Kastrup Søbad-Seaside bath by the White Architect

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

My idea was to achieve a sculptural, dynamic form that can be seen from the land, from the sea and from the air,” says Fredrik Pettersson(the architect of this projec) . “The silhouette changes as the spectator moves around it.”
The aim was to use the shape to build in functions such as changing, sunbathing and bathing areas in a simple design that compares favourably with the wide expanse of the sea.

A clear concept that is also faces the beach in a welcoming manner. This is nothing private or exclusive, rather a facility open to everyone, regardless of age, physical mobility or needs. Bathing is not compulsory, even thought it looks inviting.

The Kastrup Søbad project
Address:
Amager Strandvej 301, DK-2770 Kastrup, Denmark
Client:
Tårnby Local Authority
Architect:
White

more info and image from White architect website

Recommended Books-Composite drawings-techniques for Architectural Presentation by M Saleh Uddin

Monday, September 29, 2008

The cover of the book

Some examples of architecture presentation by different architects and designers.
Tod Wiliams Bilien Tsien and Associates, New york
international design competition for Los Angeles Art Park

Presentation combine both drawing and model making skills of balsa wood.

Presentation by Steven Holl architects-combination of plan and elevation drawings.
Eric Owen Moss Architects, Califonia

photomontage of 3d model rendering with the site pictures.

Another exampleis from the author himself, M.S Uddin

A collage of the drawings.

Images from Composite drawings: Techniques for architectural presentation by M.S Uddin.

Strongly recommended architecture students to read this book, there are alot of other techniques shown which we can learn from.

Kids world design are wonderful -from kidsmodern

ESTHER SCHUIVENS
ESTHER SCHUIVENS
ESTHER SCHUIVENS
TEN SWEDISH DESIGNERS
TEN SWEDISH DESIGNERS
Katsuji Wakisaka

KIDSMODERN

Visual Complexity

Friday, September 26, 2008

VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field. (quote from Visual Complexity)

Some of the projects

The essence of rabbit

Art of the cities, art of the fields

I wish

"I Wish was inspired as I considered the balance between work and play in our lives. I wonder if we have become a nation of people who are slaves to the very technology that was meant to ease workloads rather than increase responsibilities and prolong work hours. Research carried out by the TUC highlights as a nation we are working extra hours for our employers for free. Using this information as a starting point, I set about to find out what people wishes were so they could use this time given to their employers and hopefully use this time to give something back to themselves.
Using my MA work in progress show, I invited people to stop, reflect, and ask themselves what they really wished for in their lives. Were their wishes realistic? Could they act on them? Presented in the form of a poster are all the wishes that were collected. Looking into the idea of the six steps of separation and how our wishes are constantly evolving, using colour to represent the notion of going from one step to another. Each wish is categorized by the one word, which expresses the individual's desire. The words are placed in the layout alphabetically and with each person assigned a number in the middle circle. Then using a system of linking the number to the wish word illustrating the human link between many of us and the common desires we strive for in our wishes and in our lives."

Architecture Studio madness

a funny video from modern architecture and design news
Architecture students, hope you all wont get mad till like dat.haha

Penguin house in toyko by Yashuhiro Yamasita

Thursday, September 25, 2008

very interesting house with the use of openings to make a small house bigger

Parasite architecture

The Rucksack house started as an art object, created by the sculptor Stefan Eberstadt, but investors saw the commercial opportunity of the 9 sq m box and transformed it into a house extension, as a cheaper and faster alternative to usual extensions.

As mobile as a rucksack, this mini-house is intended to be an additional room that can be suspended from the façade of any residential building.
image and photos from modern architecture and design news and architect fad

Cell house by Emergent Architecture

Monday, September 22, 2008

The house is based on cellular grow and pattern.

Read more about this project from Emergent architecture

AADRLTEN Pavilion competition

Winning projects by Alan Dempsey (DRL 2002) and Alvin Huang (DRL 2004 )

The goal of this competition is to design a small pavilion (no bigger than 10m W x 10m L x 5m H) that offers spatial experiences to DRL TEN visitors as well as passers-by on Bedford Square. The pavilion will be manufactured professionally and will be assembled by a building contractor with assistance of DRL Phase 1 students during the second and third weeks of February 2008. Similar to many pavilions designed for expos and event spaces, the DRL TEN pavilion will be a temporary, small-scale building project, developed as a prototype for a new kind of architecture. The winning design will be developed immediately after its selection with the assistance of the London engineering firm Adams Kara Taylor and DRL staff at the Architectural Association

Model
Model
3d illustration
Finalists

Ahmad Sukkar: 2006

The design of the pavilion should explore:

1) the thinness of fibre-reinforced concrete panels and their structural potential
2) the possibility of achieving non-standard forms either by using flat panels in inventive ways or by developing a smart and efficient means to produce 3D curved panels
3) the use of panellised materials to create a coherent structural system

Yeygeniy Beylkin: 2006/ Elif Erdine Baskin: 2006/ Margarita Valova: 2006

Carine Cohen 2006/ Britta Knobel 2006

Paulo Ernesto Flores: 2007/ Feng Xu: 2007Danilo Arsic: 2007
Link
info from http://cspacepavilion.blogspot.com/2007/11/competition-jury-images.html

Munetsugu Hall BY Norihiko Dan

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

M-Hall
location　 ：Aichi Prefecture,Japan

program ：concert hall、restaurant、residence

site area ：831.96㎡

total area ：4076.3㎡

I like the fluidity of the multipurpose hall.

More info from the coolhunter

PHOTOS from http://www.dan-n.co.jp/projects/munemune/m-hall-E.html

JALAN GAMBIER MARKET IN KUCHING WILL BE GONE SOON

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

the vegetable market

KUCHING: The former site of the Gambier Street Market here that used to house hundreds of hawkers until June 15 will be turned into an esplanade as part of the Kuching Waterfront extension.

The development will also cover the adjoining area which stretched up to Ban Hock Wharf.
Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, in disclosing this Friday night, envisioned the esplanade having lots of trees to provide the much needed shade on sunny days apart from making the city a greener and better place to live in.

the vegetable market

“I’ve just asked Kuching North City Hall (DBKU) to prepare the plan,” he told reporters after officiating at the city hall’s 20th anniversary dinner.

Once completed, he said, the esplanade would stretch from Hilton Kuching to Ban Hock Wharf, adding that the opposite side of the river would also be developed and beautified to make both sides a popular recreational spot for city dwellers as well as visitors.

WATCH THE VIDEO about the market
(QUOTE FROM MY SARAWAK )

the fish market

I heard that DBKU has decided to tear down the stretch of markets along Jalan Gambier and it was announced in the newspaper on Sunday.

What a sad news to have, the immediate thought come to my mind is What kuching will become later?
Is it will developed into some place like Singapore?

the fish market

If the buildings are demolished, Kuching will be an empty town without any identity, a city with high rise commercial buildings but without soul. It is a very sad scene to our future generations.

If you never being to the Gambier Market, try to visit them, you can tel a lot of old times stories of Kuching from the buildings.

Currently some of us are involving in the measure drawing of the markets and I wonder whether conservation can help to protect these buildings on time.

Tirana Rocks: MVRDV Wins Lakeside Competition in Albania

Monday, September 15, 2008

Rotterdam, The Netherlands—The city of Tirana and an international jury announced MVRDV winner of the competition for the urban masterplan creating a new dense urban neighborhood with a park and public facilities at the shore of Tirana Lake, in the south of the Albanian capital.

The stacked and twisted volumes create spectacular public spaces and provide dramatic vistas. Clad in local stones the buildings turn into a series of ‘rocks’, the ‘Tirana Rocks’.

Image and text from Bustler