[EXP3] Final Fly-through of the Bridge

[EXP3] Links to my final sketchup model and Lumion environment

Link to Sketchup model (includes the bridge, two moving elements and the folly):
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=ubf455470-e80e-4893-a2ff-74de82744a58

Link to Lumion environment:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B209QLgC3lUCeHdkaUhSUlFXMlk&usp=sharing

[EXP3] Interior of Final Bridge In Lumion Environment

General staff's office

Lecture theatre with poor attendance

Open air space connecting the library and student's meeting room

Library

Academic staff's meeting room

Computer lab

Elevator lobby

[EXP3] Moving Elements + Architectural Folly

Moving element one: The elevator moves vertically between the ground and the elevator lobby of the bridge. The elevator is designed white to imitate the egg of the "living dragon", which makes the elevator a part of the living architecture.

Moving element two: The flying platform works as a shuttle bus to transfer people from the folly to the elevator of the bridge.

[EXP3] Final Bridge In Lumion Environment

The bridge and the folly

The bridge looks like a living dragon spanning its wings over the two mountains, which echoes my architectural theory of 'living architecture to cope with unforgiving natural environment.'

Top view of the environment

Side view of the bridge

Here is an illusion that the "living dragon" is lifting its head and is ready to fly

Showing the interior of the bridge from outside

[EXP3] Final Bridge Sketchup Model: Space Analysis

Space Analysis 01

Space Analysis 02

Space Analysis 03

[EXP3] Week 5 Peer Reviews

[EXP3] 36 Custom Textures

[EXP3] Draft of the Bridge

Sketchup model

In Lumion

Inspired by Zaha Hadid's Riverside Museum 

[EXP3] Inspired Landscape and Draft Lumion Environments

Inspired Landscape

Yosemite National Park

Draft Lumion Environments

First Attempt

Second Attempt (chosen as final landscape)

Third Attempt

[EXP3] Two Point Perspectives

[EXP3] Article Mashup

The goal of architecture is to create structures to house humans and their activities. Some spots are such beautiful potential locations for a home, yet repeated natural disasters make them inhospitable. In an age when we're faced with repeated flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes, to design for instability is a really powerful thing. Logically, "living architecture" has to have a theoretical basis that begins with a series of surrealist fantasies that often take their cues from natural shapes like shells. Living buildings could "absorb pollutants and carbon dioxide, and even offer better protection against natural disasters. A living city could stop nature’s cycle of destruction with a dramatic change in the way our houses look. To make good buildings, we need a worldview, a healthy worldview enables us to confer survival strategies and some form of adaptation to our buildings.

References:

http://www.archdaily.com/429404/unified-architectural-theory-chapter-1/ (accessed June 2, 2014)
http://weburbanist.com/2014/03/19/surrealist-disaster-proof-structures-for-dangerous-locations/ (accessed June 2, 2014)

http://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/25/movie-rachel-armstrong-living-architecture-project-persephone/ (accessed June 2, 2014)

[EXP3] One Point Perspectives