2 | Materials

I was a bit shaky about my monument but since I've put a lot of thought into it I'm confident it'll still work well. The materials I chose were to reflect the architects and the monuments context at the same time. So for the outside (Herzog) I found they either use really course or really clean materials. Being a park, I went course and went for natural. I also thought that if it was Rammed Earth it would be quite significant because it would be hard to make. I made my own custom texture and used it for the outer shell.

For the clean inside Saarinen area, I used a custom texture from BENV1080, a polished concrete texture for the ground. This material is good for an outdoor area as well. The 4 sets of stairs would also be polished concrete as it would be easy to manufacture the slabs. The columns and details are white stucco because it's protective and a clean white finish, white paint or other materials I feel would deteriorate too fast in an outdoor community space. The benches are a higher polished concrete with a wooden table top.

2 | Lumion Shots (8 Million Polys arn't too bad)

2 | Lumion City

2 | Design Concepts

SAARINEN: Anthropomorphism

Numerous angled columns similar to tree/swedish spruce
Topographic circular path similar to eye, both organic forms

SAARINEN: Circulation defined by the organic
 360 access needs 360 path which spirals inwards to continue spiral motion up spiral stairs 

SAARINEN: Framing the External Envrionment 

Columns frame external environment as well as small rectangular windows

SAARINEN: Visual Vectors create juxtoposition between exterior and interior spaces

Outside straight vertical vectors contrast circular and spiral spatial flow of inside

HERZOG + DE MEURON: Negative space used to define the facade

Vertical columns create the exterior facade which are separated to create inverted negative forms

HERZOG + DE MEURON: Illusion of no walls

Up close or inside the structure opens the negative space to show less wall space

HERZOG + DE MEURON: Stacked Geometry

Diagonal vectors stacked horizontally

2 | Lumion Test

Decided to go with the city idea because I have lots of models for buildings. They imported into Lumion well, except for their scale, scaling everything relative to each other, doesn't look too noticable. I might extend the idea of the monument to the whole plot in the city rather than the building. Maybe some Herzog + De Meuron shapes around the area, I'll look at what they do around buildings. The inside isn't finished, just the main shape I guess. It looks a little small, but I think it's because it's a high angle shot. Because it's (pretty much) circular, I used an idea from another class (BENV1080) where I'm doing a case study on the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 'cause it's circular it needs 360 degree access, hence the curvy spirally path. 

2 | Screw you spiral staircase up a cone

Tried to copy some of Eero's stairs since it's his curvy inside space.

2 | Progress Shot

Correlation? (Herzon and De Meuron)

2 | Sketches

2 | Inspiration

I'm pretty sure this is a drawing by Ken Yeang. I think Eco buildings are the amazing.

This ones a concept for a graveyard(necropolis?) In Delhi. Found it digging through architecture blogs on Tumblr. Monument.

Vertical Shapes

Greeeeen

Vertical Shapes

2 | 1 Axonometrics