Olympic Architecture

This building reminds me of a spider web or a bird nest. This building is like a bird nest. And its a stadium. And its located in Beijing. This is a beautiful building. For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/                   

The Farnworth House

                                The Farnworth house well today in Architecture class we watched a documentary about the Farn worth house and how it was build and who was the architecture. This was house cost six million dollars to be build and it was only for one person. And it was for a lady. This house has two bathrooms and one kitchen.This house has a  beautiful view of the forest and the river that is near there. It's made  by glass so when you go inside it feels like if your outside. For more information about this you can go on their website.      http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/                                                                               

The Future On Track Project

Well the past few days in our Architecture class we had to do a project  about a Pavilion. My team chose  to do a pavilion in a cylinder shape because that's not seen in Pavilions. Well our pavilion has two circle shapes and there is a small circle and a big circle. We decided that our pavilion is going to be made out of PVC Pipes and Bamboo. If this pavilion would be build in real life it would be located at Governor Island. The small pavilion is going to be for presentations and in the bigger pavilion is for like the people to be sitting at. Behind the bigger pavilion there is a window that is like four feet tall and it would help for the people that would want to see the presentation from outside or because they didn't get a seat. The small pavilion has tracks that would help it get into the big pavilion in case of a rain day.                                                          

Everest Sketch

Today in our Architecture class we had to sketch our last sketching picture. What we had to sketch was the inside and the outside of our school. In  this picture is the front of the school.

Roman Architecture

Roman had a lot of architecture and old architecture. But also they are beautiful buildings. For an idea of  Roman architecture:                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_architecture                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHD2Hgwzyxg  or                                                                                            

Arches and Arcades

arcade is a series of arches carried by columns or pier a passageway between arches and a solid wall. A Arch supports a heavy  building.They are also in different shapes.                                                                 

Field trip to Treasure Island

 In our field trip to Treasure Island was fun but also had a lot of architecture about different buildings in the Treasure Island and also in San Francisco .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island,_San_Francisco

100 Ideas That Changed Architecture

In chapter 8(stair case) what it talks about is the function of stairs and how they can be make out off. In 1888 Gottfried Semper included  no less than seven enclosed fire protected stairs are still central to orches trating movement through many public building like theaters and halls. I think stairs are important and elegant sometimes to houses or other things that are more than one floor. And they are also helpful and they have a meaning like if you go upstairs means like if you are going to heaven and like if you have staiirs in like a garage then it means like your walking to hell.                                                                                                                                                                   

Hagia Sophia Haiku

Hagai Sophia                                                                                                                                      was a big building.                                                                                                                                       And successful                                                                                                               

Haiku

                                          Islamic Architecture                                                                                     They have a lot of beautiful buildings                                                                                                          For example the Taj Mahal tomb.                                                                                     

Haiku

Arches                                                                                                                                             were important in Ancient buildings. 

Haiku

                      Ancient, Indians                                                                                                                   Is so ancient like Romans                                                                                                                        and have a cultural beauty.                                                                                                                       

100 Ideas That Changed Architecture

The Chapter that i read was about floor. This was basically talking about the Siena Cathedral and how they used the floor and how nice it looks and why its important.And example of a type of floor can be a ground floor. Floor's can be make out of different types of materials like cement,wood, and more other things. Floors can be desinged in different ways.Something that i think about floor is that its really important. 

Haiku

                                                                                                                                                                                              Something we did in class today  was a Haiku. To those people's that don't know what a Haiku you can go to this website for more information about Haiku.      http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/pdf/dec05_unit/whatishaiku.pdf . An example of a Haiku i did was 'The Egypt thingies?Tells a story of their life's? Why are them  here?                                                                                                                  

'Why Architecture matters'

Last night in my reading on 'Why architecture matters'  is that in the book they were comparing  how architecture can have things in common with the space. It also talks about the difference between natural and artificial light. In the Pantheon, you feel as if the world revolves around you even if you are not in the very center of the great circle it's all natural light. The very top of the dome lands on the floor in the form of a round disc of sun. 

   

Therme Val's

The Therme Val's is located in Switzerland .The Therme Val's is a spa and also a hotel. And its really nice and i think people go to relax in there since there is no clocks in there so people can relax. I like the idea of how its in the inside and its really cool and i also like the colors of the walls.

standford field trip

Today our class had a field trip and it was to Standford .I had to learn things about the Standford Church. I learned a lot of things about the Standford Memorial Church is located in the center of the campus.Jane Standford built this church,as a memorial to her husband. The church is open for everyone. This church was built on 1903. This building was built during the American Renaissance. Back then they used to called it "the university's architectural crown jewel". It's build by stained glass windows and extensive mosaic. 

Last time in class we talk about how some architectures get inspired by things to build things. One example can be the Sydney Opera House.The Sydney House the architecture that did it he was inspired by the boats that passed there since its closed to the water. The Sydney Opera House is near the water.And it's one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.