This basic diagram explains the sectional relationship between the "blocks" and how the archive terraces internally. The green lines explain where the following plan levels sit
I suppose this doesn't say much at this scale, but the print outs will be at 1/1000, so hopefully you shoould get more of an insight
Sorry for the screenshots, having trouble with adobe rigth now....
Top: the general layout of the campus: the library, then in the blank space will be the archive for objects of different sizes, then a strip of housing that bands around.
Above is a close up on the circulation routes which was a nightmare to organise in conjunction with horizontal tram routes and also between the different layers of the terracing.
Close up into the internal layout of the library, broken down into units which function around a central core. As we move into the center, we also move down one level and into more dense storage space. The grid works well around the multi story layering of the library but don't know to want extent it should be "forced" onto the initial fortification pattern? Any suggestions?
All of the following are massing excercises, to show how the public and the private are dissociated from each other. In section the public rests upon the private, which is underground. For the time being the two are seperate entities, but I 'd like to start looking at connections that relate to the idea of isolation
This is where archival material is stored and kept away from both environmental and human activity. Most of the private space is dug into the bed of the city, so it is underground.
Road access desserves the front of each archive section
The two layers work one upon the other, permitting vertical and sectional connections
Spent the whole week-end sketching some silly geometries, but I got to this by laying some basic ground rules that apply to the growth of the archival town. As these geometries evolve, they interact and communicate. I am currently working on the various scales of the pattern and the way it all ties together in section.
I have been figuring out the big plan with regards to the main areas of the archive ie the collection display, the storehouses and the housing and public spaces.
The archive extension is guided by an unrestrained geometry based on circulation and non-interrupted views accross the archive that takes over its surroudings and is self-perpetuating. The idea is that the archive becomes a subject of its own being. After archiving books and knowledge, we frame neighbourhoods, and chunks of the landscape etc.
The archive works as a "pancake"layering of private and public program, each stratta working as a relay for the next. Busy circulation areas unravel around the archive, whislt pedestrian access cuts through each layer, creating deep vistas. I'm still looking at the circulation logic and how the system functions as a whole before assigning specific programs to specific locations
I am trying to capture the ensence of the process of branching out into the circulation pattern of the archive, but within the regimented layout of shelves. The idea is that you go from noisy, busy and large circulation areas to smaller, quieter and more remote areas of the archive as you scan through information.
Not to sure about this attempt but trying for more possibilities.
Think of it as water making its way through rock...
Not to sure about this attempt but trying for more possibilities.
Think of it as water making its way through rock...
I am trying to capture the ensence of the process of branching out into the circulation pattern of the archive, but within the regimented layout of shelves. The idea is that you go from noisy, busy and large circulation areas to smaller, quieter and more remote areas of the archive as you scan through information.
Not to sure about this attempt but trying for more possibilities.
Think of it as water making its way through rock...
Not to sure about this attempt but trying for more possibilities.
Think of it as water making its way through rock...
