This week we had our third pin-up of the quarter and it was enough of a fire to get me producing.
I have come to the realization this week that my project is very much about connections:
Connecting modes of transit
Connecting People with Ideas
Connecting a Neighborhood to The City (vis a versa)
Connecting Students to a Profession
Connecting habitat and Architecture
So I began to examine the ways we connect in plan and section, and used this idea of a bent or squished line as a parti for my transit center. Efficient movement it about a straight line, but slowing this movement and creating pockets of space is about bending and manipulating this line or direction of travel.
When connecting the ground habitat to upper habitat, this may also consider a more sinusoidal language. This building is about examining the multiple intersections of these activities…heres the result.
Model
Character perspectives
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| View From the LRT platform |
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| View from Pacific Ave |
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| terminate at a park/plaza |
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| Terminate with the transit Center |
I like the idea of slowing people down and using the building to provide spaces that do so, but I’m not convinced that just providing concave shapes will be enough to draw people into those spaces, perhaps, there is a notion of a visual connection to something that penetrates both sides so its gives the building a sense of discovery as one passes by.
With the street terminating at a plaza would be my intuition, it gives a relief space for the anticipated density along the street scape. But also I think it’d be a bold move to place your building there to be a landmark building that people must pass through and see from distance. Which is a more powerful effect on there urban scale as a orienting device for the neighborhood? my vote is for terminating at your building.