Through the help of Thomas Norman Rajkovich and Allyson Vincent we had constructive critiques of our projects. This last Friday we spent in critique at the Graham foundation in the northern historic residential district of Chicago. Midterm Critique: Triumphs…Failures…Progress? I took the opportunity to place side aisles along the church, which as you can see through the section enable the opportunity to light the nave through clerestory windows. That columnar grid then expresses the opportunity to relate through the entire length of the church in the column center lines which run along the edge of the nave. Through these changes you can see that I redesigned the way that the church interacts with the streetscape by pulling a portico forward with ionic columns supporting it. Through these changes it was important to constantly keep a view of the building and the siting of the building as it related to the community. Spring break I spent working on a redesign of the church which is the primary purpose of this post.Īt the post critique review I sighted several challenges with the past design of my church which included: dealing with the programmatic challenges, and considering the opportunity to fill up the entire depth of the site with my building. Since then, one week of spring break and one week of classes have passed. I apologize for the amount of time that it has been since my post following the midterm critique two weeks ago. As usual comments and questions are invited. This enables the existing space planned for beside the church to become a formal garden entry into the ancillary spaces within the church.įinally you can see three sketch perspectives dealing with the idea of framing along my streets in order to further emphasize the importance of both the church and the train station in my design. Through this I looked into the possibility of creating a formal square for the church within the boundaries of the street through the organization of elements on the corners. One of the downfalls of the plan below is the void that the street creates in between the square of the church and the train station retail square, also for understanding the plan below is drawn in the style of a nolli diagram, which expresses the public spaces within the buildings, as well as, the public spaces in the urban fabric. Through this understanding it enables the organization of the spaces in relation to each other. To achieve this I broke down the large square into pieces, each building, or in a singular case group of buildings, was given its own portion of the urban plan. One of the challenges of this irregular urban plan was correctly defining the square to provide an understanding that the church was, in fact, the primary building on that square but the relation of the train station to the church was flipped in fact so the train station became the primary building. If you remember back to my earlier urban plan there was a plaza created in front of the train station which extended into the space along the nave of the church. This post is an understanding of those musings. Through the development of my buildings I have thought through the optimal way for the urban environment to respond. Throughout the semester I have focused on the way that two buildings, a train station and a church, relate to public space.
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