Collage Elements

Was looking for the images i could use for my memorial piles.

http://lucyhollis.wordpress.com/musings/parks-of-barcelona/parks-of-barcelona-3/

Fun photos of both Montjuic and Igualada cemetery right at the beginning.

This is my story.... Hope you can see it

I reworked the organization of my
Presentation so that it tells the story of my journey through this project.

Stumbling!!!

The Los Angles Holocaust Museum

Something that reminded me of the cemetery (the original) and my own creation. 

TREES!!!!

Picking trees are harder than i thought.

I like the cherry tree  because it has a stringy feel to it. Its branches when in bloom cast a large singular shadow that rotates through the day but when it is not in bloom the branches individually cast shadows zigzagging across the paths and criss crossing back and forth altering. I like this tree not only because of the shadows it cast but its mean to death.

Cherry (Sakura)

Represents the Japanese idea of �The Perfect Death�. Also perfection of virtue and existence.

The other tree is  the Montezuma Bald Cypress tree. I like this tree a lot but it grows differently in the north than it does in the south, where i first saw it. This tree will turn deciduous and changes its form minimally when it  comes to the north. basically there becomes less hang to it. I liked this tree because of its resemblance to the weeping willow except with this tree doesn't have an overwhelming amount of hang.... therefor grouping there wouldn't become difficult. i am working on find another tree to replace this one one that with grow a little taller than the cherry and have a hang to its branch.  I liked this tree because the trunk is love giving space to walk and the branches weep a little for privace and then they are very full for nice shadow. and taller than  they are wide!!!

The other tree i have considered is the turkey oak unfortunately it just doesn't do it for me the search continues. I have been searching for trees associated with death trying to find ones that fit the regiment

Materials on the site

I have taken the materials ( most from the existing site ) and collaged them in the arrangement I have previously designed. Through this I understood that A. I needed to fix some awkward things that happen B. I had to change some areas make them bigger/ get rid of them/ change the material. There were various things that needed to be changed but not totally redesigned. It goes back to a previous post "breaking the rules," when the rules limit your design they need to be broken!!! Also after the corrections collage I intend to make another one with the correct spacing but make it sectional. The cemetery I am designing can not solely be observed in plan it has a sectional quality about it that needs to be expressed in order to properly convey the experience. What I envision to do combine a collage with a drawdel creating a .... well there's no name for it yet but I'll work on that one as well!!!!...... Back to work!!

Fixing awkward moments

Don't want anyone feeling trapped of questioning why the heck did they lead me here

Breaking the Rules

I am currently trying to figure the details out which is very frustrating. i have gone through so much trace while trying to figure thing out. I have created  intersecting lines derived from the end points of the tombs and walkways. These lines have help me over come so much but i am struggling to make them work when placing the burial plots on the walls. The lines have created zones where i have set up sitting/contemplation spaces, nature spaces, commemorative piles and circulation zones. I am figuring out that it is about creating rules and then consciously break those rules to make room for smarter decisions.

Fill in the blanks!

So the Squares that happen in the center of the site will vary in tomb function but maintain the same style (which i am not sure what style it is yet!!!???) They can be communal places for ashes, carved out places to sit and contemplate Fill In the Blank, places where bodies slide in, where urns rest, they can be piles reaching up to the sky just to get in your way and redirect your path, or they could have memorial information on them... they can be what ever my heart desires!

A HOLE IN THE GROUND

Here is something i found that's pretty cool! click on the link below it is a house that is dug into the site. its moments of randomness that break through the ground that rests on the niches remind me of our site and how Miralles and Pinos create moments of confusion on the surface. Check out the web site with the other pictures its awesome!!!!!

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/underground-house-in-seoul#!/photos/71255/1

THAT'S 1/16 NOT 1/32????

So here's what i'm working on.... i think its there... well kinda i have to figure out the configuration of the interior elements such as trees free standing niches how i can integrate the the free standing niches into the space... maybe a square? The square adds a questionable element of what happens in the corners when the bodies meet and leave more square masses in the corners. The square is a whole other topic that i will post about later.


These figure like niches direct you around the spaces. Some of them hold back land, some are free standing and some ditch the niche and become voided spaces where the tamed earth to become wild again. I'm working on how to transition from space to space and rethinking the entire concept of the thresh-hold. 

The Magenta line is the edge of my site. I also think is is expressive of the movements you make going through the site. That makes sense in my head i wish you could hear whats going on in there. : )

How do the spaces transition. They should have some organization. but they don't need to be typical. They don.t need to happen where you think they should happen, where you are trained to think they should happen. A THRESH-HOLD DOES NOT NEED TO BE A DOORWAY!!!!!!

Okay so here is my site!!!! I love it but i have no clue if i did it right is it at 1/32 or 1/16?? Who KNOWS!!! I Hope i find out soon!!!!!

Now i have to get the niches into the site like ASAP!!!!!!!!!! 

Reworking it!!!

Okay so since the last time i posted my design i have decided i don't like it. Well that's not the way i should put i t. I like the forms i have the shapes but i knew there was something wrong i just didn't know what so i have been fudging it and trying to come up with something that i like and i think i have finally did it. So after i shrunk it from its massive size i decided to break up all the forms that i have arbitrarily created. I then did a few diagrams to see if it could potentially work.... Now i am making the same shapes on chip board and rearranging them to see if there are other options that could work better than the first one i made.

Rethinking the review

I thought about one comment a reviewer made ... " you shouldn't even be thinking about the benches yet". I understand where she is coming from, however when visiting the existing site it frustrated me that there was I intended seating all over benched that were not designed for the sight randomly placed.... Therefore, I think you need to always be thinking about all the aspects and individual components that make up the cemetery.

Keep going til you hit Mid review # 2

Because the reviewers made a good point about not having to double the experience just the program i am working on shrinking my site. I am beginning to use creative ways of making my niches not stack so high so they can be on a more personal level. I am trying to use more big moves and letting them define the smaller moments instead of trying to design both.

Mid Review #1

The review was very constructive. On a technical level the reviewer gave light to what was misrepresented and needed to be changed so that it reads better.

A few Comments: blow ups of specific points to better represent the gestures, perspectives - to understand what it would feel like to be in the space,

They told me to study the relationship between the jagged forms and the existing site.

In the end they said the ideas are there they just need to go further and be better represented. Which i am kinda okay with considering i just figured out what my project was on Tuesday! Now i just have to work hard and get a whole lot more done.

One thing a reviewer said in regards to all our projects was "you need to double the program not the experience" Simply put... WHY IS IT SOOO BIG!!!!

Same plan just some things show in each

NYC mapping - east village cemetery

http://www.newyorkcitywalk.com/html/images_EastVill.html

When I first read over this I misread it and began to think of the contemplation spaces as a persons own private oasis

Where i'm at, What i'm thinking

Attempting to look at my wire drawing and put it onto paper in order to make the forms oppose each other to create unique space.

Juniper Hill

Today i went to the Juniper Hill Cemetery. It was suggested by a friend who visited it while taking a landscape architecture class. It is located in Bristol RI, with the entrance at the end of a long road with a stone arch as the threshold.

What really struck me about this cemetery was that most of the plots are family plots. While this cemetery puts family together different than the family tombs that we have seen, the same desired outcome is accomplished. Family sectors are: mounded, surrounded but stone, have steps leading from the paved path to earth, and a few other variations. The family plots however they are determined have one large (expensive) monument to the family. The surname and a small excerpt about the family is engraved on the this and then quainter tomb with the initials are put on the top. This is how it was on most spaces. In addition to how the plots are laid out the cemetery has a nice flow to it. It has a meandering path that leads you around with a few areas where one can seek clarity. The cemetery is very random with no clear organization. individual plots are places  in close proximity to the family areas. The cemetery was built on the land the land was not built to fit a cemetery.

Family Plots

Mounded Earth

Stair walking up to Family monument. (notice surname on the stairs)

Deterioration of Materials

After i look at all the cemeteries in New Orleans i thought about how the looked after the flood and the deteriorating look they have due to natural effects. In the future i can study the New Orleans cemeteries post flooding looking at the material and how it will deteriorate over time due to natural effects. This will help me to relate the new to the old through material and texture.

Cemeteries Galore!!!!!

After going to the Igualada site and to the Cementiri de Montjuic i decided to look at a few other cemetery's that might help me. A friend had told me about the cemeteries of New Orleans and how much she loved them.... She also said they needed to be above ground because of the flooding  Here are some of the cemeteries.

Cementiri de Montjuic  - 

Holt Cemetery - the poor mans cemetery. The only one in New Orleans that is a below ground.

Lafayette Cemetery -  Above Ground cemetery. Uses tombs and niches throughout the site.

                      

Cypress Hill Cemetery - Above ground cemetery in New Orleans

Some Helpful Aerial view - helpful when thinking about spacing.

    

A few random cemeteries that i found cool and helpful

Our burial chambers are built over three levels: 
Level G: is for heavy or large bodies*. 
Level 1: is for normal sized bodies*.
Level 2: for small or elderly frail bodies*.

BEST FIELD TRIP EVER!!!!!!!

Igualada, SPAIN!!!! Over spring break we went to Spain to see the site! It was awesome and really helpful. My scale of the site was totally off, the site was so much smaller than i had previously thought. Not only the actual horizontal zone  but the vertical zone as well. The randomness of everything was really brought to my attention. Visiting the site was very beneficial to me. It helped me to understand the surrounds and the buildable land.


I want to create an entrance to the addition to the cemetery at this point.

The entrance wall would oppose this wall leading you into a darker contemplation space. I'm struggling to get this space right because i want to make smaller spaces that translated to the random spaces that preexist. I'm my crit today i was told it is not about those moments alone it is about the larger gestures that create the smaller moments.

I am looking more into my wire drawing and finally under what Luis is saying of how the my wire drawing can relate to my design. I am now looking at  how the wire opposes each itself to create space using mass and void.

Building the Cemetery

My idea for the Igualada Cemetery. I came up with three ideas for the Igualada Cemetery.


My first scheme: This concept is to have objects in a field of space, It deals with the mass versus void.  This concept was liked the best out of the 3 schemes i came up with. Unfortunately when i continued pursuing it there was a slight misunderstanding between my Professor and my self of where exactly this field of space would be. I was thinking about putting it in the existing space while he thought i should bring the idea into a new space that i have carved or created.

Scheme 2: The second idea was completely disregarded which i think was a smart move. It did not hold its own in comparison to the other 2 schemes.

Scheme 3: I liked this one the best. Partially because i would be able to include glass (my favorite building material) into it. It was said to be very Carme Pinos like. The reason i am not further exploring this idea is because it is has problems with reality. The idea of building into the existing space with fancied however the existing space did not allow my design to be implemented.

As promised

Check out the shadows created on the back side of the .

Here's what happened

This is what i ended up with... the "final product."

The drawing bottom left you can see a basic floor plan. Springing out from that floor plan is an axon showing a specific location where the man and nature slide past each other.  To the right you see three minimalistic sections to show the space that is created.

My drawdel this was my biggest struggle. it was hard for me to think about. Actually i was just over thinking it NOT good!!! but in the end i think it cam out pretty ill. I will up load a picture of the reverse side which is also pretty cool tomorrow in the studio.

This was the most time consuming one but i think its my favorite!!!! I love that the chip board stayed in the plaster in stead of pealing out. I immediately loved it so i kept it in. I thought my professor, Luis, was going to not like it because its a bit additive and we are dealing with the exhumation of architecture. Turns out he liked it!!! so happy!!!

This is the wire drawing which is  pretty awesome i think. You get to see these two transition places and what happens in between... the interaction between the different floor objects and how he oppose each other.

This one i just added for fun... and the to see the wire on its side looking like a model.

The criticism in the critique was very constructive. No one ever said you did this wrong it was what could be done to make it better or what other drawings could you add to enhance the presentation!!!!

Luis said he was pleasantly surprised and kind of angry.... he wanted to see more process from all of us!!! understandable.

Something to look at