Communication Final Folio

COMMUNICATION 2

STUDIO 4 FOLIO

PROJECT ONE: IDEATION

SCENARIO

Persephone

Persephone is a goddess from Greek mythology, who was the daughter of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility. She was the queen of the underworld, and was also known as Kore, which means “maiden” in Greek.

According to Greek mythology, Persephone was abducted by Hades, the god of the underworld, while she was picking flowers in a field. Hades took her to the underworld and made her his queen, but her mother Demeter was devastated by her disappearance, and searched the earth for her in vain.

Eventually, Zeus intervened and ordered Hades to release Persephone, but Hades had tricked her into eating a pomegranate seed, which bound her to the underworld. As a compromise, it was decided that Persephone would spend six months of the year with her husband in the underworld, and six months with her mother on earth. This myth was used to explain the changing of the seasons, with Persephone’s time in the underworld representing winter, and her return to earth bringing the warmth of spring.

Persephone was often depicted as a young, beautiful woman, with long hair and a gentle demeanor. She was associated with the cycle of life and death, and was also seen as a symbol of renewal and growth.

Persephone was an important figure in ancient Greek religion, and was worshiped in a number of different cults and rituals. Her story continues to be told and celebrated in modern times, and she remains an enduring symbol of the power of nature and the cycles of life.

Allegory

The overall story of Persephone is that she is the cycle of life and death. To me the allegory in her story is that she does not fit into the mold of good or bad. As she was born in the overworld to the most powerful god and godess in greek mythology and still is married to the god of the underworld. To me, this says that one is not born into a desired role and is destined to be ones self.

Warmth

Persephone on earth represented warmth and love

key words: Persephone_greek_myth_flowers_nature

Cold

Persephone in the underworld is described as cold and dark key words: Persephone_greek_myth_underworld_hades_winter_cold

Underworld vs. Overworld

the difference between each world contrast with one another and plays into the idea of one cannot fit into one description

key words: underworld_overworld

SYSTEM DIAGRAMMING

Persephone was abducted by Hades, the god of the underworld, while she was picking flowers in a field. Hades took her to the underworld and made her his queen

MONTH TWO

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MONTH THREE

Hades had tricked her into eating a pomegranate seed, which bound her to the underworld. As a compromise, it was decided that Persephone would spend six months of the year with her husband in the underworld, and six months with her mother on earth. This myth was used to explain the changing of the seasons, with Persephone’s time in the underworld representing winter, and her return to earth bringing the warmth of spring. Hades had tricked her into eating a pomegranate seed, which bound her to the underworld. As a compromise, it was decided that Persephone would spend six months of the year with her husband in the underworld, and six months with her mother on earth. This myth was used to explain the changing of the seasons, with Persephone’s time in the underworld representing winter, and her return to earth bringing the warmth of spring.

MONTH FOUR

MONTH FIVE

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MONTH SIX

MONTH SEVEN

MONTH EIGHT

MONTH NINE

Allegory

MONTH TEN

MONTH ELEVEN

MONTH TWELVE

The overall story of Persephone is that she is the cycle of life and death. To me the allegory in her story is that she does not fit into the mold of good or bad. As she was born in the overworld to the most powerful god and godess in greek mythology and still is married to the god of the underworld. To me, this says that one is not born into a desired role and is destined to be ones self.

Folding a piece of paper to manipulate it into any shape. I found the folds in the paper hard to work and place into the space I wanted it to go into. |11

EXPERIMENTATION

EXPERIMENTATION

Using more folds, a tunner model was created. Creating two of these shows the two different sides of Persephone and how they relate to one another.

PROJECT TWO: DESIGN

stacking them next to and ontop of one another aswell to show how that both the underworld and underworld are locations in Persephone’s story.

BEEHIVE PAVILION/ Office for Collective Architecture

https://www.archdaily.com/998229/beehive-pavilion-oca-office-for-collective-architecture?ad_source=search&ad_medium=projects_tab

AUTUMN ART BREEZE AT SEJONG ART CENTER / Boundaries architects

https://www.archdaily.com/800083/autumn-art-breeze-at-sejong-art-center-boundaries-architects?ad_source=search&ad_medium=projects_tab

Architects: Boundaries architects

Area: 50 m²

Year: 2013

Lead Architect: Kim Youn Soo

The project was a work for dual purpose. One is a movable concert stage for midday concerts sponsored by the Sejong Arts Center, and the other is an installation at Yein-madang.

We intend to expose power and heat generated by performances. Irregular trapezoid shapes make frames outside and wires weaves into each relation between those trapezoid shapes as a double helix like shape.

The wave of wires from breezes that can not be captured in sight becomes music touching our eyes.

Architects: OCA (Office for Collective Architecture)

Year 2022

Lead Architects Kirill Volchinskiy, Necils Lopez

Location Los Angeles, United States

SoLa Impact’s mission to preserve, refresh, and create high-quality affordable housing has revitalized Black and Brown communities throughout Los Angeles. Since 2015, SoLa has acquired 1,500 units and is currently developing, constructing, and rehabbing another 1,300 new units in the greater Los Angeles area. SoLa Impact currently owns and manages 200+ buildings across its three real estate funds.

The company’s primary initiatives—building and maintaining high-quality affordable housing developments—were naturally aligned with the Opportunity Zone legislation when it was created, which provided an avenue for SoLa to develop The Beehive campus. As the nation’s first Opportunity Zone business campus, The Beehive represents the spirit of that legislation. The campus was born from a desire to uplift minority-owned businesses and local entrepreneurs, not uproot them.

The sculpture functions as the focal object at SoLa Impact’s Beehive campus, gathering visitors around it. While standing underneath, it frames the view toward the open space on campus. The sculpture delicately rests on the ground; the shell is dramatically thicker above. Apertures progressively increase in size towards the top, lightening the experience within the sculpture while creating shadow play on the ground.

The design is the result of a delicate balance of forces within a physics simulation. The arch is created by outwards forces mimicking the voluminous Manilla shape balanced with catenary gravitational forces and planarization forces acting on the individual shapes. The interior shell is self-supporting, while the outer pieces buttress the form and provide rigidity.

Tessellated hexagons form the sculpture, but some shapes have five sides and some seven. Some are askew while others are perfectly symmetrical. A total of 497 unique pieces form the sculpture weighing 3,785 pounds, and each piece is strong enough to hold the other’s weight. The tessellation symbolizes the organizational strength derived from individual, unique elements.

IOTA INSTALLATION / Karim+Elias

https://www.archdaily.com/992791/iota-installation-karim-plus-elias?ad_source=search&ad_medium=projects_tab

DESIGN CONCEPT 1

Architects: Karim+Elias

Area: 165 m²

Year: 2022

Lead Architects: Karim Tamerji, Elias El Hage

Lighting Consultation: Shahe Manuelian

Utilizing one of the most abundantly found natural materials in the UAE — sand, IOTA is a grand open-air installation showcasing over 150 modular spheres of sand, designed to welcome guests into Dubai’s Downtown Design 2022 fair. The project has been supported by House Of Today, a non-profit design platform that identifies, showcases, nurtures, and connects emerging Lebanese designers to create a relationship with design experts globally.

Sand has existed timelessly and, in many ways, paints a meaningful picture of the city’s history, culture and identity. Instinctively, the design duo saw this as an opportunity worth embracing while asking themselves — how can the most abundantly found local material be used as an ecological ode to Dubai?

The work preserves the age-old method of hand-pressing earth layer above layer, now cast in modern-made moulds. The design duo has reimagined the method through form, showcasing a perceptibly heavy material as contemporary, soft and seemingly weightless. Each tactile sphere is unique in texture and composition, naturally pigmented in an array of colors.

A majority of blood orange and powder pink spheres are composed to define areas of circulation and rest — a playful layout allowing pedestrian porosity to and from the exhibition’s entry point. The modular composition is likened to a painting, where each perspective throughout the installation is an exercise of art direction, meant to balance and harmonize the palette of colors. Given its versatile layout, ever-changing moments experienced throughout the installation present multiple opportunities for picturesque moments.

Sparked by the story of IOTA, Karim+Elias was founded to creatively explore sand through art and design. The duo has come to recognize sand as a material with meaning, in its timeless and universal quality. As a potential alternative to stone, marble or even concrete, it is the foundation of their work philosophy. Karim+Elias is beginning with pieces of Dubai, on a mission to craft earthen relics and spatial experiences from landscapes worldwide.

DESIGN CONCEPT 2

Metaphors of Architectural Installation: entrance - overworld - public life exit - underworld - private life strings connecting frames - all the things that make up a person and what is going on with there lifes.

The rotationg box allows the students to se each side of the box creating unity for all the students who use the architectural installation. Imagine and describe how this design movement will translate into experience of the architectural installation. Students will be able to experience from both inside the installation and outside of the installation. Inside will be a pathway and act as a ‘portal’ between worlds. It will connect the public space and the learning space together on campus.

Students will be able to interact with the outide of the installation as string will be threaded through the rotating box allowing people to interact and move with the design.

SHAPE

Cube shaped outline 3m x 3m. 200mm frame.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

EXPAND

Arrayed shape with a 600mm gap in between each frame on a 10m length.

ROTATE + TRIM

Each frame is to be rotated. by the end of the shape, the cube has fully turned upside down reflecting persephone’s story.

Rotating Box Model

Laser cut rotating square pieces onto 5mm plywood. had to be cut twice on machine to fully cut through thick material.

Each piece cut was numbered and glued down to a piece of bulsa wood to create a 1:20 scale model of the installation.

string threaded to each frame connecting each piece will be added to final design model.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Installation would be placed in the grass area near wakefield street. The pathway from the TD Building into the outdoor space is where it will be situated. It will be located over the pathway. This is because it connects the two spaces of the indoor learning space and the outdoor communcation space much like persephone with her connection to the overworld and the underworld.

PLACING INSTALLATION IN LOCATION

How is it joined to the space?

Since the location of where the installation is placed is a very public space used by many people at the university, The installation is placed over the pathway as a way to disconnct from the public area. The installation itself will be bolted into the floor and connected together using thin pieces of string inbetween each frame going with the rotation to make it move more easily.

Architecture performing art through technology

Does contemporary architecture still communicate its ‘art’? If so, how does architecture perform its ‘art’?

Contemporary architecture is a movement in which modern styles blend and share various features, relying on fewer classicized building ideas. I think it is stillc onsidered art as it still communicates as every other form of architecture. Architecture performs as art as it can be shown and use in many different ways.

Can you share examples of buildings that uses technologies to performs as an art?

An example of technologies used to peform art is the NGV located in Melbourne. The space is designed as a gallery and uses the works inside throughout the archtectural designs. The waterfall when entering the gallery for the first time is an example of this as it uses a form which is considered a different form of art in the design of the building.

What is the ‘art’ that your design is performing? What is the ‘technology’ that your design is using to perform?

My design is performing a skin form. It takes the rotating cube and takes the individual into a portale space. The string connecting the frames of timber is used as a way to enclose the space and really caputure this art form.

Are you communicating how your design performs art through technology effectively?

I think my design shows the skin form through both the rotation of the design as well as the individual string connecting each frame together.

Design as storytelling and as reflective practice

Write one paragraph that describes your overall design process in this project. Use the Naming, Framing, Moving, and Evaluating method to write this paragraph.

My overall design process for this project was fairly simple. I know from the begining of the semester that I wanted to focus on a greek myth that had an interesting background. I choose Persephone as my myth as she had a contrasting background of which i thiought could be an interesting design process. With her myth in mind, I wanted to design a space that uses a portal in between her worlds and showed that not everything is as it seems like the allegory of her story. Naming my installation “the portal between worlds” frames the concept of the design. The way the rotation of the design moves along side the connecting string transports the individual to another space.

PROJECT THREE: COMMUNICATION

GEOMETRY AND EFFECT

VARIATIONS AND MECHANISM

ATTACHMENT AND IMPACT

Rotating Box Model

Laser cut rotating square pieces onto 5mm plywood. had to be cut twice on machine to fully cut through thick material. Each piece cut was numbered and glued down to a piece of bulsa wood to create a 1:20 scale model of the installation. string threaded to each frame connecting each piece will be added to final design model.

Metaphors of Architectural Installation: entrance overworld public life exit underworld private life strings connecting frames all the things that make up a person and what is going on with there lifes.

The rotationg box allows the students to se each side of the box creating unity for all the students who use the architectural installation.

SHAPE

Cube shaped outline 3m 3m. 200mm frame.

EXPAND

Arrayed shape with a 600mm gap in between each frame on a 10m length.

ROTATE + TRIM

Each frame is to be rotated. by the end of the shape, the cube has fully turned upside down reflecting persephone’s story.

FABRIC AND MATERIALS

Frames are made from timber panels and glued together using corner joints.

Coloured string will be threaded through the frames connecting each panel together.

How is it joined to the space?

Since the location of where the installation is placed is very public space used by many people at the university, The installation is placed over the pathway as a way to disconnct from the public area. The installation itself will be bolted into the floor and connected together using thin pieces of string inbetween each frame going with the rotation to make it move more easily.

Emotively communicates with a person?

Whilst inside the installation, Students will be able to experience from both inside the installation and outside of the installation. Inside will be pathway and act as ‘portal’ between worlds. It will connect the public space and the learning space together on campus.

Students will be able to interact with the outide of the installation as string will be threaded through the rotating box allowing people to interact and move with the design.

PROJECT FOUR: CONCLUSION

Reflectionn

Overall, I found this unit very interesting. It was a unit that was very different to other subjects I had done in the past. It was a different way for me to look at designing architecture and how an individual uses the space.

I found it interesting having to research a myth as most of the times when designing I look at form and shape. Using a story for my design made me think in different ways and made me challenge my design thinking.

I wish I would have attended more of the classes this semester so I could have learnt more and got more specific feedback for my design. I found it hard to come to classes as both my mental and physical health was not in the most positive form this semster. I should have communicated with my tutors about this more often to ensure my learning was not penalised from this.