sustainable urban community design studio

week ONE, group FOUR - FIRM [grasp]

first entry of this community design project and group number 4 has made a good amount of progress.

this week we tackled the design issues of site analysis, building orientation, sun/wind patterns, topography, and conceptual planning. we met together as a group several times during this past week and discussed these issues and resolved them by referrencing our precedent study as well as other research.

this week: familiarize ourselves with our site, adjacencies, research, precedent, study model, basic interior/exterior design
GOALS MET!

next week: building orientation on site, parking, rough floor plan with sqft of rooms, massing model

our main design revolved around the pool area. we found some great visuals for how to use materials and different design aspects in this space.

Tanner in a tree

The title of this post "firm [grasp]" is our super cheesy firm name. We came up with it on our way back to Norman from our site and we started with how we have 5 people in our group which led to the idea of a hand and the 5 fingers. Then we started thinking about how we design and try to "grasp" design ideas for our project and so violia! there's our group name. Tack on the obvious design "firm" and you've pretty much reached genius at its finest. "firm [grasp]"
*Complimentry fist logo included as well.