This scheme keeps the residence at the front of the site to align with the facade line of the street. Within the residence I have placed a core on the west side to contain the service components, while allowing the stairs to wrap around it. The vertical circulation is integrated into the movement from space to space. I feel that it reveals the spaces as you move up and give each one significance. A comment was made at the review to re-evaluate the placement of this core and look at the impacts of rotating it to hide part of the sunken courtyard from view as one moves by on the street, allowing it to reveal itself as one moves further back into the site.The studio addition on the back of the house is beam and column construction, with glass block on the south wall and glass curtain walls on the other sides. The placement of the kiln has not yet been determined, but needs to happen soon. The kiln needs to have a relationship with the other sources of fire on the site not just axially but also in its material properties.
The next step is getting into larger scale drawings of 'hot spots' within the project where there is a direct meeting of the old and the new. 1"=1' drawings, and larger models to investigate the details that will take the project to the next level.
