diagram

First one is my program diagram. I draw it after I saw the movie named "being john malkovich"

Second one is my site diagram. Traveler's approach and their destination.

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3d-diagram_2

This is the new one.

I wanted to show that we can make various shapes with same object.

It is what I want to achieve.

model2 for the Elderly Community

this model shows relationship between "being cared" and "care".

site diagram and program.

my program is on Elderly Community.
i started thinking about "being cared" and "care"

the mobius band means not only the infinite but also the way the elderly have walked through.

Inside of the band ; void, being cared, passive
Outside of the badn ; solid, care, active.

small cubes are showing the elderly's identity.

site diagram+program

it's kind of 3D-diagram about the site and my program.

first of all, lines on the background stand for my site about the Elderly Community.

the site is west upper Manhattan, broadway btw 72nd st and 73rd st.

my program needs adjacency with hospital, transprtation(bus, train highway) park, museum, and river(nature), which are fitted in this site.

and, in terms of program for the elderly community,

i divided it up as three parts according to privacy.

It's getting more public from the bottom part to the upper part.

(so, the upper part has more tags.)

actually, i was going to use the lighting according to the level of privacy.(but it didnt turn out well)

doris salcedo

Suspended? Cantilever

IT-Universitet, Rued Langgaards Vej 7












































Undercover Lab by Klein Dytham
http://www.klein-dytham.com/architecture/undercover_lab.php


Hafenbüro Rohner

Nykredit Headquarters

Here is something similar to what I was thinking about in terms of suspended architecture. I'd like to push it even further though...

Here is the model I made.

But still it doesn't look quite close what I want to make.

I will try again.

Site Diagram - DUMBO

My site is DUMBO. When I visited DUMBO last week, I could feel a lot of potentiality in that area.

"For years DUMBO has been known as one of New York's artistic and cultural centers, with events like the annual Art Under the Bridge Festival, organizations such as GAle GAtes et al. and Arts at St. Ann's, and countless fine art, photography, fashion and design studios. DUMBO has emerged as one of the fastest changing areas in New York City, with new residents, office tenants and retailers moving in every day to make DUMBO a true 24-hour community. This mix of uses combined with the creative energy of the neighborhood has made DUMBO one of the most sought-after commercial and residential neighborhoods in New York City. " (http://www.dumbo-newyork.com/index.cfm?objectid=99BD91CA-3048-7098-AF85991A665440F8)

This diagram means six informations of DUMBO such as range of the site, green area, newly renovated street, the way to get there, lofts and a direction of influence.

drawers from New Oleans

Jung eun! These are drawers from New Oleans after katrina. Each one looks like it has it'w own history. Somewhat they looks like cityscape.

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Diagram

My program is concerned with food and it will be a combine space with a gourmet shop, restaurant and cooking studio. So I made my diagram with a recipe. I chose a Cuban Chinese recipe because I am interested in mixed culture especially combined with different characters like western and eastern. This is an ingredient part of the recipe.

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Cuban Chinese Roast Loin of Pork
c.1997, M.S. Milliken & S. Feniger, all rights reserved

4 to 5 pound boneless pork loin, trimmed

1 bottle beer
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/4 cup orange juice

1/4 cup honey

3 tablespoons soy sauce

3 tablespoons sherry

2 tablespoons hoisin sauce

1/4 cup cooked back beans, mashed with a fork

2 tablespoons FiveSpice powder

4 cloves garlic, finely chopped

4 mandarin oranges or tangerines, peel and pith removed and cut into supremes

1/2 small bunch watercress, coarse stems removed

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I paid my attention to ingredients because I could find mixed culture in here. I classifid each ingredients. Where it came from. The center of black line means nutral, left part contains Chinese ingredients and right part includes Cuban ingredients. Moreover, each color means its own color of ingredients.

Suspension

I found these images of nests and hives and thought they related to my first diagram. I am thinking about using this idea in my program, perhaps to allow a different vantage of the Highline below.

James Turrell

This is the "James Turrell's Meeting" - a long-term installation at P.S.1.
I could remember this after the class. anyway, this exhibition focuses on perceptions of light.
There is a room and just rectangular holes cut into the ceiling exposing the open sky, but, by changing the sky light and color, the space creates beautiful 'lights' quality'.

Chimpanzee Nest

Apparantly chimps build nests in the canopies of trees. I did not know this. The above photo is of a chimp nest in the Kanyanchu Rainforest in Uganda.

During her observations of chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, Jane Goodall discovered that each individual chimpanzee builds a fresh sleeping nest every night at dusk. Normally, this work takes no more than 3-5 minutes. The animal chooses a firm foundation in the crown of the tree, such as an upright fork or two horizontal branches. Then he reaches out and bends over smaller branches onto this foundation, keeping each one in place with his feet. Finally he tucks in the little leafy twigs growing around the rim of the nest and lies down, pressing the whole cushion down with his body. In some nests, she found evidence of complicated interweaving of branches notwithstanding the speed with which they were constructed.

Ha Jung, I thought about your monkey zoo when I read this. Also, the way you were peeling and overlapping pieces of your model to create spaces seems similar to this idea of nest building...

I myself would like to learn more about other instances where a living creature uses its own weight to inform the architecture. Like with my model, since I did not have string running the both ways across the volume, it leaned to one side. But once human force pulled the strings in opposite directions, it stood straight. What if dynamic forces altered architecture? Or architecture responded to varying conditions such as physical surroundings or human forces? Where can I see an example of that? I once saw a conceptual model of a structure built out of strips of material that hung off the edge of the land into the water. At high tide, the strips were pushed upwards into an arc and created a space below. At low tide, the strips descended with the water and laid flat. This meant that the space could only be occupied at high tide. Or another thing I think of is when Bill Gates designed his home so that when someone entered the room, the lights/temperature/music etc. changed depending on their personal tastes. But I am more interested in architecture that adapts to human or natural conditions as opposed to microchips and software.

Valleaceron Chapel

Jeong,

This chapel resembles the one of the individual pieces of your model.

strandbeest.

The 'responsive kinetic architecture' post reminded me of Theo Jansen's animal-machines: PVC/cable ties/tape creatures that crawl on wet sand, propelled by the wind. Must watch the short quicktime films.



http://www.strandbeestmovie.com/

did you ever read this?

post your diagrams and write about them...ask questions about the model if you need to ...it should be diagrammatic...yet spatial