With the development of a potential concept,
transmetamorph, our group made a matrix of major program areas to give us a graphic standard for labeling the many different transitions that were possible. While we will not be developing all 49 types, it was a good exercise for the group to start talking about the human experiences that we wanted to help guide us in not only our overall design of the building and site but also in the individual part of the assignment as well.
Our professor, Travis, was nice enough to sit down with our group and talk us through some of the problems we were having. We have our program organized diagrammatically and along the site but we'd had trouble translating that into floor plans since we didn't really have a formal building design (shell) yet. He advised us to start of placing the core elements in the plan: toilet rooms, elevators, stair shafts, mechanical, etc. Grouping these together he sketched out a few example schemes in relation to users being able to see out and direction of potential day light exposure.
The next problem was figuring out the structure of the building. [In the image above] top most: column grid structure, middle: grid shell structure with the floor plates hung from above, bottom: gridshell with separate column structure underneath. The middle example, was highly advised against as it brought on the most design complications.
We were then directed to the
Sendai Mediateque project in Japan. The structure in the building existed as a series of seemingly random placed vertical steel lattice columns which rise from the ground floor to the roof. The tubes exist not only as structural elements but places where core pieces (stairs, elevators, mechanical, etc) could be organized, among other things (ex. shaft of light). We immediately jumped at the opportunity to take this structure and combine it with the grid shell structure. The bottom sketch on the image above portrays these structural tubes connecting, transitioning, and becoming the structural skin of the envelope. The floor plates can now be supported by both the tubes and the skin, allowing for more refined design opportunities occurring through section.
With the development of a potential concept, transmetamorph, our group made a matrix of major program areas to give us a graphic standard for labeling the many different transitions that were possible. While we will not be developing all 49 types, it was a good exercise for the group to start talking about the human experiences that we wanted to help guide us in not only our overall design of the building and site but also in the individual part of the assignment as well.
Our professor, Travis, was nice enough to sit down with our group and talk us through some of the problems we were having. We have our program organized diagrammatically and along the site but we'd had trouble translating that into floor plans since we didn't really have a formal building design (shell) yet. He advised us to start of placing the core elements in the plan: toilet rooms, elevators, stair shafts, mechanical, etc. Grouping these together he sketched out a few example schemes in relation to users being able to see out and direction of potential day light exposure.
The next problem was figuring out the structure of the building. [In the image above] top most: column grid structure, middle: grid shell structure with the floor plates hung from above, bottom: gridshell with separate column structure underneath. The middle example, was highly advised against as it brought on the most design complications.
We were then directed to the Sendai Mediateque project in Japan. The structure in the building existed as a series of seemingly random placed vertical steel lattice columns which rise from the ground floor to the roof. The tubes exist not only as structural elements but places where core pieces (stairs, elevators, mechanical, etc) could be organized, among other things (ex. shaft of light). We immediately jumped at the opportunity to take this structure and combine it with the grid shell structure. The bottom sketch on the image above portrays these structural tubes connecting, transitioning, and becoming the structural skin of the envelope. The floor plates can now be supported by both the tubes and the skin, allowing for more refined design opportunities occurring through section.
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