New Idea...

After thinking about how to make the building not look so stark in its surrounding, I remembered something I had learnt about Frank Lloyd Wright and how he often imagined his buildings as an extension of the landscape.

I therefore started to look at ways in which this building would look like it was coming up from the ground.

 

The obvious answer to this was to have the actual building rise up from the ground and be connected on each side via steps or an escalator. This was because it was impractical to have a ramp which would reach 4m into the air and not take up all of queen street.

 

In essence, this began to make the building feel like some sort of bridge.

 

Here were two futher examples of how the building could rise from the ground. The first creates a new landscape or ground plain, which acts like a small hill, while the second leaves the exisiting ground floor building in place and merely makes the roof fly over the top, connecting the ground floors on either side.

 

 

This is an example of how the roof can connect the two sides and fly over the top.

 

I therefore began to change my model to incorporate verticle curves such as this.

 

 

Due to the fact that there would be no access through the centre of the building except for the pods, it was implausible to have a sweeping roof, so as such, it was determined to have these curves on either side, on the platform area.

 

Additionally, these curves began to double up as a wall for customers on the platform level.