Catching Up

These past few weeks have been hard to keep track of.

In review of the progress I made:

1. I have designed and created each of the desired buildings, which include an Urban Agriculture Center, Outdoor Theater, Cafe, Dock/Boat Launch, Educational Center, and Playground.
1. The Urban Agriculture Center is a building that is built of multiple levels. The levels decrease in width as they increase in height, but the roofs of the below layers are then green spaces that are filled with natural life for people to walk around and enjoy the nature. There is also an opportunity to experience agriculture within the building as there are more plantlife to learn from and enjoy. The upper roof has a nice view of the river and city with a fountain in the center. Beside the Center is an interactive center where people can create their own plant and hang from a line in order to add to the beauty of the facility. Wind powered towers are located nearby.
2. The Outdoor Theater is a simpler place, that encourages more lax performances. There is a green sloped upper level that overlooks all of the seats below, and the stage is surrounded by a somewhat transparent overhang canopy, but in the light, spectators are still able to see beyond the stage. At night, with the lights above, the focus would be on the performers onstage.
3. The Cafe is also very open, with no real roof. The cafe is meant to have a regular food station, a vegetarian station and a vegan station. The bathrooms are located in this building as well. There is a covered stairwell that leads down to the dock below the bridge. The cafe is somewhat submerged in the bridge, and has a large curving window that allows a beautiful view for all the patrons within the eating establishment. Above the cafe is the solar screen I developed in Grasshopper, translated over to a beautiful solar screen above the space.
4. The Dock is a large space enclosed in brick windowed walls, allowing for different size boats and canoes to dock for a brief period of time. The stairwell leads directly to the cafe above.
5. The Educational Center focused on music and performance. The design is literally similarly shaped to a piano, and mirrors the cafe in its submergence in the bridge. It has the same curving window that permits a great view from the first level. The second level is more individual performance based with an acting room and a piano/musical room, both catered with their materials (padding/sound proof).
6. The playground includes both your expected pieces and some random shapes located in spaces that allow creativity with use. It is similar to the design of the playground in the winning design of the competition.
2. I also included my indoor theater from Assignment 3, in order to promote the arts more in a more specific way. In order to translate to the space, I made the outer walls graffiti/artistic walls, where passersby could share their artistic expression and add to the beauty of the space.
3. Throughout the bridge, all the walls are green walls or art walls, and the empty spaces are filled with plantlife, art pieces, or sitting centers around fountains or sculptures.