Poster Layout Concept

Refined

REFINED CONCEPT
The grid is re-iterated, and allows for more options with arranging elements, my concept is to try information on the left half and the axonometric on the right.

BROAD CONCEPT

The center long rectangle presents a clear image communicating one or several key concepts used of the Anth. The top left square contains information about the Anth's personality including a picture. Main concept diagram/image can spill into the other squares apart from the two crossed out.

Architect - Glenn Murcutt

Born: 1936 in London, England
Residence: Sydney, Australia
Education: Architecture at UNSW - 1956 to 1961

Awards: Glenn Murcutt has won many important awards, including:

• 1992: Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal
• 2002: Pritzker Prize
• 2009: American Institute of Architects Gold Medal

"...Glen Murcutt's powerful architectural poetic most tellingly conveyed by the building lodged in the landscape; the building as line, holding the horizon and calibrating infinity; the building in submission - not subjugating the land; the building as an expression of ideology and rationalism; the building as embodiment of an existential contract of human freedom and responsibility, confronting the unavoidable destruction that accompanies human occupation."
Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper

Glenn Murcutt was born in London 1936. The family moved to Australia, in 1941, at the outset of the war. Due to his father's influence Murcutt, at a very early age, became acquainted with the work of architects such as Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. His education was acheived at the Sydney Technical College, from which he graduated in 1961. Some of his early work experience was with Neville Gruzman, Allen & Jack, and Ancher, Mortlock and Woolley. Murcutt began his Sydney practice in 1969. A specific response to nature has made Murcutt famous for being able to express a specifically Australian form, focused on light, space, movement, ventilation and sun control. In 1992 Glenn Murcutt was presented with the Alvar Aalto Award in Finland, adding to an impressive list of Australian awards, which includes the Gold Medal from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1992. The Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to Murcutt in 2002.

He has before him a large experience pool in green energy buildings influenced by the climate, culture and enviroment of Australia. Murcutt chooses materials that are economical and easy to obtain including glass, brick, timber and more notably corrugated iron.

Marika-Alderton House

Partly inspired from Aboriginal culture the house is raised by stilts to trap cooler air underneath and exhaust hot air through outlets above. As with most Murcutt's buildings they are strategically positioned to utilize the wind currents and sun's position.

The Magney House

The large sweeping roof is the only non-rectilinear element of the structure, and is Murcutt’s defining gesture of the Magney house. It consists of two convex arcs spreading out in opposite directions from the middle of the building.In deciding on the appropriate material, Murcutt considers not only its immediate environmental impact, but he weighs the total energy consumption needed.






References:

Marika-Alderton House - http://architecture.about.com/od/houses/ss/marikaalderton.htm Retrieved 19 - 08 - 2010

Waterloo Architecture - http://www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca/ Retrieved 14 - 09 - 2010

Portrait Pic Glenn Murcutt - http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/collection_info.php?searchtype=advanced&searchstring=:::::1\:&irn=1175 Retrieved 19 - 08 - 2010

State Library NSW - http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=874625 Retrieved 14 - 09 - 2010

Development (Colot)

Development direction of the Colot

I found that the creatures main comfort is cool climates. With its high metabolism it generates a lot of heat, air conditioning becomes an important aspect of the habitat. I took a direction towards how this concept surrounds its space.

Sectional and Planar Views (Anth)

Augmented Reality from Build AR

Planar View

Section 1
Section 2

Development (Anth)

Nest's Texture

A Cliff Swallow nest

Development of the Anth Enviroment

ANTH

* Nocternal

* Creates colonies

* Can scale vetical walls/columns with its sticky feet

Spore Creature Videos

Spore Creatures

VOKALGOK

VOKALGOK:
This Creature may look like two, however is a single entity with one mind, its eyes protrude to give sight for opposite directions. It places its food in the center area between its two torso, and has evolved its arms to naturally process and handle food effieciently.

Habitat: Vokalgoks need plenty of room to move, they are quick on their feet, so are creatures of play.

Feature: The love to dance and have evolved to appear as though it is two creatures in a perpetural dance.

LARDVAN

LARDVAN:
A creature evolved from ants, so lives in mass communities with hardly ever any privacy. the 'spikes' (on the shoulder of each leg) are primarily shells that protect its joints.

Habitat: Mainly hallways and tight compartments that encompass many families. The habitat needs to be very dark as this create is nocturnal and hardly ever goes out into the day. It builds its colonies partly below ground so its housing contains many layers unseen from the surface.

Features: Antennea, Insect sticky feet, multiple eyes for increased reaction and perception gain.

GALOPDA

GALOPDA:
This creature has ancient relatives going back to the dinosaur age. It is an extremely territorial creature that defends itself with its huge spikes and face spike. Any creature knows to well not to mess with a Galopda as it can ram its foe with a powerful charge.

Habitat: Mainly resembles a stable and running area. The food is stored in large containers that are attached to the stable protecting it from theft while it is galoping around the running area.

Features: Powerful hand grip. Grabs its prey and smashes its chin spike into the preys face killing it immediately on critical impact.

COLOT

COLOT:
Adult colots are half the size of a human but consume twice as much as they have high metabolism. The creature needs a cooloer enviroment becasue of this. They are friendly creatures that love to keep active and mingle with their fellow colots.

Habitat: Housing and buildings are generally deep into the ground as it is cooler the farther down they are. Entrances are seen on the surface scattered everywhere and real estate is far less expensive as housing can stack. It is interesting that the lower they are the more expensive the dwelling is.

Features: Large eyes for night vision, exceptional hearing, enhanced sence of kinetic movement thanks to its feathers above its ears - mainly a feature to attact the oppostite gender.

ANTH

ANTH:
An evolved species that live quite complex lives. Nocturnal creatures but primarily operate in the day light hours, though this them to reside in darks areas from time to time.

Habitat: Domesticated housing as they live much the same as humans do. They need compartmetns for rejuvenation and relaxation during the day, but work hard none the less. They fly so built in take off areas assit the Anth leaving home for a days work.

Features: Sticky feet, wings, mouth claws to crush their favourite food.