Snowmageddon, Snow Fever, and the Lost Posts

It has been awhile since my last post; things have been crazy around here. I have been sick for most of this week and also completely snowed in by Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, or whatever you want to call it. I have got a lot of work done due to the fact that I am bored out of my mind and all of my classes this week have been cancelled. The next few days I hope to catch everyone up with my project.

The following are the images of the site analysis that I promised to post two weeks ago. Yikes. We will start and move on from here. I looked at the site and chose the most important aspects of the map. This created an interesting form, shown below:


The form emphasizes views and approaches from important streets



I started to look at site as a form within itself. I diagrammed the major forces that this form conveyed below.







The composite is shown to suggest that the form of the site could manifest itself to create the form of the building. I hope to find that these diagrams help out in the design process of the building. Tomorrow, I will blog on the first ideas behind the tower.



By the way, I failed to mention that the reason I was able to work over snowmageddon was that I live right across the street from school at the Gallery housing. The gallery is probably the best thing that has happened to me all year. It is student housing for the WAAC. Most of the undergrads from LSU, Cal Poly, and VT live here, but I was able to snipe a spot last minute. It is a converted church and now holds about 60 students. I love it here; it has the feeling of an undergrad dorm with more privacy and less noise. With super cheap rent and easy access to the WAAC, I recommend it for any incoming students reading (if anyone is reading). Snow picture below:


WAAC-tastic