East St. Louis Action Research Project University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Part Three - Housing for the Elderly

Site Environmental Analysis and Massing

Part 3 - Work as Teams

Massing Models

1. Based on the work you have done so far, develop an outline program for your elderly housing.  Program should include number and size of private rooms/apartments, approx. areas of public spaces, areas of service and utility facilities, areas of site development including parking, access and open space.
2. Produce 3 concept models of your housing for the elderly scheme.  Prepare your models on 18" x 24" corrugated card boards.  Pick a scale that maximizes your use of the board.  You miust show vegetation massing as well as built forms.  The more you have to show, the more reactions you will receive.
3. Update your team's web site to include any new drawings and models.  Do this part if you can by Fri 3/3, if not soon after we return from ESL.
4. Prepare your drawings that were due this week on 18" x 24" corrugated card presentation boards.  Develop them further if you wish.  Mount your new material on the presentation boards you prepared earlier this semester; all are on the desk in the NW corner Arch Studio so help yourselves.
5. Prepare a portable version on 8 1/2" x 11" reductions, along with some brief explanatory text about what you are trying to accomplish.  Make 10 sets of each, collated and stapled.  We will be leaving some of these with the residents and our ESLARP staff so they can study them after we leave.  I have some examples of these from last semester which we will show you.  The length of this part of the project is up to you, but please be careful not to snow anyone with too much paper...let's say 12 pages max.  Keep in mind that the more concise, the better. Number each page so that people can refer to your document easily, and place your names, team letter, and date on the cover sheet.

Fri 3/3:  ESLARP Work Weekend.  You'll be bringing all your work with you
to have on display during a meal with residents. We'll get back to you with
details on departure times, work weekend assignments, etc.

CITYGreen Analysis

Check out - CityGreen Intro material

Documentation for this stage of using CITYGreen is available as an Adobe Acrobat *.pdf file.  Note, this is a very large file (8.5Mb) so you may want to retrieve this on-campus vs. via modem:

CITYGreen Documentation

Assess the environmental costs of re-development in East St. Louis

1. Complete an inventory of existing site conditions in your neighborhood in Alta Sita. (Chapter 3 in Documentation)
2. Input the data into CITYGreen. (Chapter 4)
3. Examine the reporting options available under CITYGreen before proceeding. (Chapter 7)
4. Run the City Green analysis. (Chapter 5)
5. Use the modeling scenario approach (Chapter 6) to project the green component of your existing condition 30 years into the future.
6. Complete the reporting processes in Chapter 7.

My suggestion is that you create maps in the Presentation (7.2) or Inventory (7.4) formats and Export (File>Export>jpeg) those from ArcView in JPEG format (give the files *.jpg extensions).  Use the Summary Report directions (7.3) to create a text file of your report findings that you can then import into Composer.  This will give you better control over the text readability than if you Export the Data Sheet format (7.1) intact.
Incorporate the CITYGreen analyses into your web pages.
 
7. Conduct analyses for each of the three after scenarios shown in your massing models (Chapter 5).
8. Project those ahead 30 years. (Chapter 6)
9. Complete comparative report of your existing and three proposed schemes.
10. Post to web (see /la/LA341-F99/notes/p11cgex.htm for example)