Today we developed the design to take the site into consideration. With two high peak mountains surrounding the building to the north, an endless ocean view to the east as well, our site has a serene, peaceful and contemplative mood that we want to take advantage of. This is also aided by the fact that we share the only immediately visible structure is another project's library that does lend itself to the overall atmosphere of the site.
Moon
So the view is one of the points on our list of priorities, however another point we wished to tackle was submerging our building and not ignore the contours of the land and the coastal bed.
From that state of thinking, instead of covering up the natural coastal slope we integrated it into our design with minimalistic stairs leading down to the bottom floor which is our newly established lobby. The sea bed would also be part of the floor on the lowest level. Changing the entrance area to the lowest submerged level of the building would also create a better sense of flow and direction as the users of the buildings would circulate naturally from bottom to top.
Lobby Entrance
Spiral staircase inside
We also experimented with the overall shape a lot more, including changing the amount of floors, level height, curvature, spacing between the buildings and the the shape of the floor plan.
Experimentation 1
Experimentation 2
Lastly my team member created large amounts of custom textures on Photoshop through the use of various effects and Offsetting the image to make it seamless so it would apply onto prims seamlessly. Here's an example of one of her many amazing works.
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