Studio feedback

In general it is clear that most people have not really been able to progress the designs much and have got fairly stuck. the single major issue as we saw was the site slope and lack of understanding of how that impacts the ground level design.

in order to resolve this I am asking everyone to produce a section drawn at approximately 4-5m from the east boundary in order to demonstrate and resolve what goes on in that area. You must show if you have program of any kind how it relates to ground level, site slope and the rear boundary. Draw the existing site slope in a dotted line with levels marked 0m, +2m and +4m as averages of the slope which will show how your proposed floor level from the street to the back relates to the slope.

The other biggest issue is that those of you that have a "podium" type arrangement you must have lift access from street level up to the podium and beyond. You CANNOT just send people up a set of stairs and then into a lift. You can have both but not just stairs. A critical aspect of the learning process in apartment design is vertical circulation and how you take people up and down. It cannot be avoided and as such you must demonstrate how and where the entry "lobby" is located FROM street level.

There are only a couple of weeks left in studio and there is lot of work to be done. you MUST come next week with (at 1:100); all plans, elevations, 2 x sections, 1:20 section and views of a 3D model from person level ONLY from street view and any internal courtyard views you may have.

You MUST nominate the following and have them drawn/represented on elevations
1. what the materials are,
2. how you are treating balconies, ie glass, solid, semi solid etc etc
3. how you are dealing with sunshading for north and west facades,

I am also intending to run the coming week's studio a bit differently and to focus on building composition and facade designs. I will mainly use your designs (supplemented with professional examples)  to work on and we will do it as a collective not individually since issues are relevant to all. the program will be:

9:15am - 11am -  the "rules" of building form/composition and facades
11am  - 12:30pm - sections
LUNCH
1:00pm - 3:00pm - individual reviews (approximately 7 minutes each)

It will be a big day so please be focused, attend, contribute and have questions!