Internal Topographic Model

Here is a model with which I'm showing how the existing topographical changes are used and emphasized in the proposal. There are 4 blue layers representing each level of entrances in the department store, each entrance being attached to a street and its topography. (I know that the real highs are not as marked as on the model but the model is almost more diagramatic).

i am looking at the technique for profiles at the moment
Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery
Caruso St John Architects

Dazzle Floors pt.ii

^ The different paths to take using the pavement.
^ The pavement fragmented by dividing the path into sections depending on where these areas would link to the program.

TS precedents for Ruo

Here are some precedents which might help you.

Herzog & de Meuron , FÜNF HÖFE. Five Business Passages in Munich



Abalos & Herreros, Public Library in Usera




Herzog & de Meuron , Forum 2004 Building and Plaza

Dazzle floors

The lines joined = extensions of a field from one area to another.
The lines break = a separation through materiality of surface from one field to another.
The lines shift = program field blends subtly with surface.

testing model page

This page belongs to 'Becoming Habitat'. As discussed last Friday, it simply shows my paper models relating to different void cuts. The diagram on the right is transformed from my previous sketches.

Strategic Drawing

These little plans and sections will go on the strategic drawing. The idea is to show in a simplistic way the differents programmes, acces points, light cones. 

Foil studies revisited

I reviewed the earlier Pattern and foil studies and noticed many similarities (and possible solutions) to your projects- please take a look

Ruo


Can you use glimpses/ angles of view as a device within your strategy?


Remember these simple translations?


Reflective materials, differentiated angles/ profiles etc.
This model could almost be a fragment of your catwalk...

Jinuk


These foil models can be re-translated at several scales within your scheme- as urban corridors, geometries, profiles of facets, interactive screen walls


What a great image! - but we haven't seen this since- hidden line render could give another level to the ambiguity of line vs. surface created by your anamorphic techniques

Manijeh


These simple surface studies were where we began discussing distortion, illusions of depth, perception with basic rules


Can we not imagine areas of heightened awareness...


or spaces with a distorted sense of perspective, scale- creating heightened senses of hierarchy, anxiety etc?

Chen


The configuration of holes/ spacing is more complex here than your current scheme..


.. creating the illusion of surfaces by profiling and contour- can this be achieved in your own project?

Zamri


You have been searching for simple strategies about profiling and patterning- but you already have it here- from early foil studies- please carefully consider their reuse


Use them to create a better understanding about the principles and origins of the lofting technique


Include these drawn studies in your portfolio- they are pivotal

Antoine


Stack-bonding techniques have always been more than a simple construction technique- the stepped profiles are intrinsically linked with our perception of the surface- depth/ distance/ tone


Do these differing techniques not offer contrasting approaches to our perception of material and surface within your four adjacencies and the interarticulation of individual volumes/ surfaces?

Royce


Week 2, term 1- and you have possibly already designed the building....
Opposing grains interlaced- what are the effects/ interconnections? Can this technique not be applied between internal skins and floors/ spaces?


Planes that shift to create more openness or conceal activity- could you make small fragments of exactly how the surfaces come together? Maybe not the notching script after all...

Kit


Can your project not benefit from a consistent method/ form-making device but just with simple variations such as here: changes in scale, material, distance- to create differing effects?


What happened to this simple device- to create glimpses- but without cutting the surface away?

Please add your own thoughts/ comments

Ambiguous Surfaces / Test 01

Some sketches of surface behaviours for smith court's entrance. Using two surfaces qualities (one is extension of existing (adaptive), the other belongs to department store). They both act as volumes/mass while one is only a huge void conducting light to the basement and existing spaces. They also overlap as they are continuous further behind one another, giving some signs of path and mouvement to users. 

These are quite quick to do so i'll do them for all entrances on site (5) and then the inside of the court. So I can have a overview of every part of the site, so I can do Drawing n°1 and continue on a more specific location (other drawings).

Feedback more then welcome! Thanks.

The Interior/ Open Space (incomplete)

< A diagram to show the different ways to access floors vertically (eg. stairs, elevator and pavement)
The small diagram on the top left shows how the stairs connect on area to another.