Here are the latest site and floor plans.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Latest Elevations and Sections + Updated Floor Plans
These are the latest elevations and sections of the building. I will be posting updated Floor Plans later today so I can update the model and render some interior shots to shot the atrium. I will appreciate the feedback, good luck everyone! 
Here are the latest site and floor plans.
Here are the latest site and floor plans.
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I really like how your elevations and sections have developed. You may want to bring out your sustainable strategies more. It's looking great. Keep it up.
You have made a lot of progress this past week! Your sections read very well. I am still curious as to what materials will be on the facade. I like that the atrium is now being engaged from the upper floors. Keep progressing, I am still waiting for some awesome perspectives!
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Jan 31
Very nice sections – good to combine CAD hard lines with environmental explanations. Vertical louvers cut the winter glare, which is good (but allow summer sun inside (bad) – see your Piano precedent – his louvers form a stairs case of opaque (reflective?) “treads” that reject summer sun – very effective seasonal response! (Similar to your south wall screen.) You need to both reject summer sun and control winter glare – perhaps control the glare on the vertical wall of the multistory building (similar to your screen?).
CHALLENGE: how to get color into CAD plans and sections to go with the elevations and views????? This would help your environmental sections read powerfully.
Jan 25
Colored floor plans very clear – especially useful to study how the circulation can relate to your atrium. North wall: there is no need for shading so these windows could be flush, “strip”, or just patterns. Entrance sequence: since your screen is floating how about entering under it to the courtyard? It allows the screen to continue while inviting folks into the building?
Jan 22
Please forgive my “Hilton Hotel” comment – it was just that the rendering with the sunset looked almost like a marketing image – I had trouble seeing the “green” architecture ideas. The screen wall does make sense although not perhaps equally on all sides. General rule: use horizontal shading on the south and vertical or egg crate on the east and west (bris soleil).
Your “Visual Connection” idea is good urban and BAC design – try a view from the grade at Mass Ave or further east on Boylston.
Your elevations do begin to respond to orientation: smaller windows on the north; and sun control screened wall on the south. The view to the northeast of the screen wall is especially clear – it looks to me as if it wanted to be a little longer/bigger to balance the heaviness of the other forms – and yes the west window recessing very useful to break the west sun.
Use of atrium space for social interaction (as opposed to work space) is very appropriate environmentally – it can be a difficult space to control thermally and lighting wise – so using it for non-critical functions makes sense – it can also be exciting and iconic (of the Green BAC). The corresponding courtyard to the south works well with the atrium while you still respond to the street with the building mass east and west of it.
Jan 7 Good idea the climate overlay on the site. Yes the higher the better for solar. Temperatures: for systems design it is not the averages that count but the extremes: I have seen it 15 degrees F. below zero here with 50 knots of wind!!!! It can also be 100 degrees in the summer (and humid)! I consider this a challenging design climate – a building needs to respond to the seasons. Complication: it can sometimes be warm in the winter and cool in the summer – so this is not predictable. A building, therefore, needs to respond to both over heating and over cooling – difficult but important.
Carlos,
I like the way that you have created a separation between the pedestrian movement and the vehicular movement, it makes the building more inviting from the street level. The use of atriums and park like areas especially at the corner, soften the buildings lines and make the area more enjoyable.
The "Winter Sun- Summer Sun" diagram is graphically compelling, and I get what you are going for, quite nice.
However, are you suggesting that summer sun is allowed in while winter sun is blocked? I'm not sure I completely understand the manner in which the PV cells work and capture the sun year round.
In plan, I like the use of the window orientation at the West wall to avoid the evening sun.
I also feel your section is prime for natural stack effect venting. again very nice.
In the wing to the west, what is the area in your plans which has the large square window? It is shown as open to above and when I look above it is "open to below" Please clarify.
Thanks everybody with your comments, I found them really helpful. Steve, you brought a good point about the summer sun getting into the courtyard. That is something I will explore on the next CAD revision, I'll probably have to tweak a little the angle on the "louvers".
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