Dustin Sorry that I couldn't attend your presentation. Thanks for the interesting proposal. We have talked about this during the studio, so I am quite familiar with your project. I think you developed both your problem/ the issue and the thesis/ your stand quite well. In addition, the strategies and tactics how to achieve them are quite well presented. Others can, potentially, learned from this. However, I think the title is quite misleading: there is not much density here, as you are showing only one unit. Yes, there is symbiosis and there is metamorphosis (what happened with that one in one of your working titles?) as you are showing how your unit potentially grow and change over time. But in your final renderings you are still dealing with only one little "polyp" sticking out of the existing structure and a viewer really wonders how is your proposed solution addressing the problem stated in the 1st slide. This presentation really needs the "projection" of what can happen if these additions are common way of resolving the problem of living in the city and the density, i.e. what happens when the whole facade is populated with these additions, what happens when you run out of stairs to provide access to each added pod, etc. Also, is placing the pod lengthwise on the facade really the most efficient way to do this, or could we achieve more if the pod is rotated by 90 degrees...? You are proposing something radical, that is actually quite well resolved and (in a weird way) realistic. Don't be afraid, then, and stop here; just show how it would look like if we have numbers of such pods populating all downtown underutilized buildings so they can really make some impact.
Dustin
ReplyDeleteSorry that I couldn't attend your presentation.
Thanks for the interesting proposal. We have talked about this during the studio, so I am quite familiar with your project. I think you developed both your problem/ the issue and the thesis/ your stand quite well. In addition, the strategies and tactics how to achieve them are quite well presented. Others can, potentially, learned from this.
However, I think the title is quite misleading: there is not much density here, as you are showing only one unit. Yes, there is symbiosis and there is metamorphosis (what happened with that one in one of your working titles?) as you are showing how your unit potentially grow and change over time.
But in your final renderings you are still dealing with only one little "polyp" sticking out of the existing structure and a viewer really wonders how is your proposed solution addressing the problem stated in the 1st slide. This presentation really needs the "projection" of what can happen if these additions are common way of resolving the problem of living in the city and the density, i.e. what happens when the whole facade is populated with these additions, what happens when you run out of stairs to provide access to each added pod, etc. Also, is placing the pod lengthwise on the facade really the most efficient way to do this, or could we achieve more if the pod is rotated by 90 degrees...?
You are proposing something radical, that is actually quite well resolved and (in a weird way) realistic. Don't be afraid, then, and stop here; just show how it would look like if we have numbers of such pods populating all downtown underutilized buildings so they can really make some impact.