Dustin White | Visiting Assistant Professor

EXERCISE | 05 TOLL BOOTH

ARCH 3501 : Architecture Design Studio 4 _ Fall 2011

Digital Site Model

Import your site plans into rhino.

Begin to construct a sectional slice of the site within the range of 50’x 350’. These values can vary based on your individual schemes, such as someone who is dealing with the water.

It is OK that the site drawing extend off the limits of the sec-tional slice. This allows a site reference for you at all times, and can easily be trimmed later. The drawing also provides a guide for lane dimension, and in-between lane curbs.

You may also want to import your diagram as well.

Be sure to work in layers.

Digital Massing

Begin to convert your physical massing models to the digital model. This is the second pass in the massing iteration pro-cess. Produce 3 itterations, think about how you do this, do not make 3 new schemes, but keep what is interesting and test other ideas. Do not just make a replicas, rather continue to develop your designs. Really begin to think about major structural points such as; How you attach to the ground. Begin to think of this not as a an extruded rectangular bar, but as a series of layers; foundation, columns, program, long span structure. Begin to con-sider the thickness of the lang span structure. Is it super thin, or does it have a deep poche? Does it have embedded program and circulation, that has a deep thickness with a thin canopy layer on top.

Begin to think about the span distance in both directions. In the short section do you need only one Column or maybe 2? In the long section do you try to have as minimal amount of columns as you can, or do you have them at every lane. How does the booth inte-grate into the system.

It is important to begin to make these decisions, because it will make it easier when you begin to adapt your structural system to the massing.

Construct these models not as extrusions but as planes and sur-faces. Each iteration that you make you should be refining and adding new information. Focus on having a tight system. At this point the program arrangement needs to make sense, always put yourself in your arrangement and ask yourself if it makes sense.

Begin to research possible structural systems which can adapt to your massing. Remember your concepts and do not deviate from them. Critical thinking is a must. You have to evaluate and edit your work. Be sure your diagram is influencing the massing and vise versa.

Digital Massing

Print |

Take screen captures in plan view and in axonometric views.

8.5 x 11

Do not produce renderings of these.

Images by: Morphosis

By Friday |

You will have a set idea of the structural system, design concept, and program layout.

Bottom Image: Caltrans