2013Update

DESIGN ARCHITECTURE REPRESENTATION

PORTFOLIO selected works by

KYLE BENEVENTI

CONTENTS

ADAPT

VERTICAL ARCOLOGY

ROCINHA

URBAN INTERVENTION

REDTORY

SILO REVIVAL

TARGET

BELLEVUE, WA

ADAPT THE SUPRA-URBAN CITY

First place finalist in an international design compeition for a vertical arcology in Hong Kong.

There are two integral components to the success of an arcology; the Social Sustainability and the Environmental Sustainability. The coordination of these responsibilities gives the programming and structural design to the tower. Taking cues from successful urban neighborhoods, social sustainability is about the integration of residential, commercial, and business interests into a flexible and expandable community. Units, or “Vertical Neighborhoods,� are strategically composed to reflect the diversity of the traditional street, by providing all essential services within themselves, while leaving room for growth and development. Environmental sustainability is demonstrated through passive systems and the organization of technology. Industrial and agricultural processes are composed to complement each other by the flow of waste, water, energy and food. This arcology looks to internalize the processes of aquaculture, waste treatment, water treatment, and the concept of living directly with local crop production.

ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ANALYSIS

BUILDINGS ADAPTS IN RESPONSE TO

VERTICAL NEIGHBORHOOD

TRANSIT HUB | BOAT, TRAIN, & FOOT

AGRICULTURE

The arcology taps into the extensive shipping and travel networks of the city. An open air plaza on the ground floor accepts the pedestrian into the arcology and can quickly wisk them to the various neighborhoods via vertical transportation. Dropping below ground, a travel hub provides connection to the city subway system, or the marine dock that emerges into the bay.

Residential Levels Public Levels

Farming Fish + Water Algae + Energy

RECREATION VERTICAL NEIGHBORHOOD Residential Levels Public Levels

AGRICULTURE Farming Fish + Water Algae + Energy

EDUCATION VERTICAL NEIGHBORHOOD Residential Levels Public Levels

ARENA STREET + PUBLIC Museum Space Retail

TRANSIT

STRUCTURE, CIRCULATION, FLEXIBLE PROGRAM

ADAPT THE VERTICAL NEIGHBORHOOD

Taking cues from successful urban neighborhoods, the tower is divided into several strategically composed “Vertical Neighborhoods� which reflect the diversity of the traditional street and provide all essential services. Each vertical neighborhood starts with a large public plaza surrounded by shops, businesses, and service industry offerings. As one moves vertically from this urban center, program becomes less dense and more residential; mimicking the gradient of a metropolis becoming individual suburbs and offering the ability to live, work, and play without leaving your neighborhood. Each microcommunity benefits from the next: creating a socially sustainable network.

ACTIVE & PASSIVE SYSTEMS Channels in the top of each concentric ring captures rainfall filters it and distributes to Cisterns, while piping in the bottom of the ring moves waste water to treatment plants and programs in the building for reuse.

ENERGY COLLECTING MESH

Surface make use of Solar Panels Wind Turbines fill Mesh Gaps

DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS 3D printing on tracks Construction components

FARMING + GRAZING PLANES The core is hollowed to create a light well, furthered by expansive openings within each unit’s facade.

The ring’s infrastructure is also capped with an array of solar panels, capturing solar energy.

The energy produced by the building is used throughout the tower.

Orchard Production Greenhouse Horticulture Fisheries Algae Fuel

CROP + AQUACULTURE Orchard Production Greenhouse Horticulture Fisheries Algae Fuel

RECREATIONAL SPACES A flexible, permeable skin allows energy generation and passive cooling throughout the building. Furthermore, large wind speeds at high altitudes will be captured with turbines inserted into the building’s mesh facade.

Open Air Sports Fields Swimming Pools Bike + Running Tracks

RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS Developable Greenspace Gardens + Parks Interstitial Open Space

ROCINHA URBAN INTERVENTION Most American and European cities are built on a grid, which assigns certain blocks to be public space. Central Park in New York City is, perhaps, the most famous example of this. Rocinha does not allow for this method of allotting public space because of it’s organic growth and subsequent blanket of density.

In this proposal, the location of each public space is based on the characteristics unique to each zone: proximity to Infrastructure such as the cable cars, distance from Commercial activity currently only lining Estrada de Gavea, or using Topography to frame views across the favela in areas where linear plazas are required to follow contour lines.

Public Plaza’s are tailored to these qualities and the resulting network connects each plaza, creating a very Rocinha-specific plan that could improve the community on several different levels.

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C Commercial

T Topography

N AV I G AT I O N A N D R E L I E F

INTRODUCING HIERARCHY Since vehicular mobility is so restricted in Rocinha, this hierarchy works to make Rocinha a very walk able city. Research indicates that the optimal preferred walking distance is 5 minutes, or 1/4 mile.

1/4mi radii

The 5min walking radius is placed at the center of each main plaza and adjusted to consider Rocinha’s dramatic topography. This guide determines areas lacking relief space. Connecting corridors are chosen according to existing circulation patterns.

Smaller spaces are introduced to fill gaps that the walking radii don’t cover between main plazas.

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ROCINHA ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION

PAIRING BUILDING AND PLAZA

A NEW VISIBLE HIERARCHY

CURRENT CONDITIONS

Currently all commercial activity exists along Estrada de Gavea, the main road through Rocinha.

The farther from this main road, the less access residents have to these amenities.

CONNECTING

Addition of the main plazas offer the opportunity of commercial access to more residents.

Termination of sight lines along the corridor determine placement of Resettlement Housing Towers.

S PAC E S

S H A P I N G T H E S T R E ET

= Commercial Activity

= Removed Buildings

= Sight Lines

Smaller public spaces are paired with the towers as an extension of the street, to provide relief along the corridor connecting Estrada de Gavea and the large Plaza.

REDTORY SILO REVIVAL ARTIST WORKSHOPS AND GALLERIES

This project aims to embody and express the creative process in built form.

It allows for seamless interaction between art mediums by minimizing the boundary between the individual and collaborative approaches to design.

DRAWING PARALLELS

THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN BUILT FORM

The creative process is not linear, but an ever changing movement between tangible and ethereal, practical and experimental. Researching previous projects and seeing other artist’s work informs final design, and the iterative nature of that de sign process refines the product. Once presented, this final design can inform the next creator and start the entire creative process anew. This organic and dynamic movement is constantly circulating and may be experienced by one or many artists simultaneously.

This process is embodied both by the construction of the silo and within its program, where artists and designers are free to express, investigate, and collaborate with other artists in classrooms, computer labs, and shared critique spaces on each level’s balcony.

At any point in this process, an idea may be generated which projects out at the tangent point of its inception, altering the cyclical motion of the creative process and moving toward final production and presentation.

This idea is represented by the circular form of the silo and by the bridges that cantilever out to form connections between the creative suites of the silo, and the brick buildings which house the fabrication labs for final products and the administrative offices that help produce them.

REDTORY SILO REVIVAL All of the creating and collaborating happens inside the silo, where studios and workshops for every kind of artistic expression are housed. These glass studio cubes face each other and spill out onto balconies intended for pin-up and crit-space.

The existing brick buildings linked by the bridges, on the other side of the reflecting pool, are renovated and restored to house service program such as a cafe, office spaces, rest rooms, utility rooms.

This acts as a buffer between the general public. This keeps the center for artistic creation and expression separate yet connected to these complimentary amenities.

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TARGET BELLEVUE, WA

At Target, where 'speed is life,' it is sometimes difficult to slow down and give a project the attention it deserves. Fortunately I had the opportunity to do just that, working with one of Target's architects to design the future store of Bellevue, WA, and create a complete package of presentation material for the city.

This site, just across the highway from downtown Bellevue, kicks off the first of several phases to revitalize a dying district of autodealerships and proposes an extension of NE 4th street to connect downtown to the shops and homes of the immediate suburb Wilburton.

Due to a 45' grade increase from the base of our site running up 4th, combined with providing the required number of parking stalls determined by projected annual sales, the store was lifted above two levels of parking. This allows trucks and loading to stay on the sales floor level, keeping operation costs low, and provides direct access to both levels of parking. Additional retail space is provided along 116th Ave. to engage pedestrians at street level.

VISUALIZATION BIGELOW CHAPEL

VISUALIZATION RESIDENTIAL INTERIORS

VISUALIZATION CASA DE LA CIUDAD

VISUALIZATION CITY OF LIEPAJA, LATVIA

VISUALIZATION BIGELOW CHAPEL

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