I showed lots of you ideas when we had desk crits today – here are some I grabbed to give you inspiration.
Attached are a couple of examples of drawings that show concept for larger urban housing projects.
Here is a good 2 bedroom layout and you can see how this could be a 1 bedroom and a 3 bedroom if you add another bedroom to the right side….
Presentation from your blog to include:
Rules
Site Section
Site Strategy Plan
Plot Plan – showing boundaries, dimensions, area and FAR
Housing Unit plans
Typical floor plates for housing including units and Egress (2 Fire stairs and Elevators)
Neighborhood Lot Layout- in-class exercise – plan/diagram
Massing – Physical model on a physical site model
David Kramer of Hudson Inc. Speaker
Posted to your Blog:
Precedent Studies
Rules with Diagrams
Site Plan showing all boundaries – and Area
Area calculations – buildable and open space
Site Sections
1 Bedroom and 2 Bedroom Layouts
Site Strategy Diagrams
Begin to work on location of exit stairs in your building massings
David Kramer will join our class 10/29 at 9:30-10:15. Please be on time and ready to listen and respond.
Attached is his companies website so that you can see the variety of projects that his firm does – both affordable housing and fair market housing, along with institutional buildings. His firm worked on the Cobble Hill Towers that are adjacent to our site –https://www.hudsoninc.com/projects/cobble-hill-towers/
Some of the questions I gave him are:
– how do you approach large scale projects – your team, working with Architects, variety of consultants….
-what is most difficult with regards to zoning when building a large scale project?
-what types of incentives have you use?
– what do you feel are important design strategies when building a large scale project that benefit the community and building occupants?
What other questions would you ask him?
I came across this old map before the BQE divided the neighborhood. Look how seamlessly the neighborhood was…..
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