Week 8

Benjamin Branch Process



Concept


Strategy


Goal [light]

Goal [materials]

Goal [color]

Week 7

Daylight Model - iar 431

Week 6

Greensboro Library

Week 5

Atlanta Trip

_Herman Miller National Design Center

_TVS Thompson, Ventulett + Stainback

_Gensler

_JDB Jova Daniels Bubby

_Heery

Focus the Nation

Dora Nelson

Studies in Barrow, Alaska- North tip
Continues to see the devastation to the culture, land, species from the effects of global warming. It is continuing to become harder to survive for all species including the Alaskan natives. As 1 degree rises in temperature at the equator, it equals to 12 degree rise at the poles. This means as 3% of the Earth's land mass is the Arctic, a significant amount is melting, rising in sea level.

week 4

Library of Nineveh





Angelica Library



















Black Diamond / Danish Royal library

week 3

Angelica Library Experience
Design process

Touch + Sight

"From touch there is a striving to touch, not just touch, and from this developed what could be sight. When sight came, the first movement of sight was the realization of beauty." 

beijing national aquatics center

water cube

an inspiration of soap bubbles filling a space; this bubble-wrap exterior amy be the reverse of touch + sight, but sight + touch. the sight of this exterior formulates the feel of bubbles, water, cells, and life. the experience is even more real once you enter the aquatic center and feel the touch of water,

Sustainable Movie Series

Freedom Fuels

January 25th 

I learned about the difference between alternative fueling. Pure vegetable oil is thicker in fluid but can be used from any type of plant. Used vegetable oil from vegetable fryers are usually discarded from restaurants but can be filtered to used in any car if the right engine is installed. Ethanol is pure alcohol with a mixture of corn and wheat, while bio diesel is methanol mixed with oxygen element that helps burn cleaner. From these alternative fueling options, there is no one fixed answer. From this movie I learned about the many different solutions that can solve our dependence on fossil fuels. Also, the power of local relationships is key as well. The more community relationships are established, the more communication is passed along and ideas can circulate to find new solutions. I believe with the power of community and conversion, the better our future may be towards independence of fossil fuels. 

week 2

Light Series Model - iar 431

Library of Nineveh 626 bc

"In the ruins of the palace of asur-bani-pal, they found a passage which opened into two small chambers leading one into the other. The door way was guarded on either side by figures of Ea, the God of culture and the inventor of letter, in his robe of fishskin" 

"The walls of the chambers has once been paneled with bas-reliefs (method of sculpting, carving, etching into stone) representing a city standing on the shore of a sea that was covered with galleys (ancient ship, used for trade)."

"Up the heigh of a foot or more the floor was piled with clay tablets that had fallen from the shelves on which they had been arranged in order." 

-organized

-catalogued

-classified

-diverse

-secure

-athentic

contents: astronomy, religious texts, law, science, literature, history, commerce, letters

Angelica Library 1620

Rome, Italy

Angleo Rocca 1545-1620

Head of Vatican Printing Office 1585

Entrusted with editions of library + writings of the church

1 community library 1,500 volumes

2 own vast collection 20,000 volumes

-combined both into what is now the Angelica Library

1755 Luigi Vanvitelli- architect restructured

16th century, library catalogued

stood through Napoleon defeat 1817 and through french invasion

still opened today and holds over 200,000 volumes

-vast open rooms 

-vaulted ceilings

-repetition of vertical lines 

-sensation of walking up to obtain a book

The Black Diamond 1993

Denmark

Cultural center of denmark:not only holds books but many cultural activities are held here as well. Exhibits, showrooms

Sits on harbor around classical architecture

Exterior glass and metal creates modern shape

Interior contrasts with organic, fluid motion of floors

Said to look like a diamond sitting on the water by the ribbon windows lining the ground and the angled exterior 

week 1

Library of Nineveh

Angelica Library, Rome, Italy

The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, Denmark