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Is architecture sculpture?
No. Architecture is designed with people-centered contexts while sculpture is pure art.
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If architecture is designed without considering human needs and social dynamics, it is only sculture. But in this project, I explored the possibility of reversing a sculture into a gathering pavillion. How might we add social elements into a pure art?
Project Topics:
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Architecture
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Public Structure
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Art and Space Study
Role:
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Architectural Designer
Timeline:
2017 Nov - 2017 Dec
5 weeks
Impact:
Turned a sculpture into a human community space.
Exploring space in sculpture
The way I appraoched studying space in sculture was to take a picture of the sculpture and rearranged them in stripes, in different orders. Resulting in this interesting two-dimentional shapes on the right side. Chaotic and beautiful. Then I started drawing geometrical shapes over the collage and making it three-dimensional again. Stacking them back up into a inital mold of a building. This process allowed myself to explore different space and human interaction from designing a building from scratch.
PLANS
SECTIONS
It is usually function-based in my early architecural design courses. Designing around a set building type and its function. But what makes this project interesting is that it was completely reverse. I did not know what type of building I was designing. Pure exploration between space and huamn. But during the exploration of these geometrical shapes. I started to find the way I could structure this building and its potential purpose.
Site Study
As soon as I realized that this could serve as a gathering pavillion in between huge building. I set a site in the middle of the blank area on our school campus. A sun and shade study was conducted for reference of placement designs. I have also simplified and shaped the blocks a bit by a bit to make it look more like a building.
Considering this was a five-week project. I did a small sample size (five people) of quick interview with students of this school. Found out that a gathering area was indeed lacking due to the air circulation problem at the cafeteria, where students usually hung out at on the campus.
ISOMETRIC
Outcome:
The positive and negative spaces shaped in the initial three-dimential version gave me an inspiration to make regular tables and benches and enclosed garthering cubes. Same geometrical shapes but served as different purposes. That was a new way of seeing the same shapes in a different perspective. I obtained and evolved as a designer challenging myself to use a design process that I was not comfortable with. But it proved that it was a rapid growth in just five weeks.
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