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Home My WebLink AboutCITY OF FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICES BUILDING - PDP - PDP140005 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATIONSHADOW ANALYSIS SUMMARY OF FINDINGS In considering the scale, mass and form of the Fort Collins Utilities Customer Service building, analysis was conducted of the shade and shadow caused by the building during the spring and fall as well as winter and summer solstice to give a complete range of annual daylighting conditions. Throughout the year, the CSB creates a minimal detrimental impact on uses outside of its site. Given the building’s location on a corner, through much of the year, the shadow cast by the build- ing in the morning hours falls into Howes Street. Toward midday, during winter, the CSB casts a slight shadow on the building directly north, 219 N. Howes Street. This shadow also shades the north landscape zone of the building in the winter time. Over time, with the anticpation of the creation of a Civic Green north of the CSB during the build-out of the Civic Center Campus, this north aspect shadow should not pose a major problem relative to cutting off daylight to regularly inhabited spaces. To the east, the CSB’s proximity to the 215 N. Mason building will mean that some winter, late-day shade will cut off some existing access to daylight. However, to mitigate this condition as much as possible, the CSB is sited as far west on its site as possible and oriented with its narrow dimension perpendicular to 215 N. Mason. Key outdoor public spaces around the CSB lie to the south and east of the building allowing for plentiful solar access year-round and some late-day shading in the summer. It should be noted that the CSB is surrounded by a few buildings of similar or larger scale which have an impact on this new building’s site in the winter months. CSB 8 a.m. 10 a.m. 12 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. JUSTICE CENTER PARKS WELLNESS OPS SVCS 215 N. MASON SHADOW ANALYSIS - SPRING/FALL FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING SHADOW ANALYSIS - SPRING/FALL FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING CSB 8 a.m. 10 a.m. 12 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. JUSTICE CENTER PARKS WELLNESS OPS SVCS 215 N. MASON SHADOW ANALYSIS - SUMMER SOLSTICE FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING SHADOW ANALYSIS - SPRING/FALL FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING CSB 8 a.m. 10 a.m. 12 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. JUSTICE CENTER PARKS WELLNESS OPS SVCS 215 N. MASON SHADOW ANALYSIS - WINTER SOLSTICE FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING VISUAL ANALYSIS SUMMARY OF FINDINGS A visual analysis of the CSB within and compared with the existing context of block 32, Laporte Avenue and Howes Street reveals the project’s impact relative to expanding the civic presence on Block 32 as well as the change to the urban environment along Laporte Avenue. In terms of establishing contextual scale and character, the CSB relates to the existing 215 N. Mason building with its height and materiality. Looking at the view from Laporte and Mason, the engagement of the historic creamery building within the south plaza created by the CSB provides an expansion of the pedestrian environment along the north side of Laporte Avenue. While the CSB steps back from the street edge, this allows for an opportunity to frame the Creamery building and it provides relief at the street level from the height of the CSB. Other existing views to the west are minimally impacted by this project. From the intersection of Howes and Laporte, a single-story portion of the CSB occupies the corner, but a landscape zone will fall in its foreground where the building cannot penetrate the existing floodplain and flood fringe. In the long-term vision, this corner treatement is meant to frame the future view into the civic green and the future city hall, beyond. North of the CSB along Howes Street, the near-term conditions of Block 32 will reveal the most significant scalar difference relative to building height and mass. The CSB represents a scale of civic structure that relates to 215 N. Mason and the Justice Center. Over time this will represent the scale of the civic center, in the near term, however, there will be some imbalance with exist- ing uses. As the Civic Center Campus and vision plan get built out over time, the contrast that will exist in the near term will be phased out. As a partial near-term solution, however, the CSB’s massing steps down to a single story at its north side, relating to the existing single story uses to the north. VIEW 2 VIEW 1 VIEW 3 Laporte Avenue Howes Street Mason Street VISUAL ANALYSIS - KEY VIEWS FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING VISUAL ANALYSIS - VIEW 1 FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING EXISTING CONDITIONS LOOKING WEST FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MASON STREET AND LAPORTE AVENUE VISUAL ANALYSIS - VIEW 1 FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING FUTURE CONDITIONS LOOKING WEST FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MASON STREET AND LAPORTE AVENUE VISUAL ANALYSIS - VIEW 2 FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING EXISTING CONDITIONS LOOKING NORTH FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HOWES STREET AND LAPORTE AVENUE VISUAL ANALYSIS - VIEW 2 FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING FUTURE CONDITIONS LOOKING NORTH FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HOWES STREET AND LAPORTE AVENUE VISUAL ANALYSIS - VIEW 3 FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING EXISTING CONDITIONS LOOKING SOUTHEAST FROM MIDBLOCK ALONG HOWES STREET BETWEEN LAPORTE AVENUE AND MAPLE STREET VISUAL ANALYSIS - VIEW 3 FORT COLLINS UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE BUILDING FUTURE CONDITIONS LOOKING SOUTHEAST FROM MIDBLOCK ALONG HOWES STREET BETWEEN LAPORTE AVENUE AND MAPLE STREET