Urban Transcet: ARCH 3010

URBAN TRANSECT

A4 Proportioning Light

UVA SoA | ARCH 3010 | Fall 2019

Connective Institutions for the 21st Century City

Prof. Seth McDowell — Omer Gorashi

Over the past week, students were asked to sectionally aggregate and organize solids and voids within assigned sites. This exploration was articulated through two sole materials; Cement and Light, or the lack of it in some cases.

Just as Louis Kahn had once said.

“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”

Like some sort of modular-obsessed Michelangelo, I carved through my stone, subtracting from the mass with 2” x 1” slats. These slats were first stacked up just as the original skyscrapers, defining the metropolitan site. Through a series of spatial moves, these untouched sites freed themselves from the overimposed city grid, yet stayed within the site’s boundaries. The alterations of the slats allowed for new dialogues beteween levels, forever redifing the sandwich sections they originated from.

Omer Gorashi

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Exterior view 1 — light, curves, shielding

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Exterior view 2 — —snakes, ladders, transitions—

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Longitudinal section — —cores, corridors, transitions—

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Cross section — —cores, pockets, transitions—

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Interior view 1

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Interior view 2

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Context model

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Context model

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Exterior view 3

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Model 1 solid/void 50% — Edges/Elevations

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Model 2 solid/void 55% — Exterior view 1 — —punctures, shifts, ventilation —

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Model 2 solid/void 55% — Exterior view 2 — —shifts, shading, punctures—

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Model 2 solid/void 55% — Longitudinal section — —shifts, ventilation, shading—

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Model 2 solid/void 55% — Cross section — —shifts, shading, punctures—

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Model 2 solid/void 55% — Interior view 1

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Model 2 solid/void 55% — Interior view 2

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Model 2 solid/void 55% — Process

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Model 2 solid/void 55% — Edges/Elevations

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Model 3 solid/void 60% — Exterior view 1 — —punctures, undulating, terracing,—

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Model 3 solid/void 60% — Exterior view 2 — —soffits, undulating, ventilation—

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Model 3 solid/void 60% — Longitudinal section — — slats, terracing, pockets—

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Model 3 solid/void 60% — Cross section — —slates, undulating, tilted—

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Model 3 solid/void 60% — Interior view 1

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Model 3 solid/void 60% — Interior view 2

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Model 3 solid/void 60% — Exterior view 3

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Model 3 solid/void 60% — Edges/Elevations

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Model 4 solid/void 65% — Exterior view 1 — —undulating, terracing, horizontality—

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Model 4 solid/void 65% — Exterior view 2 — —terraces, tilted, shadeing—

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Model 4 solid/void 65% — Longitudinal section — —terraces, pockets, excavation—

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Model 4 solid/void 65% — Cross section — —undulating, exccavatiom, pockets—

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Model 4 solid/void 65% — Interior view 1

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Model 4 solid/void 65% — Interior view 2

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Model 4 solid/void 65% — Context

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Model 4 solid/void 65% — Edges/Elevations

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Urban Transect Connective Institutions for the 21st Century City Seth McDowell (Coordinator) Francisco Ramos Jeana Ripple Peter Waldman University of Virginia School of Architecture ARCH 3010 | Fall 2019

UVA SoA | ARCH 3010 | Fall 2019