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STUDLEY PARK BOATHOUSE T H E K O O L H O U S E

2011

---- The Kool House in the manner of Rem Koolhaas

THIS project was strongly influenced by the works of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. It adopted several de-sign strategies of Koolhaas: transparency , pliable sur-face, program and structure. The use of transparency was one of the dominating strategies I employed in this design, in order to respond to/emphasise the activies behind the glass. All the north-facing façades are utilis-ing curtain walls/ glass panels in order to gain the most sunlight and the most splendid views of the river. Inside the building, the kitchen wall is designed to be opaque glass wall, which is intended to evoke a unique dining experience where one may see what is happening in the kitchen vaguely. In addition, the roof of kiosk is pur-posed to be a frosted glass roof. It seems like a corner of the ground that has been lifted up (pliable surface), which is likely to attract more visitors and customers and inviting them to walk on top of the roof to see the view or enter the cafe. At the same time, people under the glass roof may look up and see silhouettes vaguely.

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C C T V - CHINA.CENTRAL.TELEVISION

H E A D Q U A T E R S 2002

---- The Loop

Rem Koolhaas’s practice Office for Metropolitan Archi-tecture (OMA) designed this project for CCTV in Beijing, China. OMA decided to create a building which the three dimensions would force all of the facilities and activi-ties involved in one single giant loop. Structurally, the team described the building as a ‘continuous tube’, they realised the only way to deliver this daring and unique architectural form was to ‘engage the entire façade structure, creating in essence an external continuous tube system’. That is how and why CCTV building could resist earthquakes and wind load, as well as the huge forces generate by the cranked and seemingly unstable form. The planes of bracing are continuous throughout the building volume, as shown in the pictures, in order to reinforce the corners. CCTV Headquaters building caused the discussion about the emerging East/West architec-tural discourse and the rapid urbanisation of China. This building is indeed becoming an iconic building in Beijing, whether the people live in there like it or not. It is indeed revolutionary, for its truly three-dimensional shape on the outside and three-dimensional experience on the inside.

(http://oma.eu/projects/2002/cctv-%E2%80%93-headquarters)

(http://oma.eu/projects/2002/cctv-%E2%80%93-headquarters)

(http://oma.eu/projects/2002/cctv-%E2%80%93-headquarters)

T H E V M H O U S E S 2005

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) designed this multilevel-apartment building which interlocks in complex compositions on the façade, making the whole building seem like a three-dimensional game of tetris. It also won the best building prize in Denmark in 2006. The best and the most eye-catching feature of this building must be its distinctive triangular balconies along the north façade facing the park. The balconies are designed like that, which incorporates maximum cantilever with minimum shade, is to encourage residents to have a vertical backyard community with their neighbours in a vertical radius of 10 metres right on their balconies. It also promots a kind of experience as if one is standing at the bow of a ship in the air. If architecture is meant to make people feel comfort-able and happy, BIG’s VM Houses was definitely heading towards the right direction.

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(http://www.archdaily.com/970/vm-houses-plot-big-jds/vm-01-husene-big/)

(http://www.archdaily.com/970/vm-houses-plot-big-jds/vm-01-husene-big/)