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Siew Yan Ooi550401

Care Study:

Today, architecture has become an art of the printed image fixed by the camera and lost its plasticity by turning architecture into stage sets for the eye. Every touching experience of architecture is multisensory, that is qualities of matter, space, and scales are measured equally by the eye, nose, skin, tongue, and muscle which involve 7 realms of sensory. The sense mediates information for judgment of the intellect and means of articulating sensory thought.

The Chapel of St. Ignatius is one of my favorite architect’s work, and it was the first assignment building case study that I did in my past diploma course. I found it very interesting, it is because the design of Steven Holl made his church a journey through different passagesof light colored, clear, subdued and direct based on a series of repetitions and permutations in multiple “bottles of light” which encourage us to imagine the time of our choice, vessels in the shape of bottles that transmit and preserve the beauty of light during the day and radiate different colors of light at night. The design of the architecture can be read like poetry, a form, metaphor, symbol and structure.

The Chapel of St. Ignatius

Steven Holl

Reference: Holl,S , Pallasmaa,J & Perez.Gomez,A. ( 2007 ). Question of perception

“In all my works, light is an important controlling factor. I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city’s environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.”

–Tadao Ando

( Source from: http://www.archdaily.com/101260/ad-classics-church-of-the-light-tadao-ando/ )

Spaces

The most favourite part of the building is the way Tadoa creates the sunlight streams through a cross-shaped open-ing into Church of the Light. And the structure of the beams of light fall onto the smoothed concrete surfaces that surround the unadorned room, and visi-tors catch their breath in wonder.

( Source: http://www.clarkart.edu/exhibitions/ando/ando.html)

The purity of this experience exemplifies what I appreciate most about architecture. Simple, clean spaces affect us directly through their shape and composition rather than by mak-ing us notice them—not that we never notice.

Therefore, I believe that the most successful designs emerge from architectural, structural, and construction efficiency, creating pure spaces that are both structurally coherent and buildable.

The design evolved from the concepts of a natural landscape and the fascinating interplay between architecture and nature. It’s engaging with the principles of erosion, geology and topography. The unique exploration of contextual urban relationships, combining the cultural traditions that have shaped Guangzhou’shistory, with the ambition and optimism that will create its future.

Opera HouseGuang Zhou

( Source: http://www.foundationsakc.com/people/contemporary/zaha-hadid)

Zaha Hadid

The design of Zaha hadid is more to a leading contempo-rary architect, who is known for i n te n s e, av a n tg a rd e, s o m e t i m e s deconstrutivist designs and architecture as expressing a sense of motion. It is concerned with composing intersecting paths, routes and volumes in forms that are dynamic rather than static, just like a controlled explosion. Hadid is also influenced by modern infrastructure, taking inspiration from the language of highway engineering. By looking of her masterpieces, Zaha Hadid’s style is boldly contemporary, organic and innovative and designs through new technology and materials and in this process, which never does ordinary.

( Source: http://www.foundationsakc.com/people/contemporary/zaha-hadid)

STEvEn HOLL is interested in developing the sensory, perceptual and emotional inten-tions of a project, which he calls “phenomenol-ogy”, and interactions between the body and the physical world, the experience of a place.

TADAO AnDO’s design is in terms of creating a space which very much interacts with the visitor and the sur-rounding with the sense without giving emphasis to any one of the sense and incor-porate all the elements into the experience.

ZAHA HADID call her work as baroque modernism like Borromini shattered Renaissance ideas of a single viewpoint perspective in favour of dizzing spaces. She calls it “a new fluid, kind of spatiality” of multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry, designed to embody the chaotic fluidity of modern life.

Reference:1. Holl, S. (2007). Architecture Spoken. new York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.2. Holl, S. (2007). Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture. San Francisco: William K Stout Pub.3. Source: http://designmuseum.org/design/zaha-hadid4. Source: http://architectuul.com/architecture/church-of-the-light

Summary

In COnCLuSIOn:Three of the architect plays a different role in architecture, but sharing the same technique of in expressing the sense of lighting in spaces.

KAOHSIunG PORT TERmInALreiser + umemoto

The most interesting part of the building is a tumbling wave-like volume based on a “dynamic 3-dimensional urbanism” with the structure, amplifies the flow of pedestrian traffic through an elevated and activated board-walk which runs continuously along the water. It is shows the sense of movement and vol-ume in site present as an iconic building in site.

Reference: Archi Daily (2010), (online) Available: http://www.archdaily.com/96053/kaohsiung-port-terminal-reiser-umemoto/

This structure is interesting when the building’s envelop lies on a system of nested and long-span shells that are composed of an underlying steel pipe space frame which is sandwiched by cladding panels so that it creates a useable cav-ity space.

According to the architects, “overall an experience of directed yet functionally separated flows will lend an aura of energy to the point terminal space”.

Skin features - a series of incisions which lend the design a sense of movement while allowing for natural daylight to enter the interior. fluctuating in thickness, the cavity space between the long-span shell panels house a number of services including vertical circulation, structural ele-ments, utilities, and ventilation.

metropolitan Station 20Zeybekoglu nayman Associates

The design demonstrates a spatial coher-ence between the two worlds above and below which connected to each other shows of flowing movement and connectivity in site. The shaped glass geometries define a modern sculptural addition to the outdoor-indoor environment. The most attractive elements in this building is when during the day the outside is brought into the station and at the night the glowing illumina-tion from within becomes part of the street scene.

Architects state: “The sun pen-etrates down through sculp-tural skylights illuminating the entire station in a warm glow. The use of daylight as an ar-chitectural element assists orientation for passengers and provides a sense of security. It allows for the atmosphere of the station to be trans-formed by the color of the sky.”

For my opinion, sunlight maybe too warm in the terminal station may cause warm heat trap inside the building, it is beacuse unlike the chapel or Church of Light using the light as a sysmbol of 5 sensory, and open air in their spaces creates a nice and comfortable environments.