Today we established our new team name, Portmanteau. Portmanteau simply means the joining of two words into one. For example, Brunch is a portmanteau formed by the words Breakfast and Lunch. We felt that portmanteau was an adequate team name, because it described the process of both teams merging both our differences and similarities into one new form.
After discussing the two different concepts of both teams previous projects, we realized many similarities that we can build upon. Team Trepide (which is Latin for, a state of confusion), was about dematerialization of mass. They used more dense materials at the base, and the materials began to decrease in both mass and transparency towards the top. This technique they used of using vertical height and materials to tell a story, was similarly a huge factor in our building. We used materials to distinguish function and form. The strong sense of verticality was seen everywhere in our building, with both the use of vertical beams, and the stacking of c-shaped structures on the facades.
How I envision the two buildings coming together is by drawing the important characteristics from each of the two buildings, and incorporating it into a new cohesive unit. We intend to do this by having the different floors of the building represent different scattered pieces, where at the bottom, they all come together and fit like a whole. Each floor will represent the gradual process of being lose, and then fitting together.
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