ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO LEAH BALDOCCHI
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FALL 2020
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Projects
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Pavilion
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Light Space Modulator
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Puzzle
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Society of Rooms
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Mathematical Surfaces
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Beijing National Stadium Seating Study
Pavilion
Leah Baldocchi Fall 2020 Professor Mark Cottle
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The Pavilion project is located in Parc de Poblenou in Barcelona, Spain. It is a one story structure composed of nine spaces used for gathering, picnicking, meditation, etc. The structure’s main purpose is to provide shelter from sun and rain as it is completely open to the outdoors and does not require climate control. The plan was derived from a nine-square and the pavilion is composed of three sizes of brick arches.
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Light Space Modulator Leah Baldocchi Fall 2020 Professor Mark Cottle
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The purpose of the Light Space Modulator project was to create phenomenal light effects using only cardboard. The series of photos below shows one test of how ephemeral qualities can change as a light source is manipulated. With the movement of the light source around the cardboard model, new edges, faces, space and depth were revealed throughout the study. Some of the other qualities of light focused on in this project include light as a mass, movement of light and filtering of light.
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Puzzle
Leah Baldocchi Fall 2020 Professor Mark Cottle The Puzzle is an abstract structure designed within the boundaries of a precise list of given rules and constraints, including maximum overall volume and square footage, individual room volumes and the amount of rooms required. The approach was to create a system of spatial relationships, which are diagrammed to the left. Four families were derived from the square and folded in similar, yet unique ways to create a continuous cube of spaces defined by the chosen system. The floor plates were extruded upward until they were capped off by another floor plate above. This system of design created very intriguing spaces that could become light shafts or atriums.
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FAMILY 1
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FAMILY 2
FAMILY 3 -TWO FOLDS
FAMILY 4 -ONE FOLD
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Society of Rooms
Leah Baldocchi Fall 2020 Professor Mark Cottle
The Society of Rooms is a liberal arts education building in downtown Atlanta. It houses three programs: music, language and design. Some of the programs include chorus rooms, individual music practice rooms, classrooms and meeting rooms of various sizes, and painting and drawing studios. Similar to the Puzzle project, the design of this building began with a precise list of rules regarding room volumes, programs, and circulation. Fifty percent of the structure’s volume is made up of the dedicated spaces discussed previously. The other fifty percent of the volume is composed of circulation, gathering spaces, balconies, etc., referred to as the rooms of agreement. The rooms of agreement are exposed to the outdoor environment and require no climate control. The dedicated spaces, however, are treated as a normal building with air conditioning.
50% Diagram Blue: Dedicated Rooms Grey: Rooms of Agreement
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The system of organization employed in this project was created by a continuous circuit of ramps that weave and noodle through the dedicated spaces. The contradicting part of this system is that in the same way that the slope restrictions of the ramps formed the spaces dedicated to the specific programs, the square footage requirements of the dedication spaces also formed the location of the ramps. This building, essentially, is a fight between mass and void, or the dedicated spaces and the rooms of agreement, respectively.
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Structure Diagram
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Mathematical Surfaces Media and Modeling Leah Baldocchi Fall 2020 Professor James Park
Mobius Strip The Mobius strip is the most simple of the nonoriental mathematical shapes. The shape is composed of a single enclosed, continuous strip.
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Klein Surface The geometry shown above is the figure-eight version of the Klein surface. Like the Mobius strip, it is also a non-oriental mathematic shape.
Catenoid Helicoid The helicoid, after the plane and the catenoid, is the third minimal surface to be known. Its name derives from its similarity to the helix.
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Beijing National Stadium Seating Study Media and Modeling Leah Baldocchi Fall 2020 Professor James Park
The Beijing Olympic Stadium seating is composed around an ellipse that is about the size of a Olympic track, but a little wider measuring at 179 meters North to South and 130 meters East to West. Each bowl of the seating begins and ends around a variation of this ellipse. The variations are created by moving the ellipse up along the z-axis and scaling it by a certain factor. The diagram to the left illustrates, in section, the location of each ellipse that forms the seating (seen in red dots.) The black boxes represent the seating bowls and the black lines mark the placement of the boxed seating. Each ellipse is scaled by a single unique factor, except for the final ellipse that marks the top of the third bowl. This ellipse is scaled by one factor in the x direction and another in the y direction. The owner of the stadium originally wanted max capacity to be 100,000 people, but wanted to also minimize the distance of each viewer from the track while staying in a certain price range. Because these three factors contradict each other, the architect was only able to fit 91,000 seats in the design. The seating varaiations propsed in this study are driven by these three desires of the owner.
E8: scaled up from E6 by a factor of 1.065 in x direction and 1.243 in y direction
z = 50 m
z = 27.75 m z = 25 m z = 20 m z = 10 m z=7m z=0m
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E6 scaled down from E5 by a factor of 0.965 Edge of Box Seating
E5: scaled up from E3 by a factor of 1.211 E3: scaled down from E2 by a factor of 0.913
Edge of Box Seating
E2: scaled up from E1 by a factor of 1.291
Derivation
Step 1: Given To form the steating, start with plan of the track, field and ellipse to mark the beginning of the seating
Step 5: Loft Use the Loft component to create a surface for bowl two
Step 2: Move & Scale To form bowl one, use both the Move and Scale components to create ellipses that mark it’s beginning and end
Step 6: Move, Scale & Interpolate To form bowl three, use both the Move and Scale components to create ellipses that mark it’s beginning and end, then interpolate the top ellipse to create deformed bowl shape
Step 3: Loft Use the Loft component to create a surface for bowl one
Step 7: Loft Use the Loft component to create a surface for bowl three
Step 4: Move & Scale To form bowl two, use both the Move and Scale components to create ellipses that mark it’s beginning and end
Step 8: Extrude Use the Extrude component to thicken the loft downward
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Step 9: Radial Use Radial component to mark bowl entries
ORIGINAL Capacity: 91,000 people Bowl 1 Slope: 0.3 Bowl 2 Slope: 0.4 Bowl 3 Slope: 0.75 and 0.2
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Step 10: Offset Use Offset component to mark opening width of entrances
Step 11: Project - Final Seating Arrangement Use Project component to project the offset lines onto the extrusion
01 VARIATION Capacity: 91,000 people Scale compnent used on height of bowls to allow for more people to sot closer to the field. This design allows for the desired visual quality by moving more people to bowl 1, closer to the field. Bowl 1 Slope: 0.37 Bowl 2 Slope: .5 Bowl 3 Slope: 0.45 and 0.85
02 VARIATION Capacity: 109,200 people Scale component used in z direction at a factor of 1.2 units This design allows for the desired capacity of 100,000 plus people. Bowl 1 Slope: 0.3 Bowl 2 Slope: 0.35 Bowl 3 Slope: 0.25 and 0.8
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