Mash Up

Interactive PDF - Poster Layout

Case Study (Additional work of influence) 

Information sourced from: 
http://www.ensamble.info/actualizacion/projects/cervantes

Presentation techniques are explored through the layout of the above case study. 

Aspect of building:
Balance and Structural Stability

The way in which components are constructed and positioned in short term in order to reach stability and an equilibrium of spaces.

Photo Realistic Comparison 

Development of 3D Model - Image Captures

Final 3D Model

Assignment 2 - Research & Documentation

 Casabella, 2009 Apr., v.73, n.776, p.24-33
A & U: architecture & urbanism, 2010 June, n.6(477), p.50-57

Assignment 2 - 
Group Members (Names are linked to each individual members blogs)

Daniel Pantelas 

Timothy Lin 

Amy Hammersely 
Stephen Dovas

 Assignment 2 - Chosen Piece of Architecture (Hemeroscopium House)

Architect: Antón García- Abril 

Building: Hemeroscopium House

Location: Spain – Madrid

Year: 2005

Status: Built 

For the Greek, Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets. An allusion to a place that exists only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and mutable, but is nonetheless real. It is delimited by the references of the horizon, by the physical limits, defined by light, and it happens in time.

Hemeroscopium house traps, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in anapparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape. Heavy structures and big actions are disposed in a way to provoke gravity to move the space. And this way the place is defined.

The order in which these structures are piled up generates a helix that sets out from a stable support, the mother beam, and develops upwards in a sequence of elements that become lighter as the structure grows, closing on a point that culminates the system of equilibrium. Seven elements in total. The design of their joints respond to their constructive nature, to their forces; and their stresses express the structural condition they have. By the way this structure is set, the house becomes aerial, light, transparent, and the space kept inside flows with life. The apparent simplicity of the structure's joints required in fact the development of complex calculations, due to the reinforcement, and the pre-tension and post-tension of the steel rods that sew the web of the beams.

Ensamble Studio: http://www.ensamble.info/actualizacion/projects/hemeroscopium