just in case the ones at emustore doesn't work, here's a link to my pdf at filefront. there are FOUR ANIMATIONS altogether

Website

please follow the link http://andrewieong.cedhost.com/

FINAL PDF's

250 words again....

After consistent research, Utzon’s initial design held many deep meanings which were effectively conveyed through his design of the Silkborg Museum. Such meanings such as: 1) first time sees the three-storey building open beneath him, 2) control the experience which is experienced by its visitors, and 3) strict circular movement. Thus i did not feel the need to reinterpret Silkeborg in any way which will alter or affect the initial design Utzon had intended. Thus leading to the museum in the site context of water, and also using the theme of water within the architecture itself, such as providing a waterfall within the museum and the capability to see water above you through the semi-glass ceiling provided within the architecture. This is all done not to alter or change Utzon’s ideals, but to heighten it.



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Materials

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10 Words

1. Strict

2. Gigantic

3. Simple

4. Penetrate

5. Effortlessly

6. Reflected

7. Water

8. Flowing

9. Experience

10. Atlantic

250 Words

Silkeborg museum in itself was designed to hold a strict circular movement that allows people to move within it in a specific way, Utzon designed this so as to control the experience which is experienced by its visitors who will glide effortlessly down into the museum. One of the main aspects that I like of this museum which was once stated by Utzon “It will be with a sense of surprise and a desire to penetrate down into the building that the visitor for the first time sees the three-storey building open beneath him”, I would like to heighten this experience during my re-interpretation by placing this museum in a so to speak an Atlantic scene. Utzon was inspired by the experience of visiting the caves in Tatung, he included this aspect of being confronted by a gigantic object which so to speak the viewer cannot take in everything at once. This was also another aspect of this architecture which I think is the highlight of the building, during my re-interpretation I want to provide an option of experiencing the art piece within, which can be describe by a gigantic art piece in a gigantic “onion” shaped white room while having reflected water which will be flowing along the curvature wall behind the art piece.

Silkeborg Museum

Inspirations:
Utzon cites the experience of visiting the caves in Tatung, west of Peking, as a key inspiration. “All the caves are of different sizes and shapes and have different sources of light... the most fantastic result is one cave which is completely filled up by a Buddha figure with a face more than 20 feet high.”



Architectural aspects:
“It will be with a sense of surprise and a desire to penetrate down into the building that the visitor for the first time sees the three-storey building open beneath him. Unconcerned - by stairs and corridors, which normally disturb - the viewer will glide almost effortlessly down into the museum via the ramp, taking him through the space.
Strict geometry will form the basis for a simple constructional shape. The vible curved external surfaces are to be clad with ceramics in strong colors so that the parts of the building emerge like shining ceramic sculptures, and inside the museum will be kept white.”
Jørn Utzon

Plans






writing and plans, accessed 24th september 2008, http://www.arcspace.com/architects/utzon/silkeborg.htm

Website

http://andrewieong.com/ however this only works in explorer for some reason, so please mark this with explrorer and not with firefox.

Snapshots of website

3d interaction

this video allows the user to move within the Kuwait Pavillion, however it does not work here but within my website it should work.
THANK YOU: i was only able to obtain this video with the help from Derek Georgeson a fellow student


rightone.avi
This is a anitmation that shows some of the many different structures the Kuwait Pavillion can assume, also showing the main aspects of this Architecture

Plans

redered pics

Research

Design Process:
Calatrava’s design process for the Kuwait Pavillion, initially shows he thought of the building as the interlocking of two hands open and apart, with 5 fingers. This was thought also with the Kuwait’s role in the international community, as the decision to include Kuwait among the countries participating in Seville’s Expo ’92 led to the construction of a pavilion that would reaffirm, once the Gulf War was over.

Description
The project’s cross-section is distinguished by the contiguity of the surface of the raised platform and thee access stairways of the raised platform and the access stairways on either side combine to create a graceful, uninterrupted curve, like a segment of cylindrical section. This structure is supported by compound wooden girders of open triangular section which are visible from the exhibition space on the lower level.
By day, the platform assumes a protected, shaded attitude, while at night it transforms into a totally open space for the projection of slides and videos.

Architectural Aspects:
The roof located above the exhibition hall, is composed of 17 wooden elements, each 25 meters long, they are supported by leaning pilasters in reinforced concrete which also serve to define the threshold between inside and out.
A hydraulic system of counterweights allows the rib-like roof elements to rotate on the tube girder that joins them to the pilasters; since each rib moves independently, the possibilities of the different configurations that the structure can assume are effectively unlimited.

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REFERENCES:

ETNA VOLCANO 2007 eruption, 2008 YouTube, LLC, accessed 18th August, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OowFvnlWI90&feature=related

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