This is my current concept for my below ground space. This is a view from above the ground line, as it protrudes from the ground and gives the appearance of a city that builds up in a convex way. The concept word was 'grime' which, to me, gives the idea of a dark, dirty city, not unlike Blade Runner's depiction of Los Angeles, so that was a major inspiration for the exterior. I'm unsure as to how much detail to put into each of the individual buildings, because at the moment it feels too bare but too much detail could be unnecessary.


This image shows the below ground space of the 'grime' building. Space is created by the downward extension of each of the individual components to create a concave ceiling, turning the outer components into walls and in the inner components into the ceiling. The intention is to have the gaps be composed of exposed earth, as I feel that connects again to the client's (Jeff Wright) product, as many of his motorcycles have exposed components rather than some sort of body on it.


These are the stairs I've designed to lead from the underground to the showroom. They're intended to run through a cavernous exposed earth stairwell, leading straight from on of the gaps between the workspace's elements.


This is my idea for Cafe Paci's above ground workspace, the concept word being 'grow', which is quite literally done here with uniformly growing pyramids leading into each other. It was initially made as a below ground space, hence the walls have no thickness, but in a lecture the other day I realised I'd like it more if the two spaces were swapped. I also thought it was getting needless tall, but then I realised the stairs have to lead down from somewhere, so it's approximately 30m tall. I'm having trouble with sketchup giving the walls thickness in an efficient way.
This is what it looks like from above. In the top right you can see where a hexagon is forming, this is basically where I got the rate of growth from, by extending each pyramid by the same amount. I'm still not 100% on the stairs for this building, I have a few ideas, but which way I go with it depends on where on the building and how I decide to implement them. Once I decide that I'll start modelling them.