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.
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Monday, 13 February 2012
Thursday, 9 February 2012
ChonGae Canal Point Source Park, Seoul, South Korea
I like the way this project is built around the possible change in water levels and flood just becomes an event like we've been talking about.
Precedent studies
Green stream to encourage a larger biodiversity in the center of Bâle, Switzerland.
Naturalized River Akerselva in the old industrial area of Oslo, Norway.
Recent project to encourage swimmers in the River Rhone, city center of Geneva, Switzerland.
Distraction from surrounding elements, making a place more attractive using sound or "scaring people" on a rope bridge for example.
The musical sound of dripping water onto
different seized metal plates to create various
sounds, Lausanne, Switzerland.
more on: http://www.lausannejardins.ch/
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Site analysis
Site feeling map
Site vegetation map
Open space map
Site activity map
Site circulation map
River Rea flood map
Saturday, 14 January 2012
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