inspired by the psycho-geographic map that Nick showed I wanted to create a map of the flow of innovation and how it relates to OMSI Portland and worldwide.
On a side note I'm not doing a BARGE... a laboratory needs to be on the stable ground, supplied by a lot of support. if it was a educational extension to OMSI that a different story. But facilities that would attract top-class researchers to do top-notch science in green technology that is projected to put Portland at the top of Sustainability research and market of idea are not going to work on a boat. Perhaps that was my fault that I wasn't explicit enough in the board that this is a research facility... I guess the two precedents, Program studies and title are not enough... and honestly two terms ago in another studio we put a health clinic on a barge because it was a community in Louisiana that was 60% water/wetland. Downtown Portland is not the mouth of the Mississippi, or the Hudson.
Kent, it's actually great to see the psycho-geography collage by itself. If you printed that about 5 feet wide, I think everyone would have talked about that. Perhaps what is missing is the picture of the AHA moment in the lab - your image is more about space and movement rather than the emotion of discovery and satisfaction of progress.
ReplyDeleteSITE: You have some solid site information that could be more compellingly arranged. If the nature of the waterfront bike path experience is linear, you should arrange your photos in a linear way. Your site photos highlight buildings and objects; they need to be supplemented with information about the voids and the overpasses so we get a sense of the industrial wasteland that exists.
PROGRAM: I would be wary about the arrangement of squares that you show. I understand the clustering but the linear and gridded nature implies architectural relationships that probably aren't what you had in mind. I would try keeping it either more like a space inventory cubes not in relationship or draw it more as a bubble diagrams where it is clear that the relationships can shift. The program seems extremely diagrammatic. You could look into more about what are the support requirements for these labs by looking at building type studies. The floor to floor needs to be large due to the ventilation requirements for some labs, others require seismic and acoustic damping because they work with nanotechnology.
PRECEDENTS: I would guess that the vertical section and upper plans of the Toronto building could be more informative when compared to the plans of the Arizona building. The ground floor is an anomaly. I didn't understand the dual circulation corridors on the Arizona lab building. It's hard to read how the central zone is used and where people cross from one to another. If you use your color coding from your plans onto these examples, they will be way more legible.
Keep going with your thorough research.