Reconciliation

Reconciliation.

David Perrine University of Pennsylvania Masters of Architecture

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Phase Shifts, by, David E. Perrine and Zoe Ho (UPenn M.arch ‘23)

ARCH 748: Architecture and New Elegance Seminar by Hina Jamelle

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Collaborators Sited accordingly when necessary

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Published on Issuu, inc. All content (unless specificed otherwise) comes from coursework at The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Masters of Architecture Program.

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University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Reconciliation.

INTRODUCTION

Notes of Reconciliation Independent

PROJECTS

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Jumbled Synergies HOK Futures Competition

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Phase Shifts

Architecture and New Elegance // Hina Jamelle

Futurism and Nostalgia 502 Studio // Brian de Luna Ouroborous and Waste 602 Studio // Simon Kim

EXPLORATIONS

Elements and Aggregation Independent // N/A

Speculative Documentation Visual Studies // Miroslava Brooks

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602 Studio // Simon Kim

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Elegance and Emergence 601 Studio // Hina Jamelle

Softness and the Uncanny 701 Studio // Karel Klein

Mycelium Ornamentation Independent // N/A

Notes on Reconciliation

Eugene Perrine (M.Arch ‘23)

It is reconciliation that is the central opportunity of architecture. Architectural designers aim to reconcile seemingly incompatible variables into elegant and complex systems. So far at Penn, we have been given provocative briefs associated with many ethical and social movements, and we are encouraged to meditate intensely on these issues. Simultaneously, we attempt to produce beautiful drawings and develop our ability to manipulate and control form, often in an attempt to market ourselves or our institution. The problem was addressed quite forthrightly by a professor of mine. The faculty in question told me that these complex briefs and requirements make architecture beautiful and necessary. The forced reconciliation associated with architecture and design has remained at the heart of my meditations on the field. I implore you to consider the briefs with all their complexities. Try to wrestle with them. Understand that we can do better than merely choosing which problems to ignore. Reconciliation of pressures gives architecture life and is the core skill necessary in producing spectacular works.

David

Futurism and Nostalgia

A cultural center for west Philadelphia

Jazz is an integral component of American and West Philadelphia culture. The cultural influence of Jazz peaked in the Bebop era of the 1950s and 60s when artists like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and Clifford Brown were known for playing in West Philadelphia jazz clubs. As time went on and gentrification started to take place, Jazz music started to lose hold of the city. Even so, many of the most influential American jazz musicians had a special relationship with Philadelphia.

The proposal pushes us to speculate on what west Philadelphia could be. This discussion, quite straightforwardly, leads us to study afrofuturism. Not only is afro-futurism deeply contemplative of such speculation, it is also deeply rooted in late bebop music. It seemed natural to define the concept of a project as such: “Using the cultural and artistic style of the late bebop and afro-futurist artists to build a world that exudes hope and progress.” The concept of continuity is ever-present in jazz music. As the musicians dance through complex chord progressions, they are forced to find creative ways to harmonic resolutions through improvisational instinct. The resulting journey is both controlled and spontaneous.

PROJECT NOTES

Course: ARCH 502 Design Studio

Proffesor: Brian de Luna

Teaching Assistant: Paul Mccoy

Collaborators: N/A

Project Length: 16 weeks Date: Spring 2021

Although the interior of the intervention func tions as a space of respite, connections to teh ex terior are still important. These liminal semi-in terior spaces build complex sectional qualities in the elevation.

All content comes from coursework at The Univer sity of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Masters of Architecture Program.

drawings were produced by David E. Perrine individually. All text was written by David E. Per rine. Software

Phase Shifts

Diagramatic study of time

The composition is based on the phase transitions seen in the solidification process of molten lava. We used an overview image of a molten river as an underlay and abstracted out the figural qualities of the solid and almost-solid pieces. As lava hardens, not only does the form and color change, but also its texture. Therefore, much effort needed to be placed into capturing the textural qualities through linework. This process involved the development of various formal “techniques” to capture and model the logic defining the underlay image.

Inspired by lava flow, we used smooth 3D geometry to represent the flow of lava. We then used more solid geometry to describe the solidification process, and we became interested in how material and color change over different phases. We experimented with various milling methods to produce textural qualities in the model. The end product incorporated the diagram, aesthetics, structure, tectonics, and technique to create a three-dimensional composition.

PROJECT NOTES

Course: ARCH 749 New Elegance Proffesor: Hina Jamelle

Teaching Assistant: N/A Collaborators: Zoe Ho

Project Length: 16 weeks Date: Spring 2022

PROJECT IMAGES

PROJECT NOTES

All content comes from coursework at The Uni versity of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Masters of Architecture Program.

All drawings and conceptual design work was produced by David E. Perrine and Zoe Ho. All text appearing in this chapter was written by David E. Perrine.

Collaborator

The collaborator contributed throughout the entirity of the project with aesthetic and formal technique development, and also with produc tion of the renderings and post-production in Adobe Photoshop.

Software

Initial studies and final model were produced in Rhino using a combination of Nurbs modeling techniques with SubD.

Ouroboros and Waste

A new model for waste streams

The Client for this project is “Recycled Artists in Residency,” a collection of artists who intercept waste from the traditional institution al waste stream and use this to produce artwork. Similar to natural ecosystems and by the contin uation of the ouroboros, they are giving new life to what was believed to be out of commission. Our building comprises studio spaces, galleries, and education spaces. As waste cycles through the building with conveyor belts, the artists can take pieces directly from this conveyor, essentially di gesting what the building consumes to give it new life. The building snakes through the site creating spectacle and spatial novelties for the visitors. We hope this project could be the first-ever real-life mechanical ouroboros.

PROJECT NOTES

Course: ARCH 602 Design Studio

Proffesor: Simon Kim Teaching Assistant: Diego Ramerez Collaborators: Jorge Couso Project Length: 16 weeks Date: Spring 2022

Something that has been a core con sideration for the studio is the relationship between “nature” and architecture. To be more precise, how or why exactly is architecture cate gorically differentiated from nature. It is likely related to this seemingly arbitrary privilege of human-made space in relation to natural enti ties cursed with a lack of human interaction. In actuality, architecture has a lot to learn from what is defined as “nature”. Nature has a way of balancing its scales effortlessly in a way that architecture can’t dream of. Therefore, ar chitecture needs to effortlessly flow in and out of our natural ecosystems in a way where one can’t tell when one starts and one ends. It’s the careful grafting of architecture into nature that does not create mere architecture, but rather, synthetic natures.

PROJECT IMAGES

PROJECT NOTES

All content comes from coursework at The Uni versity of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Masters of Architecture Program.

All drawings and conceptual design work was produced by David E. Perrine and Jorge Couso. All text appearing in this chapter was written by David E. Perrine.

Collaborator

The collaborator contributed throughout the entirity of the project with aesthetic and formal technique development, and also with produc tion of the renderings, post-production, draw ings, and the physical models

Software

The projected involed advanced Zbrush, Nurb, and SubD modeling throught the duration of the project. Post-production occured in Photoshop.

Jumbled Synergies

An urban winery for chance meetings

The project, Jumbled Synergies, refers to a delicate yet untidy mixed aggregation of programmatic and spatial synergies. Each of these synergies alone speaks to an interaction or cooperation of various experiential parameters and forms a subtle interrelationship of spatial novelties when jumbled.

The winery gets nestled in a loose composition of decking and playful public space, providing an intermingling the sophisticated and the youth. From the landscape into the building, layers of spaces are formed to create central destinations shared between the urban winery and incubator space.

Unpredictable relationships in a jumbled landscape question the original model of the winery, offering a synergy between making, entrepreneurship, and community.

PROJECT NOTES

Competition: Placement: Teaching Assistant: Collaborator Length: Date:

HOK Design Futures First Prize N/A Kyle Troyer 2 weeks Spring 2022

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All content comes from coursework inde pendently of The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Masters of Architecture Program.

All drawings were produced by David E. Perrine and Kyle Troyer. All text was written by David E. Perrine and Kyle Troyer.

Collaborator

The collaborator contributed throughout the project with modeling, drawing, concept, and rendering Software

The entire projcet was developed in Rhino 7 us ing NURBs.

Elegance and Emergence

Reuse Housing Development for New York City

Advection refers to a specific interaction between a fluid and an aggregation of objects. The action of advection occurs continually around us through vapor molecules and solidified frost. Take a flower, for example; as a gust of wind flurries into warmer climates, its vapor molecules deposit and graft onto its petals, forever changing the quality of the air around it while simultaneously creating deposits of translucent ice, changing the figural and textual attributes of the flower, until the climate can no longer sustain its careful aggregation of deposited elements.

This process perfectly performs a model for architectural re-use; the atmosphere is changed through a seemingly effortless process leaving behind something new; the character of the frost and of the flower have been altered due to their adjacency, but neither beauty is compromised.

PROJECT NOTES

Course: ARCH 601 Design Studio

Proffesor: Hina Jamelle Teaching Assistant: Bingyu Guo Collaborators: Zaiyang Tian Project Length: 16 weeks Date: Fall 2021

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NOTES

All content comes from coursework at The Uni versity of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Masters of Architecture Program.

All drawings were produced by David E. Perrine individually. All text was written by David E. Perrine.

Collaborator

The collaborator contributed in the first half of the semester with aesthetic and formal tech nique development. After eight weeks, the project became an individual project. Therefore, none of the drawings shown in this project were pro duced by the collaborator.

Software

Initial form studies for the project were pro duced in Maya and were later developed in Rhi no using SubD

Explorations

Speculations, Techniques, and Tests

PROJECT NOTES

PROJECT NOTES

Course: Proffesor: Teaching Assistant: Length: Date:

Visual Studies III Miroslava Brooks Maria Garcia Jamacia Julien 3 weeks Fall 2021

PROJECT NOTES

Course: ARCH 602 Design Studio

Proffesor: Simon Kim

Teaching Assistant: Diego Ramerez

Collaborators: Jorge Couso

Project Length: 16 weeks

Date: Spring 2022

PROJECT NOTES

Course: ARCH 701 Design Studio

Proffesor: Karel Klein

Teaching Assistant: Reem Abi Samra

Collaborators: Junyi Zhou

Project Length: Work in Progress

Date: Fall 2022

PROJECT NOTES

Course: Independent Proffesor: N/A Teaching Assistant: N/A

Collaborators: N/A

Project Length: 1 Week Date: Fall 2022

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