EXP3: IMAGE CAPTURES OF DEVELOPED LUMION ENVIRONMENT

The design of the school and bridge, aim to fulfil the main objective of bringing attention away from the building's architecture, and rather to emphasise the nature that surrounds it. The element of retractable glass panes aims to bring attention towards the beauty of the surrounding landscape, and to provide a minimalist barrier between the interior and exterior. This acts as an instrument that enables the building's occupants to be inside and outside simultaneously.

The placement of trees on the surface of the bridge, behind the glass panes satisfies the notion of bringing nature inside the architecture. This also allows the users of the bridge to feel like they are "outside even though you're protected inside" (DESIGNALMIC 2012). The textures within the building, act to direct circulation of its occupants. Furthermore, the depth of colour and line-weight of each texture symbolises the speed of motion.

The use of textures as markers and guidelines for circulation is also visible with the texture of the central ramps, guiding its users to enter through the ground floor, towards the bridge's exit on the top floor of the building. As the user progresses through the building towards the exit, this is reflected in the line-work and colour of the applied texture.

The notion of simplistic minimal design, with an emphasis on nature is visible in the planning and design of many rooms, where each contains large, wide windows with minimal obstruction to vision of the surrounding landscape, and where each room has all the vital elements needed to fulfil its function, with no additional unnecessary features.

Located on the ground floor of the building; directly above the bridge, the computer labs consist of a simplistic minimalist design. This concept is consistent in the school's design, conveyed through the use of different floor levels to define room partitioning as opposed to the need for dividing walls.

Aside from its functional use, the purposeful design of a thin, long bridge without any significant protruding structures, limits the attention placed on the architecture itself and recycles admiration towards the surrounding landscape. This allows focus to be placed on the site-specific phenomena as well as the nature around it.

The minimalist design of the Architectural Folly, focuses on the idea that "we are guests in nature" and that any form of architecture in the environment should be "taken away without leaving scars behind" in the landscape.