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Northerly Island Equipment Rentals and Bathroom Pods

By brashGoggles | XL Urban Space Sculptor

Overview Instructions

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Courtesy Studio Gang Architects

State the design problem and situation: Studio Gang proposal for Northerly Island

Studio Gang offered a proposal for landscaping in the Northerly Island area of Chicago. In our program at CAF, we are designing programs to fit into the space made in the proposal. I am designing a building with automatic bike rental stations and information stations at the entrance of the park.

Collect Instructions

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Discuss what makes the landscape special

Document the walk (notes, sketches, photographs)

5 sites- specific ecosystem and related animal habitats

o wetland
o woodland
o prairie
o savannah
o reef

brashGoggles's work for the Collect Information step:

Summary
On the first day of our program we went to Northerly Island and did location scouting. We used our iPads to take pictures and notes, and sketched areas we thought would be important.
This is the scale model of Studio Gang's proposal that we will put our buildings.
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Brainstorm Instructions

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Discussion options for nature centre and sign up for a program

Brainstorm large aerial photographs of the site to develop locate the program on the site

iRemix

brashGoggles's work for the Brainstorm Ideas step:

Summary
While we we're coming up with ideas for our plazas, we looked at other architectural projects for inspiration. I styled the bathroom pods

Develop Instructions

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  • Construct a volume out of of a cardboard kit of parts.
  • Volumes introduce scale and space and is a tool for laying out the plan
  • Use Volumes to locate the programs decided (scale 1 cm=1m)
  • Each group has a clear Urban Plan for their site and each student is assigned a specific architectural program for that site

Artifacts:

  • Photograph the models (exterior / interior)
  • Add sketches for green innovations and environmentally friendly elements- use text to describe how sustainability is integrated into the design plan.
  • Collage: “feeling” that design will evoke- use text to describe the feeling that is evoked and how it is evoked through design
  • Sketches about how to use light- use text to describe the how light is used.
  • Write out the program requirements for their site creating a list and drawing
  • Draw and collage a sectional / elevation view of the site using models and photographs as a guide

Students will build a frame of their model

brashGoggles's work for the Develop Solutions step:

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Final Instructions

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Courtesy Studio Gang Architects

  • Use study models to build a scale model of their designs
  • Use a scale photograph
  • Use the large scale model and group model site as a guide to make decisions and understand impact of the design- Write up analysis
  • Place the completed model on the group site and bring the pieces together
  • Highlight: pathways, lighting, benches, garbage bins, trees, roadways
  • Take photographs and write up the text to describe your site’s design and how it connects with the larger model
  • Reflect on the process and post URL and Reflection to iRemix site

brashGoggles's work for the Final Design step:

The student did not provide any content for this step.