Need some sort of area for storage and areas for delivers
The McLaren Technology Centre is the headquarters of the McLaren Technology Group Ltd and all of its companies, located on a 500,000 m² site in Woking, Surrey, England. The complex consists of four buildings two of which are open. The main building is the McLaren Technology Centre (Home of McLaren Group), The McLaren Production Centre (Home of McLaren Automotive), the McLaren-GSK Centre for Applied Performance (Home of McLaren-GSK Parthership- due to open in late 2015) and the fourth building is the McLaren Centre for Applied Technologies (Home of McLaren Applied technology) The main headquarters building is a large, roughly semi-circular, glass-walled building, designed by the architect Norman Foster and his company, Foster and Partners. The building was short-listed for the 2005 Stirling Prize.
The reason why I researched Corbusier is because the use of his 5 points of architecture. Mainly to do with the use of piloti. I was looking at ways in which I can preserve the land and work around the tombstones and graves removing as little as possible. Another reason was because of the unique shapes and forms of his structures, such as the villa la savoye. Franco-Japanese architectural firm Ciel Rouge has completed the Villa Ronde project, a green roofed luxury residence nestled on the Japanese coast. The open-air circular design of the house helps protect it by deflecting the strong winds that are common in the area while providing natural ventilation and serves to cool the interior. I like the way that this building has been designed and that it fits into the surroundings. It is like a stone mountain with grass and greenery wrapping itself all over it climbing up it, as if it was like a mountain.
Underground StructuresI researched underground structures and buildings that are built into a hill, this was because of the idea of trying to preserve the 'landscape' which for me the catacombs are apart of moulded into the slope of the hill and look as if they have been there for many years. It fits into my clients brief as he is a man that likes being secluded and shut off from other people whilst at home and work. He is a very high tech man who likes to show off his work and assets. He like extravagant houses and is interested in modern designs. Smaller tightly compacted housesKenji Architectural Studio Architects: Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio Location: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Architect In Charge: Kenji Ido Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 94.46 sqm The house is designed for 4 members of a family with two kids. The building’s white box is completely different from the building of the neighborhood. It is the appearance which the cylindrical volume of the second floor rotated 14 degrees penetrates into the building. Box-shaped cantilevered stairs are floating in the void. SOHO + apartment by Schemata Architects – Tokyo, Japan built in a densely residential area in Nakano, Tokyo, is a small building of a SOHO and an apartment for rent. The front road is really narrow, but the next apartment has a big open space between the road and the building. In order to this situation, the facade of 63.02° is inclined 63.02 degrees toward the front road, so that a wide and deep view is acquired. From the large windows that are opened on the inclined facade, you can see neighbor’s cherry tree and the cityscape. Billboard Building by Klein Dytham Architecture – Tokyo, Japan Tokyo is filled with tiny buildings on awkward sites – what fellow Tokyo-based architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto has termed “pet architecture”. They are wedged onto tiny slivers of land left over from the slicing and dicing of land by urban planning and property development processes. This building is our very own example of pet architecture. Tower House by Atelier Bow-Wow – Tokyo, Japan LOCATION Shinagawa Tokyo Tokyo Metropolis Japan FLOOR AREA 65 m² (700 sq ft) ACCESSIBILITY Neither the exterior nor the interior can be viewed Integrating nature and buildingsThere are many methods of intergrating nature to a building these are some of the examples that I thought what sums up the relationship. The obvious methods above all show the use of grass and adding grass onto the structure either on it or on top of it to create a balance with nature. The connection here is that a larger amount of glass is used to create the connection not physically but mentally and emotionally as it gives the sense that you are at one with nature. The use of materials is another connection that can be made to nature as choosing the right material as having a brick building in the middle of a forest will not look as natural as a wooden building. The connection can be scuttle or there are ways of expressing it through shapes.
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