Your Design Journal entries for this module should highlight:
- the design alternatives that you modeled and tested
- the results of the analyses and how they influenced your thinking about how to move forward
Use text , images, web links, movies... Whatever media works best to express your ideas!
Images of Your 3 Design Proposals
Paste screenshots of your 3 proposed building forms here...
Side-By-Side Comparisons of Your Analysis Results
Paste at least 2 screenshots showing the side-by-side comparisons of the analysis results for your 3 proposed building forms here…
Your Recommendation for the “Best” Design Option
Create a few paragraphs outlining a brief explanation of why you chose this design option as the “best” after comparing your analyses of the proposals. Explain your reasoning and the tradeoffs that influenced your decision about which design option to move forward with.
My design philosophy with the 3 designs was to have one baseline basic design and compare them to two more intricate designs. The first design is meant to see if the other two would worsen the conditions of a typical rectangular prism building. So when I am looking at my proposals 2 and 3, it seems like the numbers for both Daylight potential and Sunlight hours values are very close together.
Design two is meant to be a large atrium connected to a rectangular prism. An atrium in the middle of the building was inspired by the Student Services building at Cal Poly Pomona where I attended my undergrad. The image below shows the atrium in the center of the building with office spaces surrounding it. There may be issues with too much sunlight however with natural light being emmitted from every angle inside the building which could be irritable for light sensitive persons.
My inspiration for my third proposal is 150 Riverside in Chicago as shown in the image below. The hanging triangle shape is fascinating to me though my proposal poorly shows an effective model compared to 150 Riverside. I added a column at the end for supports due to the extreme extrusion of the extension without any proper dedicated vertical supports. I wanted to see if this triangle would impact any daylight activity and I kept attempting to try a wind analysis but the program kept crashing.
By observing the analysis, it seems that proposal 3 would be the winner. This is just the conclusion drawn by looking at the analysis of daylight and sun hours. I believe that if we were to consider open spaces, the second proposal would win due to the atrium providing a brighter and more open space. I would go with proposal 3.