Concept sketches for Stradivari and Kimura

Resolving the connection between Stradivari's above ground, lily-pad like structure and Kimura's bat-cave-esque subterranean workshop has presented a significant challenge.

I have been thinking about the concept that the "flute" leading upwards to Stradivari's studio exists in a state of tension. That is to say the "pad" shapes studio atop the flute stem is somehow pulling the structure up, similar to the way a lily pad is buoyant and keeps it's stem in a state of tension.

Inversely, Kimura's underground workshop is suspended from the Datum, hanging within the cavern globe.

I like the idea that the datum represents a point of anchor for the opposite structures. Stradivari's studio "pulling" up and Kimura's workshop "hanging" down from a central coordinate at the datum.