Tuesday, September 29, 2009
1+3+9
How can architecture adapt to built or natural interfering forces on the site?
The riverfront site on the north east side of Han river is interfered by a bridge above while it is on the floodplain. The project will be adapting to the natural changes on the river. Also, by stitching the interfered spaces on the riverfront will activate the north east district of Han river.
Built over the site Cheong Dam bridge is connecting between Han river south and north. When Han river floods, this area becomes an island. From Seoul GIS data maps by "gu" districts, showing population, areas of parks, number of cultural facilities, public sports facilities, residential, commercial, industrial, green area, etc, two parts of Seoul are distinguished by the Han river line. The south east area of Han river is the most dense district with various public facilities in Seoul. The area right across the river which is the north east of Han river is the least dense district. On the north east side, the riverfront has a potential to grow and activate. It will also attract people from more dense area across on the south to the less dense area. This project will engage both north and south areas of Han river.
The riverfront site on the north east side of Han river is interfered by a bridge above while it is on the floodplain. The project will be adapting to the natural changes on the river. Also, by stitching the interfered spaces on the riverfront will activate the north east district of Han river.
Built over the site Cheong Dam bridge is connecting between Han river south and north. When Han river floods, this area becomes an island. From Seoul GIS data maps by "gu" districts, showing population, areas of parks, number of cultural facilities, public sports facilities, residential, commercial, industrial, green area, etc, two parts of Seoul are distinguished by the Han river line. The south east area of Han river is the most dense district with various public facilities in Seoul. The area right across the river which is the north east of Han river is the least dense district. On the north east side, the riverfront has a potential to grow and activate. It will also attract people from more dense area across on the south to the less dense area. This project will engage both north and south areas of Han river.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Defining Urban Site
In da Vinci's sketch, what lies inside its boundary and what lies outside is unclear, and it applies other sites. Kahn describes Hell's Kitchen in New York as a place where numerous fields of operation converge and each involving different scales of activity while operating at local, metropolitan, regional, national, and global scales through a set of dynamic functions created by fluid interactions between many differentially extensive processes.
Site analysis and representations should construct site knowledge necessary to engage a given condition as a site. Kahn describes Mobile ground as where urban sites are understood as dynamic and provisional spaces, as points of departure to parts unknown rather than places of arrival of fixed address. Site reach measures the extent, range, and level of interactions between a localized place and its urban surroundings. Site construction is a site study process that yields a designed understanding of site through consciously selective viewing.
Seoul is the capital and largest city of South Korea with a population of over 10 million. Seoul is divided into two by the Han River which goes from east to west. 48 % of population is living within 12% of land surrounding Seoul, and Han river occupies 8.6% of all developable land in Seoul and 0% of Korea's population.
Site analysis and representations should construct site knowledge necessary to engage a given condition as a site. Kahn describes Mobile ground as where urban sites are understood as dynamic and provisional spaces, as points of departure to parts unknown rather than places of arrival of fixed address. Site reach measures the extent, range, and level of interactions between a localized place and its urban surroundings. Site construction is a site study process that yields a designed understanding of site through consciously selective viewing.
Seoul is the capital and largest city of South Korea with a population of over 10 million. Seoul is divided into two by the Han River which goes from east to west. 48 % of population is living within 12% of land surrounding Seoul, and Han river occupies 8.6% of all developable land in Seoul and 0% of Korea's population.
A challenge to have a site in Seoul is to integrate architecture and urban morphologies within the context of hyper-density. In hyper-dense conditions, urban architecture tends to be multifunctional. The fundamental morphological elements- room, corridor, and so on- form a part of a building. However, when several different morphologies are combined horizontally and vertically to make one envelope, junctions or buffer spaces are inevitably formed. When these interior junctions are used well, they could become a strategic urban place with unprogrammed interactions.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Muses Are Not Amused
In the reading The Muses Are Not Amused, Silvetti's various approaches to different architectural forms were interesting. Design strategies and techniques that produce architectural form, and the ideas and ideologies behind them were very helpful to me. Each strategy reminded me how I worked on my projects in studios. We were given the site, programs, and a theme for semester. Especially programism reminded me of doing program analysis to determine where each programs should go or which ones should go together, and move around to find a better way to solve the problem. For my thesis project, I should use various strategies and techniques.
We can find adaptaion in plants, growing in various shapes, sizes and forms. For example, flowers open and close responding to changing conditions in the environment such as the availabilty of sunlight. Like buildings, plants are rooted to place, able to draw resources from the earth, and sky. A plant needs to receive all of its energy from the sun, all of its water from the sky, and all the nutrients from the soil. Some plants support and shelter insects like the buildings do for people.
We can find adaptaion in plants, growing in various shapes, sizes and forms. For example, flowers open and close responding to changing conditions in the environment such as the availabilty of sunlight. Like buildings, plants are rooted to place, able to draw resources from the earth, and sky. A plant needs to receive all of its energy from the sun, all of its water from the sky, and all the nutrients from the soil. Some plants support and shelter insects like the buildings do for people.
Monday, September 7, 2009
1+3+9 Natural and Built Environments
How does mankind relate to its natural and built environments?
Architecture is linked to biology from a structural perspective since natural and artificial processes generate form. Natural forms, including biological forms, have inspired the constructions of human beings. Some architects have focused on the morphological aspect of nature.
1. What is biological structure/form?
2. Why do some built forms resemble biological forms?
3. What types of built forms correspond more closely to biological prototypes?
4. Do people like and feel comfortable with certain types of forms?
5. Why do people build certain types of biological forms?
6. Is it worthwhile looking at biological forms to influence what we build?
7. Do we gain more than just aesthetic pleasure -- such as physical and psychological benefits, for example -- from an environment that captures the biological structure?
8. Can we damage ourselves by living in and around forms that contradict biological forms?
9. How do we really understand biological structure well enough to use anything other than its superficial appearance?
Architecture is linked to biology from a structural perspective since natural and artificial processes generate form. Natural forms, including biological forms, have inspired the constructions of human beings. Some architects have focused on the morphological aspect of nature.
1. What is biological structure/form?
2. Why do some built forms resemble biological forms?
3. What types of built forms correspond more closely to biological prototypes?
4. Do people like and feel comfortable with certain types of forms?
5. Why do people build certain types of biological forms?
6. Is it worthwhile looking at biological forms to influence what we build?
7. Do we gain more than just aesthetic pleasure -- such as physical and psychological benefits, for example -- from an environment that captures the biological structure?
8. Can we damage ourselves by living in and around forms that contradict biological forms?
9. How do we really understand biological structure well enough to use anything other than its superficial appearance?
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