Midterm

Elevations and cross section

Interior views

Test model 1:100

3D model update

Test model 3

Energy and structure concept

structure axo:


polar bear effect, by installing translucent isolation on the outside of the south facade:




the east and west sided curtain wall facades are operable for air flow control in the summer:

New grid in action

Working the grid

new steel grid pattern

grid deformation tests

Review

3D model update

Bibliography update

Amazon just delivered my new must-read and must-have, the dissolution of structure and ornament:

Douglis; Autogenic Structures

goto: Bibliography

Test model 2

3D model update

Presentation mock-up

proposal 1

proposal 2

Test model 1

Siteplan

Color schemes

Structure

A steel construction sandwich, consisting of the facade, circulation elements and a Vierendel'ish framework is pierced by the room volumes and will be adjusted structurally to the generated irregularities.

Facade strategies

The two strategies for the calmer frontal facade

The back facade will dissolve more into the "florality" behind it than the front.

The strategy for the short facades is a crispy folded curtain wall, to prevent it from reading as one big planar surface.

Massing

Program

The program consists of three main hubs:

Bank - clients e.g. private insolvency *cellular spaces*

Headquarters - including a museum/infopool on the company and on micro loans *spaces with high transparency*

Short term living - for the visiting employees from branches in other countries *private spaces*

The Program creates a diverse circulation, different access points with different levels of security.

Section diagram

Section diagram: the ornament will become the rooms, which will also articulate themselves on the outside surface of the block facade

Architectural reference Wall House #2/Bye House by John Hejduk:

Site analysis

Site analysis, client: Planet Finance

Massing strategy, program analysis

Volumetric Ornament

I developed a method of drafting, cutting, folding and modelling, that I now want to bring into an architectural scale:

Unfolding drawings

Plan using a circle packing algorithm for the 50x70cm test model

New precedents

Frauenschuh - the alpine orchid

Interesting folding as well as patterning and some evilness

Model building ♥'s messy

Introduction

First Task is to find an approach to the ambivalence of the security and transparency issues in a bank building. My proposal is a decorated block as the traditional bank typology that is engaged and transformed by it's ornament from the inside outward. According to this diagram i will develope a technique of articulation and volumetric forming to establish new relationships with the urban surrounding and the inside spaces of the building.

Diagram: ornament engaging the block, pop-up effect to celebrate opening of the case

Precedents: aesthetic ambitions, next step: volumetric ornament

Unfolded plan and model pics

Bibliography

Texts I'm interested in this term:

Aranda and Lasch; Tooling
Douglis; Argument for Ornament
Lynn and Rappolt; Greg Lynn Form
Moussavi; The Function of Ornament
Reiser and Umemoto; Atlas of Novel Tectonics
Sachs; Nature Design
Vidler; From Anything to Biothing

Studio Research

From the studio research I chose the "decorated block" as my typological starting point:

Louis Sullivan, Merchants National Bank, 1914