Sunday, October 31, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
10 Textures
Concept of my re-envision
The Veltins Arena in the German city of Gelsenkirchen
One of my favourite sports is Ice Hockey. By looking at this ground floor plan of Vitra Design Museum, I thought about Ice Hockey arena. Vitra Design Museum has fairly large area of itself and the way of the ground floor matches with Ice Hockey stadium.
Moreover, the building has second floor so that a seating capacity would be huge. There should also be food court, rest rooms, balcony stern walks and etc(more will be thought). I will go through this with changing of its form first and then start putting some appropriate materials on it. And if I need more areas for my re-envision, I will create some extra spaces.
http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=5431
http://www.germanyandafrica.diplo.de/Vertretung/pretoria__dz/en/06__S/Events/Ice__Hockey__WC__2010.html
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1001617
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog+nhl
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Building Case Study
The site of Gehry's Dancing House was originally occupied by a house in the Neo-renaissance style from the end of the 19th century. That house was destroyed during bombing in 1945, its remains finally removed in 1960. The neighboring house (with a small globe on the roof) was co-owned by Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel, who lived there from his childhood until the mid-1990s. He ordered the first architectural study from Vlado Milunic (who has been involved in re-building Havel's appartment in the neighboring house). Afterwards the Dutch bank ING agreed to build a house there, and asked Milunic to invite a world-renowned architect. Milunic first asked Jean Nouvel, who rejected the invitation because of the small size of the site (491 square meters); he then asked Frank Gehry, who and he accepted the challenge. Gehry had an almost unlimited budget, because ING wanted to create an icon in Prague. The construction started in 1994 and the house was finished in 1996.
The building is an example of deconstructivist architecture, with an unusual shape. It reflects a woman and man (Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair) dancing together. Construction is from 99 concrete panels each of different shape and dimension, each therefore requiring a unique wooden form.
Its unusual shape and technical solutions caused a big public debate. After ten years emotions are over, and the house has its place in modern Prague. In 2005 the Czech National Bank issued a gold coin with the motif of the Dancing House, as the final coin of the series "10 Centuries of Architecture."
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/dancinghouse/index.htm
http://www.hotels-in-prague-czech.com/images/Prague/Image/090107/N-Dancing%20House.jpg
http://www.gossiprocks.com/forum/little-big-world/104475-weekend-prague.html
http://czechmeout.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/546e.jpg
http://www.trendir.com/ultra-modern/dancing-house-6.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/196211139_236d9c255c_z.jpg?zz=1
Friday, October 15, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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