Page 10 - Martin Murungi World View

..warehouse..

..circus tent..

The project is mainly stacks of borrowed material qualities and scale relationships
from of building like grain silos,circus tents and warehouses. In this project, we try ..grain silos..
to keep their usual forms but mix and interchange their materiality and also

experiment with scale variations.
-A single, light structure gives way to multi-layered stacks
-The tent`s columns and curved surface coexist in some locations like they
usually do, arearranged dierently in other places, and some levels have
one but not the other.
-Long and slender columns are given a wide range of propotions. Wide
columns resemble sections of grain silos and com cribs-with hollow interiors
and a thin metal shell.
-Levels that are less silo-like take on features of warehouses: rectangular
footprints, open plans few or no windows, and a similar thin metal envelope.
-The typical tent`s thin, light fabrric surface is replaced with a heavy mass.
-Tent like surfaces from the ceiling are inverted to form ­oors.
-The tent surfaces scale varies . In some cases, an entire tent is shrunk to €t
into the building footprint in other cases, it is enlarged and only a small
portion of the tent €ts the footprint.
-The tents €gure solids and voids above and below.
-Normally concentric and symmetrical orgianizations are loose and ad hoc
instead.
What we end up with is three model variations with overlapping layers of the circus
tents, silos and warehouses in stout towers.

Paul Andersen