The Lumion environments from the project are available for download here.
All of the Sketchup models can be found on the 3D Warehouse.
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Saturday, 9 May 2015
Experiment 2
This experiment is laid out in a chronological way, so it is possible to simply read on from here and experience the entire design process in a natural way. However, if you wish to jump from place to place, the contents are as follows:
Concepts
Both Buckminster Fuller and Olson Kundig Architects have interesting and often-times differing views on architecture and design. These idiosyncratic concepts will be explored and used as the basis for a marker design.
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly"
"Love is metaphysical gravity"
"Doing more and more with less and less until you can do everything with nothing"
"Simplicity is the true measure of complexity"
"Reorganise the environment for prosperity"
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us"
"Contradictory objectives; open to environment, yet closed to create privacy"
"Architecture is the intersection between the poetic and the rational"
"A space is not constrained by area inside the building, a space is shaped by it"
"Architecture is a movement and it transforms its surroundings"
"Home as a primitive place"
"Architecture must be as intimate as a family member"
From Concepts to Axonometrics
I then took each of these concepts and used them as the conceptual basis for a series of axonometric drawings:
I was particularly taken with the model for "Simplicity is the true measure of complexity", and it will form the basis for my marker design.
From Drawing To Model
I then took my favourite axonometric drawing and converted it into a Lumion model:
I feel it has quite a strong presence about it, and it is a promising base for a marker design. The challenge lies in refining it into something more sophisticated.
Combining Parallel Projections
I then took some of my favourite axonometrics and combined them to produce interesting new forms. Smoothing one member of each pair also produced some interesting results:
TOP: Simplicity is the true measure... + Architecture is a movement...
MIDDLE: There is nothing in a caterpillar + Doing more and more...
BOTTOM: Architecture must be as intimate... + Homes as primitive places
It's interesting to see how the different models interact with one another, and it's particularly interesting if you imagine one of the pair informing the marker, and the other informing its position in the landscape.
The Concepts Re-Worked
Of the twelve original concepts, there were two that particularly struck me as interesting:
Buckminster Fuller: Simplicity is the true measure of complexity.
Olson Kundig: Architecture is a movement and it transforms its surroundings.
There is something in the directness and accessibility of these statements that makes them appealing and interesting to me. When writing in Architectural Design, the great Dutch artist and architect Lars Spuybroek wrote:
"Why still speak of the real and the virtual, the material and the immaterial? Here these categories are not in opposition, or in some metaphysical disagreement, but more in an electroliquid aggregation, enforcing each other, as in a two part adhesive"
In this spirit, I sought, however clumsily, to fuse the two concepts into one:
By transforming their surroundings, simple forms, though complex as they are, transcend construction and become architecture.
This is the idea that I will use to develop the basic axonometric form into something hopefully far more compelling.
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