Elevations run the length of the Boylston relating (over emphasizing) to the linear floorplan of the dorm rooms and address the residential street presence that has been established from the residential building shown on the left. While the height address the neighborhood. I feel that that space between the first and third floors will allow for adaquate sun to reach the studio space will providing shadow at key times of the day.
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Ken, thanks for putting the existing building next to our site in your elevation. The side-by-side comparison is interesting.
Left --- right: existing building --- your proposal.
28,000 sqft of Condominiums, 44 units --- 5,400 sqft + hallways + Common areas = 7,800 sqft (?), 24 students.
Compact --- spread.
26,000 sqft of exterior (1SF of exterior per 1 GSF) --- 39,000 sqft of exterior, walls, floors, roofs, (5SF of exterior per 1 GSF)
No more than 5% of all units at grade --- 25% of all units below grade.
Clear entrance into the building --- Entrance to the building where?
Comfortable proportions “it looks like a building” --- uncomfortable proportions “it looks like a prison”
Friendly neighbor, eyes on the street --- ???
Green building design to me is at the very last building for a particular feature. Green building, or any building for that matter, should be a good place for humans first, a machine that makes us comfortable with the least amount of non-site generated energy second. I don’t think your building does that for me. I think the building is nasty to at least the 25% of occupants that need to live below grade at a very busy street. I don’t think the green terraces are worth the effort; they don’t offer usable outdoor space and nobody can see it. The giant bridge as entrance to the complex is poorly proportioned. But I’m not telling you anything new.
anything new...
being below grade 30" is hardly a nasty 'below grade' level... the entrance to the dorms, from the court yard between the two buildings is not below grade, it is at grade to the site. Boylston is a busy street... but during the hours that students would be in studio or other activites... not when they are in the dorm rooms (1am-7am), so i dont thing that the activity on the street will have that much of a negative affect as you seem to believe it will, if any at all.
the green terraces are starting to lose their luster with me as well... i dont like saying that... but they are.... my question is... do i have the steam and time to now readdress?
I really like the idea of using the natural vegation and the cooling effect it can create to cool the dorms durring the summer nights... but as you have mentioned... is the cost really worth the results? I think so... or can it be done better differently... cross ventilation is the best way.. really. i wanted to explore another solution...
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