homework 8

Comparative architecture thought

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HOMEWORK

8 SUPERVISED BY: Dr. Farooq Moftu Arch. Ahmed Fallatah

Done by: Mohammad Rasim

TWA Terminal JFK Airport

The Heinz Galinski School

Al Qurna village

TWA Terminal

architect Eero Saarinen

location John F. Kennedy

International Airport (formerly Idlewild)

date 1962

style Futurist

construction reinforced concrete

type Utility

Design of the terminal was awarded to Detroit-based Eero Saarinen and Associates. It was completed in 1962 and is the airport's most famous landmark (as well as being a National Historic Landmark). Gates in the terminal were close to the street and this made it difficult to create centralized ticketing and security checkpoints. This building was the first airline terminal to have closed circuit television, a central p/a system, baggage carousels, an electronic schedule board and precursors to the now ubiquitous baggage weigh-in scales. JFK was rare in the airport industry for having company owned and designed terminals; other airline terminals were built by Eastern Airlines and American Airlines. Individually branded terminals included the Worldport of Pan American World Airways and the Sundrome of National Airlines.

The Heinz Galinski School

architect

location

Total area

type

Zvi Hecker

Berlin, Germany

16,404 m2

educational

The school was designed based on sunflower. The sunflower is a metaphor, not in some abstract geometry, but because the way the building absorbs the light and projects it inside. The sunflower is actually catching the sun, this, there are no parallel walls in the school to imitate the sunflower pattern, it turns with the sun as the school absorbs the light.

Al Qurna village

architect Hassan Fathy

location Al qurna luxor

egypt

date 1946

style islamic

construction type housing

In 1946 Hasan Fathy was commissioned by Egypt’s Antiquities Department to build New Gourna Village for 3,000 families who were raiding the ruins at Luxor. The villagers weren’t so excited about being displaced, but Fathy committed to smoothing their transition.