spatial reasoning part_one

i have come to a conclusion on which site i will be working with the remainder of the semester; 87 north 4th street, between wythe avenue and berry street, williamsburg brooklyn. i call it the sliver site! during the post billyburg thought process the studio began the energy draws. a new way of reading the site and its surroundings; we are producing and establishing our stance on the situation, while developing our concepts and understanding of infrastructure.

the initial jump was an ambitious one. i began focusing solely on my site, although with strong intentions of then backtracking and relating it to its context. my mission for the energy draw is to focus on spaces created, so i began spatial diagramming.

what is presented below are the first three attempts to break my sliver site into separate spaces with the program in mind of an art gallery, music venue, and film center. its small, its intimate, its for those who are interested in whats happening, they want to be there.

the "third" is strongly present in these first three trials, in both a rhythmic and programmatic sense, but the problem remains: i need to focus on its relationship to the whole block and develop an"architectural sneeze." understanding the entire context will allow me to create more of a formal language and comprehension of my manipulations to the spaces created. i am in the process now of developing a new drawing, one to speak to the immediate context, a warehouse, a condo, an independent business and the sliver. a relationship between all of them and to the current situation will be addressed and established in due time, but for now, its a slow investigation into the unknown.