Please find below the additional images you were looking for. I've added a short directional wall along the sidewalk which will act as an entrance progression. Then I though this is really just "putting lipstick on a pig." It doesn't fit my immediate concern of the "cold shoulder" the building is giving to the public - thank you Werner and Jaclyn. So please continue further...
Now watch out... I'm cookin' with GAS!
The LAST 4 images show how I use a very deep window treatment to both protect the gallery from direct summer sunlight and "reveal" the building to the public as they walk by on Mass. Ave. I plan on using some dichrolam glass treatment to allow the panels to change color as the sun moves across the sky and cast various patterns on the inner wall of the exhibit hall (a couple feet away from the front facade to also help block some of the light). I had inspiration for this from Jaclyn and her front elevation panels that are lifted into place to block the sun. Unlike that strategy, dichrolam film allows light to transfer through but colored and diffused.
4 comments:
Matt,
You rock, but I didn’t need to tell you that, you already knew that! I love this new approach. Did you see what I was talking about once you looked at that view? I think what you have presented along the north façade is enough of a subtle response that it will intrigue people and they won’t feel pushed away from the building. I do wonder what material you are thinking about for the large solid wall. Do you see it as a solid material, is it a billboard, is it a canvas for the students?
The plaza area /landscaping in front needs to be addressed now. I see this as low landscaping and not anything that will hide your building. What are you thinking? Is this a space to be occupied? Are people hanging out here? Since it is the corner it might be a prime opportunity to create a garden area for resting and peering into your gallery space.
Keep up the good work Matt!
I want to keep this a simple and elegant form. Decorated only by colored light focused to wash the wall and become a sculpture. These of course would be low voltage LEDs and only draw power from the wind turbine generator source. I feel banners or fenestration in these areas (exhibit & residential) would detract from the form.
I originally envisioned banners hanging from the studio space. Something that is very vertical. The wind would cause slight movement and this would compliment the perpetual motion of the freeway and railway. Again something that is inspirational for the studio space.
Matt,
great investigations, but I think your lipstick comment can be applied to a few? I wonder if you wouldn't want to reverse the order of your two curved shells and have the turn-pike shell stop short, revealing an opening into the back of your exhibition space without actually making an entrance at that point. The South side could be quite opaque and continuous because of that announcement on the North side?
Werner,
I liked the subtlety of the original single window. I'll have to model and create more images of it reversed, and how that progression from Mass. Ave is influenced. Do you think that might be enough... not doing the deep window frames?
Applied to a few? I don't understand the response comment. Can you please clarify?
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