Hey everyone - i've redone my underpass since Monday's class; hopefully now the transition between the "rigid" CBD shapes and the "natural" triangles is smoother and clearer. i have decided to keep working with the triangles at different angles to one another - these are designed to represent the undulating ground and sort of flow into the surrounding hillside.
feedback from the guys that were in my group on the Monday session, and from anyone else, would be greatly appreciated
-Dmitry
Hey,
ReplyDeleteThe transition through the underpass is looking good, much smoother. However, I think the crits are going to ask you if the triangular forms truly reference nature... Maybe you need to push it further? Perhaps the triangles get broken up/morphed even further by the landscape (as is starting to happen in your bottom pic) until they disappear/are swallowed up completely?
Virginia
Yep, i agree with Virginia! Maybe u should break up the triangles and even the squares a bit more. May be the transformation of the square to the triangle should start closer to the entrance of the cbd side instead of starting the morphing at the centre and morph gradually. It would make the transition smoother when you walk through the underpass!
ReplyDeleteTim
ok thanks guys, i've redone the traingular entrance slightly and hopefully the triangles look a bit less imposing now. cheers!
ReplyDeleteHi Dmitry,
ReplyDeleteGood to see the scheme developing. You have focused on the triangle and square panels as primarily a surface treatment. I think the guys comments are valid - you could also think about the formal potential of the pattern you are using. At the moment the underpass is fairly much a rectalinear tube. You could look at working with varying the proportions of the space to give a stronger sense of compression and expansion (or some other spatial condition, which in some ways references the interplay between built and natural environments).
Another line of inquiry is pattern-making - which has an extensive history in architecture - think of Fed Square.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_landscape
Finally, you might think of your pattern as a ground plane treatment as well - this will allow you to "spread" the idea to other parts of the masterplan.
Andrew