BRIAN SILVA
Pictured above is the site of my building located in Delran, NJ. The current building is a Canal's Liquor store that features a vaulted ceiling. Interiorly the building serves a heavy contrast between the windowed high vaulted ceiling and the more closed off, windowless back portion of the structure.
Seen above is the current building footprint of Canal's with a different spin on the classic industrial era materials of glass, steel, and brick. Featured in the building are these same materials, however with a modern approach and more cohesive color palette. Additionally, the building's interior features an addition of wood to help give the space a more inviting ambiance.
The knoll diagram shows the various parts and pieces in the site that help construct the building. The key features involved are the vaulted steel roof, the balck structural interior and exterior columns, the hvac system with associated red piping and the black steel window frames. All of these pieces make up the essence of the building.
The miro board explored above begins to seek out my interests into two categories of things, being media and storage items. With this A.N.T map I begin to explore different means of storage and the idea of holding onto items for long periods of time. This then begins to branch off into what gets stored, and when does storage become hoarding. Additionally, I explore ideas of permanent storage (rooms,bins,storage units) , temporary storage (cardboard boxes) and what is in between (suitcases, travel).I then divulge my research into storage through media and ideas of digital data as well as instances where both media and storage are present.
Seen above is a diagrammatic analysis of the canal's building that has been altered through methods of piling and radial organization through the structure. The first sequence of images explores the ideas of density as items multiply as they move out from the center (seen in red). The purpose of this was to show a hierarchy of data and storage that each object presents with the center being one item holding the most data and the outer edge being a plethora of items that in total would theoretically equal out the same amount of data as the center. The next sequence then explored ideas of density through circulation (seen in blue) as someone were to move around the building. The outer rings of the circle would be the densely populated area as the inner circle would be the least dense. The ideas behind the circulation were methods of guiding movement while still allowing for complete vision of the interior no matter where the observer is.
The video above begins by zooming into the building allowing for someone to see the roof plan, structural plan and then radial plan of the building. The video then continues to walk through the radial organization starting from the center as one would make their way out of the building. As the different rings of items are explored they are each taken out of their context and are observed based on their classification, what items they store and the amount of storage they possess in relation to other items on the site.
The parallax video above walks someone through an elevation of the site. The radial organization of the site can be further visualized through this video as you begin to see every item in every instance while watching. Additionally we can see how the items multiply and begin to pile up more as they move away from the central ring.
The set of images above shows some perspective views of the building. What can be observed are two changes to the structure through the addition of glass walls and through the idea of taking pieces of the original structure and arranging them in a radial organization.The radial arrangement of the structure allows the radial plan to take effect and become that much more evident while the glass curtain walls limit circulation, but don't affect visual instances. Additionally, the perspectives allow the viewer to begin to imagine the space and take into account the piling construction of the pieces that serves a heavy contrast to the rigid radial plan.