Selected Work (1 of 4)
2GB Design Studio
Darin Johnstone
2GA Design Studio
Russell Thomsen
1GA Design Studio
David Eskenazi, Matthew Au, Kristy Balliet
1GB Design Studio
Anna Neimark, Matthew Au, Andrew Zago
Visual Studies I
David Eskenazi
Visual Studies II
Matthew Au, Andrew Zago
Introduction to Contemporary Architecture
Marcelyn Gow
History of Architecture and Urbanism
John Cooper
Partner: Max Lorenze
The conundrum of designing a design institute in a city built on layers of history presenented the following confluence of ideas:
addition, subtraction, multiplication ethical adaptive reuse twinning, stacking, wrapping contextualization precedent massing-program matrix
Our proposed interjection to the IMSS adaptive reuse brief takes inspiration from Bauhaus and Black Mountain College to construct our idea of monohierarchy, where all programs and functions within the institute are equitably organized around community.
The institute is divided into five distinct schools, organized around making spaces at the center. Above all, the classrooms and making spaces are the main gathering and exhibition spaces.
Situated on Avenida Reforma within the eyesight of Chapultepec, Mexico City is a city of layers—a contemporary city built on top of a modernist, colonial, and ancient city. Remarkably, all these layers are visible at once. In contrast to past destructive urban intrusions, we suspend a volume above IMSS, allowing it to remain intact with spare surgical interventions in the existing program.
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Our proposal takes inspiration from Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompeia in São Paulo. From SESC Pompeia’s two distinct towers connected by a web of bridges, we rotate the tower horizontally and interpret those bridges as structural members connecting IMSS and our proposed design institute. Our proposal exhibits a tension between a monolithic volume and an assembly of parts. At the core of the upper volume is a making block. Each floor plate is organized around that making block, which contains cellular spaces for classroom instruction and making.
a matrix of programmatic strategies crossed with massing from various precedents we studied.
The facade was developed using the graphical nature of the horizaontal plywood bands of the post-midterm massing model (see next page). The bands, which transmaterialized into louvres, are most dense at the top and bottm, resulting in a gradient with most open space in the middle of the building. The gradient is disrupted based on solar conditions and programmatic preference behind the facade. The south facade,
is in general denser, and decreases in density as needed by program. The north facade, from Avenida Reforma is the opposite.
Series of massing models.
Post-midterm, we became aware that our original massing strategy was read as parastitic, which was undesirable. We altered the massing to allow for a more careful intervention, only penetrating the existing IMSS at the location of the track elevator, which was the public entrance to The Design Institute.
The post midterm massingmodels (left) also included a material study, which resulted in horizontal bands. The graphical nature of the material informed the facade.
The final model was planned as a conceptual model, illustrating the structural members, which contain circulation in the upper volume, in a three-dimensional composition.
