ANSWERS: Project No.10: San Pedro Skate Park Pavilion - Notes

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