It is great to finally see some elevations developing. As a first pass, these are good. For final elevations, you have your work cut out for you. Where you have succeeded with your plans in allowing the other aspects, massing, models, sections, etc. to influence them, your elevations are in a vacuum now. There is unfortunately a verticality to them that is doing you a disservice. You must find a way to introduce some horizontal elements.
As I stated with your last model post, you have completely lost the essence of the falling papers in your project. The surfaces that you do represent are more like draped sheets than falling pieces of paper. The dynamism in the early studies is completely gone. For all the hard work planometricly, these elevations deserve the same amount of care and attention to complement what you have going on in the plans.
The section is in much better shape. When the comments on the model and elevations are addressed, you will find your section improving all on its own. I do think that the atrium could start to wiggle a bit more in section as well as in plan. again, there does not need to be such rigid verticality. Extrusions, although simple to execute, can get boring experientially. THe nose cone massing is making for a rather vanilla sectional relationship in that area of the building. Those ceilings could be peeling up and away making the spaces much more lively and playful. Somehow you need to translate the intention of playfulness and infuse some more of it into the bounding surfaces seen in the section.
In all you have come far since the beginning of the semester. Keep up the "push" and finesse this building from good to phenomenal (both literally and figuratively). Remember the experience defines the place. Think about your project from the angle of the end-user and his/her experience in and around the building. This plays into every bit of the building, not just the overall visual cues. As you enter the home stretch, I can't wait to see the final product.
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ReplyDeleteIt is great to finally see some elevations developing. As a first pass, these are good. For final elevations, you have your work cut out for you. Where you have succeeded with your plans in allowing the other aspects, massing, models, sections, etc. to influence them, your elevations are in a vacuum now. There is unfortunately a verticality to them that is doing you a disservice. You must find a way to introduce some horizontal elements.
ReplyDeleteAs I stated with your last model post, you have completely lost the essence of the falling papers in your project. The surfaces that you do represent are more like draped sheets than falling pieces of paper. The dynamism in the early studies is completely gone. For all the hard work planometricly, these elevations deserve the same amount of care and attention to complement what you have going on in the plans.
The section is in much better shape. When the comments on the model and elevations are addressed, you will find your section improving all on its own. I do think that the atrium could start to wiggle a bit more in section as well as in plan. again, there does not need to be such rigid verticality. Extrusions, although simple to execute, can get boring experientially. THe nose cone massing is making for a rather vanilla sectional relationship in that area of the building. Those ceilings could be peeling up and away making the spaces much more lively and playful. Somehow you need to translate the intention of playfulness and infuse some more of it into the bounding surfaces seen in the section.
In all you have come far since the beginning of the semester. Keep up the "push" and finesse this building from good to phenomenal (both literally and figuratively). Remember the experience defines the place. Think about your project from the angle of the end-user and his/her experience in and around the building. This plays into every bit of the building, not just the overall visual cues. As you enter the home stretch, I can't wait to see the final product.