10 Textures...

The colour palate is quite restricted in my selection of textures. I personally dont like too much colour. Generally a nice cool grey (like the titanium from Gehry's guggenheim below) with a highlight colour like an acid green/yelow or the brushed purple aluminium below used selectively over/throughout the building. I would like to use this style with my redesign of the Silkeborg as i believe its limited colours will contrast nicely with asger Jorns almost over-use of colours in his artworks.
When focusing on the artworks the building will blend into the background - and yet is very arresting and exciting when focus is on the building itself as it uses a contemporary colour scheme with prominent highlights... or so i believe...

The Model....

3 Words to form the basis of my re-representation

ORGANIC

DRAMATIC

FLOWING


So, if you read the 250 words, you will have noted that i dont like the "organicness" (as i eloquntly put it) of the building - which is kind of a main part of it - but nonetheless, so u will find it odd that i have chosen words like orgainic and flowing... well... yes - but i dont want to stray too far from Utzons design because anything that he's done will be much better and more thought out than anything i come up with - so im not going to change it drastically. I am getting away with the words organic and flowing by combinging them with 'dramatic' - as i said in the 250 words, i can accept it if the walls and shapes end abruptly - or 'Dramatically' - ooh see, it comes together..
so yer... thats what im doing...

10 Emotive words

- Organic
- Smooth
- Sculptural
- Cavernous
- Carved
- enclosed
- harmonious
- effortless (the 'feel' not the work gone into the design!)
- dramatic
- flowing

250 words - highlighting my feelings about the silkeborg

Im not yet 100% convinced by Utzons ideas and explanations for the Silkeborg Musem.
Although undetailed sections/elevations/plans dont do a building justice, i just cant see it as the amazing piece of architecture it apparently is.
For starters, I have a strong dislike of Ramps. They have ruined the red-centre gallery and they dont work for me in the Silkeborg either - they over-clutter and confuse an otherwise grand open space.
Also, why would a 3 storey building be like a bull in a china shop? The existing Silkeborg museum is a grand 2 storey (+ pitched roof) manor, surrounded by buildings of equal or greater height. a 2 storey building with a skillion roof would have worked fine there in my (very experienced and learned) opinion and there wouldnt be the issues attributed with underground buildings like light and moisture. Excavating down that deep, especially within 100m of a quite substantial river seems very odd... and a lot of effort for not that great a result.

Anyway, its not all bad, i do like what is visible of the museum from the ground - in the case that the right materials and details are used - and being Utzon, im sure they would be.
That said - the tulip shaped chimneys are a bit much - i would like to alter them slightly - but im not sure how...

Oh and the whole "organicness" of the interior i dont like - im an angles sort of person. smooth flowing shapes arent my thing - so somethings going to have to happen about that.... to stay true to Utzons design perhaps a bulbous walls that end abruptly and/or keeping the organic shapes but adding in some blade walls for articulation or something....discuss.

TO BE CONTINUED......dah dah dahhhh

Assignment 2 Website:

w w w . m o o s e t i m e . c o m

only view in 'firefox'!!

internet explorer is crap and wont display anything correctly...

Sketchup Model