Olympic Park, Seattle Washington, Weiss / Manfredi
Previos scheme, courtyard at bottom that would act as a terminal between different studio areas... low courtyard experience very dull, static...
The most recent edition of Wired magazine had an article about design. Essentially the people at wired boiled design down to one thing: constraints. Without constraints anything is possible but nothing is really, for lack of a better word, correct. When everything is right nothing can really be done.After reading that article I found some constraints, and more importantly engaged with them. The most formative for this last round has been the 1 :20 slope where a sloping plane becomes a ramp. I used this (along with some inspiration from Weiss / Manfredi 's Olympic sculpture park) to create the scheme i have now.
The south slope is much more gentle than the north. This arrangement keeps the building from self shading in the winter and spring months. The cuts in the ground could be windows or doors for the studios and restaurant below...
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