CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON
South Burlington Designated City Center Area
Building Design Workshop 00/00/00 and 00/00/00
Building Design
Ideas and concepts as well as design elements emerged from the community identity, programmatic, and urban design explorations conducted by the Technical Advisory Committee. These ideas concepts and elements shaped proposals for the site selection, conceptual site plan, building footprint plan and renderings suggesting building size, appearance and its relationship to the city center.
The proposed site organization and relationships represent an attempt to link the city center with the existing city, to create a focal civic space with the City Hall building within it, and to connect the center of South Burlington with the surrounding Vermont landscape. The proposed building design attempts to express the contemporary suburban character and identity of the city, establish an information technology hub, and create a cultural center for the City of South Burlington.
5.0 Building Design
5.10 Imagery
5.20 Organization and Shape
TECHNICAL ADVISORY
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
Plan for growth.
Acknowledge the car.
Take advantage of our beautiful setting.
Give the building “presence”.
Be user friendly and welcoming.
Give the City something modern, contemporary and something to be proud of.
Create a large civic space and put the building in it.
Make the building about community, information and communication.
Embrace the car.
Make the building transparent.
Respond to the view of Camel’s hump.
Create a center for an e-city.
Provide orientation to Vermont’s natural landscape.
Create drive through service.
Views to Camel’s hump from within the civic space and within the building.
Vehicular access through the building.
The building as part of Main Street.
A ceremonial entrance.
A pedestrian way through the building.
A visible City Council chamber.