Have not been keeping up to date with work recently- as such my project has gone through several changes without really getting round to explaining them. The general form and underlying idea of the building has not changed at all. The idea of the circulation with the entrance sequence, with one hall at the front and another towards the rear, connected through a warren- like world of light, waffle slabs, columns and volumes in space. This idiosyncratic world is balanced through the symmetrical form of the grand hall at the front of the building. This Hall has gone through several major changes. Curiously though I have ended up where I started. With a hall that is reminiscent of Auguste Perret’s Notre Dame Du Raincy.
The reason for testing so many different forms for this hall was to try and find a way in which the existing building could meet the new. In opposition to the modernist way of resolving such a situation where you make the joint between the two explicit and highlight their meeting, I have thickened up the point of meeting and created a large concrete “key” which articulates this moment.
The other aspect of the design, which has now started giving me a headache, is the envelope of the building. I have recently looked at two materials that could be used for this external skin- polycarbonate acetate or concrete, both of which are nothing like each other, which simply demonstrates the lack of clarity I have with regards to this aspect of the design at the moment. I have a rough Idea of what I want it to do but I feel the feedback notes from my crit most clearly explains to me what this envelope/skin/curtain of the building should become. The feedback notes are as follows-
Schizophrenic waffle slab
Design in perspective
Confusing presentation
Bold gesture to bring main hall to the front
Image of the building from crossroads is big room
Complex circulation behind – but strong response to site
How interesting is translucent box
Nice way to represent programme to the city
Hall different from other buildings
Wraparound stuff is confusing and brutal
What is wall surface and how to people behave in relation to it?
Man in Hawaiian shirt not appropriate
Very nice ideas but very underdeveloped – needs to be fleshed out
Relationship to urban surroundings under-explored
Entry sequence conventionalised
Model photographs are not a substitute for the idea they represent – lack of clarity in what is being described – baldness in use of photographs – very revealing of lack of detail of building and jarring and disturbing – more selective in choice of photographs
Plan suggests a post – makes a façade pattern – grid
How does grid of ceiling resolve with pattern of wall posts?
The room feels grand – interesting
Revisit Whitechapel to see Bethan Hughes
Curtain wall – what could it be – nonsensical dichotomy between concrete and polycarbonate
Sound of clubbing – sand in polycarbonate
Should it be quiet or a bit noisy?
Main room – not quite in the room
Do more drawings trying to capture what I want each of the areas of the building to feel like. Do some paintings of what I want these areas of the building to feel like perhaps? I think from here I need to make some models of each of the places perhaps at 1-200 to help work out what this skin is and at 1-50 to help work out how people interact with it? Work out this relationship between the skin up close and far away. How does it change upon getting closet to it?
Plan seems to work- also need to work out the acoustics of the underground crypt/rave pit/assembly hall.
Produce a series of 1-20 models of the particular spaces and moments within these spaces to help work out exactly what they should feel like. Perhaps work from perspective- drawing sketches of the places first then going into models, then working in plan and working with precedents.
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