Monday, March 30, 2009

Short video - Materiality

This is a short video of a demonstration of glass sculpting, in which an Italian glass blower creates a horse modelled on the Ferrari company logo.

It doesn't seem like much, and you wouldn't relate this small artistic piece to the architectural schemes we've been creating, but I find it simply amazing. I've always had a fascination with glass, as a material with distinct functional and aesthetic properties, as well as with its production, from sand or quartz to bottle or window. As you can see, I've featured it liberally in my section drawings, and it comprises the entire structure of my SketchUp model's upper and ground levels, so the video relates to the materiality of my scheme. I looked around for videos with interesting insights into glass processes, properties and unique uses, but ended up choosing this one, partly because most of the videos about glass processes were made in the 80's and featured 10+ minutes of factory footage and cheesy music, but mostly because it just made me think "wow that's cool."

It amazes me that in one or so minutes, this man turns a ball of molten glass into such a delicate sculpture, using a pipe and one tool. But more so, that the techniques and material of what would be considered industry produce a piece of art and beauty.

Developed artists' studios - textures and artworks!















Sunday, March 29, 2009

Textures

Custom textures




Monday, March 23, 2009

Second SketchUp Model

Here is the second studio and gallery design modelled in SketchUp. Below are the above and below ground levels, close-ups of each stair and the original section drawing the model is based on.








Second stairs

The stairs designed for the second SketchUp model, featured above in 3D.


First stairs

The above and below ground stairs designed for the first model.


Blog Comment

My comment on a fellow ARCH1101 student's blog, at:
http://jason-jasonjiang.blogspot.com/
(bottom of the page)

Monday, March 16, 2009

First SketchUp Model

The result of my first 3-dimensional SketchUp model. We were tasked to create one artist's upper-level studio and another artist's below-ground studio.


The top level corresponds to "industrialised" and the lower level to "ethereal", based on these pictures:

Friday, March 13, 2009

Sections

Conceptual sections for Experiment 1, Design Studio 1.













Sunday, March 8, 2009

Three Artists...

Below are images of artworks by three artists, and a NOUN, VERB and ADJECTIVE that describes them underneath each.
FIONA HALL
Medicine Bundles for the non-born child, 1993.
Consumption, Invert, Industrialised.

TRACEY MOFFAT

Invocations #5, 2000.
Illusion, Suffocate, Ethereal.
ROSALIE GASCOIGNE
Full Stretch, 1991.
Disorder, Confuse, Rebellious.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Three Images...

Hello, welcome to my blog! Below are my three images; a piece of creative work from high school, a great piece of architecture and a photograph of something beautiful.

Creative Piece

Sure, an exploding ship is pretty violent and alarming (architects and designers are supposed to create stuff...), but I always remember this picture for the reaction it got. Looking back, most of the drawings I did look static and overly 2D, but this is one of the few that had a real feel to it; like it captured a moment and you were witnessing something. So, still happy with it. Hope you guys like it :)






Great Architectural Piece

Petra, a historical site in Jordan. I wasn't sure if this would qualify, especially after looking at modern architecture; Petra is a number of sites forming an ancient city, completely cut from and carved into the rock around them (this is just one, the treasury). But structures with sections and spaces were still designed and created, even though material was removed from a site rather than brought to it. I think that achievement makes it even more amazing.











Something Beautiful

Okay, flowers are a cliche and unoriginal, but this bunch in particular was the perfect photo opportunity. The purple-white colour combination is so striking, even bordering on unrealistic (at first I thought they were fake). Just really cool, and naturally beautiful.