Image Captures and Architecture

'School of Civil Engineering and Architecture'
Links the Blockhouse to the new Electrical Engineering Building (still under construction)

Overview

This image best highlights the overall Post-Modern style of the design. It shows a contemporary interpretation of cubism in the computerised angular form of the main building as well as 

a rustic appropriation of industrial materials in the pillars of the walkway. 

Walkway Exterior

This photo focuses on the exterior texture of the glass that is found on both the walkway and main building. Resembling the facade of 'Water Cube' (the Beijing Aquatic Centre for the 2008 Olympics), it is through this material that a fantastic array of colours, accentuated below, and an artificial mirage are observed due to refraction of light. 

Walkway Interior

Library

One of the many functional elements of the school required as part of the brief. Notice however the mirage created by the textured glass on right-hand side for the external view. 

Note: Lumion wasn't capable of demonstrate the full extent of sunlight refraction for the interior without crashing.

Studio Space with Computer Lab

Top Floor Exhibition Space with Postmodern Art

This screenshot best displays the open structure of the communal spaces in the interior shell as well as the elegant industrial chic stairs that connects the levels. The floors are purposely designed to be multifunctional as exemplified by the Exhibition Space that can be converted to classrooms when not being used.

Moving Elements

Self-Locking Bridge:

Open Position

Phase 1- Top Slides Back

Phase 2- Rotates to Vertical

Phase 3: Slides Down in the Gap

Closed Position

Hidden Electric Blinds:

Blinds Up and Not Visible

 Blinds Slowly Drops From Crevice in Ceiling

Continue to Drop to get Full Coverage however can be stopped earlier

Blades rotated to increase privacy

Idea- Kinetic Sculpture: (Not in Model)

36 Custom Textures

Loose/Impromptu

Ordered

Organic

18 Sketch Perspectives

Collective Drawings from the Experiment examining both one and two perspectives

Theory

"The Abstraction of Ambient Light in Post-Modernity"

Inspired by contemporary architecture and the study of Louis Kahn in ARCH 1121 (excerpt below), I wanted to further explore the physical refraction and figurative abstraction of light in Experiment 3. Focusing on how textured glass surfaces interact with sunlight and what effect this has on the ambience of a space. 

Excerpt from my W9 ARCH 1121 Essay:

Kahn in his theories about light accentuates how technology has altered the possibilities of design for architects [1]. Kahn elevates “the window” as “most marvellous element in a room.” [2] The capacity to set the “range of mood offered from morning to night” [2] empowers Kahn to be able to entirely control the atmosphere of a space.

Sources:

1.  Kohane, Peter, “Louis Kahn and Art of Drawing a Room” (Sydney: University of New South Wales, Jan 1 2009)

2.     Kahn, Louis, “The Room, The street and the Human Agreement” (AIA Journal, September 1971)