Mid Review
This week was a busy one but I think the results are worth it. I had a mid-term review on Wednesday, then took my things to Eugene to talk with some professors on Thursday. On Friday I met with Hajo to talk about the reviews. By far the most discussed series of drawings that I had was the series of diagrams I made with building massing options: the usurper, the hugger, the enshrouder, the overlapper, the neighborer, the extrusioner, and the plinther. The diagram of the overlapper is most like what I did in the building plans and sections for this mid term.
Here are some building plans, they are pretty thrown together. I just wanted to have some to pin up:
This section and elevation are pretty weak:
These are the commodities that I think we will be trading at the building:
Some site info drawings:
Despite all of the work I have done this term, I still find myself drawn to the first sketch I made of the building. How can I make it more like this?:
Here are my notes from the various meetings:
February 15 2006
Mid Review 1
Notes
Joann Hogarth (former UO Studio instructor) and Brian Stevens (ZGF Architects):
Jon De Leonardo (Sera Architects) and Arun Jain (Portland City Planning Commission):
Take inventory of what is great about the old building and what I am interested in preserving/keeping, both specifically and in terms of the general character.
I need to ensure that ADA requirements are met in the trading room.
Should I build on top of the old tower instead of the old exchange?
Buildings to look at: Vancouver Public library for its combination of a tower and a smaller building, the design exchange in Toronto, the Mies van der Rohe addition to the Toronto stock exchange, and a Santiago Calatrava project in the same area of Toronto.
I need to consider the sound quality on the trading floor.
What kind of sustainable technologies are going to be incorporated in the design? Maybe I can take a living machine attitude of using/making energy. The height of the tower can be used for Venturi /stack effect or geothermal or wind.
What is the best volumetric configuration for sustainable purposes?
Among the several choices I pinned up for massing on the site, there was discussion as to which approach was the most appropriate. Joann and Brian thought the "overlapper" and the "enshrouder" could make it appear as if the old and new buildings were emerging from one another, although either of these needs to refrain from putting undue weight or pressure on the existing building. The "overlapper" has a certain mystery as to what is going on behind the façade,
What does the building mean? What do the adjacent buildings mean?
What are the problems of the site?
What energy management strategies are to be used in the building?
Look at an example glass building in Berlin (didn’t know the name)
If the existing building is to be used as a plinth than the new must be separate enough so that it reads as a separate thing, the new could skip several stories before it begins.
I should consider the façade of the tower. Perhaps the addition is a horizontal extrusion of the tower face, and it drops down into the exchange building from above, even possibly suspended above the ground.
I should also look at the addition to the Masonic temple Portland Art Museum Annex that just opened.
February 16 2006
Eugene Pin-Up
Notes
Various Peers:
Be conscious of the perceived edge of the building: is it in front or back of the actual enclosure edge?
Look at the Hearst tower in New York that goes over a church. Notice what it does to the old building. Is it a positive or negative presence?
Also check out the Goatenbergart Center Addition in Copenhagen.
What is going on at the intersection of volumes inside the building?
Create a sun path chart to see what profile angles I am dealing with for daylighting.
Professors Don Corner, Alison Snyder and Howard Davis:
For each building massing alternative I need to discuss the implications: how much new and how much old building exists, what the advantages and disadvantages of the scheme are. This will inform the choice of an alternative. These more rigorous explorations can be part of the thesis.
Look at the Work of Rob and Leon Krier.
Do some more research on adaptive reuse, and party wall buildings.
What is the scope of the work that I will be undertaking? I need to decide or an approach, urbanistic or realistic, that will inform the development of the project. Within this project, what are my investigations? Observations? Critiques? Explorations?
What are my priorities? Cultural versus Adaptive versus History…
Pietro Bellusci and Walter Gropius had a proposal for a building over Grand Central Station in New York that prompted the historic preservation movement. How can I avoid being perceived as destructive as these designers were?
Look at the Borse Buildings, and one adapted in Philadelphia.
I need to consider the number of traders and others to occupy the building; there will be about 800 traders and that is a lot of people to be in a space.
Why am I keeping the exchange tower? Does this make sense?
Other aspects of the design should go through an optimization process like that I did for the massing of the building: circulation, services, structure, etc.
Consider the cost implications of the various building massing options. Some are much more expensive than others, by three times or more.
What is the architectural idea of the trading floor? Does it need to be a large flat volume (this is why I wanted to use the space up and over the existing tower, so there was enough room.)? Can the trading floor fit on the footprint of the neighboring building site? Why is it here, above the old exchange? Is it okay to have two trading floors? I told Howard that it was but then in talking with Don I realized that if I don’t take the stance that it must be one big floor than I don’t have any more of an argument for building up and over the existing building. The parts of the building that come out over the old trading floor need to do so for very specific reasons.
As precedents for clear spans, I should look at the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank and the Lloyds of London Building by Richard Rogers. I should also look at the Thom Mayne/ Morphosis Federal Building in San Francisco.
What is my attitude about daylight availability? Adding on to the top of the exchange on the side of the tower will restrict the daylight access of the spaces inside the current tower. It is not enough to say that the building is still there and this is “preserving”; if the building is sealed up inside of something new and no linger experienced it is effectively no longer present. What is a useful and constructive relationship between the new building and the tower? What and I doing to the prominent North façade of the building and why?
This project is about ENOBLING the existing structure. I need to make sure that my volumes are not “fussy”.
Don thinks that using the existing trading floor building as just an entry and lobby is enough program for the space
I must address the character of the building at the street and the character of the building above the street and how the two are different.
Again I am asked, what are the energy strategies for this building?
Don recommended that I see if I can find some energy studies work by Susan Ubbelodhe of Berkeley (a UO grad) who presented at the recent BETEC (heating, cooling and climate) Conference. She has done some energy studies for the Workers Comp Building in San Francisco, and the results would help me develop some design values for my project.
Don also says that I need to be aware of and prepared for the fact that I am going to be making a LARGE SCALE intervention in the old trading floor space for structural reasons, something massive like the bearing walls of the old building. Where will the structure come down into the old building? How will these structural elements be braced? The primary structure and services for the new building will need to be outside the old building (the old buildings will best be used for their space), perhaps all the way to the far west edge of the site. How does the structure of the new neighboring building relate to the structure of the existing buildings? There should be a sculptural relationship between the new and old structural elements. Will the new and old be seismically isolated with expansion joints so they can oscillate at separate frequencies or will the new be grabbing on and bracing the old (develop a seismic strategy)? Part of my site analysis needs to be investigations about the seismic issues of the exchange tower. Has it been upgraded?
Don also recommended that I talk to someone in the profession up here in Portland who specializes in office tower design to get an idea for a structural/mechanical/service scheme that is a standard that works, and use that instead of trying to invent one from scratch.
Here are some building plans, they are pretty thrown together. I just wanted to have some to pin up:
This section and elevation are pretty weak:
These are the commodities that I think we will be trading at the building:
Some site info drawings:
Despite all of the work I have done this term, I still find myself drawn to the first sketch I made of the building. How can I make it more like this?:
Here are my notes from the various meetings:
February 15 2006
Mid Review 1
Notes
Joann Hogarth (former UO Studio instructor) and Brian Stevens (ZGF Architects):
Jon De Leonardo (Sera Architects) and Arun Jain (Portland City Planning Commission):
Take inventory of what is great about the old building and what I am interested in preserving/keeping, both specifically and in terms of the general character.
I need to ensure that ADA requirements are met in the trading room.
Should I build on top of the old tower instead of the old exchange?
Buildings to look at: Vancouver Public library for its combination of a tower and a smaller building, the design exchange in Toronto, the Mies van der Rohe addition to the Toronto stock exchange, and a Santiago Calatrava project in the same area of Toronto.
I need to consider the sound quality on the trading floor.
What kind of sustainable technologies are going to be incorporated in the design? Maybe I can take a living machine attitude of using/making energy. The height of the tower can be used for Venturi /stack effect or geothermal or wind.
What is the best volumetric configuration for sustainable purposes?
Among the several choices I pinned up for massing on the site, there was discussion as to which approach was the most appropriate. Joann and Brian thought the "overlapper" and the "enshrouder" could make it appear as if the old and new buildings were emerging from one another, although either of these needs to refrain from putting undue weight or pressure on the existing building. The "overlapper" has a certain mystery as to what is going on behind the façade,
What does the building mean? What do the adjacent buildings mean?
What are the problems of the site?
What energy management strategies are to be used in the building?
Look at an example glass building in Berlin (didn’t know the name)
If the existing building is to be used as a plinth than the new must be separate enough so that it reads as a separate thing, the new could skip several stories before it begins.
I should consider the façade of the tower. Perhaps the addition is a horizontal extrusion of the tower face, and it drops down into the exchange building from above, even possibly suspended above the ground.
I should also look at the addition to the Masonic temple Portland Art Museum Annex that just opened.
February 16 2006
Eugene Pin-Up
Notes
Various Peers:
Be conscious of the perceived edge of the building: is it in front or back of the actual enclosure edge?
Look at the Hearst tower in New York that goes over a church. Notice what it does to the old building. Is it a positive or negative presence?
Also check out the Goatenbergart Center Addition in Copenhagen.
What is going on at the intersection of volumes inside the building?
Create a sun path chart to see what profile angles I am dealing with for daylighting.
Professors Don Corner, Alison Snyder and Howard Davis:
For each building massing alternative I need to discuss the implications: how much new and how much old building exists, what the advantages and disadvantages of the scheme are. This will inform the choice of an alternative. These more rigorous explorations can be part of the thesis.
Look at the Work of Rob and Leon Krier.
Do some more research on adaptive reuse, and party wall buildings.
What is the scope of the work that I will be undertaking? I need to decide or an approach, urbanistic or realistic, that will inform the development of the project. Within this project, what are my investigations? Observations? Critiques? Explorations?
What are my priorities? Cultural versus Adaptive versus History…
Pietro Bellusci and Walter Gropius had a proposal for a building over Grand Central Station in New York that prompted the historic preservation movement. How can I avoid being perceived as destructive as these designers were?
Look at the Borse Buildings, and one adapted in Philadelphia.
I need to consider the number of traders and others to occupy the building; there will be about 800 traders and that is a lot of people to be in a space.
Why am I keeping the exchange tower? Does this make sense?
Other aspects of the design should go through an optimization process like that I did for the massing of the building: circulation, services, structure, etc.
Consider the cost implications of the various building massing options. Some are much more expensive than others, by three times or more.
What is the architectural idea of the trading floor? Does it need to be a large flat volume (this is why I wanted to use the space up and over the existing tower, so there was enough room.)? Can the trading floor fit on the footprint of the neighboring building site? Why is it here, above the old exchange? Is it okay to have two trading floors? I told Howard that it was but then in talking with Don I realized that if I don’t take the stance that it must be one big floor than I don’t have any more of an argument for building up and over the existing building. The parts of the building that come out over the old trading floor need to do so for very specific reasons.
As precedents for clear spans, I should look at the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank and the Lloyds of London Building by Richard Rogers. I should also look at the Thom Mayne/ Morphosis Federal Building in San Francisco.
What is my attitude about daylight availability? Adding on to the top of the exchange on the side of the tower will restrict the daylight access of the spaces inside the current tower. It is not enough to say that the building is still there and this is “preserving”; if the building is sealed up inside of something new and no linger experienced it is effectively no longer present. What is a useful and constructive relationship between the new building and the tower? What and I doing to the prominent North façade of the building and why?
This project is about ENOBLING the existing structure. I need to make sure that my volumes are not “fussy”.
Don thinks that using the existing trading floor building as just an entry and lobby is enough program for the space
I must address the character of the building at the street and the character of the building above the street and how the two are different.
Again I am asked, what are the energy strategies for this building?
Don recommended that I see if I can find some energy studies work by Susan Ubbelodhe of Berkeley (a UO grad) who presented at the recent BETEC (heating, cooling and climate) Conference. She has done some energy studies for the Workers Comp Building in San Francisco, and the results would help me develop some design values for my project.
Don also says that I need to be aware of and prepared for the fact that I am going to be making a LARGE SCALE intervention in the old trading floor space for structural reasons, something massive like the bearing walls of the old building. Where will the structure come down into the old building? How will these structural elements be braced? The primary structure and services for the new building will need to be outside the old building (the old buildings will best be used for their space), perhaps all the way to the far west edge of the site. How does the structure of the new neighboring building relate to the structure of the existing buildings? There should be a sculptural relationship between the new and old structural elements. Will the new and old be seismically isolated with expansion joints so they can oscillate at separate frequencies or will the new be grabbing on and bracing the old (develop a seismic strategy)? Part of my site analysis needs to be investigations about the seismic issues of the exchange tower. Has it been upgraded?
Don also recommended that I talk to someone in the profession up here in Portland who specializes in office tower design to get an idea for a structural/mechanical/service scheme that is a standard that works, and use that instead of trying to invent one from scratch.
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