To Curve or Not

by fcahill

This week I moved from the courtroom set and delved into the program and looked at how to work the circulation of the private (judge), the public (us), and the in-custody defendant.  I began the week with a tower approach but as I understood the program more and how I wanted the circulation to work it morphed into more of a bar design.  Through sketches and models I began to work with the necessary space-relationships to see how the ideas of open and continuous movement worked/didn’t work through my models and sketches.

These begin look at the paired courtset plan from last week’s model.

The courtset begins to look at private v public and the spatial relationship between 2 courtrooms.

The paired courtrooms try to focus on ‘movement’ and a separation of private v public.

A separation of private and public is reached but is there still the idea of ‘movement’ present?