updated diagram

site analysis history

updated website diagram

Updated User relationship to Program and new user interface diagram

Bldg. Site Analysis Revision

revised website diagram

foot traffic / asseccibility diagram

plans & diagram (plans should be together but it couldn't upload as 1 board)

Diagram

Navigation & adjacencies sf diagram

simplified circulation diagram

Bldg Site Model Facades on Grand/Chrystie

This is the AutoCAD file for the bldgs along Grand/Chrystie, so if anyone working on the assemblage is ready to start in the morning without me they can.

THIS HAS NOT BEEN SCALED TO THE LASER CUTTER!

It is full scale. The proportions are from the rhino model and are in feet. It still needs to be scaled to 1/8".

http://www.mediafire.com/?i8vwx67my6xyqps

Interface/Water flow & Connective Programs/Materiality

Rep class @ 3 won't be here from 3~6 Tracy

Alex_Lee_Diagrams

site model

one of the buildings have entrances to the "cellar" or leads below street level. should i extend make that part too?

store fronts ~ to Gillian

http://www.nychinatown.org/storefronts/grand.html

if you need to ref for facades

Unfolded plans

The organizational diagrams describe (1) the collection, collision, dispersion, and control through the channeling of sound within the program of individual spaces, and (2) how the spaces organize themselves based off of a continuous central circulation with level changes. Potentially, these will be able to 'fold' into the multiple layers of the library. Following the rules set up in these diagrams, I am developing a series of plans able to describe the area taken up on the site, and more clearly show the vertical relations of program.

Justin

files for b1-2

http://www.mediafire.com/?6j9l9qjldyaqnyh

http://www.mediafire.com/?a53bl17cztu17n3

http://www.mediafire.com/?449sl8jawswd3m4

http://www.mediafire.com/?ytcefuf63hjq2f8

http://www.mediafire.com/?jujayd3paxdjrat

Site Analysis Booklet

I set up a basic template for y'all to follow on the site analysis drawings. This will really speed up the process of organizing the material and making sure there is a continuity between topics and pages. Do your best to follow the suggestions, unless the template completely disorganizes how your drawings should be working (possibly Tracy with historical significance research).

Let me know if something is not working or needs to be changed,

Justin

The template is uploaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/?jh44v1jqxzj4jdd

guided tour public library nyc

Dear class,

Last weekend I run into an interesting person, Andrew Blahnik, who is working at the public library of New York.

He works as a System Analyst of integrated library systems. For instance right now he is busy reorganizing the media system how a book gets to the user. You order it online, you select the library you want to pick it up, and it often turns out it gets lost on the way.

The even more interesting part is the fact his office is located at the Braille and talking book library. He was really interested in our design studio and is willing to give us a guided tour. He suggested we could have a look at a couple of different relevant locations of the public library, starting off at the Braille library on 6ave an 20^th street.

The exact program can of course be discussed, but I think one requirement is that the tour should fit it in one morning or afternoon.

This post is to see if you all would be interested and what would be the best time to go (of course also depending on his schedule) I was thinking about coming Friday afternoon, although that might be short term. I don’t know if he would be up for it during the weekends… But otherwise what about Monday or Tuesday morning?

Please let me know, so I can contact Andrew.

See you,

Mirte

10/14 Studio

Hey everyone,

Hope your work is going well. I've met with most of you, so I have a good idea as to where you guys should be in terms of the last few assignments. We're going to start class at 1 o'clock on Thursday and you should have whatever development you have made printed before class starts. If you have new diagrams or sections, you need to have them laid out on tabloid size plots.

As far as the site analysis and site model go, I'm expecting all the work to be delegated and started before class starts.

If you have any questions, I'm pretty quick to respond to mohammod.alam@gmail.com

Best,

Mohammod

May I use the hand?

I want to use the hand methods as the user interface instead of the box space with the handle-rail. May I do that? It's because I really want to work out the hand. Or is it really impossible for me to do time-wise?

Upcoming 1.5 Weeks

Everyone is in very good shape but the coming 2 weeks will require excellent time management, cooperation, and creativity.

What is important for the midterm is the following:

1) Site Analysis Book - Produce using Rhino, Illustrator, and Photoshop, and Compile in Indesign.  2 Bound copies will be handed out at Midterm.

2) Site Model  - Scale 1/8"=1'-0".  Be sure to design the model with cut out for models to rest below grade as all projects will include cellar spaces.

3) Project 1B - Organizational Strategies for Expanded Program.  This is the development of  information structures applied to the expanded program. Spreadsheets of full program will be required to do so (include descriptions and floor areas of each spaces with areas adding up to total permitted square footage)
For 1B you will present as per the assignment.
Note that developed plans, sections, and model will be required for one scheme only.
Second organizational strategy can be a diagrammatic plan and section.

4) Completed Precedent Analysis

Again, each of you has a firm grasp of the project and your work.  Be confident and productive.
Be thoughtful in how the site conditions influence the organization of views, entry, program deployment, internal circulation, etc.  Document all decisions, and incorporate the strategies into your plan diagrams.
1B should refine the user interface ideas of the research assemblage, and clarify how the web inspired navigation enhances the various user experiences.

Remember that the blends are important only insofar as they serve as a user interface - they shouldn't be gratuitous.

Keep up the excellent work, and do not put off 1B. Develop the diagrams and associated plans, sections, and models on a DAILY BASIS.  Post diagrams, renderings, sketches, plans, and models.... Keep me up to date on your insights, progress, and breakthroughs.

Photos of Last Years Site Model With Midterm Models

Diagram of Info

These are two diagrams of my info structure. Which one is clearer?

Group Roles

Managers
Mirte
Tracy

Leaders
Justin
Gillian

Bldg. Site Analysis Roles

Part One- due Thursday



Everyone- Required Reading- Luc Sante Low Life, "Part 1. Landscape: The Body, Home, Streets"



Alex- Light Analysis (seasonal and daylight, solar orientation) & Sightlines (various views throughout site)



Justin- Circulation Analysis & Infrastructure (sidewalks, subways, traffic, nodes of mass transportation, landmarks)



Gillian- Cultural Analysis & Typology (language, income, schools, demographics, political, public spaces, contemporary architecture, urban fabric)



Tracy- Historical Analysis (previous architecture, past demographics, political, neighborhood and regional history, public spaces, urban fabric)



Mirte- Park Analysis/System of Organization (circulation within the park too, landscape (grown v. built), public v. private) & Qualities (building and site materials, acoustic and environmental properties, problems and opportunities, secure v. insecure zones, note site areas that may be preferable to different age groups)



Han & Cheng- Topography (bldgs. and the land, landscape (grown v. built), property ownership, private v. public, contemporary architecture, neighborhood/regional history)) & Zoning (residential, commericial, institutional, cultural, set backs, air rights, zoning restrictions)

Conventional Library

I am very concerned over the comment that my Language Learning Library is too conventional or even worse than a conventional language learning center.

I am having trouble in making my library not conventional and better than a conventional library. That is because I think that to learn a language, you need to have someone there because they have experience with the usage of the language.

What Chei-Wei said about allowing the user to input materials/content in the library is a nice idea because that is what my website is about. This would also reinforce my argument that the teacher/student relationship are intertwined and become one another.

But even if I add that into the library, there will always be a student-teacher relationship (one knows something that the other doesn't and would therefore have to teach). If that is so, then how can I make my spaces unconventional? I thought about this over and over and I can't think of any. I thought of some but that contradicts my belief that you need another person to interact with to learn a language.

Any ideas?

diagram plan

Library Structures Lecture

Attendance is Mandatory

Monday, October 11th
1:00pm-2:00pm
Higgins Hall Auditorium

ARCH 201 Lecture: Robert Otani

Good Article on Building as Interface

Mohammod Alam emailed this to me after the review.  Have a look - it is relevant for our interface work.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/10/design-within-reach/8220/