"Your project should be presented more about gathering rather than connection."
I believe that our job to bring people together, whether using bridges,Platforms, plazas, Doors or even Escalators!
Every little element in the public building should work on bringing people together. gathering or Connecting, both bring people together at some point in the apple store!
Charles Moore, a well-known architect who did a wonderful book titled “Water and Architecture”. Here you would find wonderful symbolic written words on the topic of "gathering". Charles always tried to create architecture that brought people together.
I think this is a good study of the different ways of connecting and gathering. I see more connecting than gathering but it needs to be whatever approach you feel confident portraying in your project. Just remember that the connecting can be done in many ways other than a literal bridge. It looks like you have begun to explore the diff. options in the images you are studying. I look forward to seeing your next step and how you portray connecting/gathering in your project.
What if your idea was to recess the entire plaza below the "winners circle" and allow the cars to pass over that? Sort of a reverse big dig. It's counterintuitive, and the wrong scale at the moment, but it might be interesting to study the idea a bit.
The studies are helpful. I am particularly interested in the oxford street comparative photo as the street completly changes when full of people, or empty again. The boats tied to a dock also seem interesting. Connecting or gathering specifically need a vehicle here. the site has the road and realy doesn't need a bridge, but water requires a boat.
Glad to see you are still studying the "connection". While looking at your pictures, I noticed one of the bridges had a lot of snow all over it. While we were in Boston the bridges you had were only shown as flat. Realizing they were study models, are you planning on enclosing the links over to your building or are they open? (Snow picture thing). It may be good to have them covered, and they could be detailed with your building so that it would make your building an even stronger extension toward the public. "Keep on birthing Gus"
I like Ted's suggestion of the underground winners circle. The Bostonian human big dig! The point where learning is travelling underground from the library to the store. An ants house simbolizing evolution from the printed book to the electronic circle. Would the cars be on overpasses then? If we assume there is a glass floor in the middle of the street, who will see this? the mufflers? or the towers? I just remember that the "T" probably would go thru the middle of the circle. Curt spoke about what if the train when thru the middle of the store. What are the implications. If we disregard the idea of physically placing the store between the library and the store I think you could still study the implications of the pedestrian bridge inside the store.
I like the studies of connecting and gathering. David mentioned the covered bridge... I grew up in Minnesota and have experienced the NEED for covered pedestrian walkways between stores downtown (it gets cold once in a while).
What if you incorporated the first Apple store Drive-Thru? People could order online or in the store and instead of carrying their purchase back to the car or on the "T", would simply drive by and pick it up on their way out? Just thinking about different ways to connect at 2:00 AM. I like the photos and look foward to your next post.
Amr, I am trying to do as I was suggested in my crit, an actually y I can take more for me the final idea of gathering instead of connecting. Connecting might to gather but gathering certainly will connect!! (answer to Jaclyn as well) I like Charles ideas of bringing people together, and I think that is a great book! Thanks!
Ted, I really though about his one, but the more I did less convinced I was about it. it seamed that at that point I was giving the car a better treatment and that I was hiding the gathering place. The bridge still represents for me the connector, but now thru the gathering of people and not as a connector from the building to the square (answering to Eddie) I agree that the photos were quite interesting and they give more ideas about the project, and maybe because the “mapping exercise” was so “revealing” to me, I can make the overlap of the images to it very easily!
David and Matt, I think about the bridge now as one more place to be at not just a way to get somewhere else, and in lieu of this I think will have to have the same conditions than the square (if too cold maybe not to may people are there, if the Boston marathon is happening, then is very crowded, so far so on, so snow will not be a concern but a natural player of the whole) Gus
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Gathering or Connecting!!!
I wonder why your final review had...
"Your project should be presented more about gathering rather than connection."
I believe that our job to bring people together, whether using bridges,Platforms, plazas, Doors or even Escalators!
Every little element in the public building should work on bringing people together.
gathering or Connecting,
both bring people together at some point in the apple store!
Charles Moore, a well-known architect who did a wonderful book titled “Water and Architecture”. Here you would find wonderful symbolic written words on the topic of "gathering".
Charles always tried to create architecture that brought people together.
I think this is a good study of the different ways of connecting and gathering. I see more connecting than gathering but it needs to be whatever approach you feel confident portraying in your project. Just remember that the connecting can be done in many ways other than a literal bridge. It looks like you have begun to explore the diff. options in the images you are studying. I look forward to seeing your next step and how you portray connecting/gathering in your project.
Hey Gus,
What if your idea was to recess the entire plaza below the "winners circle" and allow the cars to pass over that? Sort of a reverse big dig. It's counterintuitive, and the wrong scale at the moment, but it might be interesting to study the idea a bit.
The studies are helpful. I am particularly interested in the oxford street comparative photo as the street completly changes when full of people, or empty again. The boats tied to a dock also seem interesting. Connecting or gathering specifically need a vehicle here. the site has the road and realy doesn't need a bridge, but water requires a boat.
Hey Gus,
Glad to see you are still studying the "connection". While looking at your pictures, I noticed one of the bridges had a lot of snow all over it. While we were in Boston the bridges you had were only shown as flat. Realizing they were study models, are you planning on enclosing the links over to your building or are they open? (Snow picture thing). It may be good to have them covered, and they could be detailed with your building so that it would make your building an even stronger extension toward the public. "Keep on birthing Gus"
David
Gus,
I like Ted's suggestion of the underground winners circle. The Bostonian human big dig! The point where learning is travelling underground from the library to the store. An ants house simbolizing evolution from the printed book to the electronic circle. Would the cars be on overpasses then? If we assume there is a glass floor in the middle of the street, who will see this? the mufflers? or the towers? I just remember that the "T" probably would go thru the middle of the circle. Curt spoke about what if the train when thru the middle of the store. What are the implications. If we disregard the idea of physically placing the store between the library and the store I think you could still study the implications of the pedestrian bridge inside the store.
Gus,
I like the studies of connecting and gathering. David mentioned the covered bridge... I grew up in Minnesota and have experienced the NEED for covered pedestrian walkways between stores downtown (it gets cold once in a while).
What if you incorporated the first Apple store Drive-Thru? People could order online or in the store and instead of carrying their purchase back to the car or on the "T", would simply drive by and pick it up on their way out? Just thinking about different ways to connect at 2:00 AM. I like the photos and look foward to your next post.
Amr,
I am trying to do as I was suggested in my crit, an actually y I can take more for me the final idea of gathering instead of connecting. Connecting might to gather but gathering certainly will connect!! (answer to Jaclyn as well)
I like Charles ideas of bringing people together, and I think that is a great book! Thanks!
Ted,
I really though about his one, but the more I did less convinced I was about it. it seamed that at that point I was giving the car a better treatment and that I was hiding the gathering place. The bridge still represents for me the connector, but now thru the gathering of people and not as a connector from the building to the square (answering to Eddie)
I agree that the photos were quite interesting and they give more ideas about the project, and maybe because the “mapping exercise” was so “revealing” to me, I can make the overlap of the images to it very easily!
David and Matt,
I think about the bridge now as one more place to be at not just a way to get somewhere else, and in lieu of this I think will have to have the same conditions than the square (if too cold maybe not to may people are there, if the Boston marathon is happening, then is very crowded, so far so on, so snow will not be a concern but a natural player of the whole)
Gus
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