Sunday, April 13, 2008

Internal/External [global formation]

The parametric model is rebuilt with the concept of an environmental and structural system, responding to form change in the global system. The internal organisation is associated with the envelope formation, which ensures direct design linkage between form study, performance study and spatial studies. The system has been altered to present 3 different layout maintaining the ideas developed in the topology study (the garden, the flow under the building and the stretching towards the square). Formation 3 is oriented towards improving these ideas through a more narrow enclosure of the garden space,  smaller use of the square space without loosing the feeling of stretching towards it. The formation of the building focuses to the same degree of improving internal conditions through the enlarged atrium to the east (better conditions for natural light and thermal buoyancy) and through an improvement of aperture (envelope porousity). The parametric/associative relations developed are also seen to improve the use of thermal mass. This will be analysed in the next steps.

Parametric/associative construct of environmental and structural relations


The global formations seek to improve internal and external spaces.