model

forgot to add these earlier

Final board

Part 3 Project 2b

Part 2 Project 2b

Precedence

focusing on studying how the precedences to this project used materials in different ways to be able to see the differences in function within from the outside of the building

found some local examples and some non-local examples...below are a few of the precedences

 

Finished Boards

Two of three structural models are complete, will hopefully have the third one done today in class...

forgot to post this

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just occured to me that I said nothing about my crop in my last post...had to remove the grain elevator from the list of required spaces...instead there will be an area for the workers to complete the 3 step process to separate seeds fiber and straw from each other...might also try to work the flax flower into the garden somehow...need to work on the garden a bit more...and the structures...think I may have figured out how to orient them on the site to make them work with the garden idea I'm trying to flesh out and the parking lot...not sure though...still a little janky...

I believe I have picked a nice site for this project...a wedge shaped piece of land to the North of Goodrich...It is much larger than required for this project, however, I am keeping to the south east corner of the land as I don't want my building to affect runoff into the bodies of water that border it...still playing around with making the form a combination of plant and farm forms...believe I have found a way to make this work with my current plans...we'll see...doing my pinup by hand...don't like the idea of doing it on the computer...

Been playing with combining forms from agricultural buildings with the forms present in the flax flower during various stages of development...not sure if it is going to work...but it is interesting...

Opportunities I see...

Goodrich is a small town, not more than 4 blocks in any direction.  As such, a new research facility would be able to pull more people into the area if done properly.  This would mean a stimulation for the economy of Goodrich and the potential for it to become a city.  Goodrich appears to have space between it and the farmland in which flax is grown and it appears that the city would be able to expand considerably without affecting the flax crops which grow there and make the research facility's location in Goodrich a viable option.  However, as with most major changes in small communities, the community might resist at first if they don't understand the improvement that is to be made with this facility.  As such, it would be a good idea to make the building fit within the community as well as possible and due to the aesthetic theme around town, I feel that a more rural looking building would be more considerate of the community's current situation than an entirely steel building.  However, due to the fact that this is a steel building project, maybe the facades would be the best potential areas to break the steel building mold.

Goals for this semester

Become more adept at the understanding of materials and their manipulation in the creation of tasteful artistic architecture without resorting to the outright insult that Gehry makes to architecture with each of his amorphous blobs of buildings...