Inside or outside the box? I touched briefly on this in PART 2.
But here's a more concrete example:
Meeting rooms. A room where meetings may be held. This is your box. This is your so-to-say constraint. What's the way around it? Besides site planning, how do we make this meeting room unique? In the PV WRF, LEA designed the meeting rooms to have screen doors. This way, when the days are nice, why not bring your meetings outside?
What about the sun rays? Well actually, the perforated metal ceiling sheets make their way outside as well. This tries to integrate the interior design with the exterior design, allowing a natural flow to occur. The perforated sheets extend for a bit, until then they are replaced with a trellis.
This shade structure on top is a trellis...I'm certain of just how old this photograph is, as the trellis when I saw it was definitely not blue. I think it was a sandy color, matching the building... Anyhow: Do you remember my post dedicated to chameleons? I'm guessing we have a Pascal right here!
The client wanted this new expansion to fit in with the existing structures, and now it does through many elements. You have the continuation of the trellis from the ramada in the park, you have the continuation of the split brick walls from the other structures. And, probably others that I am not aware about yet!
The 'box' given isn't the constraining factor a client imposes upon you, it is rather level 1 of where the fun begins.
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