I am glad you started putting together some plans on paper. To be honest, I wish you had done this right after you got your sugar concept and massing model so I can give this feedback much earlier. From your exciting concept and massing, your plans have lost its luster and excitement. However, it’s not too late to translate your sugar concept onto your 2D plans. The current plan looks like an afterthought with boxed out room which resembles of a fit out stock rooms. Or another word, the designer of exterior of building and the interior space are like 2 different people.
I look forward to your further developed free hand sketches of your plan that should take you no less than an hour to jazz up the interior spaces or at least start to have a flow diagram to make sense of your space. Don’t be afraid to use tracing paper to overlay your diagram. Perhaps come up with a few options and post it up for discussion. Within a week, you should have a developed design development package that shows plan, sections and elevations. It doesn’t need to look pretty, but it should indicate that your building will work not just in massing, but in plan, flow, use and makes sense. Be careful about your scale. Draw some 3’ doors and a working stairs on tracing and move them around on top of your scaled plan. Do you notice that your door is too small? If you want the space to be open, how then would you treat your entrance to make it inviting? Leave it open? How does it reflect your sugar concept? If it doesn’t, then why have a concept at all if you don’t stick with it? Some questions to think about…
Side note: Le Corbusier said a house is a like a machine… I will say make that machine work for you. You got a great design concept and massing. Work it!
I have been reviewing your work, and so far I like the direction you are taking your design.
Go to Google translate and type the word sugar and translate it in to languages that use characters. ( eg.. Sugar in Chinese is 糖) Just explore and see if you like this approach
I think it is hard to see the concept without the section. I have seen the section - which should get posted and it does come from the concept of the sugar cane. The upper floors seem to let the sugar cane keep its shape, I am worried about the lower floor with its diagonal wall? Whatever happens inside should continue to strengthen your parti.
I am glad you started putting together some plans on paper. To be honest, I wish you had done this right after you got your sugar concept and massing model so I can give this feedback much earlier. From your exciting concept and massing, your plans have lost its luster and excitement. However, it’s not too late to translate your sugar concept onto your 2D plans. The current plan looks like an afterthought with boxed out room which resembles of a fit out stock rooms. Or another word, the designer of exterior of building and the interior space are like 2 different people.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to your further developed free hand sketches of your plan that should take you no less than an hour to jazz up the interior spaces or at least start to have a flow diagram to make sense of your space. Don’t be afraid to use tracing paper to overlay your diagram. Perhaps come up with a few options and post it up for discussion. Within a week, you should have a developed design development package that shows plan, sections and elevations. It doesn’t need to look pretty, but it should indicate that your building will work not just in massing, but in plan, flow, use and makes sense. Be careful about your scale. Draw some 3’ doors and a working stairs on tracing and move them around on top of your scaled plan. Do you notice that your door is too small? If you want the space to be open, how then would you treat your entrance to make it inviting? Leave it open? How does it reflect your sugar concept? If it doesn’t, then why have a concept at all if you don’t stick with it? Some questions to think about…
Side note: Le Corbusier said a house is a like a machine… I will say make that machine work for you. You got a great design concept and massing. Work it!
I have been reviewing your work, and so far I like the direction you are taking your design.
ReplyDeleteGo to Google translate and type the word sugar and translate it in to languages that use characters.
( eg.. Sugar in Chinese is 糖) Just explore and see if you like this approach
Diana B. Karlin
I think it is hard to see the concept without the section. I have seen the section - which should get posted and it does come from the concept of the sugar cane. The upper floors seem to let the sugar cane keep its shape, I am worried about the lower floor with its diagonal wall? Whatever happens inside should continue to strengthen your parti.
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