Final Presentation

After a long weekend of work it is finally crit week! I put the finishing touches on my boards and presentation slides last night around midnight and after printing this morning I am officially finished. I have posted a few select slides from my presentation. The presentation starts with the Midterm work Andy and I presented, then moves into my site analysis and site master plan. Then finally it narrows down to the Winery design and finishes with the renderings I completed. The rest of my day will consist of going through the presentation slide by slide and forming an oral presentation to correspond with the slides. Tomorrow morning at 8am is the final crit!

Final Push

The final weekend has arrived. As the project deadline approaches I am continuing to develop my perspective views for renderings as well as beginning to put together my final presentation. I have posted some of the final prototype images below of my perspectives as well as section cuts that I will be rendering.

For my presentation I have laid out a progression that will walk through my project from the beginning with Andy. It will explain the concept and research that we did in a condensed manner compared to the midterm presentation, but will still show the overall premise of what we accomplished. From there I will begin to dive into my project explanation with diagrams and program breakdowns showing my transition into the individual portion. Finally I plan to show multiple slides of the master site plan, then progressing to the actual winery plan and renderings last. The presentation will be primarily digital with some printed media pinned up for clarification purposes.

Overnight Progression

I worked yesterday and into the night on the revisions that Lance and I talked about. The raising of the roof planes worked out well with creating the dynamic space on the deck as well as fixing the awkward connection between the roofs. However the plaza idea hit a road bump in the form of that massive hill that the winery is built into. The only attack that I could make was to cut a path through the hill in a grid form by using the existing grids of the building layout. This did not work so well, so I will be rethinking the layout and functionality of that space later today. Finally I tackled the parking lot and surrounding site layout this morning. It didn’t end up to bad, however after my crit Lance and I had we decided that the location of the lot, as well as the site itself, has a lot of potential to play into my master site plan for the surrounding beach. I will be attempting to work with that as well to create a space adjacent to the parking that relates to the beach layout plan.

Finally I have also started getting ready for renderings. I have laid out a few of the prototype images above to show my progression. Finding the places to render from is actually harder that I had anticipated in this project. I am trying to find the locations that explain the most in relation to my building, my concept, and the site features.

Winery Progress

Over the weekend I progressed enough to insert my winery design into Revit. I reworked the entry so that in plan and perspective it wasn’t an awkward space. I have posted images of the two level plans as well as a front entry and rear view of the overall building.

During my desk crit today Lance and I talked about the pros and cons of having the beach access on the front entry of the winery. After some discussion I am going to re-work that part of the plan for tomorrow’s class by realigning the beach access on the south side of the building. It will attach to the deck space on the upper level as well as the delivery/crushing area of the program. I am hoping to create a sort of plaza in that area the preludes the beach access stairs. After tomorrow I hope to have the winery design fairly nailed down so I can start preparing for renderings as well as starting to work on finishing the site master plan for the beach and cliff area.

Site Plan Re-Work and Winery Design

After a pin-up on Tuesday and realizing the scale at which I had created my last site plan, I decided that taking the winery and spreading it out across the entire site is just too much to do. The distance between my original parking area and the dune summit is far to great at over 300 meters. My separate buildings were also sizing in at around an average of 600 square meters, far to large for the program and concept.

Given this I have decided to pull the winery back to where the parking area was originally located, and simply create a system of board walks and buried paths to access the beach and dune. On the dune itself there will be an area for people to congregate and take in the views, eat lunch, etc. I am also looking into the new housing development that is going in on the east side of the site along the wooded ridge. I’m thinking about putting in a boardwalk along this edge as beach access for these homes.

The form and layout of my winery have been evolving. The image below is that of the design I talked with Lance about today. Simple but with certain moves that reflect my program and site layout. I will be re-working the form and layout of the winery in detail over the weekend and at that point hopefully will begin to hit the beach plan hard and figure out a good solution early next week.

Site Plan Development

For Monday 7/18 I worked a lot with my entire chosen site to try to develop a plan that would express the attributes of my program. Going with the two categories of spaces, I aligned the Ambivalent program spaces along a line on the site on the north side of the dune and sand ridge. The Integrated spaces are then set off the Ambivalent spaces by using my space adjacency and space inter-relation diagrams.

The two trace paper images above show my ideas with the sight lines on the main part of the site as well as my first rendition of the site plan. I started lining the wine making process at the parking lot and it culminates at the actual sand dune with the tasting room and restaurant overlooking Cape Kirwanda.

The multiple massing models using Google Sketchup represent my process of working through a main site plan idea. The bigger site plan layouts show the full progression from the parking area to the southern end of the sand dune. The next step I will be making will be to rethink the layout and execution of the site plan as well as the size of the complex. The circulation around the dune area is currently eroding and destroying the landscape. So I will be also tackling a plan to provide access to the dune from the beach at Pacific City, as well as keeping the dune area protected from further human erosion.

Program Design + New Site

Last week I spent the week working through my program and site analysis. I had been working on exploring the conceptual process of splitting my program spaces into the Ambivalent and Integrated categories. After some swapping and merging I have compiled the two lists:

Integrated

• Office
• Storage
• Services
• Entry
• Restaurant
• Kitchen
• Sales
• Tasting

Ambivalent

• Delivery
• Crushing
• Fermenting
• Barreling
• Ageing
• Bottling

As one can see the Ambivalent side of the program has the linear process of the wine making. This reflects our research and production from the first part of the project. The Integrated then is a more free-flowing list with spaces that can latch onto and work with the Ambivalent spaces.

As well as making ground on the program, I finalized my new site. I have moved up the Oregon coast to the town of Pacific City. There on Cape Kirwanda I have located a site that is accessible from the north but isn’t seen or accessible by vehicle from the south beach area. The site itself is located on and around the sand dune to the north of the cape cliffs. It provides a perfect view of the cape and Haystack Rock as well as to the north up the coast, however it is in a location that is not seen from the Pacific City beach.

Space Adjacency and Program Analysis

So for studio today I put together some space adjacency diagrams as well as a few sketchup models displaying my space adjacency ideas. (See above) Instead of going with spliting the program into two halves, Intergrated and Ambililent, I pulled back and tried to go with a bigger picture idea. Last night I wrote out my ideas and came up with a thesis  of: “Celebrating the connection between the two halves which is that of the wine experience.” This gave me a more clear place to jump off from in the project as I began to create my diagrams.

In my desk crit however, Lance and I talked more about how to catagorize my program into the two lists again. We agreed that taking a step back and doing this will make my program stronger and hence enhance my overall successfulness in the project. So for tomorrow I am planning on redefining how I think about Integration and Ambivialence as it pertains to my project, then catagorizing the program within those definitions.

I am also looking into an alternative site. By going with my main idea of “experience” I thought that the proposed site that we recieved inhibits my project ideas. So instead I am moving an hour north up the Oregon coast to the small town of Pacific City. We visited this town on our trip in late May and it plays host to Haystack Rock and Cape Kiwanda, a large rocky cliff section and large rock in the bay (See Above) that draws a lot of tourist attraction to the small town. I will be researching the town and demographics of the surrounding area to purhaps add some supplimental program ideas to the winery design.

Levels of Interaction

After some work over the past weekend and a meeting with the studio professor Lance, I am starting to develop my concept a little bit deeper. Going with my idea of exploring the interaction between Ambivalent and Integrated pieces of the project, I made a few iterations of my first Rhino model. These versions weave around and intertwine each other. They stem from the same linear location as well as end up in the same fashion but by winding around and interacting with each other first.

The other image above is of the site that was recently set for the winery project. The location is in Depoe Bay, Oregon. The program lists the client as loosely based on the Flying Dutchman Winery that is based in nearby Otter Rock, Oregon. This winery has expansion plans made and has the site hylighted allotted for the expansion of the business and location for the new winery.

The next step(s) that I will be taking will be to finalize a program, organize the program spaces by Integrated and Ambivalent listings, then to organize those via space adjacency diagrams either in 2D or 3D to begin to form an idea of how the spaces will play off each other.

Post Mid Review

After our Mid Review we had the rest of the week with studio being conducted by a friend of our professors’, Pete. He talked with Andy and I on Tuesday about how we thought our review went. We all conqured that the concept we presented was solid and that we might have thought about our device representation somewhat closer. He then urged us to think about where we wanted to go from the mid-term. Andy and I chose to investigate our individual thoughts about the concept moving forward into a winery design for Thursday and then compare where we stand.

So for Thursday Pete had us find an image or make an image that would show what we wanted our project would display from this point on. The two above I decided on to show my idea of the “interaction” between the two sides of our concept, Ambivilant and Integrated. After talking with Pete at the conclusion of our pinup he urged me to look into the relationship between ‘Typeology’ and ‘Topology’ in a project. I found a graphic that relates those two as well as ‘Tectonics’ in the architectural design process. Compareing this with the graphic next to it that Andy inserted into our Mid-Term presentation I plan to explore these interactions and will hopefully extract an idea to roll with for my project.