It was mentioned that there is some discontinuity in my facades - the west facade is strong in showing my overall idea and parti of the wrapping but this is not translated to the north facade - possibly considering making the wrapping happening in both directions but fear that it will get too messy.
I also think that I need to make the young street public entrance more dominant on the facade or incorporate it into the wrapping - as of right now it is almost gets lost.
So my residential floor plans are bad - too much open space, no lighting into common areas and dead end hallways without proper distance to fire stairs. This is still something I am working on resolving. One idea to break up the open space and introduce light is to have light wells coming in from the roof. Thoughts? The residential floor plans from floor to floor are fairly consistent minus the location of the pods that cantilever into the atrium space. The thick walls from the wrapping exterior continue into the interior spaces in which I proposed the idea of flexible units. The users can experience these thick walls by having beds that fold into them to create more space within the units, as well as movable walls to open up or close space as needed. In the public spaces, the wrapping continues into the interior to create seats/benches in the third space and DMZ. On the ground floor I have introduced a separate residential lobby - for the best but needs to be fixed. Also, ground floor will possibly have to be rearranged to accommodate separate stairs for basement access to mechanical and utilities.
-one of the best ways to reinforce the wrapping idea is to bring one element from the Yonge street elevation to bend back to the east side through the north elevation somewhere in the middle or elsewhere (so long as it is not the top); that would ensure that a continuity on the outside is more apparent
ReplyDelete-I need to get a better sense of the interior space, most notably where the stairs come up and see how the resolution works between the beta testing area and the showcase zone; incidentally, what goes on by the stairs?
-"lounge", "cafe", and "Third Space" will be resolved immediately or else the design will fall flat; the easiest way is to actually design the spaces from perspectives of the interior volumes; remember that design is more than simply making boxes with a sprinkling of furniture blocks
-you have a great deal of circulation space (or it could be communal space but I doubt that was the intent; look at the corridor on the second floor towards the mech, the area on the ground floor outside the beta testing zone, the huge void on your residential floors outside the laundry area; I will not go into what was raised in your comments from the review, but please adhere to them as you proceed, they will only make your project better
-find a way to ensure that the wrapping continuity comes inside the building beyond the ground floor; could your open expanses of spaces in the residential floors not be broken down with some wrapping element coming in?
-ensure that your structure showcases in the sections as well as your awareness of technical systems; currently this is the type of drawing you would get at a very schematic phase
-light wells could work especially IF YOU PULL DOWN SOME WRAPPING ELEMENTS FROM THE ROOF INTO THE BUILDING TO DEFINE A LIGHT WELL; play with this as it will kill two birds with one stone
-not sure about the thickness of walls serving as accommodation for questionable furnishings; Murphy beds are used when existing conditions are too narrow; you are not suffering from that so why deal with such conditions?
-if you are in a real bind, take a look at what Professor Richman and I have been looking at over the past couple of years: core sunlighting; it was developed by Lorne Whitehead in BC and we've been looking to integrate it into buildings in Toronto under the codename: "Project Deathstar" (yes, that is what it is called, ask Russell!); it basically consists of using a series of mirrors in the spandrel conditions of buildings to orient with the sun and focus the light into one concentrator which then fires off a big solar energy beam INTO the building which is shot through chases with 3M film that is 99.9999% reflective that serve as light strips in buildings; this is a good strategy but it is your decision; it is pretty technologically based but it might be an option that you might wish to have at your disposal; this will ensure you have light in your building regardless of the HMV situation
-take a look at what your peers have been doing with respect to the structural implications of your design; keep in mind you can just take a look at the steel span guideline that I posted in the course announcements that will reaffirm your rough sizing of beams and other steel members; this is just the start of course, as it is really up to you and your design intentions to outline the overall effect(s) of the steel in your design; currently it would appear to be something subverted; if that is the case, then obviously that would be a different strategy than going out with the AESS model of design