建筑元素之美探索

We often look at buildings and architecture as a finished product with great renders and glamorous finishes. Structural elements and construction elements are considered ugly and they should be carefully concealed.

Many of us forget the fact that without them, the building has lost its skeletons and flesh, like a human body with just skin on.

Too often we draw up some beautiful forms without asking ourselves "so how can I construct this form"?

This project aims to explore the beauty of a building's elements including structural, secondary and envelope.

The art lies in the way each element is joined with another, one on top of another to generate a shelter you can safely nest under.

Instead of showing beautiful renders, I want to celebrate the magnificient world of structure. Yes, they are raw, rough and boring, yet the more you look into them, the more amazed you would be. Sometimes I just find myself smiling at a simple bolt joints between two steel elements.

By having the project in black and white, I want you to really examine each element for its own shape and its connection to another element rather than for what colour it represents.

Colour tends to distract me from understanding other aspects of an object.

The naked monster

Have you ever wonder what a post-tension slab look like? Or generally what is inside the slab in your house?

Or maybe just what's behind the CFC cladding of the external wall?

This gives me the vibe of some futuristic factory in space, or industrial side. But this is what inside a post-tension slab. Some post-tension strands running along the slab which would be pulled at anchor head after concrete is poured into the formwork. And of course those meshes are steel reinforcement to provide tensile support to the slab.

How are these steel I-beams and U-beam connected is still keep me curious everyday