Midterm Presentation

Midterm Presentation

 

Two weeks ago was midterm presentation. This consisted of my peers and myself staying up for endless hours to produce work demonstrating our goals for the project. We were required to present ideas about how our project operates urbanistically demonstrating this through models, drawings, and renderings.  My presentation was received well and the focus of my design for the next few weeks will deal with the connection between my private housing and the more public ground plane (how can these two merge or create a third condition?)  I am excited for the development of my project because I think it has a lot of potential but still needs a lot of resolution and problem solving. Progress to come soon.

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Section illustrating the seamless transition from the street to the interior of the project. The section is cut through the public social void of the housing clusters.

iterations…

iterations…

Iterations

Gearing up for midterms on Wednesday but first I need to do some experiments in folding to help me design the podium for the public functions of my building. Here is a quick update as to where I am at. This post will be updated in the near future.

 

current scheme

 

The idea is to generate a new ground plane for my housing clusters that is has more order and logic then my current scheme.  I think that I now have a further understanding of how to bend and fold the ground plane in order to create space and experience. While none of these forms seem to be the "perfect" form for the site, I believe the exercise has led me to think about this in a better light. For my ground plane on Monday / Wednesday I am going to take the ideas I learned from this exploration and execute them to simplify my current scheme. These study models have also engendered new ideas into my head for site organizational strategies along the ground plane.