Catch Up 2

So for my initial massing of my project, I wanted to evoke the image that I had posted previously of the mountain. After a couple of massing studies, I decided on the one below.






The central core would be the lobby for the apartments, while the apartments would reveal this core towards the top by varying heights of each tower.




Physical Model



At the very top of the rising towers would be the chapel. It would be reached by an elevator that rode the front facade from the church lobby on floor two to the Chapel at the top. I was very heavily influenced by Salmona, who's images appear below.




Salmona's apartment project evokes the same solidness and materiality that I want each tower surrounding the center to have. I imagine this center to glow at night, which I depicted below.




This way, you can really tell that each apartment is giving away to the central, community based piece.