Sunday, October 24, 2010

Week three: Design Development

Week Three:
 
This week we prepared ourselves for the big midpoint review in Dallas this coming Monday.  We pushed ourselves to get our preliminary designs together so that we can show HKS what track we are running on.  Our philosophy this week was to get as much of our ideas on paper so that we could get as much feedback as possible from the professionals in Dallas. 
 
Architecture: Build, build, build....The architects this week worked to finalized the massing form of the overall design of the clinic.  They whipped out a few models with different elements while still keeping the overall massing of the building for feedback in D-town.  While working on the massing models they discovered some unique ideas for the design of our roof-line and atrium spaces that will really make our clinic an icon of Tulsa North.
 
Interiors:  Space planning, space planning, space planning....  Beth Ann and I worked this week on getting the overall space planning of not only the required developed 8,000 square feet but of all the wings within the clinic.  Even though we are only required to develop 8,000 square of our clinic we feel that it is necessary to have an overall understanding of the entire space so we know that the overall building form will work for the interiors. 
 
Together:  Team work...  We found this week that our teamwork was a major assets too get our holistic approach across in our designs.  As a group we solved interior space planning issues, finding it helpful to have an architects outside opinion.  Also we discussed exterior issues like parking and the retail space layout, finding that having minds from the interior and exterior perspective was very efficient.
 









Goals: Advance....  Our overall goal for the coming week is to advance our designs.  We want to take the information and feedback from the Dallas critiques to heart and apply as much as possible to our clinic, interior and exterior.  We want to take full advantage of having a professionals opinion about our designs and use it to leap forward.

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