EXP3 Submission

Week 4: Record of Attendance

Week 4: Applied Textures in SketchUp and Lumion

This linear adaption of the historical cruciform shape highlights the asymmetry of the folly's crosses with its subversion of the typical cross outline. However, it guides the traditional cross shape in its application and dictates the thoroughfare within the folly, integral to its very function as a ceremonious lunch hall.

This modernist interpretation of a pyramid structure seeks to highlight the very background of our conventional structural-truss system that is employed by engineers and architects alike in the support of the buildings they create. This particular application of the texture accentuates the aesthetic attention that the exterior truss network draws, leading students,staff and guests through its provocative mesh to the interior spaces it houses.

The rectilinear presentation of a rotational system evident in this texture articulates the major gyral component of the building; its vertical columns and spiral staircases. Indeed, the texture strikes a delicate balance between the high-technology architecture represented by the mesh web, and the traditionally delicate form of the pillar, that gracefully forms the dual peaks of the grand building

Week 4: New 'Web Mesh' for Bridge Exterior

After importing a simple artisan shape from sketchup into Rhino I played around for some time attempting to create a mesh out of it with the grasshopper extension. Had to employ the help of Stephen to do it successfully so thanks to him for his help!

The new web-mesh promotes a more organic look. When combined with the Lumion Environment, I feel it will provide sensational landscape shots because of the interplay of the organic structure with its rigid make-up of truss components.

Week 4: Draft Images

DRAFT ENVIRONMENT 1

DRAFT ENVIRONMENT 2

Week 4: 36 Custom Textures

Effervescent

Incongruous

Linear

Resonant

Rotational

Scalar

Week 3: Draft School in SketchUp and Lumion Environment

Week 3: Modified Plan Concept

Original 'India' Cruciform Plan

When faced with the cruciform plan of what appears to be a religious establishment of some kind, my first instinct was, in allowing this form to come through an elevation and plan, to revert to the 3-Dimensional crosses explored in the perspective drawing exercises.

Cruciform Adapted into 3D Crosses

Initial Adaption: Plan

Initial Adaption: Elevation

 After talking at some length with my tutor, and given the nature of my conceptual mash-up, it was decided that my bridge itself should both house the school and be the moving element, opening and closing spaces as it shifted across the valley. Thus, the cruciform design began to take a back-foot in my design process, influencing only the external truss structure.

Moving Elements Example

Secondary Bridge Adaptions

Space Partition Planning

Week 2: Moving Elements in Lumion

Building itself rotates to from the bridge crossing the valley

Week 2: Two Point Perspectives in SketchUp and Lumion

Original Two-Point Perspective Sketch

Sketch Realised in SketchUp

Exported to Lumion Valley

Week 2: 18 Two Point Perspectives

Week 1: Article MashUp

Grappling with issues of generic importance to do with monumentality in the moment of movement required a solution based on polarities and contrasts. This is echoed within the clusters that still manage to reflect a feeling of movement in their still forms to promise a richer dialogue between the mechanistic entrails and ensuing detail due to this structure. These clusters orbit in perspective like the linking bridge, to create something infinitely more poetic, in the reconciliation of the building’s contrasts. Moreover, through advanced engineering, structures could move and transform themselves-, demonstrating their capacity to penetrate and transform types, to overcome the problems posed by programme and to ignite a strong burst in creating that impression of movement and dynamism. In this way, the programme was broken down into a series of elusive urban fragments, that appear to be almost detached from one another, but admirably fulfils the sculptural and contextual promise in the outer world of appearances. Thus, these parts working together and forming the whole are satisfactorily embedded in the buildings dominant formal themes, so as not to disrupt its structure, but to overcome the ambiguities of collage in its anatomy or composition.

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How Santiago Calatrava Blurred Lines Between Architecture and Engineering to Make Buildings Move

1984 December: 'Virtuosity Around a Void'

 Soft Shells and Strange Star Clusters

Week 1: Valley (Donegal, Ireland)

Donegal, Ireland

Lumion Realisation

Week 1: One Point Perspective in SketchUp and Lumion Environment

One-Point In SketchUp

Imported in Lumion 'Valley'