Desert Rat Pack
This is a true story, of six students, picked to live in a studio, work together to design a medical facility in Aruba & have our lives Blogged. To find out what happens.. when people stop being polite, and start doing Architecture.. The Desert Rat Pack
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
The places for reflection and remembrance
TT, VD, WB
A re-visitation of the collection of "the places for reflection and remembrance" for the podular aruba medical facility. The graphic attempts to convey the individual inspirations and origins that guided the design of each. Despite their differences, they are all united in their programatic existence: to help in personal reflection and/ or remembrance.
A re-visitation of the collection of "the places for reflection and remembrance" for the podular aruba medical facility. The graphic attempts to convey the individual inspirations and origins that guided the design of each. Despite their differences, they are all united in their programatic existence: to help in personal reflection and/ or remembrance.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Incorporating Landscape
Rough sketch of one of the schemes for how we will incorporate the landscape into our site while tying together our diverse archetypes.
-Brittany Wright
-Brittany Wright
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
A place for reflection and remembrance
It is common practice to adorn the casket of a dearly departed loved one with a colorful bouquet of flowers. It is this gesture that has inspired the following chapel/ place of reflection and remembrance.
Monday, November 5, 2012
A place for reflection and remembrance
TT, VD, WB
“Light is symbolic of the Light of Christ or the light of knowledge
and truth. It is the opposite of darkness. One may hear the saying "I have
seen the light" meaning that one has a testimony of Christ and the
truthfulness of the gospel.”
Chapelopolis is an architectural response to the influence
light plays in spirituality and spaces of sensitivity. While it may be praised for its technological
forwardness, it is intended to be a simple structure to address life’s more
complicated issues of faith and inner peace.
A place for reflection and remembrance
TT, VD, WB
Implying the existence of a programmatic relationship between the Trinity and a physical chapel is expressed in this concept design. The spaces, collectively, can serve a single purpose to satisfy a spiritual or emotionally charged event; or they can provide a venue for three separate simultaneous events. All-in-all, they are present to possess a clear and concise function as well as a mysterious form.
“The Christian doctrine
of the Trinity defines God
as three divine persons or hypostases: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit.
The three persons are distinct yet coexist in unity, and are co-equal,
co-eternal and consubstantial.
Put another way, the three persons of the Trinity are of one being. The Trinity
is considered to be a mystery
of Christian
faith.”
Implying the existence of a programmatic relationship between the Trinity and a physical chapel is expressed in this concept design. The spaces, collectively, can serve a single purpose to satisfy a spiritual or emotionally charged event; or they can provide a venue for three separate simultaneous events. All-in-all, they are present to possess a clear and concise function as well as a mysterious form.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
New Video by The Men
WB, TT, VD
An extension of our previous exploration into podular configurations.
An extension of our previous exploration into podular configurations.
VITAL MOVEMENTS (THE SEQUEL)
Two more investigations into MOVEMENT
The first diagram is a Spiral Approach. In the top diagram I am proposing that once a patient is in the recovery stage of their surgery, that their physical room will move to the outside of the facility and slowly begin to spiral down the building until reaching the first floor of full recovery. There is a "central core building" that is stationary where all the appropriate functions are divided amonst floor:
1st Floor: Entrance/ Lobby
2nd Floor: Consultation
3rd Floor: Pre-Op
4th Floor:Surgery/Operation
5th Floor: Post-Op
The second diagram, is experimenting with the rooms sliding horizontal and vertical in a puzzle/pattern like design. Same idea applies, as a patient gets better their room will move horizontal (right or left), and per doctor's evaluation, their room will slide down to the next floor and the same process occurs every floor until reaching the first floor of recovery. What sets this idea apart from the others, is the rooms would have the capability to protude off the building to allow other rooms to move past them (in the instance a patient is healing faster than another).
Monday, October 29, 2012
"Breathing" public - private curtain wall
Using a fragmented curtain wall with elastic stretchy rubber joints that allow for movement, i am changing the typical curtain wall into a living breathing interactive structure. With the structure located on the inside of the curtain wall, the privacy level controlled by the guest is changed from public to semi-private, to private, the curtain wall slowly changes from a transparent linear wall to a convex translucent waved of always changing glass.
By: Brittany Wright
Monday, October 22, 2012
VITAL MOVEMENTS
Illustrating possible schemes of movement for the medical recovery rooms. More schemes to follow soon.
Controlled public / Local Access
Initial Sketch idea to be able to visually control the interaction between locals and those vacationing at the resort. When the average building privacy is set to primarily private, the main access to the site becomes smaller by an extrusion of cubes. The resort is still accessible. This Pathway is more of a signal stating that majority of surgeries have taken place recently, to prevent uncomfortable interactions between any patients, guests, or locals.
patient body controlled Privacy
-B. Wright
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
TT, VD, WB
This video showcases the limitless potential of our evolutionary podular design, demonstrating architecture's ability to adapt to the ever-changing fields of medicine and medical tourism.
CONCEPTUAL PROGRAM SKETCH MODEL
"Stitched" Conceptual Program Model
Demonstrative of the inner workings of the brain. More so,
demonstrative of how the brain controls movement of the body by sending
triggers “messages” to create an action to occur.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
A place for reflection and remembrance
Inspired by contemporary Jewish temples as well as by colors found in Aruba, this version of "a place of reflection and remembrance" owes its origins to the podular aesthetic found in the corresponding structures of the resort
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