A. Ryan Coleman ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO
A. Ryan Coleman ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO 1. Community Seed MArch Studio 1 taught by Christina Marsh and Monica Tieulescu 2. SimulacraCity MArch Studio 2 taught by Douglas Burnham and EB Min 3. Piggly Wiggly Independent Project designed and built for Cydney Payton’s thesis project exhibited in the Americana Exhibit at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Design Partner: Matthew Arnold 4. A Machine for (Sustainble) Living MArch Studio 3 taught by Peter Anderson and Leonardo Zylberberg 5. Emeryville Shellmound and Canal at Laifeng Street MArch Advanced Studio taught by Peter Anderson and Lisa Findley Design Partner: Philip Jones Jury Prize Nomiee 6. San Francisco Intertidal MArch Advanced Studio taught by Thoams Silva and Lisa Findley Program: Comprehensive Building Design Studio. Design a new ferry terminal at the Ferry Building in San Francisco Design Partner: Philip Jones 7. Recombing Detroit’s Histories MArch Thesis Studio , Advisors David Gissen and Brian Price
Project 1: Community Seed Studio: CCA MArch Studio 1 taught by Christina Marsh and Monica Tiulescu Program: Design a fitness center on the Albany Bulb in Albany, CA Concept: Through visual connection in all spaces, genrates familiarity which develops into community.
Albany Bulb, Albany, CA
visual connections
Roof Level- cafe/public green space 2nd floor- class/group oriented activities 1st floor- equipment oriented activites ground floor- changing rooms and pool
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mission street corridor/ bay bridge
market st
7th flr 3rd street corridor
yerba buena gardens/SFMOMA
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6h flr twin peaks 3rd street corridor
rincon hill
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neighbor’s window mission street corridor
stevenson st
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ground flr jessie square
Project 2: SimulacraCity Studio: CCA MArch Studio 2 taught by Douglass Burnham and EB Min. Program: Design the Museum of Architecture and the City in an urban infill site in Downtown San Francisco, Ca. Concept: The Simulacra City project is a lens through which the city is viewed. It engages the participant by enabling the experiencing all of these equal and true versions of the city at the same time: Viewing, Reading and Experiencing.
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Bookstore
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Project 3: Tennessee Americana Exhibit Idependent Project: Built for the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
Concept: Taken from images and a
patented floor plan for a 1920 Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store the model represented the state of Tennessee in the Americana series of exhibitions. The Piggly Wiggly grocery chain is credited with inventing and patenting the practice of ‘walking through isles’ and is consdered the genisis of modern consumer architecture. Design Partner: Mathew Arnold
A Machine for (sustainable) Living
Thermally sensitive shading devices visualize each unit’s energy consumption
Project 4: A Machine for (sustainable) Living Studio: CCA MArch Studio 3 taught by Peter Anderson and Leonardo Zylberberg. Program: Design 40 housing units in urban infill site in the Mission District, San Francisco, Ca Concept: The Machine for (sustainable) Living is beacon of the future with outward architectural expressions of the energy consumption of each unit thus making the impact of the urban lifestyle explicit. The project maximized passive heating and cooling with operable shading devices so the each tenant could ‘tune’ their unit to their comfort while minimizing energy consumption.
unit shading detail
closed: sun blocked and privacy
open: sun blocked and visibility
open: full sun and visibility
Floor Plan - Two Bedroom Unit
Annual projected energy use visualization
Emeryville Shellmound
Project 5A: Emeryville Shellmound Jury Prize Nominee Studio: Stitchlink: Nanjing- CCA MArch Advanced Studio taught by Peter Anderson and Lisa Findley. Program: Stitchlink is a noun and a verb. As a design concept, StitchLink is the strategic introduction of new elements into an existing urban or architectural fabric with the purpose of connecting, repairing, and/or transforming the surrounding areas. Two part studio with first project based in emeryville and then after traveling to Nanjing, China the second project is desinged for a site in Nanjing, China
Proposed site boundaries
Night Attractor vectors
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Total Attractor Vectors
Concept: To repair the tears caused by the Amtrack lines and the heavy traffic on Shellmound Street a raised park structure was generated by using ADA compliant slopes. In order to activate the street level experience retail storefronts, a convention center and cultural museum were programmed under the raised park.
Park as solid with program as void
Design Partner: Philip Jones
Park as void with program as volumes
Hotel
Cultural Museum
Convention Center
Amtrak Thru
Amtrak Station
Shellmound Thru
Hotel
Cultural Museum
Convention Center
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Amtrak Station
Shellmound Thru
Park as solid with program as voids and volumes penetrating park fabric.
Park as void with program as volumes penetrating park fabric.
Park as void with program as volumes and voids penetrating park fabric.
Hotel
Cultural Museum
Convention Center
Amtrak Thru
Amtrak Station
Shellmound Thru Shellmound Thru
Hotel
Cultural Museum
Convention Center
Amtrak Thru
Amtrak Station
Amtrak Thru
Amtrak Station
Shellmound Thru
Hotel Shellmound Thru
Cultural Museum
Convention Center
45 ft vertical = 630 ft horizontal 25 ft vertical = 350 ft horizontal 20 ft vertical = 280 ft horizontal 17.5 ft vertical = 245 ft horizontal 12.5 ft vertical = 175 ft horizontal 10 ft vertical = 140 ft horizontal
Slope Analysis
Canal at Laifeng Street
Project5B: Canal at Laifeng Street Jury Prize Nominee Studio: Stitchlink: Nanjing- CCA MArch Advanced Studio taught by Peter Anderson and Lisa Findley Program: Stitchlink is a noun and a verb. As a design concept, StitchLink is the strategic introduction of new elements into an existing urban or architectural fabric with the purpose of connecting, repairing, and/or transforming the surrounding areas. Concept: The Rapid development that is prevalent in urban China displaces entire communities and with it the rich urban experience of markets and vendors. This project seeks to create modest housing that generates community by making the units economically accessible and allowing space for the vibrant public market culture of China. This project also engages with the canal, an abandoned resource, by building the enclave around the canal as an attractor for activities like fishing and boating. Design Partner: Philip Jones
: Current Flow
: New Dynamic Flow
Different Flows : Speed Mercantile Flow : Medium Through Flow : Fast Leisure/ Fishing Flow : Slow
Flows : Canal at Laifeng Street
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Philip Jones : Stitchlink : CCA Spring 2012
Community Displacement Stitchlink: Bring the periphery back to the center
Periphery Center
Boundary Walls Interior Walls Buildings
Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai Wall and Building Analysis
Open Space generated by Walls
View radius Views are controled by framing with walls
Compressed Lanscapes are created using both walls and building as walls to generate more intimate experiences.
Walls : Canal at Laifeng Street
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Philip Jones : Stitchlink : CCA Spring 2012
Circulation Trajectories from existing city context Proposed site plan Isovists generated by site deployment Intervention Walls
“Through distraction, secrets are revealed� -Chinese proverb From the analysis of the Ming Dynasty era Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai the strategy of controling the isovists such that the entirety of the enclave in not revealed at any given point, but instead is revealed through preview and procession was utilized to create an intimate community.
Each unit has a South-East facing private courtyard allowing residents to have a connection to the outdoors that is separate and more initmate
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Recombining Detroit’s Histories
Project 7: Recombining Detroit’s Histories Studio: CCA MArch Thesis Advisors David Gissen and Brian Price This thesis examines the ways in which issues of power, race and class are expressed architecturally. Sited in the Mies Van Der Rohe development Lafayette Park, formerly the ‘Black Bottom’ neighborhood of Detroit the final project of this thesis combines the histories of the marginalized with the dominant historic narratives in order to express a more complete and inclusive architectural narrative.
Dr. Ossian Sweet House: Moment of historic significance is curated.
Architect: Albert Kahn
Home: James Cousins Mansion Boston-Edison District, Detroit
Highlighted spaces indicate spaces reserved for service staff
Spaces for service staff are curated.
The history of Detroit is told by two narratives: those in Power and those on the margins.
Red = Caucasian Black = African-American Yellow = Hispanic
Green = Asian
Each dot represents 25 people.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places Lafayette Park is a mixed high rise and townhouse residential neighborhood near Downtown Detroit. Designed by Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilbersiemer Lafayette Park is located on the city’s lower east side . The 78-acre master plan was created in 1946 to replace the ‘Black Bottom’ neighborhood which was considered a slum.
The Black Bottom was originally named by early French settlers for its fertile soil and low elevation. Later in the early 20th century as large numbers of African-Americans migrated from the South in search of work in the factories in Detroit, the name took on a new connotation. Considered unwelcome in ‘White’ Neighborhoods these recent migrants found their home in the ‘Black Bottom’ or as it was known to the members of that community ‘Paradise Valley’.
Boundaries of the ‘Black Bottom’ Block data map, Detroit, Michigan, sponsored by Detroit Housing Commission, 1938.
The ‘Black Bottom’ is razed. Aerial Photo 1956
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Lafayette Park Boundary Original Lafayette Park Buildings
Lafayette Park 2011
Lafayette Park Current. Showing original Mies Van der Rohe buildings and latter additions.
‘Black Bottom’ Urban Fabric
Lafayette Park Tower Façade Mies facade Mies facade
‘Black Bottom’ Window Typologies
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HOUSING
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Floor Plans
A. Ryan Coleman ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO