February 2010 Archives
Section WIP
If urban planning is a science, then it must have its science fiction, with Paolo Soleri weighing in as the foremost exponent thereof. Trained as an architect under Frank Lloyd Wright, Soleri dreams on an unprecendented scale; while most architects spend their time reimagining buildings, Soleri plans whole cities. He coined the term arcology, meaning an enormous human habitat or "hyperstructure" of extremely high population density. In 1969 Soleri published his seminal book, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, which is a visually stunning collage of his own illustrations of his designs, many of which are shown overlaid on maps of modern cities of equivalent population to emphasize the land savings achieved. While the book's text leaves much to be desired, the drawings are both inspired and inspirational, with a beautiful complexity and visual density. The message is clear: draw your own dreams. And by the time you've finished with Soleri's book, you'll want to. Maybe even need to.
from megascale to micro, the section informs how the residential atrium should be designed with ideas like creating either an exterior or an interior "oasis" view, facing the public space.
Atrium is a communal space which serves to relates rooms of that buildings to each other through their common relationship with the atrium. in residential there are 2 atria. one that connects the residential rooms-the residential atrium. and the one that connects all the residentials unit-the semi public atrium.
in order not to have the traditional dead end, the corridors are made above the public space, so the activities under are constantly relate to the residential. the atmosphere of the public space is captured within the corridor space as well.
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Apricale, Italy, a small village located on top of a hill, a population of around 500+. the interesting is how the residential surrounds the plaza at the centre, while the network is created with "valley" adjacent to the blocks of buildings, while the ultimate collective space is the church in the middle. would wan to visit if possible.
the plan sections with the 3d programmatic organisation help me to work on the section of atrium organisation. this is the section A, as seen on the plan section where it was cut. this is the far section, thus the retail(red) is not seen in the central. while the collective space(blue) form the central of the section, making it as a space of congestion within surrounded by private spaces(green and grey), while being connected to the public program underneath. working on other 2 sections and will blog later.
the pdf is attached here for larger viewing.
Different plan sections are created to path the way for designing the individual atrium. The organisation is made with the combination of the earlier concept gathered from the eulers diagram, in which the retail(red) serve as the core of the building as it becomes the space of consumption, which the offices(green) and residential(grey) are kept at the circumference of the building away from the groudn floor in order to give good view to the exterior and making good private space. the public space(dark blue) becomes the buffer zone mainly between the offices/resi and the public spaces(blue).
The offices(green) is made to face the financial district, creating a connection with the office block opposite. Residential is given priority for sun light than the office space. thus residential is made to cover the top building, similiar to the small village of Apricale in Italy.
The original euler's diagram is made 3d on site.
BLUE=collective
RED=retail
GREEN=office
GREY=residential
the space is conceived with the notion of atrium-totally working on the interior space. thus the exterior facade comes second to the thinking of atrium space as negative space, where spatial experience and atrium as a space of relief are taken as the primary issue to address. there are 3 general types of atrium.1, the entrance atrium, 2, public atrium, and 3 the private atrium, of which all are seen with different f2f height and their marked by their intricacy in this section. the atria changes as it gets higher with less circulation which encourage different encounter with the atrium, how skylight is directed to the most centre part of the building must be addressed.
as u can see the step 1 created alot of negative space which usually only happen in an ideal world.thinking in terms of negative space allow the escape of constraint of usable space, but step 2 will need to re-address that. step 2 will work on the floor space ratio. the spaces will need to be modified with the notion of staggering the spaces.
seen in doodle condition, will get on for cleaner and more understantable drawing for tmr tutorial.
Last tutorial i was asked to get my drawigns to be more articulate. in order to get the drawings to much detail i started to take reference from the all good nice axonometric genius of all Murphy Jahn. I realise the drawing of the atrium as negative space was able to inform the relationship with the atrium but not able to tell how the spaces are being used. This is because the solid drawn is merely indicating the atrium but not the negative space of the whole non-atrium void. Nevertheless as an interesting starting point to think of space with negative space before positive space.
Still finishing the drawings for the whitebook layout, while the next step will be developing the atria on site based on the idea of designing negative space.
Gotten the 3d data from google earth proceeding to work on atria on site...will blog later when atria is more finished
working in progress, tmr tutorial will show precise drawings for better description of the spaces.
