progress on clay safehouse

Safe House Ideas

Thick impenetrable walls. spaces for sitting, viewing, and taking notes, possibly even broadcasting, viewing spaces- windows always obscured by bullet proof glass or indirect views, peep holes to view possible intruders, places for sniper shots at intruders, enlosed space for writing with an abundance of indirect! sunlight.

Site- sparse, broken, run down, rubble, demolition

some images of war scenes

Compartment c - Edward Hopper

Try again. Hopefully this one will be ok!!!

I thought the lady in the picture looked very engrossed in what she was reading. I noticed that they were documents she was reading not a book. This lead me to think she may be a journalist. She reminds me of a well dressed 'girly' women that in a war situation becomes soldier like. (alike to the lead female character in blood diamond)

Sentence: A safehouse for a young women journalist who is obsessed with documenting the terror of a war zone.

Location of observatory

Below is a link to a google map of the approximate location of the observatory. It is situated between some of Greater London's busiest train lines.


http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=london+battersea+lockington+rd&jsv=107&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=85.54286,191.953125&ie=UTF8&ll=51.476812,-0.144196&spn=0.015636,0.046864&z=15

New Idea

Eward Hopper 'House by the Railroad'

I got to bogged down in the old idea so i decided to start a fresh...

Sentence: An Observatory for an old, widower who has an obsession with train spotting.

Poche finished!

inspiring section

Parti finished!

Even closer

The model is a few pieces away from being finished. This is how it is dismantled to view each individual part.

Nearly complete!

nearly complete. just need finish the coutyards and the base.

Progress

I now have most of the ideas and drafts for my parti drawings. I am now working on my poche drawings and the model.

Definition of Poche

"Poche" is French for "pocket." In architecture it refers to plans or maps that have materials completely blacked in, to get a better idea of the geometry of the physical space by outlining it.
ref: wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_poche_in_architecture




Poche: the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black.
ref: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poche

Poche: In an architectural drawing, the blackened portions representing solids.
ref: http://www.answers.com/topic/poche

Poche images

2008- Design Starts here!

Please kill the bots in the begining otherwise they get in the way of the elevators. If any of the elevators return to their starting position its because you are not standing in the center of them. Some of the spaces that the elevators go through and finish up at are tight- especially the elevator from the bottom space (Slims space) up to the meeting space, if your standing too far back in it it will just return to its starting position.

The meeting space in the middle, Carlos Slim's grand, extravent, mexican style office space and above in the bridge is Ratan Tata's modern, inconspicious office space.



Meeting space in the begining without the dining table (also without 1 wall however it is not displayed in this image as it is the wall that is behind the camera.)The meeting space is a combination of modern and Mexican styles, the chairs represent the positions that the clients would be seated. The chairs are both on podiums for they represent the clients both sitting tall (respresenting their power) at the table. Notice the chairs are also different hights!



Meeting space with dining table. The elevator from Carlos Slim's office space moves up to become the table. ( The wall of the meeting space- not in this view- comes down with Ratan Tata's elevator to complete the meeting space. The meeting space can not survive without the two clients both coming to the meeting space.)

Carlos Slims Mexican style, extravagent, oversized courtyard. Courtyard defines the plane in which his office space sits underneath. The courtyard gives the viewer the opporunity to realise they are located far below the bridge.




The inside of Carlos Slims office. His office is in the far corner of this space forcing Slim to experience and realise the size and extravagence of his office Space. Slim has a large office to re-enforce his greedy and monopolising power.



Carlos Slims private courtyard and plush elevator. Slims elevator takes him on a journey to further view the overwhelming size of his office space.

Ratan Tata's Space represent the inside of the bridge and the way in which Tata recieved his fortune and power. Tata's space is risky and the movement inside it represents the ups and downs of his career.



The textures represent the movement of the elevators.

Ratan Tata's Office space is modern, crisp and minimalist. Tata is interested becoming international.



Tata's elevator takes a dive down through this tunnel, often (seeing the light) through gaps in the heavy dark texture. Representing the dives and recoveries that he has experienced throughout his journey to wealth and power.



Textures used in one of the journey spaces, the wall textures represent (codebreaking) and the end texture is the (conclusion or resolution)

Tip

My tip is to help you start the design idea process...

I think the best way to get inspired when given a new design brief...(especially if your stuck, or not too sure about what you are being asked.....) is to spend some time looking through books or on the web researching ideas and especially images of all the possibilities... this should help to give you direction and hopefully come up with more sophisiticated ideas.

Textures of movement

Table idea animation

elevator: sketchup movie

Development of elevator

2 point perspectives investigating pathways