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2010

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TWENTY10

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Blobmesh Version2

Blobmesh Tester

Almost beautiful

Theatre stage below.

Theatre Drawings

Fake section

I can't find that one cut which shows the everything magical moment. The structural bracing and roof on the bar of building towards the right is not in place yet, but it looks somwhat acceptable here, since it's supposed to be a peel-away 'section'. Yes?

Question: cover escalators on roof or not

Above:
Without the hard-edged lid (Look for the hole towards the center of the image, click on image for larger view).

Below:
With the lid.

p.s. roof towards the back is yet to be built.

*Updated structural frame in place

The bracing works with the vertical circulation and holds the scaffold's floor plates. It also contains the back of house for the theater below. Notice how it expands as it gets above the stage area. The top-most thick waffle s the heaviest structural element. It forms the roof and holds/ suspends the bracing. Of course I'll still have to draw in how it touches the floor. However, since most of the site's edges are surrounded by neighboring buildings, it is assumed that it'll merge with their load bearing walls, and so it has to float for now. The solid part of the roof is the outdoor exhibition/ market that links to the museum below. There is an aesthetic problem with covering those escalators that takes one up to the roof. You can see it in the next post of options of covering it up.

Museum Scraps - to be stacked for exploded axo

pink= workshops and lecture hall. The big white dish is theater seating, aka event space

Transpotation hub pages

Are the comic lines distracting?

Question: Do you think the overlay line drawings are distracting?
I find the v-ray rendering too flat and cold. Somewhat generic, but nonetheless clear. The ideal case is to be able to extract the lines and make a comic book out of it. Just kidding.

Please click on image for larger view.
The lower image is for my own reference. One day I will make a line drawing animation.

structural bracing - shall i include in axo?

The bubble frame here is the structural bracing for the market/ workshop floor plates. The plane 'erode' left to right from solid to bubble frame and into smaller market stalls that needs to be photoshoped in. The question is:
1. shall i include it in the exploded axo?
2. are they spaced too far apart to show the erosion effect?

Axo floor plates

Question 1: Which view to explode from?
Question 2: Shall I keep the coloured floor plates? or are they tacky?
Blue = market. Pink = Museum + workshops. Purple in the middle is the event space, shared by both programs.

Partial Ground Massing

Reorganizing Programmatic Components

Rules of Subdivision

Structural lines are generated following the rules of subdivision.
In the scientific discourse, it governs the organic chaos of the world. In the context of the design, it is deployed by reacting to the immediate site context. The first order joins the corner and mid-points of bordering facades. Following this principle, the second order and the roof lines are developed. This rule-based organization enables aggregation while responding to the spatial, temporal and social demands. Its potential in creating noise with layers and subtraction aligns itself with the design intention of a site-sensitive and transformable social scaffold.

Sectional Programmatic Distribution

Section in progress

This is three sets of information overlapped into one drawing. The black lines and labels denote floor plates at the major section across the stage, while the colour blocks are area distribution along the scaffold. The two sets of information work together to form an efficient circulation hierarchy, it will be summarized in another diagram.

Massing in Progress

Messy mind makes messy lines

Scaffold with Structure

Scaffold Diagrams

Animated Scaffold : Basic Mechanism

From Wall to Scaffold

Wedges for the temporary stalls and circulation can be produced by weaving two sufaces together. Each of those surfaces can then be projected to form the curved enclosures.

Draft Section

Interconnected Volumes and Partial Enclosure

The different spaces are first loosely connected by drawing a continuous line around the main circulation route, from which a surface is built upon. This surface behaves like the mobius strip as studied before. It creates a boundary suggesting how the different programs spatially dissect.