PHASE 5.1: WEDNESDAY DESK CRIT

MIXED USE DEVELOPMENTS

  • INTEGRATING THREE OR MORE USES INTO INE STRUCTURE
  • CREATING A GREATER HOUSING VARIETY & DENSITY
  • ASPECTS OF ENERY SUFFICIENCY & SUSTAINABILITY
  • FORMING A STRONG NEIGBERHOOD CHARACTER
  • INTEGRATION OF CITY SERVICES & CONNECTIVITY TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT
  • FLEXIBILTY TO ADAPT TO CHANGE

VERTICAL APPROACH: SINGLE-MULTY STORY BUILDING

HORIZONTAL APPROACH: FORMED AROUND AND OPEN SPACE (COURTYARD), SPREAD ACROOS A PLANE (X) IN DIFFERENT HORIZNTAL DIRECTIONS

TYPES OF MIXED-USE

RESIDENTIAL, RETAIL, PARKING, TRANSPORTATION, CULTURAL ENTERTAINMENT (DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE, ART), SOCIAL SERVICES, URBAN FARMING & GREENSPACE, ACTIVITY & HEALTH( FITNESS , ATHLETIC COURTS)

PRECEDENTS

FROM PHASE 1:

1. ALSO THE INTERSECTING OF PATHWAYS THROUGH SPACE

2/3. THE DIAGRAMMS SHOW THE LAYERING OF DIFFERENT FUNCTION AND SPACES

FROM PHASE 2:

MODELS EMPHASIS THE SHARED SPACE

  1. GATHERING GREEN SPACES INBETWEEN THE BUILDING MASSES
  2. LAYERING OF DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS
  3. WEAVING OF THE BUILDING MASSING CREATING INTERSECTING CIRCULATIONS PATHS

FROM PHASE 3:

  1. INTERSECTING CORRIDORS CONNECTING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CIRCULATION
  2. HORIZONTAL ARRANGEMENT OF STAPLES FORMING AREAS USED FOR SEATING AND CLIMING
  3. SMALL SHELTERS FORMNING A MASSING THAT PEOPLE CAN CIRCULE/ WEAVE AROUND

DIAGRAM EXAMPLES:

REPRESENTATION OF POSSIBLE ARRANGMENTS OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS WITHIN A DEVELOPMENT

CONSIDERATIONS

TREATMENT OF GROUNDFLOOR SPACE, PARTTIONS, ZONES, SITE CONSTRAINS, STRUCTUAL ELEMENSTS, ADAPTIVE, FLEXIBLE,

SHARED SPACE VERBS

  • OVERLAP
  • INTERSECT
  • MERGE
  • BLEND
  • MIX
  • WEAVE
  • BIND
  • GATHER
  • BUNDLE
  • LAMINATE

MIND MAPPING

NEIGBERHOOD INFLUENCE? CONTEXT

  • 1920s -30s ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT, JAZZ SCENE, OLD SCHOOL MOVIE HOUSES AND ART
  • PORT OF ENTRY FOR IMMIGRANTS
  • REDEVELOPMENT OF THE NEIGBERHOOD IN THE PRESENT
  • CLOSE TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, MOST PEOPLE USE CTA OR BUS, FOLLOWED BY CAR AND THAN WALKING AND BIKIKING
  • MANY HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
  • COMMERCIAL MAIN AXIS ALONG BROADWAY
  • A LOT OF LOCAL RETAIL
  • MANY CULTURAL ART CENTERS, THEATRES AND OUTDOOR PARKS
  • BASIC NEED FACILITIES ARE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE
  • AMNY SCHOOL AND EDUCNTIONAL CENTERS, KINDERGARTDENS
  • MOST PEOPLE LIVNG IN THE AREA ARE BETWEEN 20-40
  • NEIGHBERHOOD IS DOMINATED BY A WHITE POPULATION, FLOOWED BY ASIAN, BLACK AND HISPANIC, OTHERS
  • OVERALL DID THE PROCENTGE OF THE WHITE POPPULATION GO DOWN
  • MANY NEW HIGH END DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE AREA

WHAT DO I WANT TO FACILITATE? PROGRAMS? ORGANISATION

WHO DOES IT SURVE? WHAT GHROUPS ARE COMING TOGETHER?

SCALE?

MY APPROACH TO SHARING

FORM & FUNCTION

MY IDEAS

  • VERTICAL APPROACH ( NARROW SITE), USE THE LENGHT OF THE SITE TO CREATE SHARED SPACE
  • TARGET THE AGE GROUP THAT HAS THE MAJORITY OR TARGET OTHER AGE GROUPS TO CREATE A PLACE FOR THEM WITHIN THE COMMUNTY
  • FIND A PROGRAM THAT CREATES A CONNECTION BETWEEN COMMUNITY, NEIGBERHOOD, CULTURE
  • A BUILDING THAT IS SUSTAINABLE IN FORM, FUNCTION MATERIAL
  • COMBINE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF SHARING: LAMINATE-WEAVE, INTERSECT-BUNDLE, MIX-MERGE …
  • GREEN SPACE … NOT A LOT OF GREEN IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SITE
  • EXISTING STRUCTURE?
  • WORK WITH VARYING HORIZONTAL PLANES
  • HOTEL- CONNECT WITH THE ENTERTAINMENT- OR HOSTEL TO ATTRACT YOUNG POPULATION, ARTISTS
  • EVENT-PLATFORM

DIAGRAMS

  1. LAMINATE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS TOGETHEER

One thought on “PHASE 5.1: WEDNESDAY DESK CRIT”

  1. Anna,
    There’s a lot here so I may be missing some key parts in this response. But taking this as brainstorming, my first thought is that for Friday you should revisit and take a first pass at editing and developing a few selected ideas. (You can always come back to find more.)
    I see that you’ve identified that Uptown is predominantly 20-40, more white than other, and that there are new buildings going in “high end” to me means targeting that same demographic although you could investigate that. So per your 2nd idea: do you want to also target this demographic or provide something for a different demographic of residents?
    As an aside, I’m not sure if a hostel or hotel would count as the shared program or a form of a residential program, but certainly interesting to discuss.
    I’m seeing two major thread in your choices of precedents:
    1. Star Apartments and the BIG/other program and stacking diagrams. I think you know and like Star Apartments so I’m leading with that idea, that there are different realms of public-ness and ways that program can be clustered in those realms. But also there are ways that programs can overlap beyond a grouping.
    2. The Highline (that’s a really informative diagram about circulation and gathering as a function of speed) and some of your investigations with staples, which to me are about movement through space and where you stop and where you keep going.
    My thought is to see if you can take both of these general precedent models and try to make a diagram for your building off of it.
    I also like the green and purple diagrams of what I’ll call sharing techniques. Even without having exactly identified your shred programs or even how your residential program works can you tke a couple of the sharing verbs you like best and draw larger and more complex diagrams? Use them to organize more programs- ie 10 residential units that are “woven” together (as opposed to laminated) and also a “large” and “small” shared program?
    You also mentioned sustainability, connecting neighborhood and culture. Does any of that suggest to you a certain approach to focusing on residents and shared program?

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