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LOUISIANA TECH SCHOOL OF DESIGN
I am currently in my graduate architecture program where we are challenged to create a new school of design for Louisiana Tech. From a design manifesto, a concept, schematic design, construction packet, to a physical model, we are challenged in this program to take a deep dive into architecture.
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Site Framework
Site Analysis Project Info
Understanding The Site
A Look At The Tech Site Frameworks
Louisiana Tech campus design is based on an original gridded framework that it more orthogonal and a newer angled framework
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The new Louisiana Tech School of Design combines the existing four design programs together in one building while expanding the facilities in order to provide an enhanced facility for the Tech students.
Sod Enrollment
416 Undergraduates
33 Graduates 28 Faculty
WHY THIS SITE?
Strengths
center of campus with direct connectivity to surrounding student activity and campus life corner street frontage with main pedestrian traffic flow
Weaknesses
heavy vehicular traffic from nearby elementary school unpleasant noise flow from adjacent power plant
Opportunities
allows for positive exposure for the galleries of design programs allows for a balanced gradience between programs and the relationships with the surrounding student activities
Vehicular Circulation
Louisiana Tech University has established its main campus to be friendly for both on-campus and offcampus students. The main campus directs the students to park on the campus perimeter, allowing the campus center to be more intimate
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Louisiana Tech University has established its main campus to be friendly for both on-campus and offcampus students. The main campus directs the students to park on the campus perimeter, allowing the campus center to be more intimate
With the Ruston train to the north of the site, acoustic measures will be considered. The intersection also marks as a main traffic hub that students at Legacy Apartments cross the bridge to cross to campus
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Based on the intersections of the dual site framework, the Design Module is the suggested building footprint. It also shows the most optimal buildable space, allowing it to hold the main program spaces. The existing circulation flows, both pedestrian and vehicular, suggest the southwest corner of the site to be a prominent corner given its street frontage, optimal views, and correlation with the framework axes.
Module Of Interaction
Located at the center core between the Student Center, Tolliver Hall, and the Module of Design, the Interactive Module webs the surrounding and existing modules to create an interactive relationship among them. At this module, there is the potential for versatile indoor/ outdoor space that serves the SOD and the student life outside. The site framework at this module also enhances the existing views towards the Quad and the momentum of the pedestrian circulations.
Module Of Movement
In alignment with the main pedestrian paths and the adjacent dorms, the Module of Movement maintains and enhances the existing site momentum based on the circulations and site framework. This module has the opporuntunity to guide the public crowd to interact with the galleries on the east and south facades of the Module of Design.
