3 Images That Influence My Design

EDITT Tower, Singapore, TR Hamzah & Yeang

EDITT - Ecological Design In The Tropics. A 26 level tower built of recycled and reclyclable material. Covered with 855 sq m of solar panels and with its own rain water harvesting, grey water systems. It is intended half the surface area will be covered with organic vegetation.

This building interests me as far as incorporating, in a somewhat random manner, open areas of vegetation alongside enclosed spaces for living, both are living whereas one lives in the open the other lives enclosed but there is the ability to cross between the spaces. When I relay this back to my original designs on Osteoporosis, I see the open spaces as where the protein has died and left the bone structure but now something else is growing in that vacant space somehow recreating life where it once died. The green areas depict the regrowth.

http://www.ecofriend.com/entry/eco-architecture-singapore-to-soon-flaunt-a-vertical-farm-incorporated-skyscraper/

Fisher Center for Performing Arts, New York, Frank Gehry

Finished in brush steel it reflects light and colour from the surrounding landscape. This building inspires me as to how I might incorporate a free form random surface into a conceivable building. This is largely concentrating on how to work with facades to create impressions.

http://architecture.about.com/od/greatbuildings/ig/Buildings-by-Frank-Gehry/Fisher-Center.htm

The Spree Riversides, Berlin, Patrick Bedarf

Designed by Patrick Bedarf, the Spree Riversides that are located between Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, Germany, evolved during the research of the ongoing conflict between different social groups and their interest in one of the most attractive pieces of land in the heart of Berlin.

The project focuses on a spatial partitioning strategy of voronoi regions featuring a gradient driven diversity with highly functional orthogonal structures as well as distorted and geometrically complex volumes. Pointclouds, generated from early studies of programmatic foam structures, are therefore manipulated locally depending on programmatic attributes.

This architecture I find quite close to my original designs on Osteoporosis. I like the random iteration of open and closed space as it reflects the concepts behind my models on the previous assignment. I like that fact that the overall form is quite organic however the detailing is quite geometric and structured.

http://www.architecture-view.com/2010/12/08/modern-spree-riversides-at-berlin/