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What do you guys think?? I want to bind tomorrow (and print late tonyte) and put it in .. so if you think theres something wrong wif it or any other minor improvements that can be made it would b great!

Im a tad stuck for ideas ... so here are some options ...

for opening page ...

lifestyle shot .... with manifesto on the right ...

with connection models .. think the left page could make a nice cover sheet too

what do u guys think? any ideas ...

... is this better?

Doesnt look quite right does it??

finally ... ... the new hopefully improved section articulating more clearly the three border conditions and its connections and separations ... what do you guys think of the metal plate structure of my blob?? i think it looks better without ... it sort of looks a bit random ... err its a bit foggy (to see) aint it or is it my glasses ...

View looking from housing with blob looking at (translucent blob) outside of the glass - which ive used the fuzzy glass but looks solid ... myte have to look into the blob and look out and see ... which daylight do you guys think? ... i like the golden one but as im somewhat .. confused in the art of rendering ... on second thoughts maybe the 3rd one or 2nd (theres potential for pinkness)?

What do you guys think of this perspective? ... compared to the one below ?? is it a bit too blue for LA? .. in the one above i used different types of glass and an opening into the green but in the bottom one i just used transparent .. which one do you guys think is better?

What do you guys think of this one now ??? next im gonna start photoshopping ...

how bout now? will photoshop the interior concrete to make it less textured ....

View from a single storey space to the exterior ... will photoshop the textures etc? or jus re render with the right textures??

wat do u guys think of this view??

What do you guys think of these flat to open green space views??

View of connection from a single storey flat to green space.

In the first one ... i took the glass out .... but in the second one i made the glass a bubble texture to give it a little bit of glassiness ... so you know where is inside and out ...

Still needs alot of work ...
good thing is thou ... you can see that light that there is a continuosu hole (well 2) .. that goes through block... so it COULD be ventilated ... better not say the V word but ... something happened thou ... i used the same material for the roof ... but why is it at different scales ... and the grass became tiled all by itself again?? how why? does anyone know ... does it need to be lighter?? less pink and more blue or ...

Connecting the space in the guestroom vicinity in terms of privacy and view... Bedroom in a pod (sort of - smaller scaled space) adjacent to exterior framed views. Spaces separated by change in levels and the change in volume.

Nighttime...

Realistic ... i lightened the foreground

Cut n paste ...

through a fuzzy tv

My superflat as yet had not really dealt with the connection/disconnection issues of my block... it was still everything that was negative ... so here through a series of sections through my flat I am trying to think about levels of privacy in volumes, separation and connection... With these sections I will redevelop my flat ...

Am working on it ... but nothing to show as yet ... but this is what i want it to look like ...

Here is my view ...


and this quick rendering ... with focal distance of 4 metres ....

tis super foggy

and then at 10m focal distance

which tis still supa foggy ... ?? what do u guys think the problem is?

This view would be looking through some glass as a view from inside an apartment out.

The following two are taken from one spot but looking at different angles

Have been really really slow this weekend with nothing to show ... but worked out these contour curves ... i think these are the right distance apart??

This is just for now... have started to put in contour lines ... ... will blog more later tonight ... have it illustratored at home .... have to go to TS

Just the basic footprint of my section .. will add more detail to it before tomorrow ... what do you guys think so far? ... Looking at Rahim's drawings really helped ... will try and contour my curved surfaces with lines ...

This is a floor plan (it doesnt really look like one though) hmm ... of my first flat and its living area which connects to the public space and communal open space ... is this enough detail? ... i dont think it says enough about border conditions ... what do you guys think? .. how can i make it more interesting? ...

An overall view ... of apartment 1 in relationship to outdoor and public space ...

Where every entrance of apartment in the public space has a transition semi/public/private entrance platform...

Looking into entrance of apartment 1

looking from apartment into public space ...

a view of another apartment looking in from public space

the view from apartment into public space

Plan view

Heres my manifesto revised ...

As our cities are becoming increasingly connected in physical systems, systems of communication and even global economy, our interaction with our immediate surroundings are changing where our relationship with space has become less physical but one of speed and fleeting moments in time. Taking the feeway, an integral part of LA's urban infrastructure as a starting point, I investigated these systems of connections within the city, in physical elements such as the freeway and the effects of such systems. Taking this new urban phenomena of hyperconnectivity brought upon by such systems of connection, I plan to investigate and explore new types of connections and conditions within the context of a housing superblock, superwall and superflat as an extension of this greater system...

Here are some views into my section ... starting to look at how housing relates with housing ...

maybe the triangulation of the dividing walls could help the supporting structure of the block as an autonomous structure to the blob structure ....
housing

These are still preliminary .. i am continuing developing this sectional perspective view ... stil have to think more in depth about flat-blob connection

These are two new renderings with new materials ... I did montage them into the site... but in my dazed state yesterday/day before ... i saved them as something unrecognisable ... but have them in paper format ... so will show you guys later ... but what do you thinik of my new materials??

Some of my favourite pictures from the photoshoot ...

My new block model

Connection model revisited...

Model with deformed spaces .....

Plaster facade study

The sTL block section ...

For Tuesday ... I plan (want) to ...
Finish my plan (level 6) at 1:100 ...
take a zoom in at levels 4-7 at 1:50 ... where a flat interacts with a blob and a green space... circulation betweeen .... thinking aboutbut maybe look at that more in a rhino model ... ... TOP PRIORITY ...
and retouch the renders with better materials ... and hopefully 4th time STL model ...

Continue reading "What I have been up to ... and what I will do for Tuesday (hopefully)" »

my finished block model .... my favouriteview into the open green space with double volume voids ... a totally liveable block (i hope) ... turnin a new leaf in krappy photographs ...

Hooke Park model as yet is unfinished ... so cant really put photos up of it ... will redo the moulds for the panels in high density foam... so can vacuum it ....

As our cities are becoming increasingly connected in physical systems and systems of communication, our relationship with space has become less phsical but one of speed and fleeting moments in time. Taking the freeway, an integral part of LA’s urban infrastructure, I investigated these systems of connection within the city such as the freeway and its effects that these systems of hypeconnectivity have on the city. From the analysis of this urban phenomena of I want to bring it into my superblock, superwall and superflate as an extension of this greater system.
Some initial sketch models exploring the continuity of the freeway. wrapping the road into the site generating a continuous circulation path through the superblock.
However, the physical form of the freeway was not so interesting but rather it is how the freeway and the sense of connectivity and circulation has changed ones experience of the city especially in LA where it is experienced as a series of nodes and points spread out through the city and not in proximity of location.
Some sketch models where i started to think about how a volume of space could be connected . (the bead and thread models) through a node and connection diagram. Where a node is point of human activity
Dots and lines diagram Taking this node and connection model on a generic site with approximata e dimensions where I try to connect the different sides of the site.
1. Each node is a point of entry into the site. Where there are 12 points of entry equally distributed on the perimeter of the site.
2. With each progressive leevel, these points of activity are attracted towards each other moving 10m every second floor and rebounding out towards the perimeter again
3. At points of hyperconnectivity where many paths intersect, a space deforms out of the block where it contains a non housing programme (a space of communal activity).
4. These deformed spaces are connected in section as well as in plan to create varying scales of public spaces within the block.
Looking at model
Plans are stacked and the deformed spaces connect vertically, where the negative space in the model is the housing programme . These deformed spaces of human connection are also articulated in the facade where the bulbous spaces explode out of the rectinlinear wall of the block. As yet the housing programme in this model is the negative space.
Facade studies Some experiments in the modelling of the facade with plaster casting. Rigid lines are created through rectinlinear volumes. Where points of connectivity within the facade are articulated through dowells poking into the latex mould.
Taking this node and connection diagram I tested this tool for generating form with two other extreme examples. Where one has 8 points of connection and 40 points of connection. In the 8 points of connection I felt that in this model there were less number of deformations as there were less points of connection and the spatial qualities of deformed spaces were less varied than in the previous model.
In the 40 points of connection model, the block generated through this system was very dense and although it produced interesting patterns in plan, once again the size of deformations are almost uniform but at a much smaller scale where i think as spaces they would be incredibly boring experientially and non functional.
The machine so far had only generated superblock which were symmetrical and almost objectifying the block disconnecting it to the site and its surroundings.
Site Analysis Looking at the site and its surrounding disconnections and surrounding programmes. On the side adjacent to Gehry under the underpass there is a huge void of three levels of dead space where I intend to put a parking programme. Potential points of human activity are found at the boundary alongside the proposed student halls and dance theatres, where a plaza from the adjacent property opens out into our site.
Taking these site observations I incorporated this data into my connection tool to generate a superblock that was more site specific.
Starting with housing programme, all housing dots started at the perimeter of the facade, where each apartment was intended to have an individual access to the street at ground level. These housing points are again attracted towards each other with each consecutive floor, where at the boundary adjacent to the entrance of Gehry a new set of internal housing dots are introduced to create greater density into the superblock. The location of the housing points generate the overall form of the superblock. A parameter of ventilation voids are introduced into the dense block creating voids at every 10-15 metres, where these voids at each level bring fresh air and light into interior flats.
Public space, spaces of human activity are generated through the position of points at each level which respond to site specific views programmes and access points. These planar deformations are connected vertically to generate dramatically differing scales of spaces, that are simulataneously event spaces , green spaces and the circulation between the housing within the block. The many deformed spaces that are connected throughout the block attempt to create a hyperconnected superblock in a hyperconnected city. However, unlike LA where the fast speed of the city has created a increased sense of connection through speed but the human to human interaction has become reduced to recognition of another person through the window of your car. this block attempts to create the same sense of hyperconnectivity with an intention to generate human activity through the introduction of community spaces, where the circulation paths between apartments are event spaces in itself.
As the climate of LA tends towards an outdoor sensebility in living, inorder to give more pleasant living conditions to the dense superblock, a green layer is introduced into the superblock to provide open green space to apartments which have no access to external view, where each flat has access to either external view or a common green space or both. This green layer also acts as an openair circulation for the apartments within the block.
Looking at Section
In section, the form of the deformed public spaces provide an interesting landscape within the block. The conglomeration of the deformed spaces create its own structure and circulation where the rectinilear block has a separate structural system and has moments of access into the public spaces.
All in all I intend to bring this sense of hyperconnectivity in my superblock, and superwall into my superflat whilst promoting a sense of living based around human interaction, daylight and view. I hope to bring another (maybe polar opposite) experiential sensibility to my flat as a contrast to the volumous spaces of my circulation.

taking sections through the model at spaces of 1.5 metres for beams.

Thinking about the globular structure in terms of Sendair mediatheque where vertical sections create a column structure where the lateral contour beams of the curve give rigidity and so it acts as a column as a whole.
taking profiles for beams ... where the floor beams are the same piece as the glob structure.

I think i will look at how the rectilinear floors interact with the globby structure.

Currently the model is at 21 by 16 metres at 1:1 scale... was thinking at 1:20 scale approx 1.05 by 0.8 metres

Still so many naked edges... will get it done but just some interior views for now

Its a bit simple... ... trying to break the curvey form down (in plan) into lines and circles ... using the tangent of circles and joining them with straight lines to create a simplified form...any ideas on how to do it in 3d maybe?? ... was thinking once i simplify it in 3d then i could rebuild in the simplified form and then hopefully build a prototype for hooke park?

Section showing the public deformed spaces as the structural element of the superblock