Wednesday, 31 October 2012

House Imported Draft Testing

House Without bumps and specs

House with bumps and specs



Material Study

WIth Rudin house, I noticed most of the house is made of slabs of pre cast concrete. My Main Material is CONCRETE.
They way concrete corrodes all has to do with the thickness of the slab and how far the reinforced steel is to the outer edge of the slab. If done properly, Majority of the slab will stay intact, but bits and pieces may start to crack due to the build up of volumninous.

Cover thickness


Cover thickness is the distance between concrete surface and the reinforcement, which is the nearest to this surface. It is determined after taking into account the required mechanical properties. According to some regulations, its minimum value depends on the exposure class and on the type of structure (structure class).
Most often, steel corrosion occurs when the cover thickness is too thin.




Monday, 24 September 2012


Rudin House
Located in a village at the limit of France and Switzerland (Leymen), was one of the earliest works of Herzog & de Meuron, conducted for the art gallery owner Hanspeter Rudin.

                               

House in Bordeaux
Considered one of the best houses in the nineties of the last century, this house of Koolhaas / OMA in Bordeaux sits on an English-style garden of an old mansion near a disused quarry.

                                House in Bordeaux, Rem Koolhaas / OMA



Barcelona Pavilion
The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain. 


                                    



Saturday, 8 September 2012


RUN AWAY ISLAND




The Subliminal 

My letter / number combination is "S,6". I decided to go with a link between the 6 and the s so they both connect. My island is shaped from the combination of s,6 as you can see in the images below. I also wanted to have small hidden things within the environment that is only noticeable from birds eye view. one side of the pathways i painted on was in the shape of a 6 as seen in the images below. The s i decided to carve out of a flat part of land which was an arrival landing spot for my island.

6


6 (in environment)


S

S

S + 6 in the complete environment
Black colour outline is 6
Red colour outline is S