Thoughts_Miller's Comments

Grid Strategy

• Consider truck loading/unloading in planning driveway
• Consider a utilitarian approach to human circulation versus an anthropocentric approach
• Consider the proportions of the spaces (golden rectangle) in relation to Carrie Furnace buildings
  
• Replicating the ruggedness of the skyline could be kitsch
• Consider the partnership between exhibition and architecture
• Explore potential to redefine museum space through program
• Beware of devaluing the original by copying
• Think in terms of scale
• Respect the furnaces-supporting role of museum
• Metonymic v. Literal

Landscape Strategy

• Modest
• Metonymic interpretation (Gehry) v. authenticity (Serra)
• Re-consider the apparent chaos of the Sanborn maps and recreate that through a rational process
• "Cornucopia" over-simplifies the expression of the past--reduced
• Consider expression or interpretation more thoroughly than just the roof line or shape of plan
• Consider the experience of the user
• raw confrontation
• keeping real chaos
• beware of over-interpretation/abstraction
• Consider the users reaction to the weight and span of steel--confrontation
• Deflection (?)
  
• Beware of corporatization (safe and nice buildings)
• Design parking in relation to the museum
• Design program in relation to museum form--maintain shape and energy
• Consider how the industrial process can influence your design
• Allow for users to interpret space
  

Tidbit_Charleston Review

A few images from our review at the CACC with Professor Miller.

Thoughts_Furthering The 3D Grid

Here are several images explaining the process behind accomplishing an architectural means through an exploration of a three dimensional grid. The axis are defined as before in the previous scheme, and a series of plots framed by the grid are selected (here based roughly on program scale and proximity, see image 1.1). The grid lines are idealized as tubes and extruded along the x-axis creating a primary structure (image 1.2), and a secondary structure is added (image 1.3) at intervals based on the planes in the z-axis which has already been established based on Carrie Furnace building heights. Lastly, program is inserted between secondary structure (image 1.4) at different levels and at different scales. This suggests, in accordance with some of our earlier studies, a circulation and building arrangement which mimics that of a working steel mill (image 1.6). Lastly, because the structure here rivals that of the Carrie Furnace (although our program does not necessitate such a large building) a tension is created between the new and old, as they both become prominent figures on the skyline (image 1.5).



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Thoughts_Furthering Builiding as Landscape

in response to some the the earlier mappings that we produced, we set out create a set of parameters that would serve to define the site. we first redefined the ground plane, applying the mesh that we generated as the base landscape. we then applied the building heights mesh as the maximum building envelope. we also decided to place all the building on the original ground plane. we placed the museum as we had in our previous scheme. we also proposed two small ribbons that would undulate through the site along the building heights mesh in order to indicate the scale of the buildings that once existed on the site.


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img_1.2 - perspective


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img_1.4 - front elevation


img_1.5 - section. note building heights grid ghosted in background

Thoughts_Site Mapping

following our last review, we decided to take a step back and do some site mappings to solidify some of our inclinations about siting and form. we were particularly interested in three components:

1. building heights - the scale of the buildings that existed on the site dictated its experience
2. historic palimpsest - the 'historic density' in various areas of the site
3. rail lines - these lines dictate the movement of goods throughout the site

we used a vertical displacement mesh to map the building heights and historic density. we then extruded all the rail lines and used these to cut the two meshes.


img_1.1 - the residual of the rail lines. high points indicate where rail lines were closely tied to a manufacturing process.


img_1.2 - the same map as above with the building height and historic density meshes shown

Thoughts_3D Grid

Here are some quick studies developed using a three dimensional grid; one axis corresponds to the sharp edges of the historical buildings (x-axis), another begins straight, but molds itself to the curved bank of the river (y-axis), and the last responds both to the monumental scale of the Carrie Furnace buildings and to the scale of a human body (z-axis). The x and y axis are tubular interlocking splines and z axis is a series of rectangular planes engulfing the entire historical Carrie Furnace site. The study may lead to some architectural elements as it is further refined, but for now, the scale of the grid overpowers the program intensely.



1.1_view from ground plane through grid


1.2_grid as viewed from above, looking in the direction of the Carrie Furnace

Case Study_Moshe Safdie, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

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Case Study_Duindoornstad, West 8, Rotterdamn

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Case Study_National Museum of Art, Cesar Pelli, Osaka, Japan

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Case Study_EXPO02, West8, Switzerland

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Case Study_ Son-O-House, NOX, Netherlands

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Case Study_Maritime Youth house, Plot, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Case Study_ Emporio Armani, Fuksas, Hong Kong

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Case Study_ Yokohama International Port Terminal, Foreign Office, Japan

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Case Study_ City of Culture of Galicia, Eisenman, Spain

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Thoughts_Structure as an Educator

This model is the product of an exploration of steel components based on my steel research thus far. Here is my attempt at combining a set of steel produced pieces into what could be considered a complete structural system. I can imagine the bronze wire to be bent steel tubing, the spaghetti to be tension cables (perhaps supporting glass and steel panels or corrugated steel), and the cardboard to represent more traditional steel elements (beams, gusset plates). My goal was to harmonize a series of steel components through an intricate array of connections including welds, rivets, and machined connectors. I feel it would be interesting to use the structure of the museum itself to eclectically display a variety of steel uses throughout the material's existence, and thus educate the visitor in an architectural sense and at the same time use this idea to "customize" construction.

Case Study_Richard Serra- Steel Sculptor

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IMG 1.4 "A Matter of Time," Guggenheim, Bilbao


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