Site Analysis Context Edward T White PDF

Site Analysis
and Context
Design Foundation Professor Tango
bibliography
• Site Analysis / Edward T. White

(recommended class text)
definition
context, contextual:
the whole situation, background or

environment relevant to some
event or product. In our case, the
product is the building.
derivation of the word is to

weave together
consequence triangle
owners walls
workers floors
customers ceilings
visitors structure
renters mechanical
maintenance lighting
context
elements of context / site analysis
• location • property shape

• contours • property size
• zoning
• setbacks
• noise
• easements
• traffic
• utilities • climate
• drainage • views
• neighborhood • vegetation
• pedestrians • man-made
• demographics features
hard data
usually relates to physical site data which involves
no judgments
• site location
• dimensions
• contours
• on site features
• climate
• zoning
• vegetation
soft data
sensory and human aspects of the site that usually
involve value judgments
• views from the site

• views to the site
• best approaches to the site
• existence of odors
• existence of noise
• existence of human activity
• type of neighborhood
• demographics
Media: Thinking Paper
Format: Hand drawings / no instruments

Equal size / scale base drawings of site
Color: Appropriate color to hierarchal element.

General color uniformity across drawing set.
Lettering: Uniformity and hierarchy in lettering

Climate
Climate
Climate
Climate
Wind
Wind
Wind
Special Regional
Conditions
Marilee Thomas of Beaver City,

NE took this photograph of her
daughter Audra about two miles
from a Furnas County tornado in
April 1989.
This photograph is from a special

edition of NEBRASKAland
Magazine, entitled "WEATHER
AND CLIMATE OF NEBRASKA"
published in January 1996
with content prepared by the UNL
Geoscience Climatology faculty
and graduate students.
Sun
Sun Altitude and Azimuth
Website: http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/alt-az-us
Solar Resource for Flat Plate Solar Collectors
Watt hours per sq. meter

per day
3d model of site analysis
3d model of site analysis + building
Library Site
Site
Base Model
library
Design Foundation IV- DFN 2004
Spring Semester 2011 – Professor Tango
Project 2: Virginia - Highlands Neighborhood Branch Library
Duration: 12 classes
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Project Description
During this project we will be working on specific weekly exercises in the design process. It is important to
understand their relationship to one another pedagogically.
1. We begin with research collection and presentation, then move on to analysis of program and site.
Program analysis will incorporate the design tools of matrix, bubble and zoning diagrams. Site analysis
will rely on data collection and graphic representation of data collection. These two elements will provide
the foundation for graphic reaction proposals.
2. Our understanding of the site program and cultural understanding of what the library represents will
be used to generate a conceptual premise. This is a statement about what we believe this library project
needs to be about. We will then attempt to model that concept. These models will emphasis the
organizational, perceptual and symbolic characteristics of the concept in an attempt to metaphorically
merge them into a design process. You may choose to represent your conceptual idea via an object or
thing that best embodies your ideas about this library and then model that. Note that this “parti model” is
not necessarily a modeling of an object but rather its organizational principles.
3. The next task is to ground our understanding of the concept, rational functional necessities, energy
saving technologies, specific site conditions. and cultural understanding of building type. We will express
this in schematic plans, massing and study models.
4. Schematic design is refined, moving into the phase of design development.
This project will concentrate on several key factors in the design process.
1. The understanding of complex site constraints. In this instance understanding the necessity to
modulate the various scales of urban fabric surrounding this site.
2. The creation of meaning in architecture through the integration of a concept that guides the
design process from beginning to end.
3. Formal and spatial ordering systems
4. The demonstration and application of various energy saving technologies seamlessly woven into
the design.
5. The recognition of the significance of material selection and detail articulation that adds both
meaning and quality into the design and construction.
6. Recognizing how a public building stands as a monument in a neighborhood without
overpowering its neighbors.
As with all projects in studio, process and continued design development will be very important to a
successful outcome and grade. Abundance of hand sketches and quick study models is the minimum
expectation and the building blocks that will result in an outstanding design solution.
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• Site Analysis / Edward T. White

the whole situation, background or

derivation of the word is to

• location • property shape

• views from the site

Media: Thinking Paper

Format: Hand drawings / no instruments

Color: Appropriate color to hierarchal element.

Lettering: Uniformity and hierarchy in lettering

Marilee Thomas of Beaver City,

This photograph is from a special

Watt hours per sq. meter

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