Issey Miyake's workshop is in the shape of a lantern, connoting to a spiral, oriental inspired structure. Spiral stairs lead down to a translucent donut shaped showroom where cylindrical glass cases are used to showcase works. The vertebrae staircase connect the showroom to Louise Bourgeois's dark, concrete clad open workshop area. Her space is more cave-like and inward looking compared to Miyake's as many of her works are self-reflective.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
EXP1: 36 Textures / Material Study with Model/ Video
I applied the Metallic, Corrugated, and Expanding textures onto my model.
I feel like this music video really captures the essence of what kind of atmosphere I wish to convey in my building. A dim lit, translucent, grey tinted space, glowing from within. A sophisticated environment for cultivating creative ideas.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
EXP1: Stair SketchUp Models
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
ANATOMY
I tried to recreate the idea of a spinal chord in Sketchup by creating a module and repeating it in a linear fashion to construct a staircase.
ISSEY MIYAKE
SPIRALLING
The spiralling staircase blends the idea of organic shapes with the use of an industrial material (steel). I feel like this really encapsulates Miyake's design philosophy as many of his pieces cohesively fuse modern technologies with rhythmic sculptural forms.
The spiralling staircase blends the idea of organic shapes with the use of an industrial material (steel). I feel like this really encapsulates Miyake's design philosophy as many of his pieces cohesively fuse modern technologies with rhythmic sculptural forms.
EXP1: Stairs Sketches
ISSEY MIYAKE
SPIRALLING
I stuck with the idea of a spiralling crinoline structure in most of my Issey Miyake inspired staircase concepts. I also experimented with the idea of lanterns or something more oriental-looking.
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
ANATOMY
With Bourgeois I had difficulty translating the idea of an Anatomical structure into a staircase. I was inspired by the shape of the human vertebrae as it possesses the same modular step-like structure of a staircase.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
EXP1: First Draft of SketchUp Model
My first SketchUp model was inspired by my Spiralling (Issey Miyake) and Anatomy (Louise Bourgeois) section sketch as shown below. The shape on top was based off the structure of a crinoline which is an intrinsic element displayed in many of Miyake's works. On the other hand, the shape below is more organic with curvilinear lines which resembles much of Bourgeois's work.
EXP1: Client Description and 18 Section Sketches
CLIENT ONE: ISSEY MIYAKE
NOUN: Lantern
VERB: Spiralling
ADJECTIVE: Rhythmic
CLIENT TWO: LOUISE BOURGEOIS
NOUN: Anatomy
VERB: Liquefy
ADJECTIVE: Sarcous
VC1 SPIRALLING
NC2 ANATOMY
VC2 LIQUEFY
AC1 RHYTHMIC
VC2 LIQUEFY
NC1 LANTERN
AC1 RHYTHMIC
NC2 ANATOMY
AC1 RHYTHM
VC2 LIQUEFY
AC2 SARCOUS
AC1 RHYTHMIC
AC2 SARCOUS
NC1 LANTERN
AC2 SARCOUS
VC1 SPIRALLING
NC1 LANTERN
AC2 SARCOUS
NC1 LANTERN
NC2 ANATOMY
NC1 LANTERN
VC2 LIQUEFY
NC2 ANATOMY
AC1 RHYTHMIC
NC2 ANATOMY
NC1 LANTERN
NC2 ANATOMY
VC1 SPIRALLING
VC1 SPIRALLING
AC2 SARCOUS
AC1 RHYTHMIC
AC2 SARCOUS
VC1 SPIRALLING
VC2 LIQUEFY
VC2 LIQUEFY
VC1 SPIRALLING
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
BEFORE THE FIRST CLASS...
This is a piece I made for a Green Fashion competition. It is a dress inspired by Vivienne Westwood's experimental and fragmented garments. I looked at the relationship between nature and the urban environment by researching the overlapping structure of leaves and plant life, as well as the deconstructivist style of fashion during the 1980s. The dress was upcycled from old school uniforms.
Tadao Ando's Church of the Light is an extremely interesting architectural creation as his use of plain concrete in a place of worship is surprisingly warmed by the manipulation of light through spaces. It seems to possess a very ethereal atmosphere.
This is a photo I took when my uncle took me to the new Sumida Hokusai Art Museum in Tokyo which he was the construction consultant for. This building was designed by Kazuyo Sejima. I love her architectural philosophy and sophisticated modernist style, but also her individuality and mental fortitude as being one of the few female 'starchitects'. My uncle explained how structurally complex the building was to achieve in a construction point of view as the asymmetricality of the glass planes made it hard to visualise the building using only 2D floor plans, which is why multiple 3D models had to be made.
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