Futhered concept

What is the path, the seams, the new sub layer of the urban fabric that is bieng created ?

Basically i am creating connective tissue for the urban fabric, one the holds art, and the potenial to hold culture.

Looking at the geology of southern californa.

map of california geology map of california fault lines


ocean magetism pattern of the coast of california

the geology of california basically consists of a series of fault line that follow the mountain chains up the coast they separate a series of tectonic plates. this is a condition on the entire earth but a more embeded topic and understanding in the culture of california due to the frequency and severity of earth quakes.

a series of, plates and faults, mountain chains and valleys of sediment containing alluvial soil

seam

sutura- seam-contigous margins of flat blone connected by thin layer of fiborous material –when the articulation surfaces are connected together it is termed a true suture (suture vera)

Artitculations-
synarthrosis-bones that are almost in direct contact fastened together by an interviening mass of connective tissue or hyaline(something that is translucent or transparent (latin hyalinous, Greek hualos of glass from

hualos glass cartilage –joints between the bones in the cranium.



plates of skull woven with hyaline cartilage at there seams


section through hyaline


model of detail
hy·a·lin (h -l n) or hy·a·line (-l n, -l n )
n.
1. The uniform matrix of hyaline cartilage.
2. A translucent product of some forms of tissue degeneration.

degeneration /de·gen·er·a·tion/ (de-jen?er-a´shun) deterioration; change from a higher to a lower form (scale from vehicular to pedestrian)

glass (glas)
1. a hard, brittle, often transparent material, usually consisting of the fused amorphous silicates of potassium or sodium, and of calcium, with silica in excess.
2. a container, usually cylindrical, made from glass.



amorphous structure


An amorphous material is a material with a disordered atomic-scale structure. In contrast to most metals, which are crystaline and therefore have a highly ordered arrangement of atoms, amorphous are non-crystalline.



crystaline structure
Materials in which such a disordered structure is produced directly from the liquid state during cooling are called "glasses", and so amorphous metals are commonly referred to as "metallic glasses" or "glassy metals".

looking at the ubran context we find large isolated buildings separated by the faults of the cayon like setback areas and the wide multi line vehicular streets

These new seams, are woven into the earth and into the site context. the seam become like the hyaline (glass) cartilage that joins the plates of the skull or the ubran fabric

How do we weave this cartilage into the site.

The context buildings are very ordered and crystaline in nature. Extend there grids( structural, fenestration, material seams) on to the plan and elevations of the site, creating datums and treads of alignment to intersect with a natural grid, the sun, which create, shadow patterns that move across the site. at varoius times the shadow lines, intersect the datum lines creating an amorphous pattern of points over the site. this arrangment can begin the structural and material framework for the site.


site plan, showing different overlapping contextual grids from existing buildings and sun angles. At the intercies the point show the begining of the amorpous pattern. red shows grid on grid, yellow shows shadow angle and grid intersection.
These amorphous patterns can began to define structural, light, art and vegatation pattern, materail and framework intensities

This can be addressed in the material by expressing the aggregate densities and sizes in concrete and glasses creating a spectrum of intensities and opacities.




Another link that can be made with the idea of varring densityies in relation to the programatic study done by the client on storage densities of different medias. This could be a suble way in which to define these different media sapce materialy with the different densities of aggregate both in the storage spaces but more appropriately in the gallery spaces designated for different mediums of art.

What is missing between the detail and the building organisation?

I have talked all about how the pins and layers and forgotten about the essence of the detail, the architectural sensation of the detail. the LIGHT, althrough it has had a backdrop precence it needs more weight





The ephasises of sun light and angles creating different patterns with the contextual grids creates a sectional relationship where the light excavates the earth into the gallerays and paths below and light is captures by the luminous materal projecting through the earth onto the path creating an articulation between taking from the earth, and making art,artifact,artifice.
Integrating Flora
glass·wort
Any of various plants of the genus Salicornia, growing in salt marshes and having fleshy stems and rudimentary, scalelike leaves. Also called samphire.
[From its former use in making glass.]

Salicornia - glassworts
genus Salicornia
caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
Chenopodiaceae, family Chenopodiaceae, goosefoot family - includes spinach and beets
Salicornia europaea, samphire, glasswort - fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass