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LONG ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM

Project Parts

1-B

Site Analysis 

1-C

Site Design

1-D

Design Parameters

1-E

Museum

1-B:
Site Analysis

Assignment:

In this assignment, my group determined how the existing factors of a Site affect its development as a Museum including the building(s) form and relationship to the site, to other functional elements, and to circulation elements. We Investigated this criteria that affected the development of the subject site provided to use, including, but not limited to:

  • Governmental Regulations

  • Aesthetic Considerations

  • Historic Influences

  • Cultural Considerations

  • Environmental Factors

Group Project

1-C:
Site Design

Assignment:

Based on the analysis in Project 1B, on an 11” x 17” sheet, on my own I had to show the project site on an appropriate scale and develop a Proposed Preliminary Site Plan for the Museum indicating the building, parking and landscaping. I had to use appropriate line weight for dimension lines, site elements, landscape elements, building elements, and any other site amenities.

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Project Program:

Site Design:

  • Parking for 200 cars, and 12 buses.

  • Outdoor Eating Area for 100 people

  • Outdoor Exhibit Space

Museum Building:

  • Two Stories; is expected to be approximately 30,000 square feet,

Project 1C- Full Site Design

For the Preliminary Design, it took about 6 trys for me to fit the building onto one corner in the left side of the site where I decided to scrap that side of the building and move it towards the right side where it currently lays here.

1-D:
Design Parameters 

At this point in the process, I had studied the Building Type, performed a Site Analysis and prepared a Preliminary Site Design. As I prepare to design the building, it is time to ask the simple question: “what items will I need to include and consider when designing this Museum?”

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Assignment:

I prepared a “checklist” of needs, wants, requirements, considerations, and influences that I used to guide myself during the design process. This “checklist” served as a way for me to determine if I was on track and accomplishing all that I must have to design for a successful project.​

​CHECKLIST:

Needs:

  • Exhibit space

  • Kitchen

  • Bathrooms

  • Lobby/Reception area

  • Storage space?

  • Loading/unloading area?

Wants:

  • History of lego?

  • Section of the second floor apart of the first floor

  • First-floor exterior of building brick, second floor stucco/ plain color

  • Only windows on doors of front entrance and exit doors

  • Art outside of building

  • Make building look pretty with landscaping

  • Gift shop

Requirements:

  • Proper circulation

  • 30,000 sq ft building

  • 2 Stories

  • 200 car parking spots, 12 bus spots

Considerations:

  • Interactive areas so kids can build with legos?

  • Areas of the museum to cater towards both kids and adults (Events: Adult Night?)

  • Accessibility (ADA)

  • Make Foyer/ front entrance hall priority

  • Public and Private space?

New Ideas

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Some of the ideas for the Checklist were scraped because the type of museum we were allowed to build wasn't specified until the end of project 1-D and the start of 1-E which was a Long Island History Museum. For The History of Long Island Museum, you had the creative freedom to pick any type of history of any aspect of Long Island. So, after some thought, I changed the Lego museum into a History of Long Island Museum of everything. This museum will explain its history from when it started to the present day for celebrities, beaches, and artwork to bring the community together having interactive exhibits and opportunities for students to put their own artwork up for display.

1-E:
Museum

Comprehensive proposal for a Long Island History Museum:

Outcomes-

  • An ability to design systems, components, or processes for broadly defined engineering technology problems appropriate to program educational objectives

  • An ability to identify, analyze, and solve broadly defined engineering technology problems.

Assignment:

6 DRAWING SHEETS: All lines are to be black and white and conform to CAD guidelines; 3-D images are to be color or grayscale; all spaces are to be labeled to ensure conformance with the minimum program described in the project brief.

  • Site plan and description of project strategy

  • Floor plan(s) of each floor

  • Exterior Elevations of all sides

  • One large three-dimensional image

  • Space Summary

  • Technical information

  • Whole building and wall sections - Roof, wall and foundation

    • Specific details for technological innovations and standards that will be incorporated into the design.

  • Structural Key Plan

  • Drawing line-weights: Use requirements in syllabus

  • Model : Inset site model for class site model

  • Cost Estimate: 8 ½ x 11 sheet

Project 1E- FULL PROJECT W/COST ESTIMATE

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