Final Project - English for Architects and Urban Planners (ID2126)

Welcome!This blog was created to publish our Final project for the English for Architects and Urban Planers class, at Simon Bolívar university. We have to choose an architect and describe some architectural element of some of him projects. This element studied in class are texture, color, circulation, rhythm, space & scale, acoustics and light.

So, We hope that you like our work about Rem Koolhaas's projects, because this page also was made for you, and i wait that it can serve as an educational source about this excellent architect. Enjoy it!

Circulation

The design for the Seoul National University Museum is driven by the relationship of the campus to the community and serve as a link between them. This linkage is the defining operation behind the project’s morphology. The operation is a slice through the maximum building envelope and establishes a pedestrian connection between the community and the campus.

The hovering mass generated by this slice is modulated by the circulation path and site topography. This mass is a cantilevered structural steel shell bearing on a concrete core.

Circulation through the building is a continuation of the defining slice, internally the path bifurcate and spirals inward. As one enters the building the circulation affords connections to the different programs.

Rhythm

In this building created by Rem Koolhaas we can see that the architect wants desing the facade using the repetition of forms in the windows and where he put them. Also, there are other projects where he used the same technique in differents ways.

Texture and Color

The Casa da Musica is situated on a travertine plaza, between the city's historic quarter and a working-class neighborhood, adjacent to the Rotunda da Boavista.

The principal materials are white concrete, corrugated glass, travertine, plywood, and aluminium.

The main auditorium, shaped like a simple shoebox, is enclosed at both ends by two layers of “corrugated” glass walls. The glass, corrugated for optimal acoustics and sheer beauty, brings diffused daylight into the auditorium.

Acoustic

The auditorium is a fixed rake rectangular box with very long straight rows of seats. The double skin end walls of sinuous corrugated glass provide acoustic enclosure and dramatically distorted views to the outside.

Light

In the McCormick Tribune Campus Center the almost all the light is natural that enter to the building by the diferent types of windows and the opening in the building.

Space & Scale

In the Music House of Rem Koolhaas, the form of the space is maded based in the acoustic of the building, the building has a rectangular box form. this spaces are very big, because the architect wants to give the buiding a big scale to highlight the important of the same.