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In developing the landscape concept of my design, I have again come to the question of how the building and landscape interact. Conceptually, the building and the greater landscape exist on a sort of continuum along the experiential trails that run through the site. The building represents the more structured, formal kind of learning environment, while […] […] To say the end of the term was extremely difficult for me would be a bit of an understatement. After presenting what I thought would be my final design, I got the more of the same critiques that I’ve been getting all term: I need to connect with the rest of the site; I need […] […] This week I looked into the site plan and tried to finalize it. I consider the green space on site is important. Within all the significant paths footprint, I choose the most visible line crossing from southwest to northeast and widen it, which create a green strip vertically to the main pedestrian axis from northwest […] The first thing of master plan is to decide what is important to the site. The diagram below shows what are the important alley ways before on the original site where the old housings form the street edges. As the pink lines are the most visible alleys before, they are significant circulation paths in the […] Building footprints, that is. Between my discussions with architects, landscape architects, and environmental scientists, there seem to be differences in belief of how the building footprint should be managed on a large site such as mine. Many architects would (and have) told me that I have plenty of room to spread my building out, that […] […] I recently met with Lori Hennings, Senior Natural Resource Scientist at Metro to talk about habitat restoration for my site. I was encouraged to find that my concept for the site design is not only feasible, but, frankly, pretty cool. Connectivity Due to my site’s semi-urban location, it is mostly suitable for bird habitat (unless some charismatic […] […] When talking about nature in the urban environment, we often start to wonder what was there before the city. There are several resources for finding this information. 1 One is to look at the General Land Office (GLO) maps. These are a set of survey maps documenting original settlements and land ownership in Oregon, dating […] […] After taking three weeks away from this project over the winter holidays, it’s time to jump back in– this time into the design side. It has been a bit of a struggle to switch my thinking from research to design. During the last term, research was almost this “safe zone” where I simply explored various relevant– […] […] Sorry, this is not in .pdf form; I had a hell of a time trying to get the pdf to upload, with no success. I don’t like Google Doc’s pdf viewer (I think it displays graphics poorly), but you can download the original pdf from there. So! This is the final draft with everything in it. […] […] |
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