End of this year

This is the first year I live in uk,and also the first time to learn the courses about architecture. Seems I didn't bring my A-game here this year. I know there was something wrong with me.Such as my language , writing skill,my drawing skills,my design ideas.....  A lot of things I'm really not good at.:(
After all my classmates pinned their work on the wall, I found most of  them have their own good qualities on this subject.Some are really talented. And I'm really confused if I'm really suitable for this subject.If  it is correct for me to choose architecture as my major.？Somebody told me before that maybe I was good at interior design instead of architecture design. Seems it is right. But who knows?

Next year ,maybe I will make more english friends ,and know more the cultures about Scotland.If I have time to do that.

Hope everthing will be ok!  Hope I will never regret to choose architecture as my major and my career.~ :)

Tecnoics Works

Tectonics  work
This is my favorite one.Seems it has some unreasonable parts. :(  Does the arches can't be supported by  columns ?I think colunmns can really do that , but it just will make something strange on vision.

I developed them into my Pavillion Project.  But I think this smaller one is much more special ..I drew a 3d-sketch by marker . But seems it is not common to see marker drawing here. Most of drawing my classmates made are pencial drawings. So I'm really confused that if I really need to draw such drawing...=_=

The structure inside,I think should be like an arch bridge, I also drew some sketches about the structure,actually I think they can work. But once again ,it was negative by tutor....Heart-broken.  %>_<% 

Finally ,I change them into  another kind of structure,but I really don't like .

This is an another choice I made. But unfortunally , it is so weak . The structure in it is really unsteady. Maybe I need to add some cross beams to make them much more stronger .

Cutter Report - How to Measure Success: Use EA to Define Architecture

I have just read the Cutter Report by Michael Rosen on the success or otherwise of enterprise architecture. 
Here are some points that struck me as interesting:
"77% report that they have architectural models representing their current state. Somewhat fewer, 56% report that they have models representing their future state. This could indicate that many organizations have more of a focus on managing complexity, which requires a good understanding of the current state and less focus on alignment/strategy."
"organizations with a disdain for agile (no integration) report the highest percentage of overall EA effectiveness"
"37% of EA organizations have no way to measure EA success"
"6%, have a mature and well-established program"
There are many more interesting insights into the current state of EA but I think I would get in trouble if I relayed more of them...

Museum of Anthropology , University of British Columbia

1) Museum of Anthropology , University of British Columbia (1972-76)
Arthur Erickson

Design Concept:
create conditions similar to the settings of the native Indian villages which were the origin of the museum’s collection. The transition from dark towering woods to bright exposed sea provided a dramatic setting. Experience of visiting can be likened to a metaphor of the journey through life and through a Northwest coast village.


Entrance

• As one proceeds from the brightness of the parking clearing into the museum, the openness to the sky is gradually cut off, first by trees that form a channel to the entrance, then by free-standing post-and-beam frames, then by the ceiling of the lobby.
• Views opening out into the woods from lobby through floor-to-ceiling glass and skylight slots also bring daylight down to the exhibits, revealing them as they would be revealed in the forest by filtered light from above.
• Experience of light in lobby similar to that in deep woods where you can see through clearings and light filters through tree canopy overhead. Visitors are prepared to enter into the deep forest (main gallery).
  
  Circulation/ Sequence of space
• Sequential experiences of the rooms are created by alternating dark and light exhibiting space and there is a tension created between inside and outside.
• After through the contracted sequence of entry lobby and the ramped gallery, visitors experience a release to the light-filled Massive Carvings Gallery that suggests a village site.
• Ones leave the life and light of the village enters the contracting space of the Koerner Gallery, the setting for symbolic and sacred objects used in spiritual ceremonies.
• On the journey back to the beginning, one is attracted to the focus of the centrepiece sculpture “The Birth of Man”, surrounded by darkness but lit up the circle skylight. The sculpture represents birth also suggests the death and the endless continuation of the cycle.
  
  
  Lighting
• Many different ways of admitting light, different patterns of light and different levels of illumination are employed to provides the visitors with the experience of native village and display artifacts.
• Light from above: Entry Lobby, Ramped Gallery, Massive Carvings Galler.
• Light from side: Entry lobby, Great Cavings Gallery, Koerner Masterpiece Gallery
• Light delineating structure: Massive Carvings Gallery
• Light dematerializing structure: Dappled light in Koerner Masterpiece Gallery
• Light washing surfaces and silhouetting forms: Ramped Gallery
  Learning:
• Close relationship between the ambience of the exhibiting space and the arts displayed.
• Re-create the native settings of the artifacts through inter-play of light and dark.
• Interplay of form through expansion/ contraction of space and lighting (light-to-dark-light) create the sequence of space and guide the visitors through the museum.
• There is a rhythm of light and dark at the building scale and a particular rhythm for each room.

Award of Excellence: Hadaway House

My precedence study

Architect Patkau Architects Inc.
Location Whistler, British Columbia
This snow-country house is located on a northwest slope overlooking a panoramic view of Whistler Valley in southwest British Columbia. The site is a difficult wedge shape which offers just enough room for a garage and a narrow entrance on the street side at the top of the slope.
The exterior form of the house is shaped by the intersection of two principal considerations: the first is the allowable building footprint and height, and the second is the need to shed snow from the roof into appropriate storage areas within the site. The sculptural volume that emerges from this intersection of extruded building footprint and folding snow-shed roof is occupied in a manner that maintains the inherent plastic properties of the building form.
The main level is essentially one large space with living, dining and kitchen areas, and an outdoor deck, all of which open up to the valley view. A vertical crevice of space runs under the highest roof ridge, bisecting the warped volume and bringing light into the deepest part of the section and plan. Stairs rise within this rift, and a bridge crosses it at the upper level, connecting master bedroom suite and study. Below, on the lowest level, are more intimate spaces housing guest bedrooms and a second living area, as well as a large service space. Accessible directly from the garage entrance to the house, this service space supports life in snow country--where wet clothes are hung to dry or thrown directly into the laundry, and where skiers can store all the paraphernalia of their day outside. Another stair connects this lower level to an outdoor patio below the house, the only actual access to the steep site other than that at the front entrance.
Construction is hybrid. The slabs and walls which enclose the lower floor are concrete construction, while the uppermost levels are a composite steel and heavy timber structure with wood-frame infill. The entire structure is sheathed with a monolithic screen of open-spaced 2" x 6" cedar boards over conventional roof and wall assemblies. The thermal mass of the lower concrete structure dampens temperature swings within the house in summer and winter. And in the summer, the interior is naturally cooled and ventilated by drawing air from the lowest level on the north side of the house to vent at the top of the central rift.

retreat project

Now , I want to do a review about my retreat project.
quite a long time -6weeks to do this project.
It's quite a hard time for me ,I need to find a lot of things relevent  about my design.
I used to think  why I choose architecture as my major? why do I spend a lot of time to make model?
But finally , when I see my model finished, I'm really happy about all the things. Just like a fight in the dark , when you see the sun rise , everything goes better.

The shape of the building like a leave. Actually the inspiration of the design idea came from the leave in hospitalfield

Interior Space.

I want to create a close but open space inside , I also want to use the light to make some special view interior

The Gallery space is under the slope glass roof.

interior space

A try

 

I think it can be called a attempt  to design such house. I use columns  and glass wall to support the first floor. I know it is very common to see that living area is on the ground floor , but I want to make some change. That is to say, living space is on the first floor in this house. I think it's better than normal design. Because people can enjoy more landscape from hight.What a wonderful scene they contemplate from the heights

And you can see some pattern around the house. They are come from treee trunks and tree brounches. I want to make the house stand closer to the nature . So these patterns give the house a feeling of forest .But they are not just the patter , they have their own purpose .

Patterns on the wall an roof are mainly use for collecting sunlight, While on the ground ,they can seperate different parts  and people can plant different flowers and plants in each part.

Stair  is the main way to connect grpound floor and first floor.  
I have to say stair and columns are the most difficult parts  when I made model. I know maybe they are not very reasonable  but I am still happy with them .