DESIGN STUDIO 2

Hopefully this is more clear than what has been posted on ning. From now on everything will be posted here.

Bathhouse idea:

My design was inspired by Peter Zumthor’s ‘Thermal baths’. I have used the rectangular symmetry that he is seen to use in his baths, and have structured it such that bathing is viewed as a ritual and an experience. Initially upon entry to the bathhouse, individuals are able to hear the flow of water from the ground floor. Stairs lead them up to the change rooms/shower. The stairs are used as a means of controlling one’s pace such that they are given time to anticipate and imagine the physical appearance of the flowing water that they are able to hear. The individual’s journey upon stepping out of the change room is directed by a hallway which strives to lead them into each of the baths in a particular order. The first approaching bath is the warm bath and is quaint in size. However even from inside this room can the individuals hear the even louder sound of water that is originating from the other room. The other room resides a hotter bath, with an increase in wall thickness to absorb the heat and to keep the heat within the parameters of this room. The ceiling in this hotter bath is higher (resulting in the louder sound), and since hot baths in many cultures are believed to purify the body, the high in altitude ceiling appealing to the sky, helps the individual feel spiritual connection to this bath. There is also steam arising from this hot bath. Both baths are have an array of light coming  in from the gap between the ceiling and the four enclosed walls shining on the water itself, so that the bath itself is more aesthetically appealing. I have replicated Peter Zumthor’s use of the gap created by walls/ceilings to pass through light, as seen further through gaps created by enclosing walls and floors.

From this station, the individual is led to go outside (on top of the retaining wall), where they are given the option to sunbath or to swim in the in ground pool on the first floor where the pool is a colder temperature. This design is somewhat similar to that of Peter Zumthor, who also incorporates an in ground pool into his bathhouse (with a surrounding rising wall).

It should be noted that the hallway connecting the warm bath to the hot bath and the outside sun bathing area almost acts as a central ‘atrium’ as similar to Louis Khan’s Trenton bathhouse design.

PROJECT 3

Project 3

I was very much inspired by the idea behind Siza's swimming pool. As the public drives on the main road, they are able to view both the sky and the swimming pool. However as they park their car, they are taken through built in underground change rooms and several hallways/ramps where only the sky is present. As the individual progresses through the walkway, they are slowly revealed to the swimming pool/beach, getting a view of the entire landscape. It is this idea in which I attempted to incorporate into my design of the bakery, in which from the street itself, one is able to see inside the bakery right into the  lit up kitchen. This will allow the individuals to understand the process of baking, and the warm and friendly baking environment. Hence they are lured to go inside. Once they enter the bakery, the individuals are taken through a hallway in which they are able to closely monitor the process of baking and socialise with others not just in the queue, but with workers as well. This forces individuals to become apart of the baking process. If the queue becomes too long, customers can wait in the shaded area provided at the front. Furthermore the hallway comprises of windows which gradually increase in size which slowly reveal individuals to the outside sitting area, with the effect to induce customers to want to go outside and sit down. Behind the kitchen is a thin wall forming a hallway like space for employees to step outside and relax. These hallways ensures a sense of flow and movement.

Individuals have a choice of either going up the stairs to the internal eating area or sitting outside. The internal eating area also features a play area that is covered. This play area may be accessed by the general public who are not customers of the bakery. A ramp is included to access the top part of the retaining wall, which functions much like a terrace, giving direct access to the public to the remainder of zone C. The play area is included to consider the children's sense of movement. Siza in his swimming pool had facilities for both children and adults side by side. Conveniently, the play area is next to the internal eating area such that adults can both enjoy their meal and simultaneously look over their children via the window.

It should be noted that the ramp is a means of linking zone C and zone D. However, it also ensures that the two purposes of each of the zones are also kept separated to some extent.

Much like Siza's work where the walls seemed to be protruding out of the roofs, my work includes this same repeating notion. I further frame transitions from one area to another by a U like shapes just as Siza did. My design plays with light and sound with its use of windows of different sizes and openings, as well as enclosed spaces to generate sound.

I have utilized the slope of the landscape, and have practically given the illusion that the structure is built underground. 

PROJECT 1

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20445609/final+final+final5

Elevator controls:

p: up

n: down

s: up

d: down

Landscape:

Bridge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zz-vG3ZB5g

Lady Gag's Office:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArthZPxd2hY

Oprah's Office:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhnnUyzWYVw

Lady gaga's lift going down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgvocWYFssw

Lady gaga's lift going up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9LG-i3Xqzg

Oprah's lift going down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UV17hvxbVg

Oprah's lift going up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xEGKJb58Ds

Articles

Oprah

Entrepreneur, actress, educator, producer, philanthropist, and talk show host, Oprah Winfrey (1954- ) has had a wide-ranging effect on American culture. Despite her difficult childhood, she determined to make a better life for herself and others. Beginning her career as a television reporter and anchor, Oprah went on to find success as the first black woman to host a nationally-syndicated television show and the first black woman to own a production company. In 2003, Winfrey was named the first black woman billionaire and she has been named the world's most recognized person. Despite such wealth and popularity, much of her professional, voluntary and monetary efforts have gone to support the underprivileged. According to Oprah, "There really is nothing more important to me than striving to be a good human being" (Academy of Television Arts and Science 2003). Through her personal giving and support and her work through both Oprah's Angel Network and the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, Winfrey has been perhaps the most significant female African-American philanthropist in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Historic Roots

Oprah Gail Winfrey was born to Vernita Lee on 29 January 1954 in Kosciuscko, Mississippi. Initially raised by her grandmother, Oprah was a smart child with a gift for the spoken word; she could often be found reciting poetry or reading aloud at church. At the age of six, Oprah moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to live with her mother; she would spend most of the next seven years there (Academy of Achievement, "Oprah Winfrey Biography").
As a young adolescent, Oprah often acted out and misbehaved; once she attempted to run away. After initially trying to place her in a juvenile detention center, Lee sent Oprah to live with her father, Vernon Winfrey, in Nashville, Tennessee. Winfrey's strict demeanor had a considerably positive impact on his young daughter. In her commitment to school, Oprah found success, winning awards for speech and debate and securing a college scholarship at the age of sixteen.
When she was seventeen, Oprah obtained a job at a local radio station in Nashville, Tennessee. Majoring in speech communications and performing arts at Tennessee State University, Winfrey continued to work in media throughout her college years. She signed on with WTVF-TV as a reporter/anchor. In 1976, Oprah graduated from college and moved to Baltimore, Maryland, for a position at the ABC affiliate as a co-anchor. Just two years later, the station offered Oprah an opportunity to co-host People Are Talking , a morning talk show (Encyclopaedia Britannica "Winfrey").
In a significant career move, Oprah moved to Chicago in January 1984, to take a position as the host of AM Chicago . Competing against the top-rated talk show of its time, Winfrey proved she was able to attract a wide audience and, in 1985, AM Chicago was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show . That year, Oprah also landed her first major acting role. Her work in The Color Purple earned her nominations for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award. Just one year later, The Oprah Winfrey Show went national and, in 1988, Oprah became the first black woman to own her own television and film production company, Harpo Productions, which bought the rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show . In 2003, Winfrey became the first black woman billionaire.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album The Fame (2008), which included the hits "Just Dance," "Poker Face," "Bad Romance" and sold over 15 million copies worldwide. The album earned her six Grammy nominations and two wins as well as a slew of other awards recognition, including a record setting thirteen MTV Video Music Award nominations. Gaga is the first artist in history to claim four #1 hits from a debut album ("Just Dance," "Poker Face," "LoveGame" and "Paparazzi").

She is also the only artist in the digital era to top the 5 million sales mark with her first two hits. Gaga broke the record when her single "Poker Face" reached 5 million in sales after her debut single "Just Dance" accomplished the same feat the year before. She has over 1.3 billion combined views of all her videos online. She is also a staple in the social networking world SRCH WAS HERE. She's one of the biggest living people on Facebook with over 33 million 'likes' and is #1 on Twitter with over 9.5 million followers.

Her third studio album, Born This Way, is scheduled for release on May 23, 2011. The first single from the album, title track "Born This Way", set a music industry record by becoming the fastest single in history to reach sales of 1,000,000 copies (five days after its February 11th release). Only the 19th single to ever debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (issue date February 26,2011), the recording was Lady Gaga's third #1 on the chart. On iTunes, the song debuted at the top spot in 14 countries, including the U.S., and hit #1 in all 23 iTunes stores worldwide its first week out. "Born This Way" was Gaga's 7th single to hit #1 at Top 40. The second single from the album, "Judas" has eclipsed 500,000 in sales and Lady Gaga's latest single, "The Edge of Glory," went straight to #1 on iTunes in its first day of release and stayed there for 3 days.

Gaga is well-recognized for her outré sense of style as a recording artist, in fashion, in performance and in her music videos. Her contributions to the music industry have garnered her numerous achievements including five Grammy Awards amongst twelve nominations, two Guinness World Records and the estimated sale of 15 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide. Billboard named her both the "2010 Artist of the Year" and the top selling artist of 2010 ranking her as the 73rd Artist of the 2000s decade. Gaga has been included in Time's annual "The 2010 Time 100" list of the most influential people in the world as well as Forbes' list of the "The World's Most Powerful Celebrities" in the world. Forbes also placed her at number seven on their annual list of the world's "100 Most Powerful Women."

Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive is Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design. Reporting directly to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Ive has led the Apple design team since 1996. During his tenure as Senior V.P. of Industrial Design, Ive has been involved in bringing to life such innovations as the iMac, iPod, and the iPhone.1

Career

Jonathan Ive went to Newcastle Polytechnic in the United Kingdom to study design. Newcastle Polytechnic has since been renamed Northumbria University. After finishing his studies, Ive went on to become one of the founders of the company Tangerine.2Tangerine was created in 1988 and designs specialized products and delves into research involving their clients' needs.3

In 1992, Apple, which was one of Tangerine's clients, offered him a job. He worked on some projects with the company before accepting a full-time position and permanently moving to California.2

In 2003, Ives won the first Designer of the Year award at the Design Museum2 in London.4Two years later, in 2005, he was offered and accepted his current position of the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple. The next year, he acheived a CBE award.2CBE stands for Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and is given to people who have demonstrated their importance and significance as leaders in organizations or businesses.5 Jonathan Ives has received other awards in the recent years including a National Design Award and an MDA Personal Achievement Award both for the work he did on the iPhone.2

http://www.mahalo.com/jonathan-ive/

http://www.oprah.com/oprah_show.html

http://www.ladygaga.com/bornthisway/

Mash up

Lady Gaga wields terrific power. She will mold the attitudes and instincts of teenagers across the world. Her most recent song, "Born This Way," slaps in the face many good-hearted Americans who have worked tirelessly to undermine her message.

 In her eccentric futuristic video, she effuses in her Manifesto of Mother Monster that we should embrace our unique selves “baby you were born this way…cause he made you perfectly”.

Gaga is like the Kaliesque figure in Hinduism, so black that she can absorb any negativity and eat it up, all while and wielding a sword to protect her young children. In Gaga’s case, she embraces the downtrodden misfits who are teased in school, as she was. Those who didn’t belong, giving them a safe haven. Anyone who smacks of being too different, a little too off the beaten track, a little too weird.

Oprah has a huge following and many people mostly women try to lead by her example. Her generosity exceeds all others. She has been known to give her audience members cars, books, gifts, houses, educational needs and even money. That is what makes Oprah so endearing to others is the fact that she shares her wealth with others.

What made her successful is that -unlike those supercilious critics -she didn't sneer at her daytime-TV audience. She took them seriously, and offered them, from time to time, serious topics to consider. And it turns out, there was a well of power there, just waiting to be tapped.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Oprah+influence/4840880/story.html#ixzz1PR2JTlhg

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Oprah+influence/4840880/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/saints-and-scoundrels/201105/lady-gagas-power-abuse

textures

18 two point perspectives

Power

The power that I have chosen to portray in my bridge are the respective powers of Lady gaga and Oprah and how they chose to use it. Lady gaga – although a world renown singer does not use this title simply to promote her songs/music videos/costumes etc., but further utilizes it and essentially makes most of it to change the mentality  of several individuals – who feel that the only way to fit in to society is by conforming to the norm.  Hence her costumes are not just a way to draw attention to herself, but stimulates others to draw attention to themselves. The absurdity of her outfits serves to allow the individuals to feel like they are allowed to be themselves, by making herself appear as a ‘freak’.

Similarly Oprah uses her power to influence people for the better, unlike lady gaga she has a more direct approach where her agenda is to raise the rights of woman, African Americans, and raises awareness to the issue of poverty. Oprah’s direct approach includes funding schools, making education accessible to those who cannot attain it, acting as a sponsor, and physically visiting third world countries to provide her assistance.

Out of the two, Oprah is the most influential. As for Lady Gaga, a lot of people become too distracted by her outfits and her unusual nature to be influenced or even realise her ultimate goal. Her costume is seen as an art, rather than to serve any functional purpose.

Such power in my bridge is represented by:

The bridge has two separate components, that of Lady Gaga and that of Oprah. The arched shaped curves are used throughout the whole structure so that overall it appears as one coherent and hollistic structure. Lady Gaga’s side is seen to have several curves, randomly arranged, and pointing in all directions. Can one walk through her side? Well anything is possible, and if one were determined they would be able to cross it, but would encounter these several curved shaped obstacles along the way. The fact that one’s path is impeded is representative of Lady Gaga’s attempted influence of society through her costumes etc, and how society fails to realise her ultimate agenda (of allowing people to be themselves)– having obstacles such as her outfits/performances coming along the way. The different direction of these curves represents her morphing personality. Hence she is influential as a singer and for her unique personality, but is not influential the way that she’d want to be.

This bridge is linked to her office. Her office and elevator are comprised of randomly arranged shapes. Her elevator in particular incorporates both the curve of the bridge and the random shape her office is comprised of. The random shapes used to construct her office is representative of her crazy personality. The stairs also differs from regular stairs, shaped in a trapazoidal manner.

Oprah’s side of the bridge can be utilised. The curves are not randomly arranged, depicting her more organized personality. This sense of direction depicts her ordered approach to getting her message across, and how effectively her message is delievered. Unlike Lady Gaga’s side of the bridge, the curves now act as a facade to the bridge rather than obstructing it. Such curves further leech onto the valley itself, and although the curves now come out in different directions, their protruding nature symbolizes Oprah’s increasing and spreading influence. (Lady Gage has no such feature in her component of he bridge).


Her office likewise is comprised of several rhombus’ to depict her directional approach to communicate her message (as rhombus’ tend to point in one direction). Another notable component is the scale of Oprah’s office – it is comparatively larger than that of Lady Gaga’s to depict her more prominent role. Oprah's office further represents her kind and warm hearted personality as shown by the use of the soft shaped oval stairs. Oval shapes are further used in her elevator, and also incorporates the curves used in the bridge which stand straight and are directional (unlike those used in Lady Gaga's elevator).

The division depicts the two different approach of the women in impacting the society.

The colours used in the meeting place are derived from the colours used in their respective offices, depicting the integration of powers.

The dining table denotes an integration of the offices of the two woman, with the curved shape table (Oprah's office), and the randomly shaped seats (Lady Gaga's office). Many textures are applied to this bridge – again to represent this integration.