Noor Abid_2016-02-19

Façade explorations:
The aim was incorporating some of water characteristics within the
façade system, including the wave-like motion, and the transparency of
water. The explorations have also looked at ways on how to encourage
people moving within the zone in order to experience different views.
Movement was approached through allowing views at some parts of the
facade and block them fully and/or partially at others, using a pattern
system that involves opaque, transparent, and translucent panels, placed
in a rhythm that expresses the wave-like action.
Exploration-1-
Involves a fully
glazed system, consists
of panels with different
transparencies. The
opaque and transparent
ones are positioned at
the highest level where
the high summer sun
hits. Clear glazing,
however, is allowed at
the middle and the lower
levels where they
alternate with opaque and
transparent panels.
Opacity changes take the wave
motion which let peoples’ visions
Figure 7.49 sections through façade system-1
Illustrating vision movement when walking
along the facade
experience the same movement. Panels layout allows people to
experience clear views (at the high level) and obscured views (at the lower
level) when standing at one spot, and after moving few steps on the same
level, clear-obscured views change to obscured-clear, giving that visual
movement experience.
Figure 7.48 Water façade -1 transparency pallet and initial sketch
Figure 7.50 Water façade -1- test render
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