Fall 2013, UC Berkeley | Advivsors: Raveevarn Choksombatchai, Kyle Steinfeld and Jay Atherton
This project started with a practice of mapping of the site, both descriptive and notational mapping. The descriptive mapping, done by watercolor, seek to extract salient phenomena from the site of Point Bonita, while the notational layer seek to represent the extracted information from the site using a notational graphic language.
The strength of forces of water hits the land is mapped; the darker the shade represents a more intense impact of the meeting of the waves and the land. The notational layer maps the interruption of the mountain by both the water and human interventions-the road and the deck. The degree of deformation of the grid represented the strength of forces acted on the mountain
The next step involves plaster, an assigned material. The material's nature and its ability to break from its natural tendencies are examined. With the examined characteristics in mind, the notational drawings from the previous step are brought into consideration: its architectonic and spatiality of the program within the site are then expressed through the material.
Working with this type of material allows the direct translation of deformation caused by impact of opposite forces into volume.
Continued working with the material, a study model of interlocking spaces lead to the form of architecture. The idea of two forces interacting with each other and translated into identical subjects which wrap around and interlock with each other.
Relieve Plan
Relieve Section