Our new project is taking form, and it is exciting to watch it grow.

The project was to take ideas and strategies from our previous studies and use those to design a masonry wall. We are taking the ideas of "danger zones" and involving them in our studies. Looking at light specifically, we studied light and shadow on the site. Considering these two options, light and dark, as environmental "extremes" or "dangers", one study of our project is creating a wall that allows light to get through, and to shut light out.

Interestingly, it is not only the wall that facilitates this passage of light and creation of dark, but the structures themselves. With a module form, our brick walls and larger-scale modules take on the same form on a basic level. Just as the brick forms the wall, the module forms the structure. In our project however, the brick forms the wall that forms the modules that form the structure. Using standardized geometries to create unique programmatic arrangements is another challenge.

How do we decide the arrangement of the walls? Of the modules?
Looking at the site itself, identifying the danger zones, we can look at what potential each DZ has progamatically. Darker areas may be good for rest, for growing crops that don't require much sunlight, for monastery cloisters, etc. Lighter areas are better for solar panels, plant life, and everyday living. Perhaps a majority of passages could be exposed to natural light while the darker areas in our module wall could house the biotech labs/monastery cells? Perhaps the eco-resort is in both danger zones - half light and half dark.