MARCOS

=**Best Fit** = by Marcos

=INVESTIGATION STAGE =

**General characteristics of the neighborhood** :
The neighborhood is a neighborhood containing many small stores. It has many single family homes and low rise appartments. The neighborhood is an urban yet suburban place. Queens Boulevard is a busy place with a 4 way intersection filled with passing cars and bystanders. Around the lot there are many single family homes. The neighborhood has a vast number of restaurants. The neighborhood is also near a train station. The neighborhood in general is a calm neighborhood with not that much commotion. It provides many places to eat and many stores to buy things, making it more of a private life neighborhood, the opposite of a neighborhood that has a lot of business.

**Needs assessment** :
**1. A description of what the neighborhood already has.**

Around the lot, there are some double family houses, some low rise apartments, and a high rise apartment. Most of the houses are single or double family houses. Around the lot, there are two streets that are filled with single or double family houses. One is just two blocks away from the lot, containing 3-4 streets filled with single family/ double family houses. Around the lot there are no attached houses, the houses around the lot are separated from each other. There are many low rise apartments all around the lot. These have around 4-5 floors. There are a couple of high rise apartment, this apartment is located 2-3 blocks away from the lot. These are the Big Six apartments There are no businesses around the lot, there are many restaurants which are food business. There are many places of worship around the lot. The St. Sebastian Roman Catholic church is located a couple of blocks away, as well as the Woodside Community Baptist church, the Sea New Moon Korean Baptist church, Spanish Woods seventh day, Greater NY conference, Woodside Jewish center, and the Iglesia De Dios Ministerial. There are also many schools. One of the schools from the NYC is P.S.11. Other schools are St. Sebastian School, B V M Help of Christians school, Ra'Zi school, Greater New York Academy, Adventure land Day center, Rainbow Land Preschool, Mozart Music School, and June Parodi School of Dance. There are no factories. There is a dental healthcare called Prime Dental Lab, and Woodside Medical Center There are also numerous number of restaurants including Donovan's Pub, KFC, Ramphool Thai, Carvel, New China 3, Engeline's restaurant and bake, Peking BBQ, Pizza Boy 2, Rico Pan bakery, Woodside Pizzeria, Gina's Pizzeria, and Huang K Chinese. There is a gym called Gold gym, and a tae-kwon-do center called Legacy Tae-kwon-do center. There is also a cemetery called Cementario.

**2. An analysis of what the neighborhood needs.** The building has many food industry buildings. The neighborhood has many small houses, only 1 appartement and a couple of high rise apartments. Theneighborhood also has many places of worship for different religions. The neighborhood has a cementary. This neighborhood however has no hospitals. The neighborhood needs a hospital in case people get in an injury that requires medical help such as surgery.This would be necessary in a neighborhood, as a hospital provides the neighbors with care. Think about if a person gets hurt. The only hospitals near the neighborhood is the Elmhurst hospital. Therefore this new hospital will provide the community with a place to receive treatment.

**Buildings and architects that provide inspiration**
 This﻿ building inspires me. The building is so new and fresh. It looks relaxing and modern. I know that the amount of space in my lot isn't big enough and the location isn't where you would find a house like this, however this building inspires my design to be modern. This picture has taught me to bring clean, fresh, crisp to my building by making it look modern. This building inspired me. It inspired me because it has a modern look to it, and it looks casual as well. This building keeps a square like shape like regular buildings, however unlike those old buildings, this building looks more modern. From this I realise that a building's parts such as the glass, can change the feeling of what kind of building it is. This building keeps a normal shape, and manages to look modern without using such unique shapes. The materials making the building also make it look modern. This picture inspires me. If you look at this building, it has a pretty unique shape. Most buildings are square, rectangle, or pentagon shaped. This building has a shape i do not know, it seems to have many windows/doors. While I am looking for a unique building, I do not want my building to be so unrestrainted and unique like this building. This building inspires me. It ispires me because of how it uses what is around it. Besides maiking a building that fits the needs of the community, the design must also fit in in the community literaly, not stand out like a skyscraper in a small village. This building supports my point completely. This house is in a meadow in the mountains, very green mountains. The color and the design of the outside of the house makes it kind of camoflauge in the location. The house blends and fits in the location completely, looking like a part of the nature itself because of its characteristics. If I want to build something on my lot, it must fit in and blend in to the community literally. This building inspired me. It inspired me because this building is really tall and really gleaming. It shines with bright lights. This buidling looks really modern, like a building from a futuristic city, it looks too modern. This building could not fit in the community that the lot exists in. This buidling would stand out so much because of its size and its radiance. I know that having a building like that would be wierd. Therefore from this image I learned that the building has to be modern, but not overdone tht it looks like its futuristic like this building. ** In what ways has this investigation influenced you to design a building for your lot that makes the best fit for the neighborhood? **

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=DESIGN BRIEF =

**Design Brief:**
==**Problem to be solved: The problem the neighborhood has is that there is no hospital near the lot. The neighborhood needs a hospital to go to for times of need.** ==

**Requirements:**

 * The building must be a hospital
 * The building must be modern yet also sophisticated
 * The building must follow a common square/rectangle structure.

**Constraints:**

 * The building must fit in a 1200.99' size.
 * The building cannot have an odd shape
 * Ther building cannot look like an old building ( a building made of wood)

Description of Three Possible Designs
 * Design #1 ** (This design has 3 floors to keep patienst in. It is built in a rectangular shape and has a sign saying "H +" to show that it is a hospital. The hospital includes many windows per floor, and 4 doors, 3 on the front for people to get in, and 1 door in case of emergency.

media type="custom" key="8106798" ** Design #2 ** ** ( ** This design is very similar to design 1. The differences is that this design has 5 doors, 4 doors are at the front and 1 remains at the back for emergency. This design has a couple of flowers on the roof for a different look. The color is different as well. Instead of having a sign saying "H +", it has a sign saying "EMERGENCY" This sign is also not an extension of the last floor, but a sign from the roof, making the hospital look more professional. The design has a road that can be used for ambulances to quickly drop off patients.

media type="custom" key="8133454" ** Design #3 ** This design has extra floors than the other two designs, allowing it to contain more patients. It has 6 floors in all. It is labeled "Woodisde Family Hospital" named family bcause it brings a good relationship with the patients. The design has a road that can be used for ambulances to quickly drop off patients, as well as a hospital helicopter that can be used to reach patients that aren't able to be reached by ambulances. This design has 5 doors in the front, 1 door at the roof for patients to be brought to a room from the helicopter, and 1 dorr as an emergency door at the back of the building. media type="custom" key="8133328"

==** Identify the Best Design: ** I think that design 3 is the best design. This design is the design with 6 floors. This design also is the only design with a helicopter== ** Justify Your Choice: ** I think that this design is the best design because it has 6 floors, as opposed to the 3 floors that the other designs have. I realized that a hospital has to have a lot of floors to keep a lot of patients. This design has a nice look, the number of floors, the sign, the number of doors, and the road's make the hospital look more like a hospital. Design 1 has a horrible sign because the sign is right on the floor. Design 1 also has no means of transportation, Design 1 is the most simple of the designs. Design 2 fixed this by having a mean of transportation using ambulances, changed the color of the building making the building look more sophisticated, has a different sign saying "Emergency" and the sign comes out from the roof, not from the building floor, however there is nothing besides the sign on the roof, the roof is empty. Also the design doesn't have enough floors for it to be a hospital. Design 3 has solved these problems, combining both signs and saying " Woodside Family Hospital H +". It has 6 floors, all with many windows. It has 6 doors on the front, a road with ambulances, and even its own helicopter and helicopter landing. This unique design is used to reach people when the ambulance cannot for any reason. This is at the roof. The design uses the roof space. I chose this design because it has no problems whatsoever, and it looks more detailed and like a hospital. The unique helicopter feature also helped me choose this design.