Monday, March 26, 2007

Current Issues

Key Issues to Resolve:

  1. approach / entry
    • parking
    • entry from buses and cards
  2. landscape
    • diagrammatic site plan
    • car circulation
    • roof as part of ground?
  3. central circulation
    • courtyard space
    • elevators and escalators
    • pedestrian movement
  4. technical changes to plan, etc.
    • cantilever vs. view
    • soft and open flow through museum
    • auditorium location
    • location for 4 fire stairs
    • demonstration gallery
  5. skin system
    • differentiation in walls and roof
    • materiality

General notes from review:

- bridges and rivers relationship in building as well as city, tie to Pittsburgh

- interlocking piece: steel as a tile form

- our scheme: narrow is low, wide is tall- doesn’t work everywhere

- sequence: production, use, history- what is our sequence?

Issues/Concerns

Steel innovation—I thought one of the best comments we received was the fact that everyone was going to present buildings made of cool steel forms etc, but we need to find something new; for the competitions sake I feel like a sustainable source of steel is needed as well

Clearance for bus/art drop off—as we have it now, the canteliever won’t allow trucks and buses to pass underneath it

The need for more elevators/escalators—I agree with comments made about the problem with having only one elevator connecting the museum circuit with the lower level; it doesn’t seem to me that there is a good way of holding people for a slow moving elevator giving them no other option

The need for a more protected space—once visitors begin their trip through the exhibition the won’t want to be passing from indoor to outdoor repeatedly requiring them to take off and put on coats etc; perhaps the circulation bridges should be enclosed so visitors can remove their coats when purchasing their tickets and then go on in comfort

On the side of the museum towards the river, I think Craig and Silance made a good point that it may be a good idea to allow people to pass from one gallery space to another with out being forced back to the circulation bridge

I think it could be beneficial to work the auditorium more into the museum experience; though it will be used for other events I don’t see why it should be used for educational videos for visitors or something of that nature

The awkward position of the bathrooms in the galleries needs to be resolve and perhaps the larger gallery needs to be further divided

Problems to Be Solved (M&N)

  1. Courtyard:
    • Size
    • Inside or outside
  2. Plans
    • Entrance circulation
    • Parking
  3. Materials
  4. Structure
  5. Diagram:
    • Cantilever
    • Structure
    • View
  6. Parking integrated into landscape
  7. Drawings relating to concepts

Semi-Finalized Schematic Design


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