Assignment Two - Spatial Variations [update]

You are given a narrow site and a fixed set of volumetric entities. You are to create three unique design proposals. Each proposal must follow the same requirements listed below. The first scheme is to be composed with a centralized focus. The second scheme is to be a decentralized composition. The third scheme is to be a hybrid scheme between the previous two, creating areas of centralized focus as well as overall decentralization to maintain dynamic spatial interest. Figures are given for explanatory purposes, you must interpret how these design principles will develop given the constraints of the site and the given volumetric entities. Design focus should be placed not only on the arrangement of the given volumetric entities, but on the space that is formed between these entities.
Note on Tips: refer to the Sketch-Up Help menu searching words in quotes (e.g. "groups").

Submission

Post the required views to your blog by the end of Sunday, April 15th.

Submit one folder, with three SketchUP files in it, to the network course folder. Your folder will be named "_asg2" (e.g. Cabrinha_Asg2), and each SketchUP file should be named "_centralized", "_distributed", "_hybrid" accordingly. Folders have been created for each section under the folder name "Assignment Two," place your folder within your appropriate section folder.

Email your GTF for instructions to log onto our course folder.

Kit of Parts

Design Requirements

• Use each of the volumetric entities given, no more no less.

• The composition must not extend beyond the boundaries of the site.

• Maximum Height is 66'.

• Opaque volumes should not intersect, but do not have to meet at their respective corners.

• Opaque volumes can intersect and be contained within the Transparent Volume.

• Each scheme should be clearly composed around its design principle (Centralized, Decentralized, and Hybrid).

Presentation / Technical Requirements

• One Overall Isometric View
• Two Orthographic Views
• One Plan View
• One Longitudinal View

TIP: Be sure to set view to "parallel projection" in Camera Menu.

• One eye-level view (4'-6" eye height) standing on the site

TIP: "Eye-Height" can be set with the "Position Camera Tool"
Don't forget to make sure Camera is set to Perspective

• Two Immersive Views

TIP: Try using the "Two-Point Perspective" method to make vertical lines appear straight.
Don't forget to change "focal length."

• Each required view must be saved as a "Scene" in your SketchUp File.

TIP: Don't forget to right-click on the Scene Tab and select "update" to save the view.

• Each of the four kinds of entities must be on their own layer in your SketchUp File (22' Cubes, Transparent Box, Skinny Box, and 11' Cubes).
• Make the Cubes "Components" (one component for 11' Cubes, another component for 22' Cubes)
• Make the Site, Transparent Box, and Skinny Box each as a separate "Group"