After breaking the overall campus down by diagrams I have come to a better understanding of the possible sites. One thing that I noticed quickly was that Harvard's buildings are all on the same orthogonal grid except for the few that hold the road edge. I also noted the points where the circulation is compressed such as at building corner relations or adjacent buildings. This fragmentation caused by circulation dividing the buildings and open ground is depicted in the third diagram down. A quick attempt at inverse massing of the buildings was made as well, as a tool to understand the ground plane. I think developing the inverse massing diagram more could help in a further understanding of the idea that the buildings and objects on the circulation plane subconsciously guide you in getting to your destination. The fact that the mass of the building going into the earth instead of out of the earth opposes the safety issue in the traveling to a destination also adds a completely different feeling if you had to pass through one of the compressed circulation areas.
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| Constricted Circulation |
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| Fragmentation |
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scott... good start... there are some really good ideas/directions developing here... now, you really need to bring them all together. (note: the answer might not come at the first try...)... but, it seems to me that you need to find a strategy to bring all of the above diagrams together...
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