ARCH 609
MATTHEW ANDERSON DANIEL HOLTON
P/03 Introduction
P/06 Project Location and Site Information
P/08 Site Analysis
P/13 Project Thesis + Schematic Design
TABLE OF CONTENTS P/16 Design Development
P/22 Midterm Development
P/28 Final Production
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The Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota serves as the setting for our project, as well as the setting for a rather unique urban condition. It’s a little big city, if you will. The city’s population is just under 500,000 people, yet its diversity of food, people, and culture are but a few defining factors that make Minneapolis one of the most unique urban settings in the Midwest, especially when paired with the state’s capital St. Paul, which lies just east of Minneapolis. The two combine to create the Twin Cities, a duality of small yet dense urban cities that whilst small in size, have carved out a very large identity of their own.
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Site Visit
Minneapolis, Minnesota The first element of our studio project involved a short yet extensive visit to the Minneapolis area, where we as a class toured not only our site and its context within the downtown Minneapolis area, but also investigating what some of the defining features of Minneapolsi are, as well as trying to identify a local aesthetic/language that could help inform our tower designs.
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The Site Our site is located just on the fringe of the downtown Minneapolis, somewhat sandwiched in between the high-density main downtown area to the west and the new Minnesota Vikings stadium to the east. Our site was also located directly south of The Armory, an old armory that used to serve the Minnesota National Guard that has since become renovated into a concert venue. All of this in mind, we knew that there were some very prominent destinations surrounding our site that would play a large role in relating our building to the Minneapolis area.
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SIGNIFICANT FEATURES
THE ARMORY Originally constructed to serve as an armory for the Minnesota National Guard, The Armory has undergone many functional changes over the past several decades whilst retaining its unique and symbolic aesthetic throughout the years. Currently it serves as a concert venue which has seen great success and popularity with the local Minneapolitans.
THE SKYWAY SYSTEM One very unique feature about the downtown Minneapolis area is its extensive skyway system, which serves as an enclosed and protected means of circulation between buildings. With a fll 11 miles of skyways serving Minneapolis, it is not only an efficient means of moving throughout downtown, but also has become a defining factor of the downtown area.
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SITE ANALYSIS
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ANALYSIS
bikeways
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skyways + lot parking
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PROJECT DESIGN THESIS
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Towers, in many ways, represent the pinnacle of architectural design and engineering in the modern world. Their sheer scale, size, versatility, and presence are but a few qualities that imprint them upon not only our modern landscape, but our modern world as a whole. And within the urban context of Minneapolis, save for a few exceptions (such as the IDS Center), towers don’t play a very significant role in the urban core of the city in relation to other metropolitan areas throughout the United States, such as New York or Chicago. Therefore, we are taking this as an initiative to not only design big, but to design thoughtfully and with intention. Through our design choices and decisions, we intend to design a tower that not only makes a statement, but is seen as an icon and destination of the Minneapolis area. One main design aspect we will be striving to achieve is through the adherence towards integration through design. In this regard, we wish to not just design a tower and an adjacent site, but to create a mini ecosystem, if you will, that exists within the Minneapolis downtown area. Think of it as a “mini” Minneapolis. A building that has a unique yet straightforward dialogue with its surrounding site, and vice versa. Through this idea of integration of the building and the site, our goal is to achieve a single, unified architectural entity that not only draws people in, but becomes a hub for activity and commerce within the greater Minneapolis area. With regards to the tower in particular, we strive to push the envelope when it comes to emerging tower technologies in the 21st century, structural systems being one of our key points of focus. Through the employment of unique and modern structural systems, we hope to be able to create a tower that not only is structurally sound when pushing heights of over 600 feet, but also a tower that is aesthetically unique and eye-catching. By utilizing modern structural technologies, we hope to be able to use the structure of the tower as a way to speak more broadly about the design intention of the building, as well as a way to create a unique profile within the Minneapolis skyline.
Through the tower’s formalization, we also wish to push the boundaries when it comes to materiality regarding the envelope of our tower. Looking at unique paneling options, different materials to compose different parts of our tower, and options regarding sustainability name just a few core design tenets we will be thinking about regarding the aesthetic quality and development of the building envelope itself. And hopefully, with a formal aesthetic connection between the building envelope and its underlying structure, we can create a tower that has a cohesive language to it; a tower whose individual components, whether they be aesthetic or structural, speak to each other to compose a single, cohesive entity that carves out its own niche in Minneapolis. Lastly, we want to be able to design for a site that can be as flexible as the Minnesota weather is unpredictable. Sweltering hot and humid summer days are routinely countered by frigid, snowy, and icy days in the winter, and we wish to create site conditions that allow for it to be utilized in a unique manner throughout all four seasons, rather than leaving it abandoned and devoid of function during the more inclement seasons of weather. By maintaining a function within our site as a whole throughout the year, we are able to maintain a steady draw of people towards our location, furthermore establishing it as a mini-hub for retail and gathering in the area. We recognize that our tower design, as well as our site design, is a very large task at hand. But we firmly believe that by adhering to these core design concepts, we’ll be able to build a tower that doesn’t just succeed, but stands above the rest in regard to its unique formalization and engaging site conditions. We may not be striving to design the tallest or largest tower in Minneapolis, but we will strive to design the best one.
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INITIAL DESIGN PROCESS
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CREATE 30 PARTI MASSING STUDIES
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CHOOSE 3 TO DEVELOP Moving forward with our Parti studies, we then chose 3 of the 30 models to develop in detail. This would further narrow down our process of finding a successful form that would ultimately lead to our final project.
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Choice 1
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STREET LEVEL STUDIES
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PHYSICAL MODELING
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MIDTERM DEVELOPMENT At this stage, we had successfully narrowed out design down into one singular choice and form. Thus, we could begin focusing on more advanced and hollstic design development, creating more complete plans, sections, elevations, and initial renderings.
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OFFICE FLOOR PLAN
Aerodynamics Aerodynamics
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MIDTERM COMMENTS Tanner: • Work on access from street level • Think about skyway connection and how that can be integrated with retail component of building • Look at all core configurations and just double check that all functions are present/everything is aligned from bottom to top Derek: • Take care when developing sunken plaza (many precedents exist for this, but not many successful ones) • Ensure that we’re creating a hospitable and welcoming environment, as sunken plazas can potentially turn into havens for more undesirable characters • Think about pushing site boundaries further to the edges in order to maximize a “buffer zone” between the street and our plaza area Padget: • Think about meaningful ways to create a more soft and transitional entrance into our site/plaza (e.g. stepped mini terraces that house some sort of public retail function) • Think about how our new residential formalization can be expressed and maximized in terms of usability. For example, think about utilizing the gaps we have in between bridge connections for our double-story apartments for some sort of exterior condition for those apartments (e.g. mini balconies) Danny: • Similar comments as to Padget’s and Derek’s; take care when looking at the development of our plaza area (not just in terms of functionality, but also with its entrances and connections to the greater exterior site condition) • Look at precedents for really developing the plaza space into something that is unique and usable year-round (e.g. what can we offer that other public spaces in Minneapolis, such as the Commons, can’t?)
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FINAL DEVELOPMENT At this point, most of the design strategies and structural issues for our chosen skyscraper had been resolved. It was time to go into detailed production and develop floor plans, sections, elevations, construction detalls, axonometric diagrams & renderings.
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SITE PLAN
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ELEVATIONS
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ELEVATIONS
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SECTIONS
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FINAL COMMENTS Paola: • Form looks very nice • Tower looks like it fits within Minneapolis/fits the aesthetic of the area • Ready to begin even further refinement on design of building • Noted that the ground condition does require a bit more attention/development, but that it responds well to Minneapolis as a unique urban condition, as well as being conscious of the Minnesota climate • Ensure complex environmental problems are resolved (e.g. aero slots, atrium chimney effect, etc.) Kadim: • Notes that facade treatment/curtain wall modulation requires a bit more complexity (e.g. transparent panels in some places to expose/display structure more porudly rather than masking it) • Facade should adapt to the structure and program of the tower Alex: • Good/clever project and responds well to many design variables • Noted that the form was derivative of the ideas and programs of the tower, and that this dillemma created perhaps a de-emphasis on the building’s form somewhat • Belives tower addresses the site’s relationship to The Armory well Joe: • Unclear reading of some of the floor plans/exits • Project perhaps requires a bit more logical spatial organization with some of the plans in order to maximize space and alleviate confusion
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ARCH 609 SPRING 2018 MATTEW ANDERSON + DANIEL HOLTON