Angel Lu 2nd Yr Arch

Coogee Community Centre

2008-11-05T10:39:00.000-08:00

Architectural solution - DESIGN EXERCISE 3

2008-10-14T05:15:00.000-07:00

The Design idea was mainly influence by the idea of erosion by water and sand particles in the air. As you can see in the images above, this process leaves elements expose to their true form and how it leaves gaps and cracks in between the soil layers.
And I wanted the center to demonstrate the true nature of its construction and the structural system exposed.
Another concept is what the idea of community means. A community is a collective people with similar characteristics, such as interests, believes or ethnics. A community stands for the right to be accepted. And when one consider oneself as being part of a community, one is expected to behave in an appropriate manner without having told. The design tries to support this idea by having very open plans, and using glass walls for transparency. I hope in this case that walls should not define how people behave in the space but encourage what is and what is not appropriate. The spaces lack the pre-defined program and it is up to how these spaces are being utilize that give its functional purpose.

Architectural Solution - Edges, Internal and External Spaces

2008-09-22T00:57:00.000-07:00

Architecture and Landscape

2008-08-20T00:26:00.000-07:00

Art Gallery - The Design

2008-06-15T08:51:00.000-07:00

With this design I was trying to make the connection between Art and Architecture. And connecting it through these four symbols. These symbols that represtns the four elements, The Earth, The Air, The Fire and The Water. To my understanding these symbols represents the making of our bodies and that our bodies are the fundamental study of art. The earth, the solid, the bones, the walls that support the rooms. The Air, the openings, the windows, the voids. The Fire, the heat, the temperature, the light. The Water, the movement, the flow.

Art Gallery - Drawings

2008-06-15T05:47:00.000-07:00

Art Gallery - Model

2008-06-15T05:04:00.000-07:00

Room & Narrative

2008-05-09T09:00:00.000-07:00

The Doctor's Visit by Gabriel Metsu

In this 17th century painting, we have a young girl sitting on a chair looking ill, and an older, well dressed, middle age man examining what looks like the girl's urine in a flask. This is the artist's humorous depiction on the subject of Love. The ill looking girl on the chair is actually lovesick.

From this painting I derived the following Narrative.

"Rooms To Eat Chocolate For A Young Girl In Love".

Room & Narrative - Idea

2008-05-09T07:53:00.000-07:00

The basic geometry of the whold structure is a square, which was dictated by the base described in the project brief. The focus of the rooms are at the three coners of the square and the fourth corner is the entrance.

The design of these rooms are to reflect & accommodate the stages of the girl's love, and there are three stages, according to the three types of chocolate, the White, the Milk and the Dark.

The White chocolate room would be visited in the early stage of her love affair, when she's feeling excitement and joy for her new found "feelings". The room is to uplift her and draw her outwards, feeling light and airy. She would stand at the corner where the big glass wall is, too excited to sit, and she would eat her white chocolate.

The second stage is when she realised what these "feelings" means. A stage when she sees a change within herself & her surroundings. When everything is clear in her mind & she has made a decision on her choices, and the room is to be cleared, grounded and solid. She would sit to eat her Milk chocolate on a high banch at the corner of the room, filled with clear beams of light coming from the windows and the gaps between the walls & the gap above the corner.

The third stage, which may not be the last stage, is the negative side of her love. This is part with all the jealousy, and possiveness that could suffocate a person. So the room shows a lot of tension and compression, introverted and compressed. She would be sitting almost on a fetus position on a low platform surrounded by strained back piece and over head piece, and there she would have her Dark chocolate.

Room & Narrative - Drawings

2008-05-09T06:00:00.000-07:00

Room & Narrative - Model

2008-05-09T05:00:00.000-07:00

Model - Mother's House

2008-04-20T04:22:00.000-07:00

Poche` Diagrams - Mother's House

2008-04-20T04:18:00.000-07:00

Sections

Plans

Parti` Diagrams - Mother's House

2008-04-20T03:30:00.000-07:00

Structure & Geometry

Enclosure & Circulation

Program

sketches for Robert Venturi's Mother House

2008-03-21T23:54:00.000-07:00

sketches for the geometry in elevations & plans..

sketches for the circulation in plan

elevations & sections..