Portfolio 2014-19

SELECTED WORK

MARTIN IGNACIO FERNANDEZ

2014 2019

CONTENT

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KNOLLING CLUB

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SAMSUNG ATLAS

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ROBOTS IN AND OUT OF BUILDINGS

04 PELICULA 05

SHIP SHOP

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VERTICAL VESSEL

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HOUSE ZERO

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MECHANICAL GARDEN

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CAFEINA ARABICA

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BITS AND ASHES

MARTIN IS AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER AND TECHNOLOGIST. HIS WORK CONSISTS OF CODE, IMAGES, AND NARRATIVES WHICH EXAMINE THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN DIGITAL CULTURE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.

CLUB

PRODUCT

OFFICE

TOWER

APPLICATION

HARVARD

MAM

HARVARD

UF

HARVARD

CHAPEL

FABRICATION

BLOCK

CODE

THESIS

UF

HARVARD

UF

HARVARD

HARVARD

URBAN BUILDING

CLUB

KNOLLING AND HOARDING HARVARD / CORE 2 / BOSTON, MA

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KNOLLING AND HOARDING

The State of Massachusetts has the largest hoarder-community in the United States, from this recognition of a materialistic culture that compulsively collects every items in their life or/and an immense amount of repetitive selected objects and a lack of space to catalog memories; the need for a new typology of “storage building” emerges. This demographic cling to their possessions like barnacles to boats, or maybe, it’s the other way around. They create a kind of symbiotic relationship with their hoarded items, but unfortunately without the infrastructure to storage the accumulation.

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MODEL : BUILDING PROGRAM + CITY A system of dexicon shelving is develop as a default stage of the building. Exteriorly, it remains quiet and ordered.

However, as the infrastructure begins to digest object into it system. The default stage begins to evolve into a chaotic building. The default dexicon, starts to morph and accumulate a serious of sceneries.

BUILDING ONE

BUILDING TWO

BUILDING THREE

PROGRAM

PUBLIC PROGRAM

SEMI PUBLIC

PRIVATE

PARKING LOTS OFFICES RESTAURANTS RESIDENTIAL

AUCTION HOUSE GALLERY PAWN-SHOP ADMIRATION ROOMS MARKET

WORKSHOPS LIBRARY SANITATION REPARATION OFFICES CAFE

DORMS THERAPY REGISTRATION RESTROOMS

CRITIC : TOM DEPAOR

CITY

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KNOLLING AND HOARDING

ET STRE

BUILDING COMPONENTS + ASSEMBLY + CITY The potential to develop an architecture that can hold hoarder: walls partitions, floor section, ceiling utilities, old fragments of stairs, windows, and mandate objects is manifest in the tectonic definition.

222 STUART ST.

ROOF + BEAMS + GIRDER

COLUMN

GRILL JOIST + GRILL

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

THE HORIZONTAL SYSTEM OF THE BUILDINGS

THE MAIN STRUCTURE OF THE BUILDING, WORKING AS A SHELL

REMOVABLE BUILDING MEMBER WHICH ACCOMMODATE THE OBJECTS

GLASS

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THE OUTER SHELL OF THE BUILDING IS PROTECT WITH A CURTAIN GLASS SYSTEM

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WITH WALL PARTITIONS

WITH SALVAGE ARCH

KNOLLING AND HOARDING

SHELVINGS

SHELVING SYSTEM CONFIGURATION As the system of dexicon shelving system start to accumulate objects, the default dexicon, starts to morph and accumulate a serious of sceneries. At points the necessity of vertical or horizontal circulation is in demand, which in turns it removes parts of the grill systems. While the remaining spaces reacts for the dimension of the objects (small, medium, large). The project as a result, becomes a “fly tower”, where all the objects are suspended, where the division of space, the delineation of floor height, the restroom utilities, and the vertical circulation can be created from salvage architecture.

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PRODUCT DESIGN

AT L A S FINGERPRINT LOCK

MAM / COMPETITION The advent smartphones promised a future in which a single pocketable device was the extent of our digital needs, however reality has proven to be much more complex. The modern digital native requires an entire ecosystem of devices - watches, phones, headsets, controllers, pens, and earbuds - that are specialized to our dynamic lives. The only problem is that they all require mobility, power, and the ability to wirelessly sync on the go. We envision a future, where a single device, the Samsung Atlas, like the Titan himself, is able to carry the entire Galaxy ecosystem in a secure, portable, and smart case. The Samsung Atlas is a contemporary briefcase, housing all your devices, with a smart battery wirelessly routing power to the devices that need it most, while also serving as a bluetooth syncing portable hard drive. It is truly the hub of our growing galaxy of gadgets

SMART BRIEFCASE

The design centers around an incredibly strong stainless steel chassis serving as a conduit for power emanating from the heart of the device - a multi axis hinge that contains slots for removable battery packs, keeping your devices charged and safe from all external forces. The chassis becomes an armature to accept customizable case panels and the interior organizational components that are built specifically for the galaxy line.

A simple aluminum grid, secured to the chassis, receives modular “pillows� customized to each of your galaxy devices, which serve as inductive charging beds. These pillows can easily be removed from the case, swapped for different devices, and stand alone beautifully as bedside charging stations without the briefcase.

GALAXY

The Atlas is truly a 21st century briefcase, equipped with GPS so you are alerted when you leave its proximity, a fingerprint sensing lock, and a Bluetooth file hub so you always have your files synced, even when you are offline. Wherever you go, your Atlas carries your Galaxy, and carries it beautifully, smartly, and with unprecedented power.

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BLUETOOTH SHARING

DATA STORAGE

INDUCTIVE CHARGING PAD

INTERNAL CHARGING

ORGANIZER

BLUETOOTH TRACKING

BLUETOOTH LOCK

360 ROTATION

EXTERNAL CHARGING

stainless steel chassis hosts wires and finger print scanner while providing structure to entire case

embedded wires wires travel the perimeter of the case connecting the battery to charging plate

case panel water proof and rigid panel to protect devices and charging assembly

aluminum bezel secures internal charging assembly

aluminum divider hosts charging pillows

side structure waterproof reinforced textile with seal

inductive charging plate delivers power from battery to modular pillows

modular charging "pillows" cradle devices and provide connection to battery

assembled case unit optional without charging platform

removable portable battery 1000 MWh to be airplane friendly yet provide sufficient power to charge a family of devices

ball bearing inserts receives chassis to become a hinge charging hinge hosts cylindrical bearings and battery; provides access to inductive charger for recharging of case

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PARTNERS : MORGAN STARKEY / ALEX VILCU

access pad finger print scanner activates mechanical lock

OFFICE

ROBOTS IN & OUT OF BUILDINGS HARVARD / OPTION STUDIO / PALO ALTO, CA

TECH CAMPUS DESIGN & ALGORITHM DESIGN

How often does furniture go unused? What if it could go where its need it! How exactly did we get the modern open office? The history of this strange social experiment is a timeless tale of good intentions ruined by pragmatic compromises. Starting from the Typing Pool in pre 1960, furniture and duty of the office were complete separate, as a response we witness the evolution from the Herman Millers Action Office, the Open Plan, The Cubicle Land, the Partition Land and nowadays the Free Land. Yet as more of our furniture are becoming autonomous, it begs the questions as to the future of the office. Which leaves us to the question, if our furniture can self organize, what does kind of office will this create? and how does architecture evolve to accommodate this new agents and its mobility?!

SYSTEM: CELLULAR AUTOMATON Cellular Automaton consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, such as on and off. For each cell, a set of cells called its neighborhood is defined relative to the specified cell. An initial state is selected by assigning a state for each cell. A new generation is created, according to some fixed rule (generally, a mathematical function) that determines the new state of each cell.

CELL < 2

2 < CELL < 3

CELL > 3

3 = [NEW] CELL

UNDER.POPULATION

NEXT.GENERATION

OVER.POPULATION

REPRODUCTION

PIN UP BOARD

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ALL TERRAIN

DRONES

ROBOTICS IN & OUT OF BUILDINGS

CARGO ROBOT

ALL TERRAIN

ARM ROBOT

TABLE ROBOT

ADAPTABLE

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SENSOR ROBOT

INFORMATION

CARGO ROBOT

SCENARIO 01

charging machine 4 robots

1 over population

then

charging machine 0 robots

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CRITICS : GREG LYNN / JEFFREY SCHNAPP

under population

then

charging machine 2 robots

3 stability

SCENARIO 02

-4 WASTE SPACE

-2 SHRINK

+6 NEW SPACE

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ROBOTS

BICYCLES

PEOPLE

TAXI

CARS

TRUCK

BUS

DRONES

SHUTTLE

PLAZA

PEAK HOURS

AGENT / CELL

FREQUENCY

Sensors

E N N E V I I G R H O B M O E R N D T S

actant?

Rules

ROBOTICS IN & OUT OF BUILDINGS

DENSITY

action Effectors

MULTIPLE : X2

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OR X2

FORMULA : ACTANT

RANGE

AGENT

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ACTANT

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9 < X < 36

ENVIRONMENT

REINFORCE ACTION

REMAIN

SHRINK / EXPAND

CELL

OSCILLATE ACTION

CYCLE

BIKE PARKING

CYCLE REMAIN

SHRINK / EXPAND

ENVIRONMENT

The density of the users defines a range for the formula. For example of the bicycle, the building during normal hours will remain it allowable occupancy. Therefore, the range between 9 to 36 bicycles will be define as a system in stability. If the system, has less than 9 bicycles, the system will shrink and re-purpose the extra space for another function. If the system is beyond 36 bicycles, the system will expand to accommodate more bicycles. Through this oscillation, the system is never underpopulate or over-populate.

The frequency of the users modifies the multiplier of the formula.

For example of the bicycle, the building during normal hours will remain it allowable occupancy. While during 7- 8 am or 5 pm, the system will expand to accommodate for the expected amount of extra users using the complex. As well for the peak maximum during the middle of the day, during the time the people are coming in out for lunch. The different time zone, are multipliers of the formula.

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FUTURE OF OFFICE ORGANIZATION

OUTDOOR SPACE

DEPLOYABLE WALL

As similar to the bicycle roulette, outdoor space is scatter in the field, and these expand and contract to allocate different amount of users.

From the deployable wall, all the pieces of furniture and robots can be deploy or stored. The wall becomes as connection between all the floors of the building, open space and incubator, in a sense, it is the buildings closet.

BETSY

DRONE BEEHIVE

The front doors to goods, the back of house of the building, employs a system of robotic arms that organize and distribute the goods to the deployable wall.

While formally an object that calls for a building beyond just the mere office core and shell, the oculus or dome, becomes the airport of drones and other aerial robotic agents.

BICYCLE ROULETTE

ROUNDABOUT

A bicycle storage location, which allow the rotation of the cylindrical to keep allowing for more bicycle to be organize, while at the same time freeing space up.

The Roundabout lets the flow of users keep moving without objects intercepting, this is because no two system will occupied the dame space at the same time.

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CEILING

INCUBATE

The ceiling becomes a place for objects to be store as well as the electrical system of the buildings, MEP is allow to move freely to facility different sectors of the floor.

While the open space is necessary for collaboration across employee, the incubator becomes a place to remove oneself from distraction and work with a selected amount of users, these incubator become flexible in dimension by hinge walls.

INCUBATORS

The Autonomous Vehicles enter at the front gate of the building, and gets drop down by an elevator to the cylindrical parking lot while the user get elevated up to the second floor entrance.

The Incubators, by the used of a hinge wall, allow for the expansion and contraction of the space. Therefore, teams can be small or large, as the architecture accommodates for it.

RAMP

PARKING LOT

The ramp becomes a continuous mode of circulation, which allows for users (robots and people) to move freely between the floors, without any interruption.

The circular parking lot, while using a elevator shaft to move cars up and down the system, it as well distribute them accordantly to allow for maximum and efficient used of space.

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ROBOTICS IN & OUT OF BUILDINGS

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

TOWER

PELICULA UF / DESIGN 7 / TRIVIA, NY

HIGH-RISE BUILDING

SKYLINE NOSTALGIC COLLAGE

SKYLINE NOSTALGIC MATRIX

SKYLINE NOSTALGIC MODEL

The neighborhood of Tribeca, Manhattan, has become occupied by a new community. Once a run down sector of post-industrial buildings in New York. Tribeca is now the home of many actors, directors, and dancers. With the growth of the of community. Historically a run down industrial sector of the island of New York. Now; Actors, Directors and Dancers 20

have begun to make their home in the left off post industrial buildings. As the community grows, a need to create urban notes; which are tailor to a film orientated community; raises.

Pelicula, seek to response to this social hunger for space.

With the help of Canal Park as a vanish point and housing multiple spaces for the industry of films.

PELICULA

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CRITIC: DONNA COHEN

SITE STRATEGY Canal Park is surround and trap by high velocity vehicles. Making it an undesirable location to visit or gather. Taking this parameter into notion, a need to slow down the movement of the site is required before anything. The incision of a white facade where films can be projected will start creating a focus point to pause or slow down. Plus, it will be orientated toward Canal Park. Introducing, a function to the park.

PUBLIC SPACE:

SHARED SPACE: 31,725 SQ/FT

PRIVATE SPACE: 164,970 SQ/FT

PERFORMANCE SETS:

82,530 SQ/FT 49,518 SQ/FT

RETAIL-MARKET:

18,862 SQFT

37 MICRO APTS:

250 NSF

MUSEUM SPACE:

20,635 SQ/FT

RESTAURANTS:

11,103 SQ/FT

15 STUDIOS APTS:

450 NSF

22 ONE-BED APTS:

600 NSF

RECREATIONAL SPACE:08,253 SQ/FT LOBBY SPACE:

SMALL KIOSK:

04,758 SQ/FT

08,253 SQ/FT

12 TWO-BED APTS: 08 THREE-BED APTS:

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750 NSF 1,000 NSF

PARTNER : FELIPE HERNANDEZ

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TRIBECA, NEW YORK

PUBLIC SPACE

RESIDENTIAL

CIRCULATION

STRUCTURE

Inside Pelicula, two in-house theaters can be rented out to the community. The lower theater, is capable of projecting and showcasing digital films. While the upper theater is suited for performance spaces. Using Manhattan as a background, and a light shaft as a natural spot light. Addition pots of spaces will be tide in

SKIN PLATES

SKIN STRUCTURE

with a control public circulation system. It will begin at canal park with a bridged. From there a multiple of slow and medium speed ramps and stair will capitalizes in the notion of transition of spaces or scenes. Last, the upper sector of pelicula will be resident for directors, actors and dancers.

PELICULA

LIGHT FENESTRATION

PERFORMANCE SPACE OUTDOOR SPACE

FILM PANEL

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APPLICATION

SHIP SHOP HARVARD / RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS / CAMBRIDGE, MA

SMARTPHONE APPLICATION & LIVE INSTALLATION

How do I know what I order online will fit me? Ship shop is an application which connects small retailers which can’t afford a brick and mortar store with clients which would like to try an item before committing to a purchase. In the era of online shopping, returns are becoming an normality, as the constant digital confusion of digital rendition which are unable to provide the certainty that brick and mortar store use to provide.

ONLINE RETAILER CAN’T AFFORD BRICK AND MORTAR STORE

PRODUCT

INVENTORY

CLIENT WOULD LIKE TO TRY A PRODUCT

SHIP SHOP SIGN

BROWSE

MOVING TRY-ON STORE PROVIDE SPACE TO TRYON AND PROTECT FROM ITEM FROM DAMAGE

INTERIOR OF SHIPSHOP

As an experience prototype, a u-haul truck was rented and retrofitted to be used as a canvas for the idea of a movable try-on space.

The U-Hail was cover in paper mache to cover the actual U-Haul truck.

As an experience prototype, the inside of the U-Haul was retrofitted with paper mache and hard lights were introduce to create an memorable retail experience.

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APPLICATION WIREFRAME

SHOPPER

RETAILER SHOPPER RETAILER

Denise

SHIP SHOP

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BOPUS : DELIVERY SYSTEM Unfortunately today, e-commerce generates a lower operating profit for us than four-wall, brick-and-mortar. We think over time that will reverse itself but...when the consumer requires free delivery, free return, wonderful packaging, plus thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new trend that people are buying multiple sizes of things to try them at home and then return them, that all is a negative headwinds for us.

John Idol, CEO of Michael Kors in 2016 Bloomberg story

ITEMS PURCHASED ONLINE WHICH ARE RETURNED

WHAT DO PEOPLE RETURN?

ITEMS PURCHASED IN STORES WHICH ARE RETURNED

CUSTOMERS DEFERRED BY LACK OF FREE RETURN OPTIONS WHY? MORE LIKELY TO BUY IF CAN RETURN IN-STORE

CRITICS : ALLEN SAYEGH / STEFANO ANDREANI

LOSS IN RETURNS COSTS OF UK RETAILERS

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PARTNERS : NADA ALQALLAF / DANIELLE ASPITZ / KAREN MATA

time until return to retailer

sold

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CHAPEL

VERTICAL VESSEL UF / DESIGN 8 / GAINESVILLE, FL

ARCHITECTURAL PAVILION

On the surface of Lake Alice, a vertical wooden vessel can be found. The Pagan Chapel is conceal for the necessity of the God of the Sea (Poseidon) and the God of the Sun (Apollo) to dialog. The result is a Vessel that through form and tectonic expression connects and creates a transition between the water and the sky.

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VERTICAL VESSEL

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SEEKING FORM

VESSEL FORM

CRITIC : ALFONSO PEREZ

A series of sketches start to seek the sociological form of a temple. Thought multiple iterations, the result start to yield the idea of a “Vessel”. Plus the idea of “Verticality” through tectonics + reflections + form.

VERTICALITY TECTONIC + REFLECTION

PROGRAM WATER + SKY

The Vessel contains two spaces: the lower floor is a place for the connection of water, it provides views only into Lake Alice and an internal fountain. The upper floor is about the connection of the Sun. Therefore it is flooded with skylights and light shafts that continue down into the lower floor. Both spaces are connected by a physical element (stair) and an ethereal element (light shaft).

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VERTICAL VESSEL

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GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA

CROSS SECTION

UPPER PLAN

AXONOMETRIC ASSEMBLY The construction of the Chapel seeks the expression of verticality.

Wrapping the vessel with the use of vertical metal structure and vertical wood panels. The exterior and interior image of the chapel is a connection from the water to the sky.

LOWER PLAN

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION

VERTICAL VESSEL

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FABRICATION

HOUSE ZERO HARVARD / INSTALLATION / CAMBRIDGE, MA Working with a team; designed the structural system, fabricated all the parts and pre-assembled a hexagon panel system inside The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) headquarter, House Zero. The project involves coordinating with Snohetta, the Architect. Designing and fabricating the panels with the use of CNC Routing, coordinating with supplier for recyclable cotton insulation and non-petroleum base hardware attachment, and pre-assembling each panel before coordinating it installation inside the House Zero.

HEXAGON PANEL SYSTEM

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BASEMENT

MID LEVEL

PHONE BOOTH

UPPER LEVEL

PLYWOOD PANELS

COTTON INSULATION

PLYWOOD FRAME

PLYWOOD ANGLE

PLYWOOD FRAME

PLYWOOD RING

STAIR WELL INSTALLATION

METAL FASTENER

September 2017 - July 2018 - Cambridge

HOUSE ZERO

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SKYLIGHT

GRASSHOPPER STRUCTURAL FABRICATION

STAIRWELL

PHONE BOOTH

BASEMENT BENCH

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TEAM : CALEB MARHOOVER / IAIN GORDON / PARIS NELSON / ALEX TIMMER

BOOTH PHONE

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BLOCK

MECHANICAL GARDEN UF / DESIGN 7 / CHELSEA, NY

within the meat packing districts. Now, it has evolved into a living thread of botanical gardens in West Chelsea. With the Highline, a visual language can be abstracted and translated into an architectural tectonics + a strategy for the organization of space.

MASTER PLAN BLOCK

While the components of cultural and historical identity exist, the community of West Chelsea lacks a developed visual architectural expression.

Gentrification speculates on this visual absence, with the Highline being the most prominent rendition. The elevated railroad infrastructure that was used as a form of transportation of goods

RESIDENTIAL + OPEN SPACES

PEDESTRIAN + VEHICULAR

SITE STUDY COMPOSITE

COMMERCIAL + INSTITUTIONAL

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MECHANICAL GARDEN

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CRITIC : DONNA COHEN

VERTICAL GARDENS EMERGING FROM THE INDUSTRY Ground plan and vines botanical garden. The Mechanical Gardens is an interactive location where one can live, work, learn, reflect, and plant. The Industrial community of the meat market (west Chelsea) is now introduced to an organizational infrastructure which places it underground, and flourishes as vertical gardens into the block.

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GROUND PLAN 10 AVE

KEYGEN BOTANICAL GARDEN 1A

HANGING VINES

1B

RAIN FOREST

1C

BUTTERFLIES

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SEASONAL

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12 CROSS SECTION PERMACULTURE

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PERMACULTURE

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OBSERVATORIES

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ENTRANCE

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RESIDENCE

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OFFICE

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THEATER

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GALLERY

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STUDIO

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RETAIL

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MARKET

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CAFE

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FOOD COURT

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PARKING

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BATHROOMS

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MECHANICAL

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WATER COLLECTIONS

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TANKS

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HIGH LINE FACILITY

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11 AVE EVENT SPACES

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CROSS SECTION GALLERIES

MECHANICAL GARDEN

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28 ST

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION

HIGH LINE VANTAGE POINT

west side (11ave + 29 st) of the block attracts the pedestrian with an open (nature sculpture) gallery to the street edge.

a residential tower with observatory pockets, the theater and two botanical garden are added to the horizon of the High Line at the level of 28st.

WEST CHELSEA, NEW YORK

GALLERIES + OFFICE

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east side (10ave + 28st) of the block hold a permaculture botanical garden + markets that sells produce to the pedestrians of west chelsea + residence of the tower.

MECHANICAL GARDEN

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SEASONAL FAUNA: ATTRACTS BUTTERFLIES

PERMACULTURE: EATABLE VEGETABLES HOURS

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EXOTIC FAUNA: VISUAL STRIKING

SUMMER VINES: CAPABLE OF ATTACHING

ECOLOGY AND DESIGN

SOLAR a series of studies were conducted to determinate the dimension of the botanical gardens + carve out any residue that would have affected the quality and amount of light receive in each botanical.

VEGETATION An ecology of plants were research to select the appropriated fauna for the environmental conditions of West Chelsea. While still considering the different seasons throughout the year.

CROSS SECTION + SUBTERRANEAN PERSPECTIVE: HANGING VINES hanging vines + seasonal botanical garden are open to the air, divide by the center axial circulation of the block and seats on top of the subterranean industrial factory. The infrastructure blends into the branches of the vines. While supplementing a system of water collection and distribution.

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MECHANICAL GARDEN

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INFRASTRUCTURE GREEN HOUSE

CROSS SECTION + CONTEXT PERSPECTIVE: RAIN FOREST

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MECHANICAL GARDEN

rain forest + butterflies botanical garden introduces an exotic experience to the residence of west chelsea. multiple vanish points are experience by weaving in and out as the visitor moves up in the rain forest b.g. + a system of water holes emulate rain and sustain the fauna.

GIS PROCESSING SIMULATION

CAFEINA HARVARD / CARTOGRAPHY / ETHIOPIA COMMUNITY

Coffea Arabica is a three channel simulation of the effects of climate change on coffee plant growth, epidemiology, and path to market.

Coffee bean production makes up to ten percent of Ethiopia’s GDP (881 million in 2016). Forty-one percent of Ethiopia’s coffee is grown in wild forest and semi-forest, rather than plantation monucultures. This wild genetic stock also holds importance for the future of the beverage: genetic diversity safeguards against the spread of pest and disease epidemics, and directly relates to a diversity of future flavor profiles, which in turns effects future markets.

REGIONAL

At the plant community scale the model simulates the relationship between plant density and the spread of disease.

Each agent evaluates the distance between one member to another, if they are at a range which deems close enough for disease to transfer, the agents is consider infected. Each agent healthy and infected has a lifespan.

REGIONAL At the regional scale, coffee plants are born in forest and semi-forest covered areas. As climate change shifts hardiness zones to higher elevations, the coffee plant’s habitat migrates with it. Plantations are constructed in proximity to wild plant populations and will therefore shift with them, but they must also optimize their location with respect to existing road (export) infrastructure. This model would imply that land ownership might be rethought of as a title to a vector of migration, rather than a set polygon.

NATIONAL The national scale simulation depicts flows of coffee crops to market through a network of road and rail infrastructure. Routes to market shift according to the migration of coffee plant habitats, which can be used as a tool to predict how to best invest in road networks.

NATIONAL

CODE JAVA PROCESSING

COMMUNITY

CELLULAR AUTOMATON was use as a logic to constructed the processing code to simulate, where a LATTICE is the raster data, the CELL is the object agent and the NEIGHBORHOOD acted upon the agent.

EMPTY SICK HEALTHY LATTICE

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GOOD QUALITY

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TIME STORE

deteriorate CAFEINA

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capital

Price of Coffee Beam

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ELEVATION MIGRATION OF COFFEE PLANT + PLANTATION POTENTIAL

ELEVATION RANGE

DEM (digital elevation model) was divide from white to black.

White as highest altitude and black as the lowest altitude in the selected region. As time frames change, the range from which the agents are able to spawn changes to a higher elevation.

PLANTATION POTENTIAL

PLANT COMMUNITY

CRITIC : ROBERT PIETRUSKO

EROSION RANGE

ELEVATION BARRIERS

PLANTATION

Erosion Geographical Data was divide from largest square footage to smallest square footage. Every 50 frames, one of the ranges impacted in the agents by the removal from the simulation. Thus emulating erosion patterns.

DEAD ZONE

FOREST RANGE

Existing Forest Range Data was divide from greenest pixel to transparent (absent of vegetation). The spawn of agent was only limited to green pixel location. The greener the pixel, the faster the duplication (grow) of the agents.

Existing Road infrastructure, a 2km buffer zone around the road networks was establish. Any large density of agents within a 2km of a road system will establish a potential for a plantation to emerge. (signify by a magenta + sign)

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PARTNER : AARON HILL

FRAME 01

FRAME 87

FRAME 145

FRAME 250

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FRAME 374

FRAME 496

DATA SERVER & COLUMBARIUM

BITS AND ASHES HARVARD / THESIS / MIAMI BEACH, FL

BLACK MIRROR CASE

“The list of contacts in my smartphone’s address book has over a thousand entries. This is the result of an accumulation of almost two decades of collecting. It covers five cities, four schools, and three jobs. As I begin tapping the name of one entry, I get suggested several others. Maybe a former high school friend, though we no longer talk. Or the number of a mechanic, even though I no longer have a car. There are some names I just can’t situate. And, perhaps, someone that is no longer with us. I might take a moment to erase one or more of these entries from the past. But not the ones of the departed.

Those I keep.”

Written (language) (message)

Visual (sight) (photographs)

Audio (vocal) (voicemail)

VISUAL AUDIO WRITTEN

PHYSICALITY

DISEMBODIMENT

DIGITALIZATION

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RECOLLECTING

NEW CONTEXT

EVENT NEW MEMORY

COLLECTING

MEMORY STORAGE

RE RE COLLECTING

FREDERIC BARTLETT : WHAT ARE MEMORY?

DIGITAL MEMORY

‘Remembering is not the re- excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces.

It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience’

FORGET

ESSENCE

DETACHMENT

REMEMBER

FREUD

DERRIDA

SIGMUND FREUD VS JACQUES DERRIDA : THE WORK OF MOURNING How does mourning work? if perhaps, a subject of much debate among scholars. I would like to introduce three modes of mourning. First, I consider Sigmund Freud’s discussion in “Mourning and Melancholia”. Next, I look at Roland Barthes, whose book on photography, Camera Lucida, is itself a work of mourning for his late mother. Finally, Jacques Derrida, who in The Work of Mourning memorializes departed friends and describes the ambiguities of mourning that constrain us.

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DEATH = NORMAL EARLY CIVILIZATION

BLACK PLAGUE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION DEATH = ILLNESS 1300’S

BITS AND ASHES

HYPER IDENTITY 1500’S

NECROPOLIS

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CEMETERY AS PUBLIC PARK 1800’S

1902

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CREMATION ACT OF 1902

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VATICAN ACCEPTS CREMATION POPULARIZATION 1960’S

PORTABLE

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CEMETERY

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BITS AND ASHES

PARK SPACE I

PARK SPACE II

PARK SPACE III

PARK SPACE IV

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PARK SPACE V

PARK SPACE VI

ROBOT TOWER

ADVISORS : ANDREW WITT / JEFFREY SCHNAPP

IND. DOWNLOAD

AUDIO RECORD

BLUETOOTH TOWER

GROUP DOWNLOAD

3D SCAN

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CREMATORIUM VIEWING

NICHES

PALLBEARER

PRESENTATION

IND. SPACE

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BITS AND ASHES

GROUP SPACE

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA

RINGS

EDGES

SUBDIVIDE

CIRCULATION RINGS + MAIN AXIS

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TO ASHES The precession from body to ashes, begins through a digital corridor of mechanics, turns into a dark galaxy of blinking lights, where the data of past users remains, upon entering the crematorium, the furnace is cover with a backdrop of servers, lights display the continuation of life.

CORRIDOR

ENTRANCE FURNACE

CREMATORIUM

The niches cover the peripheral of the Ark, the organization of the columbarium absorb all the light of the surrounding, while creates a thermal buffer zone from the outside for the data servers.

VISITATION SOLO

VISITATION GROUP

URNS WORKSHOP

VISIT The niches cover the peripheral of the Ark, the organization of the columbarium creates spaces for visiting. from intimate spaces where one can remember, to group areas for a communal remembrance. The Ark has a space for the creation of the digital urns.

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BITS AND ASHES

NICHES

NICHES AND SERVERS

PIXEL SORT AND BIT ROT

The niches and the server collage between each other, creating movements where the physicality of and the digitalized of memories can be seen together, as a acceptance of the new augmentation of the dominion of the dead.

HANGING URNS

FUNERAL

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TO BITS The Ark provides for a space for information technology (IT). Places to download the digital memories and to maintain their continuation.

Create a new type of clergyman, a Digital Clergyman.

DOWNLOADING

HANGING URNS

TECH

BITS AND ASHES

VOLUME

ELEVATE

SUBDIVIDE

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DENSIFY

DIGITAL MEMORY ARK

GRID SYSTEM

NICHES

SERVERS

ROBOTS

As the Ark grows in memories, it accumulation of urns and hardrives, niches and server, falls and rises to the earth and the sky.

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MARTIN IGNACIO FERNANDEZ KMARTINF@GMAIL.COM