Margaret Kirk portfolio

M A R G A R E T

K I R K

Emergent within architecture is a receptor developed from integrated technology.

A feedback loop is emergent, evolving morphogenesis, utilizing a bottom-up design process. The inverted volumetric employs technology/ information through digitally generated architecture to expose surface and volume. The spatiality of amorphic space posits architecture as the receptor, autonomous and selfmaintaining in repair, defense, control, and improvement- key to its enduring legacy.

Mutual intercommunication is intrinsic to the development of the architecture between spatial analysis and material.

Projections upon development are transformative as opposed to destructive.

Knowledge is an open-sourced, organic process...

Inherent spatial and formal complexity are developed from withinthe collaboration and combination of material and technology/ information

-from lecture Amorphic Space, M. Kirk (2020)

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Summary of Experience

Margaret Kirk

08.2003 - 02.2005

M.ARCH Pratt Institute

09.1997 - 08.2002

B.ARCH Syracuse University

AIA | M. ARCH | NCARB | CPHC

08.2000 - 05.2001

Syracuse University Florence, Italy

09.2005 - PRESENT

Academic Experience

05.1998 - PRESENT

Professional Experience

01.2010 - PRESENT

Editorial Experience

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-kirk-aia-ncarb-cphc-27089aa/ Academia: https://calpoly.academia.edu/MargaretKirk?from_navbar=true (Personal Research) BURO. bureau: https://burobureau.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buro_bureau_/

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

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Licensed Architect in New York with 20+ years of experience on domestic and international projects. Accomplished practitioner with built work ranging from installations and new construction in New York City to luxury ecoresorts in Maharashtra, India Collaborated with high-profile and celebrity clients. Projects as filming location for awardwinning scripted series NCARB certified, certified PHIUS CPHC consultant promoting net-zero and highperformance building as an industry standard while investigating post-disaster, resilient construction Focused on the art of spatial design, spatial composition, and the built world as an experienced interface connecting unique, inclusionary, and diverse spaces to distinct sites 4 / Left

While digital design offers the direct connection to fabrication and experimentation, positioning the architect within an integrated bespoke process of invention, technology integrated in the design process- profoundly affects the entire spatial relationship with context necessitating its own language- the derivative of the context in which it is integrated Right /

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Professional Work

St Leo Road Apartments

SERVING AS A BEACON FROM THE ARABIAN SEA, THIS RESIDENTIAL TOWER FOR CORPORATE APARTMENTS EXPLORES THE BUILDING THRESHOLD, BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR WITH CONNECTED VIEWS TO ITS CONTEXT AND THE SEA VIA AN OPEN-AIR POOL, INTRUDING FORMALLY UPON THE GROUND LEVEL AND

LOCATION Mumbai India

DISINTEGRATING THE PHYSICAL BOUNDARY BY

WAY OF A PERFORATED, CUSTOM METAL SCREEN

Project Status

: Completed

Firm

: Khanna Schultz

Project Year

: 2003

Role

: Project Manager/ Project Architect

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St Leo Road Apartments

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Professional Work

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441 East 57th Street

Professional Work

New York City New York

CONCEIVED

AS

A

VERTICAL

ROW

HOUSE

BLOCK

OF

NEW YORK CITY

VERNACULAR, THIS SMART BUILDING IS EQUIPPED WITH A VIRTUAL DOORMAN,

24-HOUR

CONCIERGE, AND OTHER AMENITIES,

RAINSCREEN

FACADE

SERVES

AS

A

THE

COMMENTARY

CUSTOM FRITTED GLASS ON

TRADITIONAL

BRICK,

TESTING PATTERN AND MODULARITY IN BUILDING MATERIAL AESTHETIC IN A TONY

NYC

Project Status

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NEIGHBORHOOD

: Completed

Project Year

: 2010

Firm

: Flank

Role

: Project Manager/ Project Architect

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441 East 57th St

Professional Work

New York City New York

Project Status

: Completed

Project Year

: 2010

Firm

: Flank

Role

: Project Manager/ Project Architect

THE

FRIT PATTERN OF THE CUSTOM FACADE WAS INTRICATELY DESIGNED TO A FRACTION OF AN INCH

SPANNING ACROSS THE FACADE PANELS OF VARIOUS SHAPES AND SIZES, SEAMLESSLY. CONSIDERED

AND

INCORPORATED

NESTED APARTMENT UNIT.

FRONT,

THE

COORDINATION

WITH

THE

METAL

PANELS

WHICH

THIS

PATTERN

DELINEATE

EACH

FACADE WAS DEVELOPED WITH THE RENOWNED FACADE CONSULTANT,

AND REQUIRED A MOCK-UP AND INSPECTION IN

SHENZHEN, CHINA.

Mock-up

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: Shenzhen, China

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Hilton Shillim Estate Retreat and Spa Eco-Resort Shilimb, Maharashtra India

Project Status

: Completed

Project Year

: 2009

Firm

: Khanna Schultz

Role

: Project Architect

THE HILTON SHILLIM ESTATE RETREAT AND SPA IS LOCATED IN SHILIMB, A SMALL VILLAGE IN INDIA. THIS ECO-RESORT SOUGHT TO EMPLOY LOCAL ARTISANS AND CRAFTSMEN TO THE FULLEST EXTENT.

A

COMPLEX,

LARGE

IT

INCORPORATES

LODGING, KILNS FOR POTTERY CLASSES, MEETING CENTERS, AND THE FOR

CLASSES

SHILLIM INSTITUTE-

AND

COOKING

A LOCATION

DEMONSTRATIONS.

SPA

ROOMS OFFER PRIVATE APPOINTMENTS WHILE

THE

LARGER

SITE

OFFERS

CONSTRUCTED

USING

METHODOLOGIES

AND

FIVE-STAR TO

THE

RESORT CULTURE,

BREATHTAKING

VERNACULAR NATURAL

PROMOTES THE

VIEWS.

BUILDING

MATERIALS, THE

THIS

CONNECTION

LANDSCAPE,

AND

THE

ENVIRONMENT OF THIS UNIQUE REGION.

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LOCATED

Professional Work

SEQIUM, WASHINGTON ON THE SALISH SEA, THIS SINGLEFAMILY HOUSE EMPLOYS NET-ZERO, HIGH PERFORMANCE CONSTRUCTION WHILE PAYING HOMAGE TO THE SURROUNDING SITE. THE FORM WAS DERIVED FROM CONNECTIONS TO OUTSIDE

OF

Project Status

: Unbuilt/ Formerly ‘on-the-books’

Project Year

: 2021

Firm

:officeKRK

Role

: Architect

THE NATURAL SURROUNDINGS OF THE SITE WHILE THE APERTURES ARE DESIGNED TO THE SOLAR PATH THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND YEAR EXAMINING THE EXPERIENCE OF THE CONNECTED FORM OF ARCHITECTURE WITH SITE.

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Sequim Washington

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RE SEARCH

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The inverted volumetric Where digitally generated architecture employs technology to generate surface and volume,and the spatiality of amorphic space posits architecture as the receptor- evolving to be autonomous and self-maintaining in repair, defense, control, and improvement- key to its survival as an organic and flexible system The feedback loop is intrinsic to the development of the architecture between spatial analysis and material (information). Projections upon development are transformative and knowledge is processed as an opensourced, materialization 20 / Left

Material technology as information, exposes novel understanding of intersections of transmission and reception, functions, trajectories, and spatial connection, promoting resiliency within the synthesis of technology and culture as an integrated architecture- connected and opportunistic

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Personal Research

Performative Surfaces and Nano/ Micro-grids THIS RESEARCH IS FUNDAMENTALLY PREDICATED ON THE COALESCENT HOMOGENEITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND

WITHIN THE NETWORK, ENTAILING AN EVOLUTION OF DESIGN THROUGH EXTRA- AND TRANS-DISCIPLINARY

ARCHITECTURE, EVOLVING THE PEDAGOGICAL FOUNDATION OF DESIGNING THE BUILT INTERFACE WITH THE

SYMBIOSIS.

SAME TRANSFORMATIONAL PROFUNDITY OF TECHNOLOGY WITH SOCIETY AND CULTURE. --STEMMING FROM THE INQUISITION OF URBAN SURFACES FOR WIND ENERGY COLLECTION, THIS STUDY DEVELOPS PERFORMATIVE SURFACES AS A DECENTRALIZED TECHNOLOGY EMPLOYING NANO- AND MICRO-GRIDS

INITIATING THE PROCESS, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE MOST APPROPRIATE PERFORMANCE FOR ENERGY

TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF ENERGY GENERATION AND LOCAL USE . THIS, IN TURN, TRANSCENDS

COLLECTION, GIVEN THE CONSTRAINTS, WAS TO EMPLOY ELECTRO-MAGNETICS.

THE TRADITIONAL DESIGN PROCESS DEBATING ARCHITECTURAL AESTHETIC, HISTORY, THEORY, AND SPATIAL RELATIONS WITH TECHNOLOGY ON SIMULTANEOUS SCALES OF MATERIAL LOGIC, GEOMETRY, AND SYSTEMIC

FROM THE INITIAL USE OF INDUCTORS, THE TECHNOLOGY EVOLVED TO PIEZO GENERATORS, A CUTTINGEDGE GENERATOR OFFERING THE GENERATION OF ENERGY FROM THE LEAST AMOUNT OF FORCE

Project Status : Ongoing

INTEGRATED INTO A SMALL AND FLEXIBLE FOOTPRINT. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROTOTYPE INVOLVED TESTING THE INTEGRATION OF THE PIEZO GENERATOR INTO A MATERIAL SYSTEM. INITIAL TESTING REVEALED THAT THE GENERATOR WORKED BEST IN A LIQUID MEDIUM. THE GENERATOR WAS INCORPORATED INTO A FLEXIBLE MATERIAL TO MIMIC THE RESISTANCE AND VISCOSITY OF THE LIQUID TO MAXIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND GAIN OPTIONAL ENERGY COLLECTION. AS A DESIGN PROCESS, THIS NECESSITATES EMERGENCE. WHERE TRADITIONAL DESIGN METHODOLOGIES

Testing Studies

EMPLOY A PROCESS WHICH IS DEPENDENT ON THE PREDISPOSED KNOWLEDGE OF THE DESIGNER AS A TOP-DOWN PROCESS, THIS DESIGN PROCESS NECESSITATES A BOTTOM-UP EVOLUTION, DISCOVERING AND DEVELOPING EMERGENT SYSTEMS WHERE PERFORMANCE IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE SYNTHESIS OF GEOMETRY, MATERIAL, AND PERFORMANCE.

PROCESSING. PROMOTING

THE

ARCHITECTURE ARE

POSED

THIS

REGARDING

PROCESS, THE

OF

RUMINATIONS

CAPABILITY

THE SUBSEQUENT ITERATIONS OF THIS RESEARCH IS EXPLORING THE INTEGRATION OF THE PIEZO GENERATORS INTO FIBER SYSTEMS, INCREASING PERFORMANCE.

OF

INTERACTION,

THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED THROUGH AWARDS FROM THE PRATT INSTITUTE AND CALIFORNIA

ACTIVATING A MORPHOGENESIS AS A COLLECTION OF

POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION FROM

CONCENTRATED SETS OF INFORMATION EMERGENT

AEROSPACE AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE

ARCHITECTURAL

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PER

RE-INSTITUTIONALIZATION

FORM,

AND

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIAL SCIENCE AT PENN STATE.

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Amorphic Space

[expansion of argument by E. Petit’s Spherical Penetrability: Literal And Phenomenal] [traditional mri scan of human brain | credit: stock photo]

[diffusion MRI scan of human brain | credit: Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 2011]

FUNCTION- OR, IN THIS CASE, A PROCESS THAT IS DISCONNECTED FROM THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORICAL LINEAGE. TO EVOLVE THE TABLE DEVELOPED BY PETIT, THROUGH ‘AMORPHIC SPACE’: POSITION OF THE ANALYST: INTEGRATED INTO THE SPATIAL DIAGRAM AS AN EXTENSION OF THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY, THE ANALYST, CONSTRUCTING THE SPATIAL CONDITION AS A RECEPTOR OF INFORMATION.

[mobius strip inspiration | credit: UNStudio]

[mapping of the mobius | credit: Wolfram’s MathWorld]

DIGITAL DESIGN OFFERS A DIRECT CONNECTION TO FABRICATION AND EXPERIMENTATION, POSITIONING THE ARCHITECT WITHIN AN INTEGRATED BESPOKE PROCESS OF INVENTION, TECHNOLOGY IN DESIGN- PROFOUNDLY AFFECTING THE ENTIRE SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH CONTEXT NECESSITATING ITS OWN LANGUAGE- THE DERIVATIVE OF THE CONTEXT IN WHICH IT IS INTEGRATED. |EXCERPTS AND EDITED FROM RESEARCH ESSAY ‘AMORPHIC SPACE’| HISTORICALLY AND THEORETICALLY, AN EMPHASIS ON THE THE TRADITIONAL ORDERING OF SPACE IN ARCHITECTURE HAS BEEN DEFINED BY THE FORMAL INFLUENCE OF THE GRID. COLIN ROWE FLATTENED THE ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION- COMPARED TO CUBISM- IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY HIS RATIONALE. EMMANUEL PETIT, IN HIS LOG JOURNAL ARTICLE SPHERICAL PENETRABILITY: LITERAL AND PHENOMENAL OUTLINED THE SPATIAL ANALYSES OF ROWE’S (AND ROBERT SLUTZSKY’S) PHENOMENAL TRANSPARENCY WITH HIS CRITICISMS AND ARGUMENT. PETIT’S RESPONSE REGARDS THE NUANCE OF DIGITAL FORM AND NOVEL FORMAL POSSIBILITIES. THE EXAMPLE OFFERED, IN PARTICULAR, IS UNSTUDIO’S MOBIUS HOUSE. PLACING THE MOBIUS AS THE FORMAL MANIFESTATION OF A MATHEMATICAL FORMULA, ROWE AND UNSTUDIO BOTH ADDRESS THE INFLUENCE OF MATHEMATICS IN ARCHITECTURE, PETIT’S ARGUMENT POSITS ROWE’S INVESTIGATION AS A FLAT, 2-DIMENSIONAL STUDY, WHILE THE STUDY OF THE MOBIUS IS VOLUMETRIC LOSING CARTESIAN DEFINITION, AND THUS, THE GRID. WHILE THE ARGUMENT MAY BE MODIFIED BETWEEN BOTH CRITICS, THESE ARGUMENTS PRESENT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AS FORMAL AND AUTONOMOUS UTILIZING A PRECONCEIVED PROCESS, FORM, OR RATIONALE FOR THE CREATION OF SPACE. WHAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY MISSING IS MATERIALITY, INTERACTIONS AND MATERIAL CONSTRAINTS WHICH REVEAL UNEXPOSED RELATIONS. CHANGING THE MATERIAL DEMONSTRATED A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE BRAIN, EXPOSING NEW FORMS AND NUANCE. TECHNOLOGY AS INFORMATION, MATERIALIZED, EXPOSES SITES OF INVESTIGATION WITH THE INTERSECTIONS OF TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION, FUNCTIONS, TRAJECTORIES, AND SPACE, PROMOTING RESILIENCY WHILE CREATING AN INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE OF CONNECTION AND OPPORTUNITY. ‘AMORPHIC SPACE’ HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN USED TO DESCRIBE HAVING A COMPLETE LOSS OF THE GENE

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SPATIALITY OF ANALYSIS: THE INVERTED VOLUMETRIC. WHERE DIGITALLY GENERATED ARCHITECTURE USED TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE SURFACE AND VOLUME, THE SPATIALITY

[Lebbeus Woods Diagram of the Future 1-8. c. 2010]

OF AMORPHIC SPACE POSITS ARCHITECTURE AS THE RECEPTOR, EVOLVING TO BE AUTONOMOUS AND SELFMAINTAINING IN REPAIR, DEFENSE, CONTROL, AND IMPROVEMENT- WHICH IS KEY TO ITS SURVIVAL AS AN ORGANIC AND FLEXIBLE, EVOLVING SYSTEM. A FEEDBACK LOOP IS INTRINSIC TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND MATERIAL. PROJECTIONS UPON DEVELOPMENT ARE TRANSFORMATIVE AS OPPOSED TO DESTRUCTIVE. KNOWLEDGE IS PROCESSED AS AN OPEN-SOURCED, ORGANIC PROCESS. LOGIC OF TRANSPARENCY: THE INHERENT SPATIALITY AND FORM FINDING IS DEVELOPED FROM WITHIN- THE COLLABORATION AND COMBINATION OF MATERIAL AND TECHNOLOGY/ INFORMATION. FUNDAMENTAL GEOMETRIC DISTINCTION: EMERGENT FROM THE ARCHITECTURE AS A RECEPTOR DEVELOPED FROM THE INTEGRATION WITH TECHNOLOGY. A FEEDBACK LOOP IS DEVELOPED, EVOLVING THE RESULTANT SHAPE. A BOTTOM-UP DESIGN PROCESS. AS THIS MODEL BREAKS FROM THE TRADITIONAL DOGMA OF DESIGN, THIS MODEL NECESSITATES THE INPUT OF INFORMATION, ITS MANIFESTATION THROUGH- AND DEVELOPMENT OF- MATERIAL SYNTAX OR SYSTEMS- AND THE FORMATION OF THE FEEDBACK LOOP FOR DEVELOPMENT AS AN AMALGAMATED WHOLE. YET, MATERIAL AS WE KNOW IT IS ALSO BEING EVOLVED TO LEVELS NOT PREVIOUSLY ACCESSED. THIS IS DUE TO THE PROXIMITY TO THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IS THE RESULT OF THE RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY THAT DIFFERS FROM OTHER PREVIOUS REVOLUTIONS IN SCALE, AMPLITUDE, AND COMPLEXITY. THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ENVELOPS THE EXPLOSION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROBOTICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NANOTECHNOLOGY, 3D PRINTING, QUANTUM COMPUTING, AND MORE. THE ARTIST, DANIEL LEE, CREATED THE MANIMAL- THE OUTPUT OF A MAN, LION AND SNAKE AS THE RESULT OF TECHNOLOGY (SOFTWARE).

THE UNIQUE IDENTITY OF THE PRODUCT, MANIMAL, IS THE SEAMLESSLY AMALGAMATED PARTS IN WHICH IT IS CHALLENGING, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE, TO FIND THE BOUNDARY/ LIMITS BETWEEN THE COMPONENT PARTS AND IN TURN A NEW BEING IS CREATED WITH ITS OWN UNIQUE TRAITS. IT IS ITS OWN CREATURE. I FIND INSPIRATION IN THIS EXAMPLE AS IT EXEMPLIFIES THIS MODEL OF AMORPHIC SPACE. A SUCCESSFUL MODEL CONCEALS THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN MATERIAL, FORM, AND PERFORMANCE, SO THAT THE WORK OF ARCHITECTURE SPAWNS ITS OWN TRAITS AND ACQUIRES ITS OWN CHARACTERISTICS.

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Educed Spiritualism Project Year

Personal Research

: 2020

Emma Kunz/ Work 307

“SHAPE AS

AND FORM EXPRESSED

MEASUREMENT,

RHYTHM,

SYMBOL AND TRANSFORMATION O F F I G U R E A N D P R I N C I P L E . ” [1]

“DESIGN

AND

DIMENSION, AND

SHAPE

RHYTHM,

AS

SYMBOL

TRANSFORMATION

OF

N U M B E R S A N D C O N C E P T S . ” [2]

THE

DESCRIPTION

OF

EMMA KUNZ

WORK OF

THE

BY THE

ARTIST, HERSELF.

A

REVOLUTIONARY,

TURN-

OF-THE-CENTURY REVEALING

MEDIUM,

HER

ACCESS

UNIQUE

TO

OCCULT

TRANSCENDENTALISM THROUGH COMPLEX GEOMETRICAL WORKS OF

FIGURES,

RHYTHMS

PATTERNS,

DERIVED

PRACTICE

OF

FROM

AND THE

RADIESTHESIA

EMPLOYING A PENDULUM. SERIES, EDUCED THIS SPIRITUALISM, SELECTS WORK BY EMMA KUNZ SEEKING

TO

INTRINSIC WORK

ELICIT

NATURE

BY

THE

OF

HER

COMPUTATIONAL

RE-POSITIONING.

EMPLOYING A MODERN RADIETHESIATHE ALGORITHM- APPLIED TO KUNZ’S WORK, THE PROCESS SEEKS

TO

UNLOCK

LATENT

FORCES THROUGH WHICH HER WORK

MAY

EVOKING AND

BE

EXPOSED

“EMMA KUNZ.” EMMA KUNZ ZENTRUM. LAST

MODIFIED

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021.

HTTPS://WWW.EMMA-KUNZ.COM/EN/EMMA-KUNZ/.

[2] IBID.

EXPERIENCED,

NEW

PROBING

[1]

MEANING CONNECTIONS

THROUGH

THE

CHANGE IN MEDIUM.

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Cognitive Spatial Interface Personal Research

EXAMINING

THE EVOLUTION OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE VIA THE INTERFACE OF TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, THE RESULTANT DEVELOPMENT EXPOSED THE EMERGENCE OF NOVEL SPATIAL

SYSTEMS CONNECTING CULTURE TO FORM AND FUNCTION.

THIS

PROJECT SOUGHT RE-DEVELOP AND PROGRESS IDEAS OF SPACE AND PROGRAM INTO AN EMERGENT EXPERIENCE, AKIN TO

THE INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGY ON CULTURE CALLING TO DISCUSSION TRADITIONAL VERSUS NOVEL UNDERSTANDINGS OF PROGRAM AND DEFINED VERSUS INDETERMINATE SPACE.

THIS

STUDY

WAS DEVELOPED EMPLOYING THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS, WRITTEN LANGUAGE, SCRIPTING, AND ANIMATION AS THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY ON DIGITAL FORM, ANALOGOUS TO CULTURE.

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Skin / Structure Parametrics

Personal Research

Study of the spatial condition of the inherent form of parametrics

THIS PROJECT, AT ITS CORE, WAS TO DEVELOP BODY ORNAMENT USING PARAMETRIC DESIGN. INFLUENCED BY HAUTE COUTURE AND THE INFILTRATION OF COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND FABRICATION INTO FASHION, MANY PIECES WERE DEVELOPED FROM A PAIR OF GRASSHOPPER DEFINITIONS. THE GRASSHOPPER DEFINITIONS DEFINED THE SKIN AND THE STRUCTURE, EXAMINING HOW THE STRUCTURE GIVES FORM TO THE PIECE AND CONNECTS TO THE BODY WHILE INTERFACING WITH THE SKIN WHICH HIDES AND REVEALS THE BODY UNDERNEATH.

BEYOND

THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION, THIS PROJECT SERVED TO QUESTION THE

EXPERIENCE TO

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EXPOSE

OF

DIGITAL THE

SPACE-

NOVEL

A

SPATIAL

SPACE

OF

EXPERIENCES

RECEPTION FROM

AND

TRANSLATION

THIS

TECHNOLOGY

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Operations of Presence in Architecture

THIS PROJECT EXAMINES THE ROLE OF GEOMETRY AND DIGITAL MEANS OF PRODUCTION IN THE PROCESS OF GENERATING ARCHITECTURAL FORM. THROUGHOUT THE THESIS PROCESS, THE PROJECT QUESTIONED THE INHERENCIES WITHIN GEOMETRY AS AN EXPERIENCE AND WHAT ONE WOULD RECOGNIZE THROUGH ITS DECONSTRUCTION AND TRANSLATION WITH THE INCORPORATION OF PROGRAM INTO THE FORM.

THIS

THESIS ALSO TRACKED THE REALITIES AND CONSTRAINTS BETWEEN A MALLEABLE DIGITAL MODELING PROGRAM VERSUS

PHYSICAL MATERIAL FORM. IT INCORPORATED AN ANALOG PROCESS OF MODELING CONCURRENTLY WITH VARIOUS DIGITAL STUDIES.

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S T U DEN T WO RK

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Experienced academic Taught design studios, representation, building technology, and technical classes in undergraduate and graduate design education Promote the ontological relationship of technology and architecture requiring the alignment of material with a technosocio-spatial complex, covering and discovering opportunities and roles necessitating a break from the methodologies of the past in order to re-examine the potential of design in this context, producing an iterative design process from the bottom-up offering a unique experience- avoiding understanding everything in order to discover through process 36 / Left

If architecture is the art of constructing spatial relationships, what is the role of design?

“Design is a defense of the human, but what is being defended is never clear”.

[Wigley and Colomina in Are We Human?]

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Student Work

Student Work

Project Year

: 2019

Project Year

: 2019

Level

: Third-Year

Level

: Third-Year

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wowie even my small child likes the exhibits and he’s not even climbing on things

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Guests enjoyed live music from Route 66 and a feast of fine foods provided by McPhee’s Grill, Love.Joy.Eat Catering, Pier 46, Blue Oak Barn, Vivant Fine Cheese, and Negranti Ice Cream. The Rotary Club of Paso Robles acknowledged Gary for his longtime membership to the organization and donations and support to north county charities. Supervisor Debbie Arnold presented a Certificate of Excellence on behalf of the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors.

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Guests enjoyed live music from f Route 66 and a feast of fine foods provided by McPhee’s Grill, Love.Joy.Eat Catering, Pier 46, Blue Oak Barn, Vivant Fine Cheese, and Negranti Ice Cream. The Rotary Club of Paso Robles acknowledged Gary for his longtime membership to the organization and donations and support to north county charities. Supervisor Debbie Arnold presented a Certificate of Excellence on behalf of the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors.

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Saucelito Canyon Vineyard is the producer of one of California's most distinguished Zinfandels, a wine made from historic dry-farmed old vines that remain a world t, our vineyard vineya features three acres of head-pruned Zinfandel vines planted in 1880 and painstakingly revived by owner Bill Greenough nearly 100 years later.

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wowie this is such a nice lounge bench to gaze at these fantastic exhibits from why is that dog peeing!!1!?

wow i love a good fun-shadow creating cloud situation this pleasant athmosphere really makes me want to stay and learn all about the wine history project

i hope no one catches me...

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Army ants play a significant role in their surrounding ecosystem. More than 300 species, ranging from birds to tiny mites, depend on the army ants for their survival. Thus, army ants support a greater number of other life forms than any other known species. In particular, the Buchell’s Army Ant sends out massive swarming raids above ground, and is the only army ant species that constructs temporary bivouacs (.02) above ground. This bivouac provides the colony a home during its nomadic phase after their eggs have hatched.

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PIECES UNPACKED FROM TRUCK IN STAGING AREA

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DIAG RAMMING _ MODULAR FUNCTIONALITY

STUDIO KIRK_FALL 2019_MODULAR FUNCTIONALITY Alexander Urasaki. Erica David. Jerome Deck Gannon Van Sickle. Rachel Jakel

11.12.2019

WIND-CHANNELING TUBES

SOLAR COLLECTORS

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FILTERING LAYERS

SEATING AREA

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M O D U L E : SEATING ANT F U N C T I O N A L I T Y: PEOPLE LIKE TO SIT

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M O D U L E : LIGHTING ANT F U N C T I O N A L I T Y: PROVIDE LIGHTING FOR DISPLAY PANELS

M O D U L E : VENTILATION ANT F U N C T I O N A L I T Y: PROVIDE FRESH AIR INTO THE SPACE

LIGHT WELL APERATURE OPENING

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M O D U L E : VIEW ANT F U N C T I O N A L I T Y: CHANNEL VIEWS TO SPECIFIC VECTORS

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M O D U L E : LIGHT WELL ANT F U N C T I O N A L I T Y: PROVIDE DIFFUSE LIGHT TO SEATING ANT [GENERATION 04]

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DEVELOPING A TRANSIENT PAVILION FOR THE DISPLAY OF ARTIFACTS COMMISSIONED BY A LOCAL ORGANIZATION, THESE INTERDISCIPLINARY-DESIGNED STRUCTURES TOOK CUES FROM BIOMIMICRY TO MIMIC THE TRANS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION AS THE SYNTHESIS OF STRUCTURE, MATERIAL, AND FUNCTION. THE LESSON OF THE TEAM WAS TO FUSE THE MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES INTO USING THEIR COLLECTIVE STRENGTH TO DEVELOP UNIQUE AND PERFORMATIVE STRUCTURES. THIS WAS ENFORCED BY THE ACTIVITY OF MAKING IN EXAMINING THE OVERALL STRUCTURE AS WELL AS THE DESIGN OF THE DETAIL IN A PARTIAL, FULL-SCALE, MOCK-UP.

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Student Work Project Year

: 2018

Level

: Third-Yea

Museum of Science Fiction

SCIENCE FICTION IS AN INTROSPECTION INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION. THIS PROJECT, A MUSEUM OF SCIENCE FICTION, CHALLENGED THE STUDENTS TO EXAMINE THAT INTROSPECTION FROM A WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION, THEMES WERE FIRST TRANSLATED THROUGH ANALYSIS AND STUDY MODELS AND TRANSLATED INTO BUILDING DESIGNS. THIS

PROJECT CONNECTED THE STUDENT TO ANALYSIS THE

HUMAN CONDITION, EXPLORING CONCEPTS SUCH AS XENOPHOBIA, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTROL, AND HOW THESE CONCEPTS CAN BE USED IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS TO SUPPORT THE SPATIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE MUSEUM.

THESE

CONCEPTS

CHALLENGED THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE AS NARRATIVE.

THE PROJECTS WERE DISPLAYED AT THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION IN WASHINGTON, DC

Photographed

By Robert William

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Student Work

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Project Year

: 2018

Level

: Third-Yea

Museum of Science Fiction

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Architecture as Organism

Student Work

Project Year

: 2017

Level

: Third-Yea

Student Work Project Year

: 2020

Level

: First-Year

PART

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OF A LARGER PROJECT, THIS SEGMENT INTERROGATED THE SPACE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SURFACE/ SITE USING A HOUSEHOLD OBJECT

FOR THE MODEL MATERIAL DURING THIS VIRTUAL STUDIO DUE TO THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC. TESTING

DESIGN

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MATERIAL-

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Student Work Project Year

: 2020

Level

: First-Year

Pier Project

Margaret Kirk Architect | Academic

THIS FIRST-YEAR PROJECT RE-IMAGINED THE PIER AT PORT SAN LUIS. STUDENTS EXAMINED THE FUNCTIONAL AND CIRCULATORY PATTERNS OF THE PIER, CREATING A SERIES OF MAQUETTES, AND RE-FORMED/ RECONFIGURED THE MODELS ACCORDING TO A PAIR OF SPATIAL WORDS. THIS, IN TURN, TESTED IDEAS OF FUNCTION COUPLED WITH EMERGENT SPACES AND THE USE OF TECTONIC EXPRESSION IN RE-PRESENTING THE PIER.

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