Assignment 3: The Wooden Horse

Site Context

Rough render of proposed site showing warehouse and billboard elements:

 

Warehouse

Assignment 2 

Site development

Submission 1 - Equus (iii)

 

These previous two post showcase the design solutions I have come too, based on my clients brief. Initially I looked towards his study of the human mind and attempted to map its complex shape. Using different shape modifiers in 3Ds Max the red, organic, net was formed. I then began to fill its form with various shapes creating different intersections and angles, and eventually framing the ‘12 units’. From here the design was refined into definite floor plans to meet the client’s requirements, such as keeping his work and family life separate. 

 The next digital model and two analogue models were based on the mind becoming the structural element or base to the building. Different units would then be cut out from this base for practical uses or to create sensory experiences for the users. This resulted in a central bunker like form, which was in parts submerged bellow ground, with light weight attachments for living spaces and hidden, embedded rooms which would be seemingly carved out of the bunker.

This idea then evolved to split bunker system emulating the different sides of the brain.

Submission 1 - Equus (ii)

Digital renders from 3d models

Model 1 

 Model 2

Submission 1 - Equus (i)

Two Analogue designs built at 1:200 
Model 1 

 

 

Model2

3rd Level Library

Library Render

Open space with an atrium above, flooding the unit with natural light.