March 2009 Archives

I'm working on sections..... this is a quick one...

now its really quite symetrical not so sure about that ... I tried to keep it relatively straight foward though, north the background flatness- straight gridyness- south 3-dimensional foreground articulation and some formal curvature- corner as connection point - east and west is here still the same- transition zone ... guess if I articulate east and west differently will give me a different picture of none symmetry .... it looks a bit like elliots now....that happend kind of during the way- I just realized later... hmmm ... was working on section now... 2d flat north 3d program south... 

I worked on the TS problem..;) and then focused more on the different views and levels of percpetion from street level and how the different facade articulation would have effect on the geometry on the roof ... there is more to come this is just a quick screen shot...

we had some fun with this song.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx00NuMSipc... for everybody who's laptop crashed, data got lost ... or whatever what happens when you loose everything... YOU JUST START AGAIN!!!

 I made same decisions the last couple of days - and after 2 TS tutorials with Toni and Wolf it all seems to make sense. In order to push the concept of the white building on white ground it all came down to the contour line that distinguishes the foreground from the background. The direct architectural translation of that contour line is the envelope - in my case the envelope as a contour line of the barcelona block. To really push the concept of the envelope in more than just one dimension/ only the architectural skin /  also means to see the envelope as an alround performer. Thats why I decided to distribute my program - a gallery space with according service spaces - inside the skin of the envelope - inside its walls as well as inside its roofconstruction - the envelopes depth varies between 3m - up to 10m and its roofconstruction is not 100% clear yet. So it will get interesting how to design the roof construction without having all the cross-bracing going on inbetween the upper compression and lower tension deck - and how to stiffen the wall while at the same time making it inhabitable. Here's some first sketches of wall frames that provide stiffening effects by providing spaces and circulation. Am going to laser cut these frames soon as test- still feeling a bit sick ... had to quit the laser slots I had this week.