stairs

the stairs are a little construed, i am refining the staircase and modeling a module to determine where the wall voids will be in sensitivity to the light casting upon the staircase and occupants. the step thickness (concrete + steel grid) will also be determined by the shadows/light flow

staircase sample

light transfers through glass fiber concrete wall.

use of glass fiber concrete wall may not be suitable for an exterior skin- rather interior walls. another transculent material will be used for exterior facade, sand blasted glass as a curtain wall.

glass fiber + concrete

http://optics.org/cws/article/research/19184

"LITRACON", by Aron Losonczi.


To achieve the transculence of concrete, this architect embeds glass fibers into concrete. the shadows casted by the inhabitants of my project can be seen on the other side of the wall. combining this technology with opaque concrete allows me to visually reveal and conceal the person in motion- just as I can reveal and conceal sound; which detects motion audially.

"The hope is that the new material will transform the interior appearance of concrete buildings by making them feel light and airy rather than dark and heavy.

Losonczi, a 27 year old architect from Csongrád recently came up with the idea while he was studying at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. After demonstrating the material at design exhibitions all over Europe he has now formed a company to commercialize the concept.

His new company, also called LitraCon, is now optimizing its manufacturing methods and hopes to start selling prefabricated blocks of the material later this year."

dichotomy of materials

adolf loos- staircase, villa moller.

in my project as a person walks up stairs, there is the opportunity to momenarily have ones path revealed to them upon each step; not knowing who may be on the stairs ahead. a narrow staircase asks two people, when meeting on the stairs, to decide, who is going to let who go ahead. these opportunities allow a step to the side to form a space within the staircase. these platforms, or 'vessels' branching off from the staircase reveal something about the project otherwise unnoticed. 

the relationship between two people on the staircase is translated materially through the systems in which the staircase is made. steel has the property of sound resonance and concrete has the property of sound absorption. i decide who and when someone on the stairs will be heard. and the marriage between steel parts of the stair, and concrete parts of the stair form a constant system for the whole buildings structure.

stairs- structural precedent

zac monro

projections

rotterdam film festival, 2001.

lozano hemmer. 'body moves' bright floodlights directed from below- projected a washed out image of walking people. the passer-by interacts with the projection surface while walking infront of the flood lights, casting a vivid shadow, proportionate to their distance to the buildings facade and the flood light. 

harads tree hotel

tham & videgard hansson arkitecks

ron arad- bath/shower

http://cubeme.com/blog/2008/09/04/rotator-bathshower-by-ron-arad-for-teuco

the dual oportunities of a utility.