1) Due Date
Your Skate Pavilion, located at the skating rink at San Pedro Springs Park will be due at the beginning of class on Jury day, 3:30pm December 6, 2010. Your jury will be located at: place to be determined. Your model is to have at least one stair at 6:12 and one ramp at 1:12 from the rink surface. Also required is at least one skate-able feature. Drawings: (1) floor plan and (1) section elevation. All drawings and models at ¼” = 1’-0” scale.
2) Overview of Skate Pavilion Model Components
Your Skate Pavilion model will be judged in the following areas:
· Use of museum board representing concrete and/or masonry construction and basswood representing metal construction and/or wood construction.
· Completeness and Cleanliness of your model.
· Straight and true quality of your model.
· How closely your model reflects a real building.
3) Model Cheat Sheet
· Concrete areas need to be the appropriate thickness: concrete walls 8” thick and floors 12” thick, these are minimums.
· Wood construction: walls 6” thick and floors 12” thick.
· All floor areas where pedestrians are expected to stand need to have appropriate guardrails and handrails shown:
· Guardrails are to be 3’-6” above floor, handrails 2’-10” above floor.
· Windows: to be shown as openings, no requirement to depict glass.
· Headroom – ceilings should be no lower than 7’-0”.
· Stairs and ramps to have landings.
4) Advice
Everyone in studio has the tools necessary to complete their Final Skate Pavilion Model but completion rests on more than tools and skill alone. Please consider the following points of recommendation:
· Budget at least two to three times more time for the overall construction of the final model than what you allocated for the Project No. 6 Final Volume model. This is a recommendation and should be looked at as a general statement and assumes that you have a completed study model. I would expect most to spend even more time than this.
· Strive for high quality standards and don’t settle for sloppy, dirty or crooked work.
· Start on your final model now, not later. The semester finish line is in sight but you have not crossed it, do not let up now! The semester can be lost in the last week.
5) Closing remark: it has been a joy helping you and thank you for letting me accompany you on your architectural career. I wish everyone the best in their future studies and on this Arch 1303 Final Skate Pavilion Project. “If architecture isn’t killing you, you’re not doing it right.” Zaha Hadid
Monday, December 6, 2010
ANSWERS: Project No.10: San Pedro Skate Park Pavilion
1) Background
Your Final Architectural Design 1 Studio Project will be a design problem on a specific site with a simple program. You will be applying all that you have learned this semester, specifically you’re: a) Volume Model, b) Span, and c) Architects Photomontage.
2) Overview
You are expected to site, locate a Pavilion, for a skateboard, roller blade and BMX bike recreational and competitive uses. The Pavilion is to be located on or at the edge of the existing concrete slab called the “Skating Rink” at the San Pedro Springs Park. For this project you will specifically need to address a) the pavilion location, b) approach, c) ramp and path configuration to and through pavilion, d) structure of the pavilion and cladding.
Through this project you will explore the main elements of a buildings circulation system as it responds to the human scale and it’s relationship to the buildings form and function.
3) Assignments
.1 Photo Body Montage
Photograph and scale your body in (3) three separate and different skateboarding/blading/ biking positions at ¼” = 1’-0” scale. At the same time you are to cut two vertical sections, one cross and one longitudinal, through your final Volume model. You will then combine the two, photomontage and drawings, exploring the potential spaces that result from the combination.
.2 Group Drafting and Model Site Exercise
a) Group 1- (assigned members) - you are to draft the site in plan and section at ¼” = 1’-0” scale.
b) Group 2 – (assigned members) – you are to then construct a base model at ¼” = 1’-0” scale. The model will be constructed of corrugate cardboard with a 3” deep base. The walkways and existing slab are to be represented and made out of chipboard.
.3 Sketches and Study Model
Study, through both sketches and preliminary models, your new building using the ¼” =1’-0” scale bodies to investigate the potential spatial relationships of the pavilion. This new building is to be intentionally and specifically sited on or at the edge of the slab carefully considering a vertical circulation element (ramp) into and through the pavilion.
4) Schedule for Final Project
Week Twelve - START FINAL PROJECT - ANALYSIS
11.08.10: Introduce Project No.10 – Final Project, Architect Influence, site analysis, Site Visit, bring volume model to next class
11.10.10: Assign / Lecture: section cuts with scaled figures, (3) building location studies, team site drawings on-going
11.12.10: Team Site Drawings Due; site analysis due and section cuts due, desk crit on (3) site location studies, assign first study model, lecture on stair, ramp and half pipes, bring volume model to class, last day to drop.
Week Thirteen – STUDY DRAWINGS AND MODELS
11.15.10: First pass at Study Model due - Desk crits, Team Study Model Due
11.17.10: Start study Pencil Drawings – plan and section / elev., study models on-going - desk crits
11.19.10: Study Pencil Drawings and Study model class pin-up
Week Fourteen – START FINAL DRAWINGS
11.22.10: Study Pencil drawings and study model due: Assign Final drawing format and final model materials
11.24.10: Final Drawing Desk Crits
11.26.10: College Closed
Week Fifteen - START FINAL MODEL
11.29.10: All Final Drawings Due (plan and section / elev.)
12.01.10: Final Model Desk crits
12.03.10: Final Model Desk crits - LAST CLASS OF FALL 2010
Finals Week - FINAL PROJECT JURY
12.06.10: Design 1 Final Review: 3:30 pm – 4:50 pm.
At 4:50 pm the Fall Arch Design 1 semester is concluded.
Your Final Architectural Design 1 Studio Project will be a design problem on a specific site with a simple program. You will be applying all that you have learned this semester, specifically you’re: a) Volume Model, b) Span, and c) Architects Photomontage.
2) Overview
You are expected to site, locate a Pavilion, for a skateboard, roller blade and BMX bike recreational and competitive uses. The Pavilion is to be located on or at the edge of the existing concrete slab called the “Skating Rink” at the San Pedro Springs Park. For this project you will specifically need to address a) the pavilion location, b) approach, c) ramp and path configuration to and through pavilion, d) structure of the pavilion and cladding.
Through this project you will explore the main elements of a buildings circulation system as it responds to the human scale and it’s relationship to the buildings form and function.
3) Assignments
.1 Photo Body Montage
Photograph and scale your body in (3) three separate and different skateboarding/blading/ biking positions at ¼” = 1’-0” scale. At the same time you are to cut two vertical sections, one cross and one longitudinal, through your final Volume model. You will then combine the two, photomontage and drawings, exploring the potential spaces that result from the combination.
.2 Group Drafting and Model Site Exercise
a) Group 1- (assigned members) - you are to draft the site in plan and section at ¼” = 1’-0” scale.
b) Group 2 – (assigned members) – you are to then construct a base model at ¼” = 1’-0” scale. The model will be constructed of corrugate cardboard with a 3” deep base. The walkways and existing slab are to be represented and made out of chipboard.
.3 Sketches and Study Model
Study, through both sketches and preliminary models, your new building using the ¼” =1’-0” scale bodies to investigate the potential spatial relationships of the pavilion. This new building is to be intentionally and specifically sited on or at the edge of the slab carefully considering a vertical circulation element (ramp) into and through the pavilion.
4) Schedule for Final Project
Week Twelve - START FINAL PROJECT - ANALYSIS
11.08.10: Introduce Project No.10 – Final Project, Architect Influence, site analysis, Site Visit, bring volume model to next class
11.10.10: Assign / Lecture: section cuts with scaled figures, (3) building location studies, team site drawings on-going
11.12.10: Team Site Drawings Due; site analysis due and section cuts due, desk crit on (3) site location studies, assign first study model, lecture on stair, ramp and half pipes, bring volume model to class, last day to drop.
Week Thirteen – STUDY DRAWINGS AND MODELS
11.15.10: First pass at Study Model due - Desk crits, Team Study Model Due
11.17.10: Start study Pencil Drawings – plan and section / elev., study models on-going - desk crits
11.19.10: Study Pencil Drawings and Study model class pin-up
Week Fourteen – START FINAL DRAWINGS
11.22.10: Study Pencil drawings and study model due: Assign Final drawing format and final model materials
11.24.10: Final Drawing Desk Crits
11.26.10: College Closed
Week Fifteen - START FINAL MODEL
11.29.10: All Final Drawings Due (plan and section / elev.)
12.01.10: Final Model Desk crits
12.03.10: Final Model Desk crits - LAST CLASS OF FALL 2010
Finals Week - FINAL PROJECT JURY
12.06.10: Design 1 Final Review: 3:30 pm – 4:50 pm.
At 4:50 pm the Fall Arch Design 1 semester is concluded.
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