above: plan sketched in Boston
below: site plan, floor plans, and an interior elevation of
subway store level.
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3 comments:
Good morning Kara!
Very Good Re-Start!
Kara I don't think your project is mainly about Materials yet! , Its about YOUR BIG IDEAS .
"The Apple store will reach the public above and below ground". (Kara said)!
"Apple will redefine your city" (Kara said)!
and what you call " in the pursuit of happiness"
The i-T
I don't see This engagement between the above ground and below ground, between the i and the T in your Underground Elevation/section drawn separate from the above ground Mass!!
I wonder why you have drawn the below mass in separate elevation, I thought you deal with both levels in same piece of paper and set of drawings, as you deal with them together in your Big Ideas!
If it were possible to overlay both levels in same formal plan I would DO IT!
How your underground level belongs to the above Mass !!
How your Upper ground levels belongs to the below Mass !!
Is it one building??
would we ever reach the point when we see that its impossible for the above or the below ground Volumes to be seen separate! same relation between legs and the rest of the Human body!
According to your Ideas! I strongly recommend developing both the above and the ground parallel, in same time, Never separate!
I wonder how would be the proportions between the above and under ground Masses, heights, volumes. is it important in your store?
I think you have done a great job designing the plan form, Elegant Geometry !!!!
All what I hope is that you end greatly what you started in your big Ideas, All is well that ends well!
Do you have to stick to the same Disciplines of the T station design? or you now Kara Meissner, the young talented Architect! in 2007 could be even more creative and avant guard than the talented architect who did it many years ago!
would you think out of the box? while keeping in the believable plans, elevations and sections Ted advised you to do?
Amr
Amr,
I appreciate your critique. You are correct; as this is the day of my birth I shall (once I have rested) try to re-birth the BIG ideas into what I have developed. And yes I agree with you that the integration is a key design aspect. If you look closely you will see that the apple store below ground is under Boylston Street. Are you giving me further considerations? Should the Apple store be pushed farther toward the street? Can it? I think it would then become a cantilever over the street which I have considered.
Ted's last comment is what guided my efforts and the reason for the concentrated focus on the below ground. I wish I could discuss this with you in a studio environment. However, I do thank you for your passionate pleas and I will continue to work.
Kara,
Happy Birthday.
Do NOT cantilever your building over Boylston St. It occupies the corner quite intentionally and that is more than enough. If you take it further you wil diffuse its current power.
The below ground work is a good start. Show me more about the store / station. I agree with Amr it is not about materials, that is about your ideas. However, there are two weeks left. If the ideas haven't surfaced yet, they will not. Yours have, in a clear way. The above ground illustrates the idea clear enough. Below ground is starting to, but needs further development. What are the lines in plan and elevation? Are these metal grills that roll down to cover some set of windows? Is there a way to make the T station part of the vocabulary of Anywhere America? I chided David for using glass and steel - here I am aksing you to use them as very clear writing. For better or worse they have become the language of Apple. If used out of context, like in a subway station, do they take on a new life? Do they help push your question of what is a store to new dimension? I think they help.
Maybe a sectional perspective of the subway station would communicate what this are looks like in three dimensions. A physical model would be obtuse, but a 3D model might do it, or some other dimension giving image.
You are working in the right direction, keep refining and defining the architecture of the T station. The idea is there, the above ground architecture is in place, now focus on teh lower level. The transition between the two with the glass floor and bobbing heads is an interesting melding of two otherwise disconnected worlds.
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