The main purpose of a midterm review is to have a discussion about the current direction of the project. Keeping in mind that the past month has been the only time to start designing on the selected site, I chose to focus on the creation of forms and massing at this stage. Based on the […]
Read More March 5: Midterm ReviewToday, all twelve of the students in my studio section presented a 36×48 board with their initial findings, linking the concepts and conclusions from their thesis documents to a tangible building project. I put up the following on Jacksonville, indicating the lack of cohesion in planning because of a disconnect between infrastructure based on the […]
Read More February 5, 2014: Preliminary ReviewLast night, I had a Super Bowl party at my apartment and had the following conversation with a friend who had never been over that went something like this: Her: “What are all those papers on your refrigerator?” Me: “They’re soccer team schedules.” Her: “Why do you have them?” Me: “Well, I like sports–” Her: […]
Read More An Interest of MineI began to take some of the diagrammatic conclusions from the thesis and apply them to the situation at hand. I found a first step to re-organizing the relationship to infrastructure and expression, while determining that the reason downtown Jacksonville seems so disconnected is because there is a major inconsistency among its overall planning. If […]
Read More Beginning Synthesis of Site Analysis ObservationsDad and I went under the series of overpasses that marked the southern connection between Interstate 95 and the Jacksonville beltway, marking that we were ten miles outside of downtown. The absence of any element of society around this connection brought about the distinct typology of the American city: the overpass. It seems that, in […]
Read More Site Analysis: January 16, 2014