Class 12 Agenda

Class Info

• Date: Tuesday, 5/3
• Meeting Info: Voorhees V-305

To-Do Before Class

• Finish your house section drawings
  • 3 plans
  • 1 section
  • 2 elevations
  • 1 extra section or 2 extra elevations for extra credit
• Urban Design Project
• Research your site
  • Understand the history of the site
    • Why was it built?
    • Who designed it?
    • What was there before?
  • Use Google Maps to understand the location and context
    • Where is it?
    • What’s around it?
• Visit your site
  • Observe and document the area (photos, sketches, notes)
    • Note that all photographs used in your presentation should be your own
    • Plans, diagrams, and historical images can be pulled from other sources
  • Pay close attention to the specific topics noted in the assignment (buildings, massing vs space, public spaces, infrastructure)
• Collect all of this information and begin to prepare your draft presentation for review next class

Topics

Urban Design

Activities

• Overview of Urban Design Project
  • Site assignments
• Battery Park City presentation
• Review presentation progress

To-Do After Class

• Finish urban design presentations and be ready to present next class