River Front Connection

An arial picture of the river front in Savannah.


Besides using the typical city block, and the garden squares as the central elements to the residential areas. I thought the connection of Savannah to the river is also very important. The one very interesting thing about the river front in Savannah is that there is a row of buildings pretty much at the level of the river, and they sit in front of the bluffs. So you can enter the third floor of a building from the street side, go down two levels, and exit the building on the river side. I am trying to a certain extent to use that relationship to develop the relationship of my site to the river in Columbus.



Obviously, I haven't added any detail to any of these drawings, so the scale is sometimes hard to understand.



One significant problem that I am having is I only have about 1000 units. That only includes the units in the towers. And I haven't done a study on how many units I can get on the riverfront... but the riverfront should mostly be retail oriented. I'm concerned that the density that I am proposing in my thesis, and the density that I have achieved is not quite in sink yet. I in the floor plans I have alot of open, corridor/wasted space... I have been playing with a couple different massing shapes that might become more efficient shapes to achieve a greater density without sacrificing the intent.