Story Board

Narrative

Since the social environment is changing through the time, the way of people think and live is changing at the same time, buildings must follow the step of the time. As the idea of mechanism gets into the designers’ minds, buildings become more and more machine-like with various forms and materials, this is an evolution from the past. The traditional ways of designing buildings seem to be antiquated and inefficient in the contemporary environment, buildings were in the similar shapes and materials with massive constructions but not enough useful space. Nowadays, designers consider how to plan the building which will maximise the service through the smallest number of people, and buildings have landscape as an accessorizing feature to gain an optimised picturesque quality. In my animation, I made how buildings change through the time, and then lead to the interior the building to show that interior planning is also an important design process of the building.

Peer Review

15 Images

http://www.anglesey.info/llanddeusant-water-mill.htm

http://www.top-photogalleries.com/photos/photogallery/Picturesque_Pissouri%2C_Limassol%2C_Cyprus_-_N7/155/155/991/0/Yes.html

http://www.top-photogalleries.com/photos/photogallery/Picturesque_Pissouri,_Limassol,_Cyprus_-_N3/155/155/987/0/Yes.html

http://www.asisbiz.com/China/Shanghai/pages/Wiki-Shanghai-still-contains-some-picturesque-rural-suburban-areas.html

http://mi9.com/wallpaper/a-cityscape-at-night-with-swirling-illuminated-fractal_25868/

http://mi9.com/wallpaper/a-late-night-shot-on-5th-avenue_25872/

http://mi9.com/wallpaper/manhattan-landscape-a-view-from-the-empire-state-building_25870/

http://jootix.com/view/3231/Espana-building-landscape-spain-1920x1200.html

http://putraindrawan.com/?p=261

http://putraindrawan.com/?p=261

http://www.archdaily.com/1657/petter-dass-museum-sn%C3%B8hetta/

http://emilymay.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/guggenheim-museum-bilbao-spain/

http://emilymay.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/guggenheim-museum-bilbao-spain/

http://t722.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/camenzind-evolutions-office-building-in-swiss/

http://t722.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/camenzind-evolutions-office-building-in-swiss/

"Hypertextural Picturesque" and "Systemic Delay"

The two articles focus on the explanation of the evolvement of architecture and the way people think and live. The landscape in modernity has been figured as either supplemental or an accessorizing feature to the design of the building and detailed consideration becomes more important, which is different with those traditional ways of thinking, to gain the best “Hypertectual Picturesque”, details, materiality, spatial construction, natural, etc, these elements must be considered to satisfy the fast-pace change of the environment and the way people think. Since architecture involves both designer’s conceptual intention and actual material process, the previous ways of programme are not suitable and efficient in the current environment, contemporary design processes must be dynamic and fluid with more experimental methodologies to gain infinite creativity on the “Systemic Delay” between the initial concepts and its material forms.

Assignment 1 - Machine

Assignment 1 - Technology

Assignment 1 - Combination

Assignment 1 - Analogy

Assignment 1 - Transformation

Assignment 1 - Efficiency

Assignment 1 - Harmony

15 Images

http://exper.3drecursions.com/tag/cracking-the-harmony/

http://www.123rf.com/photo_3124769_high-resolution-square-design-for-print-or-web-on-black.html

http://www.123rf.com/photo_3109480_high-resolution-pentagon-design-for-print-or-web.html

http://land8lounge.com/photo/2025679:Photo:278/prev?context=album&albumId=2025679%3AAlbum%3A325

http://land8lounge.com/photo/2025679:Photo:279/next?context=album&albumId=2025679%3AAlbum%3A325

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Combination_Puzzle_Octahedral_Prism_Rubik.jpg

http://3oneseven.com/18/old-print-machine/

http://free-photo.gatag.net/en/2010/04/23/010000.html

http://free-photo.gatag.net/en/2011/01/03/190000.html

http://free-photo.gatag.net/en/2011/01/03/190000.html

http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winners_in_competition_for_commercial-residential_complex_in_mashhad_iran/

http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winners_in_competition_for_commercial-residential_complex_in_mashhad_iran/

http://zeospot.com/peru-modern-beach-house-lefevre-house-by-longhi-architects/hang-glass-box-modern-beach-house-architecture/

http://www.i9u.net/contemporary-open-box-house-madrid-by-a-cero

http://www.i9u.net/contemporary-open-box-house-madrid-by-a-cero

The Machine in Architectural Thinking

Theoretical Context

The combination of mechanism and architecture has been widely used by designers these days, as mechanism focuses on the beauty of the nature of great machines, such as straight lines, right angles and grid patterns. By thinking of the use of machines in buildings, the very first thing to consider is about construction, later about all other aspects of the building. The mechanization of design concerns more on the problems of construction and stability into the plan of the building and its operation, since Galilean mechanics persists the concept of “many devices which succeed on a small scale do not work on a large scale”. But there are still some different considerations between mechanics and architecture, in mechanics, it is for a structure without collapsing and for less material, creates more usable spaces; in architecture, the designers concern more on how to find a plan which the maximum service can be achieved through the smallest number of people.


Seven Words:
Machine
Technology
Combination
Analogy
Transformation
Efficiency
Harmony

Week 1 Animations