MASSING DIAGRAMS / SITE CONSIDERATIONS

Cutting into the building mass making negative spaces to create organic opportunities for guerrilla gardening to occur.

Pushing down roof heights

Lower roof heights to denote more intimate domestic style spaces.

Continuation of existing boardwalk motif

Using its recognisability current use as a circulation route as an invitation into the garden space for both users and curious visitors.

Maintaining viewpoints to the bridge

Ensuring that the scheme is not intrusive and that views towards the bridge remain unobstructed and natural.

Providing space for anglers

A nod to Tsukuda’s fishing village roots, the boardwalk extension will provide more space for the existing angling community which frequent the canal.

Reflecting the existing roofscape topography

The building acts as a transition between the low point of the canal and the roofscape of the structures surrounding it.

Framing the view to the bridge

The roof pitches in the scheme lean away from the bridge, drawing the eye towards it and forming an almost trianular composition in combination with the building opposite.