Parti Party EJ Melendez #2

Parti Party

Cité du Corps Humain by Bjarke Ingels Group (B.I.G.) was the precedent that inspired my parti. This project was conceived of nature and architecture. The pavement and the grass come together to form enclosures. Some of these enclosures are slabs of pavement surrounded by grass while other are patches of grass surrounded by pavement. Because some enclosures are grass and some are pavement, they can all serve a variety of purposes. In figure 1 below you see how their parti idea first got started. This is a normal linear plan allowing pedestrians to walk straight through the middle of the site with all the buildings being accessible to either side. They then transformed the path so that it can create enclosures of spaces. Each space was then designated a purpose as seen in figure 2. The path not only created spaces for buildings to be placed but it also created void spaces to mesh architecture with nature. To finish their parti they changed the path once again to form organic shapes which would eventually become the form of the buildings and the void spaces used for the nature areas as seen in figure 3.

Using their final parti of organic shapes I got the idea to curve the sidewalks on our south town site. I used the sidewalks to enclose each area so that each was designated a specific purpose. One area contains the pool, another holds the amphitheater, another the basketball court, and the last area is a lawn which can be used for any purpose. I chose to place the market surrounding the sidewalk in the middle of the site so that it can be easily accessible to anyone walking through. My path continues past the first site still following its curvature and forming the space that will be used to create the building for the café and studio on the second site, which is can be seen in figure 4.

In figure 4 it can clearly be seen how every sidewalk divides the spaces for a different functionality just like B.I.G.’s project does. B.I.G.’s program is like ours in that they connect city and park. Their program calls for more buildings than ours but I think it is a great precedent to refer to. They elevated different planes to form slanted pieces of grass and pavement. I can definitely see this happening on our south town site with the enclosed areas that are already divided by the sidewalks. Figure 5 is a rendering of their final project which shows my idea of the buildings on our site.

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