arch 24 final learning portfolio

RUSSIANHILLVERONICA LEUNG

ARCH 24FALL 2010FINAL PORTFOLIO


ARCH 24FALL 2010MIDTERM PORTFOLIO

MIDTERM PORTFOLIO



Franklin St

Larkin St

Hyde St

Leavenworth St

Jones St

Taylor St

Mason St

Powell St

Stockton St

Grant Ave

Polk St

Polk St

Van Ness Ave

Pacific AveBroadway

Vallejo StGreen St

Union St

Filbert St

Greenwich StLombard St

Francisco St

Beach St

Columbus Ave

Chestnut St

Bay St

The name of Russian Hill should go back to the Gold Rush-era when settlers discovered a small Russian cemetery at the top of the hill. Those bodies were never officifally identified, however, it assumed that those bodies probably belonged to Russian fur-trader and sailors from nearby Fort

“The Crookedest Street in the World”The block of Lombard between Hyde and Leaven-worth Streets began as a straight, cobblestone street with a 27% grade. In 1920s, peope lived on this street wanted cars, howeve, the street was too steep for vehicles to climb. Therefore, Carl Henry came up with the idea of transform into a curved street. “The Crookedest Street” was constructed in 1922. At the beginning, it was a two-way, brick paved street. The curved switchbacks were installed and the grade was reduced to 16%, which consists of eight turns. In 1939, the street modifiied into one-way due to the overloaded traffic. In high

Filbert and Leavenworth St is one of the four conventionally paved blocks in the City that are steeper, which having 31.5% grade.

Ina Coolbrith Park was named after Ina Coolbrith (1842-1928), who was the poet laureate of California, colleague of Jack London, Isadora Duncan, George Sterling and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The tiny park’s terraces are carved from a hill so steep that it is difficult to see if anyone else is there or not. It is one of the city’s magic hidden gardens. The

Intersection of Taylor and Vallejo Streets, at entrance to

Walking path in Ina Coolbrith Park

Plaque at entrance to Ina Coolbrith Park

View of Alcatraz from the northwest corner of Ina

City view from Ina Coolbrith

What is a cable car? Cable cars were invented to take place of carts and carriage pulled by horses. the cable car is pulled along a rail system by a channel running underground at a constant speed. The driver, or “Gripman”, pulls a lever to activate the “grip” which is the part that grabs onto the moving cable. If the driver wants to stop, he just simply releases the grip and

activates the brakes. The public service of cable cars began on September 1, 1877. However, in the late 1880’s and early 1890’s, the electric street car was coming into favor. Due to the cost of electric street cars were twice as less to build and 6 times less than operate the cable cars. The company operated cable cars attempted to convert many of the cable lines to electric cars. Althought

San Francisco is the 4th most populous city in California and the 12th in the United States. It is notable for its chiliy summer fog, steep hills, Victo-rian and modern architectures, Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown. The first assignment is finding the seem and unseem evidences to prove how Russian Hill become special out of the other 44 hill in San Francisco.

EVIDENCE BOARD OF RUSSIAN HILL



Franklin St

Larkin St

Hyde St

Leavenworth St

Jones St

Taylor St

Mason St

Powell St

Stockton St

Grant Ave

Polk St

Polk St

Van Ness Ave

Pacific AveBroadway

Vallejo StGreen St

Union St

Filbert St

Greenwich StLombard St

Francisco St

Beach St

Columbus Ave

Chestnut St

Bay St

The name of Russian Hill should go back to the Gold Rush-era when settlers discovered a small Russian cemetery at the top of the hill. Those bodies were never officifally identified, however, it assumed that those bodies probably belonged to Russian fur-trader and sailors from nearby Fort

“The Crookedest Street in the World”The block of Lombard between Hyde and Leaven-worth Streets began as a straight, cobblestone street with a 27% grade. In 1920s, peope lived on this street wanted cars, howeve, the street was too steep for vehicles to climb. Therefore, Carl Henry came up with the idea of transform into a curved street. “The Crookedest Street” was constructed in 1922. At the beginning, it was a two-way, brick paved street. The curved switchbacks were installed and the grade was reduced to 16%, which consists of eight turns. In 1939, the street modifiied into one-way due to the overloaded traffic. In high

Filbert and Leavenworth St is one of the four conventionally paved blocks in the City that are steeper, which having 31.5% grade.

Ina Coolbrith Park was named after Ina Coolbrith (1842-1928), who was the poet laureate of California, colleague of Jack London, Isadora Duncan, George Sterling and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The tiny park’s terraces are carved from a hill so steep that it is difficult to see if anyone else is there or not. It is one of the city’s magic hidden gardens. The

Intersection of Taylor and Vallejo Streets, at entrance to

Walking path in Ina Coolbrith Park

Plaque at entrance to Ina Coolbrith Park

View of Alcatraz from the northwest corner of Ina

City view from Ina Coolbrith

What is a cable car? Cable cars were invented to take place of carts and carriage pulled by horses. the cable car is pulled along a rail system by a channel running underground at a constant speed. The driver, or “Gripman”, pulls a lever to activate the “grip” which is the part that grabs onto the moving cable. If the driver wants to stop, he just simply releases the grip and

activates the brakes. The public service of cable cars began on September 1, 1877. However, in the late 1880’s and early 1890’s, the electric street car was coming into favor. Due to the cost of electric street cars were twice as less to build and 6 times less than operate the cable cars. The company operated cable cars attempted to convert many of the cable lines to electric cars. Althought

San Francisco is the 4th most populous city in California and the 12th in the United States. It is notable for its chiliy summer fog, steep hills, Victo-rian and modern architectures, Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown. The first assignment is finding the seem and unseem evidences to prove how Russian Hill become special out of the other 44 hill in San Francisco.

EVIDENCE BOARD OF RUSSIAN HILL RUSSIANHILLVERONICA LEUNG




Chinese American

Caucasian

Others



Quatermary landslide deposits

Salinian complex plutonic rocks (Jurassic)

Beach and dune sand (Quaternary)

Artificial fill

Graywacke

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WIND DIGRAMThe wind digram is attempted to exhibit the wind pattern and how the wind travel around at Russian Hill. However, this document did not have any document prove for backing up. It was only created with the data from some weather web sites. Therefore, the document became useless.

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PROPOSAL STIE 1Ina Coolbirth Park was named after Ina Coolbirth (1842 - 1928), who was the poet laureate of California, colleague of Jack London, Isadora Duncan, George Sterling and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The tiny park’s terraces are caved from a hill so steep that it is difficult to see if anyone else is there or not. It is one of teh city’s magic hidden gardens. The hibitat of decks and flowers frames a meditative setting and spectacular view of the bay peeking out from among the trees.



120.58’

97.81’

Total area:

5965.498 sq ft

64.41’The end of Vallejo Street

Facing Taylor Street

PROPOSAL STIE 2The second proposal is at the end of Vallejo Street which facing Taylor Street and Ina Coolbirth Park. The reason I choose it is because of the unique and steep slope on the site and the ability of viewing the whole

San Francisco.



68.98’

145.38’

Total area:

9373.253 sq ft

91.7

6’

122.65’

The Parking area at the corner of Columbus AveBetween Bay Street and Francisco Street

FINAL PICK OF SITEFinally, I chose the parking area on Columbus Ave, in between Francisco and Bay Street. I felt the first diagonal street of San Francisco and the relationship of global and local are interesting ideas that I would want to continue work on and explore for the rest of the

semester.



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TOURIST BUS LINE

LOCAL BUS LINE

BUS STOP (POINT OF INTEREST)

BUS STOP

HOTEL

BROADWAY STREET

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VAN

NESS AVE

COLUMBUS AVE

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LOMBARD STREET

BAY STREET

BEACH STREET

JEFFERSON STREET

FRANCISCO STRRET

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4 MINUTES5 MINUTES



By different view from the site can help understand the differences on the site, such as the victorian and modern architecture, global and local

transients, the content of the buildings, etc.

DIFFERENT VIEW TO VIEW THE SITE



COLUMBUS AVE



JON

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FRANCISCO ST



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FRANCISCO ST



LEAVENW

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TH ST



BAY STREET



The assignment is using gesture models to make some comments of the site that I choose into 3D model form.

3 GESTURE MODELSFIRST ITERATION

CUT THROUGH




PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FORM SPACE




SHORTCUT



After the first iteration, I got better idea what a good model should be and the thing I should be caution about.

3 GESTURE MODELSSECOND ITERATION

VIEW OTHER PLACE FROM THE SITE




CIRCULATION




PROTECTING




PUBLIC AND PRIVARY



The hybrid model is merging two existed models out of the gesture models with their materials and concepts.

HYBRID MODEL

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V ITERATION



Continue using the wrapping technic to “protect” inside structure. At the inside, I applied wire be the structure to hold the materials inside and outside of it.

HYBRID MODEL

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SECOND ITERATION



After the second iteration, instead of using the actual material from the original models. I begun to try other materials for the tension and compression, and opening it up with cutting the mesh into strings.

HYBRID MODEL

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THIRD ITERATION



The last model had been commented too general. Therefore, on this iteration, I attempted to be more specific about all the details related to the site and the programs.

HYBRID MODEL

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FOURTH ITERATION



The drawing is used to present what the model what to talk about. However, this iteration is not well develop enought in order to let the auidences understand what would I attempt to symbolize.

HYBRID MODEL DIAGRAM

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FIRST ITERATION



The last iteration had commented confuse and not clear about what is what. This iteration has two drawings tried to use simply diagram to show what my moves are and the program which inspired me.


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SECOND ITERATION

STRUCTURE

A LE TO AC ESS

PUBL

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RESEARCHER

P IVACYRESTRICTED

PRIVARY SPACE+ =

TELEGRAPH HILL

NOB HILL

NORTH BEACH

RUSSIAN HILL

VOID PUBLIC SPACE




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SECOND ITERATION

Researcher entrancePublic entrance

Lecture Hall550 sf

Public restroomwomen 200 sf

Public restroommen 150 sf

Research o�ce150 sfResearch o�ce

150 sf

Library2500 sf

Storage 200sfResearch o�ce

150 sfResearch o�ce

150 sf

Restroom: unisex 50sf

Exhibition room 2San Francisco

500 sf

Exhibition room 1History of the American City1500 sfStorage

200sf



Lecture Hall550 sf




150 sf

Library2500 sf



150 sf



500 sf


200sf



Lecture Hall550 sf




150 sf

Library2500 sf



150 sf



500 sf


200sf


Privacy

General

Storage (library) 200sfStorage (exhibition rooms) 200sfResearcher entrance

Research o�ce150 sf



Lecture Hall550 sf

Library2500 sf

Restroom: unisex 50sfRestroom: unisex 50sf

Public entrance

Exhibition room 1History of the American City1500 sf

Exhibition room 2San Francisco500 sf



PublicSemi-Privacy

Privacy

Researcher

Storage (library) 200sfStorage (exhibition rooms) 200sf

Researcher entrance





Lecture Hall550 sfLibrary

2500 sf


Public entranceExhibition room 1History of the American City1500 sf




PublicSemi-Privacy

Privacy

Public

Storage (library) 200sfStorage (exhibition rooms) 200sf

Researcher entrance




Research o�ce150 sf Lecture Hall

550 sf

Library2500 sf


Public entranceExhibition room 1History of the American City1500 sf




PublicSemi-Privacy



SITE MAP



SITE MODEL



FINAL PORTFOLIO

CHARCOAL DRAWING USE TO UNDERSTANDING THE SPACE



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EXHIBITION STORAGE

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STREET EVENT STORAGE

EXHIBITION STORAGE

LOBBY

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SAN FRANCISCOEXHIBITION

AMERICAN CITYEXHIBITION

PRIVARY RAMP (STAFF ONLY)0' - 8'

PUBLIC RAMP

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1 PUBLIC LOBBY2 RESTROOM3 STREET EVENT STORAGE4 EXHIBITION STORAGE5 SHOP6 AMERICAN CITY EXHIBITION7 SAN FRANCISCO EXHIBITION8 LECTURE HALL9 OFFICE10 LIBRARY STORAGE11 RESEARCH LIBRARY12 RESEARCHER LIBRARY13 EXTERIOR SPACE FOR RESEARCHER ONLY14 EXTERIOR SPACE FOR PUBLIC15 QUIET ZONE FOR CARS

GROUND FLOOR SECOND FLOOR THIRD FLOOR

FOURTH FLOOR

FINAL ITERATIONTHIRD FLOOR

FOURTH FLOOR



3D RENDERING MODEL



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