Thursday, May 8, 2008

Review and Thinking

Swetic gave me a lot of advice:

1. The glass is not a good material for playing the lute. Because its ability of absorbing vibrate is not good.

2. For the idea of eliminating the boundary, the outside skin of bamboo wall is a little bit unwanted. (Personally, I think it's fine because the width of gaps between two bamboo sticks can be adjusted. )

3. The opening is not enough for the idea of eliminating boundary.
(Personally, I consider the site is beside the seaside, so the closed glass curtain wall can stop the strong wind coming in. )

4. Glass is not a good material for the wall of seaside building.

(Personally, I think it depends . Sometimes the use of glass for seaside building realizes the idea of design. The follow picture is from Kengo Kuma 's Water/Glass House.

5. For the model construction, the glass roof can not be directly put on the column. There should be beams on the columns for supporting roof.


The good example of Transparency and Connection( Drowning architecture in the landscape)


In an infinite game of reflections, in his Water/Glass House Kuma is inspired by Taut, who draws on the lessons of Katsura to create a building that once again attempts to satisfy the obsession with drowning architecture in the landscape. A layer of water gently covers the edges of the building, as in Katsura's bamboo verandas, while a stainless steel louver casts the shadow of the roof onto the water. The water surface stretches further out to unite the surface with the Pacific Ocean, and a glass box floats on top of this mirror, breaking up and reflecting the rays of the sun inside and outside. The project becomes "a total environment in which everything dissolves, where there is no disarticulation of space, where boundaries disappear" (Kuma), finally drowned in the water, the ocean and the blue sky.

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