Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Black Box

The Black Box lecture last week has changed my perception on the applications of shadow in construction. Shadow could be perceived as a unique texture of nature. By simple concept of the creation of shadow where light fall upon an opaque object, it can be manipulated further to make an expression of texture by using this concept. My interest in this concept arose from Russell's Black Box lecture particularly on Shadow as Refuge. The picture is actually a shadow cast on a wall by a structure that are build intentionally for that purpose. Without using any material like tiles or wood, the shadow itself become the texture of the wall. Furthermore, why I found this method is fascinating is because its like revealing another and ironic character or behavior of the structure when it's under the light. Plus, Some architects made and expression of nature trough their building. However, for me, shadow as refuge works the other way round where nature expressed themselves trough casting shadow onto structures.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

3 Quotations

"All that we can do, is to keep steadily in mind that each organic being is striving to increase at a geometrical ratio; that each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply."

— Charles Darwin The Origin of Species (1859), Penguin edn, J. W. Burrow (ed.) (1968), 129.


"If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation."

(Stephen Hawking, A Brief History in Time, p12)


“For me, the potential for photovoltaics to play a major role in reducing the use of dirty kerosene lamps and the money people spend on batteries is enormous.”

-Nicole Kuepper

animations







Sunday, April 11, 2010

animations

I have uploaded the animations,however, the quality of the video is very bad and it didn't come out like it supposed to be.Thus I have to upload it all again. Sorry for the inconvenient.

developed model with textures






gallery space

paccinini's studio


swallow's studio

Texture used:


robust

whiskered


wet



sections of stairs

stair for first model



stair from gallery to above level

groundlevel's stair

stair for second model



stair from gallery to above level


groundlevel's stair

Short Movie

Materiality and Time



this video is about materiality that used by architects around the world

developed sketchup model

overall view


stair from gallery space to above


lowerground

second draft of sketchup model

above: love
below:courageous

first draft of sketchup model




above: fulfilled
below: unconditional

36 Textures






The 18 Sketches


















Paccinini and Swallow