Form and Site Planning

The organization of the forms on the site need to not only adress the site itself but the surrounding context. The concept is to understand the bigger picture and to see that the surrounding buildings need to become a part of the design. It's not a matter of addressing a single contained element on the site but working in harmony with everything that surrounds it. These 5 conceptual models exhibit studies of how the forms and patterns may start to engage the surrounding context.

To understand the bigger picture in the shape of the building, this model represents how spaces might be integrated with the structural system. This model represents the idea that you are part of the structure because the spaces may start to occupy the truss form.

This is a typical design problem. The stick in the lower right is the architect/designer. The block in the middle of the circle represents the design problem. And the box in the upper right represents a built solution to the problem. Notice that the problem is isolated in a circle. There are no other impacts on this "problem" other than the way the architects comes in. The resulting building is just a reflection or solution to the problem. 

This is a model representing the design methodology that a sustainable design goes through. It consists of the same component but the process the architect goes through is very different. Instead of going right at the problem and producing a solution, the design turns from the problem and takes a path around the problem. The path investigates everything that is surrounding the idea and understands the problem in the contexts in which it rests in. The result is still a reflection of the problem from the designer, but the path considered produces a sustainable path of design by investigating the entirety of the problem.