Thursday, 31 October 2013

First submission!

Here there are my final boards and pictures of the model for the first submission!












Sunday, 27 October 2013

How the kiosk is going to sell coffee

So now that I'm arrived to this point I can try to think again on how I'm going to sell my products. 
I have the passage where you can pass through and take what you want and sit where you want depending on your free time spendable to have a break. So relax area where normal tables are or bar table.



I have also changed the position of the kiosk. 
So now the sliding out volume faces the fountain and people sitting there can see other people passing through the square and appreciate the fountain as well. 

For what concernes the tables outside, I decided to put them on the other side, obtaining so the "more protected" area that I wanted, also if it is still a passage way.
But in this way I can also sell my products as a "take out" option!

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Just the same height: a place where people can pass through

After meeting my lecturers they made me notice that it was better to come back to my previous idea of having a crossing roofs because it's possible, I just have to make more research about it.


And as you can see in this sketch, I was having some problems even with the "different heights solution".
So trying and trying again and thinking I realized that it was so easy!


As I reported in this sketch below, I just need something between the two roofs that can patch the gap. This part should be unmovable and just attached to the "bigger volume". In this way I obtain modular facades that I wanted and still take advantage of these.



Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Different heights to make ceilings cross

Thinking to a ceiling that can be crossed with another one seems to be a real big problem for me! Because I want to cover the passage in some way and make the smaller volume slide as well. How can I do this? Looking back to this project I was thinking to divide the roof in modules and find some way to make them cross.


As you can see from my sketches I was trying to find movement in the roof as well. But this make everything much more complicated, since it's not a statuesque architecture and it has to be transportabled as well so it should be as more simple as possible.



Talking with Victoria, during the Design Communication seminar, she helped me a lot reaching an easier solution for my kiosk. No crossing beams but different heights! Of course I loose the movement that I wanted but this solution can make my life easier!



So the result is having a glass between these two roofs that slides with them. In this way I don't have problems of having parts not covered and holes created by this movement.
To test this idea I made a very simple model.



Obviously I have still to think about how I'm going to close the passage if it's cold or it's raining.


But I have obtained the same effect of the orange sketch!