Saturday, 27 March 2010

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

Friday, 26 March 2010

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.

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Sunday, 21 March 2010

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.

Friday, 19 March 2010

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