I must say that at this point I am becoming quite unclear on your intentions. The program, upon review, suggests a miniature soccer pitch: 160x90 about half full-size. The site is a triangle in one of the most congested areas in the city, and bisected by a major thoroughfare -- 6th Avenue. The proposal is characterized by extraordinary conflicts.
Your precedents consisted of smaller community or school facilities. Yet you're describing a "stadium," which normally would occupy a very large rectangular site, more typically at an edge condition with parking or nearby public transportation. Think of the Flushing Meadows Tennis Complex. If the intent is a club for younger players I can begin to imagine how it might fit on the site, although even this limited program would pose challenges.
Also, the idea as a land form is antithetical to an urban site. As I mentioned earlier in response to your selection of the Seattle art complex, the site suggests a more classically urban response.
Looking at your recent sketches, the roof plan indicates the field at the north end laid out east-west, illustrated as an oval shape, within which one might fit the half-sized field identified in your program (160x90). Youth soccer field dimensions - that is dimensions for under 8 year-olds - could be 75x150 feet, not counting the areas around the field for throw-ins, officials, benches, general safety, etc. If small side adult teams, say 6v6, play here you might fit a field at 50-60 yds x 30 yds, or 150x90 feet, plus the necessary surrounding space. I'm unclear what the oval shape represents in your diagram; if it's seating, the space is under-sized.
Given these constraints, some limited viewing area could be accommodated; two or three rows, assuming the enclosure is right at the lot lines and doesn't include any sloping surfaces, such as your "idea" sketch implies.
In short, if you've selected this site for this very anomalous use, you need a design idea that comes to terms with the peculiar nature of this proposal and reconciles its fundamental conflicts. A straightforward approach with precedents in the city is an elevated deck. A portion of Carl Shurz Park, on the Upper East Side, is built over the Roosevelt Parkway; the High LIne is another elevated park with roadways beneath.
This would be a big change to this neighborhood, and take finesse to pull off, but if you're determined to make a new use for larger-scale uses in place of the existing open space and a major avenue you need to be pretty clear in your reasoning, (ie why this use on this site), propose a clear strategy, and develop your proposal in a site context model.
I understand this is a conceptual design class, but the vague sketches of land forms and isolated structural notions aren't useful at this point. You need to come to terms with the basics of program, scale and context.
I must say that at this point I am becoming quite unclear on your intentions. The program, upon review, suggests a miniature soccer pitch: 160x90 about half full-size. The site is a triangle in one of the most congested areas in the city, and bisected by a major thoroughfare -- 6th Avenue. The proposal is characterized by extraordinary conflicts.
ReplyDeleteYour precedents consisted of smaller community or school facilities. Yet you're describing a "stadium," which normally would occupy a very large rectangular site, more typically at an edge condition with parking or nearby public transportation. Think of the Flushing Meadows Tennis Complex. If the intent is a club for younger players I can begin to imagine how it might fit on the site, although even this limited program would pose challenges.
Also, the idea as a land form is antithetical to an urban site. As I mentioned earlier in response to your selection of the Seattle art complex, the site suggests a more classically urban response.
Looking at your recent sketches, the roof plan indicates the field at the north end laid out east-west, illustrated as an oval shape, within which one might fit the half-sized field identified in your program (160x90). Youth soccer field dimensions - that is dimensions for under 8 year-olds - could be 75x150 feet, not counting the areas around the field for throw-ins, officials, benches, general safety, etc. If small side adult teams, say 6v6, play here you might fit a field at 50-60 yds x 30 yds, or 150x90 feet, plus the necessary surrounding space. I'm unclear what the oval shape represents in your diagram; if it's seating, the space is under-sized.
Given these constraints, some limited viewing area could be accommodated; two or three rows, assuming the enclosure is right at the lot lines and doesn't include any sloping surfaces, such as your "idea" sketch implies.
In short, if you've selected this site for this very anomalous use, you need a design idea that comes to terms with the peculiar nature of this proposal and reconciles its fundamental conflicts. A straightforward approach with precedents in the city is an elevated deck. A portion of Carl Shurz Park, on the Upper East Side, is built over the Roosevelt Parkway; the High LIne is another elevated park with roadways beneath.
This would be a big change to this neighborhood, and take finesse to pull off, but if you're determined to make a new use for larger-scale uses in place of the existing open space and a major avenue you need to be pretty clear in your reasoning, (ie why this use on this site), propose a clear strategy, and develop your proposal in a site context model.
I understand this is a conceptual design class, but the vague sketches of land forms and isolated structural notions aren't useful at this point. You need to come to terms with the basics of program, scale and context.