Showing posts with label concept models. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concept models. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2009

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.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

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 | 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 | Landmarks