ARCH 3612 Design VI Spring 2021

Continue to work on developing your sites without buildings – its time to finish these phase of work an move on……

• You need to do this in order to be ready to move on to develop your buildings and your apartment layouts.  Many of you are on the right track – keep on pushing yourself and you will be able to have a comprehensive site concept
• Each of the three categories are required –
  • Pinterest Research, Freehand Sketches, Rhino Model

• Again begin with Pinterest Research – find reference materials and make sure you have more than one pin in the following categories
  • Linear Parks  (this show your thinking on how you will treat the greenway)
  • Pedestrian and bike bridges (this shows how you are thinking of treating the cross over at atlantic)
  • Stepped Plazas (how you will navigate changes of grade on the site
  • Street Furniture (as an outdoor element)
  • Water  (as an outdoor element)
  • Other Outdoor activies (active and passive – that you may include in your site)
• Freehand sketches –
  • Again develop freehand sketches of your outdoor spaces – include people activity etc.
• Rhino Model
  • Intergrate your thinking into  your 3D Rhino base model
  • Select good views not just from above but streetlevel or greenway level

Screen Captures from todays class

Remember you have two main tasks:

• Continue development of your building massing
• Develop site concepts – 3 options – in Rhino model – without your buildings.

Continue to develop your overall concept- This includes your buildings and your site

Specifically for Tuesday we want you to concentrate on the site.

• Develop your site by itself – we want to see it in plan and from the corner of Atlantic and Columbia Street and at eye level…from different points.
• This can be done in Rhino or a physical model
• Include the bridge if you are planning on including it in your design
• When designing the site begin to label the areas – parking entrance, circulation – bicycle and pedestrian, playgrounds, courtyards, gardens, outdoor sitting areas, dog park, picnic areas, – look at the outdoor amenities from our precedent studies – the big chart.
• After designing options for the site / landscape design begin introducing your buildings.
• Buildings need to be 75′ wide (double loaded corridor) or 40′ (for single loaded)
• We do not want to see the lines of the BQE roadway or any of the offramp / onramps – this should be incorporated into your site design.

If you can visit the site it may help you understand it better…

Screen Captures from Todays Class

Continue to work on your physical hybrid model

• You will need to show both conepts for buildings and for outdoor spaces.
• Use two colors – one for outdoor (think green) and another for buildings.
• Create 75 foot strips – straight, curves, triangles, etc. – or 40 foot strip

After you have completed your physical model – continue developement in Rhino

• The Rhino model will ask you to think about slope and changes of grade
• The Rhino model will clearly show the entrance/exits to the BQE
• For now we will continue both a physical and a rhino model.

Presentation of your work:

• Include one plan and one 3d view of your physical model (same as isometric below)
• For your Rhino model include the following:
  • One isometric view from the North-West looking to the site (the corner of atlantic and Columbia)
  • One site plan – water is down
  • 3 Site Sections
    • One parallel to Columbia looking towards Hicks
    • One parallel to Congress looking towards Atlantic
    • One parallel to Atlantic looking towards Congress

Site inventory influences

• As an overlay on your site plan – identify site inventory influences to which you have responded.
• In particular you must determine how you are responding to the crossing of the greenway across Atlantic Avenue – (Bridge or no bridge? and how big?)
• For those you have ignored – you must be prepared to explain why?

• Finish a completed hybrid model – this should have the “greenway” and all 4 streets. IF you use 1″=100′ that is 4″ x 8″ (roughly)
• Your buildings should be no more than 75′ wide (or 3/4″ is using 1″=100′)
• Finish your precedent studies
• Finish all your concept models and photos.

Great day today! Thanks to everyone for all their hard work in class. The Miro board is growing with great examples of precedents and the beginnings of creative design processes.

Here is the link to Photopea – That Joel showed us.

Also under Resources for Students there are all the links for One to One help and workshops. Take advantage of these – especially since you are remote and can just listen and watch.

This is the MIRO tutorial about saving files for MIRO:

How to save drawing for MIRO

For Thursday –

• Finish your precedent studies (if you haven’t already)
• Complete the large chart of the best of the precedent studies
• Finish two collages – post on Miro
• Create 2 study models for each Collage – so 4 study models and post photos as noted on Miro template
• Bring to class – scrap materials for model making, scissors, tape, glue, string…. whatever you have AND a sheet of 8-1/2 x 11 with the site drawn out on it – see my diagram if you cannot print – 4″ x 8″ roughly with the BQP drawn on it. (Try your best to create a base to work on during class on Thursday) Everything will be done by hand and photographed.

This design studio is a Housing Studio – focusing on Affordable Housing with community and commercial support spaces integrated with the BQP – Greenway and outdoor open spaces. We will be only getting into detail of the individual units and a typical floor plate. The other buildings and spaces will be designed as massings. A lot of time during design will be spent on the overall design of the site and site plan design.

Group work:

All base maps showing proposed bubble diagrams and zoning should no longer show the BQE – but the BQP(greenway)

• Each team must produce two (2) base maps to work from. We do not want to see the lines of the BQE below. One is at grade and one is a top view.
• Finalize site bubble diagram locating possible locations for different uses. Relate these to adjacent uses.
• Develop a site strategy concept for the full site. (Can look at Ariel’s gif)  gifmaker.me
• Develop two site sections – this can come from the Rhino Model

Individual Work:

Precedent Studies: There are 3 different precedent studies – Housing – NYC, Housing International, and Urban Park. There is a MIRO board for this. There is a format to follow. Many of the requirements require diagrams of your own.

Example of circulation with nodes:

Additional Screen Captures from Today’s Class