Images showing 2 draft sketchup models and 1 developed sketchup model

 

 DRAFT 1

 DRAFT 2: As aforementioned, I chose to develop draft 2 as it more effectively embodied the mood and atmosphere associated with the chosen words "SENSUAL" for the studio space of Stradivari, and "MACHINE" for the workspace of Kimura.

According to Jacky, my main concern was to try and think of ways to resolve the relationship between the datum and the respective above, on, and below ground spaces, as they are expectedly interconnected, yet must differ and separate from one another in one way or another. This I have tried to embody through not only differences in texture and colour, but through the datum. It rises slightly to separate the floor of the exhibition space from the twisted wall which rises out of the ground in a gnarled, organic manner to form the above ground studio. It also opens up the space to the world outside, as visitors circulate around the walls providing both freedom and enclosure.

 

Kimura can be seen machining parts of his motorcycles in one of the several underground metalworking rooms. Notice how the steeply sloping terrain exposes some of these volumes. Kimura may recess to the buried workspaces, or reach open air with ease, riding his motorbike out onto the field.

 

Cross-section of the below-ground workspace

Stradivaris studio is much less complex in comparison, replying on a simplistic, softly-curving wooden form to fuel relaxation and inspiration.

A view of visitors lingering in and around the exhibition space.

While the staircase leading from the above ground space to the exhibition space extrudes and stretches from the surrounding architecture and material it is embedded in ("malleable") and gives off notions of familiarity and comfort while granting changing views of the space from different vantage points (see past blog post on the STAIR), The spiral staircase leading from   the open space into the workspaces grants one a view of the vast depths below and the industrial, metallic atmosphere and noises. With each step at a rather uncomfortable height, and resembling a floating and unstable frame or crate, the experience is rather intimidating.  

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