I N T R O D U C T I O N

Welcome everybody to the PSU arch 282 studio blog. We are proposing a unique approach to a typical second-year undergraduate architecture studio, so we figured we would open our progress up to the public realm. What makes this studio unique is that the clients are real, as is their vision for this community. As such, the students are afforded an opportunity to get input from and make proposals to these people, knowing that they are contributing to an actual, tangible, eventual work of architecture. Another departure for the students is the fomat of collaboration. Over the course of a short, ten-week quarter, sixteen students are working sometimes together, sometimes in small groups, sometimes individually to create a single coherent project. All the individual features of this ever-unfolding drama are organized in the main posts, and will be updated as the work progresses. Stay tuned, and let us know what you think of the progress. -your faithful servant, Garrett

B A C K G R O U N D

A small group of lifetime friends are approaching retirement. Their children are grown and gone. Through a wish to simplify their domestic surroundings and strengthen the social bond between them, they wish to discard their individual family homes and join resources to create a collective living community.

ORGANIZATION

As with all blogs, this one is organized from most recent to least. So you will see the latest progress on this main page, in three posts going backward in time from top to bottom. To get a better understanding of who we are and how we got here, just click on the post titles over there on the right. They are also organized backward in time, from top to bottom.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

DEVELOPMENT: LANDSCAPE and CONNECTIVE SITE TISSUE

Plinth Topography

The darkest colors are the highest spots. Every block should be labled as well.


View across river

this is from the back of the panhandle of Nathan's building


PANORAMIC VIEW

This is a small version of a panoramic view from the plinth looking towards the city center. If you want these photos to use as backgrounds or whatever lemme know. I have them without photomerge too.


Plinth Block Heights


The corner of Mississippi and Russell is our datum point/bench mark. The height of the plinth block was agreed upon to be 20' tall. Now there is some topo change within the plinth block. These numbers indicate how tall each section is above the datum point, THIS IS NOT HOW HIGH YOU ARE FROM THE GROUND BELOW YOU! If you want some special topography around your site please let me know soon. The elevator is going to be in the sunken court yard.


EVENING SHADOWS!!


IF ANYBODY WANTS TO SEE A SPECIFIC CLOSE UP OF SHADOWS LET ME KNOW. I HAVE THIS ALL BUILT ON SKETCHUP SO IT IS EASY TO DO NOW. ~~~~~~~~~~josh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


MORNING SHADOWS!





5 landscape zones
If the 2 storey units are going to split into 2 groups of two, then I propose that we make this "fault" line the source of a narrow water feature that follows the main path down to the street.

I think some of you are under the impression that the actual landscape would be in a grid shape with perfectly sheared edges. For better or worse I was visualizing a more natural topography for the most part. The stairs upto the kitchen and down to the street would have a more sheared feel though. The stairs to the street are like the earth falling away until you get lower to the street where the last bit is a refined set of stairs that appear to keep the whole thing solid.


Topography






General Landscape Scheme

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