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why are you shopping in my backyard? the 5th facade
the square re-imagined
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why are you shopping in my backyard?
Modernization, globalization, and colonization have forced a domestic transplanting in neighborhoods globally and created social segregation and individualist living. The two dualities that exist in Jakarta, the kampungs, the informal organic dwelling, and the new typology of the neighborhood above the mall, shows the extent and evolution of what housing has become in the city. This thesis is interested in looking at the architectural tools that have devised this transformation. Through looking at the social frameworks, and looking at what happens when the imported architectural system that was once unfamiliar, colonizes itself within the Indonesian domestic and how it has taken erased values of cohabitation, mutual assistance, autonomy, sociability, and intergenerational living, that was once an intrinsic element in the neighborhood.
On the second part of this thesis, we proposed two interventions on two sides of the city, the neoliberal city and the kampung. Each intervention will be a new typology that imports operations that exist from the other side of the city. The typology of the neoliberal city will learn from the kampung and its operations of extendibility, cohabitation, mutual assistance, and economic generation. While the typology in the kampung will learn from the features of the neoliberal city. It will be made constructed modularly, efficiently, easily adaptable, and built using values of the circular economy. In addition to that, the typology also becomes a water infrastructure and a form of extended domesticity to empower the residents and provide necessary frameworks for the typically lacking kampung. In the end, these two typologies hope to challenge and hack our existing idea of domesticity and to provoke an alternative domesticity.
Thesis and Thesis Preparation
Professor Marcos Parga
ARC
508 Spring ’2022
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD ABOVE THE MALL
GLITCHING THE DOMESTICITY
VISUALIZATION OF HACKING THE CITY
THE KAMPUNG
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7 SITE DRAWING OF THE
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ACTIVATED DRAWING OF THE
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TYPOLOGY FOR THE
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY PROGRAM INTERVENTION
MODULAR CONSTRUCTION
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SITE DRAWING OF THE TYPOLOGY FOR THE KAMPUNG
ACTIVATED DRAWING OF THE TYPOLOGY FOR THE KAMPUNG
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ISOMETRIC OF FRAMEWORK ON THE LOT FOR THE NEOLIBERAL CITY TYPOLOGY
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ISOMETRIC FOR FRAMEWORK FOR THE KAMPUNG TYPOLOGY
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ACTIVATED PERSPECTIVE FOR THE KAMPUNG TYPOLOGY
the 5th facade.
Located right in between Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan, the currently unused Dusable Park prompts for a project that could bring public life. The project exist as a fieldhouse that houses a variation of community and active programs. However not only, was it important to bring back public life into the interior of the fieldhouse itself, it was also important that the roof of the building itself, or the 5th facade, becomes a usable public space. In a way giving the square footage we have taken for the fieldhouse back to the existing park.
Our project connects the public flyover to the park through creating a habitable sloped roof that not only becomes circulation and access but also becomes occupiable for various public activities. A continuous grid logic, consideration of optimum daylighting, and accessibility was considered to design all aspects of the project from the below-grade lobby to the roof scape and the adjacent landscaped park.
Chicago, IL
Professor Joel Kerner - Comprehensive Studio
ARC 409 Spring ’22
in collaboration with Tiffany Chen
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LONG SECTION THROUGH MULTIPURPOSE HALLS
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SHORT SECTION THROUGH FIELDHOUSE CORE AND PARK
DETAILED ISOMETRIC CHUNK THROUGH ENTRANCE & ATRIUM
18 MAIN ENTRANCE & ATRIUM ROOF LEVEL + 12 FT GROUND LEVEL + 0 FT SUB-LEVEL -15 FT ROOF LEVEL + 12 FT GROUND LEVEL + 0 FT SUB-LEVEL -15 FT DRAIN SAND PEDESTAL PAVERS BLINDS CONRETE SLAB FINISH GRAVEL WATERPROOF METAL ROOF LEVEL + 12 FT GROUND LEVEL + 0 FT SUB-LEVEL -15 FT DRAIN SAND PEDESTAL PAVERS BLINDS CONRETE SLAB FINISH GRAVEL WATERPROOF METAL
DETAILED ISOMETRIC CHUNK THROUGH CAFE & PLAZA
19 rigid CAFE AND PLAZA ROOF LEVEL + 15 FT GROUND LEVEL + 0 FT SUB-LEVEL -15 FT ROOF LEVEL + 15 FT GROUND LEVEL + 0 FT SUB-LEVEL -15 FT BRICK CLADDING DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS DROPPED CEILING ROTATING SLIDE DOORS DOOR PIVOT WATERPROOF METAL ROOF LEVEL + 15 FT GROUND LEVEL + 0 FT SUB-LEVEL -15 FT BRICK CLADDING DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS DROPPED CEILING ROTATING SLIDE DOORS DOOR PIVOT WATERPROOF METAL
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22 PROGRAMS MULTIPURPOSE ROOMS COMMUNITY ROOM CHANGING ROOM SECURITY ROOM CAFE MAKERSPACE W/C MEP STORAGE EXERCISE ROOM MEDICAL KAYAK OFFICE/STORAGE JANITOR ROOM PROGRAM DIAGRAM GLULAM GIRDER 12” X 24” - BEAM 12” X 6” GLULAM JOIST 12” X 20” TIMBER COLUMNS 12” X 12” RETAINING WALL SHEAR WALL STRUCTURAL ELEMENT | AXON LATERAL SYSTEM ACTIVE SYSTEMS| AXON PROGRAM DIAGRAM STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM ROOF LEVEL GROUND LEVEL SUB - LEVEL CIRCULATION HVAC DIAGRAM
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the square re-imagined.
During our study abroad, we became fascinated by the prominence of the garden squares in the city and how they became a fundamental archetype in creating public and walkable spaces that improved quality of life. We were interested in allowing participants to live, work, learn, and study right surrounding the garden square. At the same time, coming out of the year-long isolation period, where work, study, and life were blurred, we decided that it was important for us to create a space where we can separate these different functions and activities, but are connected by a series of screens.
The screen allows for a parallel universe to be created. It defines the boundaries of the garden square and dictates what is going on inside and outside and how much of it is public vs private. The flexibility of the screen is achieved through a simple framing structure in which programming is contained within. We located the separate programs of the classroom, bedroom, individual study room, and collaborative study rooms on separate screens paying close attention to site and orientation as well.
As a group, we developed three different gardens with three different focuses. While the others act as a garden for performance and a garden for farming, this one located in Elephant and castle became a garden for contemplation, creating a vast and separate environment inside the screen separate from the bustling city.
Elephant Castle, London , UK
Professor Davide Sacconi and Joao Ruivo
ARC 408 Fall ’21
in collaboration with Abigail
Mccarthy
Ellie Derwenskus
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INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE OF THE CONTEPLATION GARDEN EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE OF THE SCREENS
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urban symbiosis.
Existing in the rapidly urbanizing but extremely inclusive SoHo, the project exist as an urban proposal to decommodify SoHo. SoHo used to be an artist hub home to many artists, however throughout the years the dynamicness of SoHo has faded away to a scene of luxury housing and retail stores. The project proposes a kit-of-part that invites the artist and arts inclusively back to SoHo, through a proposal of an affordable artist coop, that includes programs that accommodates artist collectiveness, art decommodification, bringing arts to the public, as well as flexibility and adaptability. The project considers financial considerations and market forces, and proposes a non-speculative artist housing co-op that is community organized through incentivizing the speculative market-development. The project also carefully considers SoHo’s nature as a historical site, and merges the importance of preservation of SoHo built and intangible histories as well as the need for SoHo to evolve and develop and allow others to also co-write the future narrative of SoHo.
New York, NY
Professor Angie Co - Urban Studio
ARC 407 Spring ’21
in collaboration with Ellie Derwenskus
Protik Choudhuri
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Developer Owned Existing Preserved Developer contributes 30% FAR to Artist Village Artist Village Fragment Building Facades OLD Street Retail Exhibition Production Housing Storage Artist Village | The Preservation of Spirit Informal + Mixed Urban Elements Program Elements Co-op village Fragments Art Yard Store Sculpture/Art Kiosk
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Permanent Housing Long-Term Affordability Wealth Building Investment Highlights Non-Speculative Speculative 12.69% IRR 1.55 Equity Multiple Developers Artists 1. The artists wage gap 2. Artist’s Fluctuating Income makes it difficult to measure income eligibility for affordable housing 3. High costs and lack of space for artists and arts creation 4. The pandemic cut of many fundings for affordable programs, many artists was displace as they lost their studios and creative space The Problem Artist & Affordability Summer Day Camp Youth Program for kids 7-13 from July August 10% would go to middle class families subsidized , and the rest 70% would go the arts, and 15% would go to eldery locals. Rents were 30% of tenants gross income Sponsored by Actors Fund and Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS) Dance studio operated by Brooklyn Ballet 2000 SF performance space operated by Actors Fund professional lighting and sound systems Funders - Funders: NYC Department of Housing Preservations and Development; Capital One Bank; Deutsche Bank; Raymond James Tax Credit Funds; Ford Foundation; ArtPlace America; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; JPMorgan Chase Foundation; Booth Ferris Foundation; Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Rockefeller Foundation; New York Community Trust; MetLife Foundation; David Rockefeller Fund; Washington Mutual Foundation; and La Raza Development Fund Sponsored by The Actors Fund Washer dryer Heating and ac Shared Units (multi bedroom) Single Units (one bedroom) Website Commission is 25% of the list price of your work Checks from buyers are written to you but the commission is written to WARC Donors Performance space Rehearsal space Artist studios (individual and communal) Sculptor's Studio, Westbeth Painters Studios, WEstbeth Ceramics Studio, WEstbeth Graphics Studio Synagogue New School for Drama BFA and MFA program Martha Graham center of Contemporary Dance The LABryinth Theater Taking Inspiration from Current NY Artist Co-Ops housing program funding artist awareness advertisement specs facility programs Manhattan Plaza El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 Dorothy Ross Friedman Residence The Schermerhorn Wesbeth Housing wage gap
Income makes it measure income eligibility for housing and lack of space for artists creation cut of many fundings for programs, many artists was lost their studios and
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the backyard.
Existing in one of the poorest area, the prompt challenges to create a public space that blurs the private notion of properties. The site is located in an intersection between important local institutions, such as a park, a community garden, a middle school, a peacemaking center, and several refugee aiding institutions. After identifying these adjacent organizations, it was understood that it was important to create program that not only becomes a medium of connection, but also reactivate the existing important adjacent institutions. The project exist as a greenhouse that integrates program of play and sports institutions for the youth, refugee consultation services, using food sharing as a peacemaking activity, as well as a hydroponic garden and a vegetable market that would enhance a means of collective responsibility and also enforces the idea of ownership and authority that may a lot of the time be lost for New Americans. The ground floor exist as a public space where these exchanges can happen simultaneously and create a social exchange.
Syracuse, NY
Francisco Sanin ARC 307 Fall’ 20
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EXPLODED AXON OF THE MULTI-PROGRAMMATIC COMMUNITY SPACE
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RESEARCH DIAGRAMS
SHORT SECTION DEPICTING THE URBAN FARMING AND FOOD VENDORS
GROUND LEVEL PLAN OF THE SPACE IN RELATION TO THE BACKYARD
LONG SECTION OF THE MEGA-STRUCTURE
MEGA-STRUCTURE ENCOMPASSING THE MULTIPURPOSE SPACE
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The project situated Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, deals with climate the urgent climate crises. We looked at how both man-made and natural infrastructure has created a sense of familiarity, comfort, and protection for humans.
Inspired by Olafur Eliasson’s WeatherProject,we created a project that becomes a monument of what we have right now for “the day after tomorrow”, by creating a condition seeming so comfortable and perfect that later because of the climate crisis, it could only exist by artificial and controlled means.
Using sound as a sensory emotional property, the ambition of the project was to create a sequential audio experience calling attention to the sounds of the environment that will be lost or changed in the future because of increasingly volatile weather patterns that lead to flooding. We define infrastructure as an allinclusive term: A network of natural and artificial systems that facilitate sensorial processes of the environment, while also looking at sound as evidence of these systems and forces interacting. The project will also be a witness of time and decay. The single main tree on the right and of intervention, and the copper material that will rust will become a signifier of this inevitable change of what once was.
Syracuse, NY
Professor Yutaka ShoARC 208 Spring ’20
in collaboration with Thomas Brossi
Muskaan Pathak
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DIAGRAMMATIC PLAN OF SOUND DISTRIBUTION IN THE SPACE
EASTER COTTONWOOD TREE
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CURRENT CONDITION (2020) FUTURE CONDITION (2040) CYBER TREE DEAD TREE WINTER/SPRING SUMMER/FALL WINTER/SPRING SUMMER/FALL - Eastern Cottonwood Trees are dormant during the current winter where temperature still falls under 32 F. - Despite Flooding, and roots being inactive and only being able to rely on - As shade intolerant trees, during it’s active season the tree relies on photosynthesis for most of it’s growth. - As a flooding tolerant tree, the current flooding at the lake is still low and non-frequent enough, so that during - In the future, Onondaga lake goes above 32 F, activating the trees during winter when it’s supposed to be dormant and non active. - The activated tree needs energy and oxygen, howev - Weak and dead tree roots won’t be able to support the tree optimally during the warmer seasons. - Heavier floodings will also cause the roots to become weaker. - Root death creates open CYBER TREE - As temperature rise, roots become weaker and unreliable for tree growth, leading the tree to eventually die. - After tree death, the eastern cottonwood tree is replaced by an artificial tree. - The bark is created through moulding the form of the old trees while the leaves are made out of synthesis materials.
CURRENT CONDITION (2020) FUTURE CONDITION (2040) EASTER
CURRENT CONDITION (2020) FUTURE CONDITION (2040) CYBER TREE DEAD TREE WINTER/SPRING SUMMER/FALL WINTER/SPRING SUMMER/FALL - Eastern Cottonwood Trees are dormant during the current winter where temperature still falls under 32 F. - Despite Flooding, and roots being inactive and only being able to rely on stored energy not much energy iand oxygen is - As shade intolerant trees, during it’s active season the tree relies on photosynthesis for most of it’s growth. - As a flooding tolerant tree, the current flooding at the lake is still low and non-frequent enough, so that during warmer temperatures and fall trees can still rely on its roots - In the future, Onondaga lake goes above 32 F, activating the trees during winter when it’s supposed to be dormant and non active. - The activated tree needs energy and oxygen, however, higher level and more frequent flooding in the - Weak and dead tree roots won’t be able to support the tree optimally during the warmer seasons. - Heavier floodings will also cause the roots to become weaker. - Root death creates openings for pathogenic fungi to invade the tree. CYBER TREE - As temperature rise, roots become weaker and unreliable for tree growth, leading the tree to eventually die. - After tree death, the eastern cottonwood tree is replaced by an artificial tree. - The bark is created through moulding the form of the old trees while the leaves are made out of synthesis materials. CURRENT CONDITION (2020) FUTURE CONDITION (2040) WINTER/FALL WINTER/FALL DEAD TREE SPRING/SUMMER SPRING/SUMMER CYBER TREE A A B B C C D D E E F F G G H H SITE PLAN DIAGRAMMING DIFFERENT SOUNDS ON THE SITE DIAGRAM OF TREE DECAY
EASTER COTTONWOOD TREE
COTTONWOOD TREE
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SECTION OF THE FIRST SPACE WHERE ONE PERCEIVE THE SOUNDS
SECTION DEPICTING THE PROGRESSION FROM THE FIRST LISTENING SPACE TO THE FOLEY SPACE
SECTION DEPICTING THE PROGRESSION AND EVOLUTION OF THE BUILDING
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Personal works using mixed medias from hand sketching to precedent analysis drawings.
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