Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Week 3 - Plan, Layout, Volume

We established goals for the site, the program, the environmental impact. Let's start organizing the program on the site, determine the location of the individual program elements: elevation in the building (ground, middle, top), the relationship to the immediate site elements (train/highway, Boylston Street, Mass Ave, the neighboring building), relationships of the individual program elements to the public, et cetera.
Represent your program areas scaled in relation to the site, locate these elements on the site, extrude to realize the volume. Place this volume into the (electronic) site context or build a scale model from foam 1:20 to be placed in Eric's studio' base model.
Add the required 40 parking spaces into the mix. So far we encountered three solutions: utilitarian parking garage under the building 60' x 190', automated parking structure as a support for program elements and a parking area that becomes part of the public raum.

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