City as a Building / 1: 500 Exploded Axonometric

drawing scale 1: 500 and size of an A0 height, A1 width

The annotation and human figures are missing. Drawing shows how circulation works through different levels of different programmes, starting from the District Line Station directly connecting via Lifts, the building being an extension of the city without having a border, a boundary.

I'm planning to add three very thin lines ending with arrows, one showing the connection from Fenchurch Street and the Tower Bridge walk, the other showing the route from DLR Station towards Monument Station, the last one showing the connection at the terrace floor between the three cores.

Street as a Corridor / 1:200 Axonometric Cutaway

drawing scale 1: 200 and exact size of an A1 sheet

Street as a Corridor

Drawing showing how the existing infrastructure of the city meets with the building at varying levels. An existing walkway under the road meets with the floor of one urban room, Fenchurch Street continues into the hotel, passing by the main reception. Walking from the Tower Gateway DLR station, the urban room cantilevers above the walkway. At the same time, walking from the Fenchurch Street through the building, climbing up the stairs, one person finds himself in the second quiet side of the urban room seeing the sky and the balcony by the edge / which is used as the restaurant of the hotel in the evening.

Darker shading shows the stairs and corridors attached to the hotel rooms on the edge of this quiet side of the urban room.

The coffee room on the edge of the urban room, where you can stay and work for hours - almost like a public living room - is represented really sketchy right now. It will be fixed.

I will have one small London Bus and London Underground icon on where exactly the building meets with them.

Axonometric Drawing

Axonometric drawing showing circulation through the building.
(in progress 1:200 scale, 840mm x 2500mm)

Although its not that important for its brief, there're 60 rooms in this hotel.

I am planning to show 3 types of rooms in detail as a pop-up from this axo on the same drawing.

What happens around the station, lifts, stairs and escalator will be more in detail.

Some furnitures will be shown at certain shared spaces.

The drawing will be useful for presenting which programme goes where and how you access it.

I will only use colors for two urban room spaces. one as red and the other one as green.

Axonometric/ Exploded drawings

Here are a selection of drawings from previous student work as discussed on Friday 15th.

It is less important to show the entire building and its mechanics- and more important to describe a story- a journey through spaces both internal and external or the organisation and hierarchy of different spaces within.



Tamim Negm- exploded axo of teenage outdoor pursuits venue



Mark Smith- Exploded axo of Silvertown Housing




Yeehui Khoo- City Farm/ Freight distribution centre



Yeehui Khoo- Exploded Site mapping of Shibuya



Cristina Asenjo- Exploded Kings Cross Intermodal hub

axonometric drawings

this is the exonometric drawing describing the geometry of the yokohama ferry terminal