WEEK 2: COMPOSITIONAL EXERCISE

REFLECTION:

I wanted to define and emphasise the acute edges, its organic form and movement of the Giant Interactive Group Corporate Headquarters. By looking at the photographs and plans, I also wanted to highlight the way the building is shaped and positioned on the landscape, especially how it integrates with the environment. 

So for the 3ds max model, I decided to morph both ideas together in order to create an interesting shape. By twisting and skewing the shapes, I was able to form an unique fold.

TUTOR'S COMMENTS:

-Change blobs into plates

- Wireframe

- Skeletal frame is dominant in Morphosis works.

CONCEPTS:

1) Defining the movement of the Giant Interactive Group Corporate Headquarters, while emphasising on its skeletal and wire framed structure.
2) Integrating its flexible structure with its environment.

PHOTOGRAPHS & ARCHETYPES FOR ASSIGNMENT 1

ARCHETYPES:

CCC LA, California, 1988 (page 158)

Tsunami, LA, Nevada 1999 (page 84)

Nai Exhibit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1999 (page 78) 

Nai Exhibit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1999 (page 80) 

Store No. 2 Portland, Orgegon and Cleveland, Ohio, 1990 (page 197)

ALL IMAGES SCANNED FROM: Mayne, Thom and Val K Warke. Morphosis. London: Phaidon, 2003. 

PHOTOGRAPHS 

Giant Interactive Group Corporate Headquarters:

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/13363/morphosis-architects-giant-interactive-group-corporate-headquarters.html