Indiviudal Design Sketches

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Top Left:

This was my last sketch I did before seeing the site. My last thoughts I was not very concern with exactly where buildings were placed, I actually found it very difficult and found making connections of how people traveled was important. I wanted to really think about the person walking home or to the grocery store. The visitor walking to the site. What did they want to see? what are the difference between the visitor and the resident. Connections became my focus.

Top Right:

This is the third sketch I had. I wanted to make sure that whatever buildings I had that I would be able to provide “shortcuts” and routes through the building. I didn’t want buildings to get in the way of hoe people move. The purple lines are minor streets and the pick are major. All building is connected to a minor street and all minor streets connect to the major. The green are pars & open space.

Bottom Left:

This is the second sketch and it connected to the third sketch. I wanted to continue the existing streets. Purple lines being minor or shortcut streets and pink being major streets connecting back to the grid.

Bottom Right:

My frist sketch. I wanted to connect the green open spaces to the current streets trying to attract people to the site.

Team Design Sketches: Progress Stage One

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Focusing on Key Elements of the Site

Top Left:

As a team we talked about what about the site and design interests us. We went discussed some ideas about the residential buildings that we may want to consider having either a low maintenance green roof which the families cannot use or a garden green roof allowing the families to grow their own food if they choose too. This is just one of the early ideas that will be further discussed.

Top Right:

Choosing where the “entrance” of the neighborhood would be located. We decided we didn’t like the word “entrance” we wanted to keep it apart of the community by following the grid of the streets. The yellow lines are the roads that do not disrupt the views looking towards the site. We find these streets very important because people like to look were they are going. Our “entry” will be located on those points. The ferry is also another entry point to the site. We decided to place the ferry on the right of site because we wanted parks along the water.

Bottom Left:

One of the idea we had was to have a canal through our site. This plan is actually three plans in one. The possibility of how far the canal show come to the site and the advantages and disadvantages of splitting the site into two is what is being discussed. The overall idea behind this plan is to have private and safety to those that live in the site while allowing the surrounding visitors to enjoy the site as well. Creating a balance and guiding visitors to enjoy the area and not feel like they are intruding.

Bottom Right:

Continuing the canal talk and suggesting if we do divide the site there should be connecting points like bridging. Deciding to walk over or walking along side the canal. Thinking about how would people move to and from the site. Moving from one canal to possibly multiple.


 Eliza Baraggan, Walkiria Cabrera, Isaias Garcia and Jennifer Valerio

Team Reflection_FD3

1. Scale

2. High Density

3. Accessibility

4.Resiliency

5. Environmental Health

* Farhana, Dominic, Danny, Daniel  *

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1. Scale

-Liveable, reasonable living spaces, solar access (sky exposure plane)

2. High Density

-Efficient use/organization of space, liveable, “good” relationship with commercial/residential/public spaces

3. Accessibility

4. Resiliency

-In regard to both Human and Environmental factors.

Human – Adaptability (ease of) to the environment/surroundings.

Environment – Flooding, Self-sustaining, resistance to weathering/human factor

5. Environmental Health

-In regard to both Human and Environmental factors.

Human- Access to fresh air, food, water, green space, sunlight, social interaction, safety/security

Environment- Sustainable building practices, clean energy,

‘Happy City’- Team Reflection

  1. Transportation – how to attract people to the site?

Happiness: Making the site a center for social interactions. The Journey of arriving to the site, for an new experience.

2.  To attract early families and young adult to live at the site.

Happiness: Making the site safe, having comfort and promote a healthy communities and families.

3.  Analyze and understand circulation and hierarchy of importance and relationships of uses.

Happiness: fulfill the peoples needs. Trying not to make things hard to get to and allowing the people to become self-sufficient.

4.  Easy circulation throughout the site for bicycles, cars and pedestrians

     Happiness: 

5.  Incorporating existing neighborhoods and buildings

6.  Keep the style and feel of Brooklyn and try not to modernize too much.

7.  Flood resilience and Storm awareness

8.  Provide a right ratio of commercial and public area with residential

 


Eliza Baraggan, Walkiria Cabrera, Isaias Garcia and Jennifer Valerio

Happy City Team Reflection

Infrastructure

This is a critical item that will be guiding our design mainly because the site is on a waterfront and will be the first to sustain damage from incoming storms.

The population will know they are safe which will give them a sense of security thus making them happy.

Accesibiility

The goal is to easily guide the inhabitants of our site through the created paths in the neighborhood by creating tighter shorter streets and encouraging bicycles usage and implementing a main road though the site.

The population will be more interactive and usage of bicycles and accessible walking paths will make the population healthier through daily exercise.

Green Spaces

we will be adding public green spaces and private green spaces to improve irrigation throughout the site.

This will allow for more clean breathable air, through recycling dirty air from the city to make it clean for the inhabitants.

Multi-Use buildings

A mix of usage in buildings to add variety and add to the neighborhood’s infrastructure.

The population will feel they have control over the neighborhood or community by implementing little family owned stores, and bringing people together.

Sustainabilty

Green roofs, reduced run off and water usage, improve irrigation, add sustainable practices.

Decreasing waste through constant recycling of food, energy and water for irrigation. Implementing affordable materials through the construction of the neighborhood to reduce living cost.

Gathering Space

Add Squares, Parks, community center, library art galleries and shops.

Make sure the community interacts with each other by implementing gathering space to welcome neighborhoods in the community to encourage the feeling of safety and togetherness. 

Hadiza D.  Horacio M.  Manu S.  Yuhui O.

Team A – Updated Principles

Old Principles

1. Energy efficient neighborhoods (Solar Panels, Wind Turbines)                    2. Green Roofs                                                                                                          3. Water Front Accessibility                                                                                    4. Easy flow circulation                                                                                            5. Resilience to flood                                                                                               6. Bioswales

New Principles

1) Resilience

(Human aspect) –  Creating a safe environment

(Architectural aspect) – Ability to accept and recover from floods.

2) Increased Interaction – Reducing the cultural barriers between races and increasing the socialization between all races.

3) Welcoming water into the site. – To increase the relationship between people and nature.

4) Easy Circulation – To create a free living environment. (Less cars, more walkways, more bikes.)

5) Energy Efficiency – (Bioswales, Green Roofs, Solar Panels.)

‘Happy City’ Personal Reflection- Jennifer Valerio

Free writing.

Happy. Happiness. It’s a common and foreign topic to me. I thought I knew what it is and what it means to me but the more I think about it the more I find I don’t know what it is. Is that strange? Did I not have the “right” influences to “teach” me what happiness is suppose to be or what it looks like? Or maybe that is the purpose. When you experience something for yourself it stays with you, like an imprint. Okay, this is starting to sound like a dairy lol. My five mins are almost up, but the ‘happy city’ can never exist. If we were all happy- happy would mean nothing therefore the concept to create an urban city for happiness is the same idea to try to find the meaning of life or what happens after death. Its just… too individual? I don’t know. : /

 

Personal Reflection on “Happy City”

When asked to free write about what is happiness, I initially thinks more individually, which are family, healthy, feeling, and personal activities. However, it change my intension about happiness after we read the book “Happy City” and had the conversation about happiness. I learned that what happiness means to the people who live in urban cities. Experiences and connections might be the main concerns to create happiness for people. Just because people will no longer live alone in urban cities. People meet others everyday and everywhere.  So how to absorb these critical principles into urban design to make a better neighborhood, including blocks, streets, parks, interactive space, will be the responsibilities for designers.