Glick_Jan24Portfolio

PORTFOLIO Alex Glick University of Virginia 2022-24

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CONVEYOR BELT Fall 2023

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ENVELOPING AND INVERTING Spring 2023

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RIPARIAN TRAVERSE Fall 2022

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Union Sq. Perspective

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CONVEYOR BELT

Study Models

Foundation Studio IV: Transect Urbanism Fall 2023 / New York City / JT Bachman

Waste removal processes are some of the most complex yet unseen aspects of urban life. Conveyor belts symbolize this modern, mysterious process of transport, sorting, and elimination. Using the morphology of a conveyor belt, this project takes the hidden processes of waste removal and lifts it into the New York City skyline announcing this process as both necessary to sustaining a healthy city, while also being overdue for a critical evaluation.

This proposal is a creative re-use hub meant to combat New York City’s millions of tons of waste. The hub focuses on large scale industrial waste (ex. reactors, turbines, printing presses) that weigh tons and require unusual provisions for movement through such a dense urban site.

Once these waste materials are processed by artists in residence in the various fabrication spaces on site, they are transformed into sculpture and installation and displayed in gallery spaces that stretch and contort to house whatever unorthodox art may appear.

Divisions between the public, artists, and waste are intentionally blurred to unearth the traditionally hidden cycles of waste as well as demystify the process of art making. This sentiment manifests itself internally with overlapping circulation paths between artists, public, and waste, but also from the street as the building’s façade becomes increasingly transparent for spaces of material movement and art fabrication.

Final Models

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Study Sketches

Site Research: Exquisite Corpse Mapping

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Site Plan

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Long Section

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Axonometric

Belt

Light

Facade Opacity

Transparent

Opaque

Structure

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Basement Plan Storage

Ground Floor Plan Loading and Unloading

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Floor 2 Plan Reception and Education

Floor 3 Plan Disassembly and Gallery

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Tall Gallery Section Perspective

Interior Gantry Perspective

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16th Street Perspective

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ENVELOPING AND INVERTING

Site Interaction Study Models

Foundation Studio III: Housing Matters Spring 2023 / Richmond, VA / Ester Lorenz

Enveloping and Inverting is a housing project just north of Richmond’s Museum District. Richmond’s semi-dense urban fabric creates many challenges but ultimately, drives the design. This project experiments with habitat as it pertains to humans but also considers our nonhuman neighbors, particularly Virginia’s native birds. In interfacing with Richmond’s diverse urban fabric as well as interrogating our relationship to natural and domestic space, Enveloping and Inverting facilitates connection across all scales.

The site of this project is on the cusp of two very different conditions.

Ecology to the south is dense, tree-filled, and intrusive. Ecology to the north is either manicured or non-existent. Living conditions to the south are fine grain and interconnected. Living conditions to the north are either massive, non-contextual, or non-existent. What separates these two conditions? The perpetually active Broad Street.

This project looks to mediate these two conditions across the two street fronts. The northern parcel, fronting Broad St. is a public forum suspended in greenery to shelter inhabitants from vehicular traffic.

The southern parcel, fronting the quieter Grace St. has housing to accommodate various cultures, ages, and understandings of family.

While the northern end is suspended or contained in greenery, the southern end surrounds greenery to create a quiet courtyard more in line with the residential south.

Physical Model

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Urban Grain Analysis

Urban Tree Census

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Generative Collage

Richmond Bird Analysis

Bird Habitat on Site

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Ground Floor Plan

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Axonometric

Floor 2 Plan

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Unit A Plan

Unit B Plan

Unit B Section

Unit A Section

Housing Section Perspective

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Unit C Plan

Unit C Section

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Broad St. Entrance

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RIPARIAN TRAVERSE

Foundation Studio II: Rural Assemblies Fall 2023 / Charlottesville, VA / Clayton Strange

Riparian Traverse is a learning center, sample collection facility, home, and a landscape intervention all meant to serve the whimsical forager. This forager who lives a life closely adjusted to the Rivanna river spends much of their time traversing the diverse riparian landscapes.

This project looks to honor the various spatial experiences of the river ecosystem. Impassible densities, winding forested tunnels, frames of jagged branches, and of course the expanse of the river. The combination of apertures and choreographed movement recreates the various visual conditions of the river and the expansive balconies and towering compressed stairwells imitate the nonvisual, spatial experience.

Landscape Intervention Model

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Storage and Housing Plan

Learning Center and Storage Section

Housing Section

Storage and Housing Model

Learning Center Model