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.
