Based on Ryan's model, I approximated spacing of canyon and mini canyons so that each apartment would get natural light on at least one face. Bali terracing has been replaced in some areas by larger fields separated by steep cliffs. In the main canyon there are steps down to a lower level where light can reach the inside face of the underground storefronts. The outside walls of the lower 3 levels slope inward.
this can be really nice- in a way all the sketches have a common thread-
ReplyDeleteif we combine them all there seems to me to be two metaphors at work here that are creating the form:
the first is the idea of a sponge, where we are catching/using water quite literally, and also the idea of soaking up all the elements of dallas into one dense independent area
the second metaphor seems to be building that sponge from the earth itself, where an imagined acceleration of time erodes the sponge to reveal canyons, cliffs, etc
I think a series of diagrams on the first board will be extremely important (from a design perspective) in showing that our form is not arbitrary.