urban context strategy

Image- Roof plan at 1/64:

Connecting the Naguchi gardens with the Peter Walker fountains and trees to the corridor of the new OCMA. Repeating the form of the Peter Walker's fountains I wish to activate the corridor with outdoor bar (orange lounge) and restaurant pavilions while the grid of Peter Walker's trees breaks up simultaneously-- also an arena for impromptu performances and informal socializing.

I also looked at the existing roundabout on the Avenue of the Arts and the Palm trees and thought about Karen's knitting bandits perhaps intervening on that avenue. In this same sense, the roundabout trees should be wrapped in a sign too with the trees spilling over.

Big Stilts- but not the OCAD

Unlike the OCAD, I intend this facade to have a very sensual nature.

For now this starts to generate the idea.

OCMA in PLAN

This is my essential plan which I think I will commit to and will readjust accordingly.

Pragmatically, and borrowing from Nancy Rubins, the condos are still precariously held up 8 stories on column stilts which meet the Avenue of the Arts and now have the full 72 units.

I have two elevations in progress right now which give volumes and establish the various relationships I am creating within the program. I am setting out for the condo block to be set against the backdrop of the sensuous administrative spine and setting the permament museum collection into the ground slightly, slipped into the admin spine as is the temporary galleries.

I really want to charge the museum spaces now to reinforce my idea art concept of the artists (and their galleries) facing the elements of the real world far more than their patrons-- which provides them with their inspiration, hints at their hardships and also the envy/pride of their patrons looking down onto below.

This is all a bit hard to describe on a blog... let me upload more images when I get more access to a scanner.

In terms of PRESENTATION, I am creating my drawings such that they open up like a flattened box, a plan with four elevations and one reflected ceiling plan perhaps, all emphasizing views towards the interior since I am taking the position that the best views are internal towards the museum- up towards the condos displays- or down towards the art collections and administrative wall. So, I also thought my panels should follow suit and be in a folding tryptich so that they face towards one another and there is an experience of being within the building as one views. More details to come.