2/14/2017 - Narrowing in on the Thin

       Happy Valentine's Day!!
       Over the weekend I took out half of the columns on my plans, which really opened up the courtyard and the third floor living spaces. I reduced the height of the floors form 16' to 10', this also shortened up the ramps and the stairs, allowing for more room for the bottom courtyard. After redrawing the sections, I am much happier with the design. I also redesigned my top floor to have two open to below spaces, one over the living area and one over the dining area. But I still need to work on that floor a little more. I have more than half the columns buried in walls and I want to shift the walls so that the columns are showing. In doing so it will change a few things on the long sections, but nothing that an eraser can't fix. It wont change so much to were redrawing them is necessary. I also have to revisit almost all the plans, after drawing the sections, I've found a few things that I missed. Also when I changes the height, the stairs changed so I have to fix that as well.
       For this variation, Professor Carranza wants us to layout our presentations like Enric Miralles. When he was showing us some of his work, I found them very confusing and I didn't like them. But they might end up like Le Corbusier's work. Confusing at first but I might realize once I get into it that it makes perfect sense and wonder why everybody doesn't do all their plans like that. Maybe. I'll attach some of his works below.