Individual : Wayfinding & Signage

Transmetamorph: Building Models

Something I found on the TABLE.

The times that I am in studio, I find random things laying on the tables. One day i found this piece of mesh and thought about our building skin/form. I realized that this piece of mesh had an inside...where our programming stuff could lie or be placed in. I guess that idea did not last very long because I forgot about this piece of mesh and never talked about it in any of our group meetings. I would like to point out that I did not make this, but who ever did....kudos its an awesome form.

ETFE: ethylene tetra fluoro ethylene

It turns out our skin idea might not of being an idea that was difficult to accomplish or far from reality reach. The Watercube, Beijing's National Aquatics Centre uses a structure that could be sturdy enough to have some floor plates and structures be attached to it. Of course, it would not be by a string. In some of the construction drawings for the wall cavity of the watercube, it shows the thousands of connections that needed to be made to hold up this structure. Those same connections could be made to hold tons of steel and concrete in our skin design.

RESEARCH :: MATERIALS

Midterm Review

Obnoxious or not, our group was determined to make the building as big as possible. We added a few extra hundred thousand square feet to our design, only to make sure that there was enough room for both the college community and neighborhood community to meet and come together. Yes, we are exaggerating but as Jimmy says first make up the craziest idea possible, make it as unrealistic and unreachable and then come back to a feasible approach. It is always fun making crap up that wont work; but how will we know it does not work, if we didn't give it a chance at first.