I wanted to carry on my metaphor about marriage and divorce, but things were starting to sound a little, um, messy, if you will. So let me just lay it out straight.
My first scheme was purely a response to my thesis question (that is, a meaningful examination of the relationship between built form and landscape). A very interesting response, and one that I still love as a pure form. But it did not work well with my program, as you may remember.
My second scheme was intended to be a response to both thesis and program, but as I realized this week, it was really only about program. Its response to my thesis was basically lip service. With two weeks left until the final review, I could not stand by a design that I did not believe in.
So after a day or so of panic and near-depression, I think I’ve got it figured out. Back to modeling masses (which I had pretty much abandoned in any meaningful way throughout the second scheme), I think I have a form that engages my thesis investigation with the language of my first scheme, while creating useful space for the program as did my second.
Behold!
(Don’t worry, I have developed some good 1/16th scale plans of this baby, so I’m not totally screwed yet).
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