Wednesday, May 25, 2011



After Talking through my revised form with Yvonne Last week in the Tutorial it became obvious that the First section of the building at the entry section of the site wasnt really working. ( semi circular entrance)

It didnt have a major Purpose except to continue the form of the building . Looking at it through someone else's eyes its clear that this element is not in contrast with the rest of the building

And so I looked at ways to make this element integrate more into the building. I looked at its function. Its function is an a circulation area to facilitate entry to the building , entry and exit from the escalator. It is also a progressional space from the outside up into the building. This space needs to be Lockable but apart from that there are no more requirements.
and so I tried pooling the existing area up into one ' ball ' of an area.
This was alright but still a bit at odds with the 'swing type flow of the reset of the building. The lift shaft was currently the central component, it functions and even resembles the slime mould network pattern for connections. the Elevator functions the same way so why not do the same thing to it. and so I did.


I entubulated (pretty sure thats not a word but anyway) the elevator like the Lift shaft and that made it look like the building was reaching out and anchoring to the ground ( coincidently, like slime mould and my initial form sketches drawn about 5 weeks ago.)

west elevation








East elevation


South (front) Elevation


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