Week10 - Second 250 Words

The main considerations for this question are; “is the building to complex to model?”, “are there sufficient information to model the building?” and the more most important consideration is “do you like the basic concept of the design?’. In my case, when I answered the above questions, I concluded that I should stay true to Utzon’s original design.

From the set of drawings I come acrossed, there was sufficient information on the basic structure of the building, of course the drawings was still in the early stages of the design process. But from the different books on Utzon’s other works, his “final” design on projects like the Sydney Opera House and Bagsværd Church in Denmark are typically close to a completely different project, sometimes only retaining some basic principles/concept of the original design.


The mainly things that I am going to change is the rails on the central ramp system and the beams that leads visitors from the outside to the entrance of the museum. The main reason I want to change the rails of the original design (from what I see and tell from the drawings was to be made from the same material as the ramps) is so visitors visiting the museum will be able to see the affects of having the combination of shapes used to create the different gallery space and how light and shadow create different effects on different surface (e.g. curved and straight walls).