Yuling Guo_Studio 36_Journal

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Student: Yuling Guo (IVY)

LEVEL E

Tutor: Anna Nervegna

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Reflective Journal

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Week 1 - Form technique Week 2 - Site Analysis & Mass Week 3 - Mass Week 4 - Design Statement & Massing 1 & 2 Week 5 - Massing 3 & 4 Week 6 - Massing 5 & 6 Week 7 - Mid Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12

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Week 1

Form Iteration

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Form Technique 1

Scale Jeff Koons designed this balloon rabbit by enlarging the size of the rabbit. It is an impressive artwork, so I tested the scale technique by using text “A” and in filled this by cube modules. Scale technique can convey the idea to the people, even they stand far away from the building.

Designed by Yuling Guo

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Image reference: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jeff+Koons&tbm=isch&chips=q:jeff+koons,g_1:rabbit:08k6F8NnY2A%3D&hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiJieuP1Y7qAhVH5nMBHSAaAwIQ4lYoBnoECAEQIQ&biw=1310&bih=634#imgrc=My-fbkQM4PIJvM

Form Technique 2

This form consists of both solid and semi-transparent part. Solid part is the positive space and the gap between the solid part is negative space, semi-transparent part’s form is same as solid part’s negative space. This technique made this form interesting by visualizing the invisible part.

Designed by Yuling Guo

Positive & Negative

Designed by Yuling Guo

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Form Technique 3

Collage Traditionally collage is combining different materials/elements together in one artwork. The way that I show this technique here is combing several architectural elements altogether, these are arch, wall, columns and grids. Firstly, I arranged these in an ordinary way; but collage technique also blends and mixes, I arranged all the elements randomly at the second time to make it more like a collage.

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Form Technique 4

Graphics ARM architect applied Graphics technique in facade of Melbourne Recital Centre with two layers of cubes. This technique made this building more impressive. I tested this technique by cube module, each module is generated by one continuous line. The pink highlights one of modules.

Image reference: https://www.pinterest.com.mx/pin/412431278351142329/

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Form Technique 5

Quotation I used Felix Candela’s Los Manan tials restaurant as the reference image to build this form, because quotation technique is learning from someone’s and then use in my own form. I like this form because it is flexible and continuous.

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Form Technique 6

Folding Zaha connected columns and ceiling by folding technique to approach the fluid form inside the airport. I used this technique to create a folded space that could be a corridor.

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Form Technique 7

Blurring I chose blurring technique this time because this one can help me generate the form, which could be supplied for promenade. LACMA urban light used this technique by arranging series of lamps with several height.

I want to light up the promenade at night and blur the form in another way that will provide a lane for passengers to go through the form.

Image reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHBbVov4iAI

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Form Technique 8

Jump Cut From Rosalie Gascoigne’s artwork, the definition of jump cut technique is cutting the form into several pieces and then arranging them randomly. This technique made the outcome irregular and interesting.

Image reference: http://justinmillerart.com/artist/rosalie-gascoigne/

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Form Technique 9

Anamorphic From my research, anamorphic means that the artwork/form can only convey the idea when the visitor view at one specific point. I built up this form and it become a hexagon from this perspective.

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Form Technique 10

Detail It is another technique that I tend to apply in promenade’s walkway. The size of patterns become smaller from edge to centre.

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Form Technique 11

Distortion Distortion could connected two programs gradually with the fluent, smooth bridge. I think this technique could eliminate the boundary between two programs.

Image reference: https://www.archdaily.com/294549/galaxy-soho-zaha-hadid-architects-by-hufton-crow/50a642cfb3fc4b46eb000055-galaxy-soho-zaha-hadid-architects-by-hufton-crow-photo

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Form Technique 12

Fragmentation I made this facade by the fragmentation technique. This facade panel consists of series of trusses and the size of trusses become smaller from bottom to top. Under the natural light, interior space will have the nice shadow.

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Form Technique 13

Illusion Illusion could make visitors feel dizzy. So I tested illusion technique by making this corridor.

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Form Technique 14

Folding & Detail

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Form Technique 15

Transparency & Repetition Inspired from Dodi Moss’s steel mesh sculpture, I did one form below, which consists several aches.

Because black background could not show transparent form clearly, I changed it to a gradient background.

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Week 2

Site Analysis & massing

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Site Analysis

Surrounding Context Surrounding context could briefly show the buildings’ function and form nearby, which might affect my massing’s exterior form.

Arts Centre Melbourne

Audio Visual Consultant State Theatre

The Australian Ballet Centre

Hotels & Apartments

Function NGV

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Performing Art Education

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Melbourne Recital Centre

Art Gallery Melbourne Uni (Southbank Campus)

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Site Analysis

Roadmap

Roadmap shows the hierarchy of roads, streets and lanes that surrounded the site. They will affect my massing’s form and program arrangement.

Primary active road Secondary active street City Walk

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Site Analysis

Landmarks

This one layout several landmarks that surrounded by the site to explore the potential interesting elements for the mass form.

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Precedent

River Building, Sanaa This fluid form eliminated the boundary between the building and landscape by using thin columns and glass wall. Start from this point with the site analysis, I am going to design a contemporary art gallery with programs of art education, conservation and exhibition by applying some techniques, which has been introduced from last week. My proposals will use these techniques to eliminate the boundary between different programs so that visitors could view the exhibition fluidly.

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I started with the collage technique because it looks potential from form iteration task. I combined meshes and arches together.

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I approached fluidity by using continuous slopping floor, and the first floor’s slope could connect to the promenade’s circulation. Also, I keep using transparency and repetition technique for the north building. The staircase inside arches connects to the promenade as well.

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Precedent

Adaleide Contemperary Gallery, BIG ACG used continuous slopes to extend city to garden and garden to city fluidly and naturally. Also, this form helped the existing horizontal gallery to generate the optical freedom and flexible circulation for the visitors.

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Gallery building

Gallery building

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Exhibition & Conservartion The landscape provides ways for both pedestrians and cyclists.

Exhibition & Art Education

Gallery Shop

Building as landscape At the south side of the site, the edge of promenade connected to the street by sloping and the roof top connected to promenade with stair case, to create a continuous and fluid circulation for visitors.

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Building as landscape

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Arch Negative Transparency & Positive

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Mass 5 Boolean split

Boolean split

Boolean split Rotate 90 degree

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Mass 5 started to explore how to design the arch module in contemporary way. This process diagram shows how I design arch module for mass 5 step by step.

Mass 5

Top view

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Mass 5 - Moments

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Mass 6 Aerial View Mass 6 keep exploring how to create a more fluid space by sloping.

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Mass 6

Top view

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Mass 6

Moments 38

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Precedent

Art Gallery of New South Wales, SANAA More Art for the public life.

SANAA have designed dynamic indoor and outdoor spaces that will transform the way visitors engage with art and ideas, providing greater opportunities to learn, create and discover.

How the visitors engage with art and ideas? Learn, create and discover.

Image reference: https://www.outdoordesign.com.au/news-info/sydneys-modern-art-plans/5224.htm

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Mass 7

Top view

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New iteration of arcs in mass 7: Project arcs to the surface, trimmed the negative surface, which might not be used later. Afterwards, three pieces of arc facade have been generated by offsetting surface.

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Mass 7

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Precedent

Long Museum West Bund / Shanghai, Liu Yichun of Atelier Deshaus "Vault umbrella" structure Free plan Various combinations between "vault- umbrellas" of different directions

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Mass 8

Aerial view

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Mass 8

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Mass 8

Moments

Firstly I drew arcs and straight lines on one vertical surface and extruded them into interior space to generate the free and open space inside. From this view, floors are varies in height to create different feelings for the visitors.

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NGV entry

Image reference: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/373517362826334670/

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Arc iterations in 2D Inspired from existing NGV's semicircular entry, I started to explore the various iterations of arches by investigating Sol Le Witt's wall drawings.

He systematically combined basic geometry in different ways, and observed that "each person draws a line differently and each person understands words differently". I agreed with that, so I applied distinct combinations of curves, arcs to reflect that visitors could have different comprehensions from one artwork.

Referred to "Modern Art in Detail 75 masterpieces", art is a flexible, changeable evolution that expands in different directions often at the same time, rather than a linear development. The arrangement of the interior space will provide choices for visitors; firstly, south building includes two entries, which could invite groups of people from Southbank blvd and Kavanagh street; secondly, continuous ramps get through both of south building and promenade; thirdly, temperary artworks will be placed at ramps to supply a better immersive experience for the visitors.

Sol Le Witt’s wall painting #260

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Mass 9

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North building

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The promenade was inspired from existing NGV’s stained glass ceiling, so my promenade’s surface has been in-filled with stained glass panel to create soft light effect under the promenade during the day time.

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South Building Building Facade Promenade

Research library & Reading Room 2nd Floor Artist in residency studio

Kids learning Space 1st floor AtSi Gallery

Vertical circulation (Lift) Shop & Cafe’ Foyer Digital media gallery

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Store & Asemblage & Loading Ground floor VIP & Member Lounge

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Exploded Diagram This diagram illustrated the arrangement of programs, which included south building, promenade and north building. Most educational, research programs are located at south building since building’s location is closed to the Melbourne Uni’s southbank campus that having fine art major. Both temperary and permanent contenperary gallery are arranged inside north building with flexible circulation. North building faced to Flinders Street Train Station, this area should be more celebrated compared with south building.

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Staircase with stops (These flexible space are used for temperary Contemperary gallery. ) Revolving staircase without stops

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Restaurant (Floor between ground floor and 1st floor; it is 4-meter-high. ) Permanent Contemperary gallery Foyer

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Arc iterations in 3D Precedent

Maxxi Museum, Zaha Hadid Architects 62

- The museum is not an object container, but rather a campus for art.

- Flows and pathways overlap and connect.

- Flexibility of use.

- continuity of space make it a suitable place for any kind of moving and temperary exhibition - a new fluid kind of spatiality of multiple perspective points and fragmented geomentry, designed to embody the chaotic fluidity of modern life.

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Arc iterations in 3D Precedent

Heydar Aliyev centre, Zaha Hadid Architects Fluidity: establish seamless relationships and blurring distinctions between architecture elements and the ground they inhabit

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Arc iterations in 3D Precedent

Roca London Museum, Zaha Hadid Architects

- More than just a display place.

- Wide range of activities: meetings, debates, exhibitions; celebration of design in keeping with the Roca brand and company values.

- Derived from movement of water.

- Interior is flexible and functional - Interplay between architecture and nature.

- Design helped the visitors understand the relationship between architecture of the space and Roca's products.

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Arc iterations in 3D Precedent

Forever Bicycle Aiweiwei - Create a colossal labyrinth, visually moving sapce.

- One bike symbolised the freedom to move - Everyday products

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Aerial View

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Promenade

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Week 7 - Mid Scheme 1 Design Statement

Arch iterations in 2D Originally, scheme 1 intends to eliminate the boundary between the urban environment and the art space, and design a gallery become more acceptable for the public, especially the group of people, who are not familiar with the art.

The existing NGV's architect relocated the water wall at the entry to NGV; and designed a direct connection of interior and exterior by ground's semicircular arch. (Paul, 2004) Inspired from existing NGV's semicircular entry, I started to explore the various iterations of arches by investigating Sol Le Witt's wall drawings. He systematically combined basic geometry in different ways, and observed that "each person draws a line differently and each person understands words differently". (Sebastian, 2013) Similarly, each person would understand the artwork differently. Therefore, I applied distinct combinations of curves, arcs to reflect that visitors could have different comprehensions from one artwork.

Referred to "Modern Art in Detail - 75 masterpieces" (Susie, 2017), art is a flexible, changeable evolution that expands in different directions often at the same time, rather than a linear development. The arrangement of the interior space will provide choices for visitors; firstly, south building includes two entries, which could invite groups of people from Southbank blvd and Kavanagh street; secondly, continuous ramps get through both of south building and promenade; thirdly, temperary artworks will be placed at staircases and ramps to provide a better immersive experience for the visitors.

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1 Form has been generated through surrounding context.

4 The exterior form twisted as well by following the floors’ twisting direction.

7 Reverse nagetive and positive parts to achieve more iterations.

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2 Average height of floor is eight meters.

Twisted floors to approach both natural light and atrium.

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Decided facade’s location, and facade didn’t need to cover whole buildings.

Inspired from Sol LeWitt’s wall painting #260 and drew arcs. Decided negative and positive space.

8 Project patterns onto the facade and promenade.

9 Applied the arcs iterations for the facade, which inspired from Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing #260.

Reference Paul, 2004. https://architectureau.com/articles/ngv-international/ Sebastion, 2013. http://meredythsparks.com/index.php/projects/inevitable-music/ Susie, 2017. "Modern Art in Detail - 75 Masterpieces"

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Refer to the mid crit, scheme one’s interior plan did not really reflect the idea of arcs. I tried to make the space more fluid and continuous by using different types of staircase and slopes when I was designing scheme 1. As a result, the gallery space and the interior space in southbank building is not very relative to the facade pattern. However, I resolved the gallery space before circulation in north building, and north building’s plan shows the hierarchy between the spaces.

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From this plan, arc forms from the promenade have been made of glazing that inspired from the existing NGV’s stained glass ceiling.

After the mid crit, I can improve this promenade by designing arc patterns in different functions, such as stepping, sloping and platforms for sculpture.

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North building’s facade & Promenade’s stained glass

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Temperary exhibition gallery in south building

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Scheme 2 Design Statement This scheme will keep exploring how to eliminate the boundary between the gallery space/artwork and visitors by studying from both artist and architect.

Regarding to Zaha (Archdaily, 2010), the museum is not an object container, but rather a campus for art. She designed the fluidity and flexibility of space in Maxxi Museum for all types of moving and temperary exhibition with overlapping, connected flows and pathways. In my design, I will use continuous corridor to embrace both of buildings and promenade to encourage visitors to walk into the exhibition area.

Also, inspired from Aiweiwei's artwork "Forever Bicycle"(Dewi, 2015), he created a colossal labyrinth and visually blurring space by stacking groups of everyday products - bicycle. In his work, the bicycle has been used as a main moldule and one bike symbolised the freedom to move.

Consequently, his concept become stronger and the sculpture become attractive by combining hundreds of bicycles. I will design a space that infilled with groups of modules. Nowadays, more temperary exhibitions occurred in gallery (Susie, 2017), the form of modules can be adjusted for the temperary exhibition because they are convenient to assemblage and reconstruct.

Reference Archdaily, 2010. https://www.archdaily.com/43822/maxxi-museum-zaha-hadid-architects Dewi, 2015. https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/ai-weiwei-bringsforever-bicycle-sculpture-to-ngv-20150912-gjkx5d.html Susie, 2017. "Modern Art in Detail - 75 Masterpieces"

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2 Corridor space

1 Infilled with modules.

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Average height of floor is eight meters.

1 Generated promenade with arch forms.

Decided direction of corridors.

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Prcedent AMORE Sulwhasoo Flagship Store, Heri & Hu Design and Research Ofiice

From this precedent, the space is in filled with steel mesh grid created the blurring illusion for the visitors. Also, it can help to eliminate the boundaries between two programs.

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Scheme 2 also explored how to design arcs in different functions.

From the aerial view, slopes from promenade follow the shape of arc.

From the perspective, slopes go up and down.

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Void below Foyer 1

Library Void below

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My renders tend to illustrate the façade’s arc pattern, shadow and other iterations of arcs inside the building.

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Feedback:

- Buildings at the background is too dark, make them more transparent.

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Section: Shorter cut (southbank building) I drew it with a bit of perspective view to show the depth of interior space.

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Artist in residency studios Artist in residency studios

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- Need to balance the relation between arc and straight lines. Because Sol Le Witt’s wall painting did the iteration of arcs and straight lines as well.

- Also, some columns could be hidden inside the wall. Square columns do not suitable for my design.

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Detail Section Precedent

Roof & Ceiling My building’s roof & ceiling’ structure was inspired from Museum Voorlinden. First layer is a metal canopy and the second layer is steel structure with glass panel. I choose metal canopy for my roof system since it could be constructed in any shape; and double layer could generate nice shadow for interior space.

Image reference: https://www.frameweb.com/news/museum-voorlinden-has-an-intelligent-canopy-which-controls-lighting

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Structure My facade part will be made by two panels of white concrete joined as a sandwich panel, which was inspired from Toyo ito’s Museo Internacial del Barroco. Because my facade has tilted part, and this pre-cast sandwich panel is able to transfer load through tilted form.

Image reference: https://www.archdaily.com/786104/museo-internacional-del-barroco-toyo-ito-and-associates-architects

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