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Friday 30 September 2011
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Saturday 10 September 2011
VIDEO DOCUMENTING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HEMEROSCPOIUM HOUSE
The above video documents the construction process of the Hemeroscopium house. The video is compared to that of a scale model of the house. As a certain element is placed in the Scale model - So to it is placed in the real time environment.
The most amazing thing was that it took little over a year to engineer the building however construciton only took 7 days!
Wednesday 7 September 2011
ASSIGNMENT 2 - CHOSEN PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE
Architect: Anton Garcia-Abril from Ensamble Studios |
For the Greek, Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets. An allusion to a place that exists only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and mutable, but is nonetheless real. It is delimited by the references of the horizon, by the physical limits, defined by light, and it happens in time.
Hemeroscopium house traps, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in anapparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape. Heavy structures and big actions are disposed in a way to provoke gravity to move the space. And this way the place is defined.
The order in which these structures are piled up generates a helix that sets out from a stable support, the mother beam, and develops upwards in a sequence of elements that become lighter as the structure grows, closing on a point that culminates the system of equilibrium. Seven elements in total. The design of their joints respond to their constructive nature, to their forces; and their stresses express the structural condition they have. By the way this structure is set, the house becomes aerial, light, transparent, and the space kept inside flows with life. The apparent simplicity of the structure´s joints requires in fact the development of complex calculations, due to the reinforcement, and the prestress and post-tension of the steel rods that sew the web of the beams.
ASSIGNMENT 2 - GROUP MEMBERS
(Names are linked to each individual members blogs)
Amy Hammersely Stephen Dovas
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