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Interior view of the canteen serving area

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Internal view of the canteen lobby and dining area

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More perspectives of the building 

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Evening perspectives of the building 

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Night time perspectives 

The varying voids, windows, balconies and shades are highlighted by light 

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Strategy Diagrams 

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The final adjacency diagram 

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The research file that never ends 

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Detail drawings showing the second skin connection, an internal floor to wall connection and the column grid 

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The 1:200 model

Unfortunately the paper was too thin and warped a little. However, I think that this model successfully shows the way that the building plays with light

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The template for my 1:200 model. I will print this out so that I can trace the lines onto paper

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The mess that is my autocad files

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I have changed the scale of the arches, making some larger than others responding to the use of the room behind them. As well as this, I have designed shades to go in front of selected windows on the exposed facades 

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The sections from the final review. The main development  here is the introduction of technological representation into the 1:50 section. I have also switched the size of the sections so that the short section is at 1:50 and the long section is a 1:200 

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I recently came across the house of Xavier Corbrero. I was always against the idea of breaking up the repetition of the arches, however, after seeing this I think that experimenting with playing with the scale of the arches is the next setp 

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My first attempt at the exploded axo. I have split it in terms of use. I will need to explode it a lot more, showing technology and illustrate materiality