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HONESTY vs DECEPTION

HONESTY vs DECEPTION


          The honest use of materials in architecture, is very important for imagine a beautiful building. An architect try to research and provide a story to take place in the building. The next step is to translate this detailed story into physical requirements. The translation makes the story into physical and technical aspects, which can show themselves through the materials. The materials made people can see, feel, smell, hear and imagine. If the story is clear to read and can be understood by users, then the building is thought to be perfect and beautiful. From the article written by John Ruskin, it helps us to understand more about how to use a material honestly to makes a building more beautiful.

         Dishonest using materials is imitating one material by another material. It would disobey the natural characteristics. For example, the wood is brush with marble lines and look like marble. The designer should not put the ornament to cover the material surface. Each material has different characteristics.



          What is new materials? New materials is something that new development from traditional materials or still in developing. It is more superior performance and excellent if compare with traditional materials. Every countries started to focus more on new material industry development nowadays. I choose Sydney Opera House as my case study for this topic today.


          Sydney Opera House located in Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia and it starts constructed in March 2, 1959 after win an international design competition. This building is design and built by Jorn Utzon and Arup Group. It is surrounded with the whole of Bennelong Point on Sydney Harbour, between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove, adjacent to the Sydney central business district and the Royal Botanic Gardens and close by the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This building is used for opera house concert hall and become one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia. Sydney Opera House has about 1000 rooms, including 5 theatres, 5 rehearsal studios, 2 main halls, 4 restaurants, 6 bars and numerous souvenir shops and it can fit around 5738 people in a same time. 



         Sydney Opera House was built in 3 stages: stage i (1959-1963) podium; stage ii (1963-1967) construction on outer shell; stage iii (1967-1973) interior design. This building mostly reinforced concrete structures. The roof is made up of 2194 pre-cast concrete sections. These sections weigh up to 15.5 tonnes each. They are held together by 350km of tensioned steel cable. The roofs weigh 27230 tonnes and covered with exactly 1056056 Swedish ceramic tiles (upset V shaped) arranged in 4253 pre-cast lids. Roof also supported on 32 concrete columns up to 2.5 square from the podium. 

Sydney Opera House shell ribs.


          The building supported on 580 concrete piers sunk up to 25m below sea level. The exterior wall, interior wall, stair and floor are full with pink aggregate granite. There is 6225 square meter of glass that made in French. The clay tiles used in the building are 120mm square and lay like diamonds. Before the clay tiles were fired, they covered with fine mesh and contain a bit broken stones. It consist 2 colours: cream and white, and 2 types of finishes: matt and glazed.
 
The glazed ceramic tiles of the Sydney Opera House.

           In my opinion, i prefer to use new materials compare to traditional materials. New materials can make people feel more comfortable and fresh. I agree with Violett-Le-Duc to use the new materials nowadays. In the new age, we should move forward by using new materials and technology to create more fantastic and special design of a building. 




Reference : http://www.veerlevanwesten.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/essay_VvW.pdf
                   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House
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