Conceptual Design II- Steven

Concept 1: Angle, Contour, Segment, Rise, Wing, Slope

Site 3

I developed this design from Concept 1 of the concept design I review.  I focused on designing the form and space of the building in a specific location that best fits the topography and landscape of the chosen site.  I build over the slight slope of the  ravine that runs through site 3. This would allow the water to pass beneath the split that happens between the past and present sections of the proposed building. This site specific design would respond to the landscape of Meadowcroft and the river flowing beneath the building would help in the feeling of transition between all three spaces as visitors navigate through the building.

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Conceptual Design

Phase I

Making the first conceptual models I mostly thought about “time”, “site” and creating a relationship between the two and the building. By looking at the architecture of the past, I tried to imagine how a building in the site, might look like several years from now. And what type of message it would convey.

I imagined that the building could be embedded in the site in way like it has been carved from it. Or it considering the slope of the site, and continuity of time it could have a rising, continuous, evolving and fluid form.

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Conceptual Design- Steven

Theme: Library For The Past, Present, & Future

I began thinking about the design for the library by re-reading the article The Clock Of The Long Now. The article explains that, “The point of the Clock of the Long Now is not to measure out the passage, into their unknown future, of the race of creatures that built it. The point of the Clock is to revive and restore the whole idea of the Future, to get us thinking about the Future again, to the degree if not in quite the way same way that we used to do, and to reintroduce the notion that we don’t just bequeath the future—though we do, whether we think about it or not. We also, in the very broadest sense of the first person plural pronoun, inherit it.”

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Landform Library–JJ

Theme–Cloud Data Storage

Taking 10,000 years into account, I do not think there will be a lot left. Our legacy, everything by then will be gone. I read the article that Prof. Rebecca posted, the future fossils, which to some extent could back up my point. So it would be responsible to leave behind a database for our offspring to explore and to speculate what we have done before their time. Pictures, videos, voice recordings, movies, all will be helpful. So I would like to design a library with its general use plus a huge data center to function like the cloud data storage to receive and save data from all over the world. And during major crisis, the center will shut down, say huge earthquake or if ice age comes again.  Our descendants will find out what has happened to us using their  wisdom.  Continue reading Landform Library–JJ