28 days and counting.........

trying to keep on track with our group schedule-- we have been in the process of experimenting with the shell of the building that was designed up until spring break. once we started working within the interior of the shell--we have found that the square footage within the shell is smaller than the square footage listed within our programming document. this gave us the opportunity to not only to increase the scale of our building- but also to re-orient the axis established throughout the building.


we have incorporated a retaining wall that creates a structural wall component vertically throughout the east side of the building. as seen in the process section on the left- the thick vertical line represents the wall within the ground that has been in-set 15 feet from the front of the building. the dashed lines represent the wall continuing vertically to create a division of hallway + classrooms/ auditorium space.
continuing with the expansion of the building footprint + experimentation with the building's axis- this plan represents the changes + differences from the above plan. we then proceeded to think about the structural components within the building + the grid positioning. this structural grid has already started to help us layout the interior spaces on all levels.

apart from moving forward with the design- we have already started thinking about the presentation format for our final critique. kemena and i are in charge of coordinating the presentation boards- so we have be thinking of ways to tie our physical presentation with our actual design of the project. as of now- we have talked about using 24" x 36" boards with each person having 3 boards to utilize for their indivual space they will be designing + 8 boards being dedicated to the group's building's design. so with that all added up- we are taking up around ummmmmm 24 feet :) what space we could present this in-- i don't even know. once we further develop our designs- we will have a better idea of how much board space we will really need. so i guess we'll see.....