On the upper levels, I created a circulation bar between the sleeping and studio spaces. I don't think this is an ABRUPT TRANSITION and will also detail this. The sleeping spaces aren't "containers" so much as a bar like the studio space, shifted to gain as much morning light as possible.
Kyle and I have been looking at kalzip products. I think something like this and their nature roof could start to better articulate the ground plane. Copper or a similar product that would age and maybe become part of the changing landscape could be interesting.
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I think the copper undulating roof would be best served to be the landscape of the outdoor space, so the park weaves in and out of your building on the street level, up over some spaces and through others....the undulating park which therefore allows the public to use the green space while simultaneously being apart of the fabric of the structure.
Carli, I know some of the critics used the word suburban in a negative way to describe your actions on the ground. Besides that Boylston Street on our side has the typical "suburban" fenced-in front yards, and not all green space in the city is accessible to the public, I think the critisismn was directed to the fact that you didn't show any treatment to the ground plane other thatn grass. Currently you are moving the exhibit space all teh way back from Boylson Street (to the left). I'm assuming the ground cover still rises up on the side of this space like in the house of the future. I'd like you to consider moving the exhibit space/main entrance closer to the Mass Ave/ Boylston Street intersection, so that a (glass?) wall surface could address the corner and/or Boylston in the way illustated in the Enterprise restaurant. The foldet ground in the back of that, connecting the ground /ground floor with the first dorm floor could be developed into a private garden; a wall, a fence, a step in the landscape etc. along Boylston could make the necessary public to preivate separation. The users of the facility could enter into the space (maybe even thru an opening in the back of the exhibit space?), while the public would have the benefit of the view into the space with it's plan material.
I am curious to understand how your design meets the public? Instead of allowing the exhibit space to be submerged and hidden why not bring it above grade so that the pedestrians passing the facility could see what is happing inside. I found it interesting when we would leave the BAC, how many people actually looked into the exhibit space to see what kind of things were there. Or do you want to make someone work to see what happens inside the building?
Carli, you are onto something great. Where is the progress?
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