Preliminary Sketches

The Design Process

Defining Spaces

Finally, I get a minute to blog. Here are my initially SPACE PLANNING ideas generated from taking angles and forms present thru out the design of the rest of the building. Travis suggested that I should not give myself boundaries and use other points to bring in walls and spaces to the Architecture Floor Plates.

Changing the Concept Around

There were many moments when I did not know how to use the "transmetamorph" concept and apply it t0 our design. So I tried to look for other meanings of the word and this only lead me to looking up the words that caused chaos in our design. Noise (from the atrium to the studios and auditorium) , Disturbance (all the open areas where birds, ohhh those birds, could fly thru), Clutter (all areas one against another with little or no barriers) (or all type of people coming into the building not knowing where to go...therefore causing a traffic jam and cluttering the floor) etc...... 

Guiding Me in the right Direction

Before I knew I was going to be focusing on the studio part of the project I was looking at images of innovative ways to display signage and way-finding material. Some of those ideas transfered over to the studio design additionally to some ideas I got from looking at different ways to create open and exciting areas for a studio environment. 

The Blur.... BUILDING (not like my life)

As I was looking for some inspiration I came across Dubai's future buildings they are proposing (which are crazier than our design and concept)!!!! Anyways I mentioned it to Travis and he suggested I should look at.................................................................................................

Diller & Scofidio

Blur Building

Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

“ An inhabitable cloud whirling above a lake”.

architecture magazine

The Blur Building is a media pavilion for Swiss Expo 2002 built at the base of Lake Neuchatel in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.

(because there images are copyrighted here are a few links to see the BLUR BUILDING  arcspace, designboom )

cool huh!!!!!

Locked Down.

After numerous changes to the signed and finalized plan, a new plan was finally the final one. Thank You Jimmy for taking the initiative to finish the damn design. Anyways, it looks amazing.

After talking to my group and deciding that there is no way I can design way finding and signage, I decided to change my individual part. I am no longer designing signage or anything related to way finding in the building. The architecture floors are now mine to design. OK so here I go!!!! 

I am looking at using a part of the concept but not the whole "transmetamorph" of it. I think I am going to break it down and see which parts fit into the ideology I have for the architecture floors.

Elevation View from Oakland (in perspective)

View from McCormick

View from McCormick w/ shadows

Elevation View from McCormick (in perspective)

View from corner of Lee St. and McCormick

Elevation view from Lee St. (in perspective)

OUTSIDE THE GLASS WALL (structural glass wall)

Jimmy has been talking about making an outside amphitheater, where the land is excavated to form  a place for it. Maybe excavated is too strong of a word. Outside of Sage Gateshead there is an outside performance area and it is not really dynamic but it gets the idea of performance stage and seating across.

INSIDE of our building??????

Inside of The Sage Gateshead. The skin surrounds the inside and makes for an interesting view and makes the structure of the ceiling attractive.

Spaces in between the plates and the skin are made into seating spaces, circulation, exhibit areas, etc....

We just keep coming up with questions, that are partially or never answered. Here are a few images that enclose a "skin" or roof structure. There is a point in which a building roof transitions into the walls of the building, where are those in our building? Do they happen inside the building or are the walls included in the complete form? The Sage Gateshead in England is one example of using the skin as their roof which encloses the building and all the floor plates are inside of it.

Navigation

At the last review, Travis asked me if i was thinking about having little heads "holograms" follow people around telling them where to go and at what point to turn. I said yes. 

At that point our building was a complex mess. We needed a way to aid (aid as in helping them get from point a-z without getting lost and also help them understand the building they were in) those who would occupy the building. I started looking at robotic and mechanical signage and way finding, and i came across V.I.K.I, from I Robot. She is the brain of a building where NS-5 robots are 

designed and made. She is a powerful source for humans, mainly because she guides them and analysis there thoughts before they can. Well, since our building design was already very complex and huge, the design called for a brain to structure and control the complexity of it all. 

V.I.K.I, here is V.I.K.I's manual key. Which is also controlled by a 3-dimensional keyboard.

V.I.K.I's infrastructure. V.I.K.I is allowed to roam thru the building as a human would but she is only a hologram that can appear anywhere inside the building or where electric currents travel.

Here you see V.I.K.I walking along side another robot (ironic). Actually the hologram (three-dimensional photographic image) would guide humans  thru the building and be an information carrier. 

INFORMATION CARRIER

Materials Model

Once we figured out what the new design would look like, our next task was too define what each plane was and decide a material for each of those planes. The model also starts to join planes so that it becomes one unified "roof", or "ceiling". Our next task is too model this in sketch up, which i have already started. The exploration in sketch up will try to make a concrete building form, so we can begin to find out how this structure will stay and be constructed. I know we are not suppose to figure all of the engineering in detail, but it would be nice to show diagrams of how we see this building being built in real life. Is it even possible? The new design is a bit more realistic but it still has its unique features that makes the structure complex and attractive.

We Got It all Figured Out!!!!