Monday, July 20, 2009
Floating Buildings
Some of Ma Yonsong's famous designs are floating buildings. These designs are truly awe inspiring. Like WTC Rebuilt, Tokyo Island, Xiamen Museum. The buildings don't really float, they look like they do but in reality they are being held up by giant columns.
Ma was inspired to do this project after 9/11. He was in America when he designed this project. It was the first "Floating Island" he made. the WTC Rebuilt was not just a machine it was made to be a construction organism. This project later added on to the vertical city Ma began to design.
Another of Ma's proposal projects was Tokyo Island. The island is still in the design process right now. the island was designed to be a floating hotel in the water. The design is similar to the "Floating Buildings" Ma designed before. Based on the design, after awhile coral growing beneath the island while merge with the island showing that man can coexist with nature.
Adding on to the list of proposal projects is the Xiamen Museum. The museum follows along the basic floating building designs, except that the museum is smaller than WTC Rebuilt. The way the museum is designed the surrounding area will reflect of the walls of the museum and portray the surroundings. With light bouncing of the man-made lake and the museum it will truly be a jaw dropping site.
Topic Investigation Analysis
Together as a class we have been able to do in depth research about 16 different architects that are currently producing work.
Antoine Predock
Renzo Piano
Shigeru Ban
Will Alsop
Peter Zumthor
Ma Yonsong
Frank Gerry
Thom Mayne
Diller, Scafido + Renfro
UN Studio
Steven Holl
Zaha Hadid
JDS
NOX
Norman Foster
Calatrava
These architects vary greatly by experience, location and even what they consider to be Architecture although similarities and trends begin to emerge from this collective research. The next step to take as a class is to use the information collected and represented in our blog posts to focus on these common themes and begin to evaluate each architect researched based on a single topic.
Choose a topic that was given at the beginning of this research project to focus on while doing this analysis of the 16 architects. Once you choose a topic, write a response to this post stating the topic of focus you have chosen to investigate. The topic you choose should have a clear focus, for example instead of stating you are going to focus on how each architect connects to the environment, maybe you would choose to focus on how each architects connects to the natural environment, or the built environment, or society. Be sure to write a response below with your chosen topic so that your classmates can see what topics have been taken.
Once you have chosen a topic and published the title, begin investigation into each of the 16 architects to find information on how each of them relate to your specific topic. You can use the list above to make notes on each architect although the finished product for this task is to organize the 16 architects into groups that shows how these architects are similar and different to one another. The final blog post should be at least 3-4 paragraphs long and should include a good amount of information so that the reader can easily understand how and why each architect thinks about your chosen topic. Feel free to use quotes from other posts, images and links to further explain the text and remember clarity is important!
During your topic investigation if you are unable to find information out on a certain architect contact your classmate that researched that architect to see if they could help. Also, if a classmate comes to you for further information this means that it may not have been included in your 3 blog posts or it may have been difficult to understand. Use this as an opportunity to recognize missing or confusing information and edit your blog post. Only after we have completed this topic investigation will I be doing a formal evaluation of the work you have completed for this research project.
Questions? feel free to ask, or write a response below.
Antoine Predock
Renzo Piano
Shigeru Ban
Will Alsop
Peter Zumthor
Ma Yonsong
Frank Gerry
Thom Mayne
Diller, Scafido + Renfro
UN Studio
Steven Holl
Zaha Hadid
JDS
NOX
Norman Foster
Calatrava
These architects vary greatly by experience, location and even what they consider to be Architecture although similarities and trends begin to emerge from this collective research. The next step to take as a class is to use the information collected and represented in our blog posts to focus on these common themes and begin to evaluate each architect researched based on a single topic.
Choose a topic that was given at the beginning of this research project to focus on while doing this analysis of the 16 architects. Once you choose a topic, write a response to this post stating the topic of focus you have chosen to investigate. The topic you choose should have a clear focus, for example instead of stating you are going to focus on how each architect connects to the environment, maybe you would choose to focus on how each architects connects to the natural environment, or the built environment, or society. Be sure to write a response below with your chosen topic so that your classmates can see what topics have been taken.
Once you have chosen a topic and published the title, begin investigation into each of the 16 architects to find information on how each of them relate to your specific topic. You can use the list above to make notes on each architect although the finished product for this task is to organize the 16 architects into groups that shows how these architects are similar and different to one another. The final blog post should be at least 3-4 paragraphs long and should include a good amount of information so that the reader can easily understand how and why each architect thinks about your chosen topic. Feel free to use quotes from other posts, images and links to further explain the text and remember clarity is important!
During your topic investigation if you are unable to find information out on a certain architect contact your classmate that researched that architect to see if they could help. Also, if a classmate comes to you for further information this means that it may not have been included in your 3 blog posts or it may have been difficult to understand. Use this as an opportunity to recognize missing or confusing information and edit your blog post. Only after we have completed this topic investigation will I be doing a formal evaluation of the work you have completed for this research project.
Questions? feel free to ask, or write a response below.
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