Afterwards, I took a few views and created new sketches. For instance:
Now what I need to do is figure out how these shapes could be translated into my program. I'm going to try to make some plans and sections.
Monday, November 5, 2012
More Sketches and Study Models
Afterwards, I took a few views and created new sketches. For instance:
Now what I need to do is figure out how these shapes could be translated into my program. I'm going to try to make some plans and sections.
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Great approach. This is a perfect time to start looking at these study models at a scale relative to the site itself. Call it reality gently rapping its knuckles on your door. Get a notion of programmatic deployment based on the massing you are investigation. It is imperative that you begin injecting your prior research into the scheme before you get too far down the road.
ReplyDeleteThat said, keep pushing the formal investigation. Although you have veered a little from your earlier intentions and metaphors, the concept you are pursuing is intriguing and seemingly well suited to the location.
I would recommend that if you are focusing on paper as a metaphor, USE paper for the models. Paper as a modelling material lends a supreme advantage over fabric. Paper can only bend in one direction - no matter how hard you try, paper will not form a complex curve unless you crease it. The single curvature (which can still be made to be exceedingly complex and irregular) is important in constructability as well as ease of developing a virtual model. A single curvature otherwise known as a ruled surface, can be built with straight structural members connecting curved edges. Further, the surface can be clad with flat stock sheathing rather than custom molded panels. Finish cladding also can be developed from flat panels or sheets, thus simplifying design and construction.
In a virtual sense, the surface might extend well beyond the edges and intersections you are trying to model, and then trimmed later. Once the boundary edges are drawn in a 3d environment, connecting points are gun-barreled from one curve to the other and then lofted with the edge curves as bounding members.
Keep working from both ends, purely formal and purely utilitarian, and the point at which you meet in the middle will be incredible.
I like the idea of the free flowing papers... Flowing forms are difficult to handle. One in order to get closer to their abstract nature needs to solve their 3dimensional substance. It would really help if you start entering the building program parameters into the site. You could group together areas of your building program with similar characteristics( functionality, circulation, private-public use, etc...)and create basic volumes. You could then spread the volumes on the site model, to get an idea of scale and the emerging relationship between empty and occupied space.
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