Jorn Utzon Quote

"The museum, which lies in an old garden together with a long building, is formed so that it will not disturb the surroundings, but is oriented completely inward."

- In the magazine Arkitektur DK no. 1, 1964

“It will be with a sense of surprise and a desire to penetrate down into the building that the visitor for the first time sees the three-storey building open beneath him. Unconcerned - by stairs and corridors, which normally disturb - the viewer will glide almost effortlessly down into the museum via the ramp, taking him through the space.Strict geometry will form the basis for a simple constructional shape. The vible curved external surfaces are to be clad with ceramics in strong colors so that the parts of the building emerge like shining ceramic sculptures, and inside the museum will be kept white.”

- Jørn Utzon

http://www.arcspace.com/architects/utzon/silkeborg/ accessed on 6/10/08

250 words on feelings towards SIlkeborg Museum

With research from the library on 2 books:
1) The Utzon Library: Utzon and the new tradition
2) Utzon - inspiration, Vision, Architeecture

My feelings towards this peice of architecture is that the Silkeborg Museum being an art gallery was designed in a way that connected the landscape, artworks, architecture and people so that they would come together as one.

The museum being a subterranean structure also known as the "Onion project" has a cave like character which came from Utzons' visit to Tatung, west of Peking (China). hundreds of Buddha sculptures and other figures which have been carved out of a number of rock caves at the river bed. With many more inspirations from things like the works of Corbusier and the extraordinary caves above ground of the great Iranian ice-houses.

Other things taken into consideration in designing the Musuem was lighting, with empahsis on shadow casts.

In re-designing the model, I will need to put myself in the shoes of Utzon and attempt to get into his mindset through research of what he was doing at the time, such as also designing the Sydney Opoera House, finding similarities in both peices of architecture. Also comparing significant aspects of the Museum such as the spiral ramps to Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral Guggenheim Museum.

Link to site and references

Link for website

http://vincentlam.myhosting247.com/index.html


Links and Books used for research:

Bibliography for assignment 2 - LUIS BARRAGAN – Gilardi House

Research Links:

• http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3569&stc=1&d=1126971169
• http://www.ibiblio.org/home/images/2006/barragancasa.jpg

• http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2198544-lg.jpg

• http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-96900174.html


• http://books.google.com/books?id=H2l1cHRu9woC&pg=PT63&lpg=PT63&dq=luis+barragan+house+floor+plans&source=web&ots=d4uy1BOYNI&sig=2T9W-Tr9dvpDsdxPMR6ON-LLNVc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPT63,M1

• http://asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 - Vray site for SketchUp

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSYl3zcmBs – SketchUp tut – section views

• http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JiLINIyDtXY/RwxAbwqbdZI/AAAAAAAAADg/iXlsjWXXny8/s400/Francisco_Gilardi_House_02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://arquitecturaitesca.blogspot.com/2007_10_09_archive.html&h=300&w=400&sz=22&hl=en&start=3&um=1&usg=__7yimCF3lX35fHPQfFAQDQ-ijfhc=&tbnid=VJ0VE_XMMEiFCM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcasa%2Bgilardi%2Bbarragan%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBR_enAU267AU268%26sa%3DN – gilardi house plans and elevation


• http://earth.google.com/ - site plan for Gilardi house


• http://www.casaluisbarragan.org/fotos/fotoscasa/fachada.jpg - st view photo



3ds max links

http://artist-3d.com/free_3d_models/dnm/model_disp.php?uid=1034&ad=05general_design.php&count=count – lounge chair


http://www.klicker.de/plants.html - trees

http://www.vray-materials.de/all_materials.php

http://cgtextures.com/

Books:

Pauly. Daniele, “Barragan Space and Shadow, Walls and Colour”, Basal; Boston; Berlin, Birkhauser, 2002

Siza. Alvaro, “Barragan The Complete Works”, Rispa Raul (eds), New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2003

Portugal. S. Armando, “Barragan”, New York, Rizzoli International Publications Inc, 1992

Animation of Gilardi House Pool

3ds Max recreated images

INTERIOR







































































EXTERIOR

Research Images

Textures

Facade of the house.

Gilardi House Pool: Interesting as the colours of the walls change with the reflection and refraction of sunlight on the water. This is the main feature which i will try to capture and re-present in my modelling.

Site Plan of Gilardi House

Model made of the house with elevation shots.

Reseach on Gilardi House

Reseach

Below: West Elevation:

Below from left to right: First floor plan, Second floor plan, Third floor plan.

Below: Ground floor plan













Click on images to enlarge.

250 words on chosen building

Luis Barragan House and Studio:

The chosen architecture is unique in so many ways and the one thing which catches my attention is Barragan's textures and colours used to create a building in his opinion which would let him escape the outside world, having the walls raised 1954, so that the world inside only opened up to the sky.

"The walls create silence" - Barragan.

In the living room is a view of the garden, with the cross of redemption left untouched compared to the view of the ever changing garden which has been left to it's own fate. It is reported that Barragan never touched the garden and that his idea was to allow the vegetation to grow naturally connecting the mystical interior to the garden.

Here there is also the idea of architectural regionalism as Barragan mixes the traditional architecture of Mexico to the new modern world. With trips to Europe and the country side of Mexico Barragan was able to intertwine the ideas to create a peice of architecture that would leave a mark on Mexico. With inspiration also from Spanish Colonial and the traditional colours of Mexican architecture.

Processes to visualise Barragan House:

With research at the library and on the internet it has been extremely difficult to find original sketches and monographs. However there have been re-developed floor plans and elevations. How I intend to visualise the house would be using either 3D studio Max or Google SketchUp. The main features which I want to concentrate on is to put myself in the shoes of Barragan and try to present this house. Concentrating on the main ideas of Colour, Shadows, Texture and possibly Nature.

In concentrating on these ideas and making this the theme, with the time allocated it would not be necessary to model the whole building but to highlight the idea of colours, texture etc.

Difficulties: find the right colour and sunlight involved and producing the texture, if nature is used things which i need to do research on would be how to make water look natural in the program used. It has been hard to aquire resources to model the house in scale so with reseach I hope to find a scaled plan of the house rather than having to work out everything from a plan with no scale - eg. re-printing the plans to scale 1:100 and compare the width of a bedroom opening (door - 900) to the length of the walls etc.

Opportunities: Much of his work in terms of just modelling is quite simple - mainly consisting of flat surfaces rather than curved ones. So much time would be saved in modelling and more time would be spent on things like rendering.