Using SketchUp, I created a 3-Dimensional representation of the entire building, this allowed me to better understand the entire school and its relationship to the athletic facilities. I then took the model in SketchUp and Geo-tagged the location to where my school actually is to get more accurate results. I rendered images at a specific view of the building to show how shadows and the sun move across the area on both the summer and winter solstices. I chose these days because it is when the sun is at its most extreme angle and will create the biggest range of shadows. I depicted 12 different moments for each day.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12v9yEURxLvUMpw7h7n8ezanRICiKoEY13oE1Yxpy6sM/edit?usp=sharing
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I'll put all my "brainstorming" comments here. This work is also strong, although I would probably classify it mostly as collecting information. Knowing where the sun is and drawing the existing floor plan is really part of gathering information. This is connected to my comment about "analysis" in the previous step. As you gather information, drawing some conclusions about that information is where the creative "brainstorming" process comes into play. So if sun angles are important and you know from your case studies that light is important to you - then brainstorming might tell you more specifically where you have shadow problems, where your glass should be located, and if it is getting too much sun sometimes, where you might need to shade parts of the new glass sometimes. Again, good work here in this section, I would just say based on the images you are giving us, you don't seem to be generating design directions yet.