Research of Gathering and Reactive Architecture

Paris 3D St Louis bridge video

http://www.overhours.com/?p=7342

space of use

Working processes of Second Life

The design brife is to design a studio/office for gathering 5 different people has diffent skills of job.
My five people are an Artist, an Architect, an Engineer, a Lawyer and a Business man, they are gathing to run the company which can make the best of their skills of using.
requirements of people
Artist: Working table, computer, paiting bord, place to display works, book shelf
Architect: Working table, light table, computer, work shop(machines to make models), book shelf, place to display works
Engineer: working table, computer, book shelf, work shop
Lawyer: Book shelf, table, computer
Business man: Book shelf, table, computer

looked at the le corbusier's building convent de la tourette on the matrix which given by tutor, took the idea of using columns

at first was trying to creat a path way for the building and has motion script on it, however, i realized that it takes lots of prims to build

secound life scripts
its quait intersting to paly with , but i fond that once it moves never comes back, hope i can solve the problem later

Choosen site

the construction site

the site is on the construction site which is facing to my 1:100 model " a corner of vector arena" , there is a park between those two buildings

This is the exteriol of my building on second life, it is huge, but l realy like it, the form idea comes from my lazer cutting project and it conbined with the idea from the matrix(convent de la tourette building)
also , john, bill's building are connected with my building on the both side, people can easily walk throuh

this is the front door, it has a special position of support of both side, wich are not vertically standed

this is the meeting area for gathering of people to talk business, their ideas and meet their clients

those stairs are the way to up stairs to the offices and to johns building

this is the view point, people can look to the outside

here is the back door to the first level and second floor to the other side of offices

keep walking forward is the way to bill's building

this is the interiol of one of the five offices, it has transparence floor with water texture, people can use teleports to get in to the offices
the twisting table is from john, i used my glass swoped with him

the view look to outside from the office

we got limited of prims to use in the second life and the region was full all the time, so i still have a little bit more work have not finished yet, wich are the furnatures of each office and the detailed path ways.

Matrix Research

La Tourette Monastery
BP 105 Eveux
69591 L'Arbresle cedex
Lyon
France

Le Corbusier 1953-1957

The Dominican Monastery of La Tourette is Le Corbusier's last major work in Europe. Its program is unusual - a complete, self-contained world for a community of studying, silent monks, living a life so austere they are sometimes known as the 'begging brothers'. To support this community, the Monastery comprises 100 individual 'cells', communal library, classrooms and refectory, a rooftop cloister and church.

Many of Le Corbusier's long-established practices are here: the pilotis (load-bearing columns) inside the walls freeing the facade of the walls for long strip windows, the grassed rooftops and the carefully planned 'architectural promenade' with ramp, all go back to the Villa Savoye thirty years earlier; but the austerity and spirituality of the monks' life gives a very different outcome. Above all, Le Corbusier was trying here "to give the monks what men today need most: silence and peace... This Monastery does not show off; it is on the inside that it lives."

Judging from the monks' reactions, he succeeded well - despite many practical reservations about the size of some of the cells, the soundproofing and acoustics, and many maintenance issues that are very visible today. Despite all this one student monk among those first occupying the Convent compared his entry into the Corbusier building to a second entry into religion.

Much of the atmosphere of the building, inside even more than out, comes from the carefully proportioned floor-to-ceiling glazing used in many of the public areas - the Chapter room and refectory with their commanding west-facing views over the valley, the library, and approach to the church. The unevenly-spaced ondulatoires (the vertical concrete mullions) and the similarly uneven horizontal divisions between them were designed according to Le Corbusier's Modulor system of proportions by Yannis Xenakis, a musician as well as an architect, applying musical principles of harmony and rhythm.

The climax of the architectural promenade is the ramp down to the entrance to the church: an austere, concrete corridor but for its unevenly-rhythmic glazing, leading to a stern metal wall, which rotates to give access to the dark, colored glow of the church beyond.

In the church itself, a tall, plain, concrete box is given spiritual life through selective and careful use of natural light and subtly strong color. Daylight is admitted through five different types of opening around the church, several of them sculpted outside, creating distinctive "light cannons." Strong but deep colors within some of the openings give the church a warm and moving glow.

The whole Monastery is set on a steeply sloping bank within its grounds, on a spot chosen by Le Corbusier. Each of the hundred cells has an outward-facing balcony, with the communal areas beneath, and the cloister, unconventionally, running around the roof.

Simon Glynn 2004
Additional photography Sam Glynn 2004