Intersection Concept

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Behind vertical: Jaques-Yves Cousteau

In front vertical: Keith Campbell

As part of the development, I wanted to virtually play around with the visual mass rather than to set the hard points early in the cycle. The above concept focus on intertwining both client spaces and envisioning the idea of a meeting point. This idea could easily be pulled and scaled to fit within two separate vertical spaces. 

For this stage, I decided to switch the clients around the vertical plane to generate more ideas and push the design envelope. As witnessed by the images, Cousteau's space has been elevated somewhat and the use of blue lighting to give the impression of floating, and the mystic depths of the ocean. The image at the bottom right illustrates the attention of allowing a narrow corridor of natural light within the space. This is reference to Cousteau idealism and seeking for truth of the seas, which is found in his exploration works. The angle of the inner wall semantically shows forward motion, trying to encompass the feeling of a water craft preparing to dive. 

Campbell's space has been rotated 90 degrees but continues the somewhat pattern of symmetry, this continues on the underside of the structure. A large part of mass is extended on the structure to imply difference between volumes, as this whimsically plays with the notion of differences between the cloning debate. 

Again light is used extensively to further define space, convey contrast between material subjectively, and emphasis the play with natural and artificial lighting within the overall structure. Adding a little bit of whimsical play with my design (as part of my personal creative design rhetoric), the external structure plays with the component of visual mass suspending by a counter-balancing, visually-lighter mass. The premise is a throw back to Cousteau's quote of having the ability to fly whilst buoyed by water (a sense of belief to the contrary). And a reference to everyday design attitudes towards what is feasible, and what is simply not..