PROJECT SCHEDULE . KEY DATES
UD: Canandaigua - UNFOLDING WEBS | Exploring, Recording & Mapping Synergistic Components
o Landing | Site visit to Canandaigua, Project Introduction by Client on Friday, August 30 (one 9 passenger van and three 7 passenger van) Meet the architect.
UD: Canandaigua SEPT. 25 – SEPT. 30 part ONE
UD: Canandaigua Oct 16 – Oct. 28 part two - - CONSTRUCTING RELATIONSHIPS | The Gameboard & Ideagrams
o review Monday, October 28
UD: Canandaigua Nov. 11 – December 11 part three - TRANSMOGRIFY
Transmogrify - "The process of changing an entity or object, often times at a genetic or sub-atomic level, into a new and different entity via bio-chemical manipulation or laser refracted heliostasis. " source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transmogrify
UD: Canandaigua - UNFOLDING WEBS | Exploring, Recording & Mapping Synergistic Components
o Landing | Site visit to Canandaigua, Project Introduction by Client on Friday, August 30 (one 9 passenger van and three 7 passenger van) Meet the architect.
UD: Canandaigua SEPT. 25 – SEPT. 30 part ONE
- review Monday, September 30
UD: Canandaigua Oct 16 – Oct. 28 part two - - CONSTRUCTING RELATIONSHIPS | The Gameboard & Ideagrams
o review Monday, October 28
UD: Canandaigua Nov. 11 – December 11 part three - TRANSMOGRIFY
Transmogrify - "The process of changing an entity or object, often times at a genetic or sub-atomic level, into a new and different entity via bio-chemical manipulation or laser refracted heliostasis. " source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transmogrify
- review Wednesday, November 13
- review Friday, November 22
- review Friday, December 6
- FINAL REVIEW | Final external presentation FOR UD: Canandaigua - Wednesday, December 11 at the Gateway Building 10 am – 3:00 pm
BRIEF 1 . THE LANDING| Exploring, Recording & Mapping Synergistic Components
“Environmental literacy lies at the heart of understanding the places with which we are familiar, and thus at the heart of the issue of IDENTITY. It is necessary for people who live in and use urban places, indeed places of any kind, to know the environment around them. An awareness of place can only be enhanced when it becomes a part of people’s everyday lives.”
source: Theory in Landscape Architecture P. 210 Michael Hough, environmental learning and direct experience
Recognizing how different people use different places to fulfill the practical needs of living is one of the building block on which a distinctive sense of place can be enhanced in the urban landscape. Regional identity is connected with the peculiar characteristics of a location that tell us something about its physical and social environment. It is what a place has when it somehow belongs to its location and nowhere else. It has to do, therefore, with two fundamental criteria: first, with the natural processes––what people have put there. It has to do with the way people adapt to their living environment; how they change it to suit their needs in the process of living; how they make it their own. In effect, regional identity is the collective reaction of people to the environment over time…
source: Theory in Landscape Architecture P. 210 Michael Hough, knowing the place
Rural development stems from combining a wide range of different and often refigured rural resources in new ways, as a result of which they flow into new activities, interactions, transactions and networks. The effects of this become particularly significant when activities and relationships start to mutually reinforce each other. This is when synergy is created; especially when new town-countryside relations emerge that support the newly emerging activities and networks.
source: Unfolding webs: the dynamics of regional rural development. Ploeg, J. D. van der; Marsden, T.
INTRODUCTION
Web’s and system networks function at their best when proximity and harmony in the programming of its components is ideal. These networks are then affected by each other, as well as by regional and local environmental, social, and economic conditions. In that sense these webs are living organisms that constantly morph becoming more complex, simple and flexible.
In the case of the Finger Lakes region there is a strong correlation between transportation systems, population centers, established vineyards, and their distance from the lakes. Along with this are adjacent components such as dairy farms; boutique stores, breweries, restaurants, hotels & inns, forming nodes that behave as synergistic centers attracting people to the region. It is this phenomena that you will experience on the route to Canandaigua and during our visit to its downtown and the project site.
The purpose of our field trip today is to:
1. first, meet the client and carefully listen to his introduction of the project (take notes),
2. and second: explore the project site and its context while:
RECORDING “process of capturing data or translating information”
i. tool: camera
MAPPING “creating graphic representations of information using spatial relationships within the graphic to represent some relationships within the data”
i. tool: map (you will be provided an 11x17 aerial map to mark up) and sketchbook (draw relationships and distance calculations).
source for definitions: wikipidia
3. All of the work you completed below shall become part of your weebly site for this course.
LANDING
The drive down:
1. document our drive to Canandaigua via photographs . upload your photos to instagram (include a link to this account on your weebly site) or if you do not have instagram available via any device, then create a photo gallery under a Canandaigua, NY tab. Also, please email our GA [email protected] your hashtag.
2. Also make note of the arrival sequence, its clarity and appeal ––think as a tourist (we will discuss this during class on Wednesday).
Upon landing
Immediately write a brief paragraph with your OPEN impression of:
1. Downtown Canandaigua
2. Our project site
The Project Site
Topics for the SWOT analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. SEE the site through the following four lenses: Environment, Economics, Community and Art/Aesthetics. Consider what is there, not only its strengths and opportunities, but also its weaknesses, threats or potential constraints: the good, the bad and the ugly and how you might alter it in the future––take careful notes.
§ hydrology
§ vegetation
§ topographic changes / landform
§ views
§ to screen – bad and ugly
§ to celebrate – great, of primary importance
§ good enough – secondary importance
§ open theme
§ connection to the lake and potential use of the lake as amenity and as a transportation route to other nearby towns
§ potential connections to downtown (consider a multi-modal system) one person per team shall try on google maps the route as a pedestrian, biker, car etc.
§ proximity to other nearby amenities and potential connections from our site to them (wetlands, hotels, restaurants, gas stations etc.)
§ soil conditions – visual assessment (we will gather soil data maps later in the semester)
§ open category
The local context
Who are they? What are they known for? identity
a. store front treatments | Chris & Sam
b. signage | Olivia & Brooke. building materials textures and patterns | Mike & Matt
d. landscape materials textures and patterns | Xiaochi & Andrew
e. food typologies | Ari & Brie
f. buildings - mix of uses, heights and types |Sterling
g. lighting | Mike & Adam
h. open theme | Ben
Getting around . synergistic connections
a. transportation typologies | Esvin
b. condition of transportation route (per modality) | Victor
c. links, corridors, connectors | Erica
d. quantity, locations, and conditions of bike racks and bike storage | Lauren
e. patterns of movement | Michelle & Luxia
f. most trafficked areas . relation to sense of safety? | Victoria & Lauren
g. least trafficked areas . relation to sense of safety? Victoria
h. open theme
Looking around . how do you orient yourself
a. “natural” (views and landmarks) | Curtis
b. synthetic (views and landmarks) | Erika
Who’s there and what are they doing
a. sense of demographics (gender, age group, race etc.) | Gena & Greg
b. map where people cluster and near what | Gena
c. activities users are engaging in | Charlie
d. open theme
Web’s and system networks function at their best when proximity and harmony in the programming of its components is ideal. These networks are then affected by each other, as well as by regional and local environmental, social, and economic conditions. In that sense these webs are living organisms that constantly morph becoming more complex, simple and flexible.
In the case of the Finger Lakes region there is a strong correlation between transportation systems, population centers, established vineyards, and their distance from the lakes. Along with this are adjacent components such as dairy farms; boutique stores, breweries, restaurants, hotels & inns, forming nodes that behave as synergistic centers attracting people to the region. It is this phenomena that you will experience on the route to Canandaigua and during our visit to its downtown and the project site.
The purpose of our field trip today is to:
1. first, meet the client and carefully listen to his introduction of the project (take notes),
2. and second: explore the project site and its context while:
RECORDING “process of capturing data or translating information”
i. tool: camera
MAPPING “creating graphic representations of information using spatial relationships within the graphic to represent some relationships within the data”
i. tool: map (you will be provided an 11x17 aerial map to mark up) and sketchbook (draw relationships and distance calculations).
source for definitions: wikipidia
3. All of the work you completed below shall become part of your weebly site for this course.
LANDING
The drive down:
1. document our drive to Canandaigua via photographs . upload your photos to instagram (include a link to this account on your weebly site) or if you do not have instagram available via any device, then create a photo gallery under a Canandaigua, NY tab. Also, please email our GA [email protected] your hashtag.
2. Also make note of the arrival sequence, its clarity and appeal ––think as a tourist (we will discuss this during class on Wednesday).
Upon landing
Immediately write a brief paragraph with your OPEN impression of:
1. Downtown Canandaigua
2. Our project site
The Project Site
Topics for the SWOT analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. SEE the site through the following four lenses: Environment, Economics, Community and Art/Aesthetics. Consider what is there, not only its strengths and opportunities, but also its weaknesses, threats or potential constraints: the good, the bad and the ugly and how you might alter it in the future––take careful notes.
§ hydrology
§ vegetation
§ topographic changes / landform
§ views
§ to screen – bad and ugly
§ to celebrate – great, of primary importance
§ good enough – secondary importance
§ open theme
§ connection to the lake and potential use of the lake as amenity and as a transportation route to other nearby towns
§ potential connections to downtown (consider a multi-modal system) one person per team shall try on google maps the route as a pedestrian, biker, car etc.
§ proximity to other nearby amenities and potential connections from our site to them (wetlands, hotels, restaurants, gas stations etc.)
§ soil conditions – visual assessment (we will gather soil data maps later in the semester)
§ open category
The local context
Who are they? What are they known for? identity
a. store front treatments | Chris & Sam
b. signage | Olivia & Brooke. building materials textures and patterns | Mike & Matt
d. landscape materials textures and patterns | Xiaochi & Andrew
e. food typologies | Ari & Brie
f. buildings - mix of uses, heights and types |Sterling
g. lighting | Mike & Adam
h. open theme | Ben
Getting around . synergistic connections
a. transportation typologies | Esvin
b. condition of transportation route (per modality) | Victor
c. links, corridors, connectors | Erica
d. quantity, locations, and conditions of bike racks and bike storage | Lauren
e. patterns of movement | Michelle & Luxia
f. most trafficked areas . relation to sense of safety? | Victoria & Lauren
g. least trafficked areas . relation to sense of safety? Victoria
h. open theme
Looking around . how do you orient yourself
a. “natural” (views and landmarks) | Curtis
b. synthetic (views and landmarks) | Erika
Who’s there and what are they doing
a. sense of demographics (gender, age group, race etc.) | Gena & Greg
b. map where people cluster and near what | Gena
c. activities users are engaging in | Charlie
d. open theme
BRIEF 2 . ANALYSIS |
BRIEF 3 . SYNTHESIS | Towards a Socially Responsible Landscape – sifting through the layers
As John Kolko argues in his book Exposing the Magic of Design the world is dealing with increasing complexities in issues of sustainability, finance, culture and technology. This has businesses and governments searching for a form of problem solving that can deal with the unprecedented levels of ambiguity and chaos. Traditional "linear thinking" has been disparaged by the popular media as being inadequate for dealing with the global economic crisis. Standard forms of marketing and product development have been rejected by businesses needing to find a way to stay competitive in a global economy; the cookie-cutter approach is no longer acceptable or desirable.
By overlapping the layers of data found through research and analysis crucial relationships begin to emerge. It is from the discovery of these relationships that innovative designs that are grounded on place can be formed. Our goal is to synthesize the layers in order to define a new and compelling design form, one that can better our environment and in turn society. Synthesizing this data will require speed and common sense.
Image source: gomez franco et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1516-14392005000200003 | Synthesis and characterization of PtRu/C catalysts obtained by colloidal and deposition methods for fuel cell applications
BRIEF 3 AGENDA | Friday, October 18 – Monday, October 28, 2013
Friday, Oct. 18 Brief 3 delivery and discussion
Monday, Oct. 21 Internal student presentation on synthesis and concepts, design charrette
Wednesday, Oct. 23 Work day – develop concepts based on feedback
Friday, Oct. 25 Pin up of concepts – internal review
Monday, Oct. 28 Final concept presentation (digital)
INSTRUCTIONS
The Finger Lakes Museum located on Keuka Lake envisions this museum at Canandaigua Lake as the “Flight of the Finger Lakes”, a place anchoring a community and serving as gate and sampler to all that you can discover in the Finger Lakes Region. As designers we are inclined to respond directly to our client’s intentions and needs however, through the design process we must formulate solutions that surpass the client’s aspirations and achieve the eventmental. The eventmental is memorable; and impacts human beings long after they departed the places we created. Utilizing the research completed for briefs 1 and 2 borrow from all the data generated by yourself and your peers and define:
How would you create a unique project for the region nestled in the concept of resilience to bolster the local economy, its identity and moreover, how can the urban design and the landscape design of our project site reinforce the museum’s role of gate to/and sampler of the finger lakes region?
To derive the answers to these questions borrow from Kolko’s methods of analysis:
1. Externalizing the process (get out of the computer)
2. Drawing and writing to prioritize the data and emphasize what is important
3. Challenging constraints & questioning purpose
4. Being playful
5. Using visualization as a primary mechanism for thought
6. Judging the data to reduce the quantity
7. Intuitive leaps – getting to meaning through story
DELIVERABLES - Three (3) 11x17 sheets printed:
Sheet 1: THE GAMEBOARD
A graphic depicting the synthesis of your analysis work; only include in this gameboard the pieces/factors, uncovered during the site visit, inventory, research and analysis completed by yourself and your peers, that will have a role in helping you achieve your proposed solution. This is the synthesis of your analysis work- the selective merger of data, instinct, and common sense. It does not have to be to a particular scale but it must happen on top of a base map of the site and its vicinity.
As part of this board include:
A Dilemma: What is the key issue/problem you are solving for? Is your concept going to respond more to:
¨ Connectivity and transportation - thinking at all levels from the connection of the pedestrian, the biker, boaters, bus riders etc.
¨ Environmentally grounded – where you are mainly concerned with the flows of water, creatures, gases etc.
¨ Socially and community grounded – where the local culture and festivities are celebrated and the spectacle of the place is key.
¨ Other…
¨ It is a given that all concepts shall be aesthetically pleasing (artistic), have an eventmental quality to them and reinforce the concept of landscape as museum.
A Thesis Statement: describing how you propose to solve for your dilemma. The big vision/approach.
Sheet 2: IDEAGRAM
The ideagram is a collage of your concept/gestalt/parti.
Sheet 3: PRECEDENTS
This board will include images depicting built or theoretic approaches that can describe your ideas for this project. Ground your concepts on actual case studies, proven solutions can sometimes serve as the base or pedestal for innovative ones.
NOTES:
Come prepared for a design charrette on Monday with trace, fat markers in all colors, and a positive attitude.
FOR MONDAY READ Lynch - it is under shall read below
Use the CAD file below under Documents to use called Lakeshore cad
RECEPTION . 5–6:30 p.m. at Cornell in John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome for Martin's exhibit - "what a cool way to learn about curation!" - says Gena.
Please come down and show support - we will make arrangements for all of you to leave earlier so that you can make it on time.
By overlapping the layers of data found through research and analysis crucial relationships begin to emerge. It is from the discovery of these relationships that innovative designs that are grounded on place can be formed. Our goal is to synthesize the layers in order to define a new and compelling design form, one that can better our environment and in turn society. Synthesizing this data will require speed and common sense.
Image source: gomez franco et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1516-14392005000200003 | Synthesis and characterization of PtRu/C catalysts obtained by colloidal and deposition methods for fuel cell applications
BRIEF 3 AGENDA | Friday, October 18 – Monday, October 28, 2013
Friday, Oct. 18 Brief 3 delivery and discussion
Monday, Oct. 21 Internal student presentation on synthesis and concepts, design charrette
Wednesday, Oct. 23 Work day – develop concepts based on feedback
Friday, Oct. 25 Pin up of concepts – internal review
Monday, Oct. 28 Final concept presentation (digital)
INSTRUCTIONS
The Finger Lakes Museum located on Keuka Lake envisions this museum at Canandaigua Lake as the “Flight of the Finger Lakes”, a place anchoring a community and serving as gate and sampler to all that you can discover in the Finger Lakes Region. As designers we are inclined to respond directly to our client’s intentions and needs however, through the design process we must formulate solutions that surpass the client’s aspirations and achieve the eventmental. The eventmental is memorable; and impacts human beings long after they departed the places we created. Utilizing the research completed for briefs 1 and 2 borrow from all the data generated by yourself and your peers and define:
How would you create a unique project for the region nestled in the concept of resilience to bolster the local economy, its identity and moreover, how can the urban design and the landscape design of our project site reinforce the museum’s role of gate to/and sampler of the finger lakes region?
To derive the answers to these questions borrow from Kolko’s methods of analysis:
1. Externalizing the process (get out of the computer)
2. Drawing and writing to prioritize the data and emphasize what is important
3. Challenging constraints & questioning purpose
4. Being playful
5. Using visualization as a primary mechanism for thought
6. Judging the data to reduce the quantity
7. Intuitive leaps – getting to meaning through story
DELIVERABLES - Three (3) 11x17 sheets printed:
Sheet 1: THE GAMEBOARD
A graphic depicting the synthesis of your analysis work; only include in this gameboard the pieces/factors, uncovered during the site visit, inventory, research and analysis completed by yourself and your peers, that will have a role in helping you achieve your proposed solution. This is the synthesis of your analysis work- the selective merger of data, instinct, and common sense. It does not have to be to a particular scale but it must happen on top of a base map of the site and its vicinity.
As part of this board include:
A Dilemma: What is the key issue/problem you are solving for? Is your concept going to respond more to:
¨ Connectivity and transportation - thinking at all levels from the connection of the pedestrian, the biker, boaters, bus riders etc.
¨ Environmentally grounded – where you are mainly concerned with the flows of water, creatures, gases etc.
¨ Socially and community grounded – where the local culture and festivities are celebrated and the spectacle of the place is key.
¨ Other…
¨ It is a given that all concepts shall be aesthetically pleasing (artistic), have an eventmental quality to them and reinforce the concept of landscape as museum.
A Thesis Statement: describing how you propose to solve for your dilemma. The big vision/approach.
Sheet 2: IDEAGRAM
The ideagram is a collage of your concept/gestalt/parti.
Sheet 3: PRECEDENTS
This board will include images depicting built or theoretic approaches that can describe your ideas for this project. Ground your concepts on actual case studies, proven solutions can sometimes serve as the base or pedestal for innovative ones.
NOTES:
Come prepared for a design charrette on Monday with trace, fat markers in all colors, and a positive attitude.
FOR MONDAY READ Lynch - it is under shall read below
Use the CAD file below under Documents to use called Lakeshore cad
RECEPTION . 5–6:30 p.m. at Cornell in John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome for Martin's exhibit - "what a cool way to learn about curation!" - says Gena.
Please come down and show support - we will make arrangements for all of you to leave earlier so that you can make it on time.
BELOW EXAMPLE / Potential approaches to the GAMEBOARD (2) & IDEAGRAM (1)
Above example of an IDEAGRAM/CONCEPT/PARTI
Additional Readings
BRIEF 4 . CONCEPTUALIZE | Analysis synthesis as design concept foundation
Continue to work by hand and by hand only while you use the computer to help create base maps for your drawings. Use aerial photography to understand the context and also trace all of this context. All of your plans shall be finalized by this Friday as per the revisions discussed during our review yesterday to include the following:
- Label all buildings and color code the plan according to land uses
- Ensure that your analysis is what guided your design proposal. You should be able to create a diagram that depicts how your building orientation responds to solar aspect, wind patterns, soil conditions, hydrology, cultural patterns etc. At the moment this may be in the back of your head but it should be represented graphically as a layer below your master plan. Good design is informed and emerges from site analysis. Work that is grounded on site conditions and context is commendable work. You did the analysis research and its synthesis for a reason, use it please.
- Develop by hand and by hand only a series of design concepts/gestalts/partis for the museum and its landscape. Remember the vision for our project is to demonstrate how to create LANDSCAPE AS MUSEUM and this landscape shall (not in a tacky and common way) illustrate the diversity of amenities and attractions of the Finger Lakes Region. Please refer to the list the client provided us in the documents I emailed you recently. Those of you that already had solid ideas developed for this area please continue to expand on them.
BRIEF 5 - NOV 11 - DEC 11 TRANSMOGRIFY
Please review and refer to both of the files below as you create your timeline for the Dec. 11 deadline: deliverableslsa422.pdf. and concept-ICFV
deliverableslsa422.pdf | |
File Size: | 4599 kb |
File Type: |
concept-icfv.pdf | |
File Size: | 5936 kb |
File Type: |
BRIEF 5 AGENDA | Monday, November 11 – Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Monday, Nov. 11 Brief 5 delivery and discussion | Lectures on form and public space design and components
Wednesday, Nov. 13 Redevelopment Master Plan and Civic Square Concept student presentation to Client - Don Naetzker
Friday, Nov. 22 Design Review for Civic Square - final draft review of all parts due Dec 11
Friday, December 6 Design Review for Civic Square (all work must be near finalization) LAST DAY OF CLASS
Wednesday, Dec. 11 Final Crit - 10 am - 3 pm at SUNY ESF's Gateway Building
Monday, Nov. 11 Brief 5 delivery and discussion | Lectures on form and public space design and components
Wednesday, Nov. 13 Redevelopment Master Plan and Civic Square Concept student presentation to Client - Don Naetzker
Friday, Nov. 22 Design Review for Civic Square - final draft review of all parts due Dec 11
Friday, December 6 Design Review for Civic Square (all work must be near finalization) LAST DAY OF CLASS
Wednesday, Dec. 11 Final Crit - 10 am - 3 pm at SUNY ESF's Gateway Building
SHALL READ:
Public Spaces - Urban Places | |
File Size: | 16983 kb |
File Type: |
convivial_urban_spaces.pdf | |
File Size: | 14004 kb |
File Type: |
Public Displays of Connection | |
File Size: | 329 kb |
File Type: |
Link to additional reading
1' contours for site | |
File Size: | 2318 kb |
File Type: | ai |
Harvard Design - Why Not Cultural Systems | |
File Size: | 461 kb |
File Type: |
Harvard Design - Firms | |
File Size: | 8875 kb |
File Type: |
lynch_ch_1_ch3.pdf | |
File Size: | 7479 kb |
File Type: |
Lakeshore CAD | |
File Size: | 767 kb |
File Type: | dwg |
lakeshore.dwg | |
File Size: | 767 kb |
File Type: | dwg |
Scaled Lake CAD Google Map | |
File Size: | 66 kb |
File Type: | dwg |
11x17 Lake 1-200 Scale Two Parts | |
File Size: | 25688 kb |
File Type: |
Unfolding Webs Template - CS6 | |
File Size: | 1523 kb |
File Type: | indd |
Unfolding Webs Template - CS5 | |
File Size: | 66 kb |
File Type: | idml |
Canandaigua Sketchup | |
File Size: | 15901 kb |
File Type: | zip |