ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO AIR

JOURNAL

DEGUO HOU (JACK)387313

I’m going to talk about two architects in the jour-nal, one is my favourite architect Zaha Hadid, and another architect is Mario Botta. Before I’m moving any further, I’m going to explore my interest of design, that is light and views. Mario botta said before: “Light generates space: with-out light, space does not exist. “ And what he says had a huge impact on my design concept, and leads me to a new direction. No matter the light is natural light or an internal light, they all allowed our eyes to see things, so without light, we cannot see anything. So in the architec-ture sense, if there is no openings on the wall to bring the nature light into the room, it’s very hard for us to identify the spaces, the size of the space, and the function of the space.

Mario botta used his own way to bring the nature light into the room, he like to create openings on the wall, so in his design of single- family house Ligornetto, he used skylight, zenithal light, loggia light and big openings on the wall to illuminate the house. He believed that “The sun is a rich source of light for the illumination of forms and spaces in architecture.” And also, he brings dif-ferent amount of light into the different function room by creating different size of the openings. So you could see that there are many different size of square openings on the facade, which there’s a living room behind the small open-ings and study room and kitchen with the bigger openings.

This work here did by Zaha Hadid Architects in London. The design seeks to respond to and manipulate daylight and views. Its form is composed of interwoven planes that respect neighbours’ need for access to natural light, controlling light and views between the inte-rior and exterior.

The views of the surrounding environment plays an important role in my design concept, which I think the building is not just a building, it has some relationships (physically and visu-ally) with its surrounding environment. So that I always try to bring the nature views into my project design, and I also try to establish the physically relationship with the site, either by build contrast to the site or follow it.

This is my latest studio work, inspired from Mario Botta. In this project, I further ex-plored the idea of light and views. I created many openings on the wall, designed a enclose ramp in the air to take the water view above, etc. Moreover, something has to talk about here is that the whole design were effect by the computer programming. Simply, I start with playing with 3d modelling in sketch up, then back to plan, section and other architecture drawings. This is something different to what Botta did in his design process, and maybe more closer to the Zaha, which I think is a good thing, because by playing with a 3d model, we can quickly create some interesting form and then add something even more interesting staff on top of it, and we can easily make changes in the design. Moreover, we can see the rendering of our project.