Final Learning Portfolio ARCH  103  Enkhtuvshin  Ganbold    

Introduction      The second half of the semester consist of steps that were designed to walk us through a process, which would result in our Final Project. The general building masses of the Mission Bay South and their relationship to our site, major and minor traffic flow, and physical forces, such as wind direction and sun path were identified through the site analysis. Based on our research and design proposals, the course was introduced to the Final Project Brief. Then the initial conceptual design of the programmatic spaces was done through adjacency matrix and bubble diagrams. In response to conceptual design along with precedence studies , the project develops over series of iterations using 2D plan/sectional sketches as well 3D SketchUp modeling.

Proposal 2 Alternatively, there could be a sport/recreational center both of indoor and outdoor spaces for various kinds of activities. Not only should there be sport activities, I think that having sports clubs as well as café and bars would promote this center for more vitality.

Proposal 3 The site can also be dedicated for both visual and performing arts. Every month or every other months, there can be new exhibition in a gallery besides a main museum, similar to SFMoMA or de Young Museum. And During the weekend, bands may play in a small scale outside stage for the public.

UCHIRONIAN GARDEN at MISSION BAY: Conceptual Design

Indoor Ancillary Exhibit Space

Leasable Spaces

Urban Organic Garden Public RestroomsPublic Garden

Main Museum Gallery

Cafe

Restrooms Mechanical Spaces

Out Door Gallery Amphitheater Backstage Area

Outdoor Dining Area

Shops

Amphitheater

Leasable Space

Cafe

Shops

Exhibit Space

Main Museum Gallery

Outdoor Dining

OutdoorGallery

Backstage

Mechanical Space

Restrooms

Urban Organic Garden

Public Garden

Enkhtuvshin Ganbold ARCH 103, Spring 103

Design Values

1. Social Emphasis on creating a complex that promotes opportunities for social interactions. 2. Harmony Response to existing buildings and environmental characteristics.3. Structure 4. Hierarchy 5. Vertical Emphasis on east to west

UCHIRONIAN GARDEN at MISSION BAY: Conceptual Design

Indoor Ancillary Exhibit Space

Leasable Spaces

Urban Organic Garden Public RestroomsPublic Garden

Main Museum Gallery

Cafe

Restrooms Mechanical Spaces

Out Door Gallery Amphitheater Backstage Area

Outdoor Dining Area

Shops

Amphitheater

Leasable Space

Cafe

Shops

Exhibit Space

Main Museum Gallery

Outdoor Dining

OutdoorGallery

Backstage

Mechanical Space

Restrooms

Urban Organic Garden

Public Garden

Enkhtuvshin Ganbold ARCH 103, Spring 103

Design Values

1. Social Emphasis on creating a complex that promotes opportunities for social interactions. 2. Harmony Response to existing buildings and environmental characteristics.3. Structure 4. Hierarchy 5. Vertical Emphasis on east to west

Ini%al  sketches  in  plan    

Ini%al  sketches  in  3D  

Ini%al  sketches  in  sec%on  

Amphitheater                  Museum  

Market  Place,  connected  to  the  museum  

Reaching  out  to  the  water’s  edge    

Through my initial massing studies, I was exploring ways to accommodate the major programmatic spaces using landform building approach. The concept that drew the general forms were about growing/expanding out ( from the 0 level at the west end) toward east and reaching out to the Bay.

Museum    

Shops  and  Café    facing  the  Bay    

Aberdeen City Garden The uses of slope for amphitheater. While there is a big amphitheater, there are paths that go over the theater, creating such an exciting view of performances and permeability. While walking on those paths, one would never be bored as one can see the surrounding environment from a bridge like structure.

Precedence Analysis

MAXXI Since was one of my design objects was to play between natural and geometrical forms, MAXXI (Museum of Art for the XXI Century) was the most inspirational design of my precedence study, which captures combination of curvilinear and linear forms perfectly.

The general structure is close to landform building designs although the ends of the slopes are elevated from the ground by walls. Built with steel truss work, a wave like structure has vegetated roof tops and has interior spaces that have transparent view of the outside through glass windows. I like the divisions in between that are created by different slopes, and the heights created in between function as windows.

Marcel Sembat High School in France

Something that I take from this example can be the breaks in between the various slopes. Since our site is very long in the west to east direction, one of my design objectives is to create permeability from the 3rd street to the water front while creating landforms. So there will be sloped form, on top of which will serve as walkway to or from a main entrance of something (museum for instance). The slopes that have the same height can be connected with bridges with benches to create more interesting and sociable spaces while being parts of the path. Also the use of steel is inspirational because while it serves as the main support that creates the landform, it then becomes a main tectonic language. One way that I can use this inspiration is to reveal parts of the structure not only as windows on the sides, but also as transparent rooftops along with vegetated rooftops. Source excerpted from: http://openbuildings.com/buildings/marcel-sembat-high-school-profile-4364    

•  Create  extension  of  paths  from  major  armatures  to  promote  major  ac%vity  areas  

•  West  to  east  oriented  public  parks  will  have  the  max  amount  of  sunlight.    

•     

The most important feedback that I got from the last iteration was how the general form of my model reminded the pattern of Railroad yard, which became one of the biggest concepts about my project. Thus, questions that I had to explore to bring my design to the next level were •  what does rail

yard represent? •  Vanishing

movements of research?

•  Hopes?  

Revit  drawing-­‐  experiment  for  more  details.      

Level  1  

Level  2  

Level  3  

Level  4  

South  Eleva%on  

North  Eleva%on  

East  Eleva%on  

Due  to  many  technical  issues,  the  project  was  not  complete  in  Revit,  but  it  was  nice  to  see  the  level  of  complexity  and  more  details  in  the  drawings    that  google  Sketchup  couldn’t  provide  at  %mes.    

Final Presentation

Critique/ Conclusion

 One of the main criticism about my proposal was that it lacks a space for a large group of crowd, especially, because of the fact the main objective of the Uchronian Gardens is to promote vitality through public garden. It was commented that the end of the long walkway, where one arrives at the water’s edge on the over hang. should celebrate the idea of public open space by having generous amount of room that would fit large number of people.

The biggest feed back made during the final critique was how I could take the design to the next level. One way that I can further develop my design is to explore the curved and straight lines/ forms of rail road vertically or more three dimensionally, breaking the linear or more 2D patterns of rail road.

Although there were so many ways that I could have turned my Final Project, I feel satisfied by how I achieved my initial design intensions of creating something moving forward/expanding while using landform approach, which incorporates my later design concepts of railroad.