Assignment 3 Submission Links

Website

250 Words "Feelings about the building"

250 Words "Discussing proposed changes"

10 Chosen Words

10 Chosen textures

Sketches

Redesigned model

Draft A1 panels

Assignment 3 Website

http://users.tpg.com.au/lamcube/DannyAssignment3

A1 Panels

The A1 panels turned out well, only problem i really had was just fitting enough information, so that i wouldn't overwhelm the reader. I did not use an interactive model in my PDFs because i rather have control over what is seen and not seen. I feel that i can easily just demonstrate the good points about my model instead of allowing someone else to look through the design and choose the good points for themselves.

Images of the model

Progress till the final submission

So far i think i'm on track with what i want done for each day till the submission date. Though i am having a lot of trouble with modelling in sketchup because of the stairs. Though i am going to be sticking to using just google sketch up, because i can use vray with sketchup too. I may take it into 3ds max for a better render but i shall see. I understand as a student of architectural computing i should be learning to use an array of programs to complete my work, but i think i want to be able to grasp the idea of one program first and fully understand its capabilities. Looking at google sketchup i find many programs are pretty much similar to sketchup in terms of toolbar functions etc. So i realize that though i am using this fairly simple program, i can still learn from it and apply it to more complex programs like solidworks.

I have slowly began to refine my idea of the silkeborg in terms of how i am going to present it on the 3 A1 pdf's. My plan will be to address the structure itself, looking at room location and curvatures in the building and the play of light.

I have noticed in my model when i look at lighting and shadow, i can see how the open areas from the top how they light up the interior in specific spots in the museum. I believe this was Utzorns intention of using this natural spotlight feature, to convey the artwork. So that is where my design and poster will lead me into.

Thoughts about the silkeborg redesign

After a long dicussion with Ross, it clarified so many things that i wanted and needed to know about Jorn Utzorn. Though it also opened a lot of doors into my approach of the Silkeborg design. One idea that i was really interested in was when Ross mentioned about the cargo ships, where Utzorn recieved his ideas from looking up in the middle of 2 cargo ship crates at the position of the light coming through. And also the idea of cave like structures also seem to present itself in the silkeborg plans. So i believe that with my redesign i want to be able to encapsulate the ideas of lighting, the surroundings and the feeling of caves.

The top of my Silkeborg design looks at using the idea of a maze. Have you ever been in a maze or in a cargo container hold, and walked around and the only light you see is the light coming from the top? that is where my ideas of the Silkeborg comes from. My Silkeborg above ground design looks at using that idea, by creating these walls that confuse people and also using thick glass in some sections to allow people down below to have small traces of natural light to shine through.

Silkeborg final redesign

Draft layout in Indesign of A1 Panels

Images of the Silkeborg before redesign

Silkeborg Model Draft 2

The design using google sketch isn't going that well. The tools in google sketch don't allow me to make all the complex curves easily. Though i think that i will try to continue using this program as i have already started and i want to finish it off this way. If google sketch does become too much of a problem, i will transfer my design into 3ds max and continue the design.

250 words on my redesign

This part is going to be hard to decide how my model is going to be turning out. But i think my model will be leaning towards the styles of Frank Gehry because i believe that though Utzon does not consider Gehry as a true architect their styles even though different still lead to a similar result.

After having a long talk with Ross about my design and such. I have turned away from using Frank Gehry as a means of describing Utzorn's work. Talking to Ross made me understand the true meaning of how he calculated every aspect of his buildings. I find Utzorn's way of thinking to have great depths in it. I was amazed at how he could see past the objects visual feature and use its structure as a means of creating his architecture. for example the line structure of the leaves is what fueled one of his architectural designs. I find this way of thinking to be beyond the capabilities of most architects.

I feel that my design will be based on the original plans of the Silkeborg, but i will change/add a few features that i feel express his ideas of lighting and caves. I also have noticed that in some of Utzons buildings his palette of colour is very limited. That is why i feel it is a must to replicate this same idea into the redesign.

10 textures

Awesome Website

I found a cool website for different Paver textures though only problem is that i don't know how to save the images. Only way i know is to screenshot and then alter the image in photoshop.

Texture Website

Redesign sketches

This was found to be the right design path i want to take my Silkeborg museum to.


These designs were a possibility but i found that it did not really go along with Utzon's ideas.

10 Emotive words

Visual
Vivid
Spontaneous
Perplex
Confusion
Crazy
Complex
Avant-Garde
Madness
Sadness

250 word feelings on the building

My first thoughts of the Silkeborg Museum architectural plans reminds me of the "Walt Disney Concert Hall" in Los Angeles, USA. Utzon never saw or wanting his buildings to be related to Frank Gehry in any way because Utzon did not see Gehry as a true architect, because of Gehry's farfetched ideas. In saying that, it seems like Utzon's Silkeborg museum shares a similar structure to the Disney Concert Hall. Visually you would believe as an observer these two architects had similar ideas. Though in interviews and books with Jorn Utzon, he explains that his ideas are all mathematically thought out, he does not randomly "scrunch a piece of paper" and proclaim his new architectural piece. He looks into geometry to create all his different curves, each line was thought out carefully.

Though i find it interesting that Jorn Utzon came up with a building design that was totally different to the current architecture that was being produced in that time. Possibly if the building was built, he could of changed how architecture could be defined, as in that time architecture was considered mere rectangular objects.

"But the world of the curved form can give something that cannot ever be achieved by means of rectangular architecture."

When observing the Museum's plans and looking at interpretated physical models of the building. The sense of a maze comes to mind or this carnival fun house where nothing really is as it seems.

References

The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA Designed by Frank Gehry, 1989.

draft of silkeborg

Silkeborg Model Steps

My model of the Silkeborg museum is going to be designed using Sketchup, i know that sketchup does not have the same "power" as 3ds max or solidworks, but the program is simple to use and it gives a rough model of the model, which i believe resembles the unfinished architecture of Jorn Utzorn.