Joonmo Jason Seong
Architecture Design II
Architecture Design II
SUPERHERO
The project for this semester was to design ways to reflect a client of our choosing through architecture but for this we needed to understand our client and their achievements. Our client needed to be someone historically significant, a real person that has died, and needed to be a woman.
Marie Curie
PROJECT 1: Memorial
This part of the project was focused on finding a client and doing research on who they were and have an understanding to make the project more connected to who they were by making a memorial that reflects my client.
-Collage
My collage is showing what legacy my client left before her death and what was her most valuable things. She was born in Poland, Warsaw but spend her majority life on France, Paris. Her two interest was science and family. She won two Nobel Awards by physics and chemistry, for the research of radiation and the founding of chemical polonium and radium. Marie Curie had a strong passion to research and the future of the science which leave a quote such as “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
-Memorial Design
My memorial design was designed based on her legacy. The main reason why Marie Curies legacy is significant is because of her radiation work helped founding on X-Ray and cancer treatments. X-Ray helped humanity to see under skin which made human available to see what we couldn’t see normally. Which gave me an idea of underground building. I also decide to use the upper ground as a plaza and the design was from chemical bonds of radium and polonium. The middle part is a glass dome which is made by radium glass that glows light green color at night.
PROJECT 2: Legacy Institute
The second phase of this project was creating a foundation to communicate our client with the public in architecture or representing information by reflecting our client.
SITE OVERVIEW
-Site
Site, for this part we had to pick a place that connect to our client and find meaning in it. I picked Poland, Warsaw. Which is a capital of Poland and a childhood hometown that Marie Currie grew up. One interesting thing from my site is that if you draw a straight line between Marie Curies childhood house and her last education place which is flying university my site is located at right in the middle of them two which stands for the mid point of Marie Curies start and her last at Poland.
-Site Analysis
This shows the sun path and wind patters. As well as a more perceptive vew in the site areas neighborhood buildings.
CONCEPT DESIGN
In this part we had to come with foundations to effectively communicate with the public about our client.
Concept 1
•Periodic Table
My first design concept model was based on periodic table and chemistry experiments. The circle part at front is a image I got it from beaker. The two side window was designed by whole glaze glass window that has an image of periodic table on the side.
Concept 2
•Radiation Reactor
My second design concept model was based on radiation reactor. The purpose of this building was radiation lab so I wanted to connect some image with radiation related instruments and I came up with this design.
Concept 3
•Memorial Concept
My last design concept model was the following model I mentioned about my memorial. Underground building with glass dome at the top.
PROJECT 3: Schematic Design
Schematic design is a sketched drawings on the concept models we picked and expand on multiple different spaces. These are the followings.
- An “education space” for understanding your client’s importance
- Public “action space” to continue your client’s legacy in a global culture
- Permanent “service space” for foundation staff to manage and publicly communicate the work of
the foundation - Protected “memory space” for documents and other artifacts produced by your client or others that
are part of her legacy.
Piere Curie Hall
(Memory+Residence space)
Piere Curie Hall is the the memory and residence space for my site. Piere Curie is Marie Curies husband who helped her to receive the Nobel Prize. Piere Curie Hall is designed with 3 different floors. First floor is for memory space which is an exhibition of Marie curies work such as her legacy and documents. And second floor is a residence space which will be a housing space for people who stays there and research about Marie Curie. And the last place will be placed underground which is a ramp that is connected with Marie Curie Hall (Memorial). The design was inspired by Pieres birthstone which is Emerald and the casket which stands for the birth and death.
Irene Curie Hall
(Education space)
Irene Curie Hall is the education space for my site. Irene Curie was also a Nobel prize winner scientist who continued her mothers legacy. The space is a clinic that has X-Ray and other physical treatments instrument placed. Irene Curie and Marie Curie both dedicated their life for better humanity’s health. The design was inspired by Marie Curies X-Ray installed ambulance, petite curie, which is used for World War I.
Eve Curie Hall
(Service + Action space)
Eve Curie was an author. She didn’t choose the path that all of her other family choose but she was a famous author who wrote lots of book. I found the connection between Eve and Marie Curie by note, paper, writing so the design was inspired from skipping/folded paper. The building is separated by two different space which is first floor for private office area that can manage the site and take care of memorial and other spaces. The other space is an action space which is also an underground space which is a physics and chemistry lab.
-Site Model
Following model is the site model for better understanding of views around the memorial and other master plans.
-Revit Sketch
After the hand drawn sketch for schematic design. Next step was putting more details on our design by using the online architectural program “Revit”.
•Marie Curie Hall : Memorial
(MEMORIAL)
•Piere Curie Hall : Exhibition
(MEMORY + RESIDECE)
•Irene Curie Hall : Clinic
(EDUCATION)
•Eve Curie Hall : Office
(SERVICE + ACTION)
-Final Model
Finally, based on schematic design and Revit design the final model was created.
