Housing

FLW Quadrant Housing

Today

All,

Lets all meet at the beginning of studio – 2pm – to discuss the strategy of presentations, schedules and focus of work. Remember we have three weeks left. It’s definitely enough time so long as you focus your efforts and don’t get sidetracked.

Make sure your current drawings are printed and ready to review.

I was considering for the final review that everyone should start with a brief slideshow of their preliminary studies and then move into the final drawings. This may help to keep you more focused as you present your work. I just saw a presentation like this at Kent State and it was effective. Since you already have the books from last semester this shouldn’t be too difficult. Let me know your thoughts.

RC

Sections

New Scheme

Jorn Utzon - Houses in Fredensborg

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/denmark/fredensborg_houses.htm

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Carlos -take a look.


http://iwan.com/photo_LAMOTH_Los_Angeles_Museum_of_the_Holocaust_Hagy_Belzberg_Architect.php

baku olymic stadium

Ronny take a look at this stadium..



http://openbuildings.com/buildings/baku-olympic-stadium-profile-5569

Site Development 2

This scheme shows a squared-off version of the farmland which does not branch out. The Orange is public circ. and the Yellow shows mainly private.

I tried to move the branched-out land to the center of the development to see how it would come together.

I feel like this scheme shows the weave best so far. The Private circ. is direct while the public has to weave around the developments and land. Below is how it would look in a larger site.

Site Development

I have two strategies I put together as of now and working on a third................

This scheme shows clusters of four housing units being brought together. The pieces sticking out of the site can be turned in order to fit within many different shapes. The circulation paths for the residents are represented in yellow, which means that inhabitants can walk through other courtyards as a shortcut. The orange is public paths and forces people around the clusters.

This scheme shows multiple clusters of four being woven together to form an internal communal space with the land being taken away on the interior space would be moved to the exterior. These clusters within a cluster would contain 16 families.

Today

All,

We will not have studio today, but I expect you to use the time productively. On Friday - new drawings - plans and sections that respond to the comments at the review.

I think everyone is ready to start the final presentation. Its important to start outlining what you will need and when you will do it. There is not much time left, but its plenty of time if you make commitment to the work and make decisions now.

Its up to you now. I need to see determined drawings and models and need them asap.

I'll be around school today and will stop in the studio at 2 and again around 6.
Robert Cody

Weave Sketch

Pakistan Floods

From Jon Friedman

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/PakistanFloods/?src=eoa-features

Robert Cody

Shanghai Stadium

http://www.fussballtempel.net/afc/CHN/Shanghai.html

Passive Heating and Cooling/ Wall Type Diagram

Progress

All,

I think everyone is making good progress, however, I took a look at where the thesis studio was last year at this time and you all have some catching up to do. I'm glad we are having the review next week as it will give everyone the impetus to get complete set of thoughts out on the wall. For Friday let’s prepare a strategy and “assign” what is due for everyone. Most important is to have a complete “concept” model and then a set of drawings that outline all aspects of the project – site plan, floor plans, sections and 3d-view. I am certain we are all going to make it and now’s the time to really push the ideas forward. Some updates to the blog would be nice also.

http://codythesis0910.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-04-02T13%3A13%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=5

WORK IN PROGRESS

I have began a test model (scale 1: 400) which I feel is the one I should stick to for the final model as I tried other ones that seemed too big or too small to work on.

Dimensions of the model at this scale are around 4’ 6” by 4’ 8 which is still pretty big to carry to school regularly so I really don’t know what to do, for now I’ll try to document as much progress as I can and point out areas that I feel need to get fix or more work.

1. One problem that I see right away is that the soil is not as dramatic as I wanted, in fact it still looks very plain with the contours since they are only going one story height , this is the same problem at the area for public viewing. For this reason I think I should go back to the original idea of having the 1^st parking area at grade so that the soil can reach up to two stories high, only problem would be how to bring people from outside parking to stadium, but that can be solved with stairs. Then the pedestrian entrances would go back to be ramps that lead you in.

(contours on left represent 1 story , one on right 2 stories)

2. I had the chance to speak to prof. Friedman on Friday and I asked him for advice on the problem I have with the loads of the upper tiers, his suggestion was to spread out the structure a bit more so that each tier gets columns in the middle of them, his commet makes sense but, I kinda want to find an easier solution since moving the structure will interfere with the ramping system that’s already working properly. Im think about cross bracing them ….. but we’ll see

3. After these are solved I think I should move to the roof structure and make it one with the structure of the ramps. Designing these would take some time as they’ll be behaving differently depending on what quadrant they are .

mORE PICTURES

Siteplan in progress

Showing entrance to the site and the terrains nearby.



Showing how the riverside is used.



Upclose shot.