AAB: College of Arts and Architectur

Subject: Professional Technology in Architecture

Year: 2022-2023
Topic: Video Analysis
Student: Shqiponja Mekaj
Professor: Ph. C. Elisa Nikola

Creating Architechtural Sections like Renzo Piano

Week 7

-The person in the video tells about a presentation that he

made in one of the student sessions.Where he says that he got
the inspiration from Renzo Piano.The whole project was done
in photoshop through Milano(platform).He says”Remember
that inspiration has do it by including it in your style and work
flow and not copying it directly”.It will save you more time
compared to Archicad or Revit in terms of conceptual designs.
For this section ,there are 3 things that we need to take care of.
*The first is the internal shine, the shine that comes from the
street and enters the building and this is done with water
paints and soft brushes so that it looks like the ground shines.In
photoshop we don’t need to be exact, so we can go beyond the
limits where we will get something artistic-he says.Renzo’s
Piano section in the original has a green accent color but in the
video section he uses yellow.The second point is the human
figures, where this will help to give scale to the drawing and
emphasize it.Where the figures can be made in color as well as
in black.
*The third point,Really to finalize this drawing which has to do
with adding a subtle shadow below the elements of the
individual cut.Where there are many ways to do it but how to
we simply use the Marquito rectangular mark,the accuracy is
not very important here either.In conclusion, we had a
clarification on the use of photoshop in cutting.

Floating cities, the LEGO House and other

architectural forms of the future
Week 8
The person in the video is an employee of a company
called LEGO. A very successful company. The Brick
House was built from Lego. What they tried to do was
to design a building that would be as interactive as
attractive and as playful as it's Lego itself with these
kinds of play areas connected on the ceiling. Billund
citizens can roam freely without a ticket and it's
probably one of the only museums in the world where
you're allowed to touch all the objects. but the Danish
word for design is "formgivning" which literally means
to give shape to what has not yet been given shape.In
other words, they give shape to the future, and what I
like about Lego is that it is a tool that empowers the
child to build his/her world and then live in that world
through play and invite his/her friends to you come
together. and this is exactly what formgivning is.
Inspired by LEGO we have built a social housing
project in Copenhagen where we stacked wooden
blocks next to each other leaving spaces between them
with additional ceiling and balcony height and gently
moving the blocks in in fact, we can create any organic
form by adapting to any urban context, because
adaptability is perhaps one of the strongest drivers of
architecture.
Another example is here in Vancouver, we were asked
to look at where the Granville Bridge crosses as it
touches the center of the city. There is a 100 foot
barrier from the bridge because the city wants to make
sure no one looks into the traffic on the bridge, there is
a park where we can't cast any shade. So in the end we
are left with a small triangular footprint almost small to
build. But then what, if the minimum distance of 100
feet is really about the minimum distance once we get
100 feet in the air, we can raise the building back out.
And so we do when you drive over the bridge it's like
someone is pulling a curtain. We call this the Sistine
Chapel of street art, an upside-down art gallery. In
Norway, we're building a museum that stretches across
a river and allows people to take a sort of journey
through the exhibits as they pass from one side to the
other. the sculpture park on the other. In China we built
a headquarters for an energy company and we designed
the facade like a fabric, it is wavy so that in front of the
dominant direction of the sun it is all pitch black cloud
away from the sun is all made of glass. And this simple
idea due to the geometry of the facade reduces energy
consumption by 30 percent, you can say that it makes
the building look elegant. It is an architecture that is
adapted to its climate. We also built a thermal power
plant which will turn waste into energy and where you
can ski on the thermal power plant. We are also
building our small project, basically there are 9
shipyards in Poland, then we have passed it across the
Baltic Sea and anchored it in the port. of Copenhagen,
which is now home to 12 students, each with a view of
the water.
These and many other projects, such as in New York
Manhattan, were designed in such a way that
everything serves cleanliness, nature protection and
climate adaptation.

Feedback: We have the power to adapt to change and we have the

power to shape our future. Closing statement that I like very much and
very motivating