Sharon Koshy: May 2013

Monday 27 May 2013

Draft 1 of Bridge and Cryengine Environment

Development of Valley Landscape Cryengine

Development of School/Bridge in Cryengine

Monday 13 May 2013

Experiment 3 :Mashup between three articles

Mash up:

Urban buildings need to be in flux, to suggest that while they may look this way today, they might well be turned into something else tomorrow. Koolhaas’s modernist dream of total flexibility—designed to be open to social and programmatic evolution.The process of ‘decentring’ ourselves/our architecture from an imposed system is the dominating principle in deconstructivism. Deconstruction questions solidarity, uniformity, and cohesion. 'Architecture is representation of itself as construction responding to a purpose' (Peter Eisenman ). It will no longer aim for stable configurations but for the creation of enabling fields that accommodate processes that refuse to be crystallized into definitive form … (Koolhaas 1994) Primacy of form. Eisenman is not interested in the isolation of modern forms per se; he is interested in a language and order which uses geometrical solids as absolute points of reference for any form of architecture. He is looking for an inherent order derived from a geometric reference.

Koolhaas’s desire as an architect is to design the stage, not to write all of the lines to be spoken on it. Eisenman differentiates a subdivision of form into two types: generic and specific. Deconstructive architecture that appears fragmented, non-linear, with bent/uneven outlines and incomplete forms are indicative of this theory. The final appearances of buildings in this style are characterized by a stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos. To be able to understand volume, he introduces the notions of movement and experience.

References:

Paul Goldberger , 'The Architecture of Rem Koolhaas', Architectural Digest, 2000, pp1-3.
Arie Graafl , 'Peter Eisenman: The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture’, Footprint Trans- disciplinary, Autumn 2007, pp. 93-96.

Rago, D. 'Deconstructive Architecture and Daniel Libeskind', viewed on 21/05/2013, <jsaw.lib.lehigh.edu/include/getdoc.php?id=97>.

Experiment 3: Valley from Country of Origin

Valley of Flowers India National Park

Munnar Valley, Kerala, India

Saturday 4 May 2013

Final Submission Exp 2: 5 Real Time images and corresponding text

The cantilevering nature of the monumental structure over the river serves to highlight, the fact that the organic terrain in the surrounding were purposely chosen to juxtapose the rigid linearity of the monuments. This in effect allows the students to distinguish the concepts the monuments are based on.

This image captures how the stairs contribute to the seamless interlocking of different hierarchical forms, which subsequently creates a meeting space in the middle.

The bright white light diffused with the purple highlights the openness and spatial largeness of voids. It also aids in the creation of shadows like those under the stairs and on the roof which heightens the communication of the dynamic collision of linear forms.