Sunday, August 8, 2010


taipan is dead... rhythm concepts are l i v i n... hope all is well champeeze's am posting thin and hoping i can use it as a "html" whater that means... peace out players

Monday, November 10, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

hey kids,

Finally got that facade cut. Due to the scale of the model it only left the frame between the tesselations to be 1mm thick. this means that when when the machine cuts the cardboard will tear baceuse it loses it sstructural integrity.

So to make it possible i had the tessalations cut thorugh 90% of the card so i am going to have to go through and cut each one out by hand the other 10%. Shouldn't be too much of a drama. i will do it over the weekend.

what i am going to do is make an overhead transparancy to stick behind the cut tesselations with the corrisponding program of each cell represented. e.g alucobond, glazing etc...

LOOKS SWEET!

hope you boys hit it hard last night. But we must actually hit it massively another night. maybe next fridat for final year exhibition?

peace out players!

respect, Tim

Sunday, November 2, 2008


TAIPANS.


just in intense negotiation with engineering at the moment. tryin my hardest to get this model cut out. I might just remind him that if he dont help me ill be sending over old greg to keep him company.


tails crossed, ill push on.
Legends

heres the equation
Team- these are text sizes for annotations
1:100 = 180
1:50 = 90
1:20 = 36
1:10 = 18
1:2 = 9
1:1 = 4.5
Have almost everything done by tomorrow (minus cross referencing)
Peace out players

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Taipans

not much to report...one week to go kids- get those annotations going for tomorrow's date with destiny. keep up the good work and such and post up and work you may do to the email, keep on keeping on. Try for all drawings complete by friday in order to start annotations on Sat

Get to work punks

Sunday, October 19, 2008


Nice one lads




my apologies about lateness today, you will be happy to know that the whipper snipping around my house has been sorted out for another three months- Now...





As Glenny went through on Thursday The plan is as follows (think timmy may have been the only one to miss out) but you sir are doing Details of Doors/ Thresholds, Wet areas, Lobby and Bar section details, you are more than welcome to do any other details that you find necessary- may need to focus on one area (i suggest reading area).


Other things to ponder- am just sorting out second floor, will have it completed by tomorrow. Will start skin detailing and putting in pattern (make final plans for skin), Timmy with the thresholds should focus on folding of skin, waiting room [entrance], Benny has stuck up his hand for the Specs job, but make it easier for him by specifying on drawings materiality.

The pictures are of the Spanish Pavillion at the 2005 Expo- note colour and patterning
Peace out players

Thursday, October 16, 2008

TEAM PLAN



As we found out by watching the mighty ducks in years past it is very important create a plan for smashing this assignment out. I will spend the the weekend coming up with a great plan that would rival any mighty ducks "V" formation. Lets stick to our guns and follow what a wise man once told me, "lets stick it right up them"


SMASHER

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Team taipan followers
Did a site visit to Fed square on the weekend- called into "transport" and the pub 'young and... something' that surround Fed square for some inspiration. Am back from my adventures, rested and ready to smash out some sweet work.

Stay safe champeezee's
 

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

tessellation


hey team was just having a quick squiz at fed square and their patterning.
as you can see from the pic above they use the same basic shape all over but thy change the colour/material to give a pattern. i'm just thinking that we should do te same thing to make it easier, instead of trying to fit different shapes and sizes together.
have a look and decide for yourself.
have a good one, i'll see you next week

Saturday, September 13, 2008

progess



lads (and ladies)


Don't think we have mentioned the name for the boutique hotel- it is known as GRID mostly due to the urban surroundings and construction of floor plates resembling a grid.


Its been a while architecture fans- just writing to say we have a) met the structural engineer for the first time- he was happy with the building structure, suggested a few minor changes- would like us to thicken the beams, not chamfer the slab. b) talked to Terry- he has suggested doing a few more sections in order to describe what is going on in the building and c) had a talk to james- he introduced the idea of "tessellation" for our screen which will give it more character. One massive setback though has been the realization that the majority of rooms in the building face south (devo) this will have to be discussed further and in detail in order to come up with a compromise.


ps- that screen was originally 1.5m from the slab- can you kids remember why we changed it?



if keen to catch up today give us a dingle

on that note- stay safe

Sunday, September 7, 2008


HERZOG- screen?

Legends...have made a few amendments and am still in the process of smashing them out. have had a small chat with Timmy about the possibility of using sheet music as the basis for our screen (get some Mozart or Britney or anything really, enlarge and work out perforations for the notes -emboss, puncture extrude etc. what are your thoughts lads?




Am close to the end with these amendments, will be in at you-and-i-versity tomorrow for the whole day [probably in studio] get involved if not working. Glenny will definitely have revised plans up by tomorrow- probably lunchtime.




Timmy you are on the screen- details and concepts


Glenny- room (sections)


Benny- on details, joinery, operable windows


Samuel George- making amendments to sections plans and elevations




will hopefully catch you punks tomorrow


for now here is some inspiration- ps spelling has been checked the american way= the wrong way
TOYO ITO- (interiors?)


Saturday, September 6, 2008

progress

hey there sam, just wondering how those drawings are going?

when your finished just throw em up on the gmail and i'll organise them all.

catch yas

Monday, September 1, 2008

standards

team,

while the report we handed up on thursday is mostly useless the one important thing is the standards. theres a copy on the gmail account. downlaod it and keep a copy on you.

have a read through, if you dont understand any bits or think something is bullshit then tell me and we'll look at changing it.

catch yas

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Frustration with the guide

Sitting here writing this blog frustrated with the project managment report. This has been the hardest most stressful part so far.

Quickly losing sanity,

but the end is near and I can see the light
team taipan ASSEMBLE



BEN
GLEN
SAM
TIM


Gooooo Taipan



looking good lads, Timmy is on the layout, Glenny is on the documentation and Benny is finishing the model.. Leaving yours truly to hang around like a bad smell- and help out where possible.
Cant get the picture up, however Herzog and De Meuron have a sweet screen, similar to what we are aiming for. will put it up tommorow

Monday, August 25, 2008

Sunday, August 24, 2008

happenings...

Good afternoon fellow taipaners.

i gotta work tomorow boys, so i won't make the morning tutorials. shouldn't be a problem coz it's fairly smooth sailing at the moment for team taipan. shall get cracking on this model with woody today, should be great fun. posted some sections on gmail, which sammy can tinker with a bit, and hopefully replace my horrible lookin office people. i'm headin off home shortly to cook up a mean chicken shnitty sanger. alright thats the happenings.

adious amigoes.

go team taipan


heres a render of the winning design for the world expo centre in wroclaw 2012