design foundation professor tango site analysis and context
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Design Foundation Professor Tango
Site Analysisand Context
bibliography
• Site Analysis / Edward T. White (recommended class text)
definition
context, contextual:
the whole situation, background or environment relevant to some event or product. In our case, the product is the building.
derivation of the word is to weave together
consequence triangle
wallsfloorsceilings structuremechanicallighting
owners workers
customersvisitorsrenters
maintenance
context
elements of context / site analysis
elements of context / site analysis
• location• contours• zoning• noise• traffic• utilities• drainage• neighborhood• pedestrians• demographics
• property shape
• property size
• setbacks
• easements
• climate
• views
• vegetation
• man-made features
hard datausually relates to physical site data which involves
no judgments
• site location
• dimensions
• contours
• on site features
• climate
• zoning
• vegetation
soft datasensory and human aspects of the site that usually
involve value judgments
• views from the site• views to the site• best approaches to the site• existence of odors• existence of noise• existence of human activity• type of neighborhood• demographics
elements of context / site analysis
Media: Thinking Paper
Format: Hand drawings / no instruments Equal size / scale base drawings of site
Color: Appropriate color to hierarchal element. General color uniformity across drawing set.
Lettering: Uniformity and hierarchy in lettering
Climate
Climate
Climate
Climate
Wind
Wind
Wind
Special Regional Conditions
Marilee Thomas of Beaver City, NE took this photograph of her daughter Audra about two miles from a Furnas County tornado in April 1989.
This photograph is from a special edition of NEBRASKAland Magazine, entitled "WEATHER AND CLIMATE OF NEBRASKA" published in January 1996 with content prepared by the UNL Geoscience Climatology faculty
and graduate students.
Sun
Website: http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/alt-az-us
Sun Altitude and Azimuth
Watt hours per sq. meter per day
Solar Resource for Flat Plate Solar Collectors
3d model of site analysis
3d model of site analysis + building
Library Site
Site
Base Model
l ibr ar y Design Foundation IV- DFN 2004 Spring Semester 2011 – Professor Tango
Project 2: Virginia - Highlands Neighborhood Branch Library Duration: 12 classes ____________________________________________________________________________________
Project Description During this project we will be working on specific weekly exercises in the design process. It is important to understand their relationship to one another pedagogically. 1. We begin with research collection and presentation, then move on to analysis of program and site. Program analysis will incorporate the design tools of matrix, bubble and zoning diagrams. Site analysis will rely on data collection and graphic representation of data collection. These two elements will provide the foundation for graphic reaction proposals. 2. Our understanding of the site program and cultural understanding of what the library represents will be used to generate a conceptual premise. This is a statement about what we believe this library project needs to be about. We will then attempt to model that concept. These models will emphasis the organizational, perceptual and symbolic characteristics of the concept in an attempt to metaphorically merge them into a design process. You may choose to represent your conceptual idea via an object or thing that best embodies your ideas about this library and then model that. Note that this “parti model” is not necessarily a modeling of an object but rather its organizational principles. 3. The next task is to ground our understanding of the concept, rational functional necessities, energy saving technologies, specific site conditions. and cultural understanding of building type. We will express this in schematic plans, massing and study models. 4. Schematic design is refined, moving into the phase of design development. This project will concentrate on several key factors in the design process. 1. The understanding of complex site constraints. In this instance understanding the necessity to modulate the various scales of urban fabric surrounding this site. 2. The creation of meaning in architecture through the integration of a concept that guides the
design process from beginning to end. 3. Formal and spatial ordering systems 4. The demonstration and application of various energy saving technologies seamlessly woven into the design. 5. The recognition of the significance of material selection and detail articulation that adds both meaning and quality into the design and construction. 6. Recognizing how a public building stands as a monument in a neighborhood without overpowering its neighbors. As with all projects in studio, process and continued design development will be very important to a successful outcome and grade. Abundance of hand sketches and quick study models is the minimum expectation and the building blocks that will result in an outstanding design solution.
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