The Interface

THE INTERFACE

LILY SCHNEEBERGER

KIAH SPRAKER

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’d like to send out a huge thank you to my amazing family and friends who have supported me over the course of this project. I’d also like to thank our parter firm, ZGF, for their continual support and advice as we progressed through this project. Finally, I’d like to thank my partner, Lily, for being a great partner and friend throughout the design process

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction: Partners

Introduction

Executive Summary

Design Process and Project Phases

Chapter 2: Site Group

Contextual Understanding: Population and Demographic Distribution

History and Historic Structures

Resource Availability - Insolation and Water

Availability

Climate Analysis

Current and Future Land Use

Ecosystem Understanding (Biodiversity)

Climate Change and Resilience

Transportation

Freeway Cap

Chapter 3: Story Group

Cal Western School of Law

Legal Education and Research Focus (CWSL)

Campus Description and Summary of Functions

How Might we Goals

Campus Planning Best Practicesparatives (Nolli Maps)

Community Connectivity

Campus Master Plan and Land Use with 3D Model

Chapter 4: Space: Partners

Project Purpose

Project Program

Performance Goals and Accomplishments

Formal Influences

Exterior and Interior Rendered Vignettes

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 5: Circulation: Partners

Detailed Site Plan and Site Section

Furnished Floor Plan(s)

Chapter 6: Structure: Partners

Structural

Chapter 7: Systems

Thermal and Ventilation Systems

Electrical Lighting Scheme

Plumbing (text not necessarily diagrams)

Chapter 8: Skin

Environment

Assembly

Detailed Wall Section

Exterior Rendered Vignettes

Chapter 9: In Reflection: Individual

Bibliography

Appendices

CHAPTER 01 INTRODUCTION

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The Interface aims to provide the Cal Western School of Law and the San Diego community with valuable public resources to engage with, thus producing a more healthy school and community. Furthermore, the interface provides desirable housing opportunities for the general San Diego community, creating a high revenue-generating source for the school, and connecting the campus community to downtown San Diego.

CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING

CHAPTER 02 SITE POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION

Contextual Understanding: Population and Demographic Distribution

The City of San Diego is the 8th largest city in the United States, with just over 1.4 million residents (3.5 million in San Diego County). It is a diverse community with the country’s largest military community. Unlike some urban centers the community is expected to see growth greater than 1% in the years to come. Because of its proximity to Mexico and economic circumstances, the community is, and is continuing to become more multicultural, with approximately 41% of households speaking multiple languages. There are 52 communities / areas within the City each with their own unique feel. California Western School of Law (CWSL) is located in the Downtown area, specifically on Cortez Hill.

The downtown area is in a state of transition with continued growth anticipated in housing units, retail, hospitality and even office space. This growth is coming at a time when the downtown area is in transition. COVID has negatively impacted the downtown area. Like many in the country, it has experienced exponential growth of unhoused individuals finding solace in urban centers with more comfortable weather. The additional housing units, and renovations to long unoccupied areas downtown (Horton Plaza) and the lower downtown area near the Barrio Logan may help to address the issue, but only time will tell.

Downtown San Diego Neighborhoods

HISTORY AND HISTORIC STRUCTURES

The city of San Diego is home to historic structures that bring complexity and sense of place to the vibrant neighborhoods of downtown San Diego, like the Gaslamp Quarter, and Cortez Hill . Western settlement of the city began at the Mission of San Diego, just five miles from the site of Cal Western School of Law in the traditional lands of the Kumeyaay people. The city developed from the mission and Spanish fort in the area, changing hands from the Kumeyaay, to the Spanish, Mexicans, Californios, and United States Americans. The city began to expand significantly as a port town during the late 19th century and as a military base during the early 20th century and postwar period.

During this period, downtown San Diego became the focus of civic and cultural life, with upscale hotels like El Cortez Hotel and the U.S. Grant becoming prominent pieces of San Diego’s architecture. As suburbs expanded during the 1970s in San Diego, the urban core of downtown San Diego shifted to serve as a tourist attraction. During this period, urban renewal focused on establishing a historic district within the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. The city manages the preservation and maintenance of historic architecture in San Diego using a three-tiered system based on classification on National, Californian, and local San Diego Registers of Historic Resources. California Western School of Law currently occupies one of these historic buildings, classified as a historic resource eligible for the National Register of Historic Places with the exterior building protected by the city as a Historically Registered Landmark. This structure

was the first location of all Cal Western School of Law functions and is currently Cal Western’s primary instructional building. It has served nearly 100 years as a place for community gathering in San Diego. The classroom building was first established as Elks Hall by a social club called the Elks in 1929. In 1941, the title passed to the Masonic Temple Assn. as their first headquarters in Southern California. In 1967, the building first became used for university purposes as headquarters of California Western University of San Diego’s School of performing arts. In 1975, California Western School of Law became owner of Elks Hall and established the historic structure as the campus’s main classroom building .

RESOURCE AVAILABILITY

INSOLATION AND WATER AVAILABILITY

An important part of designing low carbon buildings is to leverage the abundant resources available to enhance a building’s comfort and usefulness without negative impacts.

Onsite Energy Generation

Sustainable design conserves energy and resources and reduces the carbon footprint while improving building performance and comfort. Sustainable design anticipates future energy sources and needs.

According to Zero Code, the on-site roof mounted PV generation potential, or insolation value, in San Diego is equal to 3.1 kBtu/sf/yr.. To achieve Zero Net Energy, additional surfaces, such as façade or ground munt solar energy will need to be added to achieve the goal. This includes the freeway cap park which will contribute to a substantial portion of our on-site energy collection, utilizing PV shading devices and other PV features throughout the park.

Water Availability

Sustainable design conserves water and protects and improves water quality. Downtown San Diego is located on the Pacific Ocean, which increase humidity. However, it is located iIn a Mediterranean climate, temperatures and precipitation are traditionally mild year-round. The average annual rainfall in San Diego totals roughly 10 inches on the coast and increases as you go inland towards the mountains. Rainfall follows a seasonal distribution pattern, with much of the region’s precipitation occurring between December and March and almost no rainfall in the months

between. Referencing the graph below, the average rainfall, shown in dark blue, is consistently about 10 inches, as mentioned above, while the actual rainfall exists both above and below the average, ranging from 3 to 18 inches. In the last few years, you can observe a slight, negative trend in the actual rainfall, while the average expected rainfall stays the same.

WIND AND GEOTHERMAL

Further sources of potential energy exist all around us such as from wind, geothermal, and more which can serve to offset the high energy demand from buildings

RESOURCE AVAILABILITY

This site is located within a Mediterranean climate, meaning it has low temperatures and high humidity. This is due to its distance to the ocean and the marine layer. Due to these site conditions , the site with no active systems and four passive design strategies effectively implemented in an envelope dominant people will equate to 92.2% of the comfort hours. One passive design strategy being internal heat gain, contributing 59.6% to the comfort hours. Another is passive solar direct gain high mass with 21.1% and sun shading of windows which contributes 17.8% to the comfort hours. Sun shading of windows also contributes 17.8% to the overall comfort hours. Majority of wind direction is from the northwestern side. As this is an urban site, the average wind speeds of about 15 miles per hour will be more prevalent at the higher elevations.

CURRENT AND FUTURE LAND USE

The current land use surrounding the California Western School of Law is zoned for employment and residential mixed-use. This district provides a transition between educational institutions and residential neighborhoods. The surrounding zones include a core district (C), residential emphasis (RE), and neighborhood mixeduse center (NC). The core district operates as a high-intensity office and employment center that permits educational, retail, civic, entertainment, and residential uses. The residential emphasis is on residential development and ground floor commercial uses. The neighborhood mixed-use center accommodates the development of distinctive regional elements that support residential and commercial uses. Overall, the current designations help to support the urban fabric of downtown San Diego.

The future land-use designations of around the Law School are to support the growth and urbanization of Downtown San Diego. As of 2023, there are 3,169 housing units under construction and an anticipated amount of 3,662. There are 363,700 square feet of offices, 550,900 square feet of retail, and 3 parks under construction. The proposed freeway cap spanning from 1st Street to 8th Street will add to the urban development of Downtown San Diego as well. Much of the employment and residential mixed-use zoning will transition to a neighborhood mixed-use center to support higher residential and commercial construction. The goal for the development of Downtown San Diego is to add more affordable housing and equal access to opportunities and resources for people.

ECOSYSTEM UNDERSTANDING (BIODIVERSITY)

San Diego is considered a Mediterranean ecosystem, with warm, dry summers and relatively cool, intermittently wet winters, which provides a habitat with possible flourishing biodiversity. Being part of the California Floristic Province, San Diego is a biodiversity hotspot with over 1,500 endemic plants and animals. Many of these native plants include the San Diego Sunflower, Torrey Pine, and Tecate Cyprus. Some native animal species include the Burrowing Owl, Quino Checkerspot Butterfly, Flat-Tailed Horned Lizard and California Condor.

Despite the extraordinarily potential for high levels of biodiversity, many of these species are facing extraordinary threats. The San Diego region has lost at least 70% of its original habitat and is projected to continue to reduce at unprecedented rates. Human activity in this area is creating a “biodiversity deficit”, making the rates of ecosystem destruction accelerate. It is estimated that the rate of species extinction is around 100 to 1,000 times higher than before humans. San Diego County is home to 200 plant and animal species that are considered as endangered, threatened, or rare. Thus, as development continues in the San Diego area, it is imperative that species protection is a fundamental part of the design process.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND RESILIENCE

CLIMATE CHANGE AND RESILIENCE

Climate change is a universal crisis that urban context and infrastructure must consider through design. A consequence of climate change pertaining to Cal Western’s School of Law’s site in San Diego is the sea level rise. Sea level rise is an increase in the level of the world’s oceans due to the effects of global warming. According to the research organization Climate Central if global warming’s pollutants continue at their current pace, then 1 ft of sea level rise in San Diego is very likely in 2060. Additionally, at the rate global warming is moving a sea level rise of 5’ is probably for 2180. Aggressive action against climate pollution can avoid these rises in sea levels altogether. One strategy currently utilized in San Diego is seawalls. These seawalls combat the cliffside erosion that has been moving the edge of San Diego’s shoreline inland. The existing buildings adjacent to the shoreline are either a part of the local government, military bases, or infrastructure. Additionally, the San Diego shores has a net positive impact of $19 billion per year due to tourism. The steadfast continuation of sea level rise is a danger to San Diego’s economy, infrastructure, safety, and urban context. If residents are required to evacuate, the strategy of a “managed retreat” is an alternative to seawalls, which move structures to preserve the shoreline. However, larger structures such as the San Diego Airport cannot simply move inland.

San Diego Airport’s 2020 climate resiliency plan includes raising the building pad to avoid future flooding and investing $3.4 billion in overhauling Terminal 1 to withstand rising seas until the year 3000.

As proactive as these measures may be, sea level rise is inevitable and an immediate danger to the buildings along San Diego’s shoreline. The Cal Western School of Law 2023 Master Plan has integrated programmed spaces both inside and outside facilities to respond to the needs of the community and the consequences of global warming. These spaces include community gardens, outdoor sports courts, a public market, a historically preserved hotel, a transit center, and more. The materials for the proposed buildings rely on a CLT and GLU-Lam structure to reduce the project’s embodied carbon footprint and encourage designers to adopt innovative, sustainable strategies which reduce buildings’ contributions to global warming.

TRANSPORTATION

TRANSPORTATION

In San Diego’s Downtown Community Plan, there are transit modifications being made to provide improved multimodal access to each of the different neighborhoods of downtown. This would allow the downtown neighborhood to be more easily accessed and emphasize shared transit options. There are road diets being proposed, which would convert a fourway road into a three-way road with two through ways and a turning lane. These road diets include reallocating space to pedestrians and bicyclists, and would reduce the width of the travel lanes which would result in slower traffic and a safer environment for pedestrians and bicyclists. To connect downtown with the broader context of San Diego, they are also proposing a freeway cap that would span six blocks and connect the downtown area with Balboa Park. The freeway cap would cover the interstate-5 freeway and allow a greater connection between the two neighborhoods that were once divided by a highway . The campus master plan proposes three streets that would cross the freeway cap to allow access between the two communities. First, Fifth, and Seventh avenue streets would terminate, and all major traffic would be redirected to Second and Sixth avenue. Second Avenue is located to the west of the Cal Western Campus and includes a road diet with two lanes for through traffic, two lanes for parking, bicycle lanes, and pedestrian sidewalks. Sixth Avenue connects directly with the perimeter of Balboa Park and would include a sidewalk on one side of the street; however, the primary use of this road is for vehicular traffic with four through lanes. On Fourth Avenue, the

road is reserved for public transit and bikes to promote the use of public transportation and connect to the campus. There are two bus lanes, a rail line, two bike lanes, and pedestrian sidewalks on both sides of the street. There is a paved road that runs through the center of the campus on Third Avenue, however this will be used by service vehicles only and would provide a hard paved surface for community gatherings that could include the use of food trucks. The restrictions on personal vehicle use would allow a greater opportunity for connection between the general public and the proposed campus .

A freeway cap is a cover atop a roadway often serving to reconnect communities, increase green space, increase developable space, and/or serve as wildlife bridges. Atop the I-5, this freeway cap connects the more commercial portion of Cortez Hill south of the freeway to the more single-family residential side and Balboa Park north of the freeway. The freeway cap proposal is subdivided into four distinct yet connected “neighborhoods” each with its own features as well as shared features that include a primary path with edible landscapes (fruit trees), abundant pedestrian paths, and a fire lane. In addition to providing increased community amenities, the freeway cap also provides increased space for energy production. Below the cap and above, wind and solar power will be generated.

The west end neighborhood of the freeway cap spans between 1st and 2nd Avenue. This section includes play areas for different age groups as well as a community garden, surrounded by shrubs, trees, and grass. These elements give back to the community through food production and investment in the health of multiple generations. The intentional combination of the community garden and play areas works to promote healthy, sustainable habits among the community, including the youth.

To the east, between 2nd and 4th Avenue, is the neighborhood that serves as Cal Western’s campus quad. Located between the four future campus parcels, it serves to connect the campus buildings physically and socially. With

ample fixed and movable seating, open green spaces, formal gardens, and areas utilized for food trucks, the campus and the broader San Diego community have the opportunity to engage with one another in a more relaxed manner.

Between 4th and 6th Avenue is a bustling community activity space. This neighborhood includes an amphitheater to hold gatherings ranging from lectures by the campus to local artist performances, as well as a skate park, pedestrian bridge, food truck space, and a sculpture garden. The main goal of this parcel is to give space for voices to be heard and seen, promoting creativity and trust among the campus and community.

Connected to the neighborhood west of it by a pedestrian bridge, the final neighborhood spans between 6th and 8th Avenue, connecting the cap to the existing Balboa Park. This sports neighborhood includes ample courts for basketball, beach volleyball, and tennis. These courts provide space for large expanses of solar panels above that will capture the sun’s energy. Food truck space, seating areas, and other recreation opportunities are provided as well, with an overall intention of promoting activity and connecting the broader community with the freeway cap.

CAL WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW

The California Western School of Law is a private four-year post-graduate law institution in the Cortez Hill neighborhood of San Diego. It offers a Juris Doctor degrees, along with options to pursue a Master of Laws and/or a dual degree in business administration. The university serves many underprivileged communities through a variety of means, both through enrollment and offering of generous financial aid (84% of entering students have some kind of scholarship), but also through programs/ research projects like the California Innocence Project and the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy. Its service to community action has earned it a spot on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the past five years.

With 25 tenured professors and planned growth of1,000 full-time students from a variety of backgrounds (45% of students identify as minorities), California Western is a reflection of the community it serves. Additionally, it is part of both the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and had its curriculum approved by the American Bar Association (ABA).

The Cal Western School of Law offers graduate degrees in legal education, including Juris Doctor (JD) programs, MBA programs, and Graduate and Special Programs for law students. The JD program includes flexible learning options, including a part-time program for students who would like to have flexible learning options. The first-year curriculum emphasizes experiential learning through courses in Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Legal Skills, and Property. The upper division curriculum delves deeper into these elements of law education, offering classes in Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and Training Seminars. There are also options to take elective courses for students who are seeking a more specialized field of law studies. In terms of experiential learning, Cal Western provides opportunities to gain experience in legal practice while completing the degree. Cal Western houses a variety of clinics that provide students with research opportunities and professional practice representing various real clients .

CAMPUS DESCRIPTION AND SUMMARY OF FUNCTIONS

Situated in the vibrant city of San Diego, California Western School of Law boasts a stunning campus that combines modern architecture with historic charm. The campus is surrounded by an energetic atmosphere, offering its graduate students an enriching environment and education. Spread across four buildings connected by the upcoming freeway cap over Interstate 5, the campus features welcoming and inclusive spaces for students, faculty, staff, and the greater San Diego community. Each campus building serves a specific function designed to accommodate the needs of a law school and beyond. Building one, located on the southwest parcel, features retail, a public market, professional offices, market housing, and is home to the campus central plant. Building two is positioned on the southeast parcel and houses retail, a restaurant, faculty housing, and a hotel. Located on the northeast parcel of the campus, the functions that define building three include retail, a theater, a transit center, student housing, and other amenities. The remaining building in the northwest parcel is building four, the university’s academic hub, which includes retail, all university functions, and student housing. Together, these four distinct buildings form a core identity for the school and promote an inspiring setting for both Cal Western’s graduate law students as well as their faculty and the San Diego community.

As part of the design process the team iteratively developed goals that the Campus Master Plan and individual buildings should aspire to address. The goals are described in “How might we” statements:

How might we design a campus and buildings...

• That support both the College and City of San Diego?

• Promote the social mix and connected communities so critical to citizens’ health and well-being?

• Integrate functions that maximize revene generation to support fiscal resilience and improve access through reduced tuition and scholarship for a more diverse student body?

• That promote connections to the city’s urban fabric and historical assets?

• That embody inclusivity?

• That support physical and mental health?

• That encourage students to confidently express their identity?

• That are resilient and responds to everchanging environmental conditions?

“HOW MIGHT WE” GOALS

CAMPUS PLANNING BEST PRACTICES

CAMPUS PLANNING BEST PRACTICES

The Cal Western Law School is committed to providing the best possible urban campus environment possible. In re-imagining the campus master plan, the design team focused on five primary strategies to achieve the previously identified goals: Empowerment, Inclusivity, Social Environment, Community, and Sustainability.

Empowerment: Students, faculty, and community should feel empowered in their personal and academic lives in such a way that they feel proud to inhabit and uplift the campus in which they occupy. The campus design should promote autonomy and agency through diversity of spaces, clear and meaningful circulation, and privacy wherever necessary.

Inclusivity: Inclusion of the students, faculty and the community are essential, and can be accomplished through maintaining accessible physical spaces that are organized thoughtfully, as well as equitable access to resources for all students regardless of their identity, background, or constraints.

Social Environment: Allowing both the school and the community to share programs that are appropriate to do so while also having certain privatized areas for the residents creates a balanced social environment. This sort of balance on a campus is necessary to appease and uplift all types of people thus ensuring a strong sense of inclusivity from a social sense.

Community: Creating a sense of community in a campus involves several aspects, from safety, health, connectivity, and more. Finding ways of activating the ground floor of campus buildings to encourage connections and community formation, while also having the necessary safety systems and precautions in place is an important balance to find.

Sustainability: In pursuit of goals for the campus reaching zero net energy (ZNE) and carbon neutrality, many tactics can be employed. Sustainability strategies can be applied through careful following and application of USGBC’s LEED rating system. These important areas include water management inside and out of buildings, ensuring materials are locally sourced and low emitting, energy efficient sources, careful passive design strategies to limit the need of active sources, and many more.

CAMPUS COMPARATIVES (NOLLI MAPS)

CAMPUS COMPARATIVES (NOLLI MAPS)

Comparative Mapping Analysis

Our precedent research began with creating and assessing Nolli maps of similarly sized university campuses. Nolli Maps are two-dimensional plan diagrams that represent figure-round relationships. These drawings use black and white to distinguish between negative space and mass, clearly identifying the boundaries between public and private realms. We researched several campuses to understand successful program adjacency relationships that would aid us in the design of our own campus master plan. Out of many studies, we narrowed our focus onto the four campuses we found to be most “ideal”.

• Barnard College: This campus has a successful navigation of the public and private realms. The campus circulation is pedestrian dominant, although protected from the surrounding cityscape as the campus buildings are oriented along the perimeter of the city-to-campus threshold.

• Harvard Medical School: While the university programs are broken up into different campus locations, they all connect back to a central lawn. The circulation is primarily pedestrian with parking on the edges of campus.

• Fordham University School of Law: The campus is close in proximity to the highdensity city as well as Central Park. There is a central lawn and multiple pockets of green space scattered across the small campus, connecting the community through outdoor gathering spaces.

• Roeterseiland Campus: Located in the city center, we recognized this school for its connection to the city through pedestrian and bike routes that run through the campus. The campus also has a main student hub as well as ample green space that successfully tie all the university programs together.

Malia Johnson, Oliver Li, Alyssa Lin, Lauren Shirley, Emily Tran Nolli maps of our nine ideal campuses and how they relate to the urban fabric.

COMMUNITY CONNECTIVITY (TOWN GOWN) CAMPUS MASTER PLAN AND LAND USE

Divided by the I -5 and restricted by the San Diego Airport’s flight path, California Western School of Law sits unobtrusively in the Northwest corner of Cortez Hill. In an era of rapid vertical expansion, Cal Western is in dire need of modernization in order to fit within the context of the growing city and remain a top contender among other law schools in California. With that being said, Cal Western is adjacent to various amenities that would be attractive to students and community members, including: Balboa and Petco Park, the Gaslamp Quarter, Little Italy, Downtown San Diego, various theaters and museums, proximity to the Harbor, San Diego’s balmy weather, and lastly, prominent Italian, seafood, & Mexican cuisine. While in its current state, Cal Western doesn’t meld well with its context, Cal Western stakeholders have many plans for its future and are lucky to be located in the beautiful city of San Diego. The campus will connect to the San Diego community and build towards a more integrated future through many public amenities. These amenities include access to greenspace through the plaza that connects to the broader freeway cap, Balboa Park, and the campus’s permeable ground floors. Two of these ground floors include public markets containing food vendors and retail spaces. Other amenities include a bowling alley, a theater, a gym, and a hotel. There is also market rate housing and rentable office/ maker space. Many of these amenities will be connected through the rapid transit line also located on the campus’ eastern face.

CAMPUS MASTER PLAN AND LAND USE

This campus master plan includes the College’s future plans to acquire additional parcels to the north of the I5. The parcels of the existing California Western School of Law Library and the neighboring parking lot have been combined to create the space for Building 1 and Building 2 is where the current classroom building sits. Building 3 and 4 are currently not owned by the school but are in the process of being acquired. As a separate endeavor the City of San Diego has plans to implement a freeway cap to connect the communities and resources north of the freeway to the downtown area. The freeway cap will serve as a connector between students, faculties, their families, and other San Diego community members. The proposed physical campus master plan integrates increased density, greater diversity of uses, and cotemporary functions to improve relevance and resilience of the future Cal Wester School of Law. Functions include, retail/ public market space, a transit center, a hotel, a restaurant, a theatre, and market housing. With Building 1 and Building 2 being closer to the major tourist-attraction of downtown San Diego, most of the public functions were placed on those parcels, while university functions were placed on Building 3 and Building 4, which are both closer to a large residential and district. To collocate students with the campus functions, student housing is in Building 3 and Building 4, and to collocate faculty and market housing near the public, it is in Building 1 and Building 2. To generate revenue for the school, the implementation of public markets and retail take advantage of the lively city of San Diego and its population. In addition, the

historical significance of Building 2, provided the opportunity to offer a restaurant and a hotel to allow the San Diego community and tourists to experience the history of Cal Western, while also generating more revenue for the university.

CHAPTER 04 SPACE

PROJECT GOALS

• Design enjoyable outdoor spaces to relate to the freeway cap and offer views of the ocean and Balboa park to strengthen the mental health and wellbeing of people.

• Create a hub for community engagement and activity

• Provide welcoming access to services that will help to fulfill the needs of the law school community

Design for the greatest degree of energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality.

PROJECT PROGRAM

Bar 1 101,2001,200

Studio 2 2012003,600

Rentals1 5450450

Breakroom2 10400800

Seating1 2511201,120

1 1512301,230

2 10300600

Room2 2013002,600

1 12900900

6140012,600

18 4118021,240

PROGRAM ADJACENCY DIAGRAM

PERFORMANCE GOALS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ENERGY

PERFORMANCE GOALS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

WATER HARVESTING

The Interface features large area of rainwater harvesting approximately halfway up the building to collect gray water to be reused throughout the building systems.

FORMAL INFLUENCES

FORMAL INFLUENCES EXTERIOR VIGNETTE

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

CHAPTER 06

STRUCTURE

STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS DIAGRAM

WHOLE BUILDING

STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS DIAGRAM

CURTAIN WALL ATTACHMENT TO STRUCTURE

CHAPTER 07

SYSTEMS

THERMAL AND VENTILATION SYSTEMS

Public Floors 1-6: Variable Air Volume (VAV System)

ELECTRICAL LIGHTING SCHEME

Primarily pendant lights hanging from exposed CLT and Glulam Structure

Residential Floors 7-15: Hydronic System

PLUMBING CHAPTER 08 SKIN

Aiming for water efficiency through low-flow fixtures, efficient restoom/bathroom layouts, and recycling of gray water to be reused thoughout buildings systems and functions that can use gray water.

ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT

ASSEMBLY DETAILED WALL SECTION - LILY

PRIMARY STRUCTURE

STEEL DEAD LOAD ANCHORS

DOUBLE GLAZED IGU ALUMINUM MULLION SYSTEM

GFRC PANELS WOOD FACED ALUMINUM FINS

DETAILED WALL SECTION - KIAH EXTERIOR RENDERED VIGNETTE

CHAPTER 09 REFLECTION REFLECTION

Two-Quarter Studio has been a major development in my architectural education, and have progressed in many ways in my understanding of building systems, structure, and their interconnections in architectural space. My partner, Lily, and I accmplished much over these two quarters such as making it into launchpad at the end of Winter Quarter, as well as producing work on such a large scale over a short period of time which created a huge amount development.

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