multi-use occupancy...design concept the concept of my design is not to integrate a community at the...

Practicum Studio

Summer 2008

Multi-Use Occupancy

Texas Tech University

Table of Contents

Project Description

Concept Statement

Sustainability

Site Plans and Analysis

Unit Floor Plans

Sections

Exterior Elevations

Interior Perspectives/Elevations

Building & Site Perspectives

Project Statement

A 2.96 acre property bordered on the south by 14th Street, on the north by 15th Street, on the west by I Avenue, and on the east by the DART right of way.

The project site contains a change in ground elevation of approximately ten (10) feet sloping down from east to west.

The site is less than a half mile east of Central Expressway, located in an area containing a mix of retail, multi family, single family, and municipal uses including police and court buildings.

The Downtown Plano DART light rail station is located directly across 15th Street to the north. The site is adjacent to the east end of historic Old Downtown and currently contains a mix of retail uses and temporary police parking.

The design will incorporate between 220 and 230 units of multi family, a multi level parking garage, 15,000sf of retail space, 100 parking spaces dedicated for police parking, and a pedestrian mews connecting 14th Street with 15th Street. There will need to be a leasing office and other amenity features for the residential tenants such as a fitness facility, cyber café, and swimming pool.

Project Statement

Design Concept

"Community Development Along the Dart Rail in Plano”

What aspects are involved?

a dart walkway, exterior courtyards, storefront shops, apartments,

apartment parking, guest parking, police parking...along a dart rail, a

park, a police department, church, and other stores...not simply

housing

What is the point?

to create a outstanding design

How?

provide sustainability, durability, aesthetic intent, user needs

-to go along with: site limitations, height restrictions, program, design,

Plano, dart rail, etc.

For whom?

apartment management, apartment owners, leasers, business

owners, police, dart riders, etc.

Design Concept

The concept of my design is not to integrate a community at the local level, but instead to integrate the various aspects of the multi-use occupancy on the given site in order for them to work as one, thereby making a lasting improvement within the surrounding community.

The reason I word it differently than simply stating “my design will improve all the surrounding area” is because that is not my initial intention.

Not to say my design will not integrate the surrounding community, because it very well may, but I see that as an immeasurable task to promise and would rather integrate that which is under my control in order to create a successful design.

Sustainability

Material Reuse: Insulation, Existing Site Materials, Materials Used

Alternative Transportation:

Public Transportation Access (DART Light Rail)

Parking Capacity

Orientation & Glazing/Shading Devices

Natural Daylighting & View

Ventilation: Mainly Top Floors

Sustainability

Rainwater Recycling: Rooftop & Parking Garage

Water Conserving Plumbing Fixtures

Maximize Open Space: Courtyard Opportunities

Development Density & Community Connectivity:

Location w/in walking distance to many “basic services”

Rapidly Renewable Materials:

Install Cork Flooring in Apartments rather than Traditional Wood

Sustainability

Depicted is an early version of a sustainable unit that will provide

capacity for natural ventilation. (It is very conceptual and needs to be

revised)

This idea will still hopefully be realized on the highest-level apartment

units

Site Analysis

Location: Downtown Plano Between 15th and 14th Street

Between Avenue I and the Dart Rail

Wind: From Southwest The wind direction in Plano, TX is

mainly from the South-Southwest

Area Amenities

Plano Police Department

Dart Rail Station

Eastside Village

Haggard Park

Site Analysis

Reach of the Design:

The Red Dart Line connects from just north of Plano to south of Downtown Dallas

Existing Site

Indoor Skate Park Bordering Dart Rail on East Side

Barbershop

Small shopping plaza

Ye Olde Butcher Shop, a popular burger joint

Police Department Parking

Statistics

13,500 Net Sq. Ft. Retail on Ground Level

232 Total Units 137 One-Bed Units

89 Two-Bed Units

6 Three-Bed Units

332 Total Parking Spots within Parking Structure Coincidence: 1 parking spot per Unit

100 secure* parking spots for Police Department

Curb Parking will be a possibility

Conceptual Site Plan

Ground Floor Program

Representation

Blue=Proposed Retail

Red=Proposed Parking Structure

Green=Proposed Ground Floor Apt Units

Alternative Purpose: To create

open/courtyard spaces in between

programmed areas for private use

Site Plan/Ground Floor Plan

Upper Level Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan Enlarged

Depicting:

Apartment

Maintenance/

Management w/

Common Area

for tenants of

floors above

(red)

Ground Floor Plan Enlarged

Depicting:

South-Facing

Units along 14th

Street

North Facing

Units overlooking

Courtyard

Ground Floor Plan Enlarged

Depicting:

Apartment Vertical Circulation w/

Common Areas on Upper Levels

(red)

Retail Space (green)

Ground Floor Plan Enlarged

Depicting:

Parking Garage

Entrance (red)

Ramp Above (blue)

Corridors to Units*

(green)

*Corridors are covered but

still open-air

Individual Unit Plans

One Bed Unit – 600 Sq. Ft. One Bed Unit – 600 Sq. Ft.

One Bed Unit – 640 Sq. Ft.

Individual Unit Plans

One Bed Unit – 650 Sq. Ft.

Individual Unit Plans

One Bed Unit – 750 Sq. Ft. Two Bed Unit – 715 Sq. Ft.

Individual Unit Plans

Three Bed Unit – 1150 Sq. Ft.

Detailed Wall Section

•Hybrid Wall

System-Steel

Framing w/

Wood Infill in

Apartments

•10’-0” Floor to

Floor Height

•Brick Exterior

Elevation/Section Hybrid

Schematics

Section through garage/Elevation of West Facing Facade

Section through Parking Garage

Parking Garage View

Exterior and interior elevations, showing materials, scale figures, entourage, etc.

Birds Eye View

South

Site Plan

Proposed Interior

Perspective

Proposed Interior

Perspective

Questions/Comments?