Architecture that Transforms

Burke Brise Soleil 

Milwaukee Art Museum..

http://chicago-architecture-jyoti.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/milwaukee-art-museum-burke-brise-soleil.html

"The sunscreen wings. It's the signature element in the Calatrava's design. These two large operable wings are each made up of 36 interconnected fins, ranging in length from 26 feet to 105 feet. The Brise Soleil wingspan spreads 217 feet at its widest point, wider than a Boeing 747-400 airplane, and weights 90 tons. 

- The wings open and close the same time every day..
- It takes about three minutes for the wings to fully open and close..
- The wings can also be partially opened and closed..
- Weather sensors are used to monitor conditions that make extended wings dangerous. If a sensor detects a windspeed of more than 23 mph for more than three seconds at a stretch, the wings close automatically.

- During a power failure, the wings close automatically.."

http://chicago-architecture-jyoti.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/milwaukee-art-museum-burke-brise-soleil.html

Cliff Structures from around the World

Paro Taktsang in Bhutan

http://media.oregonlive.com/travel_impact/photo/tigers-nestjpg-da580f4537b6271a.jpg

Tiger's Nest Monastery

"In the 8th century, the legend goes, Guru Rinpoche, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, arrived in the Paro Valley on the back of a flying tigress. Landing on the Copper-Coloured Mountain, he meditated in a cave for three months before setting out to spread Buddhism across the valley. The site became a place of pilgrimage for Buddhists from across the Himalayas, and in 1692 the first main temples were built. Called Taktsang, or Tiger’s Nest, the monastery – painstakingly restored after a fire in 1998 – now has more than a dozen shrines and temples and accommodates a small group of monks. Other monks live in nearby retreats, some remaining in solitary meditation for several years.

Place of pilgrimage

Seen from the main gate, a thin ribbon of white walls and pagoda roofs are squeezed up against the cliff face, linked only by steps and passages cut into the rock and rickety bridges. The occasional small terrace offers the visitor relief from the vertiginous path and the reward of spectacular views of the Paro Valley far below.

Temples jostle for space. Inside, the walls are covered with murals depicting gurus and gods gazing through clouds of incense among gilded statues and altars piled high with offerings of flowers and fruit and butter sculptures. Among them are Guru Rinpoche and his consorts, the Copper-Coloured Paradise, the God of Long Life and the God of Wealth. Devotees peep through the grille into the holy cave, known as Pel Phuk, in which Guru Rinpoche lived and meditated, where now butter lamps flicker in the dark and images of the Bodhisattvas are just visible. Now and then, the deep chanting of monks echoes along the walls, punctuated by cymbals and gongs"

http://www.readersdigest.com.au/paro-taktsang

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Cave Monastery, Vardzia, Georgia

Suspended Temple of Mt. Hengshan, China 

 Al Khazneh or “The Treasury” at Petra, Jordan

Leshan Giant Buddha, China

 Chandi Bori Well Abhaneri, India

Precedent

Casa 11 Mujeres (Eleven Women House) by Mathias Klotz

 

http://www.paulamontessketchbook.com/2010/06/casa-11-mujeres-eleven-women-house-by-mathias-klotz/


Casa 11 Mujeres (Eleven Women House) is one of the last works of the Chilean architect Mathias Klotz, a house on the edge of a cliff near Santiago de Chile.

The name “Eleven Women,” is because the owners are a divorced couple, who between them total 11 children, all women, whose ages range from the age of majority and 8 years.  The place has a magnificent view of the Pacific, while a steep slope towards the sea, with magnificent views. This is why the program works on three levels, plus a guest room in the pool, where all the rooms overlook the sea.

This project delivers on the three words I was discussing below, it gives us a sense of freedom, (open to the ocean) security (situated on a 45 degree slop cliff face site) and peace (the natural landscape and sounds of the crashing waves) 

Research

Safe House

Giving the current nature of Miranda Kerr's lifestyle today. I feel as if she is trying to re-create the up bringing she experienced with her child. She wants that freedom, she wants that sense of security and peace. This house fits this description although I don't want to create something that has that fort knox feel. I want to pursue with a precedent that can carry those three traits - Freedom, security and peace. 

Closed

 Open

http://enpundit.com/house-transforms-into-giant-vault/
 

 

Final Model is to have movement so the one word that comes to mind is transformation. The Safe House project shows that with great detail and I would like to implement that same system with house three. This project 'Safe House' was designed by Polish architects KWK Promes. The Safe House transforms from an open and airy design to a completely locked down and impenetrable security vault.

 

Client 3 - Miranda Kerr

Miranda Kerr

 

 

Personal Life

"Kerr practices Nichiren Buddhism, a Japanese branch of Buddhism, as a member of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and believes "we have a responsibility to bring peace and harmony to our lives and the world." As part of her Nichiren beliefs, Kerr reportedly chants every morning and night for 20 minutes, practices yoga, meditates, and reads widely on spirituality."http://miranda-kerr-biography.blogspot.com.au/

 

Early Life

 

Kerr was raised in the countryside where she did was most kids do and that was riding motorcycles and horses. At school, she was bullied and at 15, she went through a deep depression after her boyfriend Chris was killed in a car crash.

 

Laser etch of Kerr

Experiment with submission 2 (Destroyed by water)

Experiment with Submission 2

Flooding the model

 

 



Final Submission for House 2