Test 01 Review PDF

Test 01 Review Example of architecture positively integrating site: - Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion - Harvest, Stores, Uses Rainwater - Using daylight and natural ventilation - Tempers the climate / no heating/cooling system - Moving water, storing it, reintro...

Test 01 Review Example of architecture positively integrating site: - Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion - Harvest, Stores, Uses Rainwater - Using daylight and natural ventilation - Tempers the climate / no heating/cooling system - Moving water, storing it, reintroducing it. Permeable structure - Passive ventilation Site -- "Every site is part of a larger natural system that shaped and is shaped by the way the site is planned and used." Windshield Wilderness - Seeing things through windshield causes challenges to understand scale, caused by the window being a barrier - Coined in 1990 - Photographic opportunities- a practice of how people engage with our natural environments - Designed experience, clear demarcated boundaries - Stopping at designated places, rest stops, historic markers, spaces designed. - Managed environments -- approaching a relationship with nature, through the vehicle we are only accessing areas that have been managed to some extent. - Yellowstone national park - Even in exposed areas there were places defining where people could and could not be. - Nature is not pristine - Anthropocene- acknowledging that humans change the environment, emphasizing there's a scale to which we are changing the environment now that impacts the entire world. - Site Design -- - Start by observing and understanding the dynamic conditions of our environment. - How do we start to understand more complex forms of engagement. - Tools for construction understanding of our world - Interface- Physical - Mechanical, geometries - Each tools gives us access to a haptic way of making sense of what's in our surroundings Lecture Topics - Solar Energy and Sunlight - Sunlight - Natural systems begin with the sun and the radiant energy it delivers to the earth - Source / Energy - Azimuth / Altitude - Solar Azimuth: direction, angle in degrees from north (horizontal) - Solar Altitude: height, degrees above the horizon. (vertical) - Sun polar charts - Shows solar position in the sky - Sun path, time of day, day of year, analemma - Summer solstice, winter solstice, equinox - Solar tools - The photographers ephemeris - Chart of electromagnetic radiations - Sunlight on surfaces - Traditional Berber house - Constructed to use suns path and a threshold to their advantage - Albedo - The fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body. It is measured on a scale from 0 to 1. - 10,000 Mirrors, solar energy project - Heat turns water to steam to generate electricity - Mirrors = Albedo 1.0 - Light is focused on tower of molten salt  Wind -- "...Greatly modifies the perceived temperature" - Wind Patterns - Global circulation patterns across earth generating dynamic atmosphere - Resources for tracking wind - Wind Rose chart- shows where wind is coming through the site. - Wind Effects - Wind breaks- can shelter areas of 20 times the height of the obstruction Wind is part of a greater dynamic atmosphere - Polar Cell, air sinks -- polar highs - Ferrel Cell, mid latitudes -- flows poleward and east ward near surface - Hadley Cell, lower latitudes -- convection cell A list of information on a white background Description automatically generated Rainfall -- rainfall signatures are unique to every location, according to climate and geography - Shape of rain- - - Origins of rainfall - Relief rainfall - Convection rainfall - Frontal Rainfall - Isopluvias charts - Watersheds Landscape Ecology - Ecology of a site is the product of water, soils, sunlight, climate, historical species common to an area. - Patches & corridors - Patches -- relatively uniform areas where one or a set of species dominate, usually characterized by consistent soils, orientation, and slopes - Corridors- usually the product of watercourses, may also be upland areas within unique soil strata or steep slopes - Biotic community - Climax Communities Wildlife ecology -... linked to landscape systems; disturbing the later will inevitably displace wildlife that depend upon it - Habitat corridors - Gives space and habitat for wildlife, and access to nature for humans - Wildlife crossings - Urban wildlife conservation - Fragment habitat - Blends seamlessly - Decrease in wildlife vehicular collisions Critical Environments - The site designer is faced with having to balance protection of the natural features with exploiting their presence - Coastal areas - Freshwater wetlands - Ponds - Riparian corridors - Steep hillsides - Forest