Review Notes

Steven

Retreat – need better name

Who go’s here?

Space for therapist vs. community

5 studios – define indoe and outdoor uses

How are administrators involved?

Community gathers where? Inside and outside. How is café used?

Site and Views – water / earth / sky

Better definition of location. Zoom in to map. 1-regional, 2-township, 3-local, 4-specific site. Have these maps defined using the same graphics and text. (THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE)

Site Sections (THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE)

Precedent for program (not necessarly buildings). Demonstrate analysis through comparing precedent with your program – describe the differences.

Private vs Collective – Group Council vs. Private Council. What’s the big idea? How does this fit into your scheme? Your program? Your site planning? Your analysis?

Lines of site – the schemes

upper level elevated – what program? sky

Ground level – base / structured – in ground / earth

-- retreat within the retreat – how does this work???

Community of structures vs. isolation of structures.


Derek

3 - Program components

Dormitory
Clinic
Rehab

3 – Levels of habitation

Homeless
Halfway House
Mental Clinic

3 – Stages of Collection / Correction / Rehabilitation

Free
Controlled
Closed

3 – Layers of Public Access (do each of the zones have 3 – layers)

Public Zone
Semi-Public Zone
Private Zone

Define public and private domains. How do the residents use the facility? Connect to the hospital? Interact with the public?

Why are they here in this place? Describe history of the island – of this place. Divine the characteristics.

Build a model that depicts the concept – the real and the idea. The existing ruin cannot be depicted as a solid – it’s a shell!

What is the rehabilitation of this structure and why is it needed in your project. What’s the reference – the reverence?

Dennis

Scale issues must be resolved. Size of program vs. site.

Site plan! Critical!! Don’t be concerned so much about the “building” but do be concerned about its placement! This is a planning project – the community is the plan. You are the planner – the architect.

Develop – the field of the whole site as the field of the project. Include buildings, roads, park, town center, fields, walkways…

Placement of the High School is important. Develop a few strategies for how the assembly of the site plan makes a community – a community of buildings (shapes) within a field (space) how does the activity inbeteen the buildings and fields make places?

How does the community center mark a new center in the field – how does it actively and conceptually and visually reach out to the community, the park, the town center and the two schools – New High School and Old High School

Find some precedent for this type of development – start with Aalto – bring to class for discussion.


Stacy

Fix site plan to show sunrise highway (look at the design 5 projects downstairs)

This is a free clinic and wellness education center? Need a clear concise name.

For this week: describe the integrated idea of the building the way you describe the integrated program. Go beyond the traditional way of thinking.

Is it a free plan? What are the spatial implications of the pay-it-forward system?

What are the layers of the public space? Describe this in a spatial narrative. Walk us through the space as each of the users. Describe the open free space and closed inactive space.

I come to the clinic I go … meet the administrator then leave with instructions. I come back, I go … through the administrator to who? The nurse?? Do I then go back out or to the doctors? Or to the learning center? Repeat this for the doctors and administrators. Am I an administrator??

Maybe make a series of 3-d coded movement diagrams that tell the story.

Reformat your program diagrams to fit with the now refined ideas and into the site (village – again see Design 5 studies).

Jen

Develop the edge between the park and building and between the street and the market.

Investigate the project out of the site to be sure the chosen site works.

Nik had some good comments – perhaps he can comment to this post – as should all.

How do you minimize the program, but still have enough to administer the central market.

Are their many of these markets? How does it extend into the community both literally and conceptually?

Question again this site.


Nik

Radical Transparency

Study public space inside private building.

Inversion of public space inside the private space. Investigation of open space in the private domain.

Not many notes other than try to set up the entry spaces as voids along the main public circulation path. Can this outdoor space be at many levels creating entry points at multiple datum points?

Compress your research onto one board – set up categories and graphics.


Brian

Why the private seclusion?

What does this site have to do with the program?

How does the public enter?

Labs are vertical – residences are horizontal.

Sustainability – site / program / flow

Think (make) the program inverted.

What’s in the labs – relate this to location. What’s at the water?


Matt

Need better name – sustainability is obvious.

Define the program of the New Farmers Development Program graphically.

Montage program parts into the site. Find images that relate program and site.

Describe program elements and the material that might be related.

What’s in the ground – on the ground – above the ground? How is this part of the idea?

Make inventory sheets (like the truck) for each of the program parts. Winery – Storage – Maintenance – Classrooms – Market.

What is accessible to the public? How does the placement of public spaces relate to the market?