Model Resources

The resources liked below provide a simple existing-conditions model that you can use to develop ideas for the redevelopment of the South Boston Seaport District.

Existing Groundplan Image

The image, existing_condition.png provides the basic groundplan for the seaport district and its adjacent areas. This image can be used as the setting for your own groundplan images that you can make to show how you would rezone the seaport or experiment with new circulatory strategies. Develop your subdistrict plan using this image as a reference image. Download this image by clicking on the link in the files section at the bottom of this page.

The street edges and shoreline used in this image were made from GIS files obtained form the Boston Redevelopment Authority in around 2008.

Sketchup Models

You might use Sketchup to develop a three dimnsional model for your subdistrict, Then you can use these sektchup models to set your subndistrict plan into these georeferenced contxt models to better understand how your plan fits in with the greater context of the city. Create with visual connectivity and view corridors in mind!!

These models are both available in the sketchup 3d warehouse collection for this course. The buildings in the outer context of the seaport were exported separately to make for a lighter working mode, but they can easily be registered with eachother owing to their georeferencing. These models originated as a GIS layer obtained form the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 2008 converted to sketchup using ArcGIS.

Google Earth Model

The file, seaport_Sandbox.kmz, contains the groundplan images and 3d buildings refgernced above. The Google Earth model provides an easy way to organize information for presenation and for investigating schemes with eachother and in a very broad context.

This model can be downloaded from the seaport_sandbox.kmz link, below.

Techniques and Procedures

For tips on how to use all of these resources to deepen our understanding of places, visit the Course Web Site for GSD2201, Site Representation and Research.