R04: Final Review
Last Updated on 2023.12.17 by Slee
Our work will be reviewed in CFA214 from 1330 - 1630, Thursday 14 December 2023. The Damiani Studio will be Thursday morning and the Cochran Hameen studio on Friday morning. Attendance is required both days - one session to present and two sessions to observe and discuss.
As we have remote reviewers (Hayes & Burwell) I will provide a shared laptop for TV or projection. You need to plot your 22 x 34 sheets and pin them up in the space but you need to present via a Miro slideshow for our zoom guests. I will introduce the project in the first 5 minutes of the review.
Minimum Submission Requirements:
I have provided a PDF draft of the sheets that I think are essential to completely document your projects and to address the learning objectives of the semester. Use your discretion to add/ subtract/ combine. The PDFs are here: Slee Layouts from ArchiCAD template
Submission Deadline:
All work must be pinned up by 13:00, Thursday, 14 December 2023. You may perform touch up work on your models and edit your Miro boards between the pin up deadline and your review. Design your presentation as you would for distribution to your client, your consultants and your construction manager.
A Celebration of Your Accomplishments
The purpose of the final review is to to share your work with classmates, faculty and our external reviewers and to bring 14 weeks of design, evaluation, measurement and iteration on a single project to a successful and celebratory conclusion. It is also a moment to reflect on the contributions that architects can bring to lead the world forward in a more positive direction - how do we make our buildings more resilient? how do we design buildings to actively mitigate climate change? how do we envision and program spaces to improve social equity? The list is long, but the design thinking skills you cultivate in architecture school, will make you indispensable to creatively solving the planet's wicked problems.
Minimum Submission Requirements:
The requirements for this review have been developed in collaboration with the BIOS faculty team. My requirements may differ from the other studio sections because of the specifics of our project.
Design your presentation based on 22" x 34" formatted sheets. Your are encouraged to combine the drawings on the list for greater clarity e.g. the relationship of the site design to the ground floor design demonstrating inside-outside relationships.
- Annotated Neighborhood Context Plan, 1:480 (1"=40")
- Code Analysis and Fire Safety Drawings
- Site/ Roof Plan 1:192 (1/16"=1'-0")
(include the Haberman Green Corridor, bioswale, the rain gardent and all the trails in your section of the park) - Building Floor Plans 1:96 (1/8"=1'-0")
- Building Reflected Ceiling Plans (RCP) 1:96 (1/8"=1'-0")
(this is the best drawing to show the integration of the structure, heating, cooling, ventilating, lighting and fire protection) - Longitudinal & Transverse Building Sections and Primary Exterior Elevations, 1:96 (1/8"=1'-0")
(Do NOT cut sections through the length of the structural members) - The Most Important Building Section, 1:48 (1/4"=1'-0")
(include footers/ retaining walls/ topo)> - One (1) Wall Section w/ Partial Elevations through Opaque Enclosure, 1:12 (1"=1'-0") and
One (1) Wall Section w/ Partial Elevations through Transparent Enclosure, 1:12 (1"=1'-0")
(label the R-values for wall and roof assemblies, the target EUI and the final EUI based on your design proposal) - Drawings and diagrams of integration strategies for structure, enclosure and MEP.
- Drawings and diagrams of sustainability objectives and strategies including natural conditioning (daylight/ natural ventilation), renewable energy, upstream and downstream material implications and water management.
- Visualizations of your Climate Studio simulations to demonstrate how performance measurements of your project guided your incremental design decision making to satisfice the outcomes.
(use the templates on Google Drive or a reasonable facsimile) - Physical models - updated site model (1" = 40’ (1:480) and building models at an appropriate scale
- Renders (digital and/ or analog)
- Experiential Drawings
- Anything that I might have missed
Mandates:
- Use a formatted 22 x 34 (ANSI D) layout with title block for each page of your presentation. Slee Layouts from ArchiCAD template
- Arrange plan drawings with the lowest floor plan at the bottom of the presentation and the highest floor plan at the top of the presentation. Plans need to be oriented parallel to the edges of the plot (not rotated to absolute north)
- All plan drawings (site plans, key plans, floor plans) must be oriented with north pointing upwards (toward the review room ceiling) and a conspicuous graphic north arrow.
- Numeric scales must be be noted as 1:192 or 1/16"=1'-0", etc.
- Graphic scales must be included.
As a Reminder Your Project Must Address These Issues:
Objective | Demonstration |
Sustainable: The building must demonstrate high levels of performance. | |
| Incorporate effective passive strategies in the design - load reduction, daylight, natural ventilation, other. | Model energy and daylighting performance. |
| Identify the type of mechanical systems that are suitable to condition the building - heating, cooling, ventilating & lighting | Calculate and/or model performance. Use CBECS as benchmark. |
| Identify the opportunities to generate energy on site - sun, wind, biomass, other. | Calculate annual production. |
| Integrate passive systems with spatial, structural, enclosure & material systems. | Diagram building systems integration |
| Control solar radiation, heat flow, airflow, rain penetration & water vapor flow through the design of the envelope system(s). | Design wall sections based on building science (SPAIGR). Model energy and daylighting performance. |
| Retain all rainwater falling on the site on site. ** | Diagram systems; Calculate of amount of precipitation to be captured and volume of containment. |
| Recycle, process and separate solid waste on site. ** | Diagram systems; Calculate the amount of waste to be captured. |
| Compost all organic waste on site. ** | Diagram systems; Calculate the amount of waste to be captured. |
Context: The building must respond to the neighborhood context. | |
| Environmental Context | Reduce impermeable surface below 50% and increase tree canopy to 40%. |
| Architectural Context ** | Improve neighborhood identity; reinforce neighborhood character; eliminate weak spots. |
| Social Context ** | Design building to recognizable as school; public entrance is legible; exterior spaces are "claimed"; building offers natural surveillance; building is not "hardened" architecture |
Flexible: The building must be able to support spatial change over time. | |
| The ability to re-arrange/re-configure spaces and F,F & E to accommodate differing lesson plans and changing demographics. | Prepare multiple plans showing alternative arrangements & uses |
Adaptable: The building must be able to support technological change over time. | |
| The ability to constantly upgrade and accommodate the technological infrastructure of the building (plug-n-play) minimizing disruption, waste and lengthy construction cycles. ** | Prepare infrastructure system diagrams. |
| Healthy | Demonstrate daylighting, natural ventilation, IEQ, active circulation systems, healthy materials. |
| Inspiring | Create renders to demonstrate experiential attributes of interior & exterior spaces. |
| Conducive to Effective Learning | Demonstrate translation of pedagogy to spatial strategies. |
Ecological Literacy: The building itself must be an effective tool for teaching - a living & lived-in laboratory. | |
| The operation of the building must be understandable and accessible to the faculty, staff and students. | Demonstrate climate-responsive building envelope; display building systems showing full-cycle design; install monitors showing real-time use/production of energy, water collection, etc; include gardens for learning |
| Note: This table contains unquestionably important architectural objectives for all buildings, however, the ones marked ** are beyond the scope of a one semester studio. | |
End of Semester Documentation:
For grading and archival purposes, please submit your final project files as PDFs, model photos as JPGs and slide shows as PPTs or PDFs to: 48400C Files for Reviews by 23:59, Tuesday, 19 December 2022. Best practice would be to zip all your files into one archive Team_xx_Final.zip and submit that.
The BIOS faculty have collected all of your process work during the course of the semester, so this submission is the documentation that you produced for final review. I encourage you to update drawings based on comments your received during you final crit. This documentation will be the basis of your grade for the final review.
One last thing.
As my last semester teaching fall studio after 42 years, thank you for tolerating my eccentricities and being willing to learn in perhaps a way different from previous studios.