Pre-Design Design

Extraction 4

Sanaa's New Museum

Plate Shifting - uneven space distribution around core creates interior spaces/effects that are divorced from the way you circulate the building.

Single Core Circulation - uni-directional spatial procession

Obsession Extraction 3 - De Young Museum

Herzog & De Meuron's De Young Museum

- Mat (blanketing slab over the landscape)
- Pockets ( Mass is pulled and injected with spaces, creating courtyards)
- Sprouts (Spontaneous Tower as landmark)
- Cantilever (freed ground conditions)
- Perforations (from facade micro scale to pocketed space macro)

Obsession Extraction 2 - SAM Olympic Sculpture Park

Weiss/Manfredi's Seattle Art Museum

- Fractured (connector of fractured conditions)
- Intersecting (inviting + stitching of all transportations & infrastructures)
- Laceration (cutting + splitting gestures)

Obsession Extraction 1 - Nelson Atkins

Steven Holl's Nelson Atkins

- Stealthy (exposing glowing boxes + burying connections)
- Soft (heavy mass softened by light/transparent cladding)
- Concealed Speed (Stepped Landscape w/ Ramped Interiors)
- Invitational (lanterns as nightly public invitations)