James - Moving On

Most of people will sad and unwilling for dying, but happy and pleasure the new life. This stop-motion video is quite interesting use yellow yarn to connect Life and Death.  Very deeply and touching.

Presentation

Topic : Light with architecture
Project 2 Winchester thinking:
1. winchester-project-tutorial
2. environment thinking tree-inside-your-house

Inspire:
1. artist-mark-braithwaite-collection
2. combinative-function-thinking
    dynamic-facade

light thinking:
1. daylight-orientation
    example : flatz-house (Liechtenstein)

2. south-facing-windows
    example : house-784 (UK)

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Interesting - Dynamic facade

Irregular facade caught my eye first...but the most interesting thing is ...this facade is dynamic and can perform beautiful lighting show at night.
This facade made of glass fiber reinforced concrete panels. use 1513 Compact fluorescent light tubes assembled into the facade's panels.
Use technology let facade have new face like a big screen, you can't ignore it..

Centro de Creacion, Contemporanea, Cordoba, 2008
Architect: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
Mediafacade: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos / realities united
Visualisierung: realities united

C4 light and Media facade design.

C4 Light and Media Facade Design for the Contemporary Art Centre in Cordoba (2012, realities:united) from realities:united on Vimeo.

The other dynamic facade is TransReflex (the art museum Kloster Unserer Lieben Frauen in Magdeburg).
TransReflex consists of 17 large-format mirror panels on north and west side windows to reflect the surrounding without uniformity(different direction, angles).
It's really good idea that you can see outdoor view on your window, but..I think in the sunny day..maybe the reflection could cause opposite building blinding


TRANSREFLEX - Kinetic Facade Installation for Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2012, realities:united) from realities:united on Vimeo.


Source:
http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/espacio-de-creacion-artistica-cordoba/
http://vimeo.com/71013797

Artist Mark Braithwaite collection

simple touching from art~~

Source:
http://www.yorkartist.com/ARTISTSgalleryfiles/BRAITHWAITEfile/BRAITHWAITECatalogueINDEX.htm

House 784 - Stephenson ISA Studio

Stephenson ISA Studio built a serial modern houses, for example House 784. This house uses lots of big glazing and skylight connect to surrounding environment and use wood to reduce the cool image of concrete and glazing. I think it's a example to show how to combine different materials.

Architects: Stephenson ISA Studio
Location: Cheshire, UK
Year: 2007

Different cubes size let entrance more interesting.

 Concrete wall provide adequate lighting

Source:
http://www.archdaily.com/386138/house-784-stephenson-isa-studio/

Daylight - South-facing windows?

In the northern hemisphere, buildings normally has south-facing windows to face sun and obtain maximum solar gain during the winter. It really depend on your daylight control and purpose. Some of buildings are not primarily consider the daylighting, for example hotels, night clubs, hospitals. Some of buildings have specific requirements for illumination and may use artificial light to instead control daylight source, for example museums, art gallery.
Museum Ludwig, Köln

Museum Ludwig uses of north-facing monitors and blinds provides daylight control appropriate for the illumination of art objects to minimise potential damage to exhibits.

Different purpose will change architecture design, the south-facing orientation is not the only way to obtain solar gain. I think it's really important to understand your context and site restriction before you start designing.


source:
http://www.museum-ludwig.de/en/museum/ueber-das-museum/architektur.html
Baker and Steemers, Daylight design of buildings, 2002

Daylight - Orientation

In high latitude areas, the angle sun in the sky is low so solar energy is spread over a wide area and some of this is immediately reflected back into the atmosphere from snow and ice, on the other hand, it's why high latitude areas have lower temperature than low latitude.

lower winter sun's path.

That's why in the high latitude areas (the northern hemisphere) typically use south-facing orientation and the biggest glazing to obtain maximum solar.



source:
http://bgrg.org/pages/education/alevel/coldenvirons/Coldinsol.htm