Thursday, August 9, 2012

Final// Arch1202 Design Studio 4// Project 1// Project Parramatta Analysis

The first project was composed by majorly two parts which are site anaalysis of Parramatta city and the stage design based on the movie West Side story and refer back to the conceptial ideas took out from Parramatta city analysis.

In the analysis stage we did research on Parramatta by reading the council documentaries and teh book Visulazation Power. The approaching of this analysis is set out by urbanization, historical, topographical and environmental aspects.


Group poster @A1



On the Concerntina book, I try to illustrate the city both from a top view of the whole city, the George Street are and the Town hall piazzar scale down gradually. Meanwhile I did a series perspective sketches along George street as this street was emphasized as the cultral expand grid in Parramatta with historial meanings. Moreove, I looked at the perdestrian lane in the density urban area as though these lanes exist but citizens seldomly use it.
 The top view of the large city area
 Site location in a relationship within the whole Sydney area and figure ground
 Top view of George Street area
 Top view of Town Hall piazzar and perspective sketches of the Town hall building and St. John church
 Figure grounds of the city area and lanes
 perspectives on George Street from Westfield to St.Peter Church
 Perspective along George Street from the bridge to Prince Alfred Park
 Perspective of Philip street and long River Bank


 Move to the stage design part, we treated Parramatta as a site includes basicly three elements which are water, bridge and religion. Thus we come out the idea of the garden like design. We also did some case studies on Carlo Scarpa's works as his stairs were amazingly communicate well with the open spaces.








 Stage plan and elevations



Sunday, May 13, 2012

ARCH1201//PROJECT3 DOUBLE HOUSE//Weekly Progress// Clients Stories


l         The Art Collector

 The art collector is a 60s French-descendant male who collecting art works specifically in contemporary picturesque and impressionist art, that his personality is gentle and reserved.


One of his collections
l         The Musician
 The musician is a friend of the art collector that he is a passionate classic music writer and a kind of well-known harp player within the art circles of Sydney. He and the art collector are cross-generation friends as he is in his late 20s. He sometimes plays harp when the art collector have special events hold in the gallery. Also when they have time they will have a inspired cross-areas conversation that works very well on both of their career.



The musician


ARCH1201// PROJECT 3 DOUBLE HOUSE// Weekly Progress// SITE ANALYSIS

These two site Panoramas were done by my friend Ridley from Anthony Gill's group and me. We've used photoshop to merge every seperate images into one complete street view for a better understanding of this special site including the hilly terrian and the surrounding building context in order to fit in own design into this whole environment.
To make a better design, the house should be either stand-out or fit in with surroundings.


The panorama of Brougham Street

The panorama of Victoria Street

The spectacular City view from the site

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

ARCH1201//PROJECT 2// Villa Muller Analysis

The three aspects I chosen to Analyse are 'Circulation','Public and private space' and 'Materiality' puls a abstract study of Loos' Ruamplan.

I found the contrsat inside this building is quite interesting. For circulation, how Loos seperate both entrance and circulation for servants and hosts traditionaly is what I focus on, and I did a main circulation study in unfolded plan and section. For private and public spaces, how public rooms can view through each other is the thing caught my eyes on, also I studied the main hall and the only private sapce placed on public level which is boudoir in particularly. For Materiality, I studied the dramatic contrast between the pure white facades and the various coloured interior , and how the dark coloured man's library distinguished from the light coloured woman's boudoir, also how Loos change the material for furniture from outside to inside gradually. For abstract study, I picked Loos' most famous Raumplan to study by comparing it with a normal four-floors plan.



Villa Muller Analysis// Circulation Set




The Analysis of how people approching the building and the unique entrance with a couch(compared with the normal un-welcoming servant entrance in oral presentation), and how the main staircase works.

The Private/service staircase

Villa Muller Analysis// Public and private set

In this model, I cut the raised ground floor in 10 sections to show the connection between each public spaces, I used transparent film to show private/nightzone spaces to make a contrast with the translucent public places.

 The Contrast Beweent Nightzone and Dayzone as Loos did in the previous Moller House, Vienna.
 The intresting thing about public place is how can views be open for example, people sitting in dining room can look into the main hall.

Showing the view-blocked private places.

The contrast of volumn between main hall and boudoir by usage.


How woman sitting in the Boudoir can view through into the main hall an know what happen.

Villa Muller Analysis// Materiality Set



Villa Muller Analysis// Abstract study set




 Unfolded Raumplan


Ruamplan in comparison with a normal four-floors plan


Tuesday, March 13, 2012

ARCH 1201//PROJECT1//VILLA MULLER//DRAWING SET








My Drawing set including 1 site plan, 4 floor plans, 2 sections, 1 perspective shows the site and 1 explored axonometrics, they were done by hand.