Saturday, May 29, 2010

Project 3: Intial Site Analysis















Opportunities

- It’s central location on King Street allows for heavy pedestrian traffic for a front entrance
-there is an interesting relationship between the angled wall and King Street
-The 3 storey adjacent building block allows for the gallery’s 3 storey height or double storey ceilings
- Pedestrians stop at the 3 Road junction (Eliza, King and Wilson Street ) for traffic lights. From this location they have clear view of the site’s front facade
- Surrounded by a variety of multicultural establishments may encourage a broad range of customers to the proposed gallery
-Spanish tapas bar
-Turkish Take- away
- Middle eastern furnishings store
- Japanese –sushi train
- Italian restaurant
- Out of the three sites , this location is the closest to the Newtown station and is also in close proximity to a number of bus stops


Constraints

- King street is extremely noisy with car traffic as well as pedestrian noise
- There is no on street parking on King street close to the site
- The site is boxed in on 2 of it’s longest largest facades. This will prevent the building from incorporating opening on the east and west facades
- The North facade backs onto a massive concrete 3 storey building. This will block allot of the northern sun.

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