Final Project – Mixed Use Building + Waterfront Park
Project Duration: Five Weeks
Description:
The main project consists of designing a mix used building (Residential / Commercial) next to the United Nations. The site is located in front of the FDR Drive and offer amazing views towards the east river. Your design must address a connection to the existing context, as well as connecting to the water.
Mixed-use building considerations:
- Internal Functional Layout
- Entrance / Exit Locations
- Fire stairs and Elevator Cores
- Loading Dock Location
- Traffic / Pedestrian Circulation
- Maximize Visibility and Openness
- Creating a Pedestrian Friendly Environment
- Investigate the building relation to the site
- How do you access your building?
- What are the design opportunities and challenges of the site?
- What are the zoning requirements of your site?
- Consider how to access the building by public transportation, car parking and walking
- How can the site be connected to the waterfront?
- How will you take the best advantages of the views?
- What are the structural Challenges?
- What are the appropriate materials, textures and colors?
- What is the character of the site on each side of your project?
- What special activities occur on and around the site?
- How can you deal with noise issues of passing traffic?
Design VII Final Requirements
Diagrams:
- Circulation
- Massing
- Green spaces
- Transportation
- Design process
- Program
- Sun path
- Structure
- Noise levels
- Materials
- Views
Renderings:
- Eye level renderings in important areas
- Plaza
- Street view
- Lobby
- Bridge
- Interior spaces
- A/C subway
- Aerial view
Drawings:
- Ground level
- Plaza level
- Typical commercial
- Typical residential
- Typical Hotel
- Site plan
- Roof plan
- Two sections
- Two elevations
Animations:
- Lumion Animation – 1 minute –
Museum Quality Model: 1/16”
- Context
- Floor plates
- Cores
- Skin, plexiglass, laser cut texture
- Trees, baby’s breath
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