On the ground floor, the top left corner is the main entrance. The main lobby is a tall atrium space that goes up through the entire building. There's a ceremonial stair that goes up that space. In front of the elevators is a second atrium space that goes from the second floor to the lobby of the auditorium, which is in the basement. The offices are in the back of the building. There is a second ceremonial stair that goes down to the auditorium, all of that space is open to below. I've added two more spaces to my program. A bookstore and a cafe. The rooms in the top right corner by the scissor stairs are the main bathrooms and a janitorial closet. By the second set of stairs there are two smaller bathrooms. From the cafe there is going to be a set of stairs/ramp that goes down since the building is on a sloped site.
On the second floor, the screening rooms and computer lab are against the solid wall. There are classrooms and art studios against the glass windows. The corner where the screening room and art studio meet will be a small lounge area.
On the third floor, I'm thinking of converting the two classrooms that are over the second atrium into my recording studio and sound booths. Since they don't really need to have natural light. There are more computer labs and art studios on this floor. Here are the faculty offices with small conference rooms against the glass walls. The art studio at the end of the building is actually the one from the 2nd floor. At this floor the slope of the roof is beginning to come into play.
On the fourth floor, I originally had the cafeteria and lounge. However I decided to switch the cafeteria with the library which was on the top floor beforehand. I probably will leave the lounge where it is. In this floor as well as the next it starts to get complicated with the varying slopes and heights of the pages. I'm still not sure where the space would be defined in terms of headroom.
The fifth floor will be for the cafeteria. I know there will be skylights. However as with the fourth floor, I'm not sure where the room should be defined. I might be able to work out an exterior space here but I'm still not sure.
In the basement is the auditorium. There is a triple height space above the ticketing counter. There is a double height space over the ceremonial stair. Storage and mechanical are in the spaces behind the elevators. The two long spaces on the right are the bathrooms. The auditorium has a balcony. The corridor near the bathrooms is going to be a set of stairs that leads to the balcony as well as the projection room. I'm thinking of creating a second set of emergency stairs on the left side in the triangular space created by the solid wall from the ceremonial stair. The area behind the auditorium might by used as additional storage space.
I've started working on a section, cut from the tip of the triangular site to the middle of the base of the site. The hardest thing is deciding on the slopes of the different roofs and how the spaces on the top connect.
I still have a lot of things to work out. The fourth and fifth floors being a major concern. As well as details such as bathroom layouts, stairs and door swings.
All right...Here we go:
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost, you have made great strides from the inception of your ideas to a realistic deployment of Programme and a workable building organization. You have definitely put a great amount of thought into your layout and adjacencies.
I think it has to do with the blog quality and not your drawings, but I do find them illegible when i try to look at them critically. I have taken a close look coupled with your descriptions which are clear and concise, I might mention, and I am fairly clear that I understand your approach. Some general thoughts...reference materials are always evolving, but books will never entirely be replaced with digital media. That said, books are heavy. It is not outside the realm of feasibility to place books up high in a structure, but that tends to be in a purpose built multi-story library. Likewise, food service venues are best served on the ground floor, both for delivery and emergency access, as well as the most availability to any and all who enter the building. The cafe is strategic in this way. Unless you are proposing a high-end penthouse experience with the cafeteria, I would give it an extra thought.
I like the atria. They are useful for organizing circulation and bringing natural light deeper into a structure. You can also use an atrium to organize spaces. I would try to get the main atrium to go up to the top of the building if you could. This is the time when you can explore a full building atrium without the constraints of CODE limiting the realization of such a volume. Look if you can at the World Market Center buildings 2 and 3 in Las Vegas. they have an incredible atrium space in each which goes the entire 15 floors of the structures in diminishing concentric rings. This atrium serves to orient all vertical circulation in the buildings as well as anchoring the programmatic deployment on each floor. As a device, it is highly successful beyond just a device to get natural daylighting. The atrium can also serve as a space for interactions between students, faculty and the public, thus activating it as its own programmatic element.
Again as I was unable to read the drawings, I am not clear on where there is natural lighting opportunities and where there is not. Any classroom should have natural light if possible. Further, faculty and administrative offices MUST have natural light. I agree that the screening rooms and computer labs can be buried.
The placement of the auditorium under ground is a brilliant piece of strategy. Amidst the myriad of buildings in which the auditorium has been placed underground, one of the best examples is the Novartis Pharma AG Headquarters Building in Basel, Switzerland. The tunable glass ceiling in that space allows for natural diffused light to enter the space via a skylight in the outdoor plaza floor as well as providing acoustic qualities which do not require speakers to have amplification. However complex the technical detailing of this space is, the idea is quite simple and well thought out. to my naked eye, the space appears a bit small, but I admittedly do not know how many you are looking to accommodate in this space.
All in all, the programme is well intentioned and with a little tweaking is ready to be integrated with the form and all of the great conceptual work you already have done in terms of the generation of volume and surface.
Good work! Its nice to see the concept model materializing like that! Continue the good work! Here are few comments I have:
ReplyDelete1. Rarely lobbies are adjacent to the exterior envelope. Usually there is a zone before the lobby ( between the exterior and interior) that introduces someone to the lobby. It acts as a buffer zone for the building (thermal losses) and a security spot checking the visitors.
2. I like the atrium as it breaks the volume of the building and it brings light to the lower floors. However! I noticed that the atrium doesn’t continue to the 3rd floor, bearing in mind that light comes from the top- this really limits the performance of the atrium as a light distributor . You really need to continue the atrium all the way to the final floor.
3. It would be nice the curves of the folds to reflect inside of the building aswell. For example, the corners of the rooms in the plans, don’t need to be so acute/ can form a curved corner.
4. I would like to say more on scale and room relations in combination to building program but I can’t see an indicator of scale. Could you put a symbol of scale bar, so one can understand the scale and dimensions of the building?
5. The lobby on the 5th floor is the best place in the building. It has the views, the folds of the roof structure meeting the walls…, very effective! I would make it double height!
Jessica, you have an exiting project, and I wish the whimsical idea of the falling paper would translate in the section as well.Your section is not doing justice to your project. Also I would love to see how the building works with the site. Elevations with context, and site plan with landscaping would be extremely helpful
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