I like the Litracon - always have. And you have found an elegant use for it in a skyscraper. The idea of an interlocking - almost modular skyscraper is interesting.
However, I think sticking this building on top of an existing one is a bad idea. And yes, I think the 42nd Street Norman Foster building was a bad idea too. Saying that such a building is an example of adaptive reuse is like saying that if I just take my old computer, empty out all the circuitry, toss that away, install all new internal parts, some of which stick out of the case, install new software (new program), I have an adaptive reuse. I respectfully disagree.
That said, I am a strong proponent of urban agriculture. I think when people like Dickson Despomier started discussing the idea of the vertical farm, I was also intrigued. However, there are major problems - in a downtown area, you will get very little sunlight to the lower floors. If you will use artificial light, will you produce more greenhouse gasses than what you sequester? Having hydroponics is great, but water is heavy. Doing it on one, two or three levels, may be fine, but what happens when you have ten or more floors, carrying water?
I really like the look of the building, even if it does evoke an IKEA book shelf (I think IKEA furniture is cool, if not the most durable), but you seem to have missed an opportunity to investigate the sun angles. With this software, could you do some really nice contextual shadow studies? I think in your case, the surrounding buildings in the white actually works. Throw some sun on them! Do the two solstices and an equinox. You will have a better idea of how your building works in its context.
Sketch Problem by Eric Brehm • Uses Google to locate the site, while lacking 3ds-max 09 to integrate the form of his idea in plan or in isometric view from street level
Applied Theories Sketch Problem by Eric Brehm
• The text illustrates the technological use of Litracon, but 3ds-max 09 fails to graphically demonstrate its application to this solution • Uses examples of other minimalist solutions to demonstrate his idea, but lacks sufficient graphics from the use of the 3ds-max 09 tools to depict his solution • Causes some difficulty illustrating how (or if it is intended) to incorporate existing materials on the base building, to the character and form of the new structure above. Adaptive reuse conceptually attempts a merge of one or more elements of the base into the new structure intended for reuse as part of a new form • Demonstrates the application of folding forms, while helping to define an augmented shape that is neither intrusive nor overbearing on scale and character of the surrounding forms
Contiguous form Sketch Problem by Eric Brehm
• Does not accentuate the top thus implying symmetry of the surrounding structures. The shaft demonstrates the folding form synonymous of maturity form a lower to higher state (physical and physiological), seemingly from the base of an existing structure firmly rooted in the surrounding environment.
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Hello Eric,
I like the Litracon - always have. And you have found an elegant use for it in a skyscraper. The idea of an interlocking - almost modular skyscraper is interesting.
However, I think sticking this building on top of an existing one is a bad idea. And yes, I think the 42nd Street Norman Foster building was a bad idea too. Saying that such a building is an example of adaptive reuse is like saying that if I just take my old computer, empty out all the circuitry, toss that away, install all new internal parts, some of which stick out of the case, install new software (new program), I have an adaptive reuse. I respectfully disagree.
That said, I am a strong proponent of urban agriculture. I think when people like Dickson Despomier started discussing the idea of the vertical farm, I was also intrigued. However, there are major problems - in a downtown area, you will get very little sunlight to the lower floors. If you will use artificial light, will you produce more greenhouse gasses than what you sequester? Having hydroponics is great, but water is heavy. Doing it on one, two or three levels, may be fine, but what happens when you have ten or more floors, carrying water?
I really like the look of the building, even if it does evoke an IKEA book shelf (I think IKEA furniture is cool, if not the most durable), but you seem to have missed an opportunity to investigate the sun angles. With this software, could you do some really nice contextual shadow studies? I think in your case, the surrounding buildings in the white actually works. Throw some sun on them! Do the two solstices and an equinox. You will have a better idea of how your building works in its context.
NJ
Sketch Problem by Eric Brehm
• Uses Google to locate the site, while lacking 3ds-max 09 to integrate the form of his idea in plan or in isometric view from street level
Applied Theories
Sketch Problem by Eric Brehm
• The text illustrates the technological use of Litracon, but 3ds-max 09 fails to graphically demonstrate its application to this solution
• Uses examples of other minimalist solutions to demonstrate his idea, but lacks sufficient graphics from the use of the 3ds-max 09 tools to depict his solution
• Causes some difficulty illustrating how (or if it is intended) to incorporate existing materials on the base building, to the character and form of the new structure above. Adaptive reuse conceptually attempts a merge of one or more elements of the base into the new structure intended for reuse as part of a new form
• Demonstrates the application of folding forms, while helping to define an augmented shape that is neither intrusive nor overbearing on scale and character of the surrounding forms
Contiguous form
Sketch Problem by Eric Brehm
• Does not accentuate the top thus implying symmetry of the surrounding structures. The shaft demonstrates the folding form synonymous of maturity form a lower to higher state (physical and physiological), seemingly from the base of an existing structure firmly rooted in the surrounding environment.
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