09/27/09 a couple alternatives of program distribution

We have 3 issues(parameters) important on our site:
light/darkness, individual/shared, and time

Laura and I have been constructing diagrams- one for the relationship between light/darkness and individual/shared, another for relationship between light/darkness and time ( I think this is what Karl called "designing program", since we are defining programs in our own way).

Of all three important issues we are supposed to take light/darkness as our priority. ( guess it might be as same as the rest of the team) Yet we both agreed that we are putting as much light as possible into our school. And if so, I didn't think we need to worry too much about massing. In a way the building mass can be very similar to "mountain dwellings" in copenhagen. Thus how we can connect shared/individual space in such premise will give us our own specified design.

What I have been doing tonight was some sketches for the program distribution . In the sketch I marked all shared spaces as yellow while individual spaces are white. Light/darkness strategy is shown in the section in which the mass on north is relatively higer than south. shared/individual strategy is shown in diagram in the middle. I tried to make a reasonable connection between individual rooms and shared rooms. (For instance we need to make every student to get to courtyard easily, without having any student to cross other classrooms)

It's always hard to make fast progress from the beginning, yet it seems we could clarify ideas and design strategies faster as time goes by.