Campus Night lighting

Modeling can be fun

After doing ten models for the Lee St site, I picked out the three I liked the most.  These three represent my aim to create an inspirational, influential building for greensboro.  These buildings allow sight in and out of the building that can possibly influence the lower social class on lee st. to attend a higher education.  The structure of the buildings also creates exterior social spaces by shape, form, or materials.  

Assignment 2 Begins....

 

           assignment 2, I immediately thought building.I drifted away from a concrete design, into more fluid designs with thoughts about location and elements.  As I went through 8 designs (as of today) I kept coming up with the same couple of ideas. The idea of connectivity <building to site or building -> to community or building -> main campus>  and then the idea of this being 'the icon' for UNCG's campus from Lee St.  I question is there a way to connect the two without taking away from the main campus' beauty?

Assignment 1.0 = Precedent Study

After Studying the Knowlton School of Architecture for weeks now, I feel like I am virtually walked through the building.   The information found from studying this building, along with other buildings studied by students in the group allowed me to figure out good an bad adjacency methods.  This image shows adjacency in four buildings.  Three are similar while Crown Hall is completely different.

*When I figure out why my image will not upload, I will attempt to re-post it.

Mentor Week

   I had the opportunity to visit OBrienAtkins' firm today.  While I do not have any pictures, I have a load of information after speaking with the Architects, Marketing, and Interiors Department.  OBrienAtkins is a pretty large firm for the Raleigh area, located near the Research Triangle Park if any of you are familiar with the Raleigh area. The office was very team oriented, I was lucky to sit in on a meeting of about 30+ Architect/Interiors.  There isn't much hierarchy within the office structure.  The lead Architect, even has a cubicle along with everyone else.  There are project leaders, and Interns on project so everyone knows their role.  But, after speaking with the Interiors/Intern Architects, they said they do not feel intimidated at the firm and that everyone has freedom to put their input into a project idea.  

   I saw a couple of projects that OBrienAtkins' has worked on in the Raleigh area, and even found out that they were the architects for our Science Building as well as the Rec Center (many years ago).

  This was a great experience.  I met with so many people in one day.  I even had a small intro to Revit.  Most, of the people in the office are LEED accredited.  So, keep that in mind if you aren't already accredited.

    While I did learn a ton of more information.  I will stop here and allow you all to pick their brains if you have the opportunity to visit the firm.  

Precedent Analysis Group

Group:

1) Precedent Analysis Intro

w/ images of each precedent 'money shot' of building that speaks about the building and how this precedent can relate to the future design project

2) Similarities of building precedents- what works well, what does not work well

3) Color Keys on each page