Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Site Plan Ideas
This is not elevation work, but I felt that my site and building needed some work. I will have mostly glass on the first floor with second floors cantilevering to shade below on the south and west sides. There is a central atrium in the east building and studios will be on the upper floors of this, depending on how the massing works out in sketch UP. The west building will have housing on the upper floors. I'll be working on this 3Dimensionally next.
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Anne, I agree with you that working on the plan is a good idea as well. But keep in mind that some of the challenges came from the (unresolved) elevation composition. A couple of things to consider:
- The learnign garden does not need to be accessible from the city, it could be accessible only thru the building. This doesn't mean you couldn't allow views into and thru the garden - a pretty typical urban principle by the way.
In your crit somebody mentioned thatthe slivers between the building were interesting, but that you didn't have any connection to the first floor program. What if instead of making the entire first floor open (glass walls) you create additional slivers for view thru the first floor. The first floor could desolve the "boulder" and make it feel more like trunkd of trees.
You mentioned so far recicled brick for your skin material. I imagine you will have some other material for your sloping roofs? are the roofs used to allow for skylights or PV panels?
Anne, I came by this lovely shot:
http://screencast.com/t/gJUamNu9TYE
when I was looking for a tree house. It is somewhere in cincinnati, OH... It is a bit wacky, to say the least, but the way the material is hugging the shapes is quite inspiring. By the way, it is clad with a very thin material. I would like you to think very hard about the way you will turn corners with the recycled brick.
Also, an idea to make the solids open on the bottom without loosing the connection to the ground might be seen in the following picture:
http://screencast.com/t/n6W8A1MFNPx
I could imagine the building sitting on the ground where I drew a green line...
I can say brick is definately not a thin material that will easily "hug" a shape. Maybe I will need two materials. I know there may be some spaces where brick could work. I love the second picture- I need to work my slivers three dimensionally. I am seeing my building float like this one does. Are you wondering if that is successful?
Anne... I like where your latest plan is starting to go. In your other posts it sounds like you are really looking to embrace the "sliver" as a form giver. I think this could be a good way to look at things. Perhaps a simple elevational detail of a sliver of glass (aka window) and brick would help you thought process? How would that differ with an open sliver "transition" between forms? Maybe do a couple of sketches with out worrying about the plan? Just an idea to maybe free up your thinking a bit...
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