Feb 21 – Making Reviews Productive

  1. What are the most important things to communicate to reviewers?
  • Conceptual design – underlying ideas to be the building block for the project. including what is important from the site context. (site problems/issues /interpretation)
  • Narrative – why are you designing, what is the program, relation to the public. Human experience – ideal of what a person feels at that place.
  • Goals for the project (i.e. efficient structure, light, interactive program)
  • Program (roots of the design): Why this function in this place – how it relates to the future development.

 

  1. How could you make the conversations most effective?
  • Hand them a model. Include data, facts.
  • Bring specific questions / issues prior to explaining the design.
  • Be clear about what you want to talk about: Clarify which areas you do and don’t want feedback on.
  • Bring relevant process pieces.
  • Show Drawings / images / DIAGRAMS that address important things to communicate

 

  1. What would make a great project? Can we define design criteria that we all agree on?
  • Efficiency – sustainability : perform thermal / water catchment – filtering
  • Addresses issues or cause defined initially – i.e. attractive active urban vitality for a previously dead area.
  • Makes the good parts of a site better and eliminating bad parts of a site.

>> See list on 4-585w16-final_requirements

  • Organization
  • Nature
  • Experience
  • Material Tectonics
  • Facade