Design Proposal - Final Iteration Drawings
Design Proposal - Final Iteration Drawings
Building Typologies Analysis
Building Typologies Analysis How do we further analyze projects to help achieve a better understanding to what is necessary for my project. Now that we have an understanding to what I want to design on Anchorage Plaza, the next phase of analysis is learning more information about other sites and projects. In this case I decided to pick out three different projects. Each one of them signifies one specific building typology so that it can give a better insight at how I can incorporate all three typologies into my design further along the way. With that, let me show you what I've analyzed and help you understand as well how I broke down these projects. First Project - Typology (Outdoor/Hospitality) - Mercado Roma Second Project - Typology (Educational) - Institute for the Culinary Arts Third Project - Typology (Hospitality) - Cheering Restaurant
Hello Andres! Seeing your building was a pleasant surprise! From the very beginning you chose to work with organic, unconventional forms and I found this admirable. I must say that I like the clarity and honesty in your resulting form as I see it on your site plan. On the other hand, what I see in the floor plans tells me that you are not yet in "full control" of them and that there are still some issues to resolve. Please see comments below for each floor level.
ReplyDeleteFloor 1: Your entrance is well located on Washington street and once inside the building, one can move on to the market under the bridge (no. 13). The experience of this pathway could have been smoother if the circulation core was not in the middle of it. Also, the way your building is shaped creates an interesting outdoor space between the bridge and itself, but by locating the mechanical and trash disposal rooms where you did, you are not taking full advantage of the opportunities you have created in the first place. It would be interesting to see you trying to resolve such issues by taking the connection between your indoor & outdoor spaces at the next level. Kitchen and storage at this level seem to be very small.
Floor 2: It seems that this floor plan is still unresolved. Please note that acute angles are hard to use.
Floor 3 & 4: Again, your circulation core seems to be in the way of everything. One would expect to exit from the elevator into a lobby / waiting area and not the sushi bar. Also, the connection between the kitchen (no.4) and the BBQ / dining area (no. 7) is difficult. Other than that, one question that remains unanswered for me is what would make someone to come and eat here (other than the great food of course)? Personally I would be curious to know know what the views are from these 2 levels.
The outdoor spaces and "green" roofs shown in your renderings and that are apparently accessible to people, seem like a great feature. You could have talked a little more about these. Other than that, for such a project you would normally need different kinds of storage and preparation areas as well as a service elevator connecting all different levels. You would also need to resolve parking and provide a fire escape. Your renderings are nice and explain adequately the parts of the building shown in them. The weaknesses that appear in your floor plans can be easily resolved without affecting the strength and clarity of your design concept. A very good effort overall. Well done!
Andres, no doubdt that your style is very artistic. You never would have problems with impressing people with your artistic skills. It is evident. Now, on this stage of your professional development, my advice is to stop to care about the shapes and pay 100% attention to the function. Let me not sound discouraging but for example the kitchen can't function this way. YOu should follow the principle of the clean and the dirty paths.Also its size is amazingly small. It should be calculated before you started to project. I don't believe that in USA there are not such instructions.They exist everywhere. All the remarks of Phanos are true. I had seen the same problems in your final panels before reading his opinion. Let me say another information that could be useful for you. In the factories producing food, and also in some rooms in the hospitals that need to be extremly clean, there are not corners, they especially are filled in for easier cleaning. But you designed everywhere sharp corners ! Make in your home a model of the same corners by moving any furniture one to another and try to clean between them :) . Generally, my advice is, if your dream is to become a famous architect, begin with not so ambitious shapes, that would create you so many functional problems. After having the good functional solution, you could envelope it by whatever shape.
ReplyDeleteHi Andres,
ReplyDeleteMany congratulations on a successful semester with very compelling work. Your final presentation is clear and as an overall you managed to create a very expressive envelope well tied to the context.
A few areas for improvement:
1. Further iterative and trial and error processes during the design conception, actualization and representation process are highly recommended. Iteration will help you thoroughly understand and test the design system explored and rethink preconceived ideas about a very formal design approach.
2. I also recommend that you constantly reflect on the progress and be prepared to go back when necessary. Your project's design process was linear from a point onwards but I think there are creative opportunities to constantly inform the massing based on the programmatic, context/site and environmental needs.
3. Physical models and drawings are both means of final representation of the projects but most importantly thinking, search and discovery domains necessary during the development of a design problem.I would encourage you to always come up with a series of study models generated in parallel to digital 3d modelling, drawing, sketching, researching. That said, diagram the ideas both with illustrated line-drawings and small scale physical models exploring one language each.
4. It is important to fluently work in both orthographic drawings and 3d models (physical and digital) simultaneously so you can evaluate each decision both in plan and section as well as three-dimensionally. The search in section "suffered" the most throughout your process.
Overall, really great work.
Have a wonderful, well deserved break!