Final Submission: Experiment 2

 The two initial concepts that I used are;

Aalto: Reflection as a way to create infinite space and ambiguous boundaries and alters spatial awareness.
Kuma: Mimicing natures form in the assembly of the building as a way to integrate with nature.

To combine these two concepts into one electroliquid geometric aggregation, the following concept was defined;
Integrating with nature by creating ambiguous boundaries, between building assembly and the environment. Reflection as a means to highlight the importance of nature as an infinite space, which we inhabit.

I then considered the social impacts of this geometric aggregation and found that it could influence the final work in two overlapping ways;

(Students)
Architecture students aim to create a more natural environment with biophilic properties, as opposed to engineering students who aim to create structural features as the primary feature of the building assembly.
(Architects)
Aalto’s architecture was more involved with the buildings forms itself, whereas Kuma’s architecture attempts to incorporate the natural world and forms.

Both of these have the similar idea of a meeting between natural environments and the built environment, which became a primary focus in my design. Also, considering how i was really mixing the two ideas (for the students), i decided that a singular common access point could suffice, rather than allowing them all to approach distinctively.

In this picture the three main parts of the built environment are broken down into Aalto's monument (orange), Kuma's monument (red) and a meeting place in between (yellow). 

The idea of entwining nature and structure is displayed by the rib like exterior monument feature, with the rocky cliff face showing through. Also the opposite waterfalls again integrate nature into the structural features.

This view shows how the structure from above, allowing for us to better understand how Kuma's monument (the one primarily to do with nature out of the two) juts out away from this assembly and creates a platform with a panoramic view of the sunrise .

 This view accentuates the idea of the ribbed structure as built into the cliff and thus incorporating nature.

 The light texture was used in the dynamic area of the structure (stairs) as this space was designed for people to move through, and as such should have minimal impact.

 The dark texture was used to highlight the importance of the places where the ribbed structure was adjacent/incorporating nature. The somewhat organic feel to this texture was also relevant.

The medium texture was used on the main meeting space as it would make less of an impact than a darker texture, but while still giving this central meeting space importance. The somewhat tiled look to this texture was also relevant in its application of a more generic meeting space.









SketchUP file:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=fbac9482eaaa5c6261aaec233ffc17b7
CryEngine file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?s109s24b4cf7lc7