I intend to keep the base of the building very light (i.e. glazing) and progressing to a more substantial material at the top (for the dorm rooms). Also, I would like to explore breaking the north wall and adding a glass feature (monumental stair) as well as interactive panels (so it serves as a billboard).
The second sketch explores the idea of "coiling" the program - which really needs to be explored in 3.d to fully understand it (hopefully a sketch model will be done friday).
Sketches:
2 comments:
Joe, I like your plan sketches. They really seem to a logical sense of how the program works.
I am interested to see how the coil works out. Do each of the program spaces rest within the coil? If so, is the slope continuous aall around, thus eliminating the need for a stair?... does something other than a monumental stair break the edge? Just some thoughts...
Joe, your material (in studio, sketches) remind me od two projects that took the light base/heavy top to extremes: LeCorbusiers Villa Savoie and Rem Koolhaas/OMA's Nexus Housing in Japan. both work with the notion of "floating heavy mass above a light base". To make these projects work, the architects carefully worked the fifth elevation: the roof. And not only in a compositional way, but with very elaborate three-dimensional expressions to organize and let light come into the spaces behaind the solid.
LeCorbusier: Villa Savoie: http://www.e-architect.co.uk/paris/villa_savoie_corbusier.htm
Rem Koolhaas:
Nexus Housing, Fukuoka, Japan
The project consists of 24 individual houses, each 3 stories high, packed together into 2 blocks. Each house is penetrated by a private vertical courtyard that introduces light and space into the center. A closed cyclopic wall wraps around the exterior of the blocks; escaping from the walls are floating rooflines which resonate with the mountains that define the bowl of the city. Images at: http://space.geocities.jp/atrium0510/archi/fuku/15rk.html
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