endgame 06 - perception views - draft

1. view from carnaby/ beak street intersection... the bentley enters the building

(better quality render of facade and portcullis that also incorporates the visible interior brick walls will replace this)

2. view from the lobby: maurice ascends the stairs

(needs to be re-rendered with internal portcullis, materials and lighting)

3. Client interfacing within executive bar

(I used the 3d print model for the perforations in this view and the next hence they are overscaled and need to be replaced by actual bricks in the final render)

4. the sweatshop works on...

(again needs to be rendered with actual bricks along this surface and have proper figures photoshopped in)

all these views are just a draft to give a sense of what I would like to capture in the final sequence but please let me know whether any of them need to be modified further than what I have aforementioned / if they are not effective yet.

Im currently editing (01) strategic overview and (02) becoming habitat. I have also finished the coded sectional model to be printed tomorrow which hopefully will not collapse despite the cantilevers and perforate walls. Will bring all drafts of drawings printed to scale on tuesday.

preliminary skin sketch model +new ideas

the initial skin is a series of brick facets with openings (marked in blue) between facets to let light inside
in elevation, the facets peel away to create the openings much in the same way as the interior quetta bond peels away to create an intermediate space between the two layers of the wall

viewed frontally from carnaby street, one doesn't see the openings in the façade, only the facets that mask the perception of depth

viewed obliquely along beak street, the façade begins to open up and the depth of different facets can be understood (or not depending on the surface grain of the brick pattern for each facet) and the gaps between facets begin to be understood creating a more changeable experience of the surface like some of my foil models.

having built this model, I am starting to understand better the issues discussed at my tutorial of how the skin shouldn't be one element pasted onto the building but rather something that shifts between floors and overlaps to bring some of the interior vocabulary of the 'intermediate space' towards the façade.

My next step will be to model this new façade in 3d but do you think it is worth building another paper physical model or rather go back to exploring in section how the new façade can interact with the adjacent spaces and then make some decisions after that?

I think once I model the new façade in 3d and am happier with the nature of the spaces behind it, I could start to think about the brick pattern grain and how that can be unwrapped and rewrapped onto the façade - similar to the process used when making my foil models?

Maurice's World

In this initial study I have arranged the volumes that would be occupied by Maurice Saatchi within the building. A wireframe of the floorplates (2.8m high on avg) for the remainder of program can be seen against these volumes. All volumes occupied by Maurice are 4.2m high with the exception of where they conform to the heights that the façade stipulates.

My next step is to try and incorporate the geometry generated by my brick patterns as a mediator between these two worlds and then to cut sections to elaborate on how they relate to one another.

TS brick studies

Here are some of the pages I have been working on so far for the TS tutorial yesterday.

Now I am working on creating an instruction manual of how I created my foil models and their various effects. (I will post this later when I finish it) By drawing the effects of the models, I hope it will help me to start tackling my ground floor intervention over the weekend.

Bricks! (from http://www.marckoehler.nl/officeInfo/news/News.html)

MK ARCHITECTS SHORT-LISTED FOR THE BRICK AWARD 2010
- July 2009

Marc Koehler Architects has been nominated for the "Fourth Wienerberger Architecture Award - Brick Award 2010". Out of 250 entries, 45 projects have been nominated.

Brick Options for 3d Printing

option1: brick size the same as Tate Modern extension, converging on either side, projecting and receding illusions

option 2: brick size the same as Tate Modern extension, converging on either side, projecting and receding illusions, multiple layers

option 3: standard brick size, varying angles of brick to create texture

option 4: standard brick, notched intersection of facets to avoid making 'special' bricks

option 5: standard brick, notched intersection of facets, varying bond spacing to create illusions of depth and counterdepth

please give feedback on which models should be printed on Monday and how they should be modified (if necessary). So far I think models 1, 3 and 5 should be printed although 3 seems too haphazard and too small a fragment as it currently exists.

please also advise on scale. I thought of printing at 1:50 but in the case of option 5, this scale may be too small to be legible so it might have to be 1:20.

Initial Brick Translation of Effects

In this initial drawing, I experimented with different ways of staggering a brick course and how angled facets could meet to capture the effects created in my foil models of perspectival convergence, coincidental disruption and directionality. The above image shows two variations of a perforate brick pattern and how the qualities seem to relate to the effects of the foil models below.

OPEN JURY WED 17 FEB

begin with DIP 9 Iconic Fictions

Inter 12 Pop Vernacular

Inter 5 Dwarf Village

Tutors and guest jury Chris Lee, quite serious mood...

Looks so Lonely where is my family!!!

Unit 6 Camouflage, more serious face ^ ^

Inter 11 Latent Territories

After presentaion, Discussion of tutor and guest jury.

This talking was quite hot debate between inter 1 and inter 11.

It was constructive critics for us to develope further progress.

Also good oppurtunity to understand whar we are doing and to find where we are.

I hope we have small discussion about the comments from OPEN Jury to crystalise our new brief asap.

Thanks tutors and guest juries

Camouflage: A Catalogue of Effects (2)

Camouflage: A Catalogue of Effects

What will we do without Jin Uk?

Chen and Kit's perforated area.

Jonathan with Fumi's colourful schedules.

The back members room before the dazzling bega

Zamri cutting the pieces of the table.

Ru photographing the models.

b-day gl

exhibition book mock-up using chen's patterns

title page for each camouflage presentation group

camouflage presentation summary

cover page for individual pattern study with blurb and pattern

sample of general spread containing patterns (i have all the spreads for chen's patterns but decided to only upload one as an example)

final page of individual pattern study: ends with some images of successful foil models and how they are a translation of the 2d studies (optional - if people think its necessary in which case would need you to name your 2-3 best models and write a bit more text about the move from 2d-3d)

Please comment on whether you like the general layout or if you think its too simple. I tried to incorporate the pattern as part of the graphics and will do the same for each pattern hence I would like to get the go-ahead from everyone in order to move ahead and format the whole book. thanks!