Library Resources

If you're looking for more historical information, some great resouces in the library are the New York series book by Robert AM Stern. It starts with New York 1880 and goes on to New York 2000. If you're looking for information on our neighborhood in these earlier eras, look for it as Lower East Side. It wasn't Chinatown until later.

Another great one is A History of Housing in New York City, by Richard Plunz, especially for those interested in housing and how the fabric of the city has changed over time.

Both can be found in the NJIT Architecture Library.

Extra links

Hey guys, take a look when you have time of something that Columbia University students were doing.
Columbia


Also I found a really neat site on the zoning laws in NYC, and from there you can find other documents about new urban planning in lower manhattan.
zoning in nyc

Anatomy Project Final Requirements

Louis Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery

Each group is expected to have at least three 30x40 boards on Thursday, September 20.

One board, descriptive 2d drawings to scale, background information and key images of the building.

Two boards should include the following:

Structural Documentation
- Major structural components and materials in building.
- Show how floor and roof slabs attach to the super structure
- Show how facade ties into structure

Mechanical Documentation
- Define types of mechanical system providing heating and cooling
- Locate fresh air intakes and relationship to facade
- Locate all ducting as well as chillers, coolers, air handling units, and hot water heaters

Facade Documentation
- Detail and describe major form, materials, apertures and thresholds
- Detail any integration with structure and mechanical systems

Circulation, Section, and Spatial Documentation
- Define major vertical and horizontal circulation systems
- Define programmatic zones
- Define relation to street, neighborhood

Wherever possible, these analytical drawings should be in 3d instead of 2d.

Avery Library

The Avery Architecture library at Columbia University is the oldest and largest architecture library in the country. It is a non-circulating collection, so if you find a book online, it will most likely be there. To get in, you have to get a reading card from the main library, Butler.

Avery Library-
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/

Access-
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/lio/access/

Map of Campus-
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/

To get there-
Take the PATH train from Newark Penn Station to 34th Street/6th Ave. Walk one block over to Penn station on 7th Ave.
Get on the 2/3 Subway train going Uptown to 96th Street (express)
Switch to the 1/9 local train to 116th Street.

Illustrate plugin for Max

For those of you using 3dmax, there is a render plugin called Illustrate! that you can download that allow you to export vector line files (Illustrator files) of views and can give you images that look like this-

You can download a trial version that is good for 30 days from this website-
http://www.davidgould.com/

OMA Seattle Public Library

A very clear presentation on the development of this project- here

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