Final Building Design Development

The final design will use EXACTLY the same concept - surround light, memories, ghostly shadows, ect to remind us of lives lost and offer a humbling experience where we can understand our problems in light of larger ones. People visit this area to cleanse themselves, exercise, have some time to think in a peacful environment and can pool, sauna and learning facilities.

These are mock up floor plans of the basic first 2 levels.
The floor plan was to be orientated to specific views and this is how the outside of the building determined. This is so the building is not just plonked on the site but considers views to generate the architectural form. The architectural form also responds to the floor plan and the floor plan was to be fragmented - why?
It had to be fragmented for the following reasons:
1 to capture necessary views specific to the site
2. to allow light to filter in through the building, around the smaller pods and so that light could also weave through the bamboo and shine onto the cliff. (This bamboo in these plans has not been put in yet)
3. The plan and form was also to be fragmented like memories - memories are not perfect insights into what happened, they are a personal, emotional reflection on an event and that means that you usually only get a fragment of how the event actually was because everyones memories and experience differ -- therefore the floor plan was to continue reflecting the idea of memories.
4. The floor plan was to be "fragmented"or made up of smaller indiviudal elements after the base was established because it has to MIMIC a plant cell/a plant stem. This will add strength, use less materials, and allow us to use bamboo in an efficient way making it a sustainable structure.