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