Marymount University Ballston Center Redevelopment...the penthouse and down the south façade. • Added blue accent lighting in roof top canopy and vertical screen wall • Moved

December 09, 2013

Marymount University Ballston CenterRedevelopment

SITE PLAN REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING #6

MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY BALLSTON CENTER 09 December 2013 SPRC #6 2

Perspective: Previous Southeast Corner View


Perspective: Southeast Corner View

Penthouse Moved Back 3 Feet

Architecture Penthouse Features Relate to Each

Other

Shared Corner Plaza


Perspective: Southeast Corner at Night


Detailed Perspective: Current Southeast Corner


Previous Penthouse: Minimal Articulation


Current Penthouse Option: Facade Module Articulation


Previous Detailed Perspective: Academic Office Retail and Landscape


Current Detailed Perspective: Academic Office Retail and Landscape


Previous Detailed Perspective: Street Level View from Glebe Road


Current Detailed Perspective: Street Level View from Glebe Road


Current Detailed Perspective: Corner Plaza


Residential Building: Detail View


Detailed Perspective Residential: Detail View


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Previous Landscape Plan: Academic Office and ResidentialNot to Scale

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ACADEMIC OFFICE

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Proposed Landscape Plan: Academic Office and ResidentialNot to Scale

RESIDENTIAL

ACADEMIC OFFICE

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Fairfax Drive

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lebe Road

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Current Landscape: Detailed Plaza and Planting Plan

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lebe Road

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Current Landscape: Hardscape Plan

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lebe Road

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Current Landscape: Seating Plan

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lebe Road

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Current Landscape: Lighting Plan

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Current Detailed Sections: Plaza

Plaza

PlazaPlaza

Reference Image


Previous Landscape: Detailed Courtyard Plan

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Current Landscape: Detailed Courtyard Plan

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Historical References: Around the Site


Previous Courtyard View: Courtyard Perspective


Updated Courtyard View: To Address Ground Floor Articulation (Louvers)


SPRC: Changes Made to Date - Overview

Architecture

• Revised the roof top element to incorporate a perforated metal panel screen wall and metal canopy that overhangs

the penthouse and down the south façade.

• Added blue accent lighting in roof top canopy and vertical screen wall

• Moved penthouse back an additional 3’ from south façade (5’ total set-back)

• Revised design of west façade to incorporate elements from the east façade and to recall elements

of the original Blue Goose building west facade

• Added articulation to north façade at garage exhaust shaft and louver to incorporate Terra Cotta “baguettes”

• Revised the first floor plan to get retail space at the SE corner and a service corridor connecting it to the loading dock.

• Created new retail entry on Fairfax Drive with blue metal façade panels and canopy for the Blue Goose Café

• Shared concept for the Blue Goose Café interior.

• Added blue spandrel glass band at second floor slab at portion of east and south facade

• Added articulation to penthouse facade

• Changed metal doors to sectional glass doors for loading and garage entry

• Raised 1st Floor slab elevations to eliminate all steps outside the building

Academic Office


Landscape• Corner plaza re-conceptualized from a series of modular bioretention planters with seat walls (SPRC 1) to landscape panels (SPRC 2).

• Corner plaza refinement of landscape panels, including introduction of landforms (SPRC 3).

• Corner plaza re-conceptualized to include alternate pedestrian flow with diffused hardscape edge treatments (post-SPRC 4).

• Relocation of residential garage entry from Glebe to Wakefield.

• Added parking spaces on Wakefield Street

• Introduction of Blue Goose Café seating in corner plaza.

• Refinement of bus shelter location (SPRC 4) and interface with shuttle stop (post-SPRC 4).

• Refinement of grade change relative to stairs and ramps.

• Refinement to “Pedestrian Realm” definition on streetscapes.

• Introduction of cycle track.

• Incorporating additional street trees: +2 on Fairfax, +1 on Glebe (possibly an additional after yesterday), +1 on Wakefield

• Additional trees within site: +2 at corner of Wakefield & Fairfax, +2 at interior courtyard, +4 at corner plaza (currently).

SPRC: Changes Made to Date - Overview (Continued)

Residential• Moved Vehicular entry from N. Glebe to Wakefield (thus losing parking spaces)

• Added Retail (thus having to move residential lobby entry and reducing number of dwelling units)

• Moved building 5’-0” west to open view corridor to corner (thus reducing courtyard space for residents)


Landscape (Cont.)• Corner plaza re-conceptualize from a series of landscape panels with immediate geometric relationship to the architectural expression of both build

ings (SPRC 2-4) to a plaza defined by a continuous paving design from façade to curb, interrupted with planting areas informed by a perforated hard

scape edge and a looser (curvilinear) definition of back of sidewalk (SPRC 5), to a reinterpretation of the planting areas as autonomous forms that in

turn promote pedestrian movement through the plaza.

• Introduction of a sweeping paving treatment weaving pedestrian circulation through the site with connections along the streetscape. Paving treat

ment is intended to be a subtle change from the overall paving field.

• Introduction of circular benches/spaces acting as highly defined gathering spaces. Each of the three spaces has a different orientation and exposure.

• Introduction of monolithic type benches along the streetscape for impromptu seating in a sunny location. Such benches are also located near the

Marymount entrance. Collectively they provide one type of seating on the perimeter of the plaza plantings.

• Refinement of the low retaining walls along Glebe streetscape (see Historical Reference below) with a curving profile with a maximum height of 2’.

• Refinement to the location of turf landform abutting low retaining wall (above).

• Introduction of short light fixtures casting light along the pedestrian network within the plaza.

• Grouping the trees within the plaza in lieu of a geometric arrangement. The shade trees at the café seating maintain a geometric arrangement de

rived from the architecture.

SPRC: Changes Made to Date - Overview (Continued)

Marymount UniversityBallston Center

Marymount UniversityThe Shooshan Company

Avison Young

09.7308.000

Thank You!

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Marymount University Ballston Center Redevelopment...the penthouse and down the south façade. • Added blue accent lighting in roof top canopy and vertical screen wall • Moved