Resulting Electroliquid Aggregation

The resulting electro liquid aggregation is therefore:

• Good architecture transcends time not by it necessity in dealing with the client, nor from the architect's ideals and certainly not from a disciplined focus on form against practicality. Rather it is the harmony and compromise between these ideals that entices the observer. It is a reflection of the designer's ability to compromise that dances with the quintessential human desire for peace and resolution.

As a result, I wanted to separate my two monuments to emphasise the intermediary space whilst upholding both ideals of the client. 

I wanted the migrating point for discussion to be on Goldberg's monument to emphasise the exit upon the closure of discourse. This as a result will cause students to progress from Goldberg's original ideals to the more evolved ideals of Gang upon exit.

Gang's emphasis on practicality and form combining to create a dynamic living space was the main theme for her monument. As a result I wanted the curvilinear frame to create an interesting passage to the viewing podium to highlight that beauty can come from structural forms.

The Gang monument is also connected to the land. This allows the piece to become a metaphor for the connection between the land (the demands of contemporary society) in contrast to Goldberg's monument.

Goldberg's monument then comes to represent the demands of the architect's creativity and ideals in the extended metaphor. However, like all great architect's Goldberg is surrounded by the oceanic demands of the client, society, structure, and reality. As a result, the monument will slowly deteriorate under the erosion of the waves to represent the necessity for both members to come to a compromise.

Combinations

Goldberg Concept:

• Architecture ultimately suffers from the dynamic conflict between the ideals of the architect and the demands of the client. However, through compromise and resolutions a greater piece can be developed which satisfies the desire of both parties.

Gang Concept:

• The notion that form and practicality act in opposition is not only untrue but rather paradoxical. It are these two ideals, although distinctive and obtuse, that adhere together to produce a thrilling and beautiful piece.

Combinations:

The Combination of Rectilinear and Curvilinear Form

The interweaving of these two concepts created dynamic pieces that did produce a wonderful rhythm inherent in the dynamic conflict between the architect and the client as well as between form and practicality. The resulting themes were:

• Conflict inspires a transcending beauty in a piece.
• Antiquity is the ultimate obstacle that good architecture conquers. This notion is carried by the continuously evolving demands of the client requiring an impossible series of continuous alterations to a site and the role of decay in the conflict between practicality and form.
• Harmony is necessary to create enticing architecture.

Axometric Conceptualisation

To amalgamate these ideas in five blocks and under:

Form+Practicality= Beauty:

• The notion between this combination was creating an intimately dynamic space by combining an interesting form with a practical sense of movement. To do this I created a bridge (the functional inner space of movement) and surrounded it with a purely aesthetic surrounding. I drew this with the framed curvature appearing in harmony and in opposition. This was to emphasise the lack of necessity for the curved frame where its only role is to provide an interest in the piece.

Structure as a rhythmic space:

• Goldberg, in his Prentice hospital, emphasises that the repetition of structural pieces create a dynamic rhythm that delights the observer in their attraction towards the building. I duplicated this effect by keeping the same smaller building blocks and enlarging them in scale to create a dynamic design.

Architecture suffers at the hands of the client:

• The main detraction from an architect's work is the client. However, Goldberg also addressed that rather than it being an architect's greatest obstacle it should work in adhesion with their creative process. As a result, the largest rectangular prism represents the ideas of the architect which have slowly been transformed by the violent subtractions of the client to create a new piece. As Goldberg states, this new piece however, can still be beautiful in form so the once warped object is remolded under the careful eye of its original creator. 

Conceptual Analysis

Conceptual Work:

To aid the design process, the architects Jeanne Gang and Bertrand Goldberg were broken down into five concepts given their works and underlying theories:

Goldberg:

Bertrand Goldberg was an American architect active from 1937 to the late eighties and specialized in innovative structural solutions to then complex problems in architecture. His greatest works include the Marina City complex, the Prentice Woman's Hospital and the Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix. 

Conceptually, he believed:

-An architecture suffers at the demands of the client and the required functionality that their creation must require.

-Good architecture must therefore accommodate the paradigm shifts quintessential to the history of mankind and become a transcending landmark that is responsive throughout time.

-The immortality of an architect's work, its monumentalism, however, is an obstacle to the future of design as it ingrains a cultural discourse into contemporary society.

-Structure should demonstrate a rhythm between rectilinear and rectilinear form to delight the eyes of the observer and hence draw them closer to an interest in the building.

-Nature is in opposition to the quest of the architect. The tangibility of the architect's creation cannot be altered without being ruined but even the architect cannot escape time with their monuments. Instead, like the rest of humanity, they fall prey to the decay of antiquity within the passage of time.

Gang:

Jeanne Gang is a contemporary architect working mainly in the United States. Her most famous work is the Aqua tower which complements the Chicago skyline whilst giving the building itself an innate uniqueness through its curvilinear design. Gang was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow as recognition for her work in the SOS Children's village and the aforementioned Aqua tower.

Conceptually she defines that:

-Form and practicality are not opposing sentiments, rather they act in electroliquid amalgamation as adhesives to produce thrilling and beautiful form.

-The unusual can be emphasized to become beautiful.\

-The culture of a city should not be neglected but rather revived through contemporary architecture. It should respect the ideas already ingrained in an epoch whilst produce new notions and ideals to aid the future design process.

-Every building is a product. It comes with its own unique code of purposes and requirements for functionality, design, and capacity. As a result, a building should not be a duplication but rather an innovation from the society that required it.

-On an aside, Gang also represents a pioneer of female empowerment within architecture. She is breaking the mold of the stereotypical male lead architect as demonstrated by her design of the Aqua tower, the tallest building to have a woman as the lead architect.

Exp 2: Beginnings

Week 1 Stuff:

Axonometrics:

For the first week of work, it was required that we design five axonometrics to cover five key concepts in relation to Architects Jeanne Gang and Bertrand Goldberg.

The main concept that I was tackling with Goldberg was that architecture suffers at the hands of both the client and the requirements of its functionality. For Gang, I decided upon the aspect of being a pioneer. As a result, many of the axonometrics extrude in random directions to energise the piece. It is an energy that represents the new direction that Gang has taken with her architecture as one of the first reputed female architect and the impact that this piece, like her, could make on architectural conceptions.

However, at the end of the day, I decided to follow the idea of an architect's ideas and designs being oppressed by the client. I wanted to represent Goldberg's ideal that architecture does not respond to the imagination of the client but rather is contained by the desires of the client. As a result, my render is:

I wanted the building to emphasise how the demands of the client suppress the ideas of the architect. As a result, giant marble hands reach out of the ground to pull down the piece and make it seem squashed and compressed.

However, I wanted there still be a natural beauty for the piece. Therefore, the larger hands have been designed to act as a water feature to create a more beautiful and alive piece.

Thick Marble was used to create a heaviness to the piece. However, the use of wooden panels also offsets this deep weight to harmonise and balance the piece. This allows students to still recognise the concept but still feel inspired to discourse about the notion of how the client should impact the architect.














The last thing that I wanted to recognise was functionality and how that should influence design. Goldberg believed that the Marina City Buildings should be a "City within a City". As a result I wanted to recognise all vehicles of entrance so the monument could achieve the same function for everyone, paralysed or healthy.

The Marble Oppresor