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ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO: EARTH S1, 2016 SUBJECT STUDENT BOOK

Isabella Paola-Rose Etna758297

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CONTENTS

1.0 THREE RELATIONSHIPS 1.1 Point/Line/Plane: A study of a trapped void in delicate tension 1.2 Mass: The exploration of traversing spatial dimensions1.3 Frame & Infill: Discovering the parallax as a device of disclosure

2.0 HERRING ISLAND. SOMETHING LIKE A PAVILION 2.1 Site analysis and Conceptacle: Strategies for an architectural intervention suggesting at an idea hidden from plain sight2.2 Concept and Sketch design: THE CO-EXISTENCE OF CLOSED - OPEN LOOP CYCLE2.3 Design Development: The construction of an artificial mirage hidden from plain sight2.4 Final Design drawings:2.6 Final Design Model:

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1.0 THREE RELATIONSHIPS

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1.1 POINT / LINE / PLANEMy ‘trapped void in transparent space’ study in delicate tension

Inspired by Kandinsky’s dynamic use of point, line and plane I explored the extremity of lines as unlimited edges in my three dimensional study.

Wassily Kandinsky, Delicate Tension, 1923

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1.2 MASSThe exploration of traversing spatial dimensions

I explored this concept in terms of Boullee’s Cénotaphe à Newton, which forms part a broader historical narrative about Man’s conception of space and mass (and how this works from closed systems view to an open systems view of the universe), the premise of which is the dissention from classical physics as follows. Firstly, Copernicus’ Terra-centric logic was understood within a fixed dimension. Secondly, Newton’s Helio-centric concept of mass was understood within a fixed dimension. Thirdly, Einstien’s concept of mass is understood within an infinite dimension.

My drawings resonate with this final concept and visulaises infitie spatial movements, not limited to any one axis. I contemplated the possiblities to traverse space in a non-Euclidean format.

Etienne-Louis Boullee, Cénotaphe à Newton, 1784

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1.3 FRAME + INFILLDiscovering the parallax as a device of disclosure

Inspired by Manet’s representation of psychological space, by the use of visuasl techniques that exist on the same visual field, contradictory perspectives, Through the concepts that I discovered in Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe, I came to my own conclusion about what Zizek calls “parallax”.

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863

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PARALLAX Discovering the parallax as a device of disclosure

Framing device that involves the rotation of parts as a whole to reveal an event or ‘secret’. It is represented by the convergence of opposite dimensions framed in vacuum space where nothing can escape.

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Please refer to my ‘Conceptacle’ video file via Google Drive link on my BLOG

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3.0 HERRING ISLAND. SOMETHING LIKE A PAVILION

Strategies for an architectural intervention suggesting at an idea hidden from plain sight

It has come to my attention through my observations that the natural landscape can possess an ephemeral quality, like a secret that can only be repre-sented in physical form by an architectural expression. I believe that such an architecture is a search for knowledge, which if not found, is lost. It is a way to theatrically represent illusionary space whereby a hidden dimension is the underlying proposition. The architecture is compelled by the search for a truth and it’s disclosure, like an invisible energy made visible by colour, form and animation. The physical enactment of the underlying proposition could reason-ably be perceived to be like Manet’s disclosure of coexisting dimensions, represented by disconnected perspectives (Luncheon on the Green); Manet portrays a parallax event. Within the architectural expression the physical movement of the perceiver is essential for the disclosure of a truth.

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3.1 CONCEPTACLEDISCLOSING THE CO-EXISTENCE

My record of the unique geometric narrative of Herring Island finds a coexistence of mutual but exclusive dimensions. This is the “closed to open loop duality” that has historically evolved through the physical manipulation of the Herring Island land mass. The role of architecture must recognise the free will of the natural order rather than its manipulation through human intervention.

My Conceptacle portrays that a delicate tension exists between the free will of the natural order and the manipulation of a geographic topography. The Herring Island experiment discloses the co-exestience of free will of the natural order in contrast to human manipulation.

My Conceptacle is a functioning representation for the coexistence of these mutual dimensions, observable and concealed. It employs a two dimensional kinetic action, rotation, to reveal a secret planar dimension that is hidden from sight.

MANIPULATION

Closed loop

FREE WILL

Fulfillment of the site’s open loop-

narrative

NATURAL ORDER

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Pre European Habitat open loop fluid dynamic

CLOSED LOOP

Micro-climate

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CLOSED LOOP: INCURSION EVENT

Civil works create a unique disconnected thermal

landmass and a closed loop fluid dynamic

ECOSYSTEM ONE

Site specific bio-morphic cycles and fluid dynamic

system occur as a CLOSED LOOP

NATURAL INUNDATION EVENT

OPEN LOOP fluid dynamic replaces closed loop fluid

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ECOSYSTEM TWO

Site specific bio-morphic cycles restore

CLOSED LOOP fluid dynamic

Introduction of the M1 Freeway and periphery bike

paths are an OPEN LOOP thermodynamic plane

ARCHITECTURAL INCURSION EVENT

Creates an artificial mirage of naturally occuring phenom-

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3.2 CONCEPT AND SKETCH DESIGNTHE CO-EXISTENCE OF CLOSED - OPEN LOOP CYCLES

The sites observable (OBJECTIVE) narrative informs the perceivable (SUBJECTIVE) narrative. I have applied my “closed to open loop duality” as the underlying proposition for an architectural expression at Herring Island. I settled on the idea of open loop flyovers pathways, that traverse across the spatial fluidity zone (Yarra River), it’s like the boundaries become unglued and the only fixed determinant is the parallax event.

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INVESTIGATION OF ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF CLOSED - OPEN LOOPS:

Closed loop

Open loop cross over

Open loop with interstitial gap

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My architectural response is both a meditation on an elusive landscape and a materialisation of its enigmatic secret, more real than imaginary.Herring Island has a suggestive poetic logic, that can only be observed through my parallax event, and where the physical movement of the perceiver is essential for the disclosure of a truth.

My intent is to suggest the possibility for the discovery of a secret, an undiscovered dimension through the duality of open to closed loop systems, understood through the witness of the parallax.

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Astro Balloon 1969 Revisited - Feedback Space, 2008

3.3 DESIGN DEVELOPMENTTHE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ARTIFICIAL MIRAGETO SUGGEST A HIDDEN DIMENSION HIDDEN FROM PLAIN SIGHT

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3.4 FINAL DESIGN MODELTHE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ARTIFICIAL MIRAGETO SUGGEST A HIDDEN DIMENSION HIDDEN FROM PLAIN SIGHT

My architectural expression suggests a disclosure of a truth about the natural order, also hidden from plain sight but observable through a parallax event.

The parallax is achieved by employing two 3D animations, the inflating pneumatic spheres, that occur simultaneously at a convergence point, the water box. Whereby the expanding volumes, the simultaneous occurrence of balloon deflation and water displacement coerce the traveller to witness a central displacement event.

It is the construction of an artificial mirage; a superior image within a naturally occurring event of atmospheric refraction, like an optic lensing technique that can visualise the coexistence of mutual but exclusive dimensions.

In following the observable narrative of the site I have created a subjective narrative in order to approximate the site. By relying on mechanisms that are unique to the site; I remained faithful to the fluid dynamic characteristics of the site. The secret is in the revealing the interaction between the open to closed loop phenomenon.

Provisions for amenities, and a technical and sound room have also been catered for in the design. The bathrooms’s are located at the South East access to the flyover pathway. The technical and sound room are located underneath the constructed mirage.

Edges of space defined by a

limited extremity (plane)

Edges of space defined by un-

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Please refer to my ‘Model 1’ video file via Google Drive link on my BLOG

PARALLAX MOMENT: INTERACTION BETWEEN OPEN-CLOSED LOOP

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Please refer to my ‘Model 2’ video file via Google Drive link on my BLOG

PARALLAX MOMENT: INTERACTION BETWEEN OPEN-CLOSED LOOP

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CONSTRUCTING THE ‘TECHNICAL ROOM’

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4.0 REFLECTION

Through this enquiry I have realised that a role of architecture is in the approximation of a naturarlly occuring event to represent my findings.Based on my observations and findings I propse that architecture is an approximation of the co-existance of mutual dimensions. My observations of the site revealed that the historical evolution of the physical land mass consists of an interaction between closed-open loop systmes. My finding that there is a dialogue between open and closed loop systems enables the architect to explore the role of limited space and unlimited space as defined by point, line and plane. My findings further the physical mass and the kind of transitions through that physical mass as represented in the work of Lewis Caroll and Quantum physics. In the constructing of an artificial mirage, I have utilised parallax as a way of representing co-existing dimension, represented by my conceptacle. My final model represents a mirage of whereby a two fold container displaces into a 1 fold container, and two balloons hidden from sight. Through the construction of an artificial image the architecture becomes a representation of a hidden reality, amplified by optical effects such as the parallax and lensing effects.

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4.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kandinsky, WJ, 1923, Delicate Tension, painting, viewed June 2016<https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/44/04/55/4404553b2f09c471d49401cc343e9bf2.jpg>

Boullee, EL, 1784, Cénotaphe à Newton, drawing, viewed April 2016< http://archpaper.com/2011/12/zen-otaph-steve-jobs-and-the-meaning-behind-apples-new-campus/>

Alice in Wonderland, nd, digital animated, visited on 25 May 2016<http://www.leffatykki.com/static/content/image/432255006bc3fdd5d38222e70d01e86c.jpg>

Talsma, I, n.d, Down the rabbit hole, digital illustration, visited May 2016 <http://isabeltalsma.com/>

Principle s of Quantum Physics, n.d, visited 19 May 2016<https://www.technologyreview.com/i/legacy/quantum_anticentrifugal_force.png?sw=1180>

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, 2008, Astro Balloon 1969 Revisited - Feedback Space, installation, visited May 2016< http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/architecture/projects/feedback-space-astro-balloon-1969-revisited>

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4.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kandinsky, WJ, 1923, Delicate Tension, painting, viewed June 2016<https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/44/04/55/4404553b2f09c471d49401cc343e9bf2.jpg>

Boullee, EL, 1784, Cénotaphe à Newton, drawing, viewed April 2016< http://archpaper.com/2011/12/zen-otaph-steve-jobs-and-the-meaning-behind-apples-new-campus/>

Alice in Wonderland, nd, digital animated, visited on 25 May 2016<http://www.leffatykki.com/static/content/image/432255006bc3fdd5d38222e70d01e86c.jpg>

Talsma, I, n.d, Down the rabbit hole, digital illustration, visited May 2016 <http://isabeltalsma.com/>

Principle s of Quantum Physics, n.d, visited 19 May 2016<https://www.technologyreview.com/i/legacy/quantum_anticentrifugal_force.png?sw=1180>

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, 2008, Astro Balloon 1969 Revisited - Feedback Space, installation, visited May 2016< http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/architecture/projects/feedback-space-astro-balloon-1969-revisited>