Response to Fractal by Thomas Zhou

Thomas describes fractal geometry in his blog.  I found the blog very interesting because he says that it can apply to almost any object or thing in life.  In life, I never thought of objects in this way.  At least not when it comes to everyday objects at home, in public places, or out in nature.  However, I do think of this sort of thing when I think of atoms and molecules.  The atoms and molecules in the world are small but all parts put together make each thing.  We can not see these small parts when we look at them regularly.  But if we look closer, like under a microscope, we can see this.  This is what I thought when I read his blog.  However, what makes it different from my point of view is how Thomas relates it to art and geometry.  It makes sense to me the way he puts it, but just in the reverse.  When I think of small parts and a whole, I think of the small parts making the whole.  In his blog, he talks about breaking a whole into his smaller parts.  So out thoughts are the same but just in opposite ways.


http://blog.scad.edu/thzhou20/2012/02/22/fractal/

Zaha Hadid Furniture Exhibition at Sonnabend

Zaha Hadid Furniture Exhibition at Sonnabend

 "After the bad taste generated by the recent Chanel “exhibition” Zaha Hadid is back in the news with a more tasteful show. The collection of her swirling furniture forms at Sonnabend, with some material at a recently vacated garage. Yanko Design has a strong write up of the material, mentioning that its strength comes in range. A number of forms are represented, and the ideas Hadid brings to them explored fully".(selectism  logo)

I found the shape is soft line that looks the lady's body, so I think the work function is public's chair and it is a artwork. I have two opinions that the first one is the art elements, which is from the water because it had movement. another point is that it made of plastic, which is easy to create the shape.

I want to five more and more example to feel her artwork.

http://www.selectism.com/news/2008/11/05/zaha-hadid-furniture-exhibition-at-sonnabend/

Future Architecture Design Building Guggenheim Hermitage Museum by Zaha Hadid

Future Architecture Design Building Guggenheim Hermitage Museum by Zaha Hadid

" Zaha Hadid Architects have won a competition to design the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania."

"The competition was part of a feasibility study by the Guggenheim Foundation and theState Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia."

" Architects Daniel Libeskind and Massimiliano Fuksas also submitted proposals."

"All three submissions will be on display at the exhibition Imagining the Future: Design Proposals for a New Museum in Vilnius at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius from today until the end of June."

“I am delighted to be working in Vilnius on the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum” states Hadid. “The city will be the European Capital of Culture in 2009 and has a long history of art patronage. With such an interest in the arts, Vilnius will continue to develop as a cultural centre where the connection between culture and public life is critical. This museum will be a place where you can experiment with the idea of galleries, spatial complexity and movement.”

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/04/10/guggenheim-hermitage-museum-vilnius-by-zaha-hadid-architects/

From my opinion, firstly, I think Zaha's projects used to create a really charming line. The projects were visualised by beautifull paintings in which you could see the excellence of the design in a way that was never seen before. Nowadays it looks like a repetition of a cheap trick, there are a lot of works look like this style because the elements are looks similar. 

Green Architecture Design of Gimpo Art Hall

Green Architecture Design of Gimpo Art Hall by Gansam Partners

The sign of green architecture concept building of Gimpo Art Hall. it located on the eastern end of a city block. The building mass is also lifted above the street level. It want to create a covered pedestrian plaza. From the surface  of the building that you can see the windows are non-geometric shape that looks like the leaf. The whole element is very clear and clean that combine the environment. It is an outstanding work.

Less Talk, More Weirdness

“Blanciak, a French architect who has worked alongside Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and the Danish provocateur Bjarke Ingels, now lives in Japan, where he is a research fellow at the University of Tokyo. In Siteless, his first book, he displays an equal gift for playfulness and rigor, drawing by hand 1001 building types—fanciful and sometimes impossible—with no thought paid to site, program, or budget….”

(http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2008/04/francoic-blanci/）

The design contains many elements. A good building design, there are many simple objects forms .Refined architectural shape is the key structure in the form of various physical mixture of two-dimensional and three-dimensional space.Building system components is a common name, but eachcomponent of the composition and formation is very complex.In the picture, we can see, a simple body: balls, cubes, columns.They can be a combination of random, random deformation,given the effect is entirely different.A simple element can create difficult works.

Day Care Center Adapt to Round-the-Clock Demand

Day Care Center Adapt to Round-the-Clock Demand

                                                                                                                                                          New York Time

(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/us/day-care-centers-adapt-to-round-the-clock-demands.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=day%20care%20centers&st=cse)

The article main idea is that the day care center adapt can help many parents to take care the children when they are busy to work. 

            The article relates my major because they have to build some apartments for the children. My major is architecture design. The children have to live in good environment for sleeping, eating and studying, and so on.

             From my work experience, there are many elements in the child’s house such as structure, material and function, which decide the design’s result.  The children like the vivid and cute structure that attract their eyes and make them more relax. More and more children like the fresh colors of the furniture or the walls. Functions are most important part in the design because children have to use them all the time.

            I want to do a good architecture designer after finish school,  I will do good designs for the children. 

Less is More

As designers, we all know that a simple design can create a very beautiful result.However, in real time,we meet some trouble when we want to do, with very few element to design a page, feel considerable difficulties, the result will not find this pagelooks like completed. There are many online articles on minimalist design can to help you to achieve results, but it is not the only way. Now, I will give some examples of minimalist design, we can work to analyze why some can and some can not.