Saturday, November 14, 2009

11/12/09

space: adjusting(organizing) itself to constantly changing field condition

At review, we were at the first trial of delivering the concept to actual space. After placing our general agreement ( auditorium on north west, cafeteria on south, library at front, administration center on center, etc) we added webbing surface in order to create circulation as well as light hole. By doing this we intended to combine our former light analysis and design concept.




Overall I satisfied the fact that Laura and I have been trying to convey idea through various diagrams and materials - which made the project more fascinating to ourselves and also to critics. Even though we had two groups of critics and some of the questions were different, I think both groups of critics were trying to ask us a couple of points in common: How this space actually works, and how we can express this concept better in drawings.

One thing which I am still questioning myself was also how this space would be like eventually.
We sorted out fixed/fluid/circulation+program , yet I thought there should be more descriptions - we can possibly use a time table to show the morphing usage of space in each time period.

Also by changing thickness of walls, width of corridors, and rounded corners the space would look much more dynamic. In addition, I hope we can create several images for plan - fixed as poched space and fluid as white space- showing change of plan even within physically determined condition.

One interesting point was that every team was using sun diagram as a form generator, though the analysis part was pretty much same for everybody. It was good to see every team's idea gradually forms in diverse ways from such similar beginning.



need to improve!
- be more specific, how could that work actually?
- conventional drawing is not sufficient for us, find other strategies for doing this
- lighting strategy, where to put hole on the roof top?

Sunday, November 8, 2009

11/07/09 architectural interpretation

The concept of three different types of space is settled, now the question is how we can translate that to architectural words. It is still hard because, even though the space is being classified, there are still many overlaps which we cannot define either as Fluid or Program+circulation



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At this point we had a promise like above: Fixed program as a solid box, Fluid program as a box with at least one side open, and Program+Circulation as a plane.