Week 2 Process

          This week we focused on completing the floor plan, making the massing more concrete, coming up with ideas for our bus stop, and situating the building on the site with vehicle and pedestrian circulation.

          In our floor plan, we continued the strong curves into the interior. We situated the elevators in the center of the lobby. We created a two-story open area at the entrance. The only difference in the placement of the rooms from our bubble diagram was to move the lab to the west wall, allowing for the continuing of the opening form the first floor, and to not compromise the fire escape in the southwest corner.


          For our site we created a direct pathway from the bus stop on the corner past the entrance and connecting to the existing sidewalk of the strip mall. Along those routes be placed our farmer's market area and an additional covered drop off area from the parking lot. We developed the split between in the clinic and the mall by created a two-sided drive-trough and drop off area for the pharmacy and Urgent Care. We also played with ideas for green roofs and a water retention pond.

          Our bus stop imitates the outside of our building's main facade in order to create a strong connection between the two.

          We took a mini field trip to Norman Regional Hospital to look at how they did their interiors and how they connected it to the outside. We loved to roofing materials they used and the circulation, but we learned that many areas that were supposed to be used for de-stressing and enjoyment were never used. They also had an outside water retention pond and amphitheater, which we are still playing with, and they used nice flooring materials to define spaces and create less of a hospital feel. There was also a couple examples of small two-story open areas that had closed spaces looking down into the area. We thought it was a great built example of a few things we were trying to accomplish in our spaces.

          For the next week we want to respond to the critiques we get on Monday, and then continue with the materiality of our interior-exterior connections, begin formalizing the site, the 8,000 square feet interior, the structural system, and the final building materials.