Watching each sparrow is too troublesome

"Architecture, unlike a game of checkers with fixed rules and a fixed number of pieces, and much like a joke, determined by context, is the croquet game in Alice in Wonderland, where the Queen of Hearts (society, technology, economics) keeps changing the rules." (Negroponte, from Sadler, 2005, 96)

Thursday, October 18, 2012

12: Modelling the metaphor

Because I have such an abstract idea of form for my building, based on my two metaphors, I thought it best to experiment with modelling. I started by creating my base of the Chifley Hotel, and just adding and manipulating its surfaces in fluid and fractioned ways. This led me to my desired form - a undulating and manipulated surface caressing the old Chifley building, which has been exploded into protruding balconies for break out meeting spaces.

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