Plan of the Foundation Slab I

I have been working on defining the first slab.

It was agreed that I would go back to the site because containing with nothing to contain was leading to surreal landscapes that I couldn’t make much sense of.

I mentioned in the post bellow that the new container connects the Cathedral and the Kremlin. The plan shows my first attempt at formalising this transition at ground level.  The foundation slab is both dense and solid.

At the Kremlin end of the plan the slab disinigrates into residual walls. These walls are a soft boarder. The small scale of the spaces that they create are intended to give a more human scale to the enormity of the slab. The walls then transition into large masses where the visitor passes through very narrow passages before arriving at the core. The main cores are the black buildings indicated on the plan. These are native objects which where already on the site. At the level of the foundation slab these are filled with concrete – their exterior shell is allowed to decay off. The impression of the interior of the native object is left on the exterior of the core.

The transition from the Kremlin to the church is indicated by a change from linear to curvilinear. The passages around the church are recessed into large deep slabs of concrete. These slabs contain traces and marks of the site and create new ways to approach the Cathedral.

The cathedral its self is entombed, except for at the main perspective axis from where it can be viewed from the city. At these axis the corners are exposed, displayed the cathedral as a spoil from its concrete container. The tomb of  Cathedral mimics its interior form -  inverting relationship - we now enter from the interior ( I hope that makes sense).

Notes from tutorial:

Work more on the plans.

On the foundation plan I need to better indicate the difference between what was already on the site and my intervention. Everything I wrote above should be understood by looking at the drawing.

I need to draw the next slab. Defining more intricately what happens in these spaces. Now that I have defined the areas I need to figure out how these large areas (e.g. the ones around the cathedral will be used. I need to incorporate my intricate landscape into my slab landscape.