Midterm Review

• Charleston's lengthy streets and alleyways left a lasting impression on myself as a visitor. Every street composed a perspectile view drawing the visitor in and allowing one to experience the entirety of the street at once. All the facades aligned, so that each store and restaurant was visible. The idea for my design is to construct a building that incorporates these ideals.  The entrance draws the occupant in and focuses their eyes on a central circulation. The building has a central void allowing for light to enter through the glass illuminating the circulation and reinforcing the gesture. The circulation is surrounded by the public spaces of the program and also the administrative. The second and third floors are reserved for the students of the culinary school.
• The jury told me to reduce the size of the program allowing for more circulation space. The big idea needs to be reinforced with a diagram showing how the occupants move within the site. The plans need to be situated within a context to understand my building's relation to the site. More articulation needs to occur to allow for a system to develop throughout the project. If I want to show a certain part of my building, I need to develop the space more, to allow for clarity. The building needs to work sectionally more, too much horizontality. Push the ideas, so that they read on their own. Add more structure and expose it in a delicate way. 
• I intend on creating layered diagrams that demonstrate the circulation of my building and how the different occupants would move through the spaces. I want to push the tectonics of the building and develop a structural grid that is consistent throughout the design. I need to draw sectionally to allow for my spaces to read vertically. I hope to develop an idea for a building skin through the diagrams that I create. I want to articulate everything more, to break the repetitious square spaces of my design. I need to think of this building as if I were moving through it to ensure that the spaces flow and make sense programmatically. I need to reinforce my big idea!