Working share link to your Forma project
app.autodeskforma.com/board/up_i2od844v74/…6bb-b2d6-4f1e3bb056a0
One page facade comparison showing both options with their metrics
Typical floor plan image with unit types or zones labelled, plus the unit mix schedule
One AI render of the chosen scheme
Design memo of 300 to 500 words: how the massing changed from Week 2 and why, what the facade studies showed, what you chose, and where you overrode the automation
In Week 2 I picked Proposal C, an 8-story bar along Adeline with a courtyard to the west and a low retail wing on 3rd St. I planned to raise the wing to four stories. Laying out units changed my mind. The wing was only 26 ft deep, too shallow for units on both sides of a corridor, and it would have needed its own stair. So I removed it and kept just the bar: 69 x 172 ft, 8 stories, 94,971 SF GFA, 5% under the 100,000 SF target. The ground floor is retail at 15 ft floor-to-floor, and the seven floors above are housing at 11 ft. The average unit is about 664 SF, under the 750 SF target, because the bar is only 69 ft deep. Stairs sit at both ends of the corridor, with the elevator and shaft beside the north stair, stacked from floor 1 to 8. The farthest unit is about 120 ft from a stair. Seven of 13 units per floor (54%) get a 10 x 6 ft courtyard balcony. I made two facade options with the window-to-wall automation. Option 1 uses one setting for the whole building, 40% square windows on every wall. Option 2 sets each side on its own: 30% vertical bars on Adeline, 50% ribbon windows on the courtyard, 30% on 3rd St and 35% on the south end, about 38% overall, with a 50% ribbon storefront on the ground floor. On June 21 most courtyard and Adeline windows get 7 to 9 hours of sun, and the 3rd St end gets 4 to 5. Daylight potential is high almost everywhere because the site is open, and lowest under the balconies. Indoor daylight was 75% sDA for Option 1 and 71% for Option 2, so less glass on Adeline cost a few points. Total carbon was a tie at 7.74M kgCO2e over 20 years (82 vs 81 kgCO2e/SF). Less glass saved a little operational carbon but added about the same embodied carbon. I chose Option 2. Daylight and carbon were close, so it came down to where the glass goes. The larger courtyard units get the big windows and the afternoon sun, and the Adeline side, with truck traffic and morning glare, gets narrow bars. also I overrode the automation on the ground-floor wall facing 3rd St. I released it and placed the main entry door by hand, because the automation only places windows and the lobby has to face 3rd St.