Containment Model - to print
Following my tutorial on Friday I have been working on the edges of the platforms. How they will connect and deform when they encounter the historic e.g. how they will retain the memory of the object they contain/contained. The model represents different types of containment which form the horizontal plains in the structure.
1.The Light Well
2.The Apse
3.The Mimetic
3.The pocket
5. The Slabs replace the historic object.
The platform or slab is one of the most generic forms of architectural manifestations, a representation of the corporate city. I know that is now up to me to re-invent it.
1.The Light Well
2.The Apse
3.The Mimetic
3.The pocket
5. The Slabs replace the historic object.
The platform or slab is one of the most generic forms of architectural manifestations, a representation of the corporate city. I know that is now up to me to re-invent it.
Work more in a smaller scale. Like now yo have the slabs and the horizzontal surfaces that they are an extrusion. Think more formally how the slabs have opening, how the edges of the opening are related to the one below and above... Hide the layer of the context. Look at yours slabs and the vertical surfaces and make it formally interesting, with all the variations of containment we talked on friday.They are still heavy plateau that look intersting becuase the context of the church is formally a bit more interesting. Layer off for the church! and make your plateau interesting with the different way of containing. Containing object, containing spaces, containing vertically, containing horizzontaly, all these in order to contain needs surfaces (vertical and horizzontal that meets in edges), and those surfaces need to go beyond the horizontal slabs and the closure of the wall. more extreme! more interesing! more challenging! Now the story is interesting, the context you are containing is intersting but your container is the less interesting. It needs to be the one!
I just logged on to write you a comment and have seen Monia has written it for me... As we mentioned a few times - stay clear of the history of the site, and the cathedral - anything else that is effectively distracting you from developing your own agenda and identity.
One thing you write above that's interesting is:
"How they will connect and deform when they encounter the historic" (although I would also add the present and future) - That is where the potential of this project lies - not in the extrusion, arraying or proliferating of the slabs, but in their deformation and mutation as they respond to obstacles, program, events and history. Stay clear for now of the next part of the same sentence which refers to memory - as I feel it will pull you towards the church again.
The ways in which these slabs can behave and be articulated when they encounter all these strange moments in the site could be massively interesting - both formally and programmatically - so start developing a set of much smaller models, drawings and studies that explore that realm of interaction and ignore the overall for now.
Although it's late, I would focus on developing a tiny moment of slab-to-object interaction for tomorrow - develop it as a PLATE so it has to be deliberate, beautiful and spatially (and of course formally) compelling. Then develop that moment in a model for friday. You can then develop a moment (or 2....or more) per week and build up the site and site-identity on YOUR terms rather than those of the cathedral or site.