Entry Elevation
Creation of Form
1. By understanding the topography and massing as two three dimensional objects, the relationships allow for negotiation of site conditions and opportunity to bridge. 2. By keeping the building level, the architecture acts as a datum for the landscape revealing different aspects of the trees. 3. By a transformational move from horizontal to vertical, the building starts to take shape as well as shifting the vertical giving hierarchy to the forested side. 4. Function starts to influence the form by transforming the building to negotiate shade and shelter and pushing the backside towards the open lake. 5. By extracting the geometry of the form in 10’ increments and extension of every other, the structure reveals itself and allows for the intricacies of the making to have a framework. 6. Program is divided through a delamination of the form into public and private. 7. A 30’ moving gallery concludes the museum giving mltiple views of the trees at the end and lowering the guests down to the cafe, gift shop, and porch. 8. A series of tension cables are applied to the structure in order to resist wind shear and create a transparent facade.
The formal side flexes out allowing for opportunities that reveal the relationships of structure below and extension of facade above.