Monday, May 4, 2009

Ramps




2 ramps were used in the design. They acted as connectors between separate spaces. Both the ramps were connected to the midspace and allowed access to the 2 labs.
Since Cousteau's Lab design revolved around words like gravity and weight, the ramps were created in such a way so that mass had to be supported by bottom portions. Scaling was used as the size of the ramps support kept diminishing.
For Nobel's laboratory, the ramp was different in the sense that it had stair like structures going lower than the lab level and reaching a glass slab. From that point similar solid structures went up towards the lab level. This was a different approach as anybody walking on this ramp would first have to go down a few steps, stand on the glass slab and then come back on top again using the similar blocks which went upwards.

No comments:

Post a Comment