Change of Site

After playing around with my buildings form, it became apparent that it was becoming hard to find a optimal balance between distance above the heritage building and underneath the bridge. One was constantly overpowering the other and I wasn't too happy about having the building in the same location as I was before.

I have therefore decided to return to the original location I had with the folie, and punch my building through the arches of the bridge. This will allow me to align my building with the bridge, and as the structures are so similar, have each one mirror each other.

The bridge is also useful in providing shade for the building, which is a necessity for photography as you want to limit harsh amounts of light in your photos. Not only this, but the arches of the bridge provide a natural frame for the building.

I am starting to wonder why I didn't just do this from the start as it is starting to make a lot more sense to me now as a building then it was just floating above the wharf buildings.

The only limitation this site contains is the narrowness of the arches, which will force my building to also be narrow as I want to have a continuous volume and not a narrow space at the end.

This building I found in an old student architecture book. It has clear links to the sort of building I want to produce. However, my building would need to be a scaled down version.

It can be seen to be a pure rectilinear structure with certain aspects which help to create a more trendy and exciting building.