Major Assignment - Warehouse Design Update

After meeting up with my partner Chris Tang we got a few sketches together about how we want the office and warehouse to look. We have settled on a gird kind of design with will be carried through on the warhouse with columns with engaged wall panels. Below are some pictures which we have used for inspiration:

Tadao Ando, Art Gallery Complex, Tokyo design, 1977

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Tadao Ando, Onishi house, Osaka, 1979
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Tadao Ando, Matsumoto House, Wakayama, 1979-80
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Tadao Ando, Fuku House, Wakayama, 1979-80
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Plan showing a wall extending out from office block to wrap around car park. Also shows a curved wall in the office block with a stairway following and piercing through this wall to the first floor. These kind of details are typical of Tadao Ando. (see images above)

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Perspective showing how the office block will be a grid

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Elevation of the office block

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How the warehouse might be put together. Obviously the columns will be repeated either site. I imagine the columns will be engaged with the wall.


This Thursday Chris and I plan to talk to our tutor Stuart about exactly how we can connect the roof to the warehouse, weather we have to use all concrete or perhaps a steel portal frame roof? Also I need some help understanding how the office grid will work in pre cast concrete, or should we design in situ concrete as Ando would have done. I'm pretty sure that pre cast panels could be made to have the form work tie dots that Ando uses as architectural detail.