Andrea Bong-ARCH1390: September 2011

Sunday 25 September 2011

The Wexner Center for the arts is Peter Eisenman’s first major public design. Eisenman, known for its modern architecture and also he’s architecture taste of deconstructive designed this building with large white metal grid which suggested scaffolding, in result giving the building a sense of incompleteness. The sidewalk in the Wexner Center designed with all these metal grids, creating a feeling that its not quite done.

This architecture strongly has the concept of deconstructionism. This implies to the external grids which symbolize a permanent scaffold to indicate that the Wexner Center is about ‘a building forever coming into being’. Other than that, the design of this building is a multi-faceted design which reflects a multi- program proposition. The space in the Wexner Center gives people a constantly fluctuating space. “ There is no static space, no repose” says Eisenman.

case study-an introductory analysis

an introductory analysis - The Wexner Center for the Arts

Chris Schellhammer

Wexner Center for the arts by Peter Eisenman

Reference : http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/columbus/wexner/eisenman.html

http://wexarts.org/about/architecture/

http://rolu.terapad.com/index.cfm?fa=contentNews.newsDetails&newsID=176266&from=list

http://bwwc2011.wordpress.com/explore/the-ohio-state-university/

http://www.schellhammer.info/wexner/demonstration.html

https://ksamedia.osu.edu/media/79881

Sunday 18 September 2011

week 8

Sunday 11 September 2011

Reinventing the building. DRAFT

The geometrical form of this building shows that it is very firm and stable because of its columns. Columns were placed in the interior of the building, as support as well as design. Besides that, the architect created a series of planes that slipped through each other in the interior spaces, and that makes it difficult for users of the house and therefore, users have to constantly be aware and get used to the space. If I were to reinvent this building, I would make it easier for users to use by removing unnecessary planes that doesn't function. That is the interior, and making changes in the bedroom so that it has a more homely and comfortable feeling of a bedroom by removing the glass slot in the centre of the wall and combining the two beds, making it into a bigger bed.

The exterior of the building is painted with darker colour, trying to show off a modern side of the building maybe. However, I would prefer different shades of colour to display a modern side of the building. The concept would be modern in the outside however warm and cosy in the inside for people to be living in.

Wednesday 7 September 2011

one exterior and one interior

CASE STUDY. Two Sources

1.book
Title: Giuseppe Terragni : transformations, decompositions, critiques
Author: Peter Eisenman 1932-
Giuseppe Terragni 1904-1943. ; Manfredo Tafuri

This is a book where Peter Eisenman did critical reading on both building :Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (1939-40)

CASE STUDY. Architect. Building.

Architect: Peter Eisenman Building: House VI

Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognised American architect and is also one of the most influential living architect. Peter Eisenman has huge contribution to Modern Architecture.

House XI is designed for clients Richard and Suzanne Frank in the mid 1970's, confounds expectations of structure and function.

Images:

floor plan