2010年9月15日星期三

Layar

The TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/2d663r5


The Yahoo Pipes link:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=b3f2ce0e28fd811af3e9ed73a77ab26d



Final A1 Poster and Text

The Final Poster


 

                                             
The Final Poster Colour Scheme

                                             
Final Poster Text


The Spore Creature ToTo had been created as an artist who lives in a rapidly grown industrial city. The city is located by the coast where the city life is quite vacuity and boring. Although the city's infrastructure was quite well formed, there was a lack of Museums, Art Galleries theatres and parks for citizens to appreciate life and nature or even to get relax. ToTo is a open-minded creature who enjoyed his life as an artist and like to find inspirations from the nature world, he was not satisfied with the social environments of the city, so it was the time that he decided to propose a space as a art gallery where he could present his art works in order to let people around the city to visit and get relaxed. The place in the harbor of the city had been chosen as the site where art gallery is going to be built. The intention is that the harbor is the only place citizens can get close to the nature world. The building at the harbor are all tedious conservative style as all covered with grey concrete walls. In order to stand out if the surroundings, the art gallery had been designed as a abstract modern style which made of steel and glass. The purpose is to make a building as a landmark that people could easily notice. Some of the ideas to design the building were inspired by the nature in order to reflect the characters of creature ToTo. For the exterior of the building, the randomly intersected steal walls were inspired by the barks of foliages in the forest. And inside the steel well were all covered with glass curtain walls which could let nature light came into the building. the admission, exclusion, and transmission of the light through the glass or rejected by the steel was a reflection of the light through or obstruct from the bark and leaves in the forest. The multi-layer structure of the building's exterior was came from Zaha Hadid's work Civil Court of Justice in Madrid. For the interior, there is hall connecting all the levels from the first one to the top floor roof in order make the interior not to narrow. And with the class ceiling on the top floor roof, light can come into all the levels in order to maximize use the nature lights. Almost three quarter of the building are off the land and floating on the water, which makes the building easily stand out from other surrounded buildings and looks like a ship is going to sail from the harbor. The meaning of this is to allude that this is a place people could get out of the boring city start a new life. Apart from the art gallery itself, a public park was also been designed at the site, which could solve the lacking of parks and gardens in the city to provide citizens a palace to have a relax after works and during holidays. 

Final Environment Captures

Exterior
Interior
Plan
Sections

The Draft Poster

The Draft Poster
Poster Grid

Building Case Study 2: Zaha Hadid's Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre

Here is another work I chose from Zaha Hadid
Analytical studies of organizational systems and growth in the natural world lead to the set of topologies that are the framework of the Performing Art Centre’s distinct formal language. These natural scenarios are formed by energy being supplied to enclosed systems, and the subsequent decrease in energy caused by development of organized structures. The ‘energy’ of the Performing Art Centre is symbolized by the predominant movements in the urban fabric along the pedestrian corridor and the Cultural Centre’s seafront promenade – the site’s two intersecting primary elements. Branching algorithms and growth-simulation processes have been used to develop spatial representations into a set of basic geometries, and then superimposed with programmatic diagrams and architectonic interpretations in a series of iteration cycles. The primary components of this biological analogy (branches, stems, fruits and leaves) are transformed from abstract diagrams into architectonic design.


http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=zh-CN&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1920&bih=957&tbs=isch:1&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&gs_rfai=&q=ABU%20DHABI%20PERFORMING%20ARTS%20CENTRE%20site%20plan

Building Case Study 1: Zaha Hadid's Civil Court of Justice in Madrid

Zaha Hdid is a well known architect was born in Iraq and had done her architect degree in American University of Beirut in Lebanon and Architectural Association School of Architect in London. Zaha had won may prizes and computations and her works are famous for their abstraction. 


The envelope of the Civil Court of Justice is composed of a double-ventilated façade. The exterior layer of the façade is composed of metallic panels which respond to environmental and program conditions. These panels shift from open to closed and from flat to extended depending on the circumstances affecting them. It is also envisaged for the metallic panels on the Civil Courts of Justice rooftop incorporates photovoltaic cells. Inside the building, a spiralling semi-circular atrium is developed around the courtyard where all public space evolves. The atrium overlooks the courtyard, which serves as instant reference point for visitors to move around the building and extends to the lower ground floor, providing natural light to enter the court rooms at that level.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid
http://www.zaha-hadid.com/education/madrid-civil-courts-of-justice
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/14/civil-courts-of-justice-in-madrid-by-zaha-hadid/

BuildAR test

Spore Creature 2: ToTo's habitat