Inside Out

Yesterday I had mentioned that the best approach to start a design is to work from the larger picture to the details. But sometimes this approach is not a one-way street and requires a bit of a back and forth too. For one of our recent projects we worked from macro to micro. Ultimately we were happy with the end result for the spaces and interiors but the massing of the building wasn't working for us. After a while of spinning around the model on Sketchup (even the 3D model must've been dizzy the end of it), we realized that the solution didn't lie on the outside. Things started coming together when we started reworking the interior spaces, adding to them where needed, removing spaces where possible. Ultimately the exercise actually led to a better result in the massing. Thus, in this case the approach of working inside out was what was needed in the end. The whole design process is perhaps an alternation between macro to micro and micro to macro!

-Mannat