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Cornell University + Universidad Puerto Rico Joint Studio

Spring Semester 2015 Milstein Hall Studio M-W-F 12:30 - 4:30 ARCH 4101/4102/5101/5116/8931

Table of Contents 008 FORWARD 014 FILTERING WALLS apiary resort between the walls Prim Chanarat

032 WIND + SEA combinatory hospitality in vieques Marissa DeSouter

054 BOSQUE DUCHA DE VIEQUES from the bunker to the resort in the forest Hong Yeol In

072 HEALING FIELDS phyto-remediation farming resort Hyemin Jang

092 OH!-CEAN oceanographic research academy Ben Hanan Kessler

104 HUMAN / HORSE cohabitation in boutique villas Valeri Limansubroto

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RE: PIER alternative resort at esperanza pier Papon Luengvarinkul

[BIO] OBSERVATORIO bio bay resort and observatory

Cristina Medina Gonzalez

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LA AZUCARERA

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EL CRATER bunker resort at explosion crater

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Eduardo Reims

Sejung Jiho Song

REINHABITATION eastern vieques settlement

Sophia Szagala

202 ENCYCLE bike resort surrounding the ceiba tree Madeline Burns

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EL PAISAJE DE CRATER ropes course resort at laguna anones Whitney Brooks Van Houten

MILITARY In 2001, the United States Navy left western Vieques (Puerto Rico), which had been used as an ammunition depot. Now the United States Fish and Wildlife Service controls 3,100 acres (13 km2) of this land, about half of the formerly owned military property. Over the course of U.S. Navy occupancy, nearly 22 million pounds (10,000 tons) of military and industrial waste, such as oils, solvents, lubricants, lead paint, acid and 55 US gallon (200 L) drums, were deposited on the western portion of the island.

On May 1, 2003 the Navy finished turning over all of its lands to the U.S. Department of the Interior. This included the Navy’s entire eastern portion of the island which was mainly used as a dumping ground. Vieques was bombed an average of 180 days per year. In 1998, the last year before protests interrupted maneuvers, the Navy dropped 23,000 bombs on the island, the majority of which contained explosives.

The eastern end of the island was used for live training exercises, ship-to-shore gunfire, air-to-ground bombing and US Marine amphibious landings starting from the 1940s onward.

ADAPTIVE REUSE Although highly controversial, this military use of the island prevented any large developments. After the Navy left in 2003, the former bombing range on Vieques was declared a National Wildlife Refuge, ensuring that nearly 20,000 acres remain protected from commercial development. Like ecological succession, adaptive reuse deals with directional change, a gentle and unpredictable temporal shift in the whole basis of the building’s structure and function: the succession of the built environment. Adaptive reuse “slows nutrient loss” while contributing to the diversity, complexity, and continuity of a particular place. Genuine places worthy of our affections are created through the process of adaptation. Adaptive reuse is the process of changing a building’s function to accommodate the changing needs of its users.

Adaptive reuse can also serve as point of departure for other related issues such as derelict infrastructure, industry, and landscapes.

TOURISM The island of Vieques has remained undeveloped for tourism. Land speculation by foreign developers and fear of overdevelopment has caused some resentment among local residents. The studio will be looking at some of the army’s traces in the island, studying and mapping some of the remaining ruins. With the intention of subverting their meaning we will investigate strategies to transform this military debris into opportunities that will inform designs that will develop in a more sustainable way new types of tourism in the island.

The studio will formulate alternatives to the commercial luxury hotels that have been killing the authenticity of many Caribbean islands. Diving, Fishing, Eco Tourism, Agritourism, Geotourism, Bicycle tourism, Wildlife, and Community-based tourism will be some of the activities that the students will have to accommodate. Different site conditions will be explored, among others the very dense forest, the beach, the rural context, or the mountains. The studio will investigate a more affordable and sustainable tourism that reacts against the clichés of luxury and respects and listens carefully to the landscape, the local traditions, the climate and the new social conditions. A studio in the Architecture School of San Juan de Puerto Rico will be working with the same problem. Some of the preliminary research work will be developed in groups been necessary for the teams to communicate online. A fieldtrip to the island will take place during the second week of February.

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FILTERINg wALLS

Apiary Resort Between the walls

Prim Chanarat

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Apiary Resort Between the walls Prim Chanarat Vieques’ main industry of sugar plantations was abandoned when the US Navy occupied the island. To introduce a “sweet alternative” to sugar, this project aims to create a bee farm that produces honey, and other bee byproducts to bring back a self sustaining industry to vieques.

The project occupies spaces within the existing walls in the town of Esperanza on the south coast of Vieques and filters spaces from more public to private, from bee production to private rooms.

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EXISTING WALLS

PALLADIO’S FORMATIONS

Parallel walls of shed shaped profile are the ruins closest to the beach.

These walls were part of an unfinished building, and became ruins as a result of the hurricanex.

DIAGRAMS

APARIES

These large walls of stone and brick mixture were once part of the sugar mill factory. The factory also housed a hotel with multiple guest amenities. All that remain are two of the main walls, and several fragments of the interior walls.

This hangar used to be a pineapple factory and is now infested by plants and roots that hang off the building’s trusses.

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BOSQUE DUCHA DE VIEQUES

From the bunker to the Resort in the Forest

Hong Yeol In

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AXONOMETRIC SITE PLAN Observation Tower

Cafe Resting Pavilion

BOSQUE DUCHA DE VIEQUES

Rooms

From the bunker to the Resort in the Forest Entrance / Parking

Hong Yeol In Resort on Terrain from Single Bunker

In 2001, the United States Navy left western Vieques (Puerto Rico), which had been used as an ammunition depot. Over the past 60 years, Vieques people had suffered from US Navy’s military activities. Now they returned this land back to people of Vieques, but there are still many military remnants in that area. US Navy bunker in one of major remnant in western Vieques. This massive concrete bunkers are spread out and still standing in their land and representing suffering period of Vieques. However, because of the military zone, this area was protected from commercial development. Since Navy returned this land to Vieques, this land must develop in more sustainable and protected way. The Therapeutic walking in the forest is common tourism activity in many countries. This is not only give opportunity to people to engage with nature but also protect from non-ecological development. If the bunkers are removed, than this is great site to have this new type of tourism program for protecting the forest and engaging with the forest purpose.

Network of Forest Shower

The proposal on the site is to transforming these military bunker remnants to resort facilities in the forest. This architectural gesture is not only Vieques people but also the tourism people to remember that US Navy return their land to people of Vieques.

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Bunker type for the Resort

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OH!-CEAN

Oceanographic Research Academy

Ben Hanan Kessler

VIEQUES STUDIO CORNELL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

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OH!-CEAN

Oceanographic Research Academy Ben Hanan Kessler An oceanographic research academy, a place to study the affects of 62 years of military occupation on aquatic specimen endemic to Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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HUMAN / HORSE

COHABITATION IN BOUTIQUE VILLAS

Valeri (Patti) Limansubroto

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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC :

HOUSING UNITS (3 STOREYS)

HORSE STABLES AND MEDICAL MAINTENANCE (2 STOREYS)

HUMAN / HORSE

COURTYARD SPACES FOR HUMAN & HORSE INTERACTION

Cohabitation in Boutique Villas

WATERING STATION / TROUGH (1 STOREY)

Valeri (Patti) Limansubroto HUMAN / HORSE is a boutique villa hotel designed to address the wild horse epidemic while providing an alternative form of sustainable tourism in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

EXISTING EMPTY SITE (UNCOVERED)

This initiative allows for both man and horse - two very different species to cohabitate and thrive in the presence of one another. In addition, Vieques’ military past heavily influenced the design approach. By analyzing and using the design principles of military camouflage, one experiences a space that is physically and socially seamlessly integrated into its context.

PROPOSED INTERVENTION

BASE + MAIN CIRCULATION 1’ = 1/16”

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GRADIENTS OF NATURE IN VIEQUES

THE WARTIME EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CAMOUFLAGE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

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KOREAN WAR

GULF WAR

VIETNAM WAR

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GHILLIE SUIT

RAZZLE DAZZLE

MASS PRODUCTION

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WOODLAND PATTERN

DESERT PATTERN

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MARPAT

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PIXELATION TO ACCOMODATE PROGRAM

DISRUPTION OF HORIZONTAL & VERTICAL ALIGNMENT

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RE: PIER

Alternative Resort At Esperanza Pier

Papon Luengvarinkul

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Alternative Resort at Esperanza Pier Papon Luengvarinkul (Oat) Vieques is an island off the southeast of Puerto Rico that exhibits a unique relationship between man and nature. All over, there are spots where one can examine the recession of nature and the growth of man, and the recession of man and the growth of nature. This island is full of these human-nature interactions because it was a site of US naval occupation and various industries, and the remnants of these forces either coexist with nature in desolation, and in deterioration with man.

Because of the nature of the navy and past industry’s use, the remants that are present for use to observe and discover tend to be infrastructural and mechanical. These remnants are found all over the island, and at each specific location the relationship of the artefact’s deterioration and presence of nature are all distinct.

When we explored the small town of Esperanza on the south side of the island, we came upon a pier that extended about one hundred meters into the sea. It was a concrete pier that was once used to load ships to transport sugar from the island, but is now unusable in that sense because all of the walkable surfaces had either been removed or destroyed. What is left is just the structural “skeleton” of the pier. Upon arrival to the pier, there were kids and young adults using the pier to go farther to the sea and to jump off into the water, about a three-meter drop. Farther down at the end, a small family had brought plastic chairs to sit and relax at the edge of the pier, closest to the water. This pier provided the people of esperanza an infrastructure to experience the sea, water, and air, and that is what is most attractive about the site.

My project aims to amplify this interaction with the site, while preserving the ruiniouos quality of the pier, and it’s program aims to become a place where not only tourists can enjoy themselves, but where the residents of Esperanza and Viequez can interact, communicate, and bond as well.

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ELEVATIONS

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

ELEVATIONS

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

+ 8.00 m | Max Height

+ 5.65 m | Rooms

+ 0.65 m | Pier + 0.00 m | Ground

+ 8.00 m | Max Height

+ 5.65 m | Rooms

+ 0.65 m | Pier + 0.00 m | Ground

+ 8.00 m | Max Height

+ 5.65 m | Rooms + 3.15 m | First Landing

+ 0.65 m | Pier + 0.00 m | Ground - 3.00 m | High Tide - 3.30 m | Low Tide

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Section C: Public zone - Movie Theater Scale: 1 : 100

Section A: End of Pier Scale: 1 : 100

Section B: Water Platform Scale: 1 : 100

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USAGE AXONOMETRIC

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[BIO] OBSERVATORIO Bio Bay Resort and Observatory

Cristina Medina Gonzรกlez

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LA AZUCARERA Eduardo Reims

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LA AZUCARERA

by Eduardo Reims La Azucarera is a project about a hotel that promotes community farming through the adaptive reuse of the largest ruin site in the island of Vieques, aiming towards the restoration of the social, cultural and economic values of the island and it´s people.

By unpacking the “Military Ration” as a research strategy to engage the unexisting project, I found that the Ration and the island of Vieques shared a common denominator, sugar.

Historically, before the US Navy occupation of the island in the early 1940´s, the production of sugar through sugarcane farming and processing constituted the economic driver of the island and their primary source of income and labor. During this time, the Playa Grande Sugarmill was the largest sugar compound in the entire island, making it a symbol of progress for the viequense identity.

After 60 years of Naval occupancy, the remains of this giant have been reduced to ruins, isolated in the deep forest as if waiting for a slow death.

Together with this decline, the viequense society has also dramatically dropped, leading to a society suffering from many ills that stop them from retaking their flight. Low education levels, severe health problems, lack of activities and a strong absence of a local economy are the mayor social constraints that stop the island from becoming what it once was.

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PLAYA GRANDE SUGARMILL RUINS

MORE TO FUN

WIN-WIN-WIN

In most occasions, ecoturism does not contribute to environmental restoration.

It only maintains a passive, fun and well branded position towards the problem.

Hotel profits and maintins itself by the sales of the harvested products.

Guests profit by knowledge through a fun and unforgettable experience.

Locals will be positively influenced by example, hopefully they may adopt this model as their own.

SUSTAINABLE GROWTH Based on adaptation and repetition.

Couples with time according to the model´s success and acceptance.

COMMUNITY Buying locally is one of the best things a community can do to grow it´s economy.

CORE VALUES The touristic experience in Playa Grande is about the awakening of self awareness in it´s guests and the seeding of core values based on wellness, productivity, culture and ecologycal conscience.

FUEL Hotel model can inspire and trigger a model for a self-sustainable, productive and healthy community

MEMORY PRODUCTIVITY Playa Grande Sugarmill is the largest remain of the best productive years of the island of Vieques and it´s people.

Its is the ideal place for the reemergence of the Viequense strength, productivity and self sufficiency.

WELLNESS

LEAD BY EXAMPLE Tourism will have a positive influence on local ideology

BALANCE PRODUCTION REVENUE INFRASTRUCTURE

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EL TRAPICHE

SITE STRATEGY

Looking into the site and the strategy that will deploy the first phase of this project, the concept of “El Trapiche” arises as an alibi in reference to the device by which a series of engines and rods extract, in an industrialized process, the sugar out of the sugarcane. This device was used during the operational years of the Playa Grande Sugarmill, making it a conceptual device that is capable of weaving back together the isolated remains of the Sugarmill into a legible, continuous and operational complex able to host a myriad of uses and programs in relation to lodging and farming.

By abstracting the concept of a connective string that follows the same logic of the trapiche mechanism, an acueduct is introduced into the site as the main infrastructural chord that will, through a continuous –at grade- line, connect and re-activte the scattered pieces and remains of the ruins into a cohesive, unified and rich complex capable of hosting a myriad of programs and activities inside it´s woven rich atmospheres.

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U.S. Naval bunkers can be found by horizontal experience of the island.

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OPEN AIR AMPHITHEATER

ROOF / CANOPY

LOUNGE / CANOPY

PUBLIC MARKET / CANOPY

CHECK-IN

PEDESTRIAN PATH

SINGLE ROOMS / COURTYARD

GROUP ROOMS / COURTYARD

FARMING AREA

WATER ACUEDUCT SINGLE ROOMS

WATER TANKS

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INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE The program of the hotel is orchestrated by the hard spaces and soft spaces.

The infrastructural armature, or better called, the trapiche string, starts at grade level and continues on all along the ruins, articulating them though courtyards, accommodating the bathroom spaces, water collectors, single rooms and staircases, defining the hard spaces. Also, this parti wall, stretches out over the ruins by the use of lighter structures made of rope and vines, that woven together with plastic transparent strips in some cases, defining the roofed and shaded areas that accommodate the soft and more flexible program of the complex.

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Bunker Resort at Explosion Crater

Sejung Jiho Song

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Podium/Seating/Sculpture

Recovering Natural Hill_ Observation Platforms

EL CRĂ TER

Bunker Resort at Explosion Crater

Insertion_ Accommodation

Sejung Jiho Song Vieques had suffered from damages from military training over 60 years.

During the period of time, one-third of the island had been used by the U.S. Navy as a bombing target. Since the U.S. Navy vacated the Puerto Rican Island in 2001, there have been efforts tov recover the island from the damages. However, there still exist a number of military remnants in Vieques.

The project site is one of these military remnants, an explosion crater. The crater of 50m diameter is located on top of the hill at the East side of Vieques.

Military strategy of how to build and use storage bunkers in Vieques had been studied in order to utilize the unusual shape of the site, the concave.

Concave_ Entrance/Theater

The proposal on the site is to repurpose this military damage and strategies in order to recover the collapsed hill that generate interesting condition of a resort.

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U.S. NAVAL BOMBING RANGE

VIEQUES BUNKER TYPES

Typical Vieques Bunker Section

Land

MILITARY STRATEGY_VISIBILITY OF VIEQUES BUNKERS

U.S. Naval bunkers can be found by horizontal experience of the island.

The resort in Vieques can be found by vertical experience of the island.

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PROCESS DIAGRAMS

Site location

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1. Bombing Crater_ The concave on the hill

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2. Insertion_ Response to the view

3. Horizontal Adpatation_ Response to the topography

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4. Vertical Adpatation_ Response to the topography

3. Sunken Terraces_ Ventilation/ Secure Ourdoor Space

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REINHABITATION Eastern Vieques Settlement

Sophia Szagala

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REINHABITATION Eastern Vieques Settlement Sophia Szagala Although a large island, the majority of Vieques is currently undeveloped due to the previous acquisition of the military. The eastern end of the island, now part of the Vieques Wildlife Refuge, contains many traces of military use. The geometric clearings in the dense forest along the northern shore create a distinct threshold between two conditions - solid and void, absence and presence. This site was selected for the first reinhabitation settlement in order to begin a dialogue between the past boundaries established by the miltary and a new way of living.

The proposal on the site promotes the reinhabitation eastern Vieques by means of an expansive complex that exploits the vastness of the site and the diverse landscape conditions it contains. Through a series of courtyard microcosms that take cues from the various experiences throughout the island - underwater, on water, in a field, within the density of the forest, above the treeline - a new sort of luxurious living is proposed.

SITE / CONDITIONS + CONCEPT DIAGRAMS

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SITE PLAN

CONCEPTUAL SITE MODEL

LANDSCAPE STUDY - TOPOGRAPHY + VISUAL CONNECTIONS

ESTABLISHING A DATUM TO EXPLOIT THE LANDSCAPE FOR DIFFERNT CONDITIONS

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PROTOTYPICAL PAVILION PLANS

OVERALL PLAN

Implemented on the site depending on the specific conditions of the courtyard and the location of the pavilion within it.

THREE-DIRECTIONAL | PRIVACY

THREE-DIRECTIONAL | PRIVACY

FOUR-DIRECTIONAL | FULL EXPOSURE

FOUR-DIRECTIONAL | FULL EXPOSURE

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AXONOMETRIC SUITE - HILLSIDE TREE GARDEN SUITE - AT BOTTOM OF CLIFF SIDE SUITE - WITHIN TREE CANOPY WITH VIEWS

WILDLIFE REFUGE - WITHIN TREE CANOPY

SUITE - WITHIN TREE TRUNKS REINHABITATION OFFICES - GARDENS

SUITE - WITHIN TREE TRUNKS SUITE - UNDERWATER DINING - BELOW TREE CANOPY SUITE - ABOVE TREE CANOPY WITH VIEWS

Courtyard Microcosms DINING - IN A FIELD

SUITE - IN A FIELD REHABILITATION OFFICE - GARDENS SUITE - WITHIN TREE CANOPY WITH VIEWS

SUITE - ON WATER ENTRY LOBBY - GARDENS

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CAFE - EXCAVATED GARDENS SUITE - ON WATER INFINITY POOL TOWARDS THE BEACH SUITE - HILLSIDE GARDENS

Courtyard Microcosms UNDERWATER CAFE + POOL SUITE - AT BOTTOM OF CLIFF SIDE DINING/ENTERTAINMENT - EXCAVATED

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Bike Resort Surrounding the Ceiba Tree

Madeline Burns

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Bike paths and Elevations accross the Island

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Bike Resort Surrounding the Ceiba Tree Madeline Burns The 400-year old, 80-foot tall, massive Ceiba tree has long been a symbol of the island of Veiques and is embedded in the island’s history. After the military occupation of Veiques, there has been a need to take back the history of the island for the residents and restore a sense of culture and ownership that is free from the Naval occupation.

Major Cultural and Touristic Sites on Vieques

The Bike Resort proposal encircles and frames the tree while blending into the dense forest. The looping paths allow for a variety of experiences of the tree and landscape while creating a sacred space around the tree. The path is specifically designed for bikes and pedestrians, changing the normative scale of experience of the island and the site. The paths link to existing island paths as a way to begin a bike infrastructure and promote a tourism economy based on cycling.

ENcycle encircles, frames, reclaims, and protects the Ceiba Tree while creating a full-service hotel where cycling is the primary mode of experience.

Old Fort

Dense Settlement

Ceiba Tree Low Density Settlement Mosquito Pier Historic Church

Open Pasture/Grassland

Bunkers

Acceptable Biking Conditions

Punta Arenas

Unsafe Biking Conditions

Playa Grande Sugar Mill Ruins Pineapple Factory Ruins Archeological Site Bioluminenscent Bay

Puerto Ferro Lighthouse

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CONCEPT DIAGRAM

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC EXPLODED AXON 1 : 1/16

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PATH

Path

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INTERIOR PARTITIONS

interior Partitions

LIFT

STRUCTURE

Structure CONNECT

ENVELOPE

Envelope

LINK

Overal Axon

OVERAL AXON

SITE PLAN

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VIEW FROM ENTRY PAVILLION

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MODEL: BASSWOOD. 1: 1/12 SCALE

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EL PAISAJE DE CRÁTER Ropes Course Resort at Laguna Anones

Whitney Brooks Van Houten

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Spring Semester 2015 Milstein Hall Studio M-W-F 12:30 - 4:30 ARCH 4101/4102/5101/5116/8931

Professors: Inaqui Carnicero Edgardo Arroyo Julian Manriquez Cornell University + Universidad Puerto Rico Joint Studio