Ok, so the 2nd challenge begins! I'm really looking forward to this and seeing what genius ideas people have locked up in their brains. And so begins my wife's 2nd challenge up putting up with me through this
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I've been thinking about this for a while now, but everything is still a little vague in my mind of what I want it to look like. I started a couple of sketches last night. Forgive me for my sloppy drawings, but I still think its the best way for me to get ideas started. I came up with a main shape for a building and then realized it looked a lot like FLW's Guggenheim museum. I don't mind though - mines going to be better than that
. The sketch with the tower & all the pods sort of resembles a tree with beehives or something like that. Is it practical, possible, or even a good design? I don't know, but I like it, so I'll probably try to use something like this as one of my main buildings.
The rest will probably be fairly simple, but strong & weighty. I would like to do some retail at the street level, with a bustle of activity with people & cars. I haven't started a master site plan yet, but I would like to do a shot from the center of it all in a park, or something nice, colorful & soft to counter balance the architecture. Borrowing a thought from CHG (travis) who borrowed a thought from Juan...something...I think it would be cool to have at least part of the park covered in shadow from the buildings behind to highlight the larger buildings, and allow for some interior lighting from the retail shops to show.
Anyways, still thoughts at this point...