1.4 Analyzing the city

This phase of design will involve the overall schematic design and continue the conceptual development of your project.

The diagram is the “beginning”, it is the key drawing that contains in abstract form something about the entire project. The diagram expresses one idea of the project precisely. Until now you have a conceptual diagram and a first diagram that deals with the program. Now, you will be working on a conceptual reading of the project-site and analyze pragmatic conditions in a creative way.
Start to get more familiar with the city of Santa Fe analyzing its territory. Particularly, you should focus on conditions that are important for the establishment of a resort, such as climate in different seasons, factors related to tourism and if possible urban elements in your site proximity.


References
http://www.santafenm.gov/index.aspx?NID=1083
http://santafe.org/
http://clerkshq.com/default.ashx?ClientSite=Santafe-nm
http://www.santafenm.gov/index.aspx?NID=1079
http://www.santafenm.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=3509
& GOOGLE MAPS-STREET VIEW-AERIAL VIEW

Choose and explore the following conditions in the chosen site in relationship with adjacent areas:
• grids, districts, circulation north-south-east-west systems, larger street-systems, important buildings, horizontal voids, hierarchy of infrastructural systems, vertical and horizontal connections, access-exit to the site, paths of specific destinations, existing green spaces, layering of activities or of traces, people flow, car flow, movement, in different hours, during the day, at night, residual islands, water, views, …etc.
• Spaces: exteriors, outdoors, open, covered, empty, full, rare, dense…
• Buildings: façade, structures, components, presence, materials, adjacency, verticality, horizontality…
• Demographic, economical, social conditions
• Feel free to add and discover other conditions.

Compose and print your research on several pages in 11”x17” format.

Represent your research using:
• Collage of images, pictures, detailed images, 2Ddrawings, simple given diagrams, simple mapping drawings, or any visual technique that could be useful to represent a condition of the site.
• Add some explanatory captions, short text or titles if necessary.
• Pages Layout is at your choice.

Save your final pages into a digital folder called: visualSANTAfe
Collect all information, images, texts, materials, and more you will use for this assignment into this folder.

Due on th, sep. 17 Class pin-up