Week 7

1) To finalise my choices for this upcoming assignment:
Both of my precedents are built, one is from my nominated architect from Project 1 (Teshima Art Museum by SANAA) and another one of my own choosing (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia by Santiago Calatrava).

2) From my previous post I've outlined the ideas I had on what my building type would be my next assignment for which I was thinking having either:

• A residential area/home with an intimate sort of setting.
• A skyscraper-like building.
• The last one that I could think of that would suit my purposes is some kind of office building.

This week I've come to the decision that I wanted to have a smaller scale design compared to the architects that I've chosen. I wanted a private setting (which contrasts to both precedents with their buildings being open to the public), my final choice is creating a residential home. By creating a residential home, I am striving to achieve a sleek, and curvacious building by creating a very similar design concept to both SANAA and Santiago Calatrava's work.

3) My tutor and I were about how to implement my concepts into this next assignment, we concluded that the concepts I had were a bit more difficult to envision in a small residential building rather than large upscale projects such as the ones SANAA and Calatrava had built. So we're still in the process of figuring out what would best suit what I need to do in this upcoming assignment.

 4) With the design I'm trying to achieve, I'm thinking of extracting some ideas of a smooth flowing movement from each face of the building even will interior has to carry through the  Fluidity and Curvacious concept, I wanted to produce something quite unconventional much like SANAA's Teshima Art Museum. In addition, The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia by Santiago Calatrava showcases my ideas of fluidity and curvaceousness quite extravagantly as well as an unconventional design.

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia's structure flows continuously to the ground, seeming as the structure doesn't end.

The outer shell adopts this idea of sleek and curvaceous lines.

Even the stairs show continuity by its spiral design.

The front of the building has a 

Many of the levels have smooth flowing lines that seem to continue onto every corner and space.

I've made 4 sketches for this upcoming assignment. I've decided upon much deliberation that the fourth sketch idea is the one i'm going to follow through with. :)