MASSING DEVELOPMENT

From were I left you, I chose a parti model to start developing my massing. I started playing with the shapes to different locations en rotations, but it my parti wasn't being translated into it.

So I move to digital modeling in the site and I came up with this. Being the the tall box a central point surrounded by glass and open the the eye sight without any walls in between to allow more light and spaced, and appreciate the view that its offered. However, as prof. Jill said "too rigid".

So I started developing the massing even more playing with it and rotating the corridor box.

As I kept playing with it I started to change the shape of from boxes, as I like to call them.

However, for my personal opinion, the previous massing was too messy so I went back and made a slight change in the top box and middle one.

As I have being developing this massing to keep it clear, clean and beautiful, I've decided to keep it simple but interesting. Furthermore, I think that the one that might work the best would be option "A" since it has a contrast between the rigid of the boxes and the curvy of the clear corridor box. And as I keep working everything is open to be modified as much as it needs to be so it can work perfectly. 

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT MODELS

Hello everybody,

So from the concept development colleges I had to come with three study models for each. A total of 9. Translating everything we see in the collages into an abstract form. 

As you already learned from my previous post the collages were Impression of the Site, which for me was creepy; Program, Boutique Hotel; and Word, Rustic

For these study models, starting from left to right, were inspired by the verticality of the trees and the angle that the persons in the bottom, second image that is shown as it goes farther to the back. The second two images, were a perspective view of the long hallways. As it goes farther is comes closer and darker.

For my program what i want to transmit through my hotel is comfort, relaxing, delicacy and clean environment. 

As for the word that I picked, rustic, I wanted to capture the rectilinear form, the different patterns and textures that the images in my collage has.

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

After deeply studying some precedent, its time to get creative. We were ask to make three collages: One, of our impression of the side; two, the program of the building typology we are designing; and three, of one word that we would pick from a list.

My impression of the site when I first went there was creepy.  It was an isolated area with really old building s. Some of them were abandoned. It was a rainy day and while I was walking around I was expecting something or someone to come out to me. We actually went inside of one of the warehouse that is next to the Fareway Market and the hall was long and dark. No one was around and from the windows we could see shadows of what was to the other side of it. And when we went up to the roof, our hair were standing, straight up.

As would already learn, my building typology is a boutique hotel and what I want to incorporate to my design is peace. I want to guest to relax and enjoy their stay, that could be enjoying the view (sunsets), the food and drinks.

From the list of words that we were given, the word that i felt more attracted to was rustic.  When we all went to the site, all I could see around was texture. The texture of the sand in the ground, the grass, the wood of the fences and benches, the stone also in the floor and the brick on the walls.

FURNITURE LAYOUT AND ROOM DIMENSIONS

LIST OF SPACES, MATRIX AND BUBBLE DIAGRAM

After deeply studying some precedent I came out with a program (dream list) for my boutique hotel that can later be edited depending on the need and priority