Jade Pillay
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05 Site-seeing Interior Sequence
Started out this week by answering a few questions about where our project is currently at and putting together a draft pitch.
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Prompts for thinking through your pitch in relation to this brief:
What is the focus of your project in relation to the cinematic spaces brief?
My focus is to create a restaurant and rooftop/courtyard bar where the interior walls will draw inspiration from the idea of how our memories are not linear and more so warped and flow differently in our minds depending on how we remember them.
How does your proposal design activate the site as a public space?
It activates a space for all people of different ages to enjoy and share it with one another through food.
What is your key relation to the site?
When you look face on onto the building, the curvature of the wooden contours is contrasting the floor lines of Fort Lane.
What do you know about your project, and how are you going to articulate that?
I want to create a restaurant and a rooftop/courtyard bar for my project where there are wood contours protruding outwards and inwards on the interior walls that also create seatings. These wooden contours will also translate on the outside of the building and the entrance.
What has emerged from your material and design processes?
So far, wood will be a prominent material in my project. I still need to play with different types and colours of wood to accommodate the feel of the space that I am trying to create.
What specific community is your design proposal in service for?
The restaurant is for everyone and the rooftop/courtyard bar is for 18+
How did your cinematic device document the site? and how did you respond insightfully to those findings?
My cinematic device documented the space by moving through Imperial Lane and it contributed to that by having lines that will guide you through the space.
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What are the key thresholds/scene transitions in your proposal? and how do these relate to cinematic scene transitions?
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How are you exploring surface conditions as an integral part of your design?
Draft Pitch:
My focus is to create a restaurant and rooftop/courtyard bar where the interior & exterior walls will draw inspiration from the idea of how our memories are not linear and more so warped and flow differently in our minds depending on how we remember them. The wooden contours will be a surface design on the exterior walls and the entrance that will translate throughout the space where it will protrude outwards and inwards creating seatings. When you look face-on onto the building, the curvature of the wooden contours are contrasting the floor lines of Fort Lane.
Exploring the Entrance
I was having a bit of issue troubleshooting ways of getting my restaurant through Imperial Lane. I felt as though there was a huge disconnection from going through Imperial Lane to Everybody's (where my restaurant will be situated). After talking to some of my peers and Venu, I had a few ideas about how I could get to my restaurant/bar.
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have the contour lines of my facade design stick out a bit at certain places so it could create stairs up to the restaurant. the window will become a door instead.
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have an elevator from the outside behind the surface design going up
I think using both ways of getting to the restaurant/bar would be more inclusive and different types of people are able to have access to the space.
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Venu also mentioned that the contour lines do not need to be limited to only one building, it could stick out to other surfaces of the building and wrap around other things in Fort Lane. This could make it a bit more interesting instead of having it be "stuck" to one building.
Creating Stairs
My first attempt at creating the stairs of an old surface design. I was just testing out my idea of creating stairs out of my surface design. I think it went well but I would create the stairs to be wider so it's not as steep
Creating Floor Plans
I created 3 different layouts for my restaurant/bar. I tried to incorporate the curvature lines throughout some of the floor plans. I think I like ideas 2 & 3 more as it is not a typical traditional restaurant layout and it has the curvature element spread out throughout the space.
Idea #1
Idea #2
Idea #3
More Surface Design Alterations
I created a few more alterations for the surface design. I decided to switch it up and make the contours run vertically instead of horizontally.
Perspective Views
Perspective views and showing how the fins would connect together my mullions. I also made the top and bottom of the fins (when looking at elevation) have a contrasting shape to the ground floor of Fort Lane. I added a shelter that protrudes out into the lane.
