Cloister Design

The cloister for this week:


Admiring the ceiling of the cloister in Oxford University



Sketch for transforming:



Another handsketching





The first step for making use of the frame drawn by the rhino script:





The most updated Cloister Rendering:

CountDown: Two more months

There are still two more months for my final presentation.

Applying the Design technique

I am starting to apply the design technique that I generate from the last semester, and together I am reading the AD magazine called Programming Culture and Pet Architecture.

Site Model and Section of the Campus

Before making the site model for the campus, the Sections of the Campus is carried out first.

To understand the site three dimensionally more, I decided to carry out the action called ' Section of the Campus'. The section will be cut through out different buildings on the campus and the more precise roof plan will be drawn.

This makes me understand the site more in the different way besides the plan, and let me move forward to the 3D level.

Trip to Aquinas

Trip to Aquinas again.

On the way to Ballarat I have thought a lot, the most important thing is I think I need to take more initiative in this final semester which is I should be more decisive and more aggressive on the design.


The new exploration in the campus:



The gradient on the fence that surrounding the campus with the urban context. It may become one of the bricolage material in the end.



The sculpture that put in front of the art studio.

Post Mid Semester Presentation Action

Evaluation:

The presentation, as a whole, I will say is up to standard. And the most important thing is we got approved and recgonized for the idea about Bricolage. And the architecture language is fine.

But there are two main points that I need to think about, first, the presentation skills. the second is the 3D situation of the site.

The second problem will be solved soon in this week for the model of 1:250 will be made in this week, so I will go back to Ballarat again, to measure and observe for the height.

The frist problem I need to talk to supervisor. I am suggesting myself to present one of my previous project to Inger everyweek.

Mid semester Work

Here is the work that I have presented in the Midsemester Presentation:


1:1000 Site Plan showing that the campus is surrounded by the suburban environment. And the proposal for expanding the site boundary to purchase new land is not quite feasible. The coloured part of the project will be the newly added programme to intensify and to fulfill the future expansion of the campus



1:250 zoom in plan for showing more context of the campus. The future growth is consisted of the underground contemplation room, the art centre the cloister and the extension of the cloister. The whole idea is to link up the whole seperated campus into one piece, by that gesture the campus is expanded and glue up together to form become one piece.



The conceptual elevation for Bricolage showing the idea of collecting different architects work and put into one building



This is one of the rendering of the art centre, and showing the transition from the pipeline structure to the thickening rusting plate



Pipeline frame, frame the building



Perspective for the entrance for the art centre


Elevation drawing

The conclusion at this stage of the project is I am doing too much planning while more 3D aspect should be considered in the future. So the section of Aquinas will be carried out in the future. I promised this to myself.

Operation Code: I am an ARCHITECT

After two days suck for the pathway design I decided to walk myself away and end up with an operation with the code: I AM AN ARCHITECT.

Yes, I am drawing the site plan for the campus and the surrounding which is a lot of 'PAIN'. Wasting time to draw something from an aerial map.

Anyway I start to belief that I am an architect for the way that I draw up the plan whenever I reach the point I am not sure about ? HEHE, the answer is I am going to make the decision. Then the things start to speed up.

Tomorrow will be Tuesday, and I am going to meet my supervisor, INGER.

Thanks Inger.

Three more days to go

Brief: The list of drawings

Site Plan
1:500
1:1000 (Urban)

Plan of the whole campus with new stuff annotated notes
1:200

Pull out Plans (1:200)
- Underground crypt
- Roof Plan Arts Centre

Elevations / Sections Centre
1:100

Perspective of Arts Centre + Walkway

Images to collect (precedent)
- Carpenter Centre
- La Tourette
- Newman
- Existing Site
- South Lawn Carpark
- Oxford Cloister Space
- Kowloon Walled City

Crypt Design

Today is for the crypt design, I dont' know why I always feel like doing something underground is interesting. Although in the real situation, designing something underground is fully painful, stressful and expensive. So why underground ? This is a question that architects and I always face. In Hong Kong, the answer is simple, make more space. So how about the situation for the ACU Aquanas Campus ? The answer for me is because this is Catholic university, in the ancient time or medieval age the church in Rome, crypt is considered for the martyrs. And later it is considered to be the place as the second church or the church below. I can still remember the crypt in St. Mary Cathederal in Sydney is a place for displaying the history of the development of the Cathoic Church in New South Wales and together it is the tomb and the place for dsplaying the precious relics. So what is the crypt for the university will be ? Second chapel ? Contemplation Place ? The answer maybe all.

The Brief for the crypt:

1) Contemplation room
2) Church Choir practice space
3) Worship space
4) Staircase to chapel
The first sketch design for gets both sides for the contemplation rooms, make the plan and the space too complicated.


This is the simplified plan that containing one sided of extension wall. to form different function room. There is originally I propose to have one enclosed room for the priest to prepare the mass. But finally I feel like there should not have the enclosed space in the space.



This is the final sketch for the crypt, and the wall is modified to adjust the contemplation rooms.


So, at the end we get the final plan drawing for the crypt:

Visit of the University of Melbourne: Newman College and South Lawn Carpark

The trip:

University Campus:

When I stepped into the campus of University of Melbourne, I got a moment of hesitation. I am suprised by the number of studenst walking around the campus. I feel like I am walking in a Sunday park instead of a school. The campus is flooded by the students while studnets are playing ruby in the lawn, reading in the green grass land, discussing assignment in the canteen. Everything is alive at the moment. The next moment I start the comparison between the campuses of Melbourne Uni and the ACU Aquanas campus, they are different in the number of students, the scale and the atmospheric. Even though the students are all higher education students but I can still smeel the differences from them, while Melbourne Uni students are confident and get the pride in their eyes, the ACU Uni students are friendly and get the harmony in their eyes.

Walk along the campus from Gate 10 along the modern and classical building in the campus the first college come into my eyes, which is St. Mary College, pass by it, I saw the Newman College.

Newman College:

The first impression for me of the Newman College is it is a classical building, somehow I feel like the mood of the college of Harry Porter.

Newman College consisted of three main buildings, the big chapel, the domitary building with cloister and the new domitary building. All of them created a well defined courtyard space for student to use, the entrance of the college is not clear for the strangers, and the experience for me is I got the wrong entrance that I went to the central dinning building while I have been told by a cold signage to go back and found the proper entrance.

I feel like I am stranger when I walk into the college, although the arrangement of the hall is simple and definitely not a problem for a year 5 architecture student. But I have the strong sense, maybe it well contained space and the spatial arrangment let me feel like I do not belong to this area. Maybe the dress code, maybe the people inside the college make me feel like that anyway I definitely don't feel like I would like to stay there for longer if I am not the student in there.

Anyway, there is one thing that I cannot deny is the building is good, the central dining hall originally is the chapel form a well hierachy for the domitary, joining up two wings while the cloister has the beam and columns that formed up a poetic sense of light and shadow. The courtyard is just a courtyard but this is enough for the reason that the building define it well and let it stands out and make it functionable.


The Central dinning hall joining up two wings of the domitary

The central courtyard


The interior of the Dining hall although I am told not to take any interior photo but I took this before the warning.



The poetic Light and shawdow formed in the cloister


The aerial perspective of Newman College


South Lawn Carpark:

The South Lawn Carpak is originally the climax of my excursion of this week but when I arrived there I was disappointed, because I cannot find any roots of trees there. Anyway the columns are nice for an underground carpark but ..................




The actual carpark




The imaginary section of the carpark



When I leave the uni, I passed by the University Square and what did I discover there is a walkway which defined by the frame and wire and teh greenary.

Progression of SPACE

The CD cover for Joy Division: Unknown Pleasure
Showing the progression of space creating by the lines work.

For the Bricolage idea, stimulations from the Kowloon Walled City

Some Images from the Kowloon Walled City:





























































Image reference: City of Darkness, Life in Kowloon Walled City Greg Girard, Ian Lambot





















Sketch from the image: Framing the space



So, to apply this bricolage idea from picking up the 'nice piece' of residue from Kowloon Walled City to the Aquanas Campus, I would like to simplfied the gesture and make it more architectural.
















When the idea applying to the linking pathway of the campus, First thing comes up to my mind is making use of the 'pip-like' structure to become the pathway and applying 'force' to make the pathway form up some pattern like the 'Moire-Pattern'.




















After that I would like to simplfied the structure to facilitate the construction and make the sense of pathway comes out more.



















Lastly I would like to further geometrify the frame work and make the framework echo to the site and my design more.

Growth, Emergence, Bricolage

Growth emergence and bricolage share the same foundamental ground, which is adding up. While they are having different ideas of adding up.

Growth is the word used in biology, for the sicence student like me, which has the idea of increasing the populations of cell in a human body, when the word growth used means that the cells inside the body try to reproduce the more cells in the body which can be simply concluded like one mother cell is divded into two daugther cells. If there are no other influnce from the external media then the cells will stay identical and giving the same functions. If we put this word in the architecture field we can understand that if we claimed to give the growth of a university campus we are going to duplicate the some buildings and reproduce more identical buildings in the site to expand the functions. For example: We are giving a growth for the faculty of science, means that we are going to build one more scientific building for the faculty which is identical to the original one having the identical functions, layout and outlook.

Emergence, known as the development of a complex system, usually the system is built up from the elemental components in the system, some times tracable sometimes not. The term bottom-up described the process for us that the system is actaully start from the bottom level. From book of Steven Johson, he described the system of the ant habitant as a kind of emergence. The queen ant actually is not the ruler of the whole ant hole, while the system and the habitat is built up carefully by different species of ants. While the queen ant is being protected not because the queen gave the order while because the other ants know that she is the most important, for the reason she controls the birth of the ants.

Bricoalge, a word which usually mentioned as 'Do-it-yourself'. Some artists use this idea for the adding up idea for the collection of garbage. Adding up the things which are not useful and make it into a piece of arts.

Adding-up, increasing in number or building up a systems are the common ground of these three words while the result is totally different.













Growth























Emergence



















Bricolage














Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Visual___Artistic_Resources/Samuel_Bak/Samuel_Bak__Gallery_III_/Bricolage.JPG
http://www.effervescence.co.uk/gallery2/g2e.html
http://www.mrothery.co.uk/module8/notes/A2%20Option%20Module%208%20notes.htm