Vitra Sculpture Park - A1 Posters

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Week 12 Studio Tasks

Peer Reviews

Lin Huang

Brandan Villatora

Animation Render

Independent Study for Week 12

Renders (low quality) in site context

Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra

The renders, when photo montaged into Lake Burley Griffin - Canberra, worked better then first anticipated. I was able to find high quality panorama .jpg files, meaning that I had a 360 degree background for the Vitra Sculpture Park.

Text First Draft

The Re-envision Function

The re-envision scheme for the Vitra Design Museum is to use the structure of the buildings shape to recreate it into more of a sculpture form, focusing on Frank Gehry's underlining intent of the building, being that of deconstructive sculpture architecture.

This is achieved through the re-design and representation of Gehry's original design’s function, as a multi-story “art installation” sculpture park. The park is be embedded into a pontoon, which floats on a lake whilst maintaining its original scale. The sculpture is composed of a series of weaving white metallic tubes connected to certain points that represent the original location of the building's corners'. The Sculpture possess two levels both in which include various gardens and park features with the main focus being on the buildings amazing architectural form along the mountainous, lakeside scenery of the site.

With the function of a conventional park being a space where people are able to escape from the mundane norms of day-to-day life. This functional setting is ideal for the intended scheme. It allows for those occupying to focus on the beautiful structural form whereas in a regular building the environment is much less leisurely therefore hindering the spaces serenely.

Re-envision Scheme

Architectural beauty is not entirely dependent on the building design; but also reliable on the surrounding landscape. The purpose of the re-envision is to create a beautiful architectural scheme that focus’ on Frank Gehry’s original intent of design, that being to create an exploded-then-reconstructed, free flowing structural form. This is achieved through the utilization of site context as well as the building design.

The re-envision scheme employed is the re-representation of the building as a skeleton-like structure that embodies the shape of the original Vitra Design Museum, which inadvertently emphasises the layout of the sculptural structure.

This along with site context of the structure that being of a lake surrounded by a beautiful, mountainous panorama landscape, helps creates space that allows the user to admire the form of Gehry’s original design. Therefore possessing a scheme that adds a further graceful quality to this already beautiful piece of architecture.

A1 Poster Second Draft

Week 11 Studio Tasks

Draft Layout

Re-envisioned Model Renders

VRAY - 3DS Max

These renders were done in Vray for 3ds max, I was unable to import the trees and plants, so decided to use Vray for Google Sketchup. 

VRAY - Google Sketchup

I was able to optimize the Vray for Sketchup settings with the aid of tutorials from, to bring the features of the model to the desired quality achieved.

Rendering Resources:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/1845643/VRay-for-SketchUp-Manual

http://www.youtube.com/user/andeciuala

Independent Study for Week 11

Initial Re-envision Renders

Textures, Styling and Representation

With the intent of the re-envision being to focus on the buildings architectural form, textures will be kept to a minimum. The employed textures will be utilised to emphasise the architectural form of the structure, being focused around the lake and mountains of the new site context. The reflection of the lake is a one of the main textures used in the re-envision scheme.

Fir2000. (2009). Lake burley griffin panorama left. Available: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_burley_griffin_panorama_left.jpg. Last accessed 27 October 2009.

Fir2000. (2009). Lake burley griffin panorama right. Available: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_burley_griffin_panorama_right.jpg. Last accessed 27 October 2009.

The structural spine will be entirely composed of a shiny white metallic tubing. After experimentation with numerous textures, the juxtaposition of the white texture when reflected upon the water, seemed most fittingly in being harmonious with the floating park and its mountainous surroundings. After researching many similar styled sculptures, I also found that the simplicity of white had a strong aesthetic appeal, which was very suitable to the re-envision scheme. 

Jonathan Borofsky. (2009). Dancers. Available: http://www.denvergov.org/Default.aspx?alias=www.denvergov.org/Sculpture_Park. Last accessed 27 October 2009.

Henry Moore. (2009). Reclining Figure. Available: http://pavlialla.wordpress.com/. Last accessed 27 October 2009.

In accordance with the re-envisions new function being a park, allot of natural park orientated textures will be used, which make up the tiles, ground cover, trees, flowers, park benches and bins. These includes sandstone, grass, bark, leafs, flower stems, flower petals, wood and metal. 

Week 10 Studio Tasks

Concept of Re-representation 

The re-envision scheme for the Vitra Design Museum is to use the structure of the buildings shape to recreate it into more of a sculpture form, focusing on Frank Gehry's underlining intent of the building, being that of deconstructive sculpture architecture.

This will be achieved by re-designing and representing Gehry's original design's function as a multi-story park. The park is going to be imbedded into a pontoon, which will float on a lake whilst maintaining its original scale. The sculpture is going to be composed of a series of weaving metallic tubes connected to certain points that represent the original location of the building's corners'. The Sculpture will be possess two levels both in which will include various gardens and park features with the main focus being on the buildings amazing architectural form along the mountainous scenery of the site. 

Independent Study For Week 10

Initial Draft A1 Grid Layout

Refined Draft A1 Grid Layout
Black Representing Important Content

A3 Expressive Montage

The A3 montage of images represent the key ideas of the re-envision scheme. These are a selection of images that I have came across during research for the scheme.

Included are various sculptures, textures and ideas that will be incorporated into my design.