Building a scale model and taking photos at the time I did really helped me finalize things in the design, it abled me to see the scale of things and helped visualize crated views.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Exploring connectivity: Sport
Sport is defentitly another way to connect to a landscape, for example sports like rock climbing and kayaking able to feel the site and perceive it in many different ways. I think these sports should be encouraged more often in urban environments instead of being reserved for the country side. Walls can be equipped for rock climbing anywhere and old viaduct are brilliant!
Floating wetland, Singapore, China
Here's an example of a floating wetland that could be put in place in a deep section of a culverted river, therefor not only helping cleanse the water but also could encourage sediments to settle and get caught up in the roots of plants creating a sort of artificial island.
Sound connection
An interesting building design to absorb sound by making it bounce of certain surfaces into others but maybe some of these technics can be used to increase sound an make it travel further along the river bed. Festival Pavilion of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany
http://www.detail.de/artikel_coop-himmelblau-munich-festival-pavilion_26389_En.htm
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
I love the way the Oslo Opera house is connected to the city, Oslo, Norway.
The Opera house is built in the port of Oslo and is cut off from the city center by a busy highway, to connect the two they have built a pedestrian bridge but it is not straight and has grill on one side so you can't see the building or the end of the bridge, as you get to the near end you get a brilliant view of the port and the fjord, eventually when you get to the end of the bridge the Opera house is reviled and you think you're there but you're not, you then have to go down a stairs, cross a smaller road, then a bridge over water that gives the feeling of being in the port.
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