Asymptote Architecture

Exoskeleton Geometry

Inspiration

Zaha Hadid - Stone Towers

Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid Architects

Son-O-House, Lars Spuybroek, 2004

Reference

Visionary Architecture - Blueprints of the Modern Imagination, Neil Spiller. Thames & Hudson, London. 2006.

Injection Parasite, Lebbeus Woods, Sarajevo. 1992-3

Comme des Garcoris - Fashion Store, New York, 1998

Reference

Future Systems. Deyan Sudjic. Phaidon Press Inc, NY. 2006

House in Wales, Pembrokeshire. Britain 1994

Reference

Future Systems. Deyan Sudjic. Phaidon Press Inc, NY. 2006

Lively Adaption

Sydney, East Circular Quay competition. Peter Rice, Ove Arup & Partners, 1992.

The design adapts without disrupting the Sydney Opera House as it wedges back. Resembling an Ocean Liner.

The proposal was more a series of vertical elements with individually expressed components linked together to form the whole.


Reference

Light-tech: towards a light architecture. Richard Horden. Boston, Berlin. 1995

Inflatable Objects

Jean-Paul Jungmann - Experimental pneumatic house, project 1967

A highly iterated pneumatic house designed by Jean-Paul Jungmann. His Pneumatic House project suggests all-pneumatic furniture, floors, walls and is interesting because of the obsessivness of its sophistication.

A. Stinco - Travelling hall - 1967

Travelling hall stems from the idea of a circus. The project uses inflatable structures, balloons and tents, to create a temporary 'downtown' habitat.

Reference

Experimental Architecture. Peter Cook, Studio Vista Ltd, London. 1970

Fama Restaurant

"The dining room is designed as an abstraction of an urban courtyard containing sculptural forms that mimic those of the surrounding urban enviroment. The result is an expressionistic installation meant to be both challanging and playful"


Fama Restaurant - Santa Monica, California 1989

Reference

Experimental Architecture in Los Angeles. Aaron Betskym, Leon Whiteson and John Chase. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. USA, 1991

Research

Design Experimentation Development

While this information is not so relevant for Architecture and Assignment 2 it is worth mentioning it for later in Assignment 3. I was wanting to find basic theory behind achieving a successful design experiment and came across this book 'Practical Guide to Experimental Design'. While it descibes a very complex system for developing design experiments for products and services, I came across a useful chapter for a simple way to prepare for a designed experiment that can be related to architeture.

Basically it is to break the VOC to three types of customer experience - Expectations, Desires and Delights. And identify the nessesary elements to achieve customer (or habitants) satisfaciton.



This helps me define and think more to a spiritually uplifting architecture that synergisers habitant delight with experimental vigor.

Reference

Practical Guide to Experimental Design, Normand L. Frigon and David Mathews. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. NY, 1997.