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“Working Title, But It May Stay”
Available to Peruse Rooms With a View |Coiled Clay | Peng Ting |A Tale of Ann Arbor City Hall in 12 Stories | Digital Folds, Table’d |Gables, Bumps, and Lumps | Surface Ex_Tension Instructors Arash Adel, Elizabeth Gálvez, Jeff Halstead, Mick Kennedy, Perry Kulper, Kit McCullough, Asa Peller, Glenn Wilcox
AVAILABLE TO PERUSE Academic Rooms With a View | 5 Coiled Clay | 15 Peng Ting | 21 A Tale of Ann Arbor City Hall in 12 Stories | 27 Digital Folds, Table’d | 37 Gables, Bumps, and Lumps | 41 Competition Surface Ex_Tension | 53
ROOMS WITH A VIEW Professor: Jeff Halstead Winter 2019
“Rooms with a View” is a series of explorations regarding encasement in and as the environment. The objects and homes have been rendered with wax and plastic materiality to further illustrate the condition of the encasement. These two materials have been selected as a complement to one another. This idea of encasement is an extension of Jeff Koons’s vitrines and spins off of Jacques Tati’s method of staging and worldmaking in his film “Playtime.” The methodology for constructing the homes is based on taking domestic qualities of modernism and postmodernism and reappropriating their facades by folding, sculpting, and mixing. This process mixes the familiar with the unfamiliar. This idea of familiarity
continues as the interior rooms are staged and showcased within vitrines. The plastic objects occupy the space in a curated manner that can only exist as a displayed scene. This presentation space is now more than a room and is an example of the perfection of retail display. Similar to an experience at IKEA in which every object on display looks beautiful when staged together, but when the objects are separated, they lose the glamour that existed when playing a part in the composition as a whole. Exploration continued by investigating the difference between the digital vitreous versus the physical vitreous once the studio began to marry digital models with the physical.
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Rooms with a View Axon
Axon Index 7
Interior Render
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Site Axon
Interior Render Index 11
Physical Model
(Top) Final Review Pin Up : (Bottom) Shot of Interior Physical Model 13
COILED CLAY
Design Team: Luis Arjona | Areeba Bawani | Allison Booth Professors: Arash Adel | Asa Peller Winter 2019 A continuation from the computation design workshop instructed by Arash Adel, this fabrication section focused on the marriage of computation and domestic objects. The project was to create several vessels using Grasshopper or Python scripting. Using the KUKA robots in the FABLab, 3D prints were created from the scripted geometry.
The catalog of vessels demonstrates a formal exploration using scripts to produce small scale objects. Printing on the KUKA exemplifies overcoming the fear of messing up expensive equipment through the tutelage of Asa Peller.
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Image of Vessel #1
Image of Vessel #2 17
Family of Vessels (Including Partner Work)
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PENG TING
Design Team: Luis Arjona | Jonathan Craig Professor: Glenn Wilcox Winter 2020 Peng Ting is a generative design exercise stemming from the project team’s desire to create a python script capable of creating varying formal studies for an architectural typology. Choosing the column as our typology, we were interested in its historical evolution. The functional responsibilities of providing structural support were embellished through ornamentation and became a form of cultural expression. Using python scripting, we wanted to explore possible column formations using data sets to experiment with control and geometry. Peng Ting was developed in a computational design course aimed at integrating code with
architectural education. Beginning with the structure of Ezio Blasetti’s script based on visualizing John Conway’s Game of Life algorithm, Peng Ting pushed Blasetti’s work to create organic geometries. The work’s inspiration comes from Marc Fornes’ office THEVERYMANY and their use of computation for self-supporting structures and pavilions. Peng Ting is capable of generating a new form with each execution. Though we were under no illusions that we were creating functional columns, the realized geometries offered a unique insight into codifying structures and the problems that persist in controlling outcomes through chance and rule sets.
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Axon
00. Set Parameters
01. Create Rule Set
02. Apply in 3D
03. Collect Centroids
04. Isolate Centroids
05. Populate Quadrants
06. Create Mesh
Diagrams of Process 23
Index of Forms
Index of Forms 25
Ryan, we’re happy to have you. We have a desk set up for you. It’s towards the back marked with a black flag. Shouldn’t take you long to get settled.
A TALE OF ANN ARBOR CITY HALL IN 12 STORIES Professor: Liz Gálvez Fall 2018
City hall has a preconceived notion of being a space of civic engagement. One would think the public land dedicated to servicing constituents would create a welcoming structure for the public. An example of how Ann Arbor’s city hall is a space of civic engagement can be exemplified by a woman’s daily use of the building. The mayor stated that the building is exceptional in creating public space since a woman shows up every day around noon to sit on the only bench in the lobby by the outlet to charge her phone. The mayor even stated that the building should be a bit less open to the public, which is ironic when we
were the only guests in the city hall at the time. After meeting with the mayor and staff, I was a bit uninspired. Compared to monumental city halls throughout Europe where they are staples of the city, US cities cannot compare. In an attempt to synthesize the current ideologies exemplified in Ann Arbor (in my opinion) The building is designed to where each floor has its program designed through absurdity. From the staircase to the restrooms, some program was designed to promote efficiency, civic engagement, or promote ideologies analyzed from the meeting with the mayor and staff.
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second story // “reception”
first story // “lobby”
fourth story // “city council chambers”
third story // “mayor’s office”
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sixth story // “restrooms”
fifth story // “parking tickets”
eighth story // “executive offices”
seventh story // “office space”
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tenth story // “waiting”
ninth story // “storage”
twelfth story // “chapel”
eleventh story // “protest”
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north elevation
(Left) North Elevation : (Right) East Elevation
east elevation
west elevation
section
(Left) West Elevation : (Right) East - West Section 35
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DIGITAL FOLDS, TABLE’D Professor: Perry Kulper Fall 2018
This representation exercise explores world-making by using kitbashing to establish complex relationships through found material, work on scalar functions, move between the graphic and material, and to establish a sense of indeterminacy through construction logics. The scene, inspired by Mark Foster Gage, represents dependence on media. Held up by an iPhone, there are minarets created by digital content through kitbashing.
The animals represent the current dependence on forms of entertainment being worshiped as media minarets. Behind the animals are creatures preying upon the distracted population representing malicious actions that occur due to lack of knowledge due to the focus being media. As an ode to surrealism, hints of Magritte and M.C. Escher can be found before reaching the background, which illustrates a glitch and the battle of realities.
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Topiary Garden Render
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GABLES, BUMPS, AND LUMPS
Design Team: Luis Arjona | Christian Austin | Abby Stock Professors: Kit McCullough | Mick Kennedy Fall 2019
The vast majority of Detroit’s housing stock is single-family housing. Although these homes used to exist in density, the single-family home is suited towards a suburban density and is subjectively inappropriate for an urban context. Gables, Bumps, and Lumps is critical of both the single-family home that is so familiar to Detroit and the midrise apartment that has appeared indiscriminately in cities across the country, including Detroit. Both of these models seem to individualize the living experience, instead of taking advantage of the economy of shared amenities and resources. Our “missing middle” approach seeks to balance the economy with craft and existing lifestyles with new ones. The economy of the row house allows for high attention to the craft of a single building that can be duplicated across the site. The arrangement of row houses on our site takes advantage of skewing the buildings to insert
space for retail, shared yards and porches, and a more varied front/ back condition. With a standardized multi-unit and co-living floor plan, each building receives an identity with one of 5 different roof profiles. The buildings are then clad in stucco with a high relief texture built up with rigid insulation. Finally, the window placement on the facade allows for a variety of both exterior appearance and interior space. While the economy of the standardized architecture and the collectivity of experience provide consistency, these moves in the site arrangement, roofline, and facade treatment provide variety and identity into the living experience. Value is lost when things are made strict but gained when collectivity offers economy and when craft makes new buildings positively distinguishable. This project argues that the popular legibility of buildings empowers architects more than obscure architectural goals.
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SITE
SUBDIVIDE
SKEW
INSERT
IDENTIFY
Parti Diagrams
Watson St
115’
100’ Dubois St
St Aubin St
325’
7’ 6’
200’
Wilkins St
440’
1/16” = 1’-0” Site Plan
Site Plan 43
The Loaf
(Top) Roof Section Catalog : (Bottom) Site Elevation
The Bump
The Tooth
The Gable
The Swoop
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Interior Renderings (Done By Partner)
Sloped Parapet Cap Flashing Roof Overhang beyond
Roof Membrane
Steel Bracket Rigid Insulation
5/8” Gyp. CLT Panel Stucco Metal Lath 2x Blocking Sealant
2x Blocking Finished Sill CLT Panel
Extruded Window Surround
Sealant 2x Blocking 5/8” Gyp. CLT Panel Metal Lath Finish Floor
Rigid Wood Fibre Insulation CLT Floor
Sloped Stucco Sill Rigid Insulation Stucco Finish
Moisture Barrier Steel Plate Concrete Curb w/ Plate Concrete Slab
Backfill Concrete Footing
Wall Section (Done by Partner) N.T.S Wall Section
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Stucco Dormer
Glulam Rafters
Glulam rafter CLT Exterior Wall Assembly
Curved Skylight & Mullion System
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7 Standing Seam Metal Roof Textured Stucco Finish Dalmation
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In-set Window Frame
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Interior Gyp Finish Finished Interior CLT Wall Metal Clad Fireplace
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Extruded Window Frame
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Doll House Section (Done By Partner)
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Parapet Cap Textured Stucco Finish
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3 Room Legend 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Workshop / Kitchen Unit 2 Loft Unit Living / Common Basement / Storage Roof Deck Unit 3 Unit 1 Circulation
2 Materials Legend CLT Tile Metal Cladding
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Stucco Standing Seam
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1/2” = 1’-0” DollHouse Section
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Facade of Physical Model (Done By Partner)
Balcony of Physical Model (Done By Partner) 51
SURFACE EX_TENSION
Design Team: Luis Arjona | Jonathan Craig | Philip Elmore | Marco Nieto Arch Out Loud Director’s Choice Winner Fall 2020
Given the ever-changing and tempestuous conditions of our world today, it’s impossible to tell what our future might look like as climatic conditions continue to deteriorate. Our guess is as good as any, so all we can do is optimistically speculate, proact, and fantasize for the beginning of reconciliation with our ecology. SURFACE EX_TENSION aims to mitigate issues of coastal cultivation, over-population, expanding offshore aquaculture, climatic refugees, and other marina deficiencies. the following system is a proposal that is not tied to or constrained by a specific geography, but rather attaches itself to the edge condition of a landmass that is the coast. This allows SURFACE EX_TENSION to act as a metaphorical bridge
that links together unlike coasts and conditions through an adaptive and organized framework of industrial support structures that bolster social, economical, and commercial aspects to better serve both humans and nature. Reflecting on the hopes of creating symbiotic relationships through architecture, SURFACE EX_TENSION begs the question, “What does our future hold and how can we provide spaces that solve issues of climate collapse, increasing density, and territorial appropriation?” Perhaps rather than instituting a rigid set of criteria, a simple suggestion of malleability for climatic interventions can provide a platform for environments to seek the help they need.
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Site Section
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Floor Plans (Done by Partner): 1st Floor (Bottom), 2nd Floor (Middle), 3rd Floor (Top)
1st Level Rendering (Top), Greenhouse Rendering (Bottom) 57