Silkeborg Museum by John Utzon

http://www.arcspace.com/architects/utzon/silkeborg.htm

“The world of the curved form can give something that cannot ever be achieved by means of rectangular architecture. The hulls of ships, caves and sculpture demonstrate this.”Jørn Utzon

Utzon rejected Jorn’s idea of rising the building to capture a view, instead he proposed burying most of the extension three stories underground.As in his own house in Hellebæk, the approach would face a long, single-storey blank wall, which links the building to the main museum and breaks to form a staff entrance.The foyer, reception, cafe and terrace look out over the existing lawn through a stepped and staggered glass screen, made of V-shaped pre-cast concrete columns which support a grid of shallow, barrel-vaulted rooflights; these run over all the ground floor circulation areas and extend to form a generous entrance canopy.

“It will be with a sense of surprise and a desire to penetrate down into the building that the visitor for the first time sees the three-storey building open beneath him. Unconcerned - by stairs and corridors, which normally disturb - the viewer will glide almost effortlessly down into the museum via the ramp, taking him through the space.Strict geometry will form the basis for a simple constructional shape. The vible curved external surfaces are to be clad with ceramics in strong colors so that the parts of the building emerge like shining ceramic sculptures, and inside the museum will be kept white.” Jørn Utzon


Source:UTZONInspiration - Vision - ArchitectureBy: Richard WestonPublished by Edition Bløndal

final website

http://www.freewebs.com/yasminawad/Marina%20City/references.html

website link

This is the layout of my original website but after uploading issues i deciced to redesign the layout of my website for a greater effect and to succesfully represent my chosen building.

Original website link:

http://www.freewebs.com/yasminawad/arch1390/homepagef.html

Further research

Rendered images :

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Interesting facts on marina city :

Marina City Commentary

'"Marina City, in 1959, is a thirty-six-million- dollar project built on only three acres of land in the heart of Chicago's Loop. A dramatic landmark in the Chicago skyline, it culminated thirty years of thought and development for Goldberg. Each of the twin, sixty-story towers had four hundred and fifty apartments in its upper two-thirds, with the lower third a continuous parking ramp that spirals upwards, accommodating four hundred and fifty automobiles. Since the residential level starts at the twenty-first story, magnificent views of the city are enjoyed from every apartment.
"For many years Goldberg had felt there were advantages in the use of circular forms: the aerodynamic properties in a cylindrical high-rise structure; the structural equidistance from the center, and therefore uniform function of all parts; the absence of special corner conditions; and the creation of centrifugal or 'kinetic' spaces resulting from non-parallel walls. The towers derive much of their rigidity from the 35-foot-diameter cylindrical core that houses each building's services and utilities like a vertical street. Service spaces in apartments were grouped toward this core, giving living areas the light and view. The construction of the core preceded that of the floors, providing a rising foundation for the erection crane, thereby saving many working days. The project is all-electric, with heat and hot water individually produced in each apartment.'

References :

Werner Hofmann. Modern Architecture in Color. New York: The Viking Press, 1969. NA 642.H6413. LC 72-125823. drawing of garage floor plan, p457. drawing of apartment floor plan, p457. drawing of ground floor plan, p457.

Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection, AJ1119, AJ1120, AJ1121, AJ1122.

Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. ISBN 0-422-29190-6. LC 89-5320. NA703.W75 1989. discussion.

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. 4-5.

http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_info/exhibit_docs/exhibitions_2005/bertrand_goldberg.html

Jay Pridmore; George A. Larson (2005). Chicago Architecture and Design : Revised and expanded. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Antonino Terranova (2003). Skyscrapers. White Star Publishers.

Three interesting buildings

I chose to represent The Marina City as i found the structure of this building quite fascintating. Although built in the 1960's it still has a unique design which can be represented to a modern day client with a few alterations such as the subsitution of the concrete material with steel or glass and change of choice of colour.


CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL:

http://www.seeing-stars.com/

THE THEME BUILDING:

http://www.metroriderla.com/









MARINA CITY:

http://www.upload.wikimedia.org/