other representations of the program connected to the center image, including the auditorium, backstage, green garden, welcome lobby, etc. Meanwhile, the image on the middle top represent the feeling of the human scale of the space. So the collage might also give an idea about the process of developing the program and space.

Assignment 9 - Auditorium layout

 

 

Assignment 8 - Waterfront Research