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

36 Customize Textures and Perspectives

36 TEXTURES 

ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVES

TWO-POINT PERSPECTIVES

Site Analysis- location

locations and connections

Site making in Crysis War

Site Overall view 1

Site Overall view 2

Day View 1

Day View 2

Day View 3

Putting in lightings in the site

Night Street View 1

Night Street View 2

Night Street View 3

Night Street view 4

Planning of the offices

Office of Lady Gaga

Precedent study:

centro parroquial de rivas vaciamadrid

Sketch of the office- Lady Gaga

Office of Jonathan Ive

Precedent study:

Spiral Tower by Zaha Hadid 

Sketch of the office- Jonathan Ive

Site Rethink

Site chosen: New York City - Times Square

Trials of buildings

I was thinking to design the site with the exact appearance like the Times Square, or the get the compressed cityscape idea but build in a futurism way.

I found sticking with the qualities of Times Squares would show up more characteristics of Lady Gaga, and having a stronger links to life we have. The colorful Neon Lights qualities would suggest the pop art cultures of Lady Gaga, while giving a further density to the excitement and rhythm that a landscape would suggest.  

Google sketchup- components

Here are some of the components that I built with Google Sketchup.

I am going to use these to be components of my landscape on site.

Mashup

Ease and simplicity is the art defining the sculpture. The real star explains what it's like to be alive at that time. The intersection of technology and the arts is the narrator of life. "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich” as “fanatical care beyond the obvious stuff” brings clear risks to values and structure in design. Qualities of design are not expected to be limited in a sophisticated manner. The loves for materials, processes, product architecture and construction are huge drivers in design, open with the willingness to take a snapshot of personal life to the public. Incredible pop sensibility which is defined by context, grabs your senses immediately by discovery. Commitment of lots of different wonders and expectations captures the simply amazing footage and inspires other artists to go further in their own work. This develops into more of an interest in every other kind of environment, likes the dust is shaken off. Transformative moment showing up with a sculpture is a sense of connection via the object with the designers. Young architecture seems almost like a comical conceit clearly turning our users’ previous experience to be alive. Try to imagine the design living independently for a number of platforms which have little exclusively personal space. Then the next exciting act will be new method of joining spiritual quests incredibly to live your best life. Admiration, effectiveness and context are the performance art and sculpture in the lifetime, when design and architecture at the same time become famous.

References:

Jonathan Ive-

http://designmuseum.org/design/jonathan-ive

Lady Gaga-

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984940,00.html

Oprah Winfrey-

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/oprah_winfrey/index.html

Site

Precent : Vally in New York city, where Lady gaga was born

My Valley in Sandbox

This is my first idea of the site for this experiment.

However, it wasn't successful as it didn't really show up the energetic quality of New York city.

I show rethink the site precedent which reflect the impression if New York city better.

I think a typical street in New York city would be a great idea

I post these pictures after today's tutorial suggested by my tutor James.