Architecture and Planning ETDs

Publication Date

11-23-1977

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the architectural design process. An architectural design problem was selected to be the means of demonstrating a problem seeking and solving process. An architectural program model was established, starting with detailed research and ending with conceptual design drawings. The architectural problem was to design a new building that would house the educational activities of Manzanita Center, an existing educational laboratory of the College of Education. The five main educational activities of Manzanita are: (1) a preschool day care program, (2) a kindergarten program, (3) a counseling program, (4) a special education program, and (5) a remedial reading program. The primary design criteria are based on the users' needs in the five main educational activities, and the functioning necessities of a successful educational laboratory. The secondary design criteria are to provide a demonstration solar building on the UNM campus to be viewed and experienced by the Manzanita staff, clients, university students, and general public of the sun-rich State of New Mexico. This design thesis, representing a culmination of understanding at the end of a professional curriculum in architecture, will emphasize and develop an architectural process for designing a building, an educational building in particular. This process will start with a research architectural programming system. The process program model is based on the Caudill Rowlett Scott (C.R.S.) "problem seeking" programming method. The main features of this architectural program model in outline sequence are: (1) Background Research; (2) Codes, Safety, Regulations and Guidelines Analysis; (3) Energy Conservation and Solar Determinants; and, finally, (4) Detailed Environmental Research Program exploring Goals, Facts, Programmatic Concepts, Design Concepts, Needs, and Problem Statement. At this point in the process, the designer is ready to proceed with Schematic Design (relationship diagrams) and finally conceptual Design Drawings, concluding the Demonstration Architectural Design process. The end product of this thesis is a comprehensive demonstration of an intense, involved process used to seek and solve an architectural problem, in written and graphic professional form. It is hoped that the conceptual design solution of this process encourages the feasibleness of solar buildings on the campus of the University of New Mexico.

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Architecture

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

School of Architecture and Planning

First Committee Member (Chair)

Robert Carl Cohlmeyer

Second Committee Member

Wybe J. van der Meer

Third Committee Member

Anne P. Taylor

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