THE BRIDGE: CONCEPTUAL MODEL 01

'Floating' Barcelona Pavilion with a change of axis

Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion

THE BRIDGE: LANDSCAPE [IN PROGRESS]

Exact location of my landscape:  An abandoned housing estate

A rough Sketchup model

THE BRIDGE: INSPIRATIONS + MASH-UP

Daniel Libeskind's Dresden Military History Museum
Juxtaposition

Joost Grootens' Limes Atlas
Conceptual urban landscape

MASH-UP

01. Eileen Gray [Architecture]
02. Louis Kahn [Architecture]
03. Neri Oxman [Architecture/ Architectural Computing/ Engineering]
04. Own words

To create, one must question everything. Architects and designers should not always accept off-the-shelf materials or movements but realise that they have the power to design and manipulate behaviours of architecture. The beauty of what you create comes if you first honour the material for what it really is, and then push all boundaries of the existing notions. Architects recreate, seek new realizations and carry the burden of enriching the world.


REFERENCES

01
"Quote #19 – Eileen Gray - I Like Architecture." I Like Architecture. http://www.ilikearchitecture.net/2012/07/quote-19-eileen-gray/ (accessed June 29, 2014).

02
Lobell, John, and Louis I. Kahn. In Between silence and light: spirit in the architecture of Louis I. Kahn. (Boulder: Shambhala, 1979), p3, 40.

03
MATTER Interview: Neri Oxman." MATTER Interview: Neri Oxman. http://www.materialconnexion.com/Home/Matter/MatterMagazine81/PastIssues/MATTER63/MATTERInterviewNeriOxman/tabid/699/Default.aspx (accessed June 29, 2014).

THE BRIDGE: WEEK ONE

Place of origin: Singapore (urban landscape dominated by apartment blocks)

Void Deck (Public space under the apartment block)

Corridor (rigid and narrow pathway which is repeated at all levels)

THE SPACE BETWEEN: DOWNLOAD LINKS

Lumion: https://www.mediafire.com/?nzz94e8vozcxam9

Sketchup: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=u44232991-14f5-45b2-89b5-88883277310c

THE SPACE BETWEEN: FINAL SUBMISSION

Landform 01

Landform 02

Landform 03

Kengo Kuma's monument on main land

Public space under Kengo Kuma's monument.

Kuma's monument is inspired by his approach to use light and transparency in the aim to create a poetic journey of space. I designed his monument as an entrance space to Kurokawa's monument. The use of timber screens and window cut outs frame Kurokawa's monument.

Repetition of white columns and surrounding trees

I positioned the columns to carve out spaces and create an elegant flow to Kurokawa's monument. The repetition of columns melts into the surrounding trees, building a relationship between nature and man-made. The space between evokes the experience of walking through a bamboo forest.

Kurokawa's monument reflects the idea of growth and repetition, similar to his capsule hotel. I designed this monument as an architectural sculpture instead of a space. The tree-like sculpture is separated and placed in the lake.

In addition, the floor slabs wrap around Kurokawa's monument and continue into the lake. I placed the last floor slab just on the water level to allow the water to interact.

THE SPACE BETWEEN: FINAL DESIGN WITH TEXTURES

Front elevation

Back elevation

The space between

36 Textures

Light Texture

Applied throughout Kisho's monument to highlight the direction of it's growth

Medium Texture

Applied on the vertical faces on the horizontal floor slabs. This helps to merge
them into the vertical structures.

Dark Texture

This texture is applied on the Kengo Kuma's ceiling slabs.

THE SPACE BETWEEN: IDEAS FOR FINAL DESIGN

THE SPACE BETWEEN: WEEK TWO

Electroliquid Aggregation Concept
"Through an idea of growth and repetition, the flow of spaces is manipulated, creating a poetic journey of space in between"

The Space Between: Creating a space based on the two architectural concepts, "A poetic flow and journey of space + Idea of growth, repetition and geographical manipulation as a means of architectural design".

CONCEPTUAL AXONOMETRIC DRAWINGS/ SKETCHUP MODELS

I designed 3 interconnections between the chosen axos.

Sketches

Developed Monuments