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Urban Design and Architecture Design Intention

• The reviewers understood differentiation between the street designs based on radiance and air quality analysis, as well as programming. The connection of urban design to the park was received well.
• The theme of the project was received well across all scales of design and how they integrated urban, building, and interior.
• There was good understanding of how the pavilions emerged onto the street as subtractions from the building itself. Reviewers saw the potential of programming these spaces for public usage.

Media

• During our first review, the jury specifically commented on the clear comprehension of the project and relatedness of all parts overall.
• The movie and transitions helped tie different drawings and parts of the project together at a pace that gave good understanding.
• Reviewers commented on the style of the renderings as fitting for the project, and that they helped to understand the feeling of being in the spaces.

Advanced Tech

• Comments on the building’s overall structure were minimal, since our grid was resolved simply and did not have many dramatic moves.
• Reviewers were interested in how expression of CLT in main/community spaces could architecturally support our design intentions and feelings in the spaces.
• Many comments revolved around details of structure, like wood-ground connections and building envelope considerations. These comments made sense and with more time would be great to develop.

Place, Culture, and Urban Ecology

• Many comments revolved around the feasibility of such a large building being used as a co-op, and how residents would truly connect and use common spaces in their everyday lives.
• Developing the voids more architecturally and intentionally would have been a good start to imagine how co-op residents would be attracted and “forced” to use the spaces. It would be interesting to use Barcelona urbanism takeaways and apply them to the interior of the building.
• Idea of driving residents to the voids arose, through simple moves like circulation and placement throughout the building. Overall, reviewers liked the concept and saw potential in its implementation.

Revisions

• One revision I would have liked to make (but did not have time to) was creating an updated street axon. The axon helps to visualize the character of the street through materiality and activity. It combines plan and section and gives a comprehensive snapshot.
• Another revision could include reformatting the overall urban plan with more annotations. I’d like the icons to be placed more orderly, maybe pulled off the page and labeled more clearly. This could help summarize the street design(s) without verbal explanation.
• One more drawing that I would’ve liked to include is a perspective of the project similar to the street-level analysis slides in the fine-grained urbanism section. Cynthia recommended carrying the language over in order to see the data collection’s influence on the design.