I find the drawings very compelling. The imagery is evocative of all the things we love about skyscrapers. I am not quite convinced about how your drawings bring home the theories you espouse. For instance, I see nothing in the drawings that address what you wrote about with regards to wayfinding - the building(s) may do what you say it does, but I have no visual evidence of it in your drawings. Perhaps an internal image - or one that peels away the exterior? Another thing - I had difficulty understanding your point about sustainability. Quite apart from the obvious problem of a huge steel and glass structure with regards to sustainability - how exactly does having a garden on the 60th floor address anything about sustainability, other than the minimum mitigation of the building's own heat island effect and water run off. The green roof does not seem very habitable - how can it be justified as sustainable or connected to the park, if it cannot be used?
I do think it does conform somewhat with its context as you state, but with the surrounding buildings shown as these white cuboids, I'm not sure if any skyscraper would not fir right in.
I like the idea of it as a beacon - I don't know Chicago well, but I can speak to the utility of this sort of thing. Often I would emerge from the subway in downtown New York and I look up and around to find either the Chrystler or Empire State buildings. Is that imageability or wayfinding? However, I'm not sure that the curvature necessarily enhances that.
Sketch Problem by Joshua Fabry • Appropriately incorporates 3ds-max 09 with Google to realistically depict architecture form, space and order of an existing form in a different location. The use of a former architects work versus using the mind to form imagination through applied learning and course instruction distastefully detracts from an otherwise workable solution.
Applied Theories and Contiguous form Sketch Problem by Joshua Fabry
• Did not apply original thought of the design solution, and thus it is difficult for an intended reader to understand if this student is sensitive to the true application of theories taught, to the creativity of thought and imagination of architecture.
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Dear Joshua,
I find the drawings very compelling. The imagery is evocative of all the things we love about skyscrapers. I am not quite convinced about how your drawings bring home the theories you espouse. For instance, I see nothing in the drawings that address what you wrote about with regards to wayfinding - the building(s) may do what you say it does, but I have no visual evidence of it in your drawings. Perhaps an internal image - or one that peels away the exterior? Another thing - I had difficulty understanding your point about sustainability. Quite apart from the obvious problem of a huge steel and glass structure with regards to sustainability - how exactly does having a garden on the 60th floor address anything about sustainability, other than the minimum mitigation of the building's own heat island effect and water run off. The green roof does not seem very habitable - how can it be justified as sustainable or connected to the park, if it cannot be used?
I do think it does conform somewhat with its context as you state, but with the surrounding buildings shown as these white cuboids, I'm not sure if any skyscraper would not fir right in.
I like the idea of it as a beacon - I don't know Chicago well, but I can speak to the utility of this sort of thing. Often I would emerge from the subway in downtown New York and I look up and around to find either the Chrystler or Empire State buildings. Is that imageability or wayfinding? However, I'm not sure that the curvature necessarily enhances that.
Nice work, NJ.
Sketch Problem by Joshua Fabry
• Appropriately incorporates 3ds-max 09 with Google to realistically depict architecture form, space and order of an existing form in a different location. The use of a former architects work versus using the mind to form imagination through applied learning and course instruction distastefully detracts from an otherwise workable solution.
Applied Theories and Contiguous form
Sketch Problem by Joshua Fabry
• Did not apply original thought of the design solution, and thus it is difficult for an intended reader to understand if this student is sensitive to the true application of theories taught, to the creativity of thought and imagination of architecture.
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