Shelter

Finished my shelter review yesterday after a marathon of work over the weekend. Reasonably happy with what i had pinned up. I never really expected it would be shortlisted to be actually built but I was happy enough with my review, it was a nice productive review which is always nice.
My concept was based on ying yang. My thought was that ying yang is a symbol for balance, and the balance in nature. The botanical gardens with its conservational role identifies that people are in charge of the balance and are the caretakers of the natural world.

I used this quite literally with the ying yang symbol as my basic plan and worked a form from that plan.

As you can see from the 3d's the horizontal element created by the windows is lost by the materiality. While making a 1:20 model for this i decided it would be easier to place the plywood sheets vertically. However if i was to make this building with proper materials to last for a lenghty period of time i would clad it with some vertical h/w timbers which could create the vertical opes. I also would extend the vertical timbers to elongate and dramatise the form.

I might make a new model this week based on stuff that came up in the review