Design 6 Richard Arenas

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Landscape Development 2

The concept of the connections stills intact in the way that I found a better form to distribute and forms of spaces in the site. The four main existing path still connect to my site, and they found a form to influence the new paths to maintain a well circulation outside and inside the site and the buildings. It seems to be that the circulation is smoother for the pedestrians and adjacent building, either way they all are connected besides the ones in the site.

The site it self has two crucial elements that definitely influences in the developments of paths, angles and spaces in the site. There is a natural grid of trees which are approximately 15 to 20 feet apart from one another. The grid helped me to create few angles and spaces that could flow better and also conserve part of it and adding few more trees. The other element is the synthetic field where plethora of activities happen as well.

What I did with this element was instead of having something to block and separate my site and the other part of the park I moved the buildings and created a more open space to allow view connection to the rest of the park. I also created a reflective pool in which the reflection of the buildings and the park can be seen from different angles.

Something else to appreciate from the site is the different elevations I manege to create depending the angle of every building into of out of the land.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Landscape Development

Something that plays a crucial part of my site is the landscape and the connection of the buildings with the surroundings. Which leads me to the conclusion of being able to access any part of my Community Center from mostly any part of the park. The paths towards every single entry of the building are specially made to fallow the angle, direction in which the buildings are facing.

Another thing to play around with, is the different elevations that the vertical angle of the structure is creating. Ramps could go into the ground or a couple of feet up too creating a variety of ramps with distant lengths and dimensions.