Concern regarding carbon effects on climate change is causing major reconsideration of our national infrastructure. Recent national and automobile manufacturer commitment to electric vehicles directs additional support for charging capabilities on long haul travel routes. Your first project this semester will be the development of information for creation of a Way Station that supplies one-hour electric vehicle charging stations, eventually leading to a building design. Your first step will be research and development of a Building Program.
A Building Program is a document that describes how to accommodate activities. Preparation of a building program requires development of an understanding of how people work together towards an end. Every building contains activities. It is your job as the architect to make clear the patterns and needs of the people who will eventually use the building. To do this you must analyze the activities (list, describe, understand) make clear their relationships and interactions (written description, diagramming) and determine necessary support items (furniture, equipment). All of this can then be used to develop a “working document” (areas, volumes, relationships and desired qualities) for use in building design. It is often surprising what can be learned, both by the architecture and the building users, in this sort of study.
In its broadest guise, a Building Program is a hypothesis that you as the architect will test through design.
The proposed EV Way Station will provide charging ports for 40 passenger vehicles. The Way Station must provide activities to keep public visitors (drivers and passengers) occupied for a minimum of an hour. It must also supply the necessary services for people on the road and support spaces for the management team of the facility.
The EV Way Station will operate 24 hours a day.
You are to prepare a formal, printed document that ideates and explores an approach to keeping travelers occupied as well as the support services necessary, the relationships between the components (diagrams and descriptions) and the amount of space required to contain the activities and equipment necessary for this building.
You are to use the outline below, what you learn from the presentation today and what you may learn from individual or small group interviews and visits to prepare this printed document.
EV Charging
40 Passenger Vehicles
List necessary ancillary spaces to this major equipment as well as information regarding necessary space for vehicle placement while charging and vehicular access.
Traveler Activity Proposal(s)
The nature and spatial needs of your proposed method for keeping travelers occupied for an hour. This can include exterior space opportunities, but take into account the 24 hour, 365 day a year (inclement weather seasonally and daily) nature of the situation.
Public Restrooms
Direct concurrent use of the facilities for 12 of each gender (male – 8 urinals, 4 water closets, 4 lavatories ; female – 12 water closets, 4 lavatories) plus 2 non-gender specific / family private restrooms.
Administrative
Oversight and Public interaction
Additional Parking
20 parking spots, including necessary ADA van parking, for non charging users and staff.
Program Document Requirements
Format: In Teams of 3-4 - Develop a graphic format (8 ½” x 8 ½” min., 11” x 11” max.) to document the information you have collected and drawn. A hardcopy of the Program is to be printed, bound and submitted. Additionally place a .pdf format copy in your instructor’s ARCH 202 digital submission location as shared by your section professor.
Minimum Requirements:
General statements regarding the nature of the proposed traveler activity spaces
Comprehensive list and description of activities
Dimensioned axonometric drawings of typical EV types
Turning radius drawings of typical EV types
Comprehensive list and description of the proposed spaces
Scaled axonometric drawing of the proposed spaces
Hierarchic diagram of the proposed spaces
Relationship/Adjacency diagram of the proposed spaces
List of required or proposed furnishings and equipment
Assigned: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Review Draft due: Monday, January 31, 2022
Final Program due: Friday, February 4, 2022