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Project 3 Gallery Design 1:50
Based on the brief and idea of this design, I want to achieve a calm, tranquilize, easy for the engaging and recreational environment for two strangers to work, social, eat wash and cook.
Firstly, I thought about how to figure out a mixed are for both working, socializing and eating. I think both of those activities have similar gestures, which are lying down, lounging, sitting and standing. The sleeping platform already has contained part of those gestures. lying down, lounging. With inspired by the Moriyama House (http://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/not-really-of-this-world-moriyama-house/) designed by a Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa, I would like to use that idea to open the wall of the gallery to create a very open to public space for strangers. The east wall wich toward outside will keep pillars but be installed brush glass in between. The west wall which toward to lobby will keep pillars only.
With the space is much opened so I would like to shrink the boundary of private and public to a man figure size. Creating a box to contain a man and a certain activity is the idea. In the shared area design, I will provide three different gesture containers which are lounging, sitting and standing to solve their working, socializing and eating.
When I’m thinking about the scene of a guy leaning on the front window and talking with pedestrians in the morning, the window frame is the threshold I would like to bring into these gesture containers to make the communication easier. Also, when the guy thinks he/she is inside the window and the role will be a host, so the experience will be more protective and dominate.
The material of those containers will be white resin. I would like the inside being lighted up by the diffused light to create a clam and recreational atmosphere.
About the arrangement of those containers, I refer to Parc de la Villette (https://www.archdaily.com/92321/ad-classics-parc-de-la-villette-bernard-tschumi) deconstructive park design, made a no-seeing each other principle to discrete those boxes’ position.
Then I moved on to think about the washing and cooking area located in the short part of the gallery. Even the gestures there are sitting or standing normally, but I think the more dominant thing here is about waiting and doing. With think about the condition of this site, I would use the existing corridor to create a slender area for waiting ( washing machine, oven, bakery, etc). The scenario is sitting at the end of a long, slim space without thinking about anything, space contained some white noise, so this atmosphere will encourage people to enter a meditation status or daydreaming.
The rest of this short part will fit more activities and facilities for doing: preparing food, cutting, cooking, washing dishes, taking shower or using the toilet. Each functional area has a roof-height panel in between. Also, those panels have a window frame for communication. Shower and toilet will use the same standing container design but without a window, as these two are more private using.
The wall to sperate waiting and doing also has some windows to transfer the sound between two areas.
A lounging container will be put underneath the sleeping platform towards the long slender corridor to be awaiting seat. The idea of this is to connect short part, platform, and long part, also to make the waiting area being able to wait and more recreational.
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Project 3 Abstract 100
When strangers staying, each of two will keep a distance from the other in both physical and psychological way. As they knew the staying is temporary, they might change their behavior. How they change or adjust the behavior depends on the condition of staying, for example, how exposed the environment is. Each of them still has a strong connection from outside(family, friends). The existence of the other person deprives the space and impacts the behavior, so negotiation will happen.
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Abstract 100 (1:10)
Being strange is about keeping distance. However, the distance is various depends on personality, mood or attitude. By observing the scenario of two strangers getting on an empty bus, the location they chose will reveal how the psychological distance they have. About this sleeping platform design, giving more option on sleeping places with various privacy is the main idea. Each place has private side and exposed side. Each of them on various elevation within space. The stranger has more space and choice to keep the distance they think how it might be.
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Week 8 Design Brief
This project is asked to design an unconventional place to accommodate two strangers on the site(St Paul Gallery 3) including sleeping/working/socializing/washing/cooking/eating area. The aim is to let them have a new experience of sleeping and waking and maybe a new experience of treating a strange relationship.
With thinking about when strangers staying, each of two will keep a distance from the other in both physical and psychological way. As they knew the staying is temporary, they might change their behavior. How they change or adjust the behavior depends on the condition of staying, for example, how exposed the environment is. Each of them still has a strong connection from outside(family, friends). The existence of the other person deprives the space and impacts the behavior so negotiation will happen.
The inspiration comes up from meditation space design(Tadao Ando, Meditation Space, UNESCO), the scenario of two strangers getting on an empty bus, the threshold from the scene of a house owner standing inside his front window, leaning at the ledge and talking with pedestrians in the morning (the environment may have fog and birds sound), the opened private house design, Moriyama House by Ryue Nishizawa, and Parc de la Villette, the deconstructivism park.
The whole idea of this space design is to give an unfamiliar place to engage with the stranger. When the stranger is encountered by or encountering with the other spontaneously, the designed space will make the engaging effortless. The atmosphere is calm, tranquilize. The behavior of occupants may become recreational as the design blurred the boundary between the certain functional area(working, socializing, eating). As the condition this design created, an empathetic conversation between those two is expected.
1. Site statement
1.1 OPPORTUNITIES
1.1.1 Location:
- Wellesley Street, Auckland: Wellesley is close to the central area of Auckland, so this site has relative high people density. Auckland city is a well-known destination to be visited and the largest population city in New Zealand.
- AUT: one of the largest university in Auckland and New Zealand, and has students come from a very diverse background. Also, there is the University of Auckland is at the opposite side of Wellesley Street to make this site that has a high educational population to encounter.
- WB Building: a historical building built since 1906. Had one floor built on top at 1963. It has AUT Sport & Athlete Support and student wellbeing center at Level 1. The site, student counselling & mental health, student medical centre, student ambassadors and Maori liaison service are on Level 2. Te Ara Poutama Reception and classrooms are on Level 3. AUT Chinese centre and more Maori cultural service offices are on Level 4.
So the opportunities are this site has very wide chance of people coming from the various background.
1.1.2 Environment:
- Climate: Auckland is tropical climate and relative warm with high humidity. So it could possible to open more walls and windows.
- Sunrise/set: this site is L shape and the longer part towards northern-east. So it has sunrise/set track as below:
Opportunity is to utilize sunlight to light or heated this site.
1.1.3 Thresholds:
The site has some existing threshold which could manipulate, for example:
Private/Public: the shorter part of L shape has the more private condition than the longer part.
Light/Dark: the shorter part of L shape has the less natural lighting condition than the longer part.
Noise/Quiet: the shorter part of L shape has the more quite condition than the longer part.
Interior/Exterior: there is one window connecting to outside at front of the longer part. Three windows connecting with lobby is on the west side of the site. Also, there are three windows have been blocked which located on the east side of the longer part away from the street.
1.1.4 Height:
4 meters height has a great chance to separate the site into multiple levels from inside.
1.2 CONSTRAINTS
1.2.1 Historical building:
The building has a long history and rich stories related.
The style of this building resonances with Albert Park.
The location juxtaposed with St Paul Church and AUT Marae Ngā Wai o Horotiu, and Waihorotiu Stream underneath.
Depends on these, from a geomancy consideration, may not change too much in this building.
1.2.2 Building structure:
The weight of building holds by those pillars, so pillar removal has to be really considered.
1.2.3 Building usage:
WB building has many offices and service centers, and this building has security alarm which will be set on after working hours.
1.2.4 L-shape:
This site is L-shape, longer part towards street and shorter part is behind the entrance. Longer part is slim, 4800mm * 20760mm, so the dimension, especially the width limits some space expending actions.
1.3 FURTHER INVESTIGATION
Because of strangers could come from any cultural background so statistics may be required to record for analysis.
2. Space arrangement
Based on the L-shape of the site, the sleeping platform will be at the corner of the long and short part.
The sleeping area hasn’t been assigned to any of them. There are four sleeping blocks that are half-closed, and the transition spaces between each block which are relatively more exposed are also able to use.
The washing and cooking area is located at the short part of the site and all the rest of long part is a mixed area which contains working, socializing, eating.
Diagram: site arrangement.
2.1 recreational area programme
This area starts at the lobby with a few movable boxes, which are trying to attract people to come in. Then they will move on to the particular box to do some personal work or study. During that time they may have a greeting or talk just through the window on the box.
At some point in staying, the collaboration may happen because those boxes offering a recreational and engaging ability to stack or move. After engaging with each other, they will become more familiar and an empathic conversation is this design aiming for.
2.2 Doing/Waiting Area
The doing area can do some hands-on activities, for example, preparing food, cutting, cooking, washing dishes. Although people could have a talk through the window on the side wall in between each area and the main wall between doing area and waiting area.
The waiting area can do laundry and bakery. The waiting seat sets underneath the sleeping platform with facing the long corridor. While seating there and waiting, this space will full of white noise. This situation may cause a deep thinking to review their relationship.
2.3 Sleeping platform
After the whole day activities, the two strangers will go to sleep. With the platform design, they have more options for they sleeping position. When they lay down, they could understand the position they have chosen reveals the potential psychological distance they have.
In conclusion, this design offers more opportunity for two strangers to engage or to avoid the contact, it totally depends on their personality.
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Week 8 1:10 Sleeping platform
Design process
With thinking about the variety of distance from strangers and the suspended&opperrsive experience individuality, I did some sketching to explore what would be a good way to tell those features. My idea of processing the distance for strangers would be like two passengers on a bus. The location on the bus depicts the potential relationship of those two.
If there only have two seats, they normally have to seat together whatever how the relationship is. However, when they have more choice, the place they chose by themselves reveals how they treat each other.
Started with suspended&opperrsive experience which carried on from Project 2, I tried to think about how to lodge two people.
By bringing the idea of various choice, I found a way to stack multi-sleeping blocks. Also, this arrangement considered about privacy&publicity to match the site condition(window side - more public, office side - more private).
Did small scale paper model to see how the design works.
Keep developing the sleeping platform. My thoughts were how to give space between each sleeping blocks, and how to access each sleeping blocks.
My solution is stack blocks up and across each other. Each of them could be used as stairs to go up. The top one will suspend at the corner of the short side and the long side of this site.
Next step will adjust the height of each block to give the hierarchy of oppression experience, from bottom to top.
Set height for the bottom block is 900mm, 700mm for the middle two and 500 for the top one.
Then transfer the dimension to each panel for cutting.
Band saw cutting in 3D Lab.
Assembled.
Spray print.
My design is to mix concrete with plywood for the sleeping platform. Top concrete panels will give heavy and oppressive experience and side panels with 200mm thickness will give a protective experience. Plywood used as the bottom will make a contrast with concrete on weight, and make the user feels light and suspended.
Week 9
Keep developing on how to merge the concept from Project 2. As this project is designing for two strangers, not about personal experience, so I decided to carry on the action of threshold which is user have to act a certain or unnormal action to get in/out, not bring in the personal experience (oppressive/claustrophobia). With acting with this threshold, users(strangers) will have their own experience to feel about and may have a new understanding of sleeping/waking and relationship with the other stranger.
Week 9 Wednesday
Did some testing on the edge in terms of joint each panel without being impacted by the thickness of the material.
Made digital file ready for laser cutting.
Laser Cutting
Assembling
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Week 8 Project 3
Two strangers
Where/Who/What/When/How
From my understanding of being strangers, the essence is keeping distance. The existence of distance��depicts a strange relationship. However, I think the distance is variable as it depends on personality and attitude.
Refer to Li Mingwei’s The Sleeping Project, which the bed is actually able to move, this encourages me to think about how to fit various distance.
http://www.leemingwei.com/projects.php#
Another project inspired me is Allan Wexler’s Bed / Sitting Room for an Artist in Residence, 1988. This project is about to transfer existing furniture on two sides of the wall to create new room and functionality.
http://www.allanwexlerstudio.com/projects/bed-sitting-room-artist-residence
To think about the sleeping platform design, I will find a way to offer accommodation for a various distance which depicts what relationship would two strangers have. Also, this design will carry on the suspended and oppressive experience which I explored from Project 2.
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I.M. Pei Architect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV-AfP1uDNk&feature=share
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[Week 7] 1:50 threshold design drawing. My thought was about how to transform those invisible light transition to visible, and to enhance the transitional experience from the interior.
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[Week 7] 1:50 plan§ional drawings. To explore how does the relationship of everything around impact this site.
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[Week 7] 1:200 drawing with multiple layers to show shadow effects, building around site, contours lines, vegetation, pedestrians&traffic flow.
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Week 7: Abstract 100 (Project#2)
With exploring the transition between sleep and wake, this project design conveys the experience of passing through various thresholds. Sunlight casts a shaped light and shadow when goes through the slender window, which transforms uncertainty into visible. While sun moving, the reflection projected by mirror slices makes a connection between the enclosed room and the reality. Meanwhile, privacy has been satisfied with slim window shape. Compare to going through a normal door, the experience of going through this narrow(50cm width) entrance is strange. An unwilling experience will be generated here. The sleeping area set with two massive concrete blocks, one of the blocks suspended from the ceiling with a 50cm gap above the ground one. Same as the entrance, getting into the gap for sleeping portrays an experience of a twisted psychological change between unwilling and have to. While lying down in the gap, a huge pressure is an experience that I want to share.
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Mirror is a good material which could be easy to shape and install. The reflection could generate an entire opposite world for the audience. Inspired by this artwork, using the sliced mirror to create an interactive space. The fragments of reflection make the mirrored world appear and disappear with passing through the mirror-panel path.
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