Wednesday 4 February 2009

Spatial Relationship Draft

Now that i am still working on plans on how the programmes are to be spread around site; i would just post a quick spatial diagram to outline which spaces are to be linked with each other, this is then i can make decisions based on the research done on urban strategy earlier.
*Notice the above like 'Pink'- these are individual spaces which does not share with others; The long verticle bridge means that these different premises will share certain space, maybe more thoughts could be put into thinking how to clarify this identity that are meant to be segregated yet existing together, maybe though materials, signs, borders? Not sure either..
Now i think i am spending alot of time refining very small details, which isn't a very productive way of working. So i hope to come back to refine these diagrams later (For example i have not even think of carpark spaces); but to keep myself going, i hope my next drawing will be a clear outline of my programmes on site! =)
Byes for now.
Carrie

2 comments:

Marco said...

Hi Carrie. Yes, I would test the diagram by deploying it on the site and see if it works and if the assumptions about the special relationships you made are correct. I think you need to find a quick and efficient way of doing that so you can go back and forth a few times. I suspect you will need to try it more than once.

Jonathan Dawes said...

Carrie- go careful about committing to a brief... try to keep it a bit looser. I think maybe you still need to have a meaningful discussion about programmatic overlaps on the site and the kinds of spaces these may occur in within the city- which are lost in the current diagram. The extent of your strategic proposal may depend on some elements becoming physical insertions while other moves may be strategic demolition of buildings, the conditioning of the public realm etc. I appreciate the pace and progress, but try too avoid becoming too diagrammatic and prescriptive too early- test the bigger moves first and maintain the context, which may reveal other spatial opportunities. Hope this makes sense. You might use your earlier mappings to overlay your strategies- which will also give continuity. Thanks- Jonathan