The Creative Process (a step by step guide)

"Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes"

-Edgar Allan Poe, excerpt from the Philosophy of Composition

This post probably should have been first, or at the very least second. At least I am getting to it early. Two of the books I researched were based on psychology (Creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery and invention + Understanding Creativity) and both delineated very similar processes that made sense to me. Also if anyone has any interest in Poe, especially the Raven, they should Google "the Philosophy of Composition". Very interesting and quick. As an article of full disclosure, some critics think it was facetiously done by Poe because of the mathematical precision he attributes to his methods. Luckily it is not the linchpin of my argument and you can see if he sounds sincere or not.

I am still in stage one, pretty sure anyways, which is Preparation
preparation deals with information gathering, it can be intentional or not. Focused or unfocused. Either way(s) the information gathered coalesces in one's mind to form a clear picture of the problem and the solution.

That's the idea anyways In the vein of Preparation, digesting and gathering information here is some site analysis which I believe to be critical in designing a responsive, well adapted building.

site location

student demographics/ locations

sections
not only do the sections relate the scale of the spaces along the Mall (the pink east west running pathway) but the longitudinal section (bottom one) shows the character of the buildings which ranges from bad 70's modernism to a sort of gothic - mansion

climate data

sun angles