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Cave Dwelling_ Arc 511 / Design Studio I Prof. Ted Essex, CT

How do you create a luxurious shelter on a hill without making the separation of structure and nature so noticeable?

The cave house is the answer to this matter. This elegant and pure structure is the combination of elegance and natural sheltering. The Cave House is a modern shelter guest house design for architect Rem Koolhaas. Koolhaas loves the idea of shared social spaces. The cave house is a combination of inside and outside social spaces in all three floors. There is only one private space which is the bedrooms and their share bathroom. Before becoming an architect, Koolhaas was a filmmaker. Knowing this, his office space located in the first floor possesses a pattern of forced thin view

slots that act as movie frames of the main view. When you are walking through this space towards the south facade you see through the tight frames a little piece of the main picture. This walkable experience prepares your eye for the breath taking view you will encounter at the end of the other wall. The idea of the cave house evolved from the breath taking view which can be seen from the Towers House. The house was design so that the same view can be experience from different environments at each level of the house. The view can also be seen from inside of the house and the outside patios located on the first and second floor. The next obstacle was to attain the same view as the towers house

without interrupting it. Since the main house is located on the top of the hill, the cave house building was located right off the hill edge where it starts to drop.

To make the structure part of environment, the building protrudes off the hill, as if it was part of the hill. The flat green roofs help express the growth of the building from nature itself. In addition to the green roofs, the wood walls, big windows on the south facade and the open patios help complete the connection between structure and nature.

The cave house is a simple and playful structure that shouts purity by the use of its organization and simple geometry.

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Mix-Used Development_ Arc 511 / Design Studio I Prof. Ted Middletown, CT

Lower Level

Ground Level

First Level

Second Level

Third Level

Fourth Level

Longitudinal Section

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School of Architecture Arc 521 / Design Studio II Prof. Imdat As Aksaray, Turkey

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Planning_

Ground Floor Plan

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Pera Cultural Center_ Arc 521 / Design Studio II Prof. Imdat As Beyoglu, Istanbul

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South Asian Cultural Center_ Arc 531 / Design Studio III Prof. Davis McGill College, Canada

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Islamic Religious Center_

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North

South

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Arc 531 / Design Studio III Prof. Davis Montreal, Canada

Site Plan

Ground Floor Plan

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Parkour and Calisthenics Comm._ Arc 541 / Thesis Prof. Micheal Crosbie New Haven, CT

Bike

trails

Bus Routes

Street Identification

Vehicular

circulation

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First Floor

Second Floor

South Elevation

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

Parkour

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Calisthenics Community

Fifth Floor

Sixth Floor

Longitudinal Section

Seventh Floor

Walking Indoor Bicycle Storage Indoor Micro Soccer Stair Circulation

Eight Floor

Calisthenics Yoga Rock Climbing Parkour Swimming

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East Elevation

Parkour

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Transversal Section

Calisthenics Community

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Archaeological Roof Protector_ Aet 367 / Design Studio IV Prof. Imdat As Aksaray, Turkey

Front Section

Front Elevation

Side Elevation

Side Section Structure Diagram

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Chapelle de Notre-Dame

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Aet 123 / Design Studio I Prof. Ira Hessmer Notre Dame, France

Perspective Rendering

Site Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Building Section

South Elevation

North Elevation

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Danbury Housing Authority_ Quisenberry Arcari Architects LLC Danbury, CT

Layout Options

Bathrooms

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22 & 14 Summit Place_ The Sullivan Architectural Group Branford, CT

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345 West Putnam Ave_ The Sullivan Architectural Group Greenwich, CT

Typical Residential Floor Plan

Lower Courtyard Level

Upper Courtyard Level

South Perspective View

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53 Parker Place_ The Sullivan Architectural Group Wallingford, CT

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