Thank you everybody for advising, teaching and influencing me during this class. I enjoyed the process; hope it wasn't a bore for you too.
As a thank you note, and as a holiday greeting, I would like to share with you the project I've been working on during the last week of the semester. It is a house projection display I did on my house to spread the joy of Christmas in my neighborhood. Sorry for the quality, my camcorder is afraid of darkness.

Final Presentation

Site

Precedents

Boat House (Worcester, England)

Sport Center (Zaragoza, Spain)

List of Spaces • Adjacency Matrix • Criteria Matrix • Bubble Diagram

Spaces

(see inside)

Concept Development

(see inside)

2D into 3D

Evolution of Massing

Approach & Procession

(see inside)

Insides

Plans & Section

PLANS

Section

Approach and Procession

It is almost over. I'm working on plans, sections, and interior sketches. But the biggest part of the project, animation, is done. It took my computer about 150 hours to render 2000 frames at 960 x 540 pixels. That was the main reason I didn't post for so long.

Video on YouTube

I thought to start making landscaping, but I was concerned with interior spaces, so I made a few rough renderings to see if there is a potential for comfort.

Spaces, and camera direction.

 1. Lobby; looking East.

2. Rollerblading space; looking East.

3. Outdoor Hangout Space; looking East.

4. Looking NE; Gym is across, Rollerblading space below.

5. Looking West from Gym.

6. Looking North, from Zumba area towards Gym

7. Looking West; Administrative Space across, on the right; Auditorium above.

8. Looking from Auditorium, NE, down towards the Gym.

9. Roof. Looking SW. Yoga Space across.

10. Pool area. Looking SE; core is across.

My first 'more or less' successful massing had interesting transitions between slabs. I wanted to preserve that in my final massing. So I mixed glazing approach from my previous two attempts.

It took a lot of meticulousness to manipulate hundreds of splines... I wish, when I grow up, I could do it smarter.

My next step will be development of the site.

Have a holiday blast!!!... I'll post on the other side.

Before I make plans more detailed, and integrate surrounding area into the overall feel, I want to figure out new skin of the building. Its form as organic and plastic as the circulation; it is dipped and raised on the South side more to protect spaces from excessive Sun; it functions as a railing as well.

Structure of the building

... with strip of edging 

... and surface of the future glazing

Looking North

Looking South

Looking East (from park)

Looking West (from water)

For presentation

(ramp isn't complete, glazing isn't precise and isn't as organic as I want it to be, staircase is a mess)

Collage

Parti

Approach

Driving Force

Plans

Section

Renderings

Approach from the park

View from the river

Entering the lobby

Rollerblading space

Auditorium, Core, and Yoga spaces

Water activities area

In context