The Datum

EXPERIMENT 1: THE DATUM

TIMETABLE: 4 Weeks, 25% of final grade.
ARCHITECTURAL ISSUE: Selling Creativity
ARCHITECTURAL CONVENTION: The Stair
ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: Articulating below, on and above a ground plane. A studio
REFERENCE TEXTS: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/ and http://www.saatchi.com/worldwide/index.asp
CLIENTS: Patricia Piccinini, Marcel Duchamp, Leonardo Da Vinci
SOFTWARE: Sketchup, Blogger
TECHNIQUES: The section, texturing and UV mapping, story boarding and animation, blogging
OUTPUTS: 18 sketch sections, 36 custom textures, 2 draft sketchup models, 1 developed sketchup model, 3 animations on a Blogger weblog
PREMISE: We can understand Architecture as a series of relationships between surfaces, objects and spaces. The datum introduces an idea of measurement into these relationships so that we can begin to understand the balance or otherwise of a scheme


3 Pictures From 3 Artists and My own work

Patricia Piccinini

Innocence(n.), Contrast(v.), Original(adj.)

Marcel Duchamp

Bisexuality(n.), Flout(v.), Humorous(adj.)

Leonardo Da Vinci

Body(n.), Proportion(v.), Numeric(adj.)

Qiong He

Skin(n.), Move(v.), Oppressive(adj.)

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Video

I made a short video about Glenn Murcutt's indigenous projects


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18 Sections

I choose these two pictures to develop 18 sections.

Patricia Piccinini

Innocence(n.), Contrast(v.), Original(adj.)

Marcel Duchamp

Bisexuality(n.), Flout(v.), Humorous(adj.)

Top Left: Original, Humorous
Bottom Left: Original , Flout
Top Right: Original, Bisexual
Bottom Right: Contrast, Humorous

Top Left: Contrast, Flout
Bottom Left: Contrast, Bisexual
Top Right: Innocence, Humorous
Bottom Right: Innocence, Flout

Top Left: Innocence, Bisexual
Bottom Left: Humorous, Original
Top Right: Flout, Original
Bottom Right: Bisexual, Original


Top Left: Humorous, Contrast
Bottom Left: Flout , Contrast
Top Right: Bisexual, Contrast
Bottom Right: Humorous , Innocence


Top : Flout, Innocence
Bottom : Bisexual, Innocence
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36 Textures

My thinking process:

Fomal 36 Custom Textures:

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8 Staircases

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3 Sketchup Models

My design thinking:

The 1st Draft Model and its Video:

Above: Original
Below: Flout

The 2rd Draft Model and its Video:

Above:Innocence
Below:Bisexual

The Final Model and its Video:

Design Process:


Formal Model:

My Final Model in Google Warehouse (CLICK)
1st Draft Model in Google Warehouse
2rd Draft Model in Google Warehouse

Critical Thinking & Comments from Shaowen

My suggestion for you in the coming experiments is to break your tendency creating objects but not space. Try to get inside of a built environment. You can learn this by studying a set of drawings and images of your own choice, say your favorite architecture( E.G. OSCAR NIEMEYER) now. Try to understand what are the architectonic elements and how do they come by? Structure, space and enclosure are basic architectonic elements for architectural design.