Reflection

Reflection

“Reflection is part of learning and thinking. We reflect in order to learn something, or we learn as a result of reflecting, and the term ‘reflective learning’ emphasizes the intention to learn from current or prior experience”(Moon 2004) 
Reflection is a type of thinking aimed at achieving better understanding and leading to new learning.

Kunsthaus Zurich in Switzerland

Reflection from 1st project:

Research on designs by architect David Chipperfield.

David Chipperfield,  (born December 18, 1953, London, England), British architect who was known for his modern, minimal designs.

Chipperfield’s work earned numerous accolades over the years. Most notably, in a 15-year span (1998–2013), seven buildings designed by his firm were nominated for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize, with the Marbach (Germany) Museum of Modern Literature awarded the prize in 2007

Veles e Vents, Valencia, Spain

Other short-listed projects were an office and studio building in Düsseldorf, Germany (1998); the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1999); Ernsting Service Centre in Coesfeld-Lette, Germany (2002); the America’s Cup Building in Valencia, Spain (2007); the reconstructed Neues Museum in Berlin (2010), which was the culmination of a mammoth 12-year project; and the Hepworth Wakefield Art Gallery in West Yorkshire (2012). Other notable works include the East Building (2013) of the Saint Louis (Missouri) Art Museum, a light-filled structure featuring skylights, floor-to-ceiling windows on the front, and a concrete facade that was composed of locally sourced river aggregates.

                                  Anchorage Museum expansion
                                  Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Chipperfield was granted the RIBA Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in 2011, the same year that he was awarded the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture–Mies van der Rohe award. His other awards include the Heinrich Tessenow Medal (1999), election to the Royal Academy (2008), Germany’s Order of Merit (2009), and the Japan Art Association’s Imperiale Praemium (2013). David Chipperfield Architects was one of four U.K.-based firms chosen to contribute to the British pavilion, “City Visionaries,” at the 2000 Venice Biennale. A dozen years later Chipperfield served as the Biennale’s first British curator for the 13th International Architecture Exhibition (2012), which he titled “Common Ground.” After having been made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004, Chipperfield was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours.

The hepworth wakefield, west yorkshire, UK

Appropriate research methods used:

*case study

*site visit

*online research

*books about the architect and his designs

Methods to approach research for next project:

*studying about similar projects by architects around the world:

online

books

magazines

*study on minimal design

*study on lighting and natural lighting and interesting spaces

Refrence:

Encyclopedia Britannica, (2015). David Chipperfield | British architect. [online] 
Available at: http://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Chipperfield [Accessed 2 Dec. 2015].

designboom | architecture & design magazine, (2014). interview with architect david chipperfield. [online] 
Available at: http://www.designboom.com/architecture/interview-with-architect-david-chipperfield-04-30-2014/ [Accessed 2 Dec. 2015].