LAB COMPLEX PROGRESS

I started off with the idea of how heat sources will create radiant zones and disturb the fields. Overlapping of radiation zones will create different thermal effects. The intersection of the zones were compelling in the grid. Therefore my instructor wants me to establish the wall grid and then embed the spaces inscribed like the intersection lines into the system.

1) Establish inhabitable walls as labs, and then  - what are they?

• hierarchical relationships between the labs and infrastructural elements like Louis Kahn in the Richardson Medical center in Philadelphia (making the servant space evident)
  

2) put into elevator shafts to make academic promenade (for the crew); then set a cruise route (for visitors) that made out of voids and special views

• Gordon Matta-Clark: carve holes in the building.
  
• Rem Koolhass: bibliothique de France
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• FEEDBACK LOOP: experience through different thermal zones.
• circulatory scenarios - hierarchy
• consider user group and experience
• denial of spaces and access to the spaces
• exchange and feedback loop implied
• threshold moments

3) embed large spaces as the program requires - new initiation for space making

Again, factors to consider:

1. thermal dynamics
2. circulation
3. shading
4. program
5. site

I should go back to the original zoning TD concept and then follow my instructor advice in the way I process the sequence.