Honesty of Materials

Week 4
 Things are learned from Amily's lecture:-
- Consistency of materials
- Tectonics
- Honesty of material
- Tooling patterns and operation
- Small details into art pieces
- Weaving

During the lecture, Amily taught us how the way architect uses the materials reflect on the building they create.

These picture are part of one of the famous winery, Dominus winery in Yountville, California.
The architects for this are Herzong and de Meuron, Swiss architects.
The exterior only contained of cages filled with different sizes of stones.

This is the close-up of the wall of the building.
Different stones caged up.

This is the interior of the building.
As the stones were placed randomly, the gaps between the stones bring out beautiful pattern when sunlight shines through it.
The architects totally brought out the honesty and beauty of the materials they used.

Nature & Light

Week 3
The knowledge given to me from Amily's lecture is:-
- how architect make use of light to its full potential
- Ordering principle
- Nature minerals
- Time
- framing space

This is a picture of St. Ignatius' interior.
The architect for this is Steven Holl.
He is a great architect who creates colors without actually coloring.
Like in the picture he uses the sunlight and the wall, resulting in the reflection of the light and bringing in both light and color.
I am truly amazed by this since he turns the simple way of lighting the room into something amazing like this.

The ordering principles Amily talked about are:
- Hierarchy
- Symmetry
- Axis
- Rhythm
- Datum
- Transformation

Here is an example of one of the ordering principles, Axis.

This is the Salk Institute.
The architect is Louis Khan.
 The Axis for this picture is the water channel in the court yard with the sea view beyond.
An Axis is a straight line established by two or more elements

The following picture explains the uses of natural material.

The wall in this picture is made by using the dirt and minerals we commonly see.
All kind of dirt and minerals were used by layers creating this beautiful natural wall.

First Day of Arch 48

On my first week of Arch 48 in City College of San Francisco, our instructor, Amily, taught and showed us pictures of music inspired architecture.

 Soon after she arrived into our class, she opened a few songs which surprised me since I have no idea how music is related to our class. 

But later when she started her lecturing, I soon began to understand how music could affect architecture world.

I learned about:-
-the meaning of what architecture really means
-how music is related to architecture
-artistic style of the buildings
-how lighting can change our view of the surrounding
-how natural substance is a part of art related to architecture
 

This is a picture of Hotel Liesma which took part in a music themed hotel competition.

I found it when I was searching for a music inspired architecture on google.

This is created by Jevgenijs Busins and Liva Banka.
The shape and its wavy outlines are inspired by musical rhythms.

The silhouette of this building is a perfect draw for those who do not have any affinity towards music.

 This is one of the pictures showing how a natural substance can change our view.
Normally it is just a normal waterfall but when a certain red stone was powdered and
 added to the water it changes the color of the waterfall. How is this related to architecture? I believe that this style can be used as an ornament in the garden of a house giving the house a sense of nature.