ARCH1101 - Yen Nhien Nguyen

Sunday, 25 March 2012

The Interlace - Singapore

Stairs for Section 1

There are 2 rooms for S.1 studio
After dicussing with my tutor I decided to do a little bridge connecting the 2 studio rooms but after experimenting i noticed that the bridge seemed too steep. I then changed the bridge into a small staircase (shown in the sketch above) because i think it will be safer and earsier to travel between those rooms.

The image above shows a staircase from ground level (gallery) to the S.1 studio of Artist 1.
After creating the models for the gallery space and the studio, I designed a staircase that would fit into and around the design. The image above shows the final design of the stair. It's almost like a spiral staircase going up, around, up and around again. The staircase goes through one of the studio rooms from the bottom.
The material used for both staircase should be something hard and solid to keep its form and structure.

Stairs for section 2

The image above shows the design of the bottom level staircase and its connection to the studio of section 2.
Section 2 studio has 2 levels. The design for both levels are irregular.
I wanted something simple. I thought of a straight line, then a tube and then in the end i decided on a spiral staircase.
The height of both levels is quite high so if did an ordinary staircase, it would be too steep or too wide/big.