Week 11_18/03/2012

In the past week I have been looking into the options I listed last week, along with developing any new ideas which come along the way. 

I created a model made from several packs of cards where I layered several games of solitaire on top of one another to see if any patterns started to occur in the 3D model. (Image below)

The plan view for the game looks slightly boring, and like a game of solitaire.  However the elevations show details of negative and positive space within the cards.  The stepped position of the cards was always going to occur, but the small clusters of spaces has an interesting appeal.  Some of the cards on the grid began to warp because of the bowed bamboo sticks slightly adjusting the position of the grid.  These 'deformed' cards gave me an idea to create a roof structure for the performance space, extruded features are good for acoustics within a theatre space.  Another feature for the theatre which originated from the playing card model was the idea of using 'vineyard' clusters of seats. (Image below)

Looking at the playing cards on the model also gave me the idea of looking into perhaps if the floor levels in the building could be sloped and deformed, similar to OMA's competition entry for the 'Tres Grand Bibliotheque' in Paris. 

OMA's Tres Grand Bibliotheque, Paris

I was thinking about how I could use the symbols and numbers on the cards into this idea, and thought that I might be able to replay the game, while adjacently building up another model depending on what card is drawn at what time.  For example each suit would have a shape, then whatever number is on the card would be the scale of that piece of the building.  The face cards would all have the same scale of 10, then Ace, 2,3,4,5... all obviously pre-determined.  Currently, I am looking into what kind of shapes could represent each suit, I know that they already have their own symbols but I think the shapes need to have something that links them all together.  Maybe the shapes are the same, but the different suit have a different thickness? Maybe the shapes represent the floor levels or maybe the room form? This is something which I hope to look into next week after the Intercrit. 

I am not sure that I want to use the model litterally to be placed on the site, but to take aspects from the model mentioned above, with the conventional zone ordering I have created previously.