Project: Vernon’s Vectors
Designed by Daniel Cheng Lee & Jae Hwan Lee
Location: Vernon, California, USA
Website: www.danielleearchitect.com
For their Vernon’s Vectors Daniel Cheng Lee & Jae Hwan Lee took the possibility of creating a city's new landmark very seriously, thus exploring the way a building such as the their design could influence the urban infrastructure. Fore more images and architects description continue after the jump:
About the Project:
Vernon’s Vectors is a re-interpretation conceived by Daniel Cheng Lee and Jae Hwan Lee of how a building may deal with architecture on an urban scale. Rather than relying on the surrounding context of the city to begin addressing the project’s behavior, a singular yet versatile design system is implemented to influence the surrounding context to create an iconic image for the city – an inside out approach to urban systems.
From an initial urban analysis of Vernon, California, the notion of the curve is extracted, abstracted, and injected back onto the city as a generative component. The spline is then exploited to create a tower and museum with intelligence gained from the high-rise and medium building studies. Specifically, The programmatic spaces found within the tower and museum are parametrically generated by means of controlled rotational repulsion that are extruded in the Z axis to create three dimensional space. The tower vertically tackles issues of the blend between interior space vs.
exterior envelope, structural feasibility, figure-ground relationship and scale through coalescence and dispersion. The museum, on the other hand, uses the curve to address atmospheric effect and scale via a fiber optic lighting system in which the shapes of the extruded profile faces are determined by gallery spaces and circulation. These processes are threaded together in hopes of creating an iconic figure for the city of Vernon.
via : http://www.archiscene.net/museum/vernons-vectors-daniel-lee-jae-lee/
exterior envelope, structural feasibility, figure-ground relationship and scale through coalescence and dispersion. The museum, on the other hand, uses the curve to address atmospheric effect and scale via a fiber optic lighting system in which the shapes of the extruded profile faces are determined by gallery spaces and circulation. These processes are threaded together in hopes of creating an iconic figure for the city of Vernon.
via : http://www.archiscene.net/museum/vernons-vectors-daniel-lee-jae-lee/