Paul O'Brien
This isometric view shows a spherical room centered inside of a cuboidal exterior, with 3 round windows, and two rectangular prismatic rear access points. At the entry, a large semi cylinder cut out, with the flat edge towards the grade, perpendicularly intersects exterior cuboidal front face, and the periphery of the interior centered spherical room. On the opposite side, is one of the three round windows made by the intersection of the centered spherical room and centered on cuboidal exterior face. The left and right sides of the massing are symmetrical, presenting the remaining two centered round windows, resulting from the intersection of the centered spherical room and the adjacent cuboidal exterior faces. Additionally, there are two access points made by a rectangular prism that intersects the entire cuboidal exterior and the centered spherical room, found about mid height and to the furthest third of the massing from the front.
This series of sketches show apertures in various relationships to a series of geometric shapes.
- Top Left: A 4-sided pyramid transecting a cylinder in its center and bi-directional semi-cylinders at its base.
- Top Center: A cone is intersected at the midpoint X and Y axis, by perpendicularly intersecting cylinders.
- Top Right: A 4-sided Pyramid contains a cube in its center that is intersected by two cylinders. One is perpendicular to the exterior elevation face, and the other at rough 45 degree angle and parallel to the elevation face.
- Bottom Left: Large Cylinder on its side with a cube intersecting its face with a rectangular prism parallel to the exterior face and grade, and a spheroid intersecting the cylinder and cube.
- Bottom Middle: Elevated Cone with a triangular trapezohedron, semi-circle, and a cylinder intersecting each other.
- Bottom Right: Cube containing the intersections of a spheroid, cylinder, and a rectangular prism.
This elevation view shows the entry point with the main space just beyond and a window to the rear. The spheroid intersects the rectangular prism hosting the bilateral rear access points. The dashed lines outline the volume of the interior spaces.
This series of sketches show various relationships of the interior volumes in a series of geometric shapes.
- Top Left: A 4-sided pyramid transecting a cylinder in its center and at its base.
- Top Center: A cone is intersected at the midpoint X and Y axis, by perpendicularly intersecting cylinders.
- Top Right: A 4-sided Pyramid contains a cube in its center that is intersected by a cylinder at rough 45-degree angle and parallel to the elevation face.
- Middle Left: Large Cylinder on its side, intersected at its center by cube, with a rectangular prism parallel at the grade, and a spheroid intersecting the cylinder and cube at the top.
- Middle Center: Elevated Cone with a triangular trapezohedron, semi-circle, and a cylinder intersecting each other.
- Middle Right: Cube containing the intersections of a spheroid and a rectangular prism.
- Bottom Center: Left side Section of the chosen geometric shape.
This section cuts through the center, exposing volumes and depth of the spheroid intersections; paired with the cylinder void at the entry and rectangular prism at the rear creating the entry and access points.