Week 5 - Interesting (-_-) Quotes

Charles Darwin -
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_darwin.html

Florence Nightingale -

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/florence_nightingale.html

Stephen Hawkins -

"In an infinite and everlasting universe, every line of sight would end on the surface of a star. This would mean that the night sky would have been as bright as the surface of the Sun. The only way of avoiding this problem would be if, for some reason, the stars did not shine before a certain time."

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=156871

Week 5 - Final Submission

datum - Abstraction through the lights


Underground - "Naked" throught the express of emptiness and transparency

*the huge round circle at the ground level is in transparent material

Stairs from datum to the above ground - in an abstract shape and movement..


Cut in Sections for understanding of the design concepts:
the connections between above ground and underground is obvious through the usage of open spaces and transparency..the underground space is expressed with the transparency and emptiness of a open space on the ground level

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eVBFhHd_uBw



http://youtube.com/watch?v=RVcRRsSxtaw




http://youtube.com/watch?v=yGj9oKFBNfY



Design SketchUp File

Final Submission - Inspirations

For Stairs


For the spatial abstraction

Week3 Studio - Texture and Sketchup applications

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Stairs