week 1 - exp 2

Light Rail is coming to UNSW. There will be two stops at the Kensington campus; the Lower Campus stop on Anzac Parade will be located adjacent to the main pedestrian entrance at ‘University Mall’. Choose an architectural concept that was created, developed or challenged by each of the two Architects chosen by your tutor. Use one of these concepts to create a light rail stop that addresses one of the following three themes 1) technology, 2) sustainability, 3) the multicultural students and staff who study or work at UNSW. Use the second concept to help situate the light rail stop within its urban context.

 The concepst of this design is inspired by  and MAD Architects.

Concepts:

1.       Organic forms and curves:  Mad Architects projects are depending on computational design as a main tool, which gives them the ability   to create new forms such as the Harbin Opera House.

2.       Reflecting the surrounding area’s landscape on the architectural buildings

3.       Mad Architects uses aluminium as a main material to produce the smooth surfaces of their buildings.

4.       Aalto’s building described as “work of art” that means he focused on the details to create unusual forms.

5.       Functionalism is one of Aalto’s main concepts that means he understood the movement of users in his buildings. 

Harbin Opera House, MAD Architects 

Wolfsburg Cultural Center (Wolfsburg, Germany: 1962) 

    

6 axonometrics exploring the amalgamation of 5 rectangular prisms. Each amalgamation should reflect a concept from above

   concept 1 :

   Concept 2 :

Concept 3:

Concept 4:

Concept 5:

Sketchup modeling of tow concepts: