ASSIGNMENT 1.2: Diagramming the site

You will focus on your specific site’s characteristics.
You should particularly concentrate in:

- Analysis of nearby buildings: lot info, front dimensions, deep dimension, number of floors, heights, use.
- Analysis of vacant spaces or vacant lots.
- Analysis of courtyards, open private spaces within the buildings in the nearby blocks.
- Analysis of public open spaces, parks, green areas, playgrounds, parkings.
- Analysis of infrastructural systems, circulation systems.
- Analysis of commercial developments.
- Demographic, economical, social conditions.


References
http://www.lubbockisd.org/DistrictInfo/SchoolLocators/AttendZones08-09.pdf
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/books/LbkArchHeritage.pdf
http://www.lubbockisd.org/DistrictInfo/SchoolLocators/DistrictMap.htm
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/images/maps/
http://planning.ci.lubbock.tx.us/pdf/Neighborhoods.pdf
http://www.lubbockisd.org
http://www.lubbockschools.com/data/
http://www.publicschoolreview.com

GOOGLE MAPS-STREET VIEW-AERIAL VIEW

You should represent 3 diagrams, related to the project-site.
Each diagram should uses digital or analog modeling techniques. Illustrate sequences and moments of each diagram. Apply operations of 3D extrusions; conceive your final diagrams as they are related to spatial issues. Explain through your favorite media each diagram’s process.
Read the site graphically in a creative way, but concentrate on urban elements. You can be more conceptual or analyze real conditions. Translate different site conditions into tridimensional intuitions with spatial qualities.
Your site diagrams will be one of the generators of your building spaces.

The 3 diagrams will be printed in 3 color-pages of size 11x17.

Analysis Example: Existing buildings

Before conceiving any diagram, you need first to research on specific conditions, elements, presences, characteristics, etc.

- Your research could focus on the analysis (transformations over time, traces of the past) of historical buildings, or on the analysis of exceptional buildings, in the projects’ block or nearby.
- You should focus on general dimensions of the buildings, on floor height (analyze the façade), on depth and width, on openings, on volumes composition, and how they are related to other adjacent buildings in the same block, structurally, functionally, formally.
- Scale, materiality, quality of light and air, are just some of the issues you should be involved within your explorations.

Narrate your site analysis through 3 diagrams exploring 3 site conditions.


Readings list
See how to analyze cities through diagrams in the following suggested books:

Rem Koolhaas, “SMLXL”
Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, “MOVE”
MVRDV, “Metacity, Metatown” and/or “FARMAX”


Digital Files
Save your final 3 pages into the digital folder called : visualLBB
Collect all information, images, texts, materials, and more you will use for this assignment into this folder.

Due on Wed, Jan. 21 Class pin-up