Our midterm review with Ellie and Karl was really useful. Ellie brought up a few really good points that we had not heard yet. She really wanted us to start considering the part to whole relationship of our building. For example, in the design we have right now, formally from the outside you can tell the inner-organization of the school. You can see the long, straight hallway lined with classrooms. What if we wanted the outside to convey something totally different and not articulate this long hallway? That is something we hadn't even thought about.
Something we did know is that we needed to start working in section. Our process in plan was finding the lightest spaces and using those to form our circulation, but we also need to do that in section! It is very obvious that we did not have time to work this way yet; our building is very horizontal (almost every roof is horizontal, every room the same height, and all floor slabs are in allignment). We need to use our same process for plans for sections, and this will create way more dynamic and unique spaces, because right now it is just... blah.
We also need to incorporate our helio-spectrum into our plan drawings. Then we could ask ourselves if our process really worked. Are our spaces configurated in a way that takes the most advantage of the sun on the site? We will do this soon!
Something small Ellie said is that we need to show our overhead skylights (probably dotted) in our plans, since this is something our whole building is based around. Very good idea.
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