Studio Final: Plan

Studio Final: Research and Exploration 2

Studio Final: Model and Perspectives

Studio Final: Site and Roof Plan

Final Semester 1 Studio Blog Presentations

Studio Final: Concept Statement

This Apple store will make you think different...
The considerations for this Apple store began here in Dallas and upon my visit to Boston it became about more than just a store, it became about a lifestyle; creating an alternative city made specifically for Apple products and people, as a matter of fact, if you do not own Apple products then you will find it hard to live in...

I wondered, how could Apple become more than a specialized retail store, how could it become more important to my daily life? And then it became clear, Apple could use its brand and its computer savvy to create a new city, a place that could exist along side the institutions of knowledge in Copley Square. Apple will create the store on the street level The idea surfaced slowly, from my first visit to the Apple store here in Dallas to the visit in Boston. I just began to ask the question why couldn't a computer retail store use its computer knowledge to create a better shopping experience?

Apple sub/store...

Boylston Street

Section through Dartmouth St

Since the last blog I have been assigned to a project, currently relocating within my office, and I have switched to sketch up 6 for my home and office computer. A lot of changes are going on and with this my little girl and I are trying to establish a rhythm. We are learning kindergarten here and then there is soccer...

I have been reading the posts and I am not sure how comments may or may not have been misconstrued. I think the blog is an open forum, and while I may sometimes not agree with some of the comments I do learn from them all.

This weekend, I began to question a ramp while refining and prepping for sections. I do realize I have an opportunity to slope the floor in the above ground of the apple store towards the street. I think this would provide a reason for the planar change for the "bobbing heads" effect. This is my next order of business and then I will cut more sections to illustrate the change. I also completed the bar code mullions which are modeled in brushed aluminum and with black paint finish. I left a portion of Darmouth st. without the effect as well as the storefront on Boylston st. as I have the window available for the large digital map that would provide real time train information to the public. In addition, I have stumbled onto additional research of a train station in Japan which equips advertisements in its metro with a code that patrons can scan with their phones to pull up maps to locate the business or restaurants advertising.

I also have given much thought to the packaging of the final project. I have also been inspired by an awesome article from pingmag.

Not the ordinary take-out...

Apple i-train Store

The train is a "found obj" that I modified for my purposes in the model.

Next I will look more into the floor plans. Also, I am planning to model the interactive areas. In addition, I am also starting to look into mullions in the pattern of a bar code.

Apple sub/store progress...

Good morning all,

Well it looks like the Apple purchases we made are now obsolete...although I wonder how a touch screen iPod could be useful? I know I go to great pains to protect my iPod screen. But it is an interesting development for our stores...I envision touch screen maps in the Apple sub/stores displaying interactive directions and traffic/weather info for the incoming commuters.
This touch screen technology will provide movie rentals for your iPod... the next upgrade will probably occur with the Apple TV to accommodate the new movie rental feature... It would be annoying to have files left on your iPod that are no longer available to view... hopefully there is an auto clean up feature, like Norton spring cleaning for your iPod...

Well one thing is for sure; the new iPod technology makes for the ability to have apple product purchases all over the city! In my vision of apple sub/stores the Charlie card could become the next out dated item...I actually found a blog that commuters in Boston posted on ways to create a Charlie card that would be more adaptable for the pocket or even to fashion a UPC like pass that would be a tag on a key ring...{currently trying to cut down the Charlie Card actually damages a tiny antennae within the card making it unusable}
link:http://weblog.masukomi.org/2007/4/2/don-t-cut-your-charliecard

However I propose with a touch of your new iPod touch screen button labeled T-fare you could pass through the turnstiles while downloading your evening movie entertainment...

I will continue the work...

Studio Final: Site Analysis

My Apple store looked at ways specifically to not become the next "Anywhere, America" map. The design develops from the relationship of the pedestrian to the buildings in Copley Square. I explored how to skew the perspectives on the corner by shifting the building and opening circulation from the back of the lot (alley) to the street.

good morning,

above: plan sketched in Boston

below: site plan, floor plans, and an interior elevation of
subway store level.

another great discovery...

Material is important. I can't imagine forms without an idea of the materials used in the composition.
I am excited to run across another great article in this month's Print magazine:
the big pixel
by Andrew Blum
the architect James Sanders and his vision of a Celluloid Skyline.
ag4|mediatecture company and GKD metal fabrics "mediamesh and Illumesh embed LEDs with all power and control cabling into structural metal mesh...the new materials create a shift in the way electronic signage is conceived not as a box attached to a building, but as the building itself."
the pharmaceutical company Merck Serono building http://www.medienfassade.com/medienfassade_serono.html?&L=1
Marc Romero, "Is it entertainment, is it cultural, is it advertising?"