Final Learning Portfolio ARCH 103 Enkhtuvshin Ganbold
Introduction
The second half of the semester consist of steps that were designed to walk us through a process, which would result in our Final Project. The general building masses of the Mission Bay South and their relationship to our site, major and minor traffic flow, and physical forces, such as wind direction and sun path were identified through the site analysis. Based on our research and design proposals, the course was introduced to the Final Project Brief. Then the initial conceptual design of the programmatic spaces was done through adjacency matrix and bubble diagrams. In response to conceptual design along with precedence studies , the project develops over series of iterations using 2D plan/sectional sketches as well 3D SketchUp modeling.
Proposal 2 Alternatively, there could be a sport/recreational center both of indoor and outdoor spaces for various kinds of activities. Not only should there be sport activities, I think that having sports clubs as well as cafĂŠ and bars would promote this center for more vitality.
Proposal 3 The site can also be dedicated for both visual and performing arts. Every month or every other months, there can be new exhibition in a gallery besides a main museum, similar to SFMoMA or de Young Museum. And During the weekend, bands may play in a small scale outside stage for the public.
UCHIRONIAN GARDEN at MISSION BAY: Conceptual Design
Enkhtuvshin Ganbold ARCH 103, Spring 103
Main Museum Gallery Indoor Ancillary Exhibit Space
Outdoor Dining
Cafe Shops Restrooms Mechanical Spaces Outdoor Dining Area
Mechanical Space
Out Door Gallery Amphitheater Backstage Area
Restrooms
Urban Organic Garden Outdoor Gallery
Main Museum Gallery
Leasable Space
Leasable Spaces Urban Organic Garden Public Restrooms Public Garden
Exhibit Space
Design Values 1. Social Emphasis on creating a complex that promotes opportunities for social interactions. 2. Harmony Response to existing buildings and environmental characteristics. 3. Structure 4. Hierarchy 5. Vertical Emphasis on east to west
Cafe Shops
Public Garden
Amphitheater
Backstage
Ini%al sketches in plan
Ini%al sketches in 3D
Ini%al sketches in sec%on
Amphitheater
Museum
Reaching out to the water’s edge
Market Place, connected to the museum
Through my initial massing studies, I was exploring ways to accommodate the major programmatic spaces using landform building approach. The concept that drew the general forms were about growing/ expanding out ( from the 0 level at the west end) toward east and reaching out to the Bay.
Museum
Shops and Café facing the Bay
Precedence Analysis MAXXI Since was one of my design objects was to play between natural and geometrical forms, MAXXI (Museum of Art for the XXI Century) was the most inspirational design of my precedence study, which captures combination of curvilinear and linear forms perfectly.
Aberdeen City Garden
The uses of slope for amphitheater. While there is a big amphitheater, there are paths that go over the theater, creating such an exciting view of performances and permeability. While walking on those paths, one would never be bored as one can see the surrounding environment from a bridge like structure.
Marcel Sembat High School in France
The general structure is close to landform building designs although the ends of the slopes are elevated from the ground by walls. Built with steel truss work, a wave like structure has vegetated roof tops and has interior spaces that have transparent view of the outside through glass windows. I like the divisions in between that are created by different slopes, and the heights created in between function as windows.
Something that I take from this example can be the breaks in between the various slopes. Since our site is very long in the west to east direction, one of my design objectives is to create permeability from the 3rd street to the water front while creating landforms. So there will be sloped form, on top of which will serve as walkway to or from a main entrance of something (museum for instance). The slopes that have the same height can be connected with bridges with benches to create more interesting and sociable spaces while being parts of the path. Also the use of steel is inspirational because while it serves as the main support that creates the landform, it then becomes a main tectonic language. One way that I can use this inspiration is to reveal parts of the structure not only as windows on the sides, but also as transparent rooftops along with vegetated rooftops. Source excerpted from: http://openbuildings.com/buildings/marcel-sembat-high-school-profile-4364 Â Â
• Create extension of paths from major armatures to promote major ac%vity areas • West to east oriented public parks will have the max amount of sunlight. •
The most important feedback that I got from the last iteration was how the general form of my model reminded the pattern of Railroad yard, which became one of the biggest concepts about my project. Thus, questions that I had to explore to bring my design to the next level were • what does rail yard represent? • Vanishing movements of research? • Hopes?
Revit drawing-‐ experiment for more details.
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
South Eleva%on
North Eleva%on
East Eleva%on
Due to many technical issues, the project was not complete in Revit, but it was nice to see the level of complexity and more details in the drawings that google Sketchup couldn’t provide at %mes.
Final Presentation
Critique/ Conclusion One of the main criticism about my proposal was that it lacks a space for a large group of crowd, especially, because of the fact the main objective of the Uchronian Gardens is to promote vitality through public garden. It was commented that the end of the long walkway, where one arrives at the water’s edge on the over hang. should celebrate the idea of public open space by having generous amount of room that would fit large number of people. The biggest feed back made during the final critique was how I could take the design to the next level. One way that I can further develop my design is to explore the curved and straight lines/ forms of rail road vertically or more three dimensionally, breaking the linear or more 2D patterns of rail road. Although there were so many ways that I could have turned my Final Project, I feel satisfied by how I achieved my initial design intensions of creating something moving forward/expanding while using landform approach, which incorporates my later design concepts of railroad.