A few quick sketches were done as below.
I played with the idea of inverting my original concept and moving the "tracks" to the outside and including a central platform. This would make the building seem to come out of the ground more in an extension of the landscape. However, it would cause issues with connectivity and access to the elevated walkways which are apparent within our urban context.
I decided to look at it in a different way and create a vertical system, which would promote a narrower and therefore less imposing building upon the ground plain.
I started to draw conclusions about how people would access these pods from a horizontal location and it was found that the overall connections to the walkways would be disjointed, with no way of getting from one to the other.
I therefore decided that it was a good idea to redesign the pods to include two doorways and have two platforms on either side of the pod.
I then began to model the tracks up for this idea in sketchup.
Without changing the building on the ground floor, I could already see that the new idea would create a skinnier structure throughout the street.
However, it didn't take long before it occured to me that in order for this vertically to work, a number of connection points would be needed to reach the upper levels, including additional walkways, as well as stairs to access them, which would ultimately make the lower walkways wider.
As a result, while this idea may have kept the final building slimmer, it would only help to increase the size of the urban context and therefore, ultimately would look more messy rather than just having one large building in a smaller overall system.
I decided to revisit my old design and keep working to make it less assuming.
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