The third skin

2nd Project: The Third Skin: Breathing Architecture


Project Background

Bangkok 2020
Temperature have increased
Sea temperature have increased
Sulfate aerosols have increased
Carbon pollution have increased

Assignment
The Third Skin
Buildings are our third skin. To survive we need shelter from the elements using the three skins. The first is provided by our own skin, the second by layer of clothes and the third is building.



Despite the changed cultural, economic, building technological and energetic parameters, the principal task of architecture is still to create a comfortable “shelter”. In other words, the fundamental aim of building is to protect people from external climate conditions, such as intensive solar radiation, extreme temperatures, precipitation and wind. The building skin is the primary subsystem to prevail the external conditions that can be influenced and regulate to meet the comfort of the user inside the building.

This project student are asked to reevaluate and transform the design of Bangkok Book Park project by address the following question,
1. Function: What is the practical purpose of the building skin?
2. Construction: What are the elements/ components of the building skin and how are these elements assembled into a whole?
3. Form: What does the building skin look like?
4. Ecology: What is the energy consumption of the building skin?

Taking the whole existing Mochit outdoor park and ride lots, The Third Skin will investigate the relationship of building skin as a separating and linking element between inside and outside: reflections on function of the building skin. Students are specifically asked to re-enclose the building from the preceding assignment. Technical necessities are considered, such as the function of building skin as a protective skin, a membrane defending a building from undesirable environmental conditions.

more works

Sketch design Monday 29, December 2008

What to bring on monday 29th, December 2008

- 100lbs white paper
- Coloring tools : markers, pencil colors, water colors
- Modeling tools : PK paper, card paper, balsar wood, glue, cutter

we will meet at the studio around 10 am.

models

Bangkok Book Park

What should be the library of 21st century?

0.1 Contextual Intervention
Students have to analyze the given context and establish the strategy in order to define the boundary for the site within the total area of the outdoor park and ride lots. By setting up your own criteria for choosing the site, each of the students will address the different issues for site selection, thus the notion of intervention between the existing infrastructural networks as well as the relationship between the existing program (the parking lots and the opposite commercial space across the street) need to be established in your design statement.

0.2 Programmatic Intervention

“The body net will be connected to the building net,the building net to the community net,the community net to the global net.

From gesture sensors worn on our bodies to the world wide infrastructure of communications satellites and long-distance fiber,the elements of the bitsphere will finally come together to form onedensely interwoven system within which the knee bone is connected to the I-bahn.”
William J. Mitchell, City of Bits


From autobahn to Infobahn, the internet era has been transformed our lifestyle tremendously. Not only it changes our lifestyle, but also change the way we use the space as well. Therefore the notion of intervention will be address again in terms of how the programmatic requirement of the library has been affected by the use of technological network or how we can use technology in order to enhance its adaptability to suit our lifestyle more. Students have to reinterpret the notion of “Library for the 21st century” and create the solution that responds with the lifestyle of the expected users.

presentation

Today we have the mid review.