Design response

Wrapping also enables mixed use development

Building wrapping and sleeving to create strong edges that activate the streets- has been an underlying attempt in the design of the Albany commercial centre.

Some projects have inspired and reinforced the concept of wrapping in urban development context.

The Social Experimental Housing — urban innovation project in Medellin, Columbia

Medellin Site plan

This project by Nikken Sekkei that wraps an existing building with a staircase which exposes daily human acivity on to the street to creare vibrance.

Nikken Sekkei rebuilds the 'pencil building' by wrapping the building with emergency stairs to…

… and the various street frontage tactics illustrated in this article

https://citiespeoplelove.co/article/re-thinking-design-strategies-for-street-level-frontages

Further, the blocks are developed along the Don Mckinnon drive ring road to define the street edges. The buildings are designed with gaps in between to break a huge development, keep the structures to human scale and create a comfortable experience for pedestrians.

Breaking the buildings creates opportunities for west views

Viewshafts are created to preserve the views to the North west part of the site.

This requires the roof of the mall to be retrofit to create visual point of the interest from the high point of the contour on Don Mckinnon drive.

After multiple file crashes, the buildings have been checked for viewshafts, trees and sun shadows

some density calculations

final renders… (so close!)

generated this base image through AI, to sketch further on a scene that fit my site context

had to manipulate some specifics as per my design, but it definitely made the process faster

adding some important sections and views…

The shared road sections were decided on mutually with my teammates- Mona and Easson since the ring roads are being shared on our site edges.

The test print was successful!

Ready for the presentation. … hopefully!

Quick addition: Final presentation day- turned out to be a day of great learning and inspiration.

Also a day of great accomplishments, and an emotional conclusion!