Sketchup Model 2.

Sketch Up model 2.

In this model I explored smaller details; for example how the corners of the structure meet square or angular and how the glazing joins the edge of the wall with no frame, also supporting a great deal of structure above.

This conveys a combination of all of my characters trates. My character believes that Architecture and building is about a process that develops as it proceeds from the Architects design to the engineering and then finally the construction.

Sketchup Model 1.

Sketch up Model 1.

In both Sketch up models I explored more of a combination between all three jobs that my character does. Ive explored space, volume, light and scale in the design and have challenged the engineer with large volumes of glass in large concrete walls.

Model 2.

Model 2.
Secondly I Explored the Engineer side of my Character, I would describe this concept more of a structural expression in the use of shear walls, cantilevered floors and exposed structural columns. I like the simplicity of the structure by using exposed beams and raw materials, I think that the plain card doesn't show enough of the materiality in the design which would have enabled the exposed structural qualities to become more evident.

MODEL 1.

Because my Character is an Architect, Engineer and a Contractor,

I have explored his character in all of my designs through architectural expression and structural expression as well as a mixture of both. Model 1. Was influenced more so with Architectural expression. But in saying that it also poses a great deal of challenges for an engineer or contractor to build.

ARCHITECT ENGINEER CONTRACTOR - Hejduk Character

1. A master-builder. A skilled professor of the art of building, whose business it is to prepare the plans of edifices, and exercise a general superintendence over the course of their erection.

2. One who designs and frames any complex structure; esp. the creator; one who arranges elementary materials on a comprehensive plan.

3. One who so plans, devises, contrives, or constructs, as to achieve a desired result (especially when the result may be viewed figuratively as an edifice); a builder-up.

Hejduk's Character definitions clearly define the tasks of each of these Jobs. His illustration shows three people merging out of one another.

Ive began to explore the relationship between these three jobs and speculate on some of the stereotyped conflict that occurs in their relationship,

Architect
- The Dreamer
- Vision of Architectural Expression

Engineer
- Structural Limitations of the Architects design
- Has different thoughts about architectural Expression Possibly more structural expression

Contractor
- Material availability
- Tradesman availability

All three of these jobs rely on each other to complete the end goal and construct a building.

Architect engineer contractor - architect’s studio engineer’s office contractors room.

During the war many parts of Berlin were destroyed, poverty and depression swept throughout society.

Alexander’s vision was to rebuild hope, shelter and safety within his broken community. At the age of 55 he had endured a treacherous life; and this became his driving force to build a better place and a better life in a time of such hopelessness.

Alexander was an Architect; he saw possibilities and had vision for creating and shaping the city of Berlin into an inspiring place. His designs were eccentric but poetic. People aspired to his drawings and began to share his dream.

Alexander was also and Engineer and a contractor, This side of his personality challenged his architectural visions and in some ways restrained his visions of possibilities. He began to fight with himself and his vision as he constantly thought about how his structures were going to stand up and who and how someone was going to build it. It was this side of Alexander that caused him to began to pair back his designs to the true.

Due to the lack of materials in Berlin at the time, Alexander was forced to reconsider and compromise his architectural vision. His dreams for shaping the city for the better soon became out of reach. His proposed apartments for the people in Berlin became minimalistic designs and expressions of the bare supporting structure depending on what materials were available at a time.

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