Interim Crit (Mitch)
The biggest flaw (among many) in my design is seen in plan. I'll post a picture below highlighting in red the areas that don't work and I'll need to move, and in green the space that works and will stay. The issue that I'm having is with the writing space itself. The problem is that I've placed an entrance immediately behind it as well as a washroom and they take away from the 'sacredness' of the working space. How I plan to remedy this is to keep the writing space on the lower level and move the door and toilet to the upper level where the lounge area is, therefore separating the space and creating a less awkward working environment. It's not the door itself thats the inherent issue but rather what goes along with it (muddy/snowy boots, coat rack, cold rush of air etc.) these things are not conducive to a nice writing experience and therefore they should be in another area of the building. Something else that was touched on today was my materiality. Currently my renders show metal cladding. My structure to date is concrete with the metal basically just hanging off of it. It was suggested that I only use the concrete for the writing area that sticks out and allow the rest of the building to be a wooden construction with wood paneling as my cladding. This will allow for the contrast that I was going for and also allow me to tie the interior to the exterior without having too many materials.
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Ummm - did you just use colour to identify things? And did you specifically use Red and Green?
ReplyDeleteThe two options that would be relatively less intrusive in the design would be to either:
a) switch the locations of the "rest" area with the writing area
b) rotate the toilet and its walls 90 degrees counterclockwise such that the back of the tank was on the West wall while and gives you a more focused walkway through the spaces while preventing the writer from staring at his work while sitting on the toilet
In both cases ensure that the door swings on the left side against the wall so that it is not awkward.
I would agree with the comments re: the contrast and organization of space.
The plan is confusing as it implies that there are double walls; the edge where the walls touch the ground are single lines and not the bold section cut elements. Like others at your level, proceed with the finer touches such as lighting and finer details; you should also consider the differences in your exterior imagery to highlight the seasonality and time matters. The interiors need a lot of photoshop and likely a night time image.
The site plan looks a bit cartoon-ish and incomplete but that may be on account of the colouring book quality of the colour fills and the white expanses. What are the grey bold lines at the bottom of the site plan?