Sunday, October 31, 2010

Drawing/Design Examples


Check out the Harvard GSD StudioWorks website for terrific set of diagrams/plans/perspectives/design concepts that can help with your current project (or any future work).  Take ten minutes to look around and ask any questions you may have on what kind of software was used to produce the work.


Images above from GSD student work. See StudioWorks website for image credits.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

KAEW project I






Röyksopp - Remind me


An entertaining way to see a bunch of cool diagrams. Pay attention to how the mappings change in level of detail depending on what the author wants the viewer to understand.

Site Analysis Pinup Tomorrow

Our section will pinup tomorrow at 1pm in Room 314 with Aj. Laura's section.  Aei, Ploy, and Yipta: you will present your group study first so please be ready to start at 1pm.  After your discussing your group work, you will then present the development of your individual research/concepts.  Any partii drawings / conceptual plans / sections / perspectives / models / diagrams of a design scheme are welcome, too.

Seeing the analysis work of your classmates will be vital to your design work so the presentation order for the rest of the class will not be announced ahead of time.  If you are not in the room when it is your turn to pinup, you will not be allowed to present.  I will also assign an audience member to take noes for each group that is presenting so no comments get forgotten.

-Aj. Nilay

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Elements of Architecture Readings

The readings from Pierre von Meiss's classic book I distributed in class this week can be downloaded below.  Understanding these selections will help you draw conclusions from your site analysis work as well as articulate your developing design concepts.

Elements of Architecture_Thresholds
Elements of Architecture_Space


For educational purposes only

Staging Ground : The Agency of Infrastructure


If you are looking for references for diagrams and perspective renderings, get inspired by the visualizations Andrew TenBrink created for his 2010 thesis work for a Master of Landscape Architecture II degree at Harvard GSD.  All of the perspectives/plates from his blog (link below) can be enlarged.  The images may seem to use software that you do not know, but see if you can express the atmosphere and sequence through your project by using your perspectives, too. 

'visual complexity' website


visual complexity exhibits a multitude of examples for representing complex networks.  Consider how the your site analysis can become clearer by presenting your findings in a more abstract manner.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

AutoCAD for Mac !!!


Click here to download a trial version of AutoCAD for your Mac...or you can just wait a few weeks and buy it at Fortune Town...

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Project1-BO

THE TUbE  
                                green bridge project-1
existing bridge and environment

weather diagram


purposing idea

 


water system build in the construction


elevation







final model




sketchup drawings
cut section1
cut section2


Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Architecture Faculty CAD Plans

Download a series of floor plans for the architecture faculty by clicking below.  Thank Hirun from 3rd year the next time you see him.



Project1-Ploy

Concept : Destruction of uniformity
When looking at the whole picture of the community, the existing bridge is seen as being uniformed. All bridges which connect Chula campus together along Phayathai Road were constructed the same way, however, they are unique in their own ways due to the differences in the environmental conditions. To emphasize the uniqueness, the new design is to further destruct the sense of uniformity by contrasting the original form and shape of the existing design.


Research and references

Design analysis


Plan

Section perspectives

Study models of different ways I can use shapes and forms to convey my message

Final model