Drawings

The site drawing is ploted out at 1/32 scale. The next stage for this drawing will be to add walking paths, parking area, landscape, and textures of each surface. The plans are all done at 1/16 scale and show the window systems of the building and structure.

3d detailed model

This model portrays how the cool breezes move through he section of the building and how hot air is exhausted. It shows how all the systems work together to create a comfortable temperature throughout the year.

3/4 jury review

Present information in a clear and precise maner.
-Organization => create a grid and categorize everything

Enlarge and detailed drawings
-Highlight aspects
-Clearly labeled
-shrink site plan

Portray how sustainability is the heart of the building

Modeled details in section showing wind movement and sun angles

Exemplify technology better (also aesthetically pleasing and beautiful spaces)
-make computer model more lively and pleasing

Diagram program and groups
-overlay plan with site
-cast shadows
-how wind rose is integrated into the system
-visual aspects of space in winter, summer, spring and fall

Site sections

Development
-wind wall
-play with existing roof lines (melt together)
-how to get the most out of each drawing/model

Comments

The above picture is how the buildings sit on the site with the surrounding structures.

Comments:

-Stylize the passive and active buildings.

-Show how the educational building comes together.

--How they collide

--Details

-Create an attractive entrance

-Make the spaces have a warm quality (they look a little cold)

-Show sustainable stratagies for parking lot

-Begin to build a study model and show connection between spaces in educational builidng.

The Library

The library is an atrium space with the administration offices and storage room overlooking it from the second floor. Windows are located along the south and east sides with overhangs. This allows a lot of light into the area for easy reading and studying. This will also heat the space in the winter. The bookshelves are designed and aligned in a way to direct winds through this large space to help cool it in the summer. The area also holds a study area and glass interior walls to allow light to penetrate into other areas of the building. There is also a quick formz drawing of the layout for the bookshelves.

The roof of the exhibition galler is angles in ways to allow light into certain areas and to make use of the different angles of the sun as it moves across the sky. By lining the glass of the roof systems with photovoltaics, it is possible to allow light into the interior space while at the same time preventing overheating. The structure is of laminated beams to reinforce this idea of sustianable materials.

exhibition gallery

The images above are of the exhibition gallery located in the center of the educational building. There are several shops joined to it located along the souther side of the space. This allow people to view the exhibition while enjoying thier coffee. There is a water wall in the center of the room shaped in a way to direct winds and to allow for evaporative cooling while the wind moves across the form. The roof of this space is broken into several peices and angled in a way to take advantage of the path of the sun. Photovoltaics line the glass on the roof in a way to allow sunlight in while at the same time shading certain areas to prevent overheating. This space has mostly glass to make it as warm and lively as possible.

jury reactions

+What is the final product
+Make the building a wonderful and beautiful atmosphere
+sensative rendition
+Implement a Process
--Ideas about walking paths
--What makes people want to walk rather than drive
+HUMAN SCALE - Human exeltation
+Human experience- touchability
--adjust mentality to walk rather than drive
--Atraction to go to the building?

abstract

Sustainable ideas has become more popular these days in the media, but these ideas have not been adapted to the everyday suburban home. Not only have these homes and communities become environmentally un-sustainable, they have also caused the inhabitants to feel isolated which forces them to keep to their own lives. In these communities, the average working man goes to work early in the morning and works long hours to be able to afford the expensive car and the largest house possible. With a large house, he tends to spend most his time inside when he is not at work. This is mostly due because there is no sense of community even though he is surrounded by many other homes within a cul-de-sac. Therefore, there needs to be a change in the way people view their homes and community. People need to be able to interact and have a sense of a community to allow their town to thrive. By creating a center for the community to further their understanding of sustainable living, these communities can come together and change the future of housing developments and the environment.

1/4 Jury Reactions

+Document surrounding unsustainable developments around the site to further emphasize proposed idea.
+Begin to look at adaptation to existing homes.
-community center could resemble a sustainable house so people can understand the relationship to their own house.
-look at renee chow
+Restore function the the community.
-when towns where first built, they use to be sustainable as a community. since then they have become isolated and non-center oriented. I have to brign importance of community back and intervene to start a new heart.
-Find out how it functions
-create a sense of community