Draft progam booklet

Here is what I have thus far, I have a full draft by Thursday, I'm hoping to have a  few print outs if anybody wants their thesis commented and marked up we do an exchange, or if you just love editing things that's cool to hehe. Feedback appreciated but in person is the way I like to work, if you see me let me know.  

What I hope to accomplish?

Now-December 9^th

Work on Programing packet

Winter break

Edit the packet according to comments and notes. Read some more about ecology, laboratories, and museums. Sketch or collage some ideas of place/metaphors.

Considering the design process is rather cyclical and the largeness of the site itself. Working linearly is not good for me or my process. Simply "accomplish", is not the right word.

Pivotal moments

Site clarity- a campus plan that relates to existing/ future systems and links facilities to the values identified in the programming packet. Science Literacy, Sustainability/ River Ecology, and the Green Economy.

“Working” environments- investigate how a buildings and surroundings can perform generatively in terms of ecology and energy by matching compatibilities of a high functioning work environment if scientist and business people. Key users are identified as, Researchers, (PHDs, associates, and lab technicians), Administrators (education and resource coordinators and event planning), Business consultants (marketing, finances, and law).

Micro habitats- critically examine a workspace and it relationship to the whole building. Energy efficiency, lighting, comfort and functionality.

I’ll likely start at the site work into the building back to site, then back to building to micro habitats, to building to micro habitats. For this to work it has to constantly put people first but there are many different users from the general public passing through to the researcher testing and writing a report at 2 am.  By moving back and forth I hope to flush out appropriate adjacency needs and priorities without losing the spatial concepts responding to core values.

I assume if I just work hard I’ll make the deadlines for reviews, and pinups.

feeling on biomimicry

Mushrooms!  I'd like to create an environment that acts and performs/provides like mushrooms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY
much more research needs to be done.

assignment 7

Interaction and engagement is key to learning.so how is it, friends, can we tailor that interaction to the needs of our users, whether they are pedestrians, children, scientist?
Interface, how do people interact with the building on its edge, within, or in some cases beneath or through?
Where are the opportunities to make natural processes most legible to users and non-users?

Assignment 6 Poster

 

inspired by the psycho-geographic map that Nick showed I wanted to create a map of the flow of innovation and how it relates to OMSI Portland and worldwide.  

 

 The poster is a compilation of information and synthesis of the information that I've gathered so far. and my attempt to graphically represent that. The problem is balancing pretty graphics with substance that builds your argument. This is a point of confusion in this course and what its intentions are. At one side its a fact finding mission and presenting/ sharing your information with others.  On the other side, its pushing us to conjure up an emotional response to site/program.  The challenge is not doing both, but conveying both on the same board... I think there are some things that should just stay facts analyzed graphically and somethings done artistically but annotated with description or objectives.
On a side note I'm not doing a BARGE... a laboratory needs to be on the stable ground, supplied by a lot of support. if it was a educational extension to OMSI that a different story. But facilities that would attract top-class researchers to do top-notch science in green technology that is projected to put Portland at the top of Sustainability research and market of idea are not going to work on a boat. Perhaps that was my fault that I wasn't explicit enough in the board that this is a research facility... I guess the two precedents, Program studies and title are not enough...  and honestly two terms ago in another studio we put a health clinic on a barge because it was a community in Louisiana that was 60% water/wetland. Downtown Portland is not the mouth of the Mississippi, or the Hudson.