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Hyper-Real Studios
ARCH 476: Therese Tierney Spring 2010 200,000 sq. ft. animation studio in Chicago, Illinois
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Film as a process is not dissimilar from architecture in its ability to create entire worlds separate from the reality that exists outside of the borders of the screen.
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Hyper-Real Studios builds off of Jean Baudrillard’s theories on the role of media tand the blur of the real with the simulacrum to create an animation studio that progressively exerts itself onto its context over the creative process of writing and producing animated films. [1]
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The project relies heavily on the forces of circulatory infrastructure to interrupt and define the limits of the world created within the animation studio and the world beyond. employee level [1] [2] [3] [4]
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pre-production studio employee entrance recreation space post-production studio
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pre-production studio main concourse post-production studio independent media center
Symbiotic Commons
ARCH 374: Julie Larsen Spring 2009 - Earl Prize in design nominee 200,000 sq. ft. youh hostel and homeless shelter in Chicago, Illinois
The largest challenge to designing Symbiotic Commons was the difficulty of situating such a large project along the bank of the Chicago River adjacent to the three tiered street of Wacker Drive. The project units the three levels of the street A facade of aesthetic iconicism masks the utilitarian with riverscape the city fabric Blurring the simulacrum with and the world beneath it beyond by creating an urban organism that attaches itself to existing infrastructure for the built urban environment, will develop an urbanstability, organismcirculation, that maintains structural and inner-workings mechanicals.ofFree to grow and shrink as necessary, Symbiotic Commons fuses the obscuring the functionality of architecture. functionality alongside elegance. utilitarian language of the street with the lofty aesthetics of the glass facades above while uniting the public at large with traveling youths and the homeless in a creature of circulation, structure, glass and landscape.
A vernacular of pure function shuns falsification through decoration , displaying the utility of the city in its purest form with no attention to aesthetics
Blurring the simulacrum with the world beneath it will develop an urban organism that maintains functionality alongside elegance.
nicholas weiss
2006-2010
A vernacular of pure function shuns falsification through decoration , displaying the utility of the city in its purest form with no attention to aesthetics
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[opposite] BEDROOM SECTION
[below] MAIN FLOOR PLAN
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2006-2010
Health Strip
Global Architecture Brigades Competition - Team: Giorgio Angelini, Alexander Tehranian, Duncan White, Nicholas Weiss Spring 2012 1200 sq. ft. health clinic in Honduras
Designed as a small and easily built clinic, the Health Strip in Honduras remains incredibly mindful of the limited resources and unskilled volunteer labor that would take part in constructing the project. Composed of easily framed walls and concrete masonry units, the project remains simple to construct and assemble despite maintaining certain architectural qualities that might appear otherwise. The sloped roof is constructed separately and bolted to the structure and creates an open gathering space adjacent to the building while covering the open air waiting room .
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WAITING STRIP
OFFICE STRIP
LIGHTWELL + SERVICE
HEALTH STRIP HEALTH STRIP Rice School of Architecture G. Angelini, A. Tehranian, N. Weiss, D. White
HEALTH STRIP Rice School of Architecture G. Angelini, A. Tehranian, N. Weiss, D. White
(BANDA DE SALUD)
Cross Section Scale: 1:50
Global Architecture Brigades BUILDing Health Challenge