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Master Plan for the South Pole Redevelopment Project3. DESIGN PROCESS: 3.3 Functional Analysis: A series of bubble diagrams was prepared for NSF’s review. The highest level diagrams indicated the primary station components of habitat, infrastructure, and remote science functions and their preferred adjacencies to one another. The next level indicated the major functional area groupings within the three primary station components, their relative size, and their adjacencies. These diagrams also focused on the positioning of the area components as building masses for snowdrift management. Intuitive snow management design and experience with other above surface building designs such as the Crary, Science and Engineering Technology Center at McMurdo Station(2), helped the designers organize and structure the diagrams into building shapes. Above surface modular elements were organized in a linear format perpendicular to the prevailing polar wind. This arrangement allowed the wind to scour the area below the buildings and to place a resulting drift on their leeward wind shadow. The drift was intuitively sized with a maximum height equal to the buildings’ height above the snow surface (12 meters), tapering leeward for approximately 35 times the width of the buildings (1,200 meters). Above surface buildings were also sited so that this permanent drift would not curtail on-surface functions or inundate below surface buildings shortening their serviceable life.
(2) Ferraro, Development of a Remote Station Architecture, McMurdo Station Antactica, Dec. 1991 Proceed to next section: 3. Design Process: 3.4 Conceptual Building Design Table of Contents Return to Publications
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