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Friday, 5 March 2010

Noodle house in Tokyo (extracted from http://www.abitare.it/highlights/yufutoku-restaurant/)

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Noodle Restaurant.

Located in central Tokyo, right around the corner from the major thoroughfare Meguro Street, is a ‘soba’ noodle shop, the owner’s residence situated above. The building has Machiya-style wooden louvers, invoking a traditional Japanese townhouse, but the depth of each louver is varied sequentially across the face. Regionally different patterns of light spill through the façade from the interior, allowing a gradual change of character at dawn, especially as viewed from the main street.

Thursday, 4 March 2010

This building study by Kumiko Inui demonstrates the how a spatial pattern can be studied and used in a building

model studies demonstrating different composition of roofs and their shadows

diagram demonstrates effect throughout the day

plan with inhabitation adopted to the shadow effects

Initial Brick Translation of Effects

In this initial drawing, I experimented with different ways of staggering a brick course and how angled facets could meet to capture the effects created in my foil models of perspectival convergence, coincidental disruption and directionality. The above image shows two variations of a perforate brick pattern and how the qualities seem to relate to the effects of the foil models below.

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Seibu / Ham Yard Models

Here are some ideas of how I would like to construct both seibu and ham yard models. I believe that both sites are acting in almost the same way (different levels of complexity), the difference being that seibu has buildings while soho site is "empty". But my proposal will use seibu as a reference to create the same kind of conditions (not same design obviously) in ham yard. So by doing the same scale model and using the same codes of representations i'll be able to clearly compare the two.
Please all feedbacks needed.

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Internal organisation for Samo

I thought these might be useful section example for the internal organisation of space and how hierarchy of space can create an interesting internal world! F

Again from Mark Smith (Jonathan's former student). See on the image below the differentiation between internal 'private' and internal 'public' spaces and the uniformity of the external skin treatment. J

Axo skin drawing for Kit

Thought this drawing might help you to draw the relationship between external skin+ internal space(internal skin) for Tod's.

Consider the two skins (in your case outer and inner) and how they create a presence on the street (facade pattern) versus interior space. This is a useful analogy in relation to your current project on Gt Windmill Street.

Mohawk Wharf- Inbetween space & Building Wrapper - Mark Smith

Defining effects- drawing representation- for Manijeh

Manijeh- these are the drawings and models for my own catalogue. The drawings describe specific relations between topography, spatial, programmatic and visual qualities they are derived from. The models are simple folded envelopes deformed around these principles and organised in the same way. Sectional properties are made in bold where required. Hope this helps.

Seibu study- for Antoine

Antoine- here is the Seibu model from Neil Grant 2 years ago. Neil focussed upon the skin vs. the internal circulation spaces, constructed in volumetric form. The external topography is absent- but the articulation of Seibu A and B is apparent in the foreground.

Consider carefully how to make parallel relations between Seibu precedent and Soho site (I suggest forgetting about the Parco series and concentrating upon the interconnected volumes of Seibu A + B, Loft, Coach (void?) Parking block and Movida ). If parallel scales of models are constructed, what do you frame and with what kinds of material? Maybe post your ideas after some thoughts.