M1 Journal DD

Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2018 Yueming Yang 929212 Siavash Malek + 20

Week One

Reading: Zeara Polo, A. 2010. Between Ideas and Matters.

According to Zeara-Polo, the diagram does not play a representational role in the design process but provides an organisational and can have a performative quality depending on how it is deployed. Explain how Diagram is different from Signs and Symbols? (100 words Maximum)

Diagrams are different from signs and symbols in what they represent and how it deploy. Diagram is an organisation tool that describes abstract things like relationships and prescribes performance in sapce. It do not play a representational role for their dynamic objects.

On the other hand, signs and symbols do not have any spatial correlation. They are represented in a more materialistic way.

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Week One

Precedent Analysis

These two pictures above show the model of the short side and the long side of this pavilion in rhino, and the bottom one is the completed model.

Peter Zumthor, Hortus Concluses, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011. Š Peter Zumthor, Photo: John Offenbach

The structure of this pavilion is symmerical, thus I only need to built half of the model (the short side and the long side) in rhino. The rest part of it can be completed by copy and paste.

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Week Two

Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture.

Herzberger discuss how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use. (100 words Maximum)

The design concept of this pavilion is “a garden escape from busy metropolis”. The benches along the corridor provide space for individuals wanting to sit down, enjoy the view and make contemplation. The tables and chairs also provide opportunity for a group of people sitting together and make conversations. In this case, although it is not a cafe, it does provide a “ cafe-like” function, therefore allows for an appropriation of use.

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Week Two

Isometric

Structure The original isometric is hard to see the inner sturcture, so I cut it into three sections. This pavilion had two corridors, both of them can be circulated, but the inside one is designed for pause and stay, and it had tables, chairs and benches inside. For this partucular Pavilion, I believe the thresold is the outside corridor including all the doorways. The darkness of the corridor made it easier for people to calm down and make contemplation.

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Week Two Diagrams

Circulation

Public Vs. Private

I use orange dotted line here to indicate the main circultion,which is in the corridor. And the yellow line inside represents the secondary ciculation. The shaded area is where people able to walk.

The innermost space have tables, chairs and benches around the interior garden. It is a public space, but each table can create a private space. Vistors here can take time to relax

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Material Material also play an evocative as well as an essential role in the building. The design aim of this Pavilion is to bring the nature back, and create a contemplative garden away from the busy metropolis.

The timber framed stucture provide a natural environment, and the black cover creates the blackness and shadow when people ones entry it, their emotion would be changed, thus the thresold occured.

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Appendix Process

This is the first step in Rhino, I trace the outline of the section frame, and then use “Extrudecrv� command to get my first timber frame and the basic model .

The completed model in Rhino.

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I delete the roof and some walls to show the inner plan of the Pavilion. Then I use photoshop to add more details.

I cut my model into two sections to show the inner plan, this is also the prototype of my second diagram.

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Appendix

Process

The top view map of the paths outside the building I made.

The prototype of my main isometric.

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The prototype model of the timber frame diagram in my third model.

All the Make2D diagrams in Rhino.

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