design research: sustainability

design research: 10 buildings

1. This building is the signature towers in dubai. They were designed by Zaha Hadid and are 75,65, and 55 stories high. I like how they are bent out and look like they are defying gravity. they are a very shiny metal that make it look like mirrors.

2. This is the 0-14 building. It's 23 stories tall. I think the circles make it look very organic. It reminds be of a bee-comb. It looks much taller then it is. It won't be completed until 2009 and i'm very excited to see it completed.

3. Can we say awesome!!! This is the dynamic architecture tower designed by David Fisher. It will be 68 stories tall and completed in 2010. I love the spin at the bottom. It makes it look interesting, yet at the same time gives the building a sense of movement. It's in a dark brown, reflective color which makes it stand out. It all gives it a natural look, like a giant red wood tree.

4. This is Burj Dubai designed by SOM, and it's a monster. This is the tallest building in the world at a towering 160+ stories. I like how portions of the tower break off and stop short. It starts with a huge base and ends in a small needle point. It gives it a mountain like look with it's jagged plateaus along it's structure.

5. This Al Sharq and is 100 stories tall. It looks very industrial and fragile. There are 9 huge tubes seamlessly put together. It looks as if it should be very small because it's made of just tiny tubes connected. The tubes are broken up in layers, which makes it's distance look very long. there is shiny metal at the very top, which would make it stand out.

6. This is the Burj Al Alam. It starts with a wide base and curves in to form a slender" waist." this makes it slightly resemble a stretched out human torso. It ends with jagged, petal like shapes at the very top. this adds and unexpected twist to the building, like a surprise at the very end. This building will be 108 stories and completed in 2010.

7. This building is amazing! It is the Dubai Towers and will be completed in 2010. The first time I saw these I couldn't believe this was going to be a real building. These curving structure defy everything I can imagine about design. I think this is the most unique building i've ever seen. I would travel all the way to dubai just to see this building. It has a goldish color to it that give a sense of fire to it.

8. This is the Time Residence and s 30 stories tall. this is a very elegant building, and added to that elegance is the shiny black windows that cover the entire building. It looks like a cylinder being unfolded into a flat plane. It looks very unstable at the top, but that adds to its appeal. The curve at the top is very pleasing to the eye. This building would be neat to look at no matter which angle you were at.

9. This is Bayswater and is 25 stories tall. At first this building looked kind of clunky and stable. Now when i look at it, it looks like two pillars leaning against each other. The leaning gives it a tension. It looks like what a building would look like after an earthquake.

10. This is Pentonium and is 120 stories tall. It has small triangular jut outs that are on the middle of the building. It looks like waves rippling through the buildings. The blue color of it give it a classy look. This building would look very cool at night with all the lights on inside of it.

All these buildings are the buildings of the future. They will be in Dubai. I chose these ten because they were all very unique.

A different perspective: tokyo, Japan

Tokyo has always been a dream city to me. It seems to be so big that you would get lost in it. So when I came across an article that was on the design of recent developments in Tokyo I was thrilled. Japanese have always admired the architecture of New York City. They love the timeless look of all the buildings. They actually hired an architect from manhattan to build the new development in Roppongi Hills. This used to be a feudal lord's land. Then it was used for the defense system in Japan. When the city bought this land it was one of the most expensive land transactions ever. Now Roppongi Hills is a thriving business center with offices, 5 star hotels, and shopping complexes. Around 40% of Tokyo is open to the public. Thet made sure to incorporate nature into their design. They saved 170 full grown trees from the site. There is also beautiful landscape and waterfronts in Roppongi Hills. This project was supposed to get people to move back into the city. Lately there has been a trend, since the 1970s, that people are moving out of the city and into the suburbs. This space is supposed to be an incentive to draw people back into the city.

design research: 10 interiors

I love this room! The carpet gives it ons of movement, like the room is constantly shifting. the bed looks very comfortable and different. I like how the mattress sits in the bed instead of on top of it. The dark picture behind the bed draws your eye up to the ceiling. The light above the bed is the highlight of the room. I love how it looks like tons of little balls floating overhead. I think the whole room is held together by the white bed frame.

This room has a very organic feel to it mixed with and old, antique feel. They have curving structures hung down from the ceiling, which makes it look like you're under water. The bright, dramatic lights are placed throughout the balcony. They look kind of dangerous, with the sharp, straight edges. My favorite part of this room is the wall of the balcony. The layered, lighted circles are a great detail. I like the curving layers og the banister. I think this room has a very art nouveau style to it.


I'm a huge fan of japanese design. I think they always use the simplicity to it's max. At first the room looks dark and confined, but as you explore it more it looks very spacious. The round skylight casts very interesting shadows all over the room. I think the best part of the room is the smooth, white sculpture set in the corner. The roundness of this object is exaggerated by the shadows from the skylight.

The top of this structure has a very skeletal feel to it. It looks like columns split off into branches which hold up the ceiling. The frame at the top casts great curved shadows on the floor. The huge, round flag structures flap in the wind. This makes the room feel refreshing, and somewhat magical. I think it's great that they used very beautiful designs in the material.

This room is very quiet. It has a very serene atmosphere. The black rods at structure to the room, while the bamboo echoes a natural structure. The lights in the rocks on the floor give a nice, calm glow to the space. I like how the put a very natural strip into this very human space.

The colorful windows make this space very playful. The colored windows would cast awesome shadows on the ground. it would be really fun to climb the staircase and gaze out the different windows through the colors.

I love the motif of circles throughout the room. It really brings the room together. The ceiling mimic each other because they're both made out of wood. The ceiling curves up which makes the room feel very open. The striped carpet draws your eyes across the room. The main focus of the room is the gorgeous, class chandelier hanging above. I love how different this light looks.

This is part of a building built in the sixties, meant for whale gazing. There is a carved out circle in the middle that the couch sits in. There is a long table that cuts the room in half. The curved ceiling gives you a safe, protected feeling. The fireplace seems like a huge comfort and adds to the relaxing atmosphere of the room.

I don't think i could walk through this hallway without getting teary-eyed because it's so beautiful. These are some of my favorite colors. I love how the fade into different colors. The jaaged edged give it a glacier-like feeling. This would be like walking through a jem.

This interior reminds of walking on water. The carpet reminds of ripples and it gives the room a sense of movement. The bright colors are balanced out by the white walls and furniture. The furniture is very irregular and seems only held together by the fact that all the pieces are white. This is a very eye-popping room and I would really like to be in this room and enjoying the enviroment.

design research: 10 graphic designs/layouts

This is a very striking add. It has a huge contrast to it with placing something so structured into a very organic enviroment. The product in the middle has rectangles that are placed perfectly apart.

This add is very clean. The girl sitting on the couch is wearing all white, along with white hair. This is a very nice detail. A big surprise in this add is that the text is brown. I would think they would go for the traditional black text.

This add uses only the product and nothing else to guide your eye. I like all the different stripe on the couch and the pillows. The use of color helps draw you eye where it needs to go. i love the simplicity of the layout.

Flipping through a magazine you almost never see a pink add. I like the tropical feel of the add and the very casual text. I also like really cool fish up in the corner. There is only one white one, which gives it a neat pattern.

This is an advertisement that really caught my eye. All the little holes and shapes are cut out of the paper. I think this gives it a very unique look and the colors are very bold. It makes me want to not only look at it, but touch it as well. It is made of very thick paper which feels cool and makes the ad easy to find. The magazine naturally opens to this page because of how think the paper is.

This ad looks very sleek and put together even though it has tons of hearts all over it. It looks organized and like it has some kind of rhythm. The hearts are arranged in a pattern, yet they still look somewhat random. I think this ad is very appealing because it only has implied lines, and the shapes guide you eyes.

This is a layout for an article. I like the organic/teardrop shapes that hold the title. I also like how the shapes are shaded and how they fit together. The pictures at the bottom draw your eye across the page.

This ad is like eye candy. It all flows together somehow. You start with a black chair and end up with a red flower. I think the transition was done very well. You can follow it and it doesn't look like 3 random pictures stuck together. I also like how the images are seperated between a thin white line. This makes the ad look very clean.

time capsule drawings

My drawings turned out very geometric. I like how structured they are and i really tried to represent the space as best i could. The space is in the front lobby, right when you walk in. Light shining through the cut out letters is a huge part of my design so my project will be mounted in the window, second from the bottom, all the way to the left. The drawings were too small to put letters in so i made my project the darkest thing on the page so it would pop out and get your attention. I'm really sorry but I can't get my images to stay rotated, so they're all sideways.

orthographic view

I did mt drawing in 1 1/2 scale. I tried to give a sense of how the letters looked on the fabric, but that was very hard to do. My time capsule is pretty 2-dimensional so this drawing wasn't so hard from the side and the top. I tried to arrange all my drawings so they all lined up.