EXP 02 Week 02: Flipped up Floor Plan

The Task:
To take a floor plan from a building and convert it into a section drawing. Then develop the university building in SketchUp from section.


My chosen building is the Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid. Her architecture has always struck out to me as it provides a much more dynamic shape to buildings, contrasting from the straight, tall, boring ones we see day to day.

Her museum is no exception.


The zigzag floor plan was quite interesting and provided a clear way to generate a university space above pedestrian height.


By rotating the floor plan, the foundation for the additional pieces began to show clearly.


The Sketchup Model and Lumion Render of the first iteration of my design is as below.

EXP 02 Week 1.5: Massing Elements

This weeks task was to add additional pieces to the circulation cross to interact with the environment more.

Realising my mistake from last weeks model where each face was the same texture, I made the effort to alter the face material of each and every face in Sketchup before taking it over to Lumion. I thought that this enabled me to keep my options open in Lumion where a larger variety of materials were avaliable to me.

I also added trees and students from the Lumion objects folder, adding to the context of lower campus. However, I forgot to extend one of the arms of the cross, resulting in the bridge component missing in this render.

South Elevation as viewed from the Squarehouse Path

View from Bustop/Car south bound

View from pedestrian crossing across ANZAC Parade