I started trying to understand the broader systems context of my thesis topic by make a model that showed up a while ago in this post. This was a critical transition to working in a more inductive way – trying to find a solution in my understanding of the problem. It was at that point that the scope of the project changed from a building that accepted the infrastructure as built and proposed to one that sought to rethink the issue of stormwater as a whole and to find opportunities for architecture within this critical analysis.
In an attempt to move the project forward I have built a second systems model at twice the scale (1-5000) of the last one that explodes the stormwater layer from the last model into its constituent parts and includes the vegetation/permeable layer and evapotranspiration connectivity of flow.
The third model I plan on making is only in digital form but I will laser cut and assemble it tonight. This one makes a huge leap from 1-5000 to 1-50 scale. The language is the same, but this model shows the architectural or building scale proposals I am working on and bring the ideas of structure, programme, identity, permeability, infrastructure, systems analysis and diagramming together to represent abstractedly one of the groundwater recharge zones I am proposing with a water tower and a permeable paving system. Pics of the finished model to come!
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