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THE WORST DESIGN EVERRR

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Malissa

Posibly the worst design ever

Matt Heibein

SUMMATIVE

Here are a couple of sketches of the layout.
Summative Tech Design (Due June 13th)
We will be proposing a self-sustaining community that uses a small plot of land 100m x 100m. You will be given a section of the lot to carry out your project. We will be following the LEED guidelines for the project overall. The overall complex will have three tiers. The bottom tier (which extends below ground) contains most of the public buildings/facilities and has a maximum height of 10metres(of which a maximum of 5 metres extends above ground). The second tier contains a mix between public, live/work, and residential spaces with a maximum height of 6 metres, the third tier is purely residential with a maximum height of 8 metres. Every unit will have provisions for electricity generation/conservation, garden space, wastewater processing. Your design and model will encompass the interior and exterior space of your chosen building and will include material and process decisions appropriate for a LEED certifiable project. In addition, the buildings will need to be accessible. All models will be carried out at a 1:100 scale. As the project develops, track the progress on your own blog. Link your blog to Prestontechdesign.blogspot.com
Choose from the list below, and sign up for your chosen building (first-come, first-served).
1. Houses (lots of10m x 10m) Christina
2. Apartments (25m x 25m)
3. Recreation centre (lot of 25m x 25m) Jacob
4. Gallery (lot 10m x 25m)
5. Theatre/film facility/performance venue (lot 25m x 25m) Tom
6. Restaurant (lot 10m x 25m) Kieffer
7. Studios (lot 10m x 10m)
8. Small Business spaces (lots of 10m x 25m) Matt A
9. Market (lot of 25m x 25m) Nevin
10. General store(lot of 25m x 25m) Ryan
11. Clothing Store (lot 10m x 25m) Malissa, Sisco
12. Park/public area (lot 50m x 50m) Eric
13. Service building (maintenance)(lot 25m x 25m)
14. Fitness building (lot 25m x 25m)
15. Multi-use building Ethan
16. Parking (lot 25m x 25m) Matt
17. Walkways, stairs, ramps and public access
18. Vehicles Will
19. Waste Processing


Steps in preparation

1. Create a 1:100 scale photo of yourself in Photoshop.
2. Brainstorm a list of necessary elements/features for your building.
3. Supplement your brainstorm with a case study of a related building. What about your building will improve upon existing structures?
4. Address at least 4 credits from the LEED Checklist. Be specific. Research products and processes appropriate to the particular credit. For example, Material Resources Credit 6: Rapidly Renewable Resources could be addressed in part with the use of cork flooring,
5. Create hand sketches of the building design.

Drawings
Create a detailed set of dimensioned floorplans and elevations for your building and lot. You can use softplan, Autocad, Illustrator, or do hand drawings. In the bottom right of your drawings, be sure to include a title block with the name of the project, date, scale, drawing number.

Models
Build a scale paper model of your building including all of the interior and exterior walls, doors, windows, roof and any other visible feature. Pay attention to accurate and realistic construction.
Create all of the landscaping as well. You are responsible for the entire lot.

Design Sample Board
This board helps to visualize your finished aesthetic. Choose paints & finishes, furniture, flooring, fixtures, landscaping
All of your material choices should fit the criteria for LEED certification.

Class Project
Contribute your building to the large model and assist with some of the assembly.

Display
Combine your model, your drawings and your sample board into a coherent project display.

Documentation
Take a digital photograph of your model and place the scale version of yourself into the photo. Post your finished photos on your blog.

Report
Answer the following in full sentences. Some information may be derived from your blogs.
1. Describe the building you created. Create a marketable statement (min 100 words).
2. What is your building? How does it fulfill its purposes in an environmentally sustainable way?
3. What were some of the challenges that you encountered in this project?
4. How does your design adhere to LEED standards?
5. What is the most innovative aspect of your design?
Marking Scheme


Research and Design /20
Design solutions effectively address the purposes of the building. Choices of design, materials, and processes make the project appropriate for LEED standards. The project is innovative and thoroughly detailed.

Sketches /10
Numerous sketches show exploratory ideas and

Drawings /30
Drawings are accurate, detailed, properly dimensioned and contain floorplans, and elevations
Drawings have title blocks with pertinent information.

Model /20
Model is made accurately to scale, looks good and functions well

Sample Board /20
A well-researched, comprehensive design plan/includes all interior and exterior
Materials chosen are appropriate for LEED certification.

Blog /20
Blog is thorough, well-written and consistent
Blog has 15 entries that demonstrate the project evolution

Report /10
Report is answered thoroughly and show




LEED INFORMATION
Sustainable Sites 8
1. SS Prerequisite 1: Construction Activity Pollution Prevention 8
2. SS Credit 1: Site Selection 9
3. SS Credit 2: Development Density & Community Connectivity 10
4. SS Credit 3: Brownfield Redevelopment 11
5. SS Credit 4.1: Alternative Transportation: Public Transportation Access 12
6. SS Credit 4.2: Alternative Transportation: Bicycle Storage & Changing Rooms 13
7. SS Credit 4.3: Alternative Transportation: Low Emitting & Fuel Efficient Vehicles 14
8. SS Credit 4.4: Alternative Transportation: Parking Capacity 15
9. SS Credit 5.1: Site Development: Protect or Restore Habitat 16
10. SS Credit 5.2: Site Development: Maximize Open Space 17
11. SS Credit 6.1: Stormwater Design: Quantity Control 18
12. SS Credit 6.2: Stormwater Design: Quality Control 19
13. SS Credit 7.1: Heat Island Effect: Non-Roof 20
14. SS Credit 7.2: Heat Island Effect: Roof 21
15. SS Credit 8: Light Pollution Reduction 22
Water Efficiency 24
WE Credit 1.1: Water Efficient Landscaping: Reduce by 50% 24
WE Credit 1.2: Water Efficient Landscaping: No Potable Water Use or No Irrigation 25
WE Credit 2: Innovative Wastewater Technologies 26
WE Credit 3.1: Water Use Reduction: 20% Reduction 27
WE Credit 3.2: Water Use Reduction: 30% Reduction 28
Energy & Atmosphere 29
EA Prerequisite 1: Fundamental Commissioning of the Building Energy Systems 29
EA Prerequisite 2: Minimum Energy Performance 31
EA Prerequisite 3: Fundamental Refrigerant Management 32
EA Credit 1: Optimize Energy Performance 33
EA Credit 2: On-Site Renewable Energy 36
EA Credit 3: Enhanced Commissioning 37
EA Credit 4: Enhanced Refrigerant Management 39
EA Credit 5: Measurement & Verification 41
EA Credit 6: Green Power 42
LEED for New Construction Rating System v2.2
Materials & Resources 43
MR Prerequisite 1: Storage & Collection of Recyclables 43
MR Credit 1.1: Building Reuse: Maintain 75% of Existing Walls, Floors & Roof 44
MR Credit 1.2: Building Reuse - Maintain 95% of Existing Walls, Floors & Roof 45
MR Credit 1.3: Building Reuse: Maintain 50% of Interior Non-Structural Elements 46
MR Credit 2.1: Construction Waste Management: Divert 50% From Disposal 47
MR Credit 2.2: Construction Waste Management: Divert 75% From Disposal 48
MR Credit 3.1: Materials Reuse: 5% 49
MR Credit 3.2: Materials Reuse: 10% 50
MR Credit 4.1: Recycled Content: 10% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer) 51
MR Credit 4.2: Recycled Content: 20% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer) 52
MR Credit 5.1: Regional Materials: 10% Extracted, Processed & Manufactured Regionally 53
MR Credit 5.2: Regional Materials: 20% Extracted, Processed & Manufactured Regionally 54
MR Credit 6: Rapidly Renewable Materials 55
MR Credit 7: Certified Wood 56
Indoor Environmental Quality 57
EQ Prerequisite 1: Minimum IAQ Performance 57
EQ Prerequisite 2: Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Control 58
EQ Credit 1: Outdoor Air Delivery Monitoring 60
EQ Credit 2: Increased Ventilation 61
EQ Credit 3.1: Construction IAQ Management Plan: During Construction 62
EQ Credit 3.2: Construction IAQ Management Plan: Before Occupancy 63
EQ Credit 4.1: Low-Emitting Materials: Adhesives & Sealants 65
EQ Credit 4.2: Low-Emitting Materials: Paints & Coatings 67
EQ Credit 4.3: Low-Emitting Materials: Carpet Systems 68
EQ Credit 4.4: Low-Emitting Materials: Composite Wood & Agrifiber Products 69
EQ Credit 5: Indoor Chemical & Pollutant Source Control 70
EQ Credit 6.1: Controllability of Systems: Lighting 71
EQ Credit 6.2: Controllability of Systems: Thermal Comfort 72
EQ Credit 7.1: Thermal Comfort: Design 73
EQ Credit 7.2: Thermal Comfort: Verification 74
EQ Credit 8.1: Daylight & Views: Daylight 75% of Spaces 75
EQ Credit 8.2: Daylight & Views: Views for 90% of Spaces 76
Innovation & Design Process 77
ID Credit 1–1.4: Innovation in Design 77
ID Credit 2: LEED Accredited Professional 78

Concept Sketches

Create a series of hand drawings of your building. Be sure to include indoor and outdoor spaces in your drawings. Create a series of at least 3 thumbnail sketches and a more accurate plan view (overhead) and at least one elevation. Scale is approximate at this point. Drawings are due at the end of class.

day 2 - I have began the day designing the rough drafts of the theatre. I have desided to combine the video veiwing area and the acting area.

day 2 - I have began the day designing the rough drafts of the theatre. I have desided to combine the video veiwing area and the acting area.

Ryans General Store Summative Thing

Day 1 - I am creating a store which is 25cm x 25cm, i am thinking of making a Zhers store. Inside this store there will be aisles and a checkout area. There will also have to be a good sized parking lot, and maybe a garden outside the store. Peace Out Homeslices

Friday April 18th

Now that you have partially constructed the kite, fully answer the following questions in Word:

1. What is the shape of your kite? Where did you encounter the design?
2. What materials have you used? Why did you choose them? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
3. What task will your kite carry out? How? Describe the design?
4. What makes you think that your kite will fly?

Open the following weblink

http://www.cdli.ca/depted/g7/ortho.htm

Using a sheet of plain white paper, Autocad 2007LT, or Adobe Illustrator and create a scale orthographic drawing of your kite from the front, right, and top views. In the bottom right corner of your drawing, create a title block with the following information: name of project, name of designer, scale, date, and drawing number.

MacGyver Kites

MacGyver was able to save the day using only a piece of gum and a spoon. If he had a kite...well...he'd probably be able to solve hunger and ensure world peace.

For this project, we will be designing, constructing, testing, and flying kites. The kites should be constructed using only recycled or found materials. They should be sturdy enough to survive crashes and light enough to fly in a variety of wind conditions. The design can be derived in part from existing designs, but there must also be unique properties and features to the kite. An attractive design is also a must. 

The kite must be able to accomplish at least one of the following tasks.

1. Transport a small object from one place to another without breaking it.

2. Communicate a message over a great distance.

3. Attack or defend a territory.

4. Be used to spy.

5. Collaborate with another kite to accomplish a complex task.

6. All of the above.

Zaha Hadid Architect By: Bryan Muise

Zaha Hadid is a London based Architectural Designer who originated from Iraq. Her designs range from urban scale to interiors products like chairs. She designs the building and what goes inside the building she is unique from others and will never see architectures like hers.
She studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. She then ran her own studio until 1987. She was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, and is Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Hadid has been pushing the boundaries of architectural design in numerous competitions. Winning designs such as the Peak, Cardiff Bay Opera House, and the Centre for Contemporary Arts. Other competition entries include large scale urban studies in places such as Hamburg, Madrid, Bordeaux and Cologne. She also designed museums in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, Austria, Madrid, and London. The list goes on of her unique building designs.
Her major exhibitions are scattered throughout the world, such as London, New York, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Her buildings are even located in universities such as Harvard. She has been chosen as the first woman become the 2004 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Showing the world women can do work as well as men and inspire new architects and woman that you can go somewhere.

Lengths

Far Back Wall
Length: 364"
Window to chalkboard: 76"
Chalkboard: 219"
Chalkboard to wall: 69"
Front of cabinet to shelves by window: 326"
Window to edge of wall (aka shelve length): 14"
Cabinet length: 24"

Ross Lovegrove

Born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1958, the industrial designer Ross Lovegrove studied industrial design at Manchester Polytechnic until 1980 before transferring to the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained until 1983. In the early 80s he worked for frog design in West Germany. Some of his projects, such as walkmans for Sony and computers for Apple were highly successful and later invited to the Atelier de Nimes along with Jean Nouvel and Philippe Starck, consulting to amongst others like: Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dupont. His work is usually inspired by natural forms and uses materials and manufacturing that are leading edge and following the Green Design guidelines. He uses very little and only the materials needed and nothing more for his designs. Winner of numerous international awards his work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre Japan, Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Design Museum, London, when in 1993 he curated the first Permanent Collection.

Desk:
Top
Length 59 3/4"
Width 29 3/4"
Thickness
3/4"
Height

Door:
Length 33.7"
Height 81"

Landing:
Width 63.5"
Height 9 feet
Depth 17"

Window:
lenght 192"
Height of Window Wall 128"

The Room is 30' 6" by 30' 5"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Adopt an architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is a famous German-American architect known for designing unique glass buildings. He is one of the pioneer/veterans of modern architecture, making him an epic person. His buildings have a Gothic style to them with a more simplistic design and no ornaments. The buildings are made with minimal framework and almost down-to the-bone look and structure, which is why he called his buildings “skin and bones” architecture.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe didn’t just decide he wanted to be an architect, he was born into it. His father owned and operated a stone carving shop which he worked in part-time. He also worked in several design firms before he moved to Berlin to join the office of interior design, Bruno Paul.

Basically, Lugwig wanted to make something different, something new. It was his lifelong mission to create something new and modern to represent the new era. “He saw a need for an architecture expressive of and in harmony with his epoch, just as Gothic architecture was for an era of spiritualism.” – Wikipedia. He believed that architecture had a meaning, a meaning in the time period and culture it existed in which enabled him to come up with his designs. He is completely self-educated and studied many great philosophers to greater enhance his understanding of the time we live in. His buildings are abstract but very simple if you see them in real life.

Sadly, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe died in August 17, 1969. R.I.P.



Rewritten and summerized by:
Jon C.

Works Cited:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe>
<http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe.html>
<http://www.designboom.com/portrait/mies/bg.html>

Measurements

Measurements

Desk:
Top
Length 59 3/4"
Width 29 3/4"
Thickness
3/4"
Height

Door:
Length 33.7"
Height 81"

Landing:
Width 63.5"
Height 9 feet
Depth 17"

Window:
lenght 192"
Height of Window Wall 128"

Santiago Calatrava

One example of his work is the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. It is multiple venues that he designed for the 2004 summer Olympics. A major one he designed was the soccer pitch venue. It is a huge ovular structure with bone like beams rising up and over the field. He was the head architect and engineer in these projects. He had created so many dynamic structures that fellow engineers thought that this would be nearly impossible to finish in time for the Olympics. It was originally built in 1982 but they refurbished it in 2004. It hosted the soccer games and opening and closing ceremonies. It is currently used for the AEK soccer club.

Jacob

One example of his work is the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. It is multiple venues that he designed for the 2004 summer Olympics. A major one he designed was the soccer pitch venue. It is a huge ovular structure with bone like beams rising up and over the field. He was the head architect and engineer in these projects. He had created so many dynamic structures that fellow engineers thought that this would be nearly impossible to finish in time for the Olympics. It was originally built in 1982 but they refurbished it in 2004. It hosted the soccer games and opening and closing ceremonies. It is currently used for the AEK soccer club.

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are two of many famous architects that have been successful. They were born in Basel in 1950 and have grown up together from a young age. Herzog and de Meuron in 1978 completed the Bank side power plant and the Thames River in the London Gallery of modern art.
The piece of art has received a great amount of attention, from the media to their peers. Herzog and de Meuron have also created great pieces of architecture in the United States also; they completed a winery in the Napa Valley of California and are currently building the Kramlich Residence and Media collection in that same region. They have 3 other projects in work in the United States, from New York to San Francisco they have there hands full. They have projects in England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan, and of course, in their home land Switzerland. There they have built residences, several apartment buildings, libraries, schools, a sports complex, a photographic studio, museums, hotels, as well as office and factory buildings. It is safe to say that Jacques and Pierre have a mind for design and the skill to make a project successful (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_&_de_Meuron)

Sisco Almanza