ARCH1101 Investigating the Essence of a Bridge and Inspirations/ Examples of Bridges

Bridge

1. a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
2. a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or phase between two adjacent elements, activities, conditions, or the like: Working at the hospital was a bridge between Medicalschool and private practice.
3. Also, bridge passage. a passage in a literary work or a scene in a play serving as a movement between two other passages or scenes of greater importance.
4. Nautical.

• a raised transverse platform from which a power vessel is navigated: often includes a pilot house and a chart house.
• any of various other raised platforms from which the navigation or docking of a vessel is supervised.
• a bridge house or bridge superstructure.
• a raised walkway running fore-and-aft.

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From Shaowen Wang's Blog:

1. "a location comes into existence only by virtue of the bridge"
2. "The will to connection had become a shaping of things, still being dependent on its frequency or rarity."
3. "allows a 360º view over the landscape"
4. "breaks...the upper and lower parts"
5. "dynamic and constantly changing in accordance with the geographical and climatic conditions of the given season...the bridge as a place is the part of the road that preconditions movement. The bridge is not merely a thing (Heidegger), nor a picture (Simmel), but an event (Heidegger)."

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Flux Exhibition, 2009, LIFT Architects, California, viewed 22 May 2010, http://www.liftarchitects.com/display/ShowJournal?moduleId=1119495&categoryId=95362.

Alamillo Bridge, 1992, APS Physics, Spain, viewed 22 May 2010, http://www.compadre.org/informal/images/features/CalatravaAlamillo-large5-15.jpg.

Light Rail Train Bridge, 2009, FC Barcelona Forum Site, Jerusalem, viewed 22 May 2010, http://aminus3.s3.amazonaws.com/image/g0010/u00009902/i00422862/1677cde814c49e396c0e0379379fe7f6_large.jpg

Petah Tikva Bridge, 2007, David Rabkin Photography, Israel, viewed 22 May 2010, http://www.pbase.com/rdavid/image/99202560.

ARCH1101 Investigating the Essence of an Elevator

Elevator

1. a person or thing that elevates or raises.
2. a moving platform or cage for carrying passengers or freight from one level to another, as in a building.
3. any of various mechanical devices for raising objects or materials.
4. A platform or an enclosure raised and lowered in a vertical shaft to transport people or freight.

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ARCH1101 18 Two-point Perspectives and Words of Power

Represses

Harmonious

Demanding

Stagnant

Limited

Conforms

Reliable

Liberates

Empowers

Controlling

Bounded

Influential

Confined

Deceptive

Dominant

Forceful

Restricting

Untested

ARCH1101 Sandbox Translation of Chosen Valley

This valley is trying to emulate the red centre of Australia, however I have encountered the following limitations when translating my chosen environment (in the given time, but will continue to search for solutions):

-I couldn't find a red ochre and coppery texture for the terrain and had to compensate by manipulating the sun's colour and getting the layer close to sand dune appearance

-Vegetation shown does not look so barren rather having a luscious green tone, which is not at all endemic to Australian desert

-I couldn't form any interesting rock formations as shown in the earlier video so had to stick to ranges and mountains

ARCH1101 Chosen Clients and Valley

Chosen Clients> Miranda Kerr and Helen Keller

Chosen Valley Inspiration> Central Australia

Below is an artwork and a video of Central Australian landforms:

Forty-eight days in Tnorula- Gosses Bluff

Watercolour, charcoal and pencil on paper canvas,

John Wolseley, 1980, 259x315 cm

ARCH1101 Article Mashup- Merkel, Kerr and Keller

Supermodel Miranda Kerr dazzled in red stalks fame and was assaulted by accusation, doubt, and overt disbelief. With the mood bleak and the stakes high, Merkel comes armed with stiff new prescriptions to defend “fellow Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer, Shakespeare and the rest of the immortals.” At Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, during the era of earnest disabilities, Helen Keller’s new regime forfeits bright flowing and bohemian styles instead proposing radical legislations. Merkel’s, Kerr’s and Keller’s proposals, mimicking unknowable configurations were unpopular including sass & bide, Akira, Trelise Cooper and Kirrily Johnston.

Kerr a lot more open to change understood that the hundreds of billions in losses would commission a simmering power struggle of global effect. In order to rescue and salvage the spiralling disabilities, years of hardship and declining living standards, Keller’s 16 nations assemble for an emergency summit. This move wavered the strong scepticism, infectiously launching a shift from the echoed sombre tone towards worshipfulness. Sceptics and the cynosure of idolaters quickly praised the show and are expected to give a green light for the indispensable solution.

With the people so much more relaxed because they could adapt to the compromised solution, parliament leaders, celebrities, fashion editors and miracle workers transformed the impoverished global economic powerhouse to redeem €8.5bn of debt. Fortunately, Merkel’s, Kerr’s and Keller’s ambition turned into passionately learning to speak for other people, confident that their actions throw a fitting parade of hope and a strong comeback.

Article Links:

• Angela Merkel- Traynor I. "Crisis in Greece leaves EU future in balance, warns Angela Merkel," Guardian News and Media Limited, (5 May 2010), http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/05/greece-crisis-threatens-eu-future-merkel-germany (accessed May 7, 2010).

• Miranda Kerr- AAP. "Miranda Kerr brings 'infectous' smile to Sydney," Sydney Morning Herald, (5 August 2009), http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/miranda-kerr-brings-infectious-smile-to-sydney-20090804-e8au.html (accessed May 7, 2010).

• Helen Keller- Ozick C. "What Helen Keller Saw," The New Yorker, (16 June 2003),http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/06/16/030616crat_atlarge?currentPage=1 (accessed May 7, 2010).

ARCH1101 Investigating the Essence of a Valley

Valley

1. an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, esp. one following the course of a stream.
2. an extensive, more or less flat, and relatively low region drained by a great river system.any depression or hollow resembling a valley.
3. a low point or interval in any process, representation, or situation.
4. any place, period, or situation that is filled with fear, gloom, foreboding, or the like: the valley of despair.
5. Architecture. a depression or angle formed by the meeting of two inclined sides of a roof.
6. the lower phase of a horizontal wave motion.
7. An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
8. An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.
9. A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.

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