ARTS AND HUMANITIES UNDERGRADUATE College of Arts, Media, and Design Bachellor of Arts in Architecture Abstract ID#30 INNOVATION ON SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING AND ARCHITECTURE
LANDSCAPE AND SUSTAINABILITY
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY STUDY
design and system data and information
preliminary data gathering and analysis
ID#30 || ARTS AND HUMANITIES || JOSÉ VICENTE LATORRE T. INVESTIGATOR || M.GROGAN FACULTY PRESENTER ADVISOR
In the field of architecture, the landscape aspect of a project is generally left in a secondary position. However, as issues of sustainability and advances in technology in every field become more relevant in our practice, reconsidering landscape architecture’s role in the design process could lead into a comprehensive effort to create an architecture that responds to both aesthetic concerns and performance issues. The site given sits on a crucial place between two major elements of downtown Worcester. The architectural effort put on the hotel massing is to connect these two elements: Worcester’s Train Station and its City Hall. The connection is meant to activate downtown Worcester in both the scale of the building, but also in the urban scale. Performance-wise, at the building level, the proposal displays a façade based on a daylight factor study based on program, as well as a self-powered LED color clock tower. In terms of the landscape proposal, the New England Marshland is reinterpreted into an urban setting; the landscape would allow for storage of the site’s runoff (100-year storm condition), and also naturally filtrate the runoff (+90% of copper, zinc and phosphorus filtration).
SITE/ URBAN PLANING CONTEXT
the massing of the urban planning developed was modified in accordance to the design principles to be explained in the following series of diagrams. the excessive volume of the urban context called for a refined and minimal approach to the program in the building massing - together with a different approach towards the city - connecting not clustering.
As architects, we may not have the most in-depth knowledge on every sustainable system, but, relying on creative and innovative thinking, we play a fundamental role in the integration of all these systems into our buildings, landscapes, and cities. The Worcester Hotel attempts an integration of the potential sustainable systems on a building and landscape together with architectural aesthetic ideas.
WATCH PLANE VISIBILITY CALCULATION
WORCESTER DOWNTOWN HOTEL
1,150 = 50h
POOL
h=heigh of screen
h = 23’
led panels are 2x2 h=24’ to fit sizing
704 x 480 ratio NSTC video
24’ x 16’ screen size
PVs
LOBBY REST BAR
33 12 x 8
number of led panels
96 panels = 5,952 w/h total number of panels
ROOMS
5,952 w/h @ 15h 90,000w wattage for longest night
90,000w / 9h 10,000w per hour solar electricity harvesting
NORTH PLAZA
SO UTH PLA ZA
300w/h
GYM
PV panel production
33.3 PV panels
PV panel system for led screen
SURFACE AREA NORTH PLAZA
24,700sf
CONFERENCE
SOUTH PLAZA
5,250sf
outdoor auditorium + internet cafe (hotel)
2 bicycle parking + ADA parking + drop-off 2 open urban plaza/space
OUTDOOR EXHIBITION
3 level seating arrangement connects w/hotel cafe + retail
CLOCK PLANE
92 LED panel screen create a landmark
2 retail outdoor space
BIO RETENTION SIZING
assuming a completely paved (impervious) surface and in a bio-retention system without sand bed design under worst case scenario
2-year storm (3”) NORTH+ROOF
BIORETENTION STRIP 6” floodable depth - not accessible, buffer from street
SOUTH PLAZA
PV + LED DISPLAY
9,665cf 1,245cf
the analysis developed through the study of ENERGY made evident the difficulty of producing substantial energy just by the use of PVs on the site of a determined building
100-year storm (6.5”) NORTH+ROOF
GRASS BUFFER
redirect stormwater to bioretention strip
SOUTH PLAZA
sustainable energy, in order to be an effective strategy in a bigger picture, must be done through the installation of massive structures that could potentially supply energy to bigger portions of an urban area
20,875cf 2,700cf
PARKING
30° reduce street velocity
the PV+LED display represents a self sustained installation that can be placed anywhere and could become a landmark and an useful item in the urban realm.
EMERGENCY STORAGE
19,320cf 1,660cf
GROUND LEVEL URBAN LANDSCAPE PLAN
SCALE
1 :1 6
calculations assume a mean storm event precipitation of 1.3cm to 1.8cm over a 6hr period CONTAMINANTS FILTRATION DATA
Cu Zn+P F Ni
it is both a display of information and images, but also a display of the potential and promise of sustainable energy and technology working together as one.
97% 95% 65% 52%
PLANTING CALCULATIONS
a variety of at leas 3 species of trees and shrubs are recommended - local species preferably. must be resistant to high salt levels due to winter runoff filtration.
1000 trees NORTH PLAZA
.185 acre 2:1
1 ACRE SOUTH PLAZA
.30 acre 2:1
6” 9,500w/h
10 20 62
123
3:1
60,000wh
ROOF RUNOFF
architectural logic and overview
LED & PV SIZING CALCULATION
1150’
3:1
6.3hours .25ppi
7
22 47
138
UPLAND BUFFER
FOREST WETLAND
SHRUB WETLAND
WET MEADOW
SHALLOW MASH BIORETENTION POOL
TREE SHRUB WEED SELECTION RED MAPLE YELLOW BIRCH TULIP TREE SWAMP WHITE OAK SUGAR MAPLE RED OAK GREEN ASH SHABARK HICKORY GRAY BIRCH BUTTONBUSH SWAMP ROSE SENSITIVE FERN SWITCHGRASS
biofuel salt resistant
VIRGINIA CREEPER
ivy plant - wall
LITTLE BLUE STERN
salt resistant
3”
12”