Prezi Presentation : RECONSIDERING ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL

RECONSIDERING ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL

RECONSTITUTE ARCHITECTURE SCOOL

Veerasu Saetae

INDA 4th year
Faculty of Architecture,
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand

Tutor : Yarinda Bunnag & Will Patera

CARPENTER CENTRE RESEARCH , Havard University

CARPENTER CENTRE  precedent study
Havard University
Le corbusier 1961-64
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Reconsidering Architecture School
INDA YR4 Project
Veerasu Saetae

Tutors : Yarinda Bynnag & Will Patera

 

Learning Infrastructure_a library at Jatuchak

VEERASU SAETAE 
International Programme in Design and Architecture Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III SECOND SEMESTER (2012) YEAR 3 PROJECT CONTENT : KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE CENTRE (Project Duration 01/08 - 18/05 2012)
TUTOR : AJARN KESATE TADESSE  

Project:
Encouraging a lifelong, self-learning process accumulated from public knowledge resource centers is part of the mission of Thailand’s Office of Knowledge Management and Development. Their objectives include: -To provide facilities for learning that highlights the cultivation and promotion of the habit of reading and knowledge seeking with a creative and up-to-date learning environment. -To promote the habit of reading, pursuit of knowledge and lifelong learning among children and youth. -To provide youth and the general public with the opportunities to develop, exchange and display their creative works, as well as to create varied innovations, products or works that combine the knowledge of art and culture, social values, and technological know-how. 

Bioarchitecture pier at Bangkrajao

 
Bioarchitecture pier at Bangkrajao

Veerasu Saetae 

Year 3 Semester 1
INDA,Chulalongkong University

Tutor: AJ Moe Ekapob
special thank to Mr.Hirun

Proposal :

The project aims to promote Bang-Kra-Jao port and nearby community to be a tourist attraction for its conservation agriculture area along Chao-Praya-river. The existing site is lack of identity and organization of space, disorganization of vegetation on the pathway and promenade.

It is a port that provides additional boat taxi which will connect the Chao-Praya-river to the local canal, by doing this it will create a route for tourists and locals to access to their destinations with a different mode of transportation. The tourists will travel by this canal taxi to big holiday market inside bang-Krao-Jao with the much better experience of traditional Thai culture. The port also serves a community Boat making center, to create a job for the local and at the same create an identity for the port as it is the conservation site. 

Design
I am interested in exoskeleton structure in animal, where it would support and protect and animal body, with this structure it would create a continuous space with no interruption of the columns. The Dragon fly’s wing has inspired to adapt as the structure pattern, the way that the structure has the main supporting beam and transfer loads to others branches.

The pattern of the DNA has been used for the pattern of the porosity. The idea of using it’s as a pattern inspired from its structure of double helix. With the DNA, it could a symbol of life and the preservation of plant and green space in this area. The arrangement of the pattern is according to the light quality that would require for different programs in the port.

Cities after Independence day (Jay)

It has been 64 years since India got its freedom and being independence from British Empire. It was a undoubtedly the suffering period of Indian people. But after India got its independence is another story. From my point of view, after India got its independence the city had a conflict of how the city going to move on. One choice is to create a new city in which of course anti every system which related to old British system or to follow the footstep that the English had prepared from them. After I visited Old Delhi, New Delhi and Chandigarch, a lot contradiction and contrary between those cities are very obvious in term of how the city was planned and how people react to those individual existing built environment. As in Old Delhi, Chandi Chowk, the city where the British was constructed. It was totally chaotic city. Initially, the city was planned with such a small amount population, but as the population has increasing, the landscape could not control the people behavior anymore. On the other hand, the New Delhi also constructed and planned by the British. The style of the building is neo classical; the rich in decorative and ornamentation show the power of the imperial period of the British. It is the idea of follow what is already good and use it to benefit the country. The landscape in New Delhi is better than the Old Delhi, with the entire wall surrounding the buildings and houses. It is clearly show the different of class of people. The road is organized.   Moreover, the other attempt of trying to create a new city, which perhaps the attempts of anti British imperial system and show to the world that India has come to the new era with the new power of Indian people and no longer under the Crown rule. Chandigrach, the modern city planned by Le Corbusier by using the international style. The characteristic of the modernism which is the honest of architecture, the reveal of structure and the raw of the materials: concrete, glass, steel.  The city has changed the way people behaviors, no more chaotic trafficking, less horn blowing, and jaywalking on the road unlike in Old Delhi.

To sum up, I personally think that both New Delhi and Chandigrach had achieved their goal of trying to create a new system of order and organization to the Indian, if you compared with Chandi Chowk. But of course, Ones would want their city that represent their own culture, art, architecture. But it is also undeniable that the British system in governing the city and some culture still have been influencing India. Since British Empire had colonized India for such a lone period of time.



Chandigarch Plan

New Delhi Plan



Final Manifesto

          One can not denied that the acknowledgment of the architectural history affect our architectural design today. The linkage still strongly bond till today. From the studying From 

Ancient architecture, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classicism, Modernism to post-modernism, ones can begin to understand architecture transformation through time. The factor that influences in the movement, the belief, and the style are various: the society, technology, world war (propaganda). Generally speaking, studying history would be a lot easier if we have a person who can live for 800 year, then we would not have to guess anything, because the facts are right in front of us. However, that is impossible and that why are here using architectures, painting, sculpture as our historical reference.

I divided my manifesto in to four parts: “Are we just now modern”, “when ornamentation is crime”, “counterattack on modernism” and “recycle of history”. The rebellion in architecture is not something new. The new style emerge by bring the classical elements to further its efficient(Renaissance). Then,others came up with more breaking through and more expressive shape and from (Baroque). Then, After a century, they starting to combining them together (age of enlightenment),beauty and function. Then, after another century, the Sliver prince, Walter Gropius, came up and talk about “starting from zero”(Wolfe,8). He is as a bomb, which destroying the classicalism. He said that those ornamentation and massive decorative facade are unnecessary and create a classes and level of people in society. During the WWII, a lot of complication occurred, the idea had been sent worldwide. After the war, it became International style which first introduce in European, then American. The elements and slogan have been introduce to people by Le Corbusier ‘s principles, Mies Van de Rohe “Less is more”etc. The common elements of the modernism are clear facade, white color, glasses, steel expose structure,I-beam. Some people adore it, some are not. That give birth to post modernism emerge. The arguments by both modernism and early post modernism accuse each other ‘s notion and belief. Then, the second generation modernists,who are more expressive in shape, and concern more about site context matter. This period is a transformation period from late Modernism to high post modernism.

In my opinion of what causes that emerge of the new style is perfectness. The experiment of form, fusion in architecture, those development aims for the perfectness in beauty and uniqueness. Naturally, when something reach its maximum climate, it is start get bored by the audiences and it slowly loss attraction, so does the architecture. That period is when the new movement, the new style are becoming to the attention.There will always have some people who want to conserve the old idea, the conventional style which it is a original. They deem the original as the most perfect architecture, such as golden ratio, symmetry and proportion, they try to preserve it. As a result, there we are again at the age of restoration, bring back the old classical elements. History is a recycle. It will come back, in different form, but it still live.

Moreover, It is hard to judge whether this movement is bad or good, because we are living in the different time in different society, ritual,belief and political situation. And those things are the contributors to the architecture at different period of time. In other words, ones can see the architecture and could interpret what is going on during the period, incase of other documentation are not existed.