Sketches and Ideas

Offset material / Alpha channel and Render light effect

Journal/magazine and textures

Jiwon's Journal

As a design based magazine, this journal allowed and lead our build to become its finalised design with its various of different design ideas which embrace texture, landscapem, form, motion and colour through its given theme.

Architecture and Ideas is a magazine whose aim is the investigation, examination, illumination and criticism of contemporary architecture and its ancillary culture. It is published twice a year with articles appearing in either english or french.

The aim of Ai is to provide a forum for thinking and writing about architecture; a place where architects, planners, theorists, critics, scholars and artists can come together and, through informed discussion, advance our collective understanding of architecture and its place in the emerging world of the twenty-first century.'

Threshold, stated on its cover, is literally a book of Journals from different architects during the mid 1980s which embrace reality and the economic factors too.

Keunhee's journal

SKETCHES

This is my starting point which is heavily influenced by the Threshold journal and NZ Home and Entertaining.

It can become detached from the ground and dissolve into invisible parameters - flying cities, anchoring.

Architecture that is not in space but that is space.

From the journals: Singapore Architecture, Threshold, Architektu Aktuell   which belong to Daeun Song, Jiwon Won and KeunHee Kim respectively, different abstractive idea components and elements are fused and mixed together. The modernized character is strongly adapted from Daeun’s journal where album of modern buildings is displayed. This structural form is well supported by the idea discussed in Threshold journal where articulation of mass and surface triumphs the subdivision of lines and attenuation of form. The regulating axed of symmetry and the forms of circle, square, and triangle is well explored through balance. 

From our combined design outcome, Daeun’s Access by Design, Ethics, Place and Environment and Jiwon’s AI: Architectural and Ideas journal is involved. We have summed that the boxy and blocky design outcome lacks space fusion and intellectual spatial experiment. Therefore, we have stepped away from the overall design form and motion and adjusted the building to the user’s needs and functionality.

With such idea, we then again went back to the design forum and redeveloped the visual aesthetic and balance of geometries, lighting, motion and form. We went back to the three journals we used individually at first and changed the overall form and atmosphere imparted from the building. The heavy, solidifying, masculine and chunky imagery is lost and elegant, feminine, soft and light imagery is gained. Notice how the notion of simple geometry is continuously developed on, just rearranged and redesigned.

Again going back to functionality, KeunHee Kim’s Applied Erogonomics and Indoor and Outdoor Built journal is involved. The heavy wall which was embracing the floor levels is eliminated completely for ventilation purposes and for the comfort of disability and ethnic differences which is discussed in Daeun’s Access by Design Journal. 

Final design sketch