Architects: Peter Ruge Architekten
Competition Team: Peter Ruge, Matthias Matschewski, Hyesook Ahn, Kayoko Uchiyama, Barbara Kubicka, Zubin Daboo
Location: Busan, Republic of Korea
Client: The Busan International Architectural Culture Festival Organizing Committee
Program: Opera and theatre building including landscape design
Status: Open international competition, 2011
Site Size: 34.928 sqm
GFA: 54.000 sqm
Conceptual Mass: Methodology
Method 1:
I first started by analyzing the building. It has a glass bubble envelope surrounded by 55 different concentric curves. The whole structure is enclosing 2 buildings. I started experimenting using horizontal and vertical circles and ellipses with different dimensions, heights and levels.
The first method I used is create vertical reference planes at different levels and separated by different distances. Then I drew vertical ellipses on each reference having different lengths and heights and created a solid.
Method 2:
2 reference planes were with the Z reference plane perpendicular to profiles of the building and the X reference plane being parallel. The closest point to the Z reference plane of each profile was named point 1, and the farthest point was named point 3. Using the scale on the image, the distance of point 1 and 3 for each frame were measured as a distance from the Z reference plane. The distances measured were put in a table in Excel and sorted based on their distance from the X reference plane. A graph for each set of points was plotted with the X distance on the y-axis, and the Z distance on the x-axis of the graph. A trend line for each graph was added and the closest fit was found to be a 5th order polynomial. This equation defines the X distance for each point from the X reference plane as a function of the distance Z from the Z reference plane. In Revit, this equation can be plugged in for each point so the X distance for each point is defined by the Z distance from the Z reference plane.
Method 3 :
I chose 6 curves at equal distances
I measured the dimensions of each curve and created an ellipse with the same parameters.
I found a correlation between the height and the width.
Formula: Length= Height x 2.5
2.5: correlation factor
