The site is on W 36th street, just one block west of S Halsted, a vibrant semi commercial strip. There is a large recreational area, Donovan Park, just across the street of our site, which has baseball fields, a basketball court, and a playground. Our site isn’t surrounded by many tall buildings, so there is exceptional access to direct sunlight year round.
Site sections show the relationship of the different massing on the site and also the relationship of the different unit programs to one another.
One of the unique conditions that I’ve found about the circulation about the site was that it is much more accessible by public transportation. This is because of the network of one way streets that restrict mobility through the vehicular approach. The pedestrian approach has many options and every stop or node of access is no further than two blocks away.
The main focus of the variety of my three aggregations were to create a variety of communal spaces, both public and private, that aim at ease of accessibility to the public transit facilities around the site.
This series of axonometric renderings show the light studies of the different aggregations during the time of year where the condition is the worst. These renderings are taken at noon during the winter solstice.
Photographs I took of the different aggregations placed into the site model show the scale, sensation of approach, and perspective on the site.
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I guess the best criticism that I received during the midterm review was to try and understand the unit more and emphasis the programmatic importance of the “knuckle”, “bend”, or “collision” in my “L” shaped plan. Other than that, I feel as though I benefited from more general comments like trying to better the character of my drawings and have them relate to the content of my design.
Hathaway Section - Spring 2020 