The Architects A4 assignment

The Architects A4 assignment introduced me to many architects who all have different styles as well as chosing an architect I like to create an artifact.. I had explored the works of  Peter Zumthor, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Lloyd Wright, Future Systems, Le Corbusier, Luis Barragan, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Oscar Niemeyer, Will Alsop, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & De Meuron and Frank Ghery. I have also created a page on my blog which shows the architects and their work.

Out of the 12 architects I had chosen 3 architects I was interested in to do further research to then decide the one I was going to continue with to make a model.

Falling Water

The Guggenheim, New York

Usonian II Table Clock

Office Chair, 1904

Usonian House in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Frank Lloyd Wright born 8th June 1867- April 9th 1959 was an American architect who featured in modern organic architecture and has used his distinctive organic style in his architecture as well as his products such as the Office Chair and the Usonian II Table Clock which is based on the Usonian House in Wisconsin, USA built in 1936. What inspires me about Frank Lloyd Wrigt's work is that he uses the elements of nature to help generate his ideas to form buildings and products and is a way of using what you like to create things. An example is that Frank Lloyd Wright produced the Usonian II Table Clock from the board and batten wall style used in the Usonian House.  

Frank Gehry in front of Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas

DZ Bank Building, Berlin

Heller - Frank Gehry Furniture Collection

Jewelery Design for Tiffany&Co15

Canadian architect Frank Gehry born in Toronto, Canada is famous for his creative deconstructed style mostly found in his architecture and his other products. What I love about Frank Gehry's style is that he makes the metallic materials look flexible and extremely smooth appear like sculptural masterpieces. From the jewelery design for Tiffany&Co15 you can see the elements of his architecture used to design jewelery as they carry the smooth rotating approach and also shown in the furniture collection.

Torres de satélite, Mexico City, 1957

Fuente de los Amantes, Los  Clubes, 1966

Luis Barragan Longchamp Bag

Luis Barragan Sabino Low Table, 1950

  

Luis Barragan, (1902-1988), born in Guadalajara, Mexico is a architect who uses rich colors to define his works. His inspirations came from North Africa and the Mediterranean as they have native architecture and from spending time in Europe and Morocco. Luis Barragan uses bright colors which makes his works unique and makes a difference from seeing the usual shimmer from the metallic materials found on buildings or similar shapes. Also Luis Barragan uses minimalist shapes in his architecture which is also shown in his Sabino Low Table.




From all my research I had decided to create an artifact which was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright as I love his use of organic architecture. The Guggenheim Museum in New York had stimulated me to create an artifact using spiral shapes.

To easily form the spiral shape I had used cardboard and separated the pieces to then scour out bits of the cardboard until the folds were exposed.

Once I had scoured out bits of the cardboard using a scalpel, it was easy to roll the cardboard to form a spiral shape.

I had the idea of creating a tower in the form of a spiral shape, so I continued using the method of scouring the cardboard and used a strong adhesive to stick each layer of cardboard on top of each other.

I felt that using the material cardboard wouldn't show the beauty of my artifact so I then decided to use foam board. Using Form board wasn't as straight forward when using cardboard as it didn't contain the gaps to easily roll the material so I had to scour across a whole strip of foam board.

After scouring the foam board, I had used the scalpel and scraped out bits for it to be more amendable.

Once completed, I carefully bend the foam board to form the spiral shape found on The Guggenheim and used an adhesive to stick it together.

To show the different forms from the architect, I had designed these style of steps. Designing the stairs was enjoyable as your simply adding layers of steps on top of each other.

Overall, I was impressed with the finish piece as I used appropriate materials, (foam board as the building, grey board as the stairs, and wire as the window effects), as it showed the beauty of the artifact. However I do feel that I need to improve more on my 3D modelling skills as parts of the artifact isn't need and didn't achieve using the 6 forms found on Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings from not having enough time to do more experimentation.




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