making the layers of the section more continuous (the floor- with the facade-spaces)
the outer facade becomes ornamented as well; for structural reasons and to create openings;

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on earth i can use the landscape as outside elements
but in space there has to be an atmospheric hull around it.
the question is: where is the borders between inside, outside and outer space
on earth the question of facade rises since right now the ramping elements generate a kind of facade in the distance that is on multiple levels in different distances. but where is the actual climatic hull? is the spaces only glass boxes placed inbetween the structure?
possibilities of creating volume:
- cover the whole structure in a glass box
- span material inbetween layers
- thicken up the pattern to tubes (looses the visual effect)
- start generating a secondary pattern as facade element

whole structure covered

thoughts about color coding/ color gradient between inhabited area as inside space and parts that generate view (and landscape)

thickened up pattern to tubes: question of facade....
i would like to deal with the ambiguity of the floor and facade in the scale of the whole structure since the floor becomes facade in the distance
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trying with textured elements


trying to make the pattern 3d
always the question of how to enclose space

with this 3d tests I tried to get away from the high complexity of the pattern and start thinking about the 3d properties of the whole thing...
the pattern is very much about ramping because ramps generate framed views when looking from a space underneath through the ramps
but where does the interiour space end when the environment becomes the facade?
should the project only be about creating an environment since in space there is no real environment that has a perceptable distance?
how huge could the structure become when it is only environment?
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showing the layered view to the top

thinking about the facade as outer layer that would start folding around the volumes; the big question would then be: how does the landscape get enclosed to the sides? transparent material???
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