David Le - ARCH1390: August 2012

Thursday, 23 August 2012

With ideas from Assignment 1, I was able to further refine my concepts and how it has affected my chosen building. My concepts are 'jigsaw structure' and 'urban carpet. From looking at my building, solids and voids are being created throughout the building due to the arrangement of its linear blocks. This is also quite similar to a jigsaw-like concept where pieces are joined together to create new spaces. I incorporated this idea into my max model by creating separate parts that can join together or disband.
As for my other refined concept, 'urban carpet', it deals with how the building can invite people to go inside and explore, through the use of form. I tried to represent this idea with my max model by creating some sort of pathway or ramp that leads around the model, drawing you and allowing you to explore every aspect of the pathway.

3DS Max Concept Model Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAUwkVjMug

Assignment 2 A3 Posters

Urban Carpet

Jigsaw Structure

Storyboard

Build AR Draft (Testing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY13yl0WJm8

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Mediafire Link to Zip file

http://www.mediafire.com/?o2lwgnhv8kskarv

Overall Bibliography of sources

Representational Archetypes
Concept 1, 2, 3 - http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/lois-richard-rosenthal-center-for-contemporary-art/ (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Model 1, 2, 3 - http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/lois-richard-rosenthal-center-for-contemporary-art/ (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Model 4 -

Title: Zaha Hadid, 1983-2004.

Author: Zaha Hadid ; Richard C Levene ; Fernando Márquez Cecilia

Publisher: Madrid : El Croquis Editorial

Photographs
Image A - http://www.arcspace.com/architects/hadid/cac/index.html (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Image B - http://moonraking.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/music-videos-contemporary-arts-center-cincinnati/ (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Image C - http://www.arcspace.com/architects/hadid/cac/index.html (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Image D - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/cincy/hadid/front.jpg (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Image E - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/cincy/hadid/side.jpg (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Image F - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/cincy/hadid/sidedistant.jpg (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Image G - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/cincy/hadid/carpetoutside.jpg (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Image H - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/cincy/hadid/lookingtwdentrance.jpg (Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Image I - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/cincy/hadid/entrance.jpg (Date accessed - 25/7/12)

Plans
Plans 1 - http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/lois-richard-rosenthal-center-for-contemporary-art/#
(Date accessed - 25/7/12)
Plans 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 -
Title: Zaha Hadid, 1983-2004.

Author: Zaha Hadid ; Richard C Levene ; Fernando Márquez Cecilia

Publisher: Madrid : El Croquis Editorial

100 word reflection on the translation of 2D visual ideas into 3D concepts

The 2D visual ideas I got from looking at the plans, photographs and models of Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Centre are mainly based on the ideas of extrusion, pathways, and the arrangement of rectangular blocks to form complicated objects when combined. The main reason this building peaked my interest was the arrangement of the blocks. Zaha Hadid has used a really basic rectangular object form and has transformed it making it look exciting flowing well throughout the building. This idea has been translated into my paper models and 3DS Max model, trying to achieve a sense of pathways and discovery.