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iteration 1: urban accupunture The project was developed and built though a constant dialogue between physical modeling and the negotiation of massing from the ground up. Instead of applying an objective open framework across the site as was implied in the earlier investigations, modules of varying sizes were volumetrically arranged and manipulated to provide the spatial qualities desired. In retrospect, this produced many inconsistencies within the structural system where members do not align, creating an arbitrary flexibility in the design of space by reducing the framework to merely a structural system system. The golden rectangle was originally explored to define a pattern that allowed for spatial differentiation, but it resulted in spatial differentiation that did not necessarily lead to a pattern.
systematic inconsistencies
roosevelt street arts district
garfield school
site tectonic concept:
tectonic logic:
facade concept:
facade logic:
express the infinite to achieve an existential relativity
standardized panels and members
stress the horizontal for a pedestrian scale extended structural members can act as louvers
manipulating the directionality and proportion of louvers per facade
The site is a vacant piece of property located on Roosevelt Street, is on axis ot the arts community extension. To play an active element in the process of redevelopment and a part of the existing community, the second floor is dedicated to an art gallery for local artists as a continuation of the ground-floor public space.
legend:
community living room
kitchen
cafe
dining room
courtyard / market
art studio
artist-in-residence / local gallery
bathroom
balcony
bedroom
a
roof plan
b
plan
section through primary steel member, diagram
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vertical horizontal
mies van der rohe - federal plaza
louvers become a lattice
c
A base dimension of 10’ was used for the standard module. When building vertically from the public space already established, the site began to impose constraints on building to the east or west. Due to the small footprint of the ground floors, only one residence was able to fit on top of the structure while still remaining under a relative height; programmatically working as an artist-in-residence space. This was unexpected and undesired as it is antithetical of the thesis of communal housing. first floor plan
second floor plan
third floor plan
shading effects due to massing set-backs on the north facade
section a
section b
section c
fourth floor plan
model, north facade facing the street