Programmatic Study & Development
Well... previously I turned idealistic model into this hybrid of the idea and real constrains.
Obviously, it is too sculptural to be practical to be used as a habitable space. Pictures below show my development. The overall appearance of the building isn't as fluid as I'm planing for it to be, but the functional part of this massing already is.
Site view. Building is visible from the street, park, pier, and water.
Looking from the pier
Looking from the water towards NW
Looking from the water towards SE
View from the top of the ramp (elevation: 25') towards South
View from the top of the ramp towards West
Bird view
Helicopter view
Approximate space destributions
Future development will include modification of the PoolArea wall. It will become ribbed to further simulate roots. Top ramp will wave. Rollerblading area will have leafy addition which will serve as shading device. Mechanical space will have similar structure. Outdoor passages will have elaborate railing systems which will add volume to them. Finally, appropriate wall finishes will have to be devised to enhance the organic feel.
There is still something extremely "extruded" looking about this. I understand the nascent stages of the massing, but from your parti model, this investigation, formally at least, is still missing the mark. I have confidence that the program items will fit, or be made to fit. This project as you have envisioned it, will be won or lost in the formal expression of the concept.
ReplyDeleteThe items that you mention in your written description will certainly help, but they are ornamental in the Meisian sense, not really a formal strategy.
Following Lia's comment on the lack of negative space, take a look at the current incarnation of Santa Monica Place (the Jerde renovation of 3 years ago). Also look to his Canyon project in Turkey. Both of these explore negative space in a rather novel way by "subtracting" from a mass. This is different than the approach that most well known architects are utilizing currently which finds negative space in the voids created between the deployed positive spaces or forms.