Saturday, August 1, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
How an idea becomes a facade becomes a screen (Part 2)
Parts 1 and 3 are not yet published, but this series of images shows the main process of development based on test renderings.
Design began from folding the building in half.
and then attempting to stuff this arrangement of programmed form back into three bays (instead of the 7 bays I was occupying before)
Spaces began to emerge as the existing floors were placed back into the building.
A facade began to emerge even before I worked out the program in the new 3 bay design.
This created a corridor that opened the entrance up vertically and allowed a cavern like quality to be created.
Critics became more interested in the surface of the wall that created the cavern then the space created so it was suggested I take out the adjacent firewall to expose the facade.
I played around with many ideas, including keeping the exterior walls to partially enclose the space,
although in the end the space was completely opened up.
The facade remained unchanged throughout the interior development.
Although when I began site development, I began to incorporate the facade as a way to connect the building to the neighboring park. Unfolded, the facade could make a perfect screen for movies to be shown during summer film nights.
The existing site’s primary attraction was the view of the Manhattan skyline.
Lines were created using the former rail tracks that were used over 100 years before.
The lines would raise and adjust to the site to become tiered seating in the park that would change the park but would not force all of the other things that take place in a park to conform to the seating created.
The seating converged upon the building to make connections for movement.
The raised seating area provided space to create space for underground parking.
After working through the ik and bones systems in max, i simply unfolded the existing design to create the screen in the park.
Further design development took place in the interior and the project was finished without complete figuring out how the facade could actually be constructed and work. I have several sketches, but do not yet have any drawings or images to show.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Project Development Update
1.Sunday/Monday - The fusion of both the bay being blown out and keeping the bay completely intact. You can see the two options I had been playing with in the previous posts. I had always been torn between the two. I liked the tightness of leaving the adjacent bay in place, but the opening of the bay also gave views of the curtain facade. I felt like opening up the bay almost exposed the curtain too much, and produce a visual effect where I was aiming for an experiential effect from being in the cramped space walking along the wall. I'm not sure if the hybrid idea achieves what I am looking for in the design but its a step forward instead of being at a standstill with only 9 days left till the project is due.
2. Saturday - Developing the Artist's Living Area. The area overgrew the space I had planned and is now going to take up the rooftop area of both the 300 and 125 person theater. Using the elevation differences I placed the Artist's private sleeping/ work/ bathroom blocks between the two theaters, cantilevering over the space that will accommodate a group kitchen, dining area, lounge and a small theater for the artists to have of their own. To the opposite of the private boxes will be an outdoor area that will be enclosed by the existing brick walls in a similar format as the existing tobacco building. Lastly, the entrance to the private spaces will be from underneath. This is something seems to make its way into several of my designs over the past two years. I wonder if I will have the same unconscious desire after finally visiting a space that has an entrance like this.
3. Tuesday AM - Developing the stairway to the basement level and underground connection to the park. This quickly became an interesting form that could become the third auditorium, extruded vertically for the fire stairs or the top could be sliced back off to become a ceiling for the descent of the stairs to the basement.
