Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The pictures

Daytime and Nighttime

Creativity is timeless. The offices for Jonathan Ive and Lady Gaga is always energetic and powerful, like the busy Times Square. Design is alive in anytime anywhere, and it would be pushed to higher level while you put passion in it. Just like Jonathan Ive and Lady Gaga, their ideas are border-less, timeless and always happening as the focal spot for people. Being alive is part of the art. Working in office could be part of the sculpture. Ideas is possible in any dimensions, as simple as it could be.


Layout 1 and Layout 2 (Daytime)

Layout 3 and Layout 4 (Night time)







Individual pictures for zoom up

Please note that version 15 is day time and version 17 is night time.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The two lifts and table


Lift for Jonathan Ive's office
The lift for Jonathan Ive is simple, straight-forward and fast. It has a easy and clean experience for the whole travelling, by flipping off the top lid and enter in the transformative stand. The stand moves downwards and the front door is opened when it is reached. It is that simple, fast and clean.

Lift for Lady Gaga's office
The lift opens with the willingness to take a snapshot of personal life to the public. It has incredible pop sensibility which is defined by context, grabs the senses of audience immediately by discovery.
The right part of the image shows how the lift is opened for passenger to get in.
The lift for Jonathan Ive's office is simple and straight-forward. The movement is simple upwards and dowmwards for fast experiences. Simple is the best.
While for Lady Gaga, the lift goes along the bridge so she would enjoy being spotted by the public and traveled across the valley. She is alive to be part of the art. Her part of life is opened for the public and be explored in different angles. She is the sculpture.

Meeting table
Rather than mixing the two characteristics of the clients on a meeting point, I choose the way to contrast their characteristics and ideas. I think both of the clients are very subjective and smart people, they should show off their own strengths to each other when they are having a meeting. By having the furniture to speak up for the clients, it is clear for them to realize the appealing characteristics each other and the new degrees of life which would be introduced by each other. It is much stronger to reinforce the key strengths of both clients and create a inspiring contrasting strong space for them to be more creative and bold for new designs and ideas.

Jonathan Ive's office

I have redesigned Jonathan Ive's office in a more simplistic way, with sharp colors inspired by the Oma Seattle Library and the Mac colors.
mac colors

Oma Seattle Library

Jonathan Ive's office

Site

I have rebuilt the site. I have picked a district of Times Square in New York City and build it by referring to Google map and online pictures.  I have also added in details like posters, pop-outs and commercials and make it as busy, energetic and colorful like Times squares does.
The below pictures are the day-view of the site, I am going to create some night views with lighting after having all my design done on site.
The two offices will be built on top of the building, while Jonathan Ive's office would be in a convenient spot, suiting his simple and fast attitude; and Lady Gaga's office would be involved in the city, to be enjoyable for her to be hugged by crowds.
Bird view

Street View 1
Street View 2

Street view 3 (Eye level)

Street view 4 (Eye level)

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Rethinking Jonathan Ive's office

oma seattle library
Having feedback from James, Jonathan Ive's office should be more simple.
I have reconsidered the office shape to be overlapping with different rectangular forms and the shifts of forms would be the intersection and movements which Ive is merging with art and technology.
The whole building would be like a sculpture tracking the transformative movements.
Simplicity does make Architecture.
James had suggested me to consider more about the landscape of Times Squares. During class, I tried to rebuild a rough site. The proportion of buildings, roads and empty place was better than my previous one. And James had suggested me to have me site more likely to Times Squares with the layout of streets. And so I rebuilt it after class, and trying to study more about the site.

Bridge

This is the old version of my past design.
I didn't use it for my final.





two offices

This is the old version of my past design. The office for Lady Gaga is remained while the office for Jonathan Ive is changed. 




Office of Lady Gaga
A sculpture to open the private to the public
in different angles


Office in site 




Office of Jonathan Ive
Ease and Simplicity 
the intersection of technology and life


Office in site

The two offices