At this point, I've divided the building into two parts: the main sanctuary part, where the actual ceremonies take place, and the secondary educational/day care part of the Church.
Anna, Now that you've defined major programmatic elements and which wing they are located in, in terms of programming and space planning, you need to analyze how large each space (and in some cases also an accompanying lobby space) needs to be, based upon occupancy loads. You might also want to develop the story of your building and visualize what the actual experience and sequence of it is. Doing these things will help you to organize the spaces and instead of assigning them all equal-sized bubbles within a larger bubble, it will start giving you an even more useful diagram, closer to what you will do in your actual architecture. Then your distorted cubes might start to take on a more specific shape, articulating and relating to what is within. Then, instead of looking like one big and one small distorted cube connected by some sort of hallway, your design may look more and more like a large sacred public space with a related, less public community/education space. Your project needs to become more specific to develop. You might want to analyze what qualities each space requires: high ceilings? natural light? access to a public way? adjacency to a certain space? By the way, when you think of your project, do you already have a mental image of what it looks like?
Anna,
ReplyDeleteNow that you've defined major programmatic elements and which wing they are located in, in terms of programming and space planning, you need to analyze how large each space (and in some cases also an accompanying lobby space) needs to be, based upon occupancy loads. You might also want to develop the story of your building and visualize what the actual experience and sequence of it is. Doing these things will help you to organize the spaces and instead of assigning them all equal-sized bubbles within a larger bubble, it will start giving you an even more useful diagram, closer to what you will do in your actual architecture. Then your distorted cubes might start to take on a more specific shape, articulating and relating to what is within. Then, instead of looking like one big and one small distorted cube connected by some sort of hallway, your design may look more and more like a large sacred public space with a related, less public community/education space. Your project needs to become more specific to develop. You might want to analyze what qualities each space requires: high ceilings? natural light? access to a public way? adjacency to a certain space?
By the way, when you think of your project, do you already have a mental image of what it looks like?