STUDY BREAK WORKSHOP:

CONCEPTS:

SOME MORE:

HADID:

> Shatters modernism's rule bound definition of space, which is all about the careful arrangement of wall, ceiling, floor elements, all at right angles.

> Multiple perspective points. Not just 'front' and 'back.' (Modernism)

> Fragmented geometry.

> Attempts to "embody the chaotic fluidity of everyday life". (http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/5698/Hadid-Zaha-1950.html)

> Movement, captured, frozen in time: “creates the solid apparatus to cause us to perceive space as though it morphs and changes as we pass through.” (http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/5698/Hadid-Zaha-1950.html)

> Iterative: Hadid draws like "like a pianist constantly practising... It increases the repertoires immensely...It's unpredictable." (http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/hadid.html)

> Carving away space, a sort of erosion: "Carving allows light to come in... (buildings) informed by landscapes, and the erosion of them" (http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/hadid.html)

> Obsessed with (traditional Islamic architectural) concepts of shadow and ambiguity. 

NEUTRA:

> his buildings are objects broken up, analysed and reassembled

Evander's group:

Zaha Hadid:

1. Fluidity and Movement in freeform spaces

2. Creating infinite freedom through deconstructing conventional ideologies

3. Carving out spaces

Richard Neutra:

1. Contextual; Creating special interaction between landscape and architecture

2. Modernism; Decoration only through structural elements; no ornamentation

3. Geometric; spatial arrangement

4. Fordist; Use of technology and mass production to create industrialised spaces that for fill a domestic purpose

5. Elemental; Combining different elements to produce specific architecture

6. Additive; adding something to nothing

Dominic's group:

Richard Neutra

> Works follow a series of spacial rules and a set formula defining rooms and regions

> Form follows function

> Works are planar, there is no sense of abstraction or irregularity

> Work is additive, shapes form around a tangible space

> Work is non decorative, with clear and definitive reasoning behind features

Zaha Hadid

> Work is reductive, spaces are formed out of predefined geometry and shapes

> Form is blurred as walls, floor wall and roof merge into entities, undefined or morphed form

> Building form follows an emotional response to space & design features, her original designs are an abstract representation of how a space is experienced

> Form is fluid & organic

> Works are neo-modernist, adapt on the traditions of modernism and expand with technological advancements

Lan's group:

Zaha Hadid:

1. "The most important thing is dynamic, motion, the fluidity of things, a non-Euclidean geometry in which nothing repeats itself"
2. Deconstruct the ordinary elements(wall. floor etc) and comes up with new order of space. (streamline)
3.The functions and the elements of Zaha Hadid's buildings is connected and unity.
4. Porosity of the building skin
5. Curved and connected building components

Richard Neutra

> Neutra’s architecture aimed to create simplistic aesthetics through elimination of traditional decoration.
> The importance of the landscape; large windows and house plan committed to enhancing the experience.
> Pragmatic, international style, rationalist, Fordist; his context in a rapidly expanding industrial world influenced his architecture, the Fordist theories of mass production can be seen in the geometric construction of his works.

EXPERIMENT TWO: TWO ARCHITECTS

Richard Neutra (Dead) :: Zaha Hadid (Living)

Neutra:

Projects:

1. Adolf Sommerfield Residences, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1923
2. Lovell Health House, LA, 1929
3. Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, LA, 1932
4 Kaufmann Desert House, LA, 1946

Drawings:

5. Rush City, Reformed, late 1920s
6. Plywood Model House. 1936
7. von Sternberg House, 1935

Fonts:

8. Neutraface

http://architecture.about.com/od/greatarchitects/p/richardneutra.htm
http://www.archdaily.com/104713/ad-classics-lovell-house-richard-neutra/

Hadid:

Projects:

1. Vitra Fire Station, Weil am, Rhein, Germany, 1994
2. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2003
3. BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany, 2005
4. Ideal House - IMM, Cologne, 2007
5. The Nordkettenbahnen Funicular, Austria, 2007
6. Riverside Museum, Glasgo, 2011

Drawings:

7. The Great Utopia
8. Hafenstrasse Office and Residential Development, Hamburg, 1989

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/hadid.html
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/5698/Hadid-Zaha-1950.html

SKETCHUP:

Key concepts / tools:


Outliner
Nesting
Components / Groups
Layers
Active control display - typing x to multiply or / to divide
Sandbox
Intersect with model
Follow me


If you want to do curvy geometry like this:

you will need register and log in to sketchucation.com


and download and install the following plugins for Sketchup to in this order:


1. 000_AdditionalPluginFolders.rb
2. LibFredo6 4.3c - 31 Jan 12.zip
3. Curviloft 1.2c - 15 Nov 11.zip 
4. BezierSpline 1.4f - 23 Jan 11.zip


For each zip file:


1) Download and Open the archive
2) Select All (Ctrl A)
3) Extract into the Sketchup Plugin Directory

4) Answer YES to overwrite all existing files if any.


Another good plugin is Soap Skin & Bubble:

It can be downloaded here.

STAIRS:

SECTIONS:

MAD Architects: 3D render

Section through

Massimiliano Fuksas 3D renders

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