STUDIO PROJECT 1- De Beistegui Department

STUDIO PROJECT 1- Precedent research
De Beistegui Department
Architect：Le Corbusier
Location：Paris, France
Year design/built：1929-31Materials used：concrete wall, glass, and grass

The appartement Charles de Beistegui is a small roof-top addition to an existing nineteenth century building on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, constructed in 1929 -1931. It was built for the wealthy film-maker client Charles de Beistegui as a modern party penthouse.

Light

Le Corbusier conceived different rooflights for different purposes. While some were designed with the simple purpose of drawing light into the heart of the building, others were more dramatic, enlisted to frame views of the sky or borrow a shaft of light from the sun.
At the Bestegui apartment, for example, a panel of glass was set into the roof on the same level as the lawn.Glass paving stone, as such it must have contributed to the unnerving feeling of an already surreal design.

Floor surface

The grass surfaces of the roof garden were employed into the top roof which were installed a fireplace and some furniture that made people have the illusion of space.

Exterior Salon

He designed a private salon with a small, narrow entrance. Four 65-70 feet walls compose the outdoor square space. He installed a fireplace and furniture in the area and putted grass on the floor which looks like interior space but it actually is an exterior open space. The room is full of the features in Surrealism.

Bibliography

Benton, Tim, The Villas of Le Corbusier 1920-1930, Paris：BIRKHAUSER, 2007.

Graves, Michael, Le Corbusier Selected Drawings, RIZZOLI publication, New York, 1981.

Samuel, Flora, Le Corbusier in Detail, Elsevier Ltd., Burlington MA, 2007.

Tadao, Ando Laboratory, Le Corbusier HOUSES, Tokyo, Japan, 2001.

Tzonis, Alexander, Le Corbusier: The Poetics of Machine and Metaphor, Universe Publishing, New York, 2001.

The Sixth Senses of Food: the Art and Science

Professor: Joy Ko
Wang, Chia-Min（Min）
Interior Architecture (MIA/2011, RISD)

Location：De Pasquale's Square (Federal Hill/ Providence, RI) / The intersection of Atwells Ave. and De Pasquale Ave.
Time：For the two month of January and February in DePasquale Square .

Area：The maximum pavilion footprint/ 800 sq ft

The design have to accommodate：
◎ 5 exhibitions to explore the 5 senses－（as they relate to food）
Taste sense/ Small sense/ Slight sense/ Sound sense/ Touch sense

◎ “The Sixth Senses Space”, a space dedicated to the integration of all the senses, a current movement in the food industry. This space must accommodate at least 30 people with appropriate space to receive samples of plated food.
（This is not a restaurant）

The design must include a more detailed exploration of one of the sense exhibition, which will be assigned by me.

This event is anticipated to be a major attraction so I should include the following considerations：flow, entrance, and egress, separate service for delivery and waste disposal.

This is a semi-permanent pavilion, intended to be taken down during in the spring.


Designing Concept
Exterior Space

My pavilion construction is based on practicing of last two projects which is the GAS Station and Surface Penalization to develop the shape. The idea inspires from ALINEA restaurant website pictures and Zaha Hadid’s Lilas installation at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

A palatable cuisine has to be served and displayed on elegant plate or container which could stimulate our appetite. The pavilion appearance (shape) transforms form tableware images. The asymmetric shape depends on the parameter setting.

Range of solutions in GC

Using "Generative Componnents" to set up parameters individually on each of frames that will control the curvatures to create free form shape.

3D modelings in Rhino

3D Model renderings


Site Choice：

The site is designed on the back part of De Pasquale Square, it might occupy (20x30 ft) 600 sq ft

Interior Space


The interior space aim to create the atmosphere which leads people to experience 5 senses （Taste, Touch, Sight, Smell, Sound Senses）from food.

1.There is a kitchen would be set up in an open-studio which shape by dome with transparency glass in the interior space. Visitors could observe the whole process as chiefs cook cuisines.

2. There are 3 dining tables around the open-studio. Each table could accommodate 10 persons to serve dishes by tuning table. It also could separate service for delivery and waste disposal. People could see, could eat, could smell and touch the food.

3.SOUND SENSE: There is a spiral path which surrounds with interior space from the base until to the top. On the spiral path, installed speakers project or play the sounds which made from kitchen. The sounds could be mixed percussion music such as the NYC famous performance group “STOMP” which used some food, fruits, knifes tableware to create sounds. As people could go through the path, they will hear the tiny cooking sounds or enjoy the dynamic rhythm (percussion).

Design a roof surface for the Gas Station

This gas station is intended to be a generic gas station located on a busy intersection. The fixed parameters of the model are the orientation of the site, the location of the six columns, the central kiosk and the surrounding buildings. Your model should at minimum include variable parameters for minimum street frontage and billboard height. You are free to include in other parameters (like location of street access, location of billboard).

The reference links:
http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/0935/Default.aspx

http://www.oobject.com/category/top-15-modernist-gas-stations/

Concept：

Creating a natural impression
The conception is about the Green House
On the top of roof, it could be installed solar energy system or grows plants.

Designing Form：

Using geometric（Circle/ Organic）shape to create the roof of gas station. ex. Pennywort.

Sketch and 3D Modeling

There are six columns on the base. We create the six individual constructions which has different height and diameter with the Generative Components(GC)

Winter in Providence,2008-2009