Peer Review 4 : Sharchitecture (Team 37)

        This is the second time we got an opportunity to review Sharchitecture. This time, they presented us with their progress of the two hotels and their outputs from the workshop “Between two floors”, better known as “The Stairs” workshop. The concepts of their two hotels, “woven” and “sail” were intriguing and they showed us successful models and drawings to support their concepts. The “woven”, which is the one in the city, had many pod like structures which comprised the different hotel units. The pods, especially in case of rooms, were at different ground levels, which is to give a sense of seclusion to the visitors of the hotel. The “sail” hotel, which is located at the island, seemed like, the structure was designed, after a good study on the movement of wind. Its semi dome like structures, were designed with an objective to give shelter to the visitors from the natural factors, mainly the wind.

          Coming to their stairs, we didn’t really have the chance to see their final CNC models, but, the Archi Cad models of both the stairs and their extracted drawings were very helpful in perceiving the ideas behind the development of the stairs.  It was interesting to see, in one of their drawings for the “sail” hotel, how they portrayed the movement of the wind through their structure, which gave us the sense of how the experience would be, if we were inside there. The idea behind the stairs of the city hotel, which were shown in abstracted drawings, were really interesting to look at. 

          They showed good team work in organizing and presenting their work. They showed us their blog, which was written in a well organized manner. There were several tags under each article, relating to the contents, which makes it much easier to find everything and move through the blog.

 Their blog address: http://sharchitecture2012.tumblr.com/