WELCOME

 Welcome to my blog. My name is Fidelis Oghenetega Ucho, I am a student of DMUIC and I am going to be studying Architecture.                                                                                          

I love drawing and designing which is one of my drives for choosing architecture, I also love the idea of building, from how they are designed to the process of constructing the already designed building. I am going to be using this blog to display some of what I will be learning during my time at DMUIC

Thom Mayne

Thom Mayne is an American architect who is based in Los Angeles and his designs have stood out to me based on how most of his designs are made using a combination of organic and geometric shapes. He was born on January 19, 1944. He studied architecture at the University of Southern California (1968) and he also studied at Harvard University of Design in 1978.

  THOM MAYNE, PHARE TOWER, FRANCE

The phase building is one of Thom Mayne's projects, the design is a 984ft skyscraper that consists of 71 floors built in Courbevoie, France. 

The complex structure and skin adapt to the tower’s nonstandard form while simultaneously responding to a range of complex, and often competing, physical and environmental considerations. Technologies integrated into the Phare Tower capture the sun and wind for the production of energy and selectively minimize solar gain while maximizing glare-free daylight. Its high-performance skin transforms with changes in light, becoming opaque, translucent, or transparent from different angles and vantage points. At night, ribbons of light garland the building to animate the building’s shifting form. (Phol E.B. 2009)

The tower will be located between the 1989 Grande Arche de la Défense and the 1958 CNIT building, the former exhibition hall of the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, with an architecturally significant glass façade, designed by Jean Prouvé. Glazed exterior escalators soar 35 meters from the pavilion to the tower’s ninth-floor lobby, transporting approximately 8, 000 pedestrians each day. As the visitor rides up the escalators to the Grand Hall, the fully glazed envelope reveals views of the traffic passing underneath, as well as of Parisian monuments in the distance. Phare Tower by Thom Mayne gets the green light in Paris (2011a)

References

Pohl, E.B. (2009) Phare Tower / Morphosis achitects, ArchDaily. Available at: https://www.archdaily.com/20692/phare-tower-morphosis-achitects (Accessed: 06 October 2023).

Phare Tower by Thom Mayne gets the green light in Paris (2011a) DesignCurial. Available at: https://www.designcurial.com/news/phare-tower-by-thom-mayne-gets-green-light-in-paris (Accessed: 06 October 2023).