Architectural Design 5: Fluid Architecture : The next step

So after the form of my building was confirmed, the next step is how to make it function as a building. I have worked out the areas allocated for different spaces. But these spaces need to be broken down to functional spaces.

My building consists of two floors. The lower floor consists of commercial spaces, community spaces and the outdoor spaces.

As for the function of spaces, I was thinking that the commercial space can be a shopping complex. The shopping complex is going to be in two floors.

Hence the spaces can be further divided into spaces for small shops, an escalator or stairs to access to other floors, and a small cafe'.

For the community space, I was thinking of creating a community club which can host many activities for families and people to come and spend some time togather. The lower floor can be used as a space to host games like, a pool club or a chess club. For the upper floor, I was thinking to convert it to a gallery space, where artists can come host exibitions.

As for the outdoor space, I want to create a small park where people who visit the building for either shopping or the gallery or the community clubs can take a small break. The outdoor space will be kind of facing the river so it would provide a better view.

So as for the form, I am trying to simplify the faces, as there are a bit of messy bits. I am working on the roof overhang above the outdoor area.

This is how it looked before.

This is how it looks after editing

You can see that the surface looks a bit clean now that the messy edges and faces has been deleted.

Overhang over the outdoor space without any supports

These are the two roofs that need supports to perform well structurally.

The next part of it was, that I was thinking how the form would act structurally, since there are a lot of roof overhangs. These over hangs need a column or maybe a tension cable for it as supports.

I did some research, and i found some ideas which can be similarly applied to my roof structure.

Here are some pictures.