Providing an anchor point:
Not sure if it's terribly clear in this sketch, but I have a few ideas to throw out there...
First, in the central portion of the sketch, directly to the left of the green area is the Reading 'Spring St. Subway,' where the street level and the site are on even topo lines, providing strong connections and potential access points.
As far as drawing people in to the site, what about creating an anchor point in this area (visitor center, etc) since directly to the south (left side of the sketch) is a large parking area. This can allow for a beginning point for patrons, community members, etc traversing the site.
From here, the user/viewer can follow the site flow reminiscent of the path of the rails all the while encountering various installation spaces (indicated by the purple-ish and reddish boxes proportioned to the existing structures, all of a more simplistic, modular, adaptable design) and experiencing the motion and movement of the entire layout/building orientations, etc.
These modular installation spaces and galleries, etc can also be applied to the interior of the buildings (inside the shells and thus, the memories) of the industrial buildings on the site, shown in the northern area (right side) of the sketch... The boxes can protrude at varying lengths from the buildings to enhance the connection between interior and exterior and further increase the sense of motion in the former railroad.
Each of these buildings can be surrounded in greenspace reminiscent of the Highline Project to provide the ever-important greenspace for the surrounding communities.
The pathways cutting through the site are still up in the air design-wise... I'm really stuck as to whether or not they should slice directly through the site in a rectilinear fashion or follow the ribbon language already in place to break the grid system. What I am sure about is the change in levels the paths will take on. After penetrating the buildings, stairs and ramps will carry pedestrians traversing the site to the ground level providing a complete viewing experience from many different levels and interiors/exteriors.
Bringing the users to the ground level will also draw more intrigue and draw more interest for continual flow through the site.
Cutting off and restricting or creating resistance of flow through the site in certain areas will also form interesting nodes and areas for installations and events to occur be it sculpture, water features, public theaters and performances, etc.
New case study:
Fuksas' Competition CANAL + Louvenciennes
Paris, France
More to follow later today...
1 comment:
adam,
after seeing the drawing and hearing what you said this evening, I came back to read what you had posted.
strange enough the 'architectural' spaces I was asking for are hinted at in your text here.
I would encourage you to lay them out with a varied enough use of drawing that we can understand them in the following ways:
-how they might fit into the overall urban scaled plan your working with
-what they might be like in a 32nd or 16th scale plan
-what a sketched out section would look like at 32nd scale, what are the human scaled relationships to the space
-what would a perspective of the space you propose look like (not the surrounding context)
I like the idea of a spring street subway, i'd be interested to see where that goes. There is so much site i think it will be important to get up and under t as well as across it - the example here is the tchumi park in paris.
also don't forget the ramps and stairs in that art museum of his either.
good conversation tonight, and good work, just keep drawing
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