Week 3: 36 Textures

Stair Design - Shinya Kimura

perspective view

side view

I have decided to change the design of Kimura's workshop and had also designed a different set of stairs and ramp for him.

section cut through the workshop

More changes are done from the original design. By this stage, Kimura and Ono's staris both have a heavy look but is actually light.

section cut

top view

Stair Design - Jiro Ono

 side view

front view

The stair in the above ground floor

perspective view

section cut

The design of the top floor was modified to avoid total symmetry. Ono's stairs has also been modified to create more space. Metal braces act as stringers on both side of the glass stair.

side view

side view - the other side of the stairs. emptiness creates an illusion of a heavy but light stairs.

view from above

side view

Drafts

Here are a few drafts. The building is redesigned but still with the same 2D section concept and the changes are made on different files then later combined.

Ono's workshop

 Kimura's workshop









Combined into a single file and added the ground level.

Week 2: 8 Stair Designs

Week 1: Sketch Up Draft

Words chosen:

JIRO ONO - smooth

SHINYA KIMURA - raw

Side Elevation

Section Cut

18 Sketch Sections

JIRO ONO - Ono is placed on top as, to my opinion, Ono's work are delicate and excess to a large opened area would provide a good source of light. The freshness in his products could be presented by the open air of being on top. Despite the fact that most sushi chefs would work behind a counter where the customer seats in, Ono's workplace is rather spacious for customers to sit in tables and still have space for the seafood stock (in the walk in fridge). "HIGH-class food"

SHINYA KIMURA - Kimura is placed underground as the noises from his artwork process could disturb the neighbors or surrounding therefore, he is placed below for natural sound proofing. As a mechanic, a large area would be needed as his artwork is big and more space for his tools and also materials. "DOWN and dirty"

Experiment 1 clients

 SHINYA KIMURA - fire. static. raw.
http://shinyakimura.blogspot.com.au/

 ANTONIO STRADIVARI- history. dance. golden.
http://www.blog.spritz.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/AntonioStradivari.jpg

 JIRO ONO - precision. slide. smooth.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/02/28/dining/dj-sushi/dj-sushi-blog480.jpg

3 images

A CREATIVE ARTWORK

  TIME FLIES - This conceptual creative work is portraying how time will continue to pass whether we are moving or static. Gradual change of tone in the background represents the sun rising and setting down complementing the movement of the clock's hand in showing a change in time. The wooden mannequin is a representation a powerless man, static against the change of minutes to hours. 

A GREAT PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE

 A beautiful white quarter-circled building just on the edge of downtown Miami, Florida. This building serves as a parking area for the offices above and public use. It's choice of white and blue-tinted mirror-finished windows complement the surrounding landscape as if the building is a part of the sky. Unique from other buildings, this building is shaped like an layered cake and when darkness taint the sky, it shines bright white, illuminating it's surrounding like an light house.

A BEAUTIFUL PHOTO

This is a picture of a beautiful pendulum of an light installment in VIVID Sydney 2012. It acts as a wind chime's pendulum where inside the water droplet shaped cocoon, the sound of wind chimes could be heard when this pendulum is moved. The contrasting colours are the effects of ultra violet lights bouncing off this aluminium material pendulum against the white opaque acrylic. It is beautiful as it resembles an flower pod about to burst in the blue and dark sky.