Friday, December 30, 2011

Mercedes - Final Board

Mercedes - Visual Studies













































































































































































Margo-Final


The Ecology of Mass


The application of volumetric bodies, responsive to environmental pressures, for the design of a housing block in combination with fitness facilities.

Macht zu Lande fountain – detail – Hofburg Vienna – mass & volume

The project brief opens the opportunity to speculate about massing in architecture. A manifold of strategies such as accumulation, aggregation and agglomeration form the launching pad for various, computationally driven, strategies of design. Further explorations include tactics of façade articulation, spatial subdivision and fenestrations.