Our study began with a prompt to choose a light phenomenon or quality and attempt to recreate it inside a shoebox. This is the resulting photograph. My phenomenon? Light streaming in through a window and creating a volume by illuminating dust particles in the air.
Charcoal rendering showing pattern of light penetration through center.
Charcoal rendering of welcome center adjacent to aquarium. Timber beams span the building and aquarium overhead.
Site plan.
1/8" scale cardboard model. Aquarium (right) is almost undifferentiated from ocean. Middle building houses admin offices and conference rooms. Research labs and offices (left) are accessed via walkways connecting corresponding levels.
Detail of 1/8" scale cardboard model showing research laboratory building and light control concept. Layering of facade and interior walls allows light to be filtered and ultimately controlled very carefully within research spaces (left in photo).
How does the quality of light change as you move through from the coast spaces to the inland spaces? This is a 1/4" = 1' scale sliver through the research center. Light illuminates the aquarium (far right) and becomes more "controlled" as the program of the spaces demands (i.e. for research labs and offices).
A Rhino model diagram showing ciculation. Blue indicates planar circulation (floors/ramps), red indicates vertical circulation (i.e. stairs and elevators).
Detail of 1/8" scale model showing aquarium and spiral ramp.
