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i see this building as a pile of rocks that has voids within it shaped by the surrounding lay of boulders and stones… it is as much the space left over amongst the aggregated program as it is the character, physiognomy, and origin of the rocks that coalesces to describe the building.
bringing to the table some of the most necro materials ever presented to th.wrk.grp, i would like to illustrate some points i have mused this evening. these are some thoughts culled from the earlier design rapid fires. on the notion of archetypal wayfinding i posit a hierarchical volumetric approach. volumes are complex and built up, not subtracted, so that their surfaces are rough with program. (see sketch) a component within a volume that helps define it would have the ability to, outside of the wayfinding or volumetric statement, speak of its use and individuality within that cavernous space. volumes should be considered as sequences with the ability to see from one to another or recall one from another being a design focus.
frames of reference come in scales and help to supplement and serve as beacons or communicative devices to navigate the building. the large scale would be the reference to external elements to orient and direct from within the building. i would also posit the use of buouys or totems to ground external references that may be ephemeral (buildings, bridges, axes). this scale gives the building position in a broader context and also identifies interior spaces by the external reference. the middle scale would be the hierarchical volumetrics of above. the smallest scale frame of reference would be related to use and might be the context of a sculpture studio next to a broad open space or the cafe next to an apartment, it is not about where the use is but how to use it.
sensory suites also are communicative toward wayfinding and use but also enrich the experience at a base level. suites should be composed programmatically as bodies yet bleed onto aprons that drape and run through the crevasses of the heap. a poetic or automatic association drives these cultivations, pure aesthetics and film setpiece references.
low physical effort is acheived at one level by the diverse distribution and elemental incrementalization of the complex. it can also be accommodated by the fluidity of surface that flows over the aggregate. (see sketch)
the skeletons of the past sometimes allow more solid futures before they disintegrate.
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something i had in mind after reading your text, which is similar to your third image above.
the ‘necro’ images were not originally to be skeletons (thanks, grey), so without pushing it too far, i think of the negative space of a buried, decayed body being filled with fossilized material. with that removed, we are given volumes (and positive objects?) that can be entered (or bypassed).
i consider the structures to be pockets of introduced resistance - not permanent separation, but slow integration short of metabolization, such as represented by a tree growing over barbed wire or bone forming around shrapnel.
