Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Visual Narrative of spatial organization and design

This is my attempt at a visual narrative outlining my process of organization and design... starting with the idea of play and ending up with the beginning of a spatial organizational system. More to come but this is a start.

Not quite sure how to post it so it's legible.... I believe if you click on the picture, it will open in a new window larger, if that helps. Let me know what you guys think...

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  1. Owen GerstApril 16, 2009 at 1:40 AM

    Nice. I like it. its a process, taking the city grid or neighborhood scale and transposing, or layering onto the facade, if I understand correctly.

    I'm not sure exactly what is going on in plan. but the ability to click on the image and make it large is great.

    but if I recall correctly, your next step is to begin to play with figure/ground as a method of push/pull of volume? - like the childhood toy example you provide?

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  2. KristenApril 16, 2009 at 9:14 AM

    Yeah I'm creating an organizational grid based on the combined neighborhood grid and the column grid of the building. I was trying to show that I started with the kids toy and followed the same process for both the neighborhood grid and the column grid and then combined them to transpose the organizational grid over the building.

    My next step is exactly that... push/pull volumes based off the grid on both axes - to create floor plan and facade elements, just like the kids toy.

    This is the part I'm having the hardest time with and what I am still working on.

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  3. Owen GerstApril 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    this is always the most difficult part - the translation of ideas into architecture.

    ultimately it all ends in failure because the architecture is always something less than the idea - As architects we like sysphus - doomed to try over and over.

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