i like it better upsidedown

It looked like we were adding piles of trash upon piles of trash, but we were actually trying to come up with a building form. Individually we came up with pieces that formed a "building structure". Once we finished our individual exercise, as a group we came together and pieced all of our individually parts together. Basically we made puzzle pieces and then we tries figuring which part went where (without the picture on the box). After coming up with various forms, we choose one that excited us or was appealing and we made sketch up models. Still we were at a very conceptual state, and we could not decide on a single building form. We tried piecing the sketch up models together but that was not as effective as putting our sketch models together.

Pass IT On>>>>>

After we left Sunday night we were still unsure of what we had accomplished that day. We started with this trench (sink hole idea) that got complicated very fast so we stopped. However, on Monday we sat around the table and started to draw. Each of us started drawing about what we had talked about the night before, then we passed around our drawings so that each of us had an opportunity to draw on each others initial sketch. (VERY GOOD IDEA by the way) We ended up with this abstract SECTIoN of how we wanted the new architecture school to look like and started working from there. 

This was an awesome exercise that we did, each of us had a different perspective on each drawing. I turned a few drawings upside down and saw a completely new design or shape of the building. P>S> the sketch that we are using tho develop our design is on the yellow trace paper>>>

For those of you who were not available to attend Paula Carr's Lecture on Friday, here are the projects she talked about on Friday. Check them out!

BRIDgING?

I had a hard time figuring out how the design of the building would fit into the site and how it will be part of the ground. On Monday, team DF7A26, sat down and sketched a few ideas of what bridging meant to us, what we were going to bridge and who would benefit. This sketch (above) is really more my idea of how the building would fit into the site and how it will go underground and be exposed above ground.

Sketch Model Series | Following the Site

In this model, my intention was to explore how people would approach the building from Lee St. Towards the begining I was thinking people would enter from the corner of Highland and Lee but it was not very inviting. As I developed the rest of the model, some planes started to look more like overhangs or canopies which were more inviting to enter the building.

Most of the conceptual models I made did not fit into the straight piece of land that we are being given to work from. I tried finding comonalities between all the concept models that I have made and for this batch, I have discovered that they all fit perfectly into the site (narrow and long).

Sketch Model Series | Adjecencies

When I was coming up with forms, for the buildingless models, I was just thinking about pitting pieces together without really thinking what it all meant. After I talked to Travis, I realized that with out thinking I was coming up with adjacencie models and was thinking about how the program could be split. It is satisfying to realize that the work you do might not mean much to you at the moment but it means so much after someone else takes a second look at it.

Sketch Model Series | Layers

Looking back at the adjacencie sketch model that I had made, I began to realize that I should not be putting these models together just for the heck of it been done. I tried making up one reason for why I should build each model. From that one reason, I generated some ideas about why a building form could follow that structure and how the sketch model would benefit from that idea. OK, so my idea for this one sketch model was layers. What would be layered? (floors, spaces, materials, structures, pluming, etc) What could happen in each of these layers? (it could be open, enclosed, generate multitudes of people, nothing would happen on the layer!!) How would the sketch model benefit from being modeled? (well the sketch model's only benefit would be looking nice enough for a picture and be published on my blog) BUT how would I benefit from the model what conclusions could I draw? In this case I found interesting ways for possible floor layering and interesting materials that could be used for the construction of a building that looked like the one above.

Sketch Model Series | Landmarks | Spaces

Approach??? How would anyone approach a place that looked like this??? (please feel free to leave some ideas behind)

Sketch Model Series | Simple vs. Complex

Sketch Model Series | Landmarks