Week 10 - Form Exploration

I thought about the context of the site, as a flood zone and I opted to raise the building above the ground plain. This decision also incorporates the flow/movement outside of the building in the architecture. Rather than have an isolated building anchored to the cliff, people move through the building & there can be a series of these forms



I spoke with Nuno and he argued that I should retain my original form, rather than deviate into this new resolution. However I was planning on retaining the concept of glass/steel in the design. The Steel would be universal columns that uphold the structure and the glass would be for the balustrades and windows. The walls would not be load bearing, they would simply be internal partitions and external curtain walls which are protected from lateral forces by aluminum braces.

Nuno made it clear that he wanted a site intervention area where the building reveals the street level, the river & the cliff edge.

My Original Design had a path extending over the Building, which did not lead to the ground level, as such there was no connection between the river/walk the/cliff & the Street edge. There was visually but not physically.



So the design development....meant that I was going to shift the smaller building from its original location - by the river. This creates a direct connection with the river and directs the users to move through the corridors of both building into a strip that shows the cliff, the river & Street level and there is a direct connection with stairs.