PETITE RETREAT : DESIGN FOR EARLY FAMILY CARE ARCH 574 / LA 336 Public Health and Urbanism Studio, Spring 2024, CRN 42930 (ARCH) and 35306 (LA) Monday/Wednesday 1:00-5:50PM Temple Buell Hall Room 311, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UNIT 2: SITE DESIGN
In this unit we will meet healthcare professionals in Chicago, visit our site, and complete site modeling, urban analysis, and initial site design.
FIELD TRIP ITINERARY
Monday, February 5, 2024
9:30AM: Meet at the Union Station Transit Center (southwest corner of Jackson and Canal); take the Blue Line from Clinton to Chicago and 66 (Chicago) bus to Damen Ave.
10:30AM: Visit with Dr. Priyanka Gokhale at 916 N. Damen (Chicago Design Office location)
11:30AM: Early lunch in West Town/Ukrainian Village
12:10PM: 50 (Damen) bus to Polk; walk to 820 S. Wood for visit with Dr. Eric Hinz
1:00PM: 157 (Streeterville/Taylor) bus to site (we will take Ubers if we are running late)
2:15PM: 157 bus from Chicago and Fairbanks to Michigan and Lake/Randolph; guided tour of Chicago Architecture Biennial at 2:30PM
3:15PM: 126 (Austin) bus from Adams and Wabash to Clinton and Jackson
4:05PM: Amtrak departs from Union Station
SITE HISTORY AND RESOURCES
Northwestern Memorial Hospital History
Northwestern Medicine campus map
Prentice Women’s Archival Documents
CBS News: “10 Years Later, Former VA Hospital Site In Streeterville Still A Vacant Lot”
Chicago Zoning Map (search “Erie and Fairbanks” for location)
Zoning Designation Guidelines
Chicago Zoning Ordinance (see Chapter 17-4)
SITE MODEL FILES
Satellite Image: 1” = 100’ on 18x32 Download JPEG
Satellite Image: 1” = 50’ on 24x36 Download JPEG
Studio Expenses Spreadsheet
ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAM
MASSING MODELS
Build at 1” = 100’ scale
Models should show relationships between open space and building massing, as well as overall program relationships between patient, staff, and shared spaces
Use varying colors and materials to distinguish between programs—recommended materials include:
Recycled paper, cardboard, cans, bottles
Kitchen sponges, plastic utensils, toothpicks, drinking straws, aluminum foil, plastic wrap
Non-perishable food items like candy or popcorn kernels
Balloons, streamers, ribbon
Paper products molded with water and glue (good for topography studies)
Wire and solder
Model examples
DIAGRAM DEVELOPMENT
MIDTERM DELIVERABLES LIST (minimum requirements)
One massing model at 1” = 50’ (to be placed on printed satellite image)
One digital presentation with the following slides, 11x17 or A3 landscape layout:
Title slide with working project title, your name, and degree program
Urban analysis diagrams (2D and 3D) - can be separated onto multiple slides as needed
Discuss why you’re showing certain context elements—what urban networks are important to your reading of the site?
Site strategy diagrams (2D and 3D) - can be separated onto multiple slides as needed
Discuss the primary urban moves you want to make, relating to urban context and building program
Program matrix with program categories, general square footages, and initial list of furniture, fixtures, and equipment
Show patient programs, staff program, and public program categories with breakdowns into specific spaces and uses
Color coding the categories is helpful here
Precedents as relevant to your project—could be from our precedent study phase, or others that you have looked at since then
Could be precedents for space types, program uses, materials, structural systems, or all of the above
1-2 plan details (will vary per project—most of you will show patient rooms here)