Development: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe monument

Architect: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Concept: Creating balance with semmingly unbalanced forms

Original Design:

First development:

I was very unhappy with this development because I tried to structurally organise the prisms better here but instead, the design became boring and dull by its very simple structure. Also, the main problem of this design was that it did not follow the concept very well as it looked very stable and didn't include any unbalanced forms.

Research/Influence:

Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum

Second Development:

Influenced by the Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum, I decided to incorporate irregular shapes in to my design to fulfill the 'unbalanced form' part of the concept. Then I tried to make the design stable by balancing out the irregular shape with another irregular shape and adding some stable structure. The result was better than the previous development, but I was still unhappy this design because it didn't fit in to the environment very well. It stood out compared to the other monument because unlike the other monument, it didn't look as if it belonged to the environment.

Third development:

Final development:

In my final design, following my concept 'Creating balance with seemingly unbalanced forms,' I incorporated irregular shapes which looks unstable alone to make the form look unbalanced at first. However, you see how a balance is created within the overall form by repetition of long rectangular prism structure holding the two large irregular shapes together.