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Rui Li is a master of

landscape architecture student of RMIT. She has finished bacherlor degree of Landscape Architeture in china.

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Contents Charpter 0

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Charpter 1 Design Fundamental

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Charpter 3 Preliminary Strategies

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Position Statement

The performance is a mutual adaptation process between landscape architecture and users. It can be seen as the function of the landscape.

There is one thing that diverse materials can change the environment feelings in different situation, which may improve the perception and affect. The situation takes many different experience to users.Through investigating the site ACCA, one interesting finding is the same materials cause the different body feelings when it expose in sunshine or in the rain. For example, sand pavement becomes warm when it under the sun shine, people may feel warm or hot. Being compared to it, when the sand expose to the rain, the temperature is low, people’s body feeling is so cold. Another main point is space organization. One example is Guggenheim museum Bilbao. Contemporary artists produce outdoor installations on site to cope with the space of the Frank Gehry building.

This makes the whole site not only focus on the exhibition and collection of art flat, but also enables artists to have more space to create works of art and make full use of outdoor landscape space.

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The performance is a quest for a landscape architecture design process.

The notion can be seen as the form change of the landscape exterior appearance. By consulting the data, the concept of the overall design of ACCA is to simulate the desert environment. Therefore, the main landscape materials are mainly sand, and the overall form is simple, without too much decoration. There only are three installation in the square. To compare with that, Guggenheim museum Bilbao is different. In the outdoor space, there are different materials of pavement, and two ponds surrounding the building. There also have many installations.

However, the landscape only show the design and art, but do not have any meaning.

As far as I am concerned, the function of the landscape is as important as it’s beauty. Function is an important part of the connection between the landscape and the user. It should pay attention to the feelings and needs of the people as much as possible. Meanwhile, the design of landscape also need to flow some aesthetic principle. As aesthetic will change with the times, new form of the landscape can keeping up with the times to attract more people's attention. For example, the Guggenheim museum Bilbao represents the deconstructionism architecture, which has wild curving lines. The landscape around the building link the same style with the building and the application of different paving materials and the change of terrain played a good role in guiding tourists. The new form help the new museum attract more visitors and artists, and also make it become the most famous design in the world. However, ACCA's design is not that compelling. Although it uses geometric line elements in its architecture, it is too bland on the landscape and there are no significant features to attract tourists' attention. In addition, the huge square without any change may easy to make visitors lose direction.

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After the research and design projects are based on these three principles. Venusta means the beauty, which should consider about the spatial and aesthetic. Firmitas is about the durability, which base on the materials and building soild. Utilita is functionality, which respons to the user's demonds.

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Architecture & Landscape Through the investigation of the site, the site quality is analyzed from the three principles of Vitruvius.

Venusta: The structure and landscape structure is mainly geometric straight line, sharp and strong sense of structure. The dark red of the building and the bright yellow of the pavements are visually contrasted, with a strong sense of visual impact.

Firmitas: The main material of the paving is sand, it is not fixed, it will move with the wind, or move with the step of the pedestrian.

Utilita: The square in front of the stadium is open and lacks some

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facilities, which is not good for users to stop or carry out activities. The backyard has a sinking small space and some outdoor facilities to provide facilities and venues for users to stop.

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Design Fundamental

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Site Analysis

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ACCA is located in Melbourne southbank, near the university of melbourne sothbank campus, and also near the NGV.

University of art and NGV provide provide a strong art ambience for ACCA. ACCA can provide more out door space for out door exhibitions or other art relater activities.

The City of Melbourne is enhancing its streets and laneways by upgrading roads and footpaths, landscaping and other improvements. The enhancements will ensure our streetscapes are safe, attractive and prepared for projected population growth.

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For urban forest, there are some open greenspace near the ACCA, In addition, ACCA near the royal botanic garden. If teh ACCA provide more space for green, the area will cover with more green and people will have more activity space enjoy nature.

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The first impression for the site must be empty and expose. Bright color pavement and building surface can not attract people' eyes. People go through the site and no one stay for a long time.

Mapping analysis

We collected the data for temperature, noise and wind condition. And also record our body feelings in defferent wheather condition.

Through analysis the mapping and evaluate our body feelings, we find that the area will easy to effect by weather. Under the sun, it is hot and dry while in teh rainy day, it is cold and wet. This situation cause people feel uncomfortable.

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That may be the reason why there only have little out exhibition or outdoor activities for people.

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On rainy days, the whole site was bare and unshielded, and it was exposed to heavy winds and torrential rain. In addition, sand and other materials are easy to wet, and make the surrounding environment as cold and humid as a whole.

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On sunny days, the front square is more exposed to the sun than the backyard. Dark colored building surfaces and sand produce a lot of radiant heat in the sun pass, causing the ambient temperature to rise.

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Temperature (warm)

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Materials

The site is mainly sand, with a single form and a single texture.

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The whole area will have a lot of traffic noise near the highway, and the noise coming from the backyard mainly comes from the coffee shop.

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Research Question Base on the research, my research question

how to change atmosphere effect people's activities?

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the purpose is changing the atmosphere and materials to enhance the interaction between people and environment.

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Design Statement

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‘Misty’ have two meaning. One is microclimate, add mist means increase humidity, which provide different micro-climate experience in the site. Another meaning is visual performance, fog create misty feeling for the site, which provide changeable view for the site.

Topic: My research question is “How to change atmosphere effect people's activities?”

The purpose is that change materials and topographic to create different micro-climate condition in the same area, and provide more experience to people.

Significant: The site’s original micro-climate is dry, open and easy to be effected by weather.

On the other hand, there are not many activities happen in the out door space. Thus, increasing humidity and using topographic add more shade can certainly change the micro-climate condition, which provide more chance for people stay in the out door space.

Different constructer form of materials create more space for people stay and enjoy the site.

Outcome: The temperature will decrease in the high humidity and shade area, in the hot summer, it can attract more people stay. In the winter, the fog have high density, which create misty view. However, humidity make the side become colder, people may choose to move rather than stay.

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Retro: The main paving materials are kept in the sand, and the original pavement texture remains unchanged.

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Fog Fog as an atmosphere material will ues in the site. Fog can help to improve the air humidity.

In hot summer, fog can help reduce the tempure. In winter,fog will cover moer area cause different view and experience to people.

There aer three main way creat fog, one is released from vegetations.

Another one is rain water evaporation. Last one is launched by mist device.

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Fog density will change in different weather condition. The wind will blow up the fog. During the windy day and rainy day, the fog have low density, the view becomes clear.

Vegetation Release

Water Evaporation

Mist Device

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Water vapor condenses more easily into fog in cold weather. Cold winter can create more fog than summer.

Different fog condition provide more different view for the site.

Especially for out door exhibitions and programs.

With those programs, fog may become one combaination of the art.

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Fog will change with wind. In the strone wind area, fog has low density. Fog also will change with temperature, cold weather make vapor easy to become fog.

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These elements form a comprehensive microclimate system with the increase of humidity, evaporation of water vapor, radiant heat of material and shadow.

Sun Radiation

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Temperature

Thermal Convection

Humidity Thermal Conduction

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Humidity

Thermal Convection

Thermal Conduction

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Materials

The main material of the site is mainly sand, and sand is easy to change the temperature with the change of climate. Therefore, replace the use of sand in some areas with materials such as wood and concrete that are difficult to change the surface temperature.

Hard materials like timber and concrete provide more chance to build different form of space and structure. Soft materials like grass provide more possible for microclimate. Sand keep the original surface quility of ACCA. The combination of materials provides many possibilities for the function and form of the site, enriching the user's experience in the site.

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Timber have low thermodynamic constant, thus the surface is hard to change with weather. People can find more place to stay.

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Different constructure methord and materials conbaination provide different experience for users.

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Material Constrate Form

Timber: wood can perform

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a variety of functions,and the way it looks is correspondingly varied.

Timber structure also varies considerably. Each timber species has its own unmistakeable grain and coolring.

Timber Concrete

Concerete: concerete has great compressive stability like natural stone. 'natural'concerete is a warm and dull lightto-middle gray, and it build with smooth surface.

Grass Concrete

Constrate Detail

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Topgraphic

Change the form, using curve element Press

make it connect with the surface.

Extrude those polygon area, because those area will become the wall defend the wind.

And those area will creat the extured

shade make the center area become cool.

Along the original pavement texture, we need to change the terrain and material area, which not only keeps the original design concept, but also changes the environmental

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Enclosure

The problem for the site is exposed.

Change the peripheral material and topography, and make the central area form the enclosure area will provide more chance for the site.

Form Analysis: 1. Stair Form: simple, single edge, little funcation.

2. Ramp Form: simple, single edge, little funcation, shrap angle

3. Smooth Form: multiple form of edge, more

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funcation, smooth edge.

Edge & Funcation:

Extrude those polygon area, because those area will become the wall defend the wind. And those area will creat the shade make the center area become cool.

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Simulation

I use the ladybug analysis the strategy model. The resule shows that the sun radiation certainly reduce in the center area. That's means the temputer in the centre can lower than other area in sunny day.

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The frequently wind will come from north, the topgraphic can certainly change the wind way. The central area will be protected from the strong wind.

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Detail

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The extrude topgraphic provide which provide more shade in the the central area. With the humidity increase, the temperature will decrease obvioursily.

As the terrain changes to a certain extent, the winds change, especially for the north wind.

Thus, the wind level will decrease.

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There are 5 main antrence of the site. People can choose flat way to go to the building antrence.

There also are many different choice for people to go around the site and find different experience.

Different hierarchy provide different view, which peovide different experience for people.

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Section

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The hightest topgraphic is 2.5 meters. The flat produce space for out door exhibitions. The grident is between 25-45 degree.

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The lowest topgraphic is about 0.5 meters. It’s covered with grass. The grident is about 20 degree.

Different levels of platform provide different options for different activities and outdoor exhibitions.

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Through the retrofit of the site, the new quality is analyzed from the three principles of Vitruvius.

Venusta: Softening boundaries and bodies is more affinity to senses. Add different colors and textures to enrich visual experience.

Firmitas: Timber and Concrete make different stuctuer, make the single ground looks more beautiful. Fog also enhance the view experience.

Utilita: Undulating terrain, the use of grasslands, so that the sand is

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not easy to move less easily, conducive to the maintenance of the entire site.

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Activities

At first, which activities will happen in the area should be clear. So, we have to know who is the main users for the site. The place may give them a strong impression about contemporary art.

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Artists Visitors

otudoor exhibition Performance art

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Learn culture memory

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Spend time

Lecture

Hold activities

Drawing

Thinking

Residents

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Preliminary Strategies

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Strategy 1

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The plan is an initial idea of the treatment of site climate issues to build a shelter that can shelter the rain. The main material is glass.

The main problem is that the shelter does not really have an effective impact on the environment.

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Strategy 2

This scheme is the rudiment of the final plan, which is directly extruded by polygonal shape. The main problem is that the form is unitary and the function is not diverse. In addition, the shape of some of the more sharp edges, easy to make people feel uncomfortable visually.

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There are five main way from access to the building entrance. People also can have different choice to try different way because the different harerachy of

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topgraphic.

View Different harerachy of the topgraphic also provide people to experience different view in the area.

Fog produce The fog produce equipment will site under the timber.

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the gap on the timber

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Appendix

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Another model testing

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Case Study EOS Photograph Series

Taichung Gateway Park Philippe Rahm Architectes

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Sean Lally

The photographs are experiments that report on potential futures ahead, ones that do not fall along the false dichotomy presented in the media that earth can only be preserved or destroyed. The work instead embraces the belief that for humanity to live sustainably and responsibly, earth’s environments, as well as the human body, will just have to artificially evolve together. Through photographs of physical stage models, Lally’s work speculates on the shapes and aesthetics of space including the social and political dynamics that will emerge when both the design of the environment and the human body are recognized as necessarily elastic for humanity to move forward.

I prefer to learn the concept and methord about using fog the creat the atmosphere.

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The ambition of our project is to give back the outdoors to the inhabitants and visitors by proposing to create exterior spaces where the excesses of the subtropical warm and humid climate of Taichung are lessened.

This project for me is a good example to show how to creat different atmosphere in same place and how different atmosphere effect people's activities and feeling. In addition, the analysis methord also is something I want to learn.

THE WEATHER PROJECT

THE WEATHER PROJECT James Turrell

The project, which ran for six months and reportedly attracted two million visitors, consisted of monofrequency lights, projection foil, haze machines, mirror foil, aluminium and scaffolding.

Members of the audience could walk through a space permeated with a mist of sugar and water, lit by a huge yellow-orange disc.

James Turrell’s Bridget’s Bardo uses the Ganzfeld effect – experienced when looking at a structureless field of vision – together with spatial control and coloured light to produce potentially unsettling experiences that demonstrate the ways in which human perception is faulty.

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Olafur Eliasson

This project for me is a good example to show how to creat a thinking area.

How to use the atmosphere enhance interaction between people and environment or people and others.

This project for me is a good example to show how to creat a light environment to show the feeling which creat by view.

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References

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Brutsaert, W., 2013. Evaporation into the atmosphere: theory, history and applications (Vol. 1). Springer Science & Business Media.

Grobman, Y.J. and Neuman, E., 2013. Performalism: form and performance in digital architecture. Rout

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Hale, J., 2017. Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces.

Gernot BĂśhme. Edited/translated by AC. Engels-Schwarzpaul. Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts.

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Rahim, A., 2006. Catalytic formations: architecture and digital design (p.

77). New York: Taylor & Francis.

Stevens, J.B., Elission, P., Risch, B. and Bastide, C., 1998. Finite Element Modeling of Optic Fiber Cable Crush Performance. Alcatel OFCCC. English Abstract of Japanese Patent Application, (919893).a.

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Zimmermann, A., 2011. Constructing landscape: materials, techniques, structural components. Birkhäuser.

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