Thanks for the well-organized and well-presented concepts! I get worried about the nature of some of your gestures as the aggregation of them makes the project a potential "Frankenstein" monster project with disparate pieces here and there. For example, your first image (sketch #3) is quite disturbing especially if you envision the checker board geometry. The massing you are playing with is interesting but remember that Toronto already has 60 Richmond. The sketch on the first board re: the interior is interesting but it comes across as the Shim-Sutcliffe Integral house but then one realizes the actual scale of space. Do you actually know what is going on in your building now? With a scale? In the second board, I think it is dangerous to propose something without context. The green roof is a filler and no more a useless veneer as the metal/aluminum panel on the building. I have reservations about you designating ARB labs on the Yonge Street facade as they are potentially leaving the DMZ for better profits.Not a bad start to developing some basic design but there is little correlation between the elevation and the plans as well as any sense that you are aware of just how large this site is. Your 3rd board makes for a dangerous design; the egress issues are quite difficult. That you have a fire stairs on Yonge St with its prominent real estate makes little sense. I cannot read the writing in your plans, but one really has to question how/why the star in the back corner of the building works legally. There is quite a great deal of excess circulation; tighten the plan up. Though you have a sense of structure emerging, one still has to wonder about the nature of the program in the ground level and whether or not you have allocated the right amount of space. That you have these instances where you are very much focused on the angled open to below condition makes it clear that you really need to measure and understand scale. Again, fix your floor plans so that there is a greater efficiency. This is most evident when one looks at the stairs in the middle of 4&6 and its distance to the fire stair relative to the distance to the next fire stair in the back corner of the units. There is a lot of expansive open space in these plans. I do not believe there really would be a sense of community in this design. You can fix it by not simply making huge expanses in the building, but by configuring your residential area with greater sensitivity. Overall a good start to the project- let's keep it up!
Thanks for the well-organized and well-presented concepts!
ReplyDeleteI get worried about the nature of some of your gestures as the aggregation of them makes the project a potential "Frankenstein" monster project with disparate pieces here and there. For example, your first image (sketch #3) is quite disturbing especially if you envision the checker board geometry. The massing you are playing with is interesting but remember that Toronto already has 60 Richmond.
The sketch on the first board re: the interior is interesting but it comes across as the Shim-Sutcliffe Integral house but then one realizes the actual scale of space. Do you actually know what is going on in your building now? With a scale?
In the second board, I think it is dangerous to propose something without context. The green roof is a filler and no more a useless veneer as the metal/aluminum panel on the building. I have reservations about you designating ARB labs on the Yonge Street facade as they are potentially leaving the DMZ for better profits.Not a bad start to developing some basic design but there is little correlation between the elevation and the plans as well as any sense that you are aware of just how large this site is.
Your 3rd board makes for a dangerous design; the egress issues are quite difficult. That you have a fire stairs on Yonge St with its prominent real estate makes little sense. I cannot read the writing in your plans, but one really has to question how/why the star in the back corner of the building works legally.
There is quite a great deal of excess circulation; tighten the plan up. Though you have a sense of structure emerging, one still has to wonder about the nature of the program in the ground level and whether or not you have allocated the right amount of space. That you have these instances where you are very much focused on the angled open to below condition makes it clear that you really need to measure and understand scale. Again, fix your floor plans so that there is a greater efficiency. This is most evident when one looks at the stairs in the middle of 4&6 and its distance to the fire stair relative to the distance to the next fire stair in the back corner of the units.
There is a lot of expansive open space in these plans. I do not believe there really would be a sense of community in this design. You can fix it by not simply making huge expanses in the building, but by configuring your residential area with greater sensitivity.
Overall a good start to the project- let's keep it up!
Looking good Gary! Maybe try to find a consistent language for the facades of your building.
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