Berlin By Night

Berlin By Night
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The Night Falls on Berlin

The Night Falls on Berlin
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Saturday, November 8, 2008

The Wooden Horse - Ideas and concepts

Ideas:

- Simple
- Contemporary
- Bulky looking exterior
- Opened up areas (interior)
- Relationship between man and nature
- Sufficient solar access (quality of light)


Concepts:

- Roof garden
- Usage of an atrium
- Open floor plans
- Unfinished concrete wall panels
- Sufficient and clever placement of windows
- Galleria (product showcase)



Roof Garden



Atrium



Unfinished concrete walls

The Wooden Horse

Godfrey Heimrich, my client the warehouseman after picking up where his father left off is in a better condition than he was before. He was down, not confident, full of insecurities and was lost, without any hope left in him.

After some time being alone and doing some deep thinking of what he should do in his life in his "tower" a.k.a " his bedroom. He is now thinking of refurbishing and relocating his warehouse cum his home to the city facing Hejduk Square.

He still prefers to have his private/alone time in his bedroom hence i will design his "tower" somewhere isolated yet "open" to the environment.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Typollogy 1




Assignment 2 - Mystery Play!

"DIAGRAMMATIC POTENCY OF THE “NINE SQUARE GRID IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN"

- Any line drawn on a sheet of paper, or the simplest form modeled from a piece
of clay, is like a rock thrown into a pond. It upsets repose, it mobilizes space.
Seeing is the perception of action.

- Gilles Deleuze refers to the diagram as a “battle that occurs in the canvas between the painter and his data." Deleuze explains the diagram through the
paintings of Francis Bacon. For Deleuze, the canvas already bears the painting.

What is this act of painting? Bacon defines it as follows: making marks at
random (brushstrokes-lines); cleaning, sweeping, or wiping places or areas
(daubs-color); throwing paint at varied angles and speeds. Now this act (or acts)
presupposes that there are already figurative data on the canvas (and also within
the painters head) that are more or less virtual or more or less actual. These data
will be precisely demarcated, cleaned, swept, and wiped, or covered over, by the
act of painting. For example, we lengthen a mouth, we make it go from one side
of the head to the other; we clean part of a head with a brush, a scrubbing brush,
a sweeping brush, or a rag. This is what Bacon calls a Diagram...



* Alot of projects and exercises were generated through this nine grid system like
what we are to do now~ to design 4 houses based on this nine grid system~ *


http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/5info/topics/skcompe2008/index.html


The above website directs you to the design brief of our assignment~ It is also the brief to a competition which its deadline is dated on the 18th of November 2008!!


Warehouse

Warehouse
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Warehouse

Warehouse
(Photo taken from Deviantart.com)

Warehouse

Warehouse
(Photo taken from Deviantart.com)