assignment two

Program Development – Generative Idea
The first week we focused on understanding the client initiatives, contextual surveys of site, and an introduction to planning analysis.

Your next assignment is the development of the program relative to your initial concept(s). Rather than applying your ideas to a conventional prescriptive program with a set of determined spaces and associated areas, you will have the opportunity to develop your own program based on three simple factors:

1) Interpretation of YMCA’s and Carmela Gold’s objectives within the community context and membership demographics.
2) Selected or all programs stated in the course description, PLUS your programmatic additions in terms of,
3) Your generative concept

Besides the site constraints already covered, we will also introduce a few programming constraints to consider, such as the maximum building of 50,000 GSF (Gross Square Feet), base infrastructure considerations (structure, circulation/egress, and MEP), and the net-to-gross ratios.

We will have desk-crits on Monday, 01.29
The objective is for you to clearly speak to and illustrate a cognisant concept, and to begin the process of threading the numerous gravities together.