Midterm Review

About:

The project is based on the idea of local parks acting as circulation and service areas to the smaller businesses and facilities nearby. The parks are represented by the structural core that is in each zone of the project The businesses/facilities are represented by the different programmatic spaces. The three different zones are the library, teaching kitchens, and restaurant/administration. The structural cores are both clad and unclad in areas to reveal ideas about tectonics and structural joints. The structure would be clad when it exits the volume of the building, protecting it from the weather and allowing it to read as a solid member. The idea of selling the school to the people on east bay is a driver for the programmatic distribution of the building. The front facade acts as a retail window, displaying the diners in the restaurant, the students cooking, and the bake shop.

Comments:

The front entrance looks questionable/sketchy. More like an alleyway than a grand entrance
The project should be accessible from more than one side in discrete or indiscreet ways.
The different zones within the structure need to become more integrated with one another.
The building should be four stories and the courtyard should expand farther towards the edge of the site.
The public space needs to ba addressed in an architectural manner
The east facade needs something to block the view of the adjacent buildings mechanical equipment.
The south and west facades should take into account the position of the sun.
The glass facade needs to be thought about in reference to cooking/grease.

Next:

From here I would address all the aforementioned suggestions and comments. I also would like to develop the cores more in both plan and the 3d model, drawing them more tectonicaly and with more detail. I would also like to develop a way to hide the mechanical equipment on the roof and also address the ground as an architectual element of the site and building. I will be developing a skin on either three or all four facades to address the view and the suns path around the building.