Final Review Presentation

Continuing with my ideas and intent from my site analysis, I further developed the ideas I presented for my midterm review.

Working further on my ideas of maximizing public/private interaction, I broke my project down into 6 building structure, each paired into two. With this, I create 3 courtyards in between the buildings, each with its own characteristic. With these courtyards and balconies, I am trying to create different spaces and different moments and levels and types of interactions both spatially and socially.

Next to Warren Street is the entry to the site and the first pair of buildings. I have both buildings overhanging toward each other to make a gesture that as you move through this first pair of buildings and the courtyard, you are moving through the entry. I also have the views more directed towards the courtyard, the entry, and each other with the direction of the overhang.


On the second pair, I have the building overhanging eastward to take advatage of the views of the athletic field and downtown Newark as well as provide more space between Bradley Hall and the Dormitory.


On the last pair, the pair of buildings are looking away from each other and the courtyard to give the courtyard at the end of the site even more privacy and to take advantage of the views in both east and west directions.


Here on the ground plan, I show how next to the Warren Street entry, I place the campus center with meeting rooms on the west side and reading room and bar/party space on the east side. By placing the campus center by the entry, I am essectially keeping the rest of the site more private by keeping the more public programmatic requirements and uses close to the public side of the site and leaving the rest of the site for more private use. I placed seatings in the first courtyard that create spaces for people to sit/stand and wait because i intend this courtyard as a busy space but still requiring some buffer from the heavy circulation for peopel to site and wait to meet their friends to and from the dormitory. The second courtyard is intended to be more of a passing space for people to circulate through and with seating designed to keep circualtion through this space free of obstructions. And the last courtyard is designed more as a destination spot, a place that one would not necessarily enter without wanting to be in this space. It is intended to be more private in terms of traffic for people to sit, relax, read, and talk. All the courtyards contain some trees for shading which is given space for growth in a stone ground treatment. In contrast to small amounts of trees in the courtyards is the 'forest' treatment of the landscape sorrounding the buildings and courtyards. This forest is comprised of the existing topography slope, clearings, and large numbers of trees in which students can be immersed in nature or have barbeques or simply read a book under a nice shade.


To keep this level of interaction between public and private spaces in a more micro scale, I designed two unit plans. Each unit contains 4 rooms, two bathrooms, and a large shared living space. Both types have sliding doors and partitions to control levels of privacy. With the shared space, the wall partitions are fully operable to allow more free circulation from the hallway, eassentially connecting the shared living spaces of two units. This creates different levels of community: 2 roomates per bedroom, 8 suitemates per unit, 16 floormates of two units combining to make a floor, neighbors that live on the same building, and neighbors of paired buildings. In the first unit plan, the interior circulation is connected to the living space which is connected to the balcony. This allows residents to have direct access from the shared living space and bedrooms into the balcony. In the second unit plan, the blacony is separated from the living space with the interior circulation in between, giving more privacy to the bedrooms and allowing for direct views onto the exterior from the bedrooms and living space.


This is an elevation from Warren Street, expressing the overhang of the buildings as well as the slope of the site.


This is an elevation from the athletic field showing the main facade treatment and the vertical circulation on one side of each building.


This is an elevation/section of the west side buildings' facade taken from the courtyards.


To follow my idea of controlling views to control levels of privacy, on some fenestration, I used 50% glazing and 50% concrete on the sides of buildings that were meant to be more private, as opposed to full glazing on the sides that are meant to be more publcic. On fenestration next to balconies, the fenestrations are fully operable while on fenestrations that are not connected to balconies, only the top portion are operable.


This is a general massing of my buidlings


This axonometric diagram shows the interior horizontal circulation and the exterior vertical circulation. It also shows how the arrangement and location of the circulation change with the direction of the buildings and its relation to the balconies and living spaces.


This axonometric diagram shows how the balconies and living spaces are ordered and arranged in each floor and building.


This shows the general parking lot size and the arrangement of the campus center.


This is an aerial axonometric view of how the project would look like.



These are the layouts for my final presentation in order of my explantion.