Sunday, May 2, 2010

Progress: 5/01 - 5/02










I am very glad that we have the opportunity to further our designs at a larger scale now. I feel that I finally understand what this jump entails. In our previous projects, at their respective levels of development, I feel that there was too much detail in the smaller iterations, and not enough in the larger ones.


Thoughts on how I exactly conceive of this building...

Here is my analogy:






I think of it as a dressed up girl. The frame is her body, which has glass (the dress) pulled over it. Around the upper floor, is a solid horizontal belt. Then the louver system is like a hat, that hovers over but completes her statement.


Here are a couple more shots of where I am right now: