USER WANTS:NEEDS

TIME SAVER STANDARDS: 2ND EDITION

[Restaurants]

p341 Tables and chairs (spacing)

figures 1.8.9.12.17.20

p351 Knee space

figures 22.23.24.25.

p356,357,359

[Lunch Counters]

p361-367

p372-376

[Wheelchair Accessibility]

p368

figures 34.35.

[Retail Spaces]

p469-473

figures 1-5

p481-489 Display cases

p490-495 Display island

p496-499 Sales counter

p537 Transparency display

[Assisted living]

p625-627 Special doors and partitions

[Restrooms]

p675-729

[Partitions]

p748 figure 14

p749

p781 figure 17

p787-789

[Floors]

p804-805, p822, p828-829, p832-834, p838

[Doors]

p878-881

p882-883 Hinges

p885 Locks

p884 Pivots

p895 Sliding doors

p900-903

p912-915

p918-919

[Ceiling]

p967 Cove and sofit

p968-971 Curved

p977-978

[Lights]

p1099 Wall mounted

p1100-1114

p1115-1119 Cove lighting

p1152-1170

[Plantscaping]

p1328-1358

[Graphics]

p1359-1363

[Security]

p1411-1413

p1415-1426 Doors

[Color]

p1433

p1438-1447

[Windows]

p1450-1454

[Elevators]

p1494-1505

[Column Covers]

p1553-1560

[Codes]

p1579-1585

p1588-1596

[Human Factors]

p1606-1617

[Fabric and Furniture]

p1628-1633

LIVING PEOPLE

A six year old girl getting food at the kitchen.
A forty two year old woman working at the co-op.
A seventy two year old man sitting at a desk in his wheelchair looking at the flowers and out of the window.

IDEATION

Design Thinking

What does design thinking mean to me?

How am i using it for this project and future projects?

Design thinking is seeing things in more detail. It is when you notice things most people wouldn't. It is not just in the way they look but how they work and effect other people. It is how thing affect their surroundings. Design thinking is taking inspiration from these details and and manipulating it into something that works best for the purpose you intend for it.

People can all be connected in many ways. Most of the time it is spacial design that is most effective for this. For this project, and future projects, the main focus is the directing people through a comfortable space that is built most functionally for it's intended purpose. In this project we've decided to do this by creating a more comfortable space where people don't feel threatened or intruded upon. In a comfortable space people are more willing to be social. The main purpose for the gateway plaza project is to create community but without the tenants having a comfortable communal space for them to socialize they will not spend time outside of their apartments.

Pulling it together

Design Problem Definition:

Create a social Oasis that combines a General store/restaurant encompassed by atriums.

Concept Statement:

Design a co-op General store that promotes socialization and a sense of community through residential interaction of the Greenhouse/Atrium, and slow foods cookery. Space will be defined by large planters, cobble stone pathways and tranquil garden styled elements.

Sketches

User needs for immigrants:

Jobs/Income

Open, clean spaces

Large spaces (to allow for family)

Language barrier resolutions

Access to food

Familiarity

Inclusion

Precedent Collage

RELEASE

In order to foster community between elderly people, immigrants and college students we made hte second floor into a green house where the tenants in this building can grow vegetables and then sell them themselves at the co-op that will be next door. It's gonna be a great system. we have a lot of other peices to it that's gonna make it perfect for jobs and people getting to know each other and it helps them be green and sustainable.

The way that we've decided to bring people together on neighborhood C's second floor is by creating a greenhouse system with connecting eating area and food co-op. In this area all of the tenants will be offered volunteer and job opportunities. They will be given the choice to work in the co-op or help grow and harvest the produce that is being grown in the greenhouse. They can watch their plants grow and sell them or eat them themselves.

By creating a opportunity for people such as this we are giving people nearby jobs and limitless opportunities to meet their neighbors.

Release is meant by the way you feel when you feel when you enter the space and experience this exterior environment on the interior. You get a sense of being in a different place and escaping your everyday routine. It also applies to the way plants grow, releasing into full bloom.

Vegetable Studies

When i researched the way that produce is grown i found these images that show different environments in which vegetables thrive.

The image bellow shows the layers of soil that will help the produce to grow to their healthiest.