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.