Final Submission

Texture and perspectives

Screen shots

(Due to the huge amount word I've done, I'll upload five primary image and some supplementary image. The video is also available to help understanding the idea of my building.)

Primary:

1. Folly and environment: This is a prediction of future:

 Future of architecture is unpredictable, likely to be chaos or ruin. But anyway, we can find a creative way to carry on.

 2. School and bridge
Based on hard rock, the form come from strong and thick to slim and exploding, from fundamental to complication. 

 3. View in laboratory 

3.Student Centrer and roof garden 

 4. Close view of the school - layout
Instead of an traditional way of organizing the rooms, I decided to put rooms into bars, and bars forms a compact frame. So there is not concept of "level".

 5. Elevator explodes into pieces when approaching the bridge . Operation key:1

Supplementary images: 

On the way to the folly in dean's elevator(operation key:4)

When approaching the folly will open itself to welcome the dean, hence creating an open view from the folly.(operation key:3)

Library and cafe 

Layout of the school

 View from the meeting room: note the texture and the background prisms forming an interesting shape

 Gallery is the way for students to wait for their elevator, which is the same one that can explode.(key:2)

Steps on the ground is actually the elevators to each room, note the word on each of them.(key:i)

 Elevator to the library(part of it will raise from the ground when activated)(key:u)

More image a of elevator explosion and shape&position of the bridge(key:1).

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The prisms are able to move randomly in a certain range. Meaning that future is changing, and, deconstructing (key:o)

 Lecture room can expend its size depending on number of the attendants.(key:k) 

Roof garden

Sketchup file (Exploded, with noting function of each room, you will be able to see how those furnitures are related to the theme and the context of the function)

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Byrx7c279SIUWFFzNGgwNkdOT1k/edit?usp=sharing

Cryengine

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Byrx7c279SIUeXpubVZzcVQySzQ/edit?usp=sharing

Feedback sheet during process

Coming very soon!

Architectural Mashup

Bridging the past and changing the future

A mesh-up for architectural theory.

For these reasons, architects are less often treated by the upper levels of government and private enterprise with the respect that they should deserve. Deconstructivist architecture, however, is not an architecture of decay or demolition. Architecture should be the top of the tree in the construction industry; not one of its half-dead branches. It gains all of its force by challenging the very values of harmony, untiy, and stability, proposing instead that flaws are intrinsic to the structure Architects should be and can be the driving forces of construction creativity and innovation. And how we manage the creation of the future built environment -- and the use of what we already have -- is going to be greatly influenced by what happens to the practice of architecture. We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. The first point to make in any guessing game about the future is that it is not wise to extrapolate existing trends. History tells us that no trend is immutable and eternal. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.The only constant is change, and change is often abrupt and dramatic. The role of an architect in this rapidly changing context is also changing, just as the role of traditional developers is changing. 

Resourses:
"The hallmark of deconstructivist architecture is its apparent instability. Though structurally sound, the projects seem to be in states of explosion or collapse....Deconstructivist architecture, however, is not an architecture of decay or demolition. On the contrary, it gains all of its force by challenging the very values of harmony, untiy, and stability, proposing instead that flaws are intrinsic to the structure." "I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can't do that, I've failed."—from the 1980 edition of "Contemporary Architects" 

Craven, Jackie. “Frank Gehry, Deconstructivist Architect.” About.com Architecture. Accessed : http://architecture.about.com/od/greatarchitects/p/gehry.htm.


We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve."

Craven, Jackie. “Frank Gehry, Deconstructivist Architect.” About.com Architecture. Accessed : http://architecture.about.com/od/architectsaz/p/meier.htm

For these reasons, architects are less often treated by the upper levels of government and private enterprise with the respect that they should deserve. Architecture should be the top of the tree in the construction industry; not one of its half-dead branches. Architects should be and can be the driving forces of construction creativity and innovation. And how we manage the creation of the future built environment -- and the use of what we already have -- is going to be greatly influenced by what happens to the practice of architecture. The first point to make in any guessing game about the future is that it is not wise to extrapolate existing trends. History tells us that no trend is immutable and eternal. The only constant is change, and change is often abrupt and dramatic. The role of an architect in this rapidly changing context is also changing, just as the role of traditional developers is changing. In the century just ended, the built environment has been fundamentally altered by the motor car, the aeroplane, the elevator, air-conditioning, steel-framed construction and -- how can we forget? -- the computer. But we should also remember that we still use clay bricks and concrete pretty much as the Romans did 2000 years ago. Service, Jim. 2000. "Architecture's Future." Architecture Australia 89, no. 2: 84. Art & Architecture Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed June 25, 2013).

Geology analysis of the site and structural prototype of the bridge

The site I've chosen is Yangtze Gorges. The area is located in Chongqing, one of the populated area in south west China. 
In history, the area was called "Heaven City" because of  its geological advantages, such as fertilized ground, bumpy terrain shape which is great for defence and beautiful mountain-with-river landscape. 
The advantages have actually created a great place for people to live. 
For centuries, the area has bred many outstanding poets, politics, and artists. The area is recognised as one of most spiritual area in China. 
There is a Chinese character "灵" to describe such areas where the landscape is beautiful and people there are mostly intelligent.
The direct translation of 灵 is miracle.
灵 combine with other characters which refers to the following meaning: 1. spiritual  2. ideas 3. intellegence 4. mind 5. hollow 6. weightless
In Chinese Feng Shui, 灵 requires an organic combination of mountains and rivers or lakes. 
In my site, is a intersection of mountains and rivers. The deep water cuts the high mountain into two halves, hence creating a huge wide gap. 
In the picture below. Black represents the mountain ranges, blue is river, red circle is the site area.

The gap need a bridge, a symbolic one. It's not necessarily binding two mountains together. But conceptionally it does connect those. It should be 灵 enough in this 灵 area.  In this specific context, 灵 is modern and deconstruction.
Material should be white, transparent and light.
Structure should be deconstructing, seperate, architetonic, symbolic. 

Questions for Jo:
I know it is not possible to construct a building with parts that floating in the air. But how about in the future, when the material could be superconductive material and floating in a electric field?
Last time when I talked to you, you said the structure should be convincing.
I wish to build something never happen before, which means it might be unconvincing for conservative people. So, my interpretation for "convincing structure" is a form of structure that has hierarchy, and makes people feel safe when standing on that. 
So I designed this structure, totally 灵, post-modern, deconstructive, and makes me feel weightless. It has strong beams from the anchor and presents strong forces from the mountain. 
People standing on that will feel safe on their feet and feel strange to see how thing floating on there head.
Do you agree that this structure is convincing enough?

Instead of down the valley, I am going to build the folly on the opposite side of the valley. Facing to the bridge. So it seem the bridge is unfinished. And the elevator will horizontally connects to elements together. I love this idea! haha

I'll think about how people use the structure and how people reach the bridge on the next stage.
Many thanks for commenting, and have a lovely weekend :)

PS: Dimensions:
Valley spans about 300m, bridge 100m.