01 | The Canopy
The Canopy, is an interdisciplinary initiative between the local land grant university and state botanical gardens to enhance ecological research, community outreach and connection to the botanical gardens and the university. Located adjacent to the state botanical gardens and across the university boundary, the site
disseminates boundaries while creating a new gateway to campus and shifting it’s center access. The rotation of the axis organizes program on the exterior edges of the site. This move reaches into the botanical gardens creating a union between campus and gardens.
The act of diminishing boundaries,
developing a piazza and creating a delicate blanket of covering promotes a space for growth, discovery, and interdisciplinary work. The end result achieves an active relationship between the local university and botanical gardens which extends the reach of campus into the broader community.
In collaboration with Sean LaRochelle and Yarely Smith
De ning Boundaries Flexible program Piazza Canopy Gateway
The Canopy’s interdisciplinary initiative between the local university and state botanical gardens incorporates many program functions that promote ecology, research, and is flexible to serve the university as an extension of itself and a variety of uses. The west building is a large auditorium to accommodate university events and lectures. The east building has a larger variety program including classroom, lab, and office space to conduct courses and research. Work
rooms for students of all disciplines to collaborate and study. A visual reference lab that houses long term research projects that are on display as they are developing and converted to a gallery space for presentations with a system of collapsable and transforming furniture. Lastly a reference library and cafe that also uses the transforming furniture systems to allow it to convert to an event hall as needed by the users.
E TERTIARY STRUCTURE Rolled Steel Tube Air Gap Snapping Groove ETFE Film (semi- transparent) Clamping Connector Stainless Steel Connector ETFE ASSEMBLY F PRIMARY STRUCTURE CNC’d Steel Girders B A COLUMN STRUCTURE Steel Columns C TENSILE STRUCTURE Stainless Steel Cables D SECONDARY STRUCTURE Standard K-Joists
TENSILE STRUCTURE
Pinned Stainless Steel Connectors & Cable Suspend Canopy
PRIMARY STRUCTURE
Plasma Cut Wide Flange Girders Pinned to Columns & Suspended by SS Cables
SECONDARY STRUCTURE
Standard Sized K-Joist
TERTIARY STRUCTURE
Rolled Tube with Pinned Connections
ETFE PANELS
Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene Panels Create the Canopy and are Filled with Compressed Air
STEEL COLUMNS
CNC & Egg Crated Steel Columns
TRANSPARENCY LIGHT WEIGHT SHADING DURABILITY STRENGTH LOW COST
02 | Impositions
Analyzing impacts of urbanization, “Impositions” begins to reflect on the development of second nature and its relationship with in itself and first nature.
Impose or to force or take advantage of, begins to reflect on crossed boundaries throughout the initial development of downtown Toledo and the concept of how breaching can be used to reflect on its ecological history as well as reconnect the broken grid.
Districts
Business District Residential
Former Tributary
c. 1840 | Toledo Streams & Tributaries
Present Day | Toledo Streams & Tributaries
Impositions initially derived from of the ecological and architectural phenomenon, daylighting, the process of exposing once filled in streams and tributaries.
Reflecting on what was once apart the ecological and topographical makeup of Toledo, Ohio begins to inform how second nature has imposed on first within this region and can influence topographical adjustments.
Imposing main corridors into the wedge bridging connections between the two grids and the wedge to riverfront.
8,000+ Vehicles 4,000 - 8,000 Vehicles 0 - 4,000 Vehicles Traffic Patterns Focal Points Axial Relationships Circulation around Wedge
Wisconsin
Glacial Stage Daylighting
Three main corridors through Toledo are intercepted by the wedge formation. While this does not limit vehicle circulation, it enhances the difficulty of pedestrian traffic throughout the whole grid system. By analyzing the three axial relationships that filters one into the
wedge and into the city, an analysis of how the grid can be imposed within the wedge to create a circulatory system and adjust the overall programming the Vistula Garage to create a more united master plan. These grids take form, creating
pedestrian bridges through the city and begins to take advantage of the structural systems of the Vistula Garage. These blends the two grids through the wedge and adds to the circulation systems being formed in the wedge.
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| Pedestrian
Pedestrian Water
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Circulation
Wedge Circulation |
Circulation
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| Union
UNION is a mixed-use development at a prime location adjacent to the Swamp Rabbit Trail within Unity Park, Greenville, South Carolina’s latest addition to their Greenway System.
Featuring almost 30,000 sqft of programmed space, the intention of UNION is to create an extension of the trail, blending the line between built and natural environments to create an
open, public atmosphere to attract both users from the trail itself as well as the parking lot.
For information about UNION and it’s design please click the UNION logo for a thorough explanation of design and space.
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In collaboration with Nicolas Beck
North Elevation South Elevation
Programming
Level 1
1Entertainment3770 sqft
2Art Gallery725 sqft
3Bathrooms1200 sqft
4Island Cafe360 sqft
5Fresh Market1500 sqft
6Wine Bar750 sqft 7Storage250 sqft
8Ice Cream320 sqft
9Fried Chicken|Mac ‘n Cheese260 sqft
10Plant Shop250 sqft
11Used Book Store250 sqft
12Cowork Entrance240 sqft
Level 1 Total 9875 sqft
Level 2
14 15 16
Coworking8047 sqft Bathrooms1349sqft Artist Residency1154 sqft Farm To Table4022 sqft Food Prep | Storage750 sqft
Level 2 Total 18989 sqft
Corridor 15000 sqft
13 3 Total 28864 sqft
Total w/Corridor 43864 sqft
Anchor Bolt Anchor Bolt Steel Beams 3D Printed Header 3D Printed Layers Aggregate 3D Printed Wall Detail 3D Printed Robot Placement Level 1 Level 2Robots
04 | Symbiotic
A Symbiotic relationship, often referred to in biological connections, is defined as a relationship between any two parties in which at least one of the parties receives benefit. As Bowling Green State University serves as an academic institution there is a highlighted academic core (as defined by the institution) that imposes boundaries and axis on campus that has created a pattern for the placement and overlap of academia
and wellness spaces throughout campus.
Academia and Wellness in general terms have a codependent relationship that can be identified as Symbiotic. Defined by a series of parallel interactions, predetermined patterns at BGSU reflect a parasitic relationship in which academic feeds off of wellness. Blurring defined boundaries will shift campuses
parasitic symbiotic relationship between acadmia and wellness to a mutualist symbiotic relationship in which both parties support growth of one another.
Mutualism: Type when both parties benefit.
Shared between both academia and wellness, research supports growth efforts for both parties while bridging the gap between a dichonotomy and forming a symbiotic relationship.
While each encased area has intitial designated programtic functions, overlaps allow for permeation from one party into the other through transferance of it’s symbiotic resource.
Floor 1 - Key Side A 1 - Lobby 2 - Clinical Research Space Physical 3 - Stairwell A 4 - Restrooms 5 - Enclosed Garden 6 - Elevator Shaft Side B 7 - Lecture Hall 8 - Restrooms 9 - Stairwell B 10 - 12 - Classrooms Floor 1 - 1/16” = 1’0” 1 2 3 4 56 7 8 9 10 1112 Floor 2 - Key 13 - 17 - Clinical Space Offices Physical 18 - Open Office Area 19 - Stairwell A 20 - Restrooms 21 - Enclosed Garden 22 - Elevator Shaft 23 - Mental Health Practice Area 24 - 27 - Wellness Pods 28 - Stairwell B 29 - Yoga Studio Floor 1A - 1/16” = 1’0” Floor 1A Key 1A Lobby 2A 5 A - Group Therapy 6 A - 9A - Private Therapy/Offices 10A Lobby 1A 10A 2A3A4A5A 6A7A8A9A 1314 151617 18 1920 22 23 21 24252627 28 29 Floor 2 - 1/16” = 1’0” Floor 3 - Key Side A 30 - Physical Fitness Space | Clincial 31 - Terrace 32 - Stairwell A 33 - Restrooms 34 - Enclosed Garden 35 - Elevator Shaft Side B 36 Gallery / Lounge 37 Roof Garden 38 Stairwell B 31 3233 34 35 37 38 36 Floor 3 1/16” = 1’0” 30 37 41 42 38 40 39 Floor 4 - 1/16” = 1’0” Floor 4 - Key 38 - Stairwell A 39 - Enclosed Garden 40 - Roof Access 41 - Reference Library 42 - Stairwell B W12 x 26 Beams Corten Steel Corten Steel Cast in Place Conc. on Mtl. Stud Curtain Wall System w/ Corten Steel Mullions
N. Elevation - 1/16” = 1’0”
S. Elevation - 1/16” = 1’0”
E. Elevation - 1/16” = 1’0”
W. Elevation - 1/16” = 1’0”
05 | Eusapia, City of the Dead
Eusapia, a city of the dead that builds the living. Through travel and communication, the dead changes and builds the living world above them. The trust and authority of the hooded brothers between the two worlds allow for the innovation and mimicry involved. The bond between the two worlds is inevitable, for, without the one, the other would not exist. Through the changing of size and arbitrary rotation, the dead slowing builds the
living through the connection of the hooded brothers.
No city is more inclined than Eusapia to enjoy life and flee care. And to make theleap from life to death less abrupt, the inhabitants have constructed an identical copy of their city, underground. All corpses, dried in such a way that skeleton remains sheathed in yellow skin, are carried down there, to continue their former activities. And, of these activities, it is their carefree moments that take first place: most of the corpses are seated around laden tables, or placed in dancing positions, or made to play little trumpets. But all the trades and professions of the living Eusapia are also at work below ground, or at least those that the living performed with more contentment than irritation: the clockmaker, amid all the stopped clocks of his shop, places his parchment ear against an out-of-tune grandfather’s clock; a barber, with a dry brush, lathers the cheekbones of an actor learning his role, studying the script with hollow sockets; a girl with a laughing skull milks the carcass of a heifer.
To be sure, many of the living want a fate after death different from their lot in life: the necropolis is crowded with big-game hunters, mezzo-sopranos, bankers, violinists, duchesses, courtesans, generals --- more than the living city ever contained.
The job of accompanying the dead down below and arranging them in the desired place is assigned to a confraternity of hooded brothers. No one else has access to the Eusapia of the dead and everything known about it has been learned from them.
They say that the confraternity exists among the dead and that it never fails to lend a hand; the hooded brothers, after death, will perform the same job in the other Eusapia; rumor has it that some of the are already dead but continue going up and down. In any case, this confraternity’s authority in the Eusapia of the living is vast.
They say that every time they go below they find something changed in the lower Eusapia; the dead make
They say that every time they go below they find something changed in the lower Eusapia; the dead make innovations in their city not many, but surely the fruit of sober reflection, not passing whims, from one year to the next, they say, the Eusapia of the dead becomes unrecognizable. And the living, to keep up with them, also want to do everything that the hooded brothers tell them about the novelties of the dead. So the Eusapia of the living has taken to copying its underground copy.
They say that this has not just now begun to happen: actually it was the dead who built the upper Eusapia, in the image of their city. They say that in the twin cities there is no longer any way of knowing who is alive and who is dead.
So the Eusapia of the living has taken to copying its underground copy.
And to make the leap from life to death less abrupt,
innovations in their city;
Arch 6990 | Freehand Drawing
Haley A. Rogers Professor Lynn Craig
