Louise Mounier

Folded structures

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:11:53 +0000

This is from a group workshop held at the school last year. It was held by the guys from Oooja.

The assignment was to learn Grasshopper with Rhino and create shapes by using Grasshopper’s graphical algorithm, and cutting the model on a laser cutter. We have tried to test our ideas in Grasshopper/Rhino, hand sketches and in smaller handmade models. Because it is a very complex shape, we have developed most of our proposal in Grasshopper, tweaking and turning the parametric modelling.

The Pier 2 at Aarhus harbour was our site. The project was to design a parametric architectural landscape for recreational activities.

Folded shapes were to cover the area, and we had to implement a lookout point, an open-air swimming pool and a pathway through it.

We are covering the whole area with one shape, which is changing depending on the location on the site. The shape is a square in the bottom, where the top is rotated. The height, top shape, rotation and the distribution of the shapes on the site varies depending on an attractor curve, which also forms a pathway through the landscape.

The water seeps in through the cracks, making the edge porous. The open-air water pool is created, because of the sloping surface letting the water in. The shapes are flooded and the tops pop up. From here you can jump from top to top or use them as offsets to go into the sea.

The highest point in the 3D model is the lowest on the site, because it becomes the bottom of the pool. The lookout point northeast is the area, where the shapes are lowest, so from here you have a good view of the sea and further away Mols. It is the only place that is open. The landscape is closed around itself, and viewers from outside can not see exactly what is happening inside.

UrbanRAW Ridehuset Festugen 2011

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:50:48 +0000

A workshop we had in October. We had to build light machines that was put up at Ridehuset during our exhibition at Festugen October 2011. This semester is all about materials, building big mock ups etc., so it was a good start on the semester. We had to put up a big scaffolding structure that could contain each one of our boxes.

Pallet Pavillion – model edition

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:00:24 +0000

Here are some model photos from my semester project on M+SE studio (Materiality and Spatial Experience).

Pallet Pavillion

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:15:33 +0000

This semester project. Skejby Sygehus is in the process of building a big new hospital extension. Therefore they will need a pavillion that is going to be there for the next 7-8 years, while they are building. It is going to be an exhibition space, mock up area, learning center and a link between the public and the construction site. I have this semester been working with an exchange student, so this is a result of our work. Chase, my partner, has made the rendering material named “Front”.

I have been making a lot of models this semester, they will get their own post.

CFU – center for uddannelse skanderborg

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:50:47 +0000

Yet a project from my time as an intern at KRADS Architecture. Center for education in Skanderborg/Odder south of Aarhus. The existing school needed an extension with 8 new class rooms, an art room and workshop, administration, study counseling and a new main entrance. I have not made the renderings, but worked on the other drawings as well as the design.

Kløvermarken

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:13:02 +0000

Winning proposal for en extension of an elder center. It is going to be build this year, which is very exciting. It was the first project I participated in at my intership at KRADS Architecture. I have not made the renderings, but it gives a good impression of the project.

Falkonergårdens Gymasium

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:49:30 +0000

Here are some pictures from a project I made as an Intern at KRADS Architecture last year. I was in the design developing process together with another intern. We worked on the project for a couple of months. It is not my renderings, but it gives a better idea of the project. I worked on the finished drawings.

It was an open competition that the studio participated in. The winning proposal was from the architects Tage Lyneborg, Høgni Hansen og Carl Th. Lyneborg. Every proposal can be seen here.

Falkonergårdens Gymnasium

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:57:12 +0000

I have just finished the last competition during my internship at KRADS Architecture. The gymnasium desperately needs more space, because more and more students are attending the school. They needed 6 class roms, common areas and a new big sports hall, because some of the students are a part of the Team Danmarks sports programme.

Our project is competing against 98 other projects, so I look forward to the day they announce the winners!

And looking forward to showing our project on my portfolio

Inception

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:25:20 +0000

Science Fiction, dream incubation, illusion, perception of reality, memories, beautiful scenerys, twisted architecture, christopher nolan. Do see it!

Internship at KRADS Architecture

admin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:29:00 +0000

Right now (september 2010 to january 2011) I am working as an intern at KRADS Architecture in Mejlgade Århus. It’s very busy in a different way from the school. I learn a lot and it’s very nice to see how things work outside the school. In the period I have been working here, we have won a 1st, and a 2nd prize. Not that bad! Actually I can’t wait to see the building in real life! Real bricks, not just a thing in your computer/head.

I will post pictures of our projects soon. Or take a look at krads.info and guess (not completely updated though )

Psst! I have updated my bachelor post with a lot of pictures from my model making process. Maybe I’ll throw in some more sketches, when I find them. But until now, that’s all I got from my crack house.