Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Reconfigured Massing Model

After last weeks review of our "Master Plan" we as a group there were some necessary changes to be done for the best interests of our design.

1. The bridge over western beach rd, gone for 'lighter impacting' foot paths.
2. The south and north building tweaked and reconfigured to strengthen their relationship.

As the school of multimedia, the site of the former Denney Lacelles building, was split into two buildings to originally increase and improve natural light, ventilation and circulation.

Although the concept is similar, the changes made really do improve the design so much more. Originally the south building was lower with a roof top gargen and the north building was higher with a large studio space placed on top of it.

Changes made were to switch the studio space from the north building to the south building so that the south building (My Building) is now higher and the rooftop garden now relocated to the northern building so there are now unobstructed views of the bay and that the lane between the two buildings 'Alf's Ave' gets a substantial amount of more northern lighting.

Other reconfigurations of my south building were to as stated raise the studio space to the top level, lower the offices and staff space to lower levels and clarify public and private space within the building.

A proposed rigid shaded glass roofing curtain walling system is added over the top of the studio space on the south building, curved to a wave design will maximize lighting and ESD principles.
The blue curved strips on the top of the south building is the proposed intricate shaded glass system.

These are my changes from the review of the group master plan... the evolution has begun and the momentum has gained acceleration.

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