ARCHITECT AND BUILDING:
The architect that I chose for this semester is Morphosis Architects and the building that I chose for this task is the Giant Interactive Group Corporate Headquarters located in Shanghai, China.
REFERENCES:
All images above were taken from this website:
Other websites that I browsed through:
CONCEPTS / IDEAS :
- Organic form
- Dynamic
-fragment
-Integration with landscape/ it's environment
- folding in and out of landscape (snake like)
- acute/ sharp edges
-abstract
-articulated form
- skewed
-Skeleton- like
-Wireframe
- geometric- rotational- repetition- skeletal
-Plates
-fragment
- skewed
-Skeleton- like
-Wireframe
- geometric- rotational- repetition- skeletal
-Plates
FOLDING EXERCISE:
Influences from the photographs above-
Influences from plans, models, diagrams etc below-
INDEPENDENT STUDY:
Further research on Morphosis Architect-
All scans taken from:
Mayne, Thom and Val K Warke. Morphosis. London: Phaidon, 2003.
These are the different renders I did on 3ds Max. I quite like the yellow parts as it forms interesting folds and twists that creates an unusual shape.
3Ds max animation video-
At first I thought creating an animation on 3ds max would be very complicated because I have never created one before. But thanks to this tutorial that my friend linked me, I was able to create an animation in less than 15 minutes!
