Field Trip 2: Feburary 3, 2016_Journal Week2

IAC Building

Material: glass, steel, wood, stone, concrete

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The building had interesting gradation pattern glass (ceramic frit windows) all over the building.  The window is installed very carefully by considering the natural light to come in.  The major structure of the building is supported by the tilted columns and straight columns that are arranged according to the building’s unique twisted and tilted design. the building is circularly twisted.  The floor is made out of multiple shifted rectangular concrete pieces that are very smoothly casted (no bubbles).  In general, the building was designed very clean and modern style by having minimum tones for materials.  For example, only white walls, beige concrete floor, steel, glass; utilising minimum materials?

100 11th Ave

Material: steel, glass

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The building has very unique systematic windows all over the building.  Each windows are angled, so each of them have different light reflection.  The each units in the building will have different experience with their unique windows.  It changes optic.
100 11th ave
Apple Store, 14th Street
Material: glass, steel, aluminium, stone, wood
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The apple store always focus the design on their stair feature.  They have unique glass stair case, which constructed with at leat 3 different thickness of glass that casted.  Each glass pieces are fixed by steel screw that makes the simple and elegant design representing Apple.  using glass, everything is visible so the connection between glass pieces are important to design well.  They also have floor made out of real stone that has very clean texture, and black matte aluminium plates finished by anodising on each columns.  Overall, they have very simple design with out any patterns but preferring modern design.
Standard Hotel, High line
Material: stone, marble, glass, ceramic, wood, leather
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The building have lot of different design and colors are used.  The design combination was interestingly working well.  I would say the design of each surface in the building was very unique and differentiated.  Since it is a hotel, they focused on decorations such as ceramic pattern dividers in the lobby.  The mirror ceiling reflects the decorations of everything, but the mirror is colored with pink that soothe the complicated reflection.
standard hotel
– very tight  marble floor
-stone walls
-ceramic decoration
-mirror on the ceiling
—-tinted pink glass??
-film on the window
– rumber side cutted pattern floor
-leather and cusion feeling ceiling
Whitney
Material: stone, glass, concrete, steel
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The museum is majorly made out of casted concrete that are brought inside to the center of the building.  As a result of casting, the surface is very clean and smooth.  The stone floor is very unique that it has holes located at the edges of four rectangular concrete pieces meet.  the stone is not polished, and it kept rough surface for slip resistance.  The space has very high ceiling with high columns, which goes through the ceiling.

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