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Sythesizing

One of my struggles over the past 8 with this projects has been to take my interests in architecture and my perception of the problem specific to Clear Lake and synthesize my research and design work into a coherent project. I have talked a lot in the past 6 months about the system scale analysis and proposals that are key to the macro view of this project. Now I am sprinting to the finish to try and get this whole enormous proposal resolved at the scale of the building. As I have previously stated, I am proposing to move the research labs from the maintenance compound outside of town to a large underused parking lot that is a major feature of my storm water system proposal. An early iteration of my work was investigating a parametric (Grasshopper plugin for Rhino3D) generative model for a roof that could be configured to make elegant sine curves using straight lines and repetitive units. There was something beautiful in that early work that I wanted to bring back into this Resource Conservation Operations Centre so my last week or two has been focused on rebuilding that entire script to produce a roof and structural system. The following screen captures show the evolution of that work. Enjoy!

Bill-ding.

Bill-ding.

bldg!

A building takes shape

system begins to emerge

system begins to emerge

Flight of the valkyries

Finally working with just one surface.

Finally working with just one surface.

Floor plans or something?

Floor plans or something?

First attempt :/

First attempt :/

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