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Alex Warren Architecture | Architectural Interests: Successful but Unethical Architecture?
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Monday, 8 November 2010. Successful but Unethical Architecture? I'm intrigued by two building projects featuring designing spaces for animals. One is a dog grooming centre designed by Square One Interiors, and the other an elephant house in Copenhagen Zoo, designed by Foster and Partners. Http:/ www.archdaily.com/86679/unleashed-dog-spa-square-one-interiors/#more-86679. Http:/ www.archdaily.com/1323/in-progress-elephant-house-foster-partners/. Moving to a larger scale now, I'm interested in Foster's elep...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Interesting Books: Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel
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Monday, 7 February 2011. Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel. I've been puzzling the architecture of Borges' Library of Babel all day, as I am doing a presentation on it in a week. The mythical/fictional library is made up identical hexagonal galleries, connected to infinite other hexagonal galleries in the X, Y and Z axis. In the centre of each gallery is a ventilation shaft surrounded by a low handrail, so librarians looking up the void can see infinite stories/layers of identical book shelves.
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Alex Warren Architecture | Interesting Books: October 2010
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Monday, 25 October 2010. Architectural Graphics: Francis D.K. Ching. I could have scanned every page in this book. Ching's drawings are excellent, informative and are usually self-explanatory. As a resource tool for university, the book is useful in ways such as explaining how to draw doors, windows and materials correctly; but it is also useful in stimulating the creative mind in terms of layout, and of different ways of drawing the same scene. The light building on dark background also helps render par...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Interesting Books: Architectural Graphics: Francis D.K. Ching
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Monday, 25 October 2010. Architectural Graphics: Francis D.K. Ching. I could have scanned every page in this book. Ching's drawings are excellent, informative and are usually self-explanatory. As a resource tool for university, the book is useful in ways such as explaining how to draw doors, windows and materials correctly; but it is also useful in stimulating the creative mind in terms of layout, and of different ways of drawing the same scene. The light building on dark background also helps render par...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Design Studio Work: February 2011
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Saturday, 26 February 2011. The Hierarchy and Control of Knowledge. After my studies of the Library of Babel ( http:/ alexwarrenarchitecture3.blogspot.com/. I watched 'The Name of The Rose', a film featuring a fictional library where books are controlled by the church. If the books contradicted the bible they were stored in a secret vault, a labyrinth, and were ultimately destroyed by the church to prevent people from ever reading the books. Intellectuals and non-intellectuals are on towers of very diffe...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Design Studio Work: January 2011
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Friday, 28 January 2011. Final Project Pin Up. This is the work I pinned up for my final music therapy centre design. I started off with the location of Serenella in its context of Murano, and Murano's context within Venice. Next my masterplan process, describing the Venetian proportions and ratios I used to map out the masterplan block surrounding my site:. I then showed my final masterplan layout in the context of Serenella:. My final volumetric layout within the masterplan:. The dark room door closes ...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Design Studio Work: Final Review - Section
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Sunday, 8 May 2011. Final Review - Section. Because space is short on the presentation boards, I have included my early underground storage studies (wind cellars etc) and initial ideas on the left, followed by my hand drawing (see previous blog entry) showing the two principal subterranean spaces; and finally the basement/depository floor plan. I have shaded in areas of dark and light on both the 1:100 section and the 1:200 basement plan to indicate where the light pipes are. Final Review - Section.
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Alex Warren Architecture | Design Studio Work: December 2010
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Thursday, 30 December 2010. Music Therapy Centre 1. This blog entry features my pin-up music therapy centre proposal. The design of the building appears quite simple. the toilets/plant room are all stacked in the corner of the site, as is the circulation. The ground floor is public space, with a performance space that is open to the adjoining courtyard. The three therapy rooms are on the upper two levels, and have neighbouring one-way mirrors for observation of therapy sessions. Next to the staircase is ...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Design Studio Work: Final Review Sheets
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011. For the final review I wanted to illustrate my design process from the initial library study through the design process into my final design. I have selected what I feel are my strongest images for the left column of the A0 sheet, showing my interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges's short story describing 'The Library of Babel'. Underneath this is a diagram showing my fundamental ideas behind the design - the control and hierarchy of knowledge. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Alex Warren Architecture | Design Studio Work: April 2011
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Sunday, 17 April 2011. Interim Review, 14th April. For this pin up I wanted to show the whole design process from the early library study to my current design. This meant producing a sheet with the early images from my Library of Babel case study, as well as the Intuitive Response to it. This was followed by an image showing the site and a few precedent studies, all of which have been written about in my earlier blog entries. Showing how the basement floor plan works with the ground floor plan is importa...
