Sean Godsell Research Paper
Personal details:
Identify a current or emerging Australian Designer
1. Describe the nature of the designer’s profession and a brief biography
Sean Godsell is an architect who obtained his masters of Architect degree from RMIT University in 1999 authorized in ‘The Appropriateness of the Contemporary Australian Dwelling’ and run a Melbourne-based architect. He has lectured in many countries including USA, UK, China, Japan, France, New Zealand and Australia. In July 2003, Godsell received a citation the President of the American Institute of Architects for his work for the homeless. In 2005, Time Magazine named him in the ‘Who’s Who -The New Contemporaries’ section of Style and Design supplement. He was the only Australian Architect in …show more content…
the group of seven designers and triumphed numerous local and international awards ever since.
Design Achievement:
Present at least three examples of the designers’ work Image: Future Shack (1985-2001) - It is relief housing for the homeless constructed from shipping container.
Image: Carter/Tucker house (1998-2000) located in Breamlea, Victoria, Australia.
Images: Edward Street House (2008 – 2012) located Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.
2a. Describe the designer’s style or trademark characteristics
Sean Godsell’s drawing style is very ragged as all of his architectural drawings consist of the simple use of thick black pen and minimal lines and shading and is not the traditional structural architecture drawing. His drawings are very clear and straight to the point visual representation of his ideas. He describe that all his buildings have an “automated skin” is the immediate signifiers of his work which are usually perforated materials (such as steel, Aluminium etc.) or repetition of horizontal or vertical wooden slats omit in external sunlight and inversely interior lights appearing from the inside.
2b. Explain where the designer derives their inspiration.
Sean Godsell travelled around Europe and Japan as a graduate while studying the exemplar architecture he learnt in University. While in Japan, he became interested in the works of architect Shinohara and Ando as most of his current design sketching are applied by Japanese design mythologies. Particularly the Japanese design principles of “Moya” and “Hisashi” apply to the properties of inner, private spaces and outer spaces of building. Using those principles, Sean Godsell integrated an Australian colonial home with the Japanese principles. His peculiar yet practical designs incorporated by innovative materials, ambiguous spaces and permeable lights, which are similar with many contemporary Japanese, architect with a fusion of western architectural characteristic. His design setting is usually in the urban area as a smart way to implement natural light from the outside to be permitted into the building of his designs like most contemporary Japanese Architects.
2c. Assess the designer’s main innovation or achievement
The M Pavilion inspired by the Serpentine Pavilion is one of Sean’s Godsell most well known project as it was main purpose was to host public functions such as talks, workshops and performances. The M Pavilion is a nomadic simple steel structure of an automated outer skin made of perforated aluminium with shiny pneumatic roofs to provide shade and shelter of up to a hundred people. Its peculiar innovation is that the structure “blooms like a flower” to its surrounding audience every morning and closes up every evening. Its interchangeable structure to adapts to the requirements of the event and flexible to be customize to the weather to shelter people. With its high rate of eye-pleasing aesthetics, the M Pavilion proves itself to be popular as it attracts many people and provides a contrast the calm botanical landscape. It is a cultural phenomenon winning him multiple awards including AIA’s National Award for Public Architecture. Design Process:
3a. Outline the technologies used by the designer to produce their designs/projects.
The technologies used by architects to produce their designs would consist of manual drafting tool to refine their rough architectural drawings. Hand Drafting tools are a drawing board, parallel and triangular rulers, led pencils, inked markers and measuring devices are basic tools to produce the drawing. The manual drafting will then be more polished using CAD (computer-aided design) software on the computer to process the writing specification, proposals and communication to consult with other construction professionals such as an engineer. Typically, most architects in architectural firms will use large format printers to print and copy their documents and computer-generated drawings.
3b. Evaluate the impact of technology has had on the designer’s work.
Manual drafting is the basic skill that an architect would learn in Architectural school, using the drawing boards are basically large desk for an architect to plan out their architectural design using a variety of different lead pencils and inked marker to create the preliminary draft design with measuring devices such as T- square, compass, dividers, triangle rulers and template to ensure accuracy in the blueprints of the design. Most architects also use architectural CAD (computer aided design) software alongside with the traditional hand drafting. CAD software enables architects to design conceptual element and tectonic layers. CAD programs is a sophisticated concept of creating virtual prototypes that permit complex engineering of the design structure to be analyzed in detail. CAD software allows architects to model the structure in 2D and 3D, which can allow the architect to speculate the certain small-scale details of the structure thus assisting how structure is to be constructed at the construction site. Other than the designing process, architects is also responsible for communicating with their clients and the construction professionals that they work with create the project, therefore office equipment such as the large format printers and photocopiers are used to print out documents from clients and architectural drawings.
3c. Describe the setting in which the designer works (domestic, community, commercial, industrial) and deduces two advantages and two disadvantages they may encounter working in this setting.
Generally, working in a commercial setting involves working with clients that hire the architect to produce the structures they want. There is a limited space of individual creativity and responsibly to organize cost estimation, time, being on budget and making sure the construction professionals working with are also on time and staying within the budget. Most architects carry a large sum of insurance in case project does not meet the requirements of the client. Economic volatility is both an advantage and disadvantage because the construction industry is heavily dependent on the economy. If the economy is depressed, the construction demand will decrease due to the lack of finances to accommodate for buildings but an inflation in the economy can boost the demands for case project and the salary of the firm as well. However, granted the opportunity to expand and create an active support system with other talented individuals from a variety of field in a disciplined and flexible process to enhance and create new innovative ideas.
Design Analysis:
4a. Analyze the impact the designers’ work has on the you (an individual), Australian society and the international market.
Sean Godsell has volunteer to design project such as the “Future Shack” in community non-profit project in a direct response to his concern about social economic matter of homeless and victims of natural disasters. It is the self-sustained re-locatable narrow housing unit set to be mass-produced for emergency, relief for refugee and cutting the rate of the homeless population domestically with Australia and internationally around the world. The Future Shack is created by using recycled shipping containers and parasol roof with steel footing embedded into the container for easy transportation. The house energy source is powered by the PV solar cell and battery. The Future Shack makes a mark in the revolution of architecture by pushing the boundaries of social economic issue. The Future Shack earned Sean Godsell recognition internationally as it is showcased as the first solo exhibition of an Australian architect in New York. Sean Godsell and the Red Cross plans to mass-produce the Future Shack in hopes of creating housing units for those in need and this truly inspires me an individual to work hard towards being an architect because of the innovative ideas that he have presented in many of his work such as the Future shack.
4b. Explain the impact the designer’s work and your research/ presentation has on the environment
Sean Godsell’s work such as the Future Shack and Bus shelter house had benefited the environment as most of his design consists of a bare minimum of industrious materials and solar powered panels. The use of recycled materials reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators thus deducing natural resources such as timber, water and minerals being used. This prevents pollution and reduces the gas emissions into the atmosphere that contribution to global climate change and the reduces the rate of raw materials manufactured; helping the preservation of the environment and its natural resources for future generations. The solar powered panels are a sustainable way of obtains infinite energy source thus reducing the dependence on fossil fuel. This reduces the carbon dioxide being released into the air, decrease of coals being burnt and the amount of water being used in electricity production and increase trees plantation.
Bibliography
Home page | SGA: Sean Godsell Architects | Sean Godsell | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://www.seangodsell.com/ [Accessed 20 May 2015].
Profile: Sean Godsell | ArchitectureAU | David Clark | 24 October 2013 | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://architectureau.com/articles/sean-godsell-of-sean-godsell-architects/ [Accessed 20 May 2015].
MPavilion 2014 | Sean Godsell Architects [WEBSITE] Available at: http://2014.mpavilion.org/mpavilion-2014-sean-godsell-architects [Accessed 22 May 2015].
JA+U | Japan Architecture+Urbanism | 2015 | [WEBSITE] Available at: https://www.japlusu.com/[Accessed 21 May 2015].
Innovation and design blend seamlessly at the opening of MPavilion - Artist Profile | Lucy Stranger | 8 October 2014 | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://www.artistprofile.com.au/innovation-design-blend-seamlessly-opening-mpavilion/ [Accessed 23 May 2015].
dAP.
2015. dAP. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.architecturalpapers.ch/index.php?ID=48 [Accessed 24 May 2015].
The Architectural Apprenticeship: Architect: Sean Godsell… | 15 March 2010 | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://thearchitecturalapprenticeship.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/architect-sean-godsell.html?_sm_au_=iVV07Lj5N5kDNHsP [Accessed 24 May 2015].
What Tools Does an Architect Use? (with Pictures) | eHow | Jennifer Roberts | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5825948_tools-architect-use_.html [Accessed 27 May 2015].
What Tools Does an Architect Use? | Chron.com | Jeffrey Joyner, Demand Media | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://work.chron.com/tools-architect-use-10408.html [Accessed 27 May 2015].
Australian architect Sean Godsell to speak for Architecture Lecture Series April 23 | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis | 11 April 2011 | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/9261.aspx [Accessed 25 May 2015].
Farewell MPavilion 2014 - YouTube | 1 February 2015 | [WEBSITE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRW1NPY6Vvc [Accessed 27 May 2015].
Casa Carter-Tucker | Modellazione e Animazione | Parte 1 di 3 - YouTube | 2 June 2013 | [WEBSITE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0yrXN52unA [Accessed 27 May
2015].
Identify a current or emerging Australian Designer
1. Describe the nature of the designer’s profession and a brief biography
Sean Godsell is an architect who obtained his masters of Architect degree from RMIT University in 1999 authorized in ‘The Appropriateness of the Contemporary Australian Dwelling’ and run a Melbourne-based architect. He has lectured in many countries including USA, UK, China, Japan, France, New Zealand and Australia. In July 2003, Godsell received a citation the President of the American Institute of Architects for his work for the homeless. In 2005, Time Magazine named him in the ‘Who’s Who -The New Contemporaries’ section of Style and Design supplement. He was the only Australian Architect in …show more content…
the group of seven designers and triumphed numerous local and international awards ever since.
Design Achievement:
Present at least three examples of the designers’ work Image: Future Shack (1985-2001) - It is relief housing for the homeless constructed from shipping container.
Image: Carter/Tucker house (1998-2000) located in Breamlea, Victoria, Australia.
Images: Edward Street House (2008 – 2012) located Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.
2a. Describe the designer’s style or trademark characteristics
Sean Godsell’s drawing style is very ragged as all of his architectural drawings consist of the simple use of thick black pen and minimal lines and shading and is not the traditional structural architecture drawing. His drawings are very clear and straight to the point visual representation of his ideas. He describe that all his buildings have an “automated skin” is the immediate signifiers of his work which are usually perforated materials (such as steel, Aluminium etc.) or repetition of horizontal or vertical wooden slats omit in external sunlight and inversely interior lights appearing from the inside.
2b. Explain where the designer derives their inspiration.
Sean Godsell travelled around Europe and Japan as a graduate while studying the exemplar architecture he learnt in University. While in Japan, he became interested in the works of architect Shinohara and Ando as most of his current design sketching are applied by Japanese design mythologies. Particularly the Japanese design principles of “Moya” and “Hisashi” apply to the properties of inner, private spaces and outer spaces of building. Using those principles, Sean Godsell integrated an Australian colonial home with the Japanese principles. His peculiar yet practical designs incorporated by innovative materials, ambiguous spaces and permeable lights, which are similar with many contemporary Japanese, architect with a fusion of western architectural characteristic. His design setting is usually in the urban area as a smart way to implement natural light from the outside to be permitted into the building of his designs like most contemporary Japanese Architects.
2c. Assess the designer’s main innovation or achievement
The M Pavilion inspired by the Serpentine Pavilion is one of Sean’s Godsell most well known project as it was main purpose was to host public functions such as talks, workshops and performances. The M Pavilion is a nomadic simple steel structure of an automated outer skin made of perforated aluminium with shiny pneumatic roofs to provide shade and shelter of up to a hundred people. Its peculiar innovation is that the structure “blooms like a flower” to its surrounding audience every morning and closes up every evening. Its interchangeable structure to adapts to the requirements of the event and flexible to be customize to the weather to shelter people. With its high rate of eye-pleasing aesthetics, the M Pavilion proves itself to be popular as it attracts many people and provides a contrast the calm botanical landscape. It is a cultural phenomenon winning him multiple awards including AIA’s National Award for Public Architecture. Design Process:
3a. Outline the technologies used by the designer to produce their designs/projects.
The technologies used by architects to produce their designs would consist of manual drafting tool to refine their rough architectural drawings. Hand Drafting tools are a drawing board, parallel and triangular rulers, led pencils, inked markers and measuring devices are basic tools to produce the drawing. The manual drafting will then be more polished using CAD (computer-aided design) software on the computer to process the writing specification, proposals and communication to consult with other construction professionals such as an engineer. Typically, most architects in architectural firms will use large format printers to print and copy their documents and computer-generated drawings.
3b. Evaluate the impact of technology has had on the designer’s work.
Manual drafting is the basic skill that an architect would learn in Architectural school, using the drawing boards are basically large desk for an architect to plan out their architectural design using a variety of different lead pencils and inked marker to create the preliminary draft design with measuring devices such as T- square, compass, dividers, triangle rulers and template to ensure accuracy in the blueprints of the design. Most architects also use architectural CAD (computer aided design) software alongside with the traditional hand drafting. CAD software enables architects to design conceptual element and tectonic layers. CAD programs is a sophisticated concept of creating virtual prototypes that permit complex engineering of the design structure to be analyzed in detail. CAD software allows architects to model the structure in 2D and 3D, which can allow the architect to speculate the certain small-scale details of the structure thus assisting how structure is to be constructed at the construction site. Other than the designing process, architects is also responsible for communicating with their clients and the construction professionals that they work with create the project, therefore office equipment such as the large format printers and photocopiers are used to print out documents from clients and architectural drawings.
3c. Describe the setting in which the designer works (domestic, community, commercial, industrial) and deduces two advantages and two disadvantages they may encounter working in this setting.
Generally, working in a commercial setting involves working with clients that hire the architect to produce the structures they want. There is a limited space of individual creativity and responsibly to organize cost estimation, time, being on budget and making sure the construction professionals working with are also on time and staying within the budget. Most architects carry a large sum of insurance in case project does not meet the requirements of the client. Economic volatility is both an advantage and disadvantage because the construction industry is heavily dependent on the economy. If the economy is depressed, the construction demand will decrease due to the lack of finances to accommodate for buildings but an inflation in the economy can boost the demands for case project and the salary of the firm as well. However, granted the opportunity to expand and create an active support system with other talented individuals from a variety of field in a disciplined and flexible process to enhance and create new innovative ideas.
Design Analysis:
4a. Analyze the impact the designers’ work has on the you (an individual), Australian society and the international market.
Sean Godsell has volunteer to design project such as the “Future Shack” in community non-profit project in a direct response to his concern about social economic matter of homeless and victims of natural disasters. It is the self-sustained re-locatable narrow housing unit set to be mass-produced for emergency, relief for refugee and cutting the rate of the homeless population domestically with Australia and internationally around the world. The Future Shack is created by using recycled shipping containers and parasol roof with steel footing embedded into the container for easy transportation. The house energy source is powered by the PV solar cell and battery. The Future Shack makes a mark in the revolution of architecture by pushing the boundaries of social economic issue. The Future Shack earned Sean Godsell recognition internationally as it is showcased as the first solo exhibition of an Australian architect in New York. Sean Godsell and the Red Cross plans to mass-produce the Future Shack in hopes of creating housing units for those in need and this truly inspires me an individual to work hard towards being an architect because of the innovative ideas that he have presented in many of his work such as the Future shack.
4b. Explain the impact the designer’s work and your research/ presentation has on the environment
Sean Godsell’s work such as the Future Shack and Bus shelter house had benefited the environment as most of his design consists of a bare minimum of industrious materials and solar powered panels. The use of recycled materials reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators thus deducing natural resources such as timber, water and minerals being used. This prevents pollution and reduces the gas emissions into the atmosphere that contribution to global climate change and the reduces the rate of raw materials manufactured; helping the preservation of the environment and its natural resources for future generations. The solar powered panels are a sustainable way of obtains infinite energy source thus reducing the dependence on fossil fuel. This reduces the carbon dioxide being released into the air, decrease of coals being burnt and the amount of water being used in electricity production and increase trees plantation.
Bibliography
Home page | SGA: Sean Godsell Architects | Sean Godsell | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://www.seangodsell.com/ [Accessed 20 May 2015].
Profile: Sean Godsell | ArchitectureAU | David Clark | 24 October 2013 | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://architectureau.com/articles/sean-godsell-of-sean-godsell-architects/ [Accessed 20 May 2015].
MPavilion 2014 | Sean Godsell Architects [WEBSITE] Available at: http://2014.mpavilion.org/mpavilion-2014-sean-godsell-architects [Accessed 22 May 2015].
JA+U | Japan Architecture+Urbanism | 2015 | [WEBSITE] Available at: https://www.japlusu.com/[Accessed 21 May 2015].
Innovation and design blend seamlessly at the opening of MPavilion - Artist Profile | Lucy Stranger | 8 October 2014 | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://www.artistprofile.com.au/innovation-design-blend-seamlessly-opening-mpavilion/ [Accessed 23 May 2015].
dAP.
2015. dAP. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.architecturalpapers.ch/index.php?ID=48 [Accessed 24 May 2015].
The Architectural Apprenticeship: Architect: Sean Godsell… | 15 March 2010 | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://thearchitecturalapprenticeship.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/architect-sean-godsell.html?_sm_au_=iVV07Lj5N5kDNHsP [Accessed 24 May 2015].
What Tools Does an Architect Use? (with Pictures) | eHow | Jennifer Roberts | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5825948_tools-architect-use_.html [Accessed 27 May 2015].
What Tools Does an Architect Use? | Chron.com | Jeffrey Joyner, Demand Media | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://work.chron.com/tools-architect-use-10408.html [Accessed 27 May 2015].
Australian architect Sean Godsell to speak for Architecture Lecture Series April 23 | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis | 11 April 2011 | [WEBSITE] Available at: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/9261.aspx [Accessed 25 May 2015].
Farewell MPavilion 2014 - YouTube | 1 February 2015 | [WEBSITE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRW1NPY6Vvc [Accessed 27 May 2015].
Casa Carter-Tucker | Modellazione e Animazione | Parte 1 di 3 - YouTube | 2 June 2013 | [WEBSITE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0yrXN52unA [Accessed 27 May
2015].