Abigail Gillin | ARC 502 Final Project

FORWARD JUSTICE ABIGAIL GILLIN_ARC 502

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Though a building must be complete at any one stage, it is our belief that in order to allow for growth and change it should be functionally and therefore visually open-ended. This indeterminate form must offer legible architectural clues for the interpretation of future users. The dichotomy between the complete and the open nature of the building is a determinant of the aesthetic language.

We design each building so that it can be broken down into elements and subelements which are then hierarchically organised so as to give a clearly legible order. A vocabulary is thereby created in which each element expresses its process of manufacture, storage, erection and demountability; so that, to quote Louis Kahn, ‘each part clearly and joyfully proclaims its role in the totality. “Let me tell you the part I am playing, how I am made and what each part does”, what the building is for, what the role of the building is in the street, and the city.’ . . .

I believe in the rich potential of modern industrialist society. Aesthetically one can do what one likes with technology for it is a tool, not an end in itself, but we ignore it at our peril. To our practice its natural functionalism has an intrinsic beauty. The aesthetic relationship between science and art has been poetically described by Horatio Greenough as: ‘Beauty is the promise of function made sensuously pleasing.’ It is science to the aid of the imagination . . .

We are searching for a system and a balance which offers the potential for change and urban control; a system in which the totality has complete integrity yet allows for both planned and unplanned change.

A dynamic relationship is then established between transformation and permanence, resulting in a three-dimensional framework with a kit of changeable parts designed to allow people to perform freely inside and out. This free and changing performance of people and parts becomes the expression of the architecture...

The architect must understand and control the machinery - the instruments that build buildings - where necessary developing and inventing new ones . . . Only by studying and controlling the means of production and by creating a precise technological language will the architect keep control of the design and construction of the building. The correct use of building process disciplines the building form, giving it scale and grain . . .

Today problem solving involves thinking at a global scale and using science as the tool to open up the future. Science is the means by which knowledge is ordered in the most efficient way so as to solve problems . . .

The building form, plan, section and elevation should be capable of responding to changing needs. This free and changing performance will then become part of the expression of the architecture of the building, the street and the city. Program, ideology and form will then play an integrated and legible role within a changing but ordered framework. The fewer the building constraints for the users, the greater the success; the greater the success the more the need for revision and then programmatic indeterminance will become an expression of the architecture . .

[01] My view of sustainable architecture is essentially the humanizing of the built environment. Whilst the intelligent development of technology is critical to our quality of life (clean power, nano-technology), immediate improvements can be achieved by opening windows, more imaginative use of landscape, more fluid spaces, use of natural light – resulting in spaces that are both technically more efficient and also more agreeable spaces for people to live and work in, promoting a greater degree of connectivity between people and nature. By fusing social concerns, technological and structural innovation and environmentally responsible design, I’m convinced that a truly modern architecture for the 21st century can be created.”

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’’ RICHARD ROGERS

DYNAMIC + WILLING TO CHANGE

DISTRICT COURT

STATE CAPITOL

MOORE SQUARE

SITE MOORE SQUARE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL

JUSTICE CENTER

CONCEPT

DISTRICT COURT

STATE CAPITOL

MOORE SQUARE MOORE SQUARE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL JUSTICE CENTER

CONCEPT

CONCEPT ONCE T

Fuyang Urban Planning Exhibition Hall / Architecture & Engineers of Southeast University

Media Library in Colombes / Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés

Diana Center at Barnard College / Weiss/Manfredi

MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM

E. HARGETT STREET T

RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION

S. BLO OO ODWOR ORTH ST S RE EE E ET T

S. PERSO ON STREET T

S. BLOUNT T STRE EE ET T

MOORE SQUARE

OAK CITY OUTREACH CENTER

E. MA AR A RT TIN IN N STRE EET

MOORE SQUARE MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL 0’

16’

32’

64’

128’

BUILDING IN SITE

MECHANICAL ROOM

MECHANICAL NEGATIVE ONE

ROTATING GALLERY

DIGITAL GALLERY WALL

PERMANENT GALLERY

IMMERSE ONE

0’

4’

8’

16’

32’

CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE

OPEN TO BELOW

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

RESOURCE LIBRARY

RESOURCES TWO

0’

4’

8’

16’

32’

BALCONY

AV CLASSROOM

ATRIUM CLASSROOM

MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

EDUCATE THREE

0’

4’

8’

16’

32’

RESOURCE LAB

CONFERENCE

BREAK ROOM

OPEN OFFICE SEMINAR ROOM

FORWARD JUSTICE FOUR

0’

4’

8’

16’

32’

SOUTH ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

FORWARD JUSTICE

MULTIPURPOSE ROOM LIBRARY

EAST/WEST SECTION

0’

4’

8’

16’

32’

[L] METAL COPING [P] PAN HEAD SCREW [P] WEEP

[P] TERMINATOR BAR [L] ROOF MEMBRANE

[L] RIGID INSULATION [P] 3.5" LIGHTWEIGHT INSULATED CONCRETE [P] METAL DECKING

[P] POUR STOP

[P] I-BEAM

[P] WIDE - FLANGE COLUMN

[P] 5/8" EXTERIOR GYPSUM BOARD SHEATHING

[P] AIR BARRIER [P] METAL STUD WITH MINERAL WOOL [P] CORRUGATED ALUMINUM COMPOSITE PANELS

PARAPET DETAIL

[P] 3.5" LIGHTWEIGHT INSULATED CONCRETE [P] METAL DECKING [P] SHEAR STUDS

[P] PAN HEAD SCREW [P] I-BEAM

[P] WIDE - FLANGE COLUMN

[P] AIR BARRIER [P] 5/8" EXTERIOR GYPSUM BOARD SHEATHING [P] METAL STUD WITH MINERAL WOOL

[P] CORRUGATED ALUMINUM COMPOSITE PANELS

FLOOR DETAIL

[P] WIDE - FLANGE COLUMN WRAPPED IN ALUMINUM

[P] 5/8" INTERIOR GYPSUM BOARD SHEATHING

[P] CHANNEL STUDS

[P] AIR BARRIER

[P] METAL STUD WITH MINERAL WOOL

[P] CORRUGATED ALUMINUM COMPOSITE PANELS

FLOOR DETAIL

[P] COLUMN IN DISTANCE

[P] AIR BARRIER

[P] STUD TRACK [P] ALUMINUM FLASHING [P] WEEP

[P] PRESSURE -TREATED SILL PLATE

[L] CONCRETE PAVERS [L] BEDDING SAND [P] 6" CONCRETE SLAB [P] 4" GRAVEL

[P] FOUNDATION DAMP PROOFING

[P] 2" RIGID INSULATION

[P] DRAIN PIPE [P] STONE PAD

[P] SPREAD FOOTING

[P] WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE

FLOOR DETAIL

FORWARD JUSTICE

BALCONY CONFERENCE

GALLE ERY

NORTH/SOUTH SECTION

0’

4’

8’

16’

32’

[P] Z CLIP

[P] SMOKE SEALANT

[P] FIRESPAN A INSULATION

[P] 3.5" LIGHTWEIGHT INSULATED CONCRETE [P] METAL DECKING

[P] SHEAR STUDS [P] P] FOILED - FACED SAFING INSULATION [L] LAMINATED SAFETY GLASS

[P] BENT STEEL PLATE

[P] SPUN-CAST PRECAST CONCRETE COLUMN

[P] ALUMINUM CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM (10 DEGREE SLOPE)

DETAIL

[P] ALUMINUM MULLION

[L] CURTAIN WALL

[P] STEEL PLATE FIXED TO MULLION

[P] STEEL FIXED STRUT

[P] STEEL PIN PLATE [P] INTERIOR STEEL STRUCTURE

[P] ALUMINUM COMPOSITE METAL

LOUVER DETAIL CHUNK MODEL

EXHIBITION SPACE

RESOURCE LIBRARY

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUITE

FORWARD JUSTICE SUITE

RESOURCE LAB

CONFERENCE

BREAK ROOM

OPEN OFFICE SEMINAR ROOM

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