Mock… Yeah…

Using construction tape and survey flags, I mocked up a portion of my design on the site in order to explore scale and volumes within the space.  The exercise was extremely helpful as it provided a better sense of how people fit and move within the site.  I focused on one of the “rooms” in my design by marking the perimeter with construction tape.  While the room felt much larger than it looked on paper, I decided against further dividing the room with water walls and became interested in the idea of creating more intimate spaces with vegetation and seating within the larger room.   

I did a mockup of one of the rooms, which was not very successful as it did not provide enough context and perspective.  I’ll be doing another mockup from a different angle to give a better idea of how the design works as well as how the space feels.

The area I had planned to flood with a thin sheet of water also turned out to be much larger than I realized, which led to some design tweaking.  I not only decided to make this flooded space smaller but also realized that it will be necessary to provide more paths for circulation through this area of the site so that people can get across without stepping in the water.   

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