Final Presentation

My four scales have been influenced from the work of my theorist Sarah Treadwell. She writes about a variety of different historic buildings and methods of traditional and new technology arising within architecture. Within the way she writes she has developed a poetic way of getting her opinion across. One particular work of hers stands out and has influenced my whole design Mesnard, Michelet ad the Blueness of the Bay of Islands. The paper explores the contact of the blue waters of the pacific. Deep analysis of one particular drawing is talked about to discover the meanings of the foreshore, boats and architecture. She talks about “Fluid space of architectural media and references of floating architecture.” Architecture can occupy spaces in the form of floating, buoyancy and resistance. Water is seen as a surface until disrupted. 

“Rising, falling, oblique and geometric purpose, floating plan, the neutral plane.”

For our first scale I created a piece of jewelry that comprises of a two materials which portrays poetic movement, connection and detail. Printed details created fluid interpretations, building like moments and positive and negative moments.

The jewelry box design is to accommodate my first scale which is my circular jewelry. With that in mind, is how I created my form. It concentrates on becoming a work of art itself.  Graceful hints of interior and exterior when opened and closed. With the detail I created, it enforces poetic rolling chain reactions, with interlocking moments of flow and connection with the motion of opening and closing the box. Movement of light brings new excitement with the different materials. 3d printed components expose different transparency levels, tidal lines have become traced on the exterior of the petal horizontally and vertically because of the orientation when the petal was printed. Threading though the material imprints traced patterns on the surface of the fabric and fimo has baked created new fluid experiences.

For my third scale I have designed pools with my petals creating oblique surfaces, forming a bridge between the dyke and the beach. The space under the surface accommodates for pools, changing rooms and seating. The large petals have an allowed for open air pools. The position of the surface protects the pool from sand and wind.  The building flows in and out of the dyke with soft curving slopes which invites people to walk in experiencing the view.  

 The Swimming Pool arena has been design to flow with harmony and nature influences from the contours of the petal component, transformed by movement and growth.  Fold lines carved into the petal, cutting dramatic interior and exterior canyons for circulation and facilities. Natural light penetrating through the translucent petals and structural elements. Smooth transitions between spaces of the interior and exterior with the motion the public’s surroundings perceived as though their surroundings are floating. Custom made components of the arenas seating, circulation and shelter have been designed for the swimming pool arena to continue the architectural language of poetic fluidity.