Site specific growth strategies to arrange the proposed programmatic elements. These were done initially to experiment with the different ideas but I’m going to try and analyse these mathematically to develop rules that can possibly be applied later in scripting.

a couple of night time shots from yesterday evening….

Chris: Thought this may be of interest to you, along with sister site Digital Forming.

Here are a few images from a 1:1000 model which I have been working on. The initial response is to concentrate the massing to the north and to inhabit the existing piers with a pedestrian link across the Thames which will run through part of the proposal. The third part, as I like to think of it (part one being mass, part 2- pedestrian link) , is the external atrium which will run through the heart of the mass, providing a visual link between the various floors and functions.
At this stage I envisage the floors from each level being the most prominent aspect of the design, hence the reason behind modelling the mass though only planes which represent each floor. The floors could be separated using a truss or through the more conventional column. The reason for this is to maintain a maximum level of transparency and 'honesty' into the goings on within the building. The very last image is one I found of a germinating chamber under examination; the repetition and grid formation have been highly influential so far in terms of both structure and form of the building.

I have been working on the format for the television/internet show that is at the heart of my scheme. There is a prescribed structure for formats so I have put together a draft proposal. Please post ideas on how it could be improved as it is still at an early stage.

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TV Show Format Proposal FD

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[Apologies to the illiterate for the lack of pictures for the time being; apologies to the literate for the inelegant, unpoetic use of language, on which I will continue to work.]