Sunday, November 2, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
My Thoughts
The Silkeborg museum is a spectacular design which offers a unique artistic flair that does not overpower the surrounding buildings. I think it was a great idea to bury most of the extension three stories underground adding a whole new dimension to this extension. The building has a sculptural tendency that embodies art which I think is fitting since the purpose of this building is to house Asger Jorn’s paintings.
The ramps offer an amazing spectacle as they weave through the main area adding to the feeling that the whole building is a sculpture itself.
Paintings can be hung from these ramps to maximize the spatial quality adding a function to the form. The main materials that were to be used are concrete, steel and glass which are flexible in nature to help form the complex curves that make up this building.
I find that the design can lead the visitors on an engrossed journey which is stimulated by the various forms that make up the building including; the 3 chambers, ramps and the fact that the visitor is delving underground. From the outside the building is quite mysterious as I find myself asking questions like why is that there? What is the purpose of that? This is all part of the experience when you interact with this building.
The ramps offer an amazing spectacle as they weave through the main area adding to the feeling that the whole building is a sculpture itself.
Paintings can be hung from these ramps to maximize the spatial quality adding a function to the form. The main materials that were to be used are concrete, steel and glass which are flexible in nature to help form the complex curves that make up this building.
I find that the design can lead the visitors on an engrossed journey which is stimulated by the various forms that make up the building including; the 3 chambers, ramps and the fact that the visitor is delving underground. From the outside the building is quite mysterious as I find myself asking questions like why is that there? What is the purpose of that? This is all part of the experience when you interact with this building.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Silkeborg Museum
At the time of the project Silkeborg town museum was housed in a low Neoclassical building organized in long wings around a courtyard. To one side the site is bordered by a busy road several meters above the lawn, to the other by a disused railway line. Utzon rejected Jorn’s idea of rising the building to capture a view, instead he proposed burying most of the extension three stories underground.
As in his own house in Hellebæk, the approach would face a long, single-storey blank wall, which links the building to the main museum and breaks to form a staff entrance.
The foyer, reception, cafe and terrace look out over the existing lawn through a stepped and staggered glass screen, made of V-shaped pre-cast concrete columns which support a grid of shallow, barrel-vaulted rooflights; these run over all the ground floor circulation areas and extend to form a generous entrance canopy.
The main galleries open as a three-storey deep cavern beneath a glazed, ribbed roof whose gently stepped, curving form resembles a horizontal version of the glass walls being designed at the same time for the Sydney Opera House.
The visitor is drawn down by an inviting and intricate ramp system. The glazing bars here, and over the crocus cone galleries, were to be provided with frequent suspension points to enable paintings to be hung from the ceiling; artwork might also hang from the underside of the ramp and suspended floor. The giant crocuses were designed to receive different qualities of natural light and major individual sculptures or paintings could be isolated and displayed there.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Problem with website
I used a web template downloaded from the internet to help set up my layout except there was an error when I went to submit. Therefore I had to make a quick replacement which is not as compelling as my original. I will try and fix the problem and get the updated website up as soon as possible.
link: www.mathewlo.com
link: www.mathewlo.com
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Quote from The Architect
'...a building in which the architecture itself would express the drama and specialness and excitement of travel... a place of movement and transition... The shapes were deliberately chosen in order to emphasize an upward-soaring quality of line. We wanted an uplift.'
Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen
TWA Terminal, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York
The TWA terminal was designed by Eero Saarinen as a symbol of flight. The expressive curves of the design create attractive, spacious halls and a rare degree of exhilaration for an airport terminal. Modelling these complex curves will be difficult task but will be worth it for such an amazing building. Although the building appears to be made of sculptural concrete, the structure is in fact braced within the concrete by an invisible web of reinforcing steel.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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