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

Part Four (b) - Housing for the Elderly

Part Four runs through the rest of the semester
There will be formal presentations on April 24 and 26.

Other dates are included as a glance ahead -- assignment dates to follow, based on your timelines.
 

Part Four (b)	Project Timeline Four weeks, 35% of final grade
Week 11.  Apr 3-Apr 7
Week 12.  Apr 10-Apr 14	Fri Apr 14-Sat Apr15: Intermediate Resident Review Work weekend #2  Depart Temple Buell Hall, 7:00am, return 7:00pm. Saturday.
Week 13.  Apr 17-Apr 21
Week 14.  Apr 24-Apr28	Mon Apr 24:  Project Part 4 Reviewed TBH 325, 1:30pm. Groups N, O, P All work from K-P to be pinned up at the start of both sessions.  All students attend all presentations.
	Wed Apr 26:  Project Part 4 Reviewed TBH 325, 1:30pm. Groups K, L, M
Week 15.  May 1-May 5	Wed May 3: Final Due date
Week 16.  May 8-May 12	Final Examinations.
	Tue May 9:  Alta Sita Neighbors, Inc. Meeting.  Present neighborhood plans and designs.

Link to Part 4 (a)

Project Design --

Intermediate Resident Review

Do these things:

• Develop a comprehensive description of the project you intend to pursue.  All projects must include a context-establishing neighborhood plan, a massing model of the project you propose to pursue and refine, an illustrative site plan, two site sections, a minimum of one preliminary floor plan, two building sections (at 1/4"=1 foot scale), and examples of building design and landscape development details.  Use graphic scales for flexibility in reproduction.
• Refer back to the specific input you received from residents when you met before and be prepared to show where you haev responded to - or ignored for good reason - their input.

Presentation check-list (some of this you can re-use from the reviews on-campus):

• Display a massing model for your proposed scheme at the same scale and in the same style as the previous ones. Be prepared to talk about how you arrived at that as a result of the resident input and CITYGreen analysis.
• Display additional boards showing your context and illustrative site plans, sections, and examples (perspective sketches and scanned photos) of details.

Final Review

Presentation check-list:

• You will display all of your work for Part 4 of the semester work.
• Prepare a 15-minute verbal presentation of your web-based work focussing on the most important features of your design.
• Display the boards and model you already created for Part 4a
• Display a massing model for your proposed scheme at the same scale and in the same style as the previous ones. Be prepared to talk about how you arrived at that as a result of the resident input.
• Display additional boards showing your context and illustrative site plans, sections, and any additional details you ave chosen to show.

Presentation format:

1. Faculty make introductory remarks
2. Each group scheduled to present (3 per day) makes a 15 minute presentation using their web-page and discuss the ideas they were exploring in developing their final design, the feedback they got from residents, and how they responded to that feedback with the design now being shown.
3. At the end of the first hour the groups take up positions with their displayed work on boards and jury members informally meet with groups individually to gain face-to-face feedback.  This continues for aproximately one hour.
4. At the end of the second hour the entire group reconvenes into an open discussion where jurors are asked to provide commentary and criticisms for the entire class, and class members are free to enter into the discussion.  Jurors might be asked to identify strengths and weaknesses and suggest ways to address the latter.

Final Submissions and Completion Dates

Group Evaluation: 
Due  4:30pm, Monday, May 1

1) If you had $1,000 to distribute to your team for its work throughout the semester, how would you divide up the money?  If you divide it equally, why?  If not, why not?  Explain.

2) Explain how your views of East St. Louis or Springfield have changed as a result of this studio project.  What were your impressions of the city before you began this assignment?  What were your first impressions upon visiting it the first time? What are your impressions now?  Why?

3) What opinions do you have about the three-stage, rotating reviewers format we used for presentations?  Useful?  Confusing?  ??

4) Explain how your views of the other disciplines in the class (architecture, landscape architecture, and in some cases urban planning) have changed as a result of this studio.  What were your expectations of the other disciplines before you took this class?  Upon what knowledge was this based?

5) Might your experiences in this studio have any impact on your future career decisions and the type of work you'd like to do?  Why or why not?
 

Web presentation check-list: 
Web-site to be complete by  4:30pm, Wednesday, May 3

• You must archive and organize all of your work for Parts 2, 3, and 4 of the semester work.
• Provide an introductory index.html page of your work that summarizes, in a compelling way, your design and and issues it addresses.
• Provide links to individual pages that show the development of your thinking - for instance, including digital images (scanned or camera) of  the material you already created for Parts 2, 3, and 4a.
• Include images of  the three massing models you presented for Part 3 as well as the final model.
• If your group was able to complete it, show and discuss the results of the CITYGreen analysis.
• Include in the section devoted to your final design - your context and illustrative site plans, sections, elevations and perspectives.
• Schematic plans MUST be fully annotated to explain the design decisions you have made and cite the sources for your ideas.

• Background research findings and references as appropriate.
• Other resources useful to developing your design. (EGRETS, Old Map Atlas)
• Any design and planning illustrations of design prototypes that you used.