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Comparison matrix, one page.
Baseline:
Proposal Matrix:
Design memo of 300 to 500 words: what you read in the site, the three strategies, what the analysis said, your recommendation, and the surprise.
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I chose this parcel of land due to my frequent visits to it! It is right next to the Stanford Boathouse and what I believe to be either unused land or a dry pond basin. It is a very large and open area that I felt would be a good choice to develop for this project. Surrounded by this site is many office parks, therefore creating a residential and commercial area for the workforce to either live or enjoy for lunch or a shopping during their break or after work.
Proposal 1: This was a preliminary design that focused more on a large space to fit what was needed, therefore it takes the shape of almost any large scale shopping area (ex. Walmart) Although this site was not the prettiest, in its analysis it performed quite well in all areas besides the carbon footprint. This footprint was in the middle around 15M of carbon. So far, this was its only negative.
Proposal 2: This design focused more on a tower approach. This would work very well in a highly dense downtown area, but here it doesn’t make the most sense when looking at its carbon footprint. The tower design was a great approach at increasing density and creating an area where shoppers and residents can be fully immersed in the area because of the tower being surrounded by the commercial area, however the carbon footprint was extremely high and did not perform as well against Proposal 1’s analysis in wind, sun, and daylight. Wind was also the highest in this design.
Proposal 3: This design was more out of the box and seemed to compete well with Proposal 1. The S shape of the building provides a unique way of separating the commercial and residential spaces, while also incorporating the green spaces more fluidly with the rest of the site. This design was similar to proposal 1 in all analysis, but scored extremely well in carbon footprint compared to the two. Overall every single proposal’s noise was very low due to it being in such a private and quiet area and being by the water. The carbon footprint was 5.98M, which ended up being the selecting factor between proposals. The density here, because it utilized the line type of building, actually increased the amount of density that was needed in proposal 2 without being too large and more efficient.
The surprise of this was definitely how well and efficient proposal 1 worked. I used this design as sort of a test run to compare to more unique buildings, thinking that design 1 would not have worked as well as it did. Overall, it did the best in terms of being large scale without it sacrificing in daylighting, wind, temperature, and more. I can see why large scale developers and NPCs choose a warehouse approach when building large-scale commercial sites like Walmarts, Publix, Krogers, etc. Sometimes a more simple approach can lead to nicer results.
Three massing images, one per proposal, from the same viewpoint.
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