Final Model

draft poche and partie sketches

Research - Robert Venuri's Mother House:

Robert Venturi designed the house initially for his mother. The House is designed around a chimney that is centralised and goes all the way to the top of the house. Externally, they house is built symmetrical, however Venturi has distorted this idea of symmetry - for example, there are 5 windows on the facade of the building, however he placed them differently. There is also a basement underneath the house that is often not uncovered by people. The house is located in the country side of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and is considered a post-modern design. The chimney creates a clear vertically in the building, the is vi sable internally and externally.

COMMUNICATIONS

Workshops completed:

1 - Architecture in Motion

2 - Atlas of colour

3 - Model Making

MODEL MAKING WORKSHOP

Each week a presented with a new task, I found myself extending my ideas and skills in model making as well as the communication between my ideas and the paper. Culminating in the final task, i decided to convey my thoughts of the workshop through my chosen word = FREEDOM.
I took the word with a negative connotation. Each week the task presented to us were cogent and blatant, however i found myself grappling with the ambiguity and freedom we had within each task. Each week i found myself wrapped in ideas, consuming more and more time with no result. Despite this, in hindsight, the result was always very structured and clear.
My final poster conveyed this, as the background with a sketched maze, symbolising the myriad of ideas that took me no where. Placed on top of the sketch are three pieces of balsa wood, uniformed and structured, symbolising the clear result. Inscribed in the wood are the words "FREEDOM=STRUCTURE." This was my main understanding of what the workshop was about. I conveyed this through my model, a base layered with broken and cut pieces of balsa wood, all combining in the middle to create a structure. The broken pieces of balsa wood represented my ideas - fragmented in my mind till they culminate into a strong structure - the balsa wood is forming this structure, hence symbolising this idea.

ATLAS OF COLOUR WORKSHOP

My atlas was based on my precedent study of Jean Novel, in which i have mimicked his style and compositions in my own atlas. My main colour is red, which i have reverberated throughout my atlas. My tunnel is based on a town in outback Australia called White Cliffs. Due to the heat there, they build their houses underground. I decided to use this space for my tunnel as it was an amazing experience living underground. The corridors are very narrow and beautiful, as one constantly feels like are in a cave. I believed this space also was appropriate for my chosen colour, as red represents heat, as well as the Australian outback. My name 'red fusion' was influenced by the chosen colour and its amalgamtion into the tasks for each week and the tunnel.

ARCHITECTURE IN MOTION

Animation "From dusk till Dawn"

When one becomes the spectator, sitting still and just observing it becomes evident what the red centre embodies – movement. People move throughout the red centre all day, highlighting a juxtaposition between spaces when the movement is at its peak, to when it is calm. The space is transformed with the rapid and slow movement of people within the building. Through my story board, I have tried to convey this movement and its transformations at different times. It conveys a cyclonic motion over a period of time. Its begins slow and empty, conveyed with a large area of space and light/transparent shadings, till it gradually builds up to its peak – heavy, crowded and chaotic, till it calms down again towards the end of the day. This cycle is conveyed through thick and thin, heavy and light lines, as well as colours.