The Bridge As a Dwelling

This was one of those fantasy-based projects in academia. The site chosen for this project was Atlantic Station in the city of Atlanta. The design intent was to contrast the seeming stability of the surrounding buildings/dwellings with a structure that strays away from the visual stability of an archetypal bridge or dwelling. I performed numerous explorations in model form to arrive at a design solution before moving into designing and creating the digital model. This was one of the first extensive projects I completed in Revit.

Academic Project
The Bridge As a Dwelling (Architecture School - Drawings and 3D done in Autodesk Revit)

Year
2009

Concept sketches
Conceptual Sketch
Brige elevation drawings
Site Analysis
Site Analysis
Bridge design drawing presentation

  • Design rendering done in Revit.

  • Structural design 3D model rendering.

  • Rendering - blending of interior / outdoor spaces.

  • Model conjuring the image of a stable bridge one can envision from lived experiences.

  • Expressions of manipulating space on, in, through, above, and below, the envisage of the bridge as an object.

  • Taking the would be structural form of the bridge and twisting and manipulating it to form a visually seeming unstable form.

  • Looking through the portal

  • Explorations in static habitable spaces. Combining a stable bridge form with the twisted form explored.

  • Explorations of more static spaces with the new structural form.