ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND URBANISM ARCH 371 (Dharwadker/E2) Junior Design Studio, Fall 2023, CRN 71852 MW 1:00-5:50PM Architecture Building Room 200, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PHASE 4: PLANS

ASSIGNMENT

Create a set of orthographic plan drawings that show all levels of your Public Library of Things proposal in Albany Park. The plans must communicate an organizational strategy that responds to the Program Breakdown memo (below), as well as an understanding of relative scale, adjacencies, and circulation. The plan drawings might demonstrate how the perspectival experiences developed in the previous phase might be organized and spatially enacted. Study a precedent plan drawing for reference and inspiration (below).

GUIDELINES

Your plan drawings must extend beyond the edge of the presumed “property line” to show connectivity with the surrounding urban context, including the adjacent streetscapes, adjacent trains, nearby buildings, and/or other important site influences. Refer back to Ph1—Neighborhood Portraits.
Utilize hatches, textures, patterns, shade and/or shadow to communicate materials, hierarchy, and character.
Incorporate human characters to clarify the scale of inhabitation, to articulate programmatic distribution, and to animate the drawing with life!
Articulate the distinction between front-of-house versus back-of-house spaces. Articulate the gradation of publicness and civicness.
Indicate doors, glazing/windows, and other important openings and apertures between rooms and the building envelope.
Incorporate important fixtures, furnishings, and library inventory that suggest program, activities, and inhabitation.
Avoid “color-coding” program elements. Find other ways to articulate program.
Annotate the drawing directly; avoid number key labels.

DELIVERABLES

One program diagram distilling the Program Breakdown memo into a visual guide for your design
Plans at all levels, with special attention paid to the ground floor plan
1/16” = 1’ scale for all drawings, laid out on a single 24x36 vertical sheet

RESOURCES

Program Breakdown memo Download PDF

SCHEDULE

Wednesday October 4: Program diagram and ground floor plan sketch due
Sunday October 8: Full draft of plans due on Box (see email for instructions)
Monday October 9: Work day (no studio meeting)
Wednesday October 11: Midterm review to begin at 1:00 PM sharp (details forthcoming)

PLAN PRECEDENTS

3D plans: Dublin Cultural Center
2D/3D hybrid plans: Sewol Ferry Memorial
Site plan with landscape and context: Continuum San Jose
2D plan with context: Crossing the Skyline
2D building plans: Copake House Fire Island House Collodi Children’s Library Housing Forms for New Family Forms House on a Lake

MIDTERM REVIEW GUIDELINES

Location: TBH Atrium

Format: Pin-up plus digital presentation

Critics: Etien Santiago and Jose Javier Toro

What to bring:

Two 36x36 Neighborhood Portrait plots
Site “placemat” model and 5 best study models at 1” = 40’
All revised models at 1” = 20’
Two revised perspective images (each printed on a separate 11x17)
All plans at 1/16” = 1’ (each plan printed on a separate 11x17)

Presentation order:

1:00: Finish setting up, introductions
1:10: Ben
1:30: Takuro
1:50: Weronika & Minal
2:10: Wenjun
2:30: Angel
2:50: Break
3:10: Riley
3:30: Luke
3:50: Jill & Gerardo
4:10: Ciara
4:30: Sam
4:50: Wrap-up discussion

Digital Presentation Outline—7 minute presentation per project:

Slide 1: Title slide with project name, your name(s), and “ARCH 371 Midterm Review, October 9, 2023”
Slide 2: Site photos and/or sketches—discuss site visit and general observations in Chicago (1 minute)
Slide 3: Neighborhood Portrait images—discuss how site experience translated into portrait drawings (1 minute)
Slides 4 and 5: Selected model photos—discuss the various strategies you explored and narrow the focus to the form(s) you are developing (1 minute)
Slide 6: Program diagram—describe the overall program prompt and what program pieces you might be adding with your specific focus (1 minute)
Slide 7: Ground floor plan—walk through the sequence of spaces at ground level, focus on connections and responses to neighborhood context (1 minute)
Slide 8: Second floor plan (if needed)—walk through the sequence of spaces at the second level (1 minute)
Slide 9: Third floor plan (if needed)—walk through the sequence of spaces at the third level (1 minute)
Slide 10: All plans together on one slide (leave up on screen for discussion)

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND URBANISM ARCH 371 (Dharwadker/E2) Junior Design Studio, Fall 2023, CRN 71852 MW 1:00-5:50PM Architecture Building Room 200, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PHASE 4: PLANS

ASSIGNMENT

GUIDELINES

Your plan drawings must extend beyond the edge of the presumed “property line” to show connectivity with the surrounding urban context, including the adjacent streetscapes, adjacent trains, nearby buildings, and/or other important site influences. Refer back to Ph1—Neighborhood Portraits.

Utilize hatches, textures, patterns, shade and/or shadow to communicate materials, hierarchy, and character.

Incorporate human characters to clarify the scale of inhabitation, to articulate programmatic distribution, and to animate the drawing with life!

Articulate the distinction between front-of-house versus back-of-house spaces. Articulate the gradation of publicness and civicness.

Indicate doors, glazing/windows, and other important openings and apertures between rooms and the building envelope.

Incorporate important fixtures, furnishings, and library inventory that suggest program, activities, and inhabitation.

Avoid “color-coding” program elements. Find other ways to articulate program.

Annotate the drawing directly; avoid number key labels.

DELIVERABLES

One program diagram distilling the Program Breakdown memo into a visual guide for your design

Plans at all levels, with special attention paid to the ground floor plan

1/16” = 1’ scale for all drawings, laid out on a single 24x36 vertical sheet

RESOURCES

Program Breakdown memo Download PDF

SCHEDULE

Wednesday October 4: Program diagram and ground floor plan sketch due

Sunday October 8: Full draft of plans due on Box (see email for instructions)

Monday October 9: Work day (no studio meeting)

Wednesday October 11: Midterm review to begin at 1:00 PM sharp (details forthcoming)

PLAN PRECEDENTS

3D plans: Dublin Cultural Center

2D/3D hybrid plans: Sewol Ferry Memorial

Site plan with landscape and context: Continuum San Jose

2D plan with context: Crossing the Skyline

2D building plans: Copake House Fire Island House Collodi Children’s Library Housing Forms for New Family Forms House on a Lake

MIDTERM REVIEW GUIDELINES

Location: TBH Atrium

Format: Pin-up plus digital presentation

Critics: Etien Santiago and Jose Javier Toro

What to bring:

Two 36x36 Neighborhood Portrait plots

Site “placemat” model and 5 best study models at 1” = 40’

All revised models at 1” = 20’

Two revised perspective images (each printed on a separate 11x17)

All plans at 1/16” = 1’ (each plan printed on a separate 11x17)

Presentation order:

1:00: Finish setting up, introductions

1:10: Ben

1:30: Takuro

1:50: Weronika & Minal

2:10: Wenjun

2:30: Angel

2:50: Break

3:10: Riley

3:30: Luke

3:50: Jill & Gerardo

4:10: Ciara

4:30: Sam

4:50: Wrap-up discussion

Digital Presentation Outline—7 minute presentation per project:

Slide 1: Title slide with project name, your name(s), and “ARCH 371 Midterm Review, October 9, 2023”

Slide 2: Site photos and/or sketches—discuss site visit and general observations in Chicago (1 minute)

Slide 3: Neighborhood Portrait images—discuss how site experience translated into portrait drawings (1 minute)

Slides 4 and 5: Selected model photos—discuss the various strategies you explored and narrow the focus to the form(s) you are developing (1 minute)

Slide 6: Program diagram—describe the overall program prompt and what program pieces you might be adding with your specific focus (1 minute)

Slide 7: Ground floor plan—walk through the sequence of spaces at ground level, focus on connections and responses to neighborhood context (1 minute)

Slide 8: Second floor plan (if needed)—walk through the sequence of spaces at the second level (1 minute)

Slide 9: Third floor plan (if needed)—walk through the sequence of spaces at the third level (1 minute)

Slide 10: All plans together on one slide (leave up on screen for discussion)