ADS AIR 2012: ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE Ecknaathh Bala

TUTOR: GWYLLIM JAHN

PROGRESS JOURNAL

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“ ABOVE ALL, ARCHITECTURE NEEDS TO BE ANALYSED AS DISCOURSE ”

03 FOCUS PERSONAL PROJECTHEADSPACE 1 -FIRST YEAR VIRTUAL DESIGN

05 FUNDAMENTALS STATE OF THE ART PROJECTSCHANGI TERMINAL 3 - SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERILL, WOODHEAD ARCHITECTS, CPG

08 CASE FOR INNOVATION COMPUTATIONAL DESIGNSUBTERRAIN & MONOCOQUE 1- NERI OXMAN

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Airport architecture has taken off to new heights, they represent one of the most revolutionary forms of architecture as an emblem of national pride. Acting as international gateways they represent the first and last impressions of a country. They reflect cultural identity and to residents these iconic structures are unconscious associations of collective identities.

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FOCUS

CHANGI STATE OF THE ART PROJECTS FUNDAMENTALS

HEADSPACE

The emerging scientific insight into simulation of material formation may have potential implications for tissue fabrication and “natural en-gineering” of larger material complexes such as a building’s skeleton.Neri Oxman is internationally recognized for extending the ar-chitectural discourse with her work in the field of “Natu-ral Artifice” exploring the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering and biology with the aim of re-fab-ricating natural forms in a way that reflects their underlying physics.

The emerging scientific insight into simulation of material formation may have potential implications for tissue fabrication and “natural en-gineering” of larger material complexes such as a building’s skeleton.Neri Oxman is internationally recognized for extending the ar-chitectural discourse with her work in the field of “Natu-ral Artifice” exploring the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering and biology with the aim of re-fab-ricating natural forms in a way that reflects their underlying physics.

Changi Airport Terminal 3, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in collabortion with Woodhead Architects and CPG has been intention-ally aclaimed for its state of the art roof and sublime interior qualities. It is the “first of its kind”, designed parametrically, the series of components that make up the roof is mechanically programmed to filter and manage optimal levels of light within the interior concourse. 919 skylights en-gulf the terminal with light, ambience, mood, emotion and experience.

“ THE MOST FUNDEMENTAL CHALLENGE FOR AN ARCHITECT WHEN DESIGNING AN AIRPORT IS TO EVOKE A SENSE OF PLACE AND TRANSLATE VAST SPACES INTO RELATABLE IDENTITIES”

MADHAVI TUKMUR - INDESIGN

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TEA ROOM - EXHIBITION - TAKASHI SUGIMOTO

Takashi Sugimoto, founder and President of SUPERPOTATO, is an enig-matic designer and architect. His designs are world renowned and in par-ticular one of his exhibition installments named the Tea room. this small enclosure with its boundaries limited by precise water droplets that com-bines a timeless tradition in a sacred space, evoking a great sense of re-lation and experience. This broadens our understanding of architecture and what formal relationships and systems that are associated with it. Ar-chitecture is an art, its symbolic and representational and experiential.

“ WORK AT CREATING PLACES THAT ALLOW COMMUNICA-

TION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND INCORPORATE A SENSE OF

NATURE”

TAKASHI SUGIMOTO - SUPERPOTATO

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RELATABLE IDENTITIES

BROADENING ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSESkidmore,Owings & Merill chose Changi T3, to be published in their annual Journal, called SOM Journal to celebrate the most “innova-tive projects”. The journal would go on to impact the architectural discourse at large. Changi T3 has recieved several accolades for its innovative design, most recenlty being shortlisted in the World Ar-chitectural Festival, and recieving numerous awards, namely from the Chicago Anthenaeum and the American Architecture Award.s The firm’s design intent is to relate this type of formal investiga-tion into the articulation of surface, boldness of architecture, and appropriateness of spatial expression. By collaborating the special-ised fields of both engineering and architectural investigatve rease-arch, a more innovative design can be acheived, which is applicable to the Gateway Design Project. Besides its computational design and mechanical programming of the Canopy roof at Changi Terminal 3 which has broadened the interpretation of architecture, it has also established that this particular apporach, and innovation creates relat-able identities, and in relation to the Gateway for Werribe I will use this approach to create an identity for Werribe through the Gateway.

CHANGI TERMINAL 3 - SOM NEW YORK, WOODHEAD ARCHITECTS, CPG

FUNDAMENTALS FUNDAMENTALS

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Neri Oxman’s investigation and experimentation project named Sub-terrain is focused on examining the physical features of a terrain and express the distribution and magnitude of forces and the way in which it is formed. By studying 2D tissue samples from animals, Oxman then re-constructed them digitally and by applying a computational techniques, Oxman created prototypes by computing hypothetical physical re-sponses. Informed by the analysis resulting in laminated structural com-posites which respond to given ranges of energy and loading conditions.

Both Subterrain and Monocoque 1 will be exhibited at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the MoMA exhibition which showcas-es objects projects and concepts from all around the globe which have successfully translated disruptive innovation. Oxman pro-motes a new innovative approach to design in all her projects, and in particular in which form is determined both by nature and the materials used and the natural forces that shape the materials.

Monocoque 1, is another exemplary project by Oxman, that in-vestigates structural properties in external skin. French for “single shell,” Monocoque stands for a construction technique that sup-ports structural load using an object’s external skin. Contrary to the traditional design of building skins that distinguish between internal structural frameworks and non-bearing skin elements, this approach promotes heterogeneity and differentiation of material properties.

Oxmans’s projects and research based experiments are a case for innovation and are only achievable through computational de-sign and a understanding of parametric methods. This is an radi-cal and unconventional approach that I would like to explore in the Gateway Design project for Weribee. Oxman’s approach in creating structural components which have been reconstruct-ed from natural sources can be applicable to the Gateway de-sign in creating a structural skin with load bearing properties.

FORM FORM GENERATIONTION

DIGIDIGITTALAL

The emerging scientific insight into simulation of material formation may have potential implications for tissue fabrication and “natural en-gineering” of larger material complexes such as a building’s skeleton.Neri Oxman is internationally recognized for extending the ar-chitectural discourse with her work in the field of “Natu-ral Artifice” exploring the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering and biology with the aim of re-fab-ricating natural forms in a way that reflects their underlying physics.

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MONOCOQUE 1 - components

MONOCOQUE 1 - lighting