23 TROPICAL ARCHITECTURE FOR THE FUTURE ALIXANDRA FLEMING & CRAWFORD SUAREZ | SPRING 2021
Located in North Miami Beach near North Beach Oceanside Park, this project looks into topics on sustainability methods of implementing new ideas on passive design into this tropical environent. The methods of sustainable design that were utilized here can be recognized as: raising the structure onto pilotis, implementing passive cooling systems, and relying on vernacular design all while creating culturally diverse and flexible spaces.
45 EXISTING SITE - WATER EXISTING SITE - STREET DIRECTIONS COLLINS AVE - ONE WAY EXISTING SITE - GREEN SPACE NORTH OCEANSIDEBEACHPARK TATUM WATERWAY
67 GROUND9.OUTDOOR8.PARKING7.PING6.SKATEPARK5.RESTROOMS4.GYM3.STORAGE2.NURSE1.LOBBYLEGEND:LOBBYPONGSEATINGLEVELPLAN
89 2.1.LEGEND:LOBBYRECORDS OFFICE 3. RESTROOMS 4. SKATE SHOP 5. STORAGE 6. CHANGING AREA 7. CLASSROOMS 8. JUICE BAR SEATING 9. JUICE BAR 10. OFFICE 11. GYMNASTICS HALL 12. LOCKER ROOM SECOND LEVEL PLAN
1011 1.LEGEND:SKATE SHOP 2. RESTROOMS 3. STAIRWAY 4. OUTDOOR PATIO THIRD LEVEL PLAN
1213 STRUCTURAL AXO SKIN GREENAXOSPACE AXO PASSIVE VS NON AXO NON PASSIVEPASSIVE
1415 SECTION AXONOMETRIC:
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Design Build Studio Fall 2021 Partners: Connor Murray, Crawford Suarez Proferssors Rocco Ceo and Jim Adamson University of Miami
3'-101/2" A 11 A 8 A 9 A 12 BUILDLAB-FLOORPLAN SCALE A 06
24"30"24"24"30" BUILDLAB-FLOORPLAN-BUILTELEMENTSONLY SCALE A 07 15 A 13 A 19 A 18 A
CONTAINERB-ELEVATIONLOOKINGSOUTH 3/4"=1'-0" A 08
3/4"=1'-0"(1:16)09
CONTAINERB-ISOMETRICOFSOUTHWALL 3/4"=1'-0"(1:16) A 12
CONTAINERB-ISOMETRICOFNORTHWALL 3/4"=1'-0"(1:16) A 17
SCHOOL AS URBAN FOUNDATION ALIXANDRA FLEMING
Public schools are a foundation of the neighborhoods they serve. Public ur ban schools, however, face many challenges. Sitting on valuable and phys ically constricted land, they find growth or renewal opportunities are limited and expensive. Using the New World School of the Arts Building as a case study, this project seeks to protect the integrity of the school while add ing new layers of development. This act of preservation is leveraged by the inherent potential of the site for vertical growth and new residential offerings. This hybridization allows the school the opportunity to ‘grow’ into a healthy, safe, and economically stable and self-sustaining institution. More specifically, the project proposes a co-development scheme in which the School ar chitecture would be rebuilt and optimized, and its future operations ensured through an endowment. The project will also comprise a permanent communal enhancement, improving access to the School overall.
Intellectual Framework
FOUNDATION
SCHOOL AS URBAN
NLC Interior Courtyard (Atrium), Symbiosis, Giancarlo Mangone Conceptual Collage
SITE SELECTION: NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: 25 NE 2ND STREET - LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN MIAMI - NO REAL WINDOWS - FORMALLY A CUBE, WE CAN TRY TO BREAK THE BOX WITH CONTRASTING FORMS - ROLE OF SCHOOL IN COMMUNITIES
SITE DOCUMENTATION: 25 NE 2ND STREET SECTION 1 FACING NORTH SCALE: 1” = 20’ SCALE: 1” = 20’ SECTION 2 FACING WEST 2ND STREET FACING NORTH NE 2ND STREET NE 3RD STREET AVEMIAMIN AVEFIRSTNE ZONING ANALYSIS
MIDTERM PROPOSAL PROCESS
Site Plan Scale: 30’ = 1” Ground Floor Scale: 1’ = 1/8” BAYLOADING RESIDENTIAL LOBBY SCHOOL LOBBY
Section facing West 70’ = 1” Section facing North Scale: 70’ = 1”
School Interior and Rehearsal Area
Square ResidentialFeet:Level: Atrium: 2,000 sq ft Units (2 bedroom): 900 sq ft Units (1 bedroom): 600 sq ft Residential Amenities: 900 sq ft each School Level: Typical School Floor: 17,000 sq ft Atrium: 2,000 sq ft Number of Units: 96 Number of floors: Residential: 16 School: 9 ResidentialProgram: Level: Units Amenities: gym, cinema, office Mixed: Roof Garden with Temporary Theatre School: Music hall, performance rehearsal space, main performance hall, dance studio, set design, prop sesign, costume design, classrooms NUMERICAL VALUES AND PROGRAM PLACEMENT Scale: 30’ = 1”
Roof Garden and Temporary Theatre
Residential Plan Scale: 1’ = 1/8”
Residential Atrium Interior
Spatializing the Body An inquiry into de-objectifying the body in a spatial context An exploration into built space informed by the human body
The research presented previously and the continuation of this research includes ideas that are led by feminist concepts and practices or methods of making, largely the feminist practice of collaboration. This information has since led to the experimentation of what it means to spatialize the body, and the built analysis of this idea through a collective style of creation.
Project SummaryResearch
Experimentation through Collaboration
Dualites in Bodily Qualities ● Mass and Cavity ● Body Mass and Spatial Awareness ● Extension and Elongation ● Duality of delicate fragility vs solid and dense ● Duality of rigidity vs fluidity ● Volumetric vs frame ● Contour Rivalry of Concavity and Convexity Defining the spatial qualities of the body
Hand Configuration
Plaster Drying
Each subject was allowed to pose their hand in the mold in whichever way felt most natural to them, with little to no direction or outside influence
Each plaster casting was allowed a day to dry inside the mold before removal, to make sure they were fully formed
Mold removal can be difficult as these plaster forms are very delicate, and as upon removing the mold, the mold itself was meant to stay as intact as possible
PhotogrammetryDiscovering
Creating Space, Using theUpon inserting the 3D hands into solid masses, an endless variety of spatial carvings can be Themadehand in this instance acts as a carving object to create moments of void in a solid mass
Navigating Formal Gestures Using the curves of the hand carvings and the polygon meshes to create potential gestural forms in the furniture design process ● Extension Elongationand ● Duality of delicate fragility vs solid and dense ● Duality of rigidity vs fluidity ● Volumetric vs frame
Navigating Formal Gestures Using the curves of the hand carvings and the polygon meshes to create potential gestural forms in the furniture design process ● Extension Elongationand ● Duality of delicate fragility vs solid and dense ● Duality of rigidity vs fluidity ● Volumetric vs frame
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