Thursday, April 30, 2009

Spring Studio Final Project

This project was to take an existing warehouse space, and convert it into studio apartments. Needless to say this project required volumes of drawings, diagrams, pictures, and charts to finish; far more than would be appropriate for this venue, thus the most salient examples were included in this post.


These two tables are the Materials and finishes schedule for my loft design. It is included in this instance with some of the process work due to the fact that materials consideration was a very important starting point for the development of my project.

These two charts are from The University of Oregan's solar research laboratory, they show the path the sun takes through the sky including elevation through the year. Sun exposure is a critical factor to consider needless to say. Especially since there were presentations where the orientation of the building as well as the sun exposure was presented incorrectly.
Given the nature of the cement floor, and massive square footage of gypsum wall space, acoustics of the space needed to be calculated to an acceptable range. The ceiling of my space is covered with acoustic tiles for this reason. This acoustics chart came from ATS Acoustics which provided the raw data needed to calculate the number of necessary tiles to provide adequate die-off time.

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