Week 13......New Scale

Another way to make this building unassuming was to reduce the scale of it. Namely the length. At 50m and then 40m the building was too large, and left a lot of unused spaced on the platform above. Therefore the new building is 30m long, and has dropped the original idea of having 2 walkways and just incorporating one in the centre.

 

The end design consists of 4 ground floor shops, including an information centre, a coffee shop, a ticket office and a newsagents. These rooms were all fitted out before moving onto the platform level above.

 

 

It was also envisaged that the building would a number of green elements which would project it into the future. Here the idea of a green wall can be seen, using little planter pots running up a wall facade.

 

 

However, it was time to model the shops and in the end they looked like this....

 

 

 

 

This is the newsagent located at the end of the building, it is intended to have roller shutters that can lock the building at night.

 

This is the ticket office, including ticket windows, lockers and filing cabinets.

 

This is the information centre, however it is intended that more stands will be placed in the floor in the middle.

 

This is the coffee shop, it has the possibility to have seating which spills out of the shop into the street, therefore connecting with the outside.

 

Although the idea of materiality hasn't been discussed yet, it can be seen to be played with here, a number of timber elements can be seen, especially the timber screens which cover the glass windows. It is expected that these battens would host green vines and other green elements in order to provide shade and also improve air quality.