Materials and the development of Drawings.

Materials - 

The materials used for exterior and interior design range from:

  • Limestone (Portland limestone),

  • Marble (Carrara white marble, Thassos white marble, Fior di Bosca grey marble, Boticcino cream marble).
 
 

  • Glass (Solar control glass).

  • Brass.

  • Granite





For the aesthetics of Luxury apartment, its entire exterior would be made out of marble. I would be purely white with no grain or veins so Thassos white marble is the ideal choice which is famous for being amongst the whitest marbles around the world. 

The glass would be a hi-tech solar control glass that would be paramount in reflecting the heat off the building. 

The buildings interior would be made primarily of limestone for all its columns. Its interior color pallet is white (portland limestone), grey (fior di bosca marble) and cream (boticcino marble) and follows that continuous order from the ground to 8th floor (first white, then grey then cream).

The department store Would have the same white aesthetic but this would be more unique as the curvature on its domes would gleam more in the day light. I think this add more to the ethereal feeling I try to express with its design. 

The columns in the department store for support are all black granite. This will be the only dark aesthetic in the entire building, this could cause a minute but prevalent contrast across its interior. Everything else in the building would be white Portland limestone and white Carrara marble. 

The glass on this building is also a hi-tech solar control glass. 

The use of brass is purely for design aesthetics. Brass would be used for the flying buttress like design which connects from the rim on the building to the top dome. This design feature is made from glass and brass this can purely be ornamental as it has no functional purpose. Brass would also be implemented for the star design on windows on the 4th and 5th floors.

Building 1 (Luxury apartment) - 

The first six rows in this building are composed in the parallelogram of a square and its dimensions and aesthetic curves protruding outwards from the first to sixth row. The ethos of classicism and Gothic can be a bases for me to form my own unique design and forms, from constant peering and analyzing and then creating my own twist or unique shape. The inner lines of this drawing illustrate its initial composition and its outer more curvy lines show its actual form. 

 


Building 2 (Department store) - 

For my second building, its idea was also from the expression of form and shape. The top six floors consists of an infusion of three domes, each smaller and more elongated the higher they go forming a triangle like composition. At the bottom half of the building its inward slanted lines at both the top and base lean in the same angle with an inward curvature in the middle of these. There are several columns around this; slightly curving inwards to reach the long windows at each section, but forming an acute edge outwardly. Although, they are not really columns but part of the buildings shape. Between the building is a disk like rim that forms a ring on the building.













                                      

Picture reference list: 

Szerelmey, (2018), A two-faced building!
Available at:
https://www.szerelmey.com/two-faced-building/ 
(Accessed 6th October 2021).

Larrotcha. S, (n.d.), Types of marble.
Available at:
https://www.tinostone.com/types-of-marble/
(Accessed 6th October 2021). 

IQ glass, (n.d.), Solar control glass.
Available at:
https://www.iqglassuk.com/products/solar-control-glass/s14984/ 
(Accessed 6th October 2021). 

Archcouncil, (2016), "Moscow city" complex to be completed with a building of obscure glass and brass. 
Available at:
https://archsovet.msk.ru/en/article/archcouncil/moscow-city-complex-to-be-completed-with-a-building-of-obscure-glass-and-brass
(Accessed 6th October 2021). 

Alamy, (n.d.), Granite columns. 
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https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/granite-columns.html
(Accessed 6th October 2021). 

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