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HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN M.ARCH I PORTFOLIO FALL 09’ TO SPRING 13’

RICARDO SOLAR

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The Plan From Without FIrst Semester: Exploration in formal transformation

Lock Building First Semester: Exploration in physical formal transformations

Discrete Seriality Second Semester: Daniel Etzler

Boston Public Library Second Semester: Boston , MA : North End

Boston Perfroming Arts Center Third Semester: Boston , MA : North End

Willets Point Terraced Housing System Fourth Semester: Queens, NY : Willets Point

Porte de la Chapelle Housing System Fifth Semester: Queens, NY : Willets Point

Topics in Parametric and Generative Geometry and Modeling Third Semester: Andrew Witt

Real and Imaginary Variables : Museum Tower Sixth Semester: New York, New York

Tower and Core : Hybridity and the Juxtaposition of Diferentiated Space in Office Towers Thesis Seventh Semester: Mexico CIty Tower

Re-Fabricating The Geodesic Dome Eight Semester : Leire Asensio Villoria

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The Plan From Without

Ingeborg Rocker Studio, Harvard GSD, Fall 09 First Semester ThePlanFromWithouttestsdifferentideasofrepresentationinarchitecture;byrepresentingabuildingwithoutaplan,orbygeneratingamodelfollowingthewrittendescriptionofaplanasfollows: “Incompleteand/orambiguousdefinitionofacruciformandtheperimeterthatcontainsit.Thecruciformisdistortedirregularlysuchthatallofitsendsbutoneproducesadiagonalcorner.Therefore, the cruciform is either an ‘x’ that meets at corners of the containing volume or is a ‘t’, the ends of which meet the sides of the container. It is ambiguously an ‘x’ in a box or a ‘t’ in a box.”

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The Lock Building

Ingeborg Rocker Studio | Harvard GSD, Fall 09 M.Arch First Semester This project consists in generating a building that attaches itself to the mechanism of a boat lock system. The existing mechanism allows pedestrian passage through as small land bridge attached to the locks. At its closed condition, this building generates two simple volumes which connect to each other generating a pedestrian bridge. As the locks open to allow passage of a boat, the two volumessplitapartgeneratinganinfinitenumberofexplodedconditionsbeforecollapsingintoanalmostvolumelessplanewhichallowsoccupationofthesiteonwhichthebuildingstands.Thisbuilding explores both the juxtaposition of volume versus void and the distortion of a seemingly simple geometry into an exploded volume with infinite occupation of space.

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Public entrance courtyard

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Boston, North End Public Library Danielle Etzler Studio, Harvard GSD, Spring 10’ Second Semester Located in the Boston’s historic North End, this project seeks to challenge the typical distinction between street façade and the more private or hidden space between and behind buildings. The façade is a single surface that reacts to the folds and bends of the urban fabric, allowing both a view and experience of spaces behind the street façade. The folding of the façade is generated by a dialougue between diferent building alignments and street conditions. While the underside of the building remains normative to the site and adjacent buildings, the roof draws back and twists with respect to the less normative streets and alleys around the site. The interior is a sequence of compressive and expansive spaces which lead subject through the lobby and stacks before reaching the main space of the reading room and the exhibition space. These spaces are ordered by a strong central interior courtyard which generates compressive spaces in dialogue of those outside the building and permits natural light to both the exhibition space of the library and the reading room.

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Building view from side alley

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Boston Performing Arts Center

Maryann Thompson Studio, Harvard GSD, Fall 10’ Third Semester

Underside view as waterfront condition

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North End enveloped by mayor roads North End enveloped by mayor roads

Public parks in the North End Public parks in the North End

Housing distribution in the North End Housing distribution in the North End

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Boston Performing Arts Center

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Porte de la Chapelle Collective Suburbia | Pluralizing Singularity in Outer Paris Anne Lacaton Options Studio, Harvard GSD, Fall 11’ Fifth Semester Idealized suburban home typology as precedent BACK/SIDE YARD

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Conceived as a response to the increasing detachment and placelessness of the Parisian banlieue, or suburbs, this project seeks to reconcile the socio‐economic housing divide between the contemporary city and its outskirts through the strategic insertion of elements from an idealized vision of detached single‐family housing into a multi‐family housing framework. A product of the Paris Study Abroad program which emphasized densification, the site is located in Porte de la Chapelle, an industrial district in the 18th arrondisement, situated on the border between Paris, the city, and Paris, the region. Embodying a high capacity for urban transformation, it is a highly infrastructural site that straddles the crossing of the Boulevard Peripherique and the Route Nationale 1, one of the most important arteries into the city. Set away from the city’s historic core, the district is home to an assortment of low density industrial warehouses, high rise social housing, abandoned railway tracks, and some of the only remaining unbuilt land in Paris. Embodying an immense capacity for transformation, the site thus begs the question: What defines the quality of life in a dwelling for the inhabitants of a city in need of space, and how can we harness the potential of the existing and the unbuilt in order to improve urban quality of life? Although the word translates to “suburbs,” the Parisian banlieues are distinct from United States suburbs, which are generally associated with middle and upper class inhabitants, low

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density, and detached housing. Instead, the banlieues are characterized by low income and social housing developments and are frequently associated with high levels of poverty, violence and drug trafficking, lack of community strength, and segregation from the city and its accompanying transportation networks, services, and leisure opportunities. Yet despite its downsides, the detached single�family home offers amenities that are increasingly attractive to families, luring them out of the city. Among others, these benefits include sound and visual separation from neighbors, personal exterior space, storage space, access to personal vehicles, and mutability of envelope. By extracting these elements and reconfiguring them to work within the underutilized spaces of the contemporary city, a new building typology may emerge which can allow each inhabitant more space and flexibility within an affordable high� density social housing context. The project’s design is highly flexible, creating a building system that can adapt to an existing building or be developed as a framework for a new building.

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800

100

100

EL + 18 m

EL + 5.5m

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450

100

100

EL + 10 m

100

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Imaginary variables defining Implicit Field surface

_VARIABLES

M  30

N  28

m  0 1  M

n  0 1  N

width  240

length  800

groundm  n  0

_ANTECEDENTS

iThreadm  n 

m M

 width

jThreadm  n 

n N

 length

range_am  n  m  0.85n

range_bm  n  m  0.85n

plane_am  n  45

plane_bm  n  90

plane_cm  n  161

plane_dm  n  241

plane_em  n  321

plane_fm  n  366

plane_gm  n  462

plane_hm  n  507

plane_im  n  552

plane_jm  n  597

plane_km  n  672

plane_lm  n  752

Deformation

def_bm  n 

 n  105  7.5   N 

def_dm  n 

 n  93   N 

def_gm  n 

 n  100.8   N 

def_c_2m  n 

 n  90  133   N 

def_em  n 

 n  93  93   N 

def_gim  n 

def_c_1m  n 

 n  112  9.6   N 

def_fm  n 

 n  93   N 

def_im  n 

 n  52.5  52.5   N 

 n  70   N 

def_jm  n 

 n  74.1  74.1   N 

def_km  n 

 n  99.2   N 

def_lm  n 

 n  93.3  93.3   N 

Variations on surface stacking as a way of generating spacial diferention. def_1.0

def_2.4

Fold_01

Fold_06

def_1.1

def_3.1

Fold_02

Fold_07

def_1.2

def_3.2

Fold_03

Fold_08

def_2

def_3.4

Fold_04

Fold_09

def_2.2

def_3.6

Fold_05

Fold_10

Deformation

Shapes

def_om  n 

 n  86.1   N 

“Halfway between the socially responsive discourse Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of of programmatic freedom and the alleged futility programmatic freedom and the alleged futility of parametric of parametric form-giving, this studio celebrates form-giving, this studio celebrates architecture’s critical return architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest in the to form. Our interest in the topic of form is neither aesthetic topic of form is neither aesthetic nor ideological. Contrary nor ideological. Contrary to the notion of shape (with which to the notion of shape (with which it is often confused), it is often confused), form is for us a syntactic, procedural, form is for us a syntactic, procedural, and (increasingly) and (increasingly) technical proposition with a fair amount technical proposition with a fair amount of disciplinary of disciplinary autonomy, like the study of language in the autonomy, like the study of language in the 1970s -or 1970s -or the more recent emergence of object-orientation the more recent emergence of object-orientation in the in the software industry. software industry. “ -Legendre

This project aims to explore the figural limits

This project aims to explore the figural of the parametric surface model-- a conceptual vehicle limits of the parametric surface model-- a conceptual chosen for its relentless abstraction and relative resistance vehicle chosen for its relentless abstraction and relative to predictable questions of function and architectural resistance to predictable questions of function and figuration. It is the superimposition of diferentiated surfaces architectural figuration. It is the superimposition of which lend the tower a unique spacial quality for viewing and diferentiated surfaces which lend the tower a unique displaying of art. It is through the overlap of mathematicaly spacial quality for viewing and displaying of art. It is defined surfaces that the tower takes its form--generating through the overlap of mathematicaly defined surfaces pockets of space programed as artist studios embeded that the tower takes its form--generating pockets of within a fluid and continuous circulation path througout the space programed as artist studios embeded within a tower exhibition space, thus chalenging the notion of the fluid and continuous circulation path througout the tower as a series of isolated or compartmentalized spaces. tower exhibition space, thus chalenging the notion of Referent to the NY Gugenheim Museum, it is the spacial the tower as a series of isolated or compartmentalized fluidity in conjunction with the abstract nature of height which spaces. Referent to the NY Gugenheim Museum, it is the generates an exciting and unique space for the display of spacial fluidity in conjunction with the abstract nature of contemporary art, and performance work. height which generates an exciting and unique space for the display of contemporary art, and performance work.

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3.0000 3.0000

plot area: 299,301 SQFT area w/15' setback: 266, 371 SQFT program area: 360,604 SQFT

7.5000

6.0000

4.5000 4.5000 6.6628

6.8372 7.4980

7.5019

adjacent buildings

6.0000 6.0000

4.5000 4.0342

plot area: 299,301 SQFT area w/15' setback: 266, 371 SQFT program area: 360,604 SQFT

building boxaprox 2 stories

plot area: 299,301 SQFT area w/15' setback: 266, 371 SQFT program area: 360,604 SQFT

building boxaprox 2 stories

4.5000 4.5000 4.5000

Museum Tower Section : North-South plot area: 299,301 SQFT mainarea access points w/15' setback: 266, 371 SQFT program area: 360,604 SQFT

Office Special collections

adjacent buildings

building boxaprox 4 stories

adjacent buildings

building boxaprox 4 stories

Sky Lobby Auditorium

adjacent buildings NewYork Area = 299,301 sqft main access points

New York v. Oslo site comparison

NewYork Area = 299,301 sqft main access points

main access points

building boxaprox 2 stories

Library Storage

Museum Tower Section : East West adjacent buildings

surrounding infrastructure

Museum Tower Site Diagrams

Lobby

building boxaprox 4 stories

Oslo Area = 349672 sqft

New York v. Oslo site comparison

94.9905

Museum Galleries and Studios

plot area: 299,301 SQFT area w/15' setback: 266, 371 SQFT program area: 360,604 SQFT

Oslo Area = 349672 sqft

continuation of grid

4.5000

6.0000

4.5000

2.9914

12.7997

3.0000

3.0000

7.5000 Office

25.9454

+96.7

+92.2

+86.7 Auditorium

3.5305

+80.7

Auditorium

+75.2

Exhibition + Artist workshops

+67.2

Exhibition + Artist workshops

+63.7

Exhibition + Artist workshops

+59.7

Contemporary Art

+55.2

Contemporary Art

+50.7

Contemporary Art

+46.2

Library & Archive

40

+41.1

+36.6

+32.1

+86.7 Auditorium +86.7 Auditorium

20

Terrace

+71.7

+44.1 Exhibition +44.1 Exhibition

0

+85.7

Classical Art

Classical Art

Exhibition + Artist workshops

0

20

+41.1 Exhibition +41.1 Exhibition

+16.1 Exhibition

+9.0 Entrance Gallery +32.1 Exhibition +32.1 Exhibition

+28.6 Exhibition +4.5 Commercial +28.6 Exhibition

40

+44.1 Exhibition

+41.1 Exhibition

+32.1 Exhibition

46.5138

2.9992

9.8629

80.4032

Office

+28.6

+28.6

+24.1

Exhibition + Artist workshops

+20.6

Artist's gallery

+16.1

Exhibition + Artist workshops

+12.6

+12.6

Entrance Gallery

+4.5

Commercial

+0.0

Lobby

-5.0

Library & Archive

40 20 20 0 0

+16.1 Exhibition +16.1 Exhibition

Museum Tower Exploted Axo Floor Sequence

+9.0 Entrance Gallery +9.0 Entrance Gallery

Museum Tower: Floor Plan Sequence [bottom left to upper right]

+4.5 Commercial +4.5 Commercial

+0.0 Lobby

+0.0 Lobby

40

+9.0

0

20

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Tower and Core Hybridity

The Juxtaposition of Diferentiated Space in High-Rise Mixed-Use Structures Thesis Advisor :Preston Scott Cohen | Fall 2012 Today’s large scale hybrid tower types must deal with structural challenges posed by today’s complex urban, economic, political and programmatic demands. In the history of the skyscraper, the 60’s marked the end of an era for formal autonomous structures thus undoing the modernist paradigm previously established through the use of the reticulated frame structure. High-rise structures would evolved in two major ways which both contributed to structural innovation: one being the need for greater height, and the other being the need for column free floor plans to accommodate maximum utilization of office space dictated by new management techniques and organization of labor. Whereas before the 60’s form and repetition of floors and facade was pure and regular, the form of the new skyscrapers would capitalize on the marriage of different programs through cumulative multi-use differentiated space linked to larger urban systems. My proposal for a Multi Function Tower and Core Hybrid tower in central Mexico City can be found at the end of this evolution, tied to a complex urban topography while adressing the contemporary needs of formal, programmatic, as well as structural expressiveness. “The new urban structure is multi-centered instead of hierarchical, multi-layered instead of compartmentalized, where it’s complex density is expressed through both section and plan.” -Tower and Office [Abalos & Herreros]

Triple tower typology with eccentric program

03_01

03_02

03_03

03_04

Triple Core Multi Function Hybrid Triple tower scheme generates larger floor plates at the point of convergence. Towers of different floor to ceiling heights come together generating periodic moments of convergence of floors.

Double Core Multi Function Double core multi-function configurations self support to generate open space at ground level.

Double tower typology with eccentric program

02_01

02_02

02_03

02_04

Single Core Shared program is placed at the center of the tower where it may be more accessible to the tower as a whole.

Single tower typology with eccentric program

01_01

01_02

01_03

01_04

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Function of Style : Hybrid Precedents

Function of Style Seminar : Farshid Mousavi : Past and Contemporary Highrise Hybrid Forms MIXED-USE

MIXED-USE

TORRE VELASCA

BBPR

MILAN,ITALY

Precedent: Tower

123

Slab Tower

SOM

1956

JOHN HANCOCK TOWER

123

1976

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

44 m 65 m

9m 36 m

26 m

39 m

62 m +344 m

OFFICE/EVENT +312 m

FLOOR AREA: 2535 m2 PERIMETER LENGTH: 208 m

+95 m

40 m

The structural truss tube tapers 24% as a function of height to resist wind loads.

75 m

HOUSING

6m 22 m

+40 m

44 m

RESIDENTIAL Two plan condition scorrespnding to depth requirements for both office and residential program stacked to produce tower.

Program transitions from OFFICE to RESIDENTIAL as slab depth conforms to daylighting standards.

FLOOR AREA: 3300 m2 PERIMETER LENGTH: 238 m OFFICE

+180 m

As the tower increases in height floor area is reduced to increase density of structure.

This change in scale reflects a change in the lighting needs of program.

+3 m

OFFICE

RETAIL

trading floors

+44 m

PARKING +14 m

RETAIL +0 m

81 m 50 m

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Torre Velasca | Milan, Italy 1965

Office and Residential stacked hybrid

MIXED-USE

Tower Block INAKI ABALOS

TOUR LA CHAPPELLE

PARIS, FRANCE

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John Hancock Tower | Chicago, Illinois

Office and Residential supartall stacked hybrid

MIXED-USE

123

Stacked Tower

2007 unbuilt

111 FIRST STREET

OMA

JERSEY CITY, NJ, USA

123

2010

22 m

east

west

50 m

+173 m +181m

80 m Twisted geometry enhances views for residents at upper levels

north

10 m

20 m

The curvature of the tower reduces wind loads and allows tower to grow taller and more slender.

HOUSING

south 50 m

Roof terrace and roof top pool generated by twisted stacking

+94 m

Individual appartment towers are ideal for lighting, views and ventilation.

Deeper floorplates for larger single aspect appartments at upper levels

50 m

+61 m

HOTEL

Slender slab ideal for single aspect hotel rooms and small housing units.

Three distinct programatic volumes stacked to preference north and south views for hotel rooms at middle levels and east/west views for large apartments at upper levels.

+33m

Large comercial roof terace generated by slab tower condition

LIVE/WORK

+8 m

Atrium is placed at the center of the slab where less light enters the building.

Deep slabs reduce heat gain from sun to program that would require artificial cooling.

+0 m

81 m

50 m

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Block geometry ideal for live work units with inset balconies

PARKING

RETAIL

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Tour la Chappelle | Paris , France 2007

111 First Street | Jersey City, NJ 2010

Office, Residential & Hotel | Terraced stacked hybrid

Office, Residential & Hotel | Terrace stacked hybrid

+??m

+??m

MIXED-USE

MIXED-USE

DE ROTTERDAM

OMA

ROTTERDAM, NL

Stacked

123

Bundled Tower

MVRDV

2012 unbuilt

SKY VILLAGE

RODOVRE, DENMARK

123

2008 +116 m

HOUSING

OFFICE HOUSING

L 23

RETAIL

RETAIL

OFFICE

L 19

Independent elevators service the different programatic zones

50 m

L5

50 m

Pogram intermixing occurs at any given level of the building

The stacking of unitized volumes allows for terracing to occur throughout building

RETAIL

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De Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL 2014

Sky Village | Rodrove, DK 2009

Office, Residential , Hotel, Comercial, and Cultural | Stacked hybrid

Office, Residential & Retail | Mixed block Hybrid

MIXED-USE

Slab Tower REX

MUSEUM PLAZA

HOUSING

HOUSING

OFFICE

BAR 120 m

MUSEUM

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

MIXED-USE

123

Bundled Tower BIG

2013

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

2009

reduced mass lessens windloads.

Housing towers split to allow for uptimum daylighting.

HOUSING

WALTER TOWERS

123

cross-ventilation Office oriented to provide views towards the city.

LOBBY L 25

GYM

CONFERENCE urban plaza

OFFICE

140 m

15 m 30 m

HOUSING

15 m +110m

At certain levels the podium acts as an exchange level between towers-- connecting and sharing amenities between museum, hotel, office and residential towers.

MUSEUM

L1

Housing towers oriented to provide views towards the Ohio RIver.

HOTEL

O

hi

o

R

iv

er

HOUSING

The tower splits at the ground, subdividing the OFFICE level for more light and creating an urban plaza. As program shifts from OFFICE to RESIDENTIAL the plan shifts again to produce smaller residential floors with greater facade perimeter while maintaining the original total floor area.

Elevated park formed by the minimal footprint of the towers

+20m

PARKING

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Museum Plaza | Louisville, KY 2012

Walter Towers | Prague, CR 2009

Office, Residential , Hotel, Comercial, and Cultural | Stacked hybrid

Office & Residential| Stacked Hybrid

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1

2

7

1

2

4

6 8

7

3

1. Alameda Central 2. Palace of Bellas Artes 3. Zocalo Central 4. Catedral 5. Presidential Palace 6. Monument to the Revolution 7. Torre Latinoamericana 8. Avenida Reforma

5

Site: Calle Refroma, Mexico City

The Juxtaposition of Diferentiated Space in High-rise Structures The proposed tower sits on a fragmented site in the Historic Center of the Capital City of Mexico in an area called Reforma. The proposed tower will anchor three major public spaces in the Historic City--the historic park of the Alameda to the East, the Zocalo further East, and the Plaza Revolucion to the West. The three-part site corners the street of Reforma a major avenue which crosses diagonally through the city, and the Avenue San Cosme, one of the cite’s oldest streets which crosses the city East to West. Avenida Reforma was built in 1860 under the directive of Mexico’s French Emperor Maximillian and is home today to some of Mexico’s tallest buildings. In the style of similar French Avenues such as the Champs Elise, Reforma was superimposed over an existing urban fabric, and it was this superimposition over the existing grid which generated the oddly shaped residual plot of land where my proposal sits.

Throughout the 1960’s many of these residual plots of land were occupied by access points to the city’s underground subway [one of the most widely used in the world] which have further complicated the development of these residual sites.

Pre 1850 Urban Fabric

Pre 1860 Urban Fabric.

Pre Pre1860 1860Urban UrbanFabric.

Fabric.

Blocks fragmented through introduction of

Blocks fragmented through introduciton of Blocks Blocksfragmented fragmented through introducitonof of Refroma Boulavard afterthrough 1860’s introduciton Reforma Boulevard after 1860’s Reforma ReformaBoulevard Boulevardafter after1860’s 1860’s

Proposed fragmented cluster for developement.

Proposed fragmented cluster for developeProposed Proposedfragmented fragmentedcluster clusterfor fordevelopedevelopement. ment. ment.

Site Model scale 1:1000

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Structure Slabs Program and Core Hybrid and Residential tower in Mexico City.

TowerHotel andOffice Core,Juxtaposition and Superimposition of Diferentiated Space in

FORM AND CONTEXT

Hotel

Office

10’

13’

Residential

Hotel

Office

12’

10’

13’

Residential

Hotel

Office

12’

10’

13’

Residential

Hotel

Office

12’

10’

13’

PROGRAM DIFERENTIATED SLABS Residential

Hotel

12’

10’

Office

CORE

222’ Belt Truss

222’

890’ External Diagonal Truss System

222’

In addition to playing a primary role in resisting gravity loads within the building, the cores play an essential role in differentiating space within the conjoined towers. At certain zones withing the tower, the cores may serve each program exclusive of the others, while at other zones the cores depend on one another to maintain necessary egress and sanitary regulations. As the need for elevators decreases at higher elevations, the smaller ores, or the absence of these as they break the envelope of the building, allow for light and air to filter through much of the office an residential space. Thus, as the floor area at the top of the tower becomes reduced, the space remains open and the programmatic zoning can be easily maintained.

1b 22’

460 ’ 222’

67’

1c

42’

22’ 51’ STRUCTURE AND CORE 22’ 1a

9 5

9

9 8

1a Office Core A

5 Residential Floors

1b Office Core B

6 Auditorium A

1c Ressidential Core C

7 Auditorium B

2 Office Tower A

3 Office Tower B

4 Hotel Floors

8 Pool 9 Cultural /Interco- nected floors

7 3

6

4

9

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Gross floor area: 7,600 sqft Office area: 4,680 sqft Hotel area: 0 sqm Residential area: 2,920 sqft net-to-gross floor area: 82% approx.

Gross floor area: 20,600 sqft Auditorium A Auditorium B Mechanical net-to-gross floor area: 85% approx.

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Gross floor area: 19, 830 sqft Office area: 17,600 sqft Hotel area: 2,230 sqft Residential area: 0 sqft net-to-gross floor area: 85% approx.

Gross floor area: 12,580 sqft Office area: 4,770 sqft Hotel area: 0 sqft Residential area: 7810 sqft net-to-gross floor area: 88% approx.

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Gross floor area: 17, 900 sqft Office area: 11,320 sqft Hotel area: 6, 580 sqft Residential area: 0 sqft net-to-gross floor area: 84% approx.

Gross floor area: 18, 250 sqft Office area: 12,880 sqft Hotel area: 0 sqm Residential area: 5,370 sqft net-to-gross floor area: 88% approx.

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Shared/ Lobby Office Residential

Gross floor area: 22,050 sqft Auditorium A Auditorium B Swimming pool net-to-gross floor area: 85% approx.

Gross floor area: 13,020 sqft Office area: 8,890 sqft Hotel area: 4,130 sqft Residential area: 0 sqm net-to-gross floor area: 76% approx

Hotel

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SECTION - A

South

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North East

SECTION - C

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Design Through Engineers : Kite Pavilion

Hanif Kara , Harvard GSD, Spring 13’ Group: Ale Romo, Maxwell Wolfe [engineer] DesignedfortheCityofDreamsPavillionDesignCompetition,thepavilionisatemporarystructurecomposedprimarilyofflyingkites.Whendisassembledthekiteswillbegiventovisitors,thusgiving the pavilion a second life in the hands of kids and kite aficionados.

SUPPORTS

KITE MODULE

Supports made out of concrete base with reclaimed wood.

KITE MODULE Detail reference 01

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DEFLECTION: 1.57 / IMPROVEMENT : (-36%) Height: 14 feet 03 Bamboo structure with kite panels and double bracing on perimeter edge A. Inner frame panels B. Outer perimeter frame panels C. Axial force results D. Moment results Harvard Design School: SCI 0642500, Spring 2013

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FINAL ITERATION FINAL ITERATION B B

FINAL ITERATION B

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DEFLECTION: / IMPROVEMENT : (-36%) DEFLECTION: 1.571.57 / IMPROVEMENT : (-36%) Height: Height: 14 14 feetfeet Bamboo structure kite panels and double on perimeter edge Bamboo structure withwith kite panels and double bracingbracing on perimeter edge

DEFLECTION: 1.57 / IMPROVEMENT : (-36%) Height: 14 feet Bamboo structure with kite panels and double bracing on perimeter edge

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C. Axial force results

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2. Reclaimed wooden deck instalation:

Wood form-work with poured in place concrete on site.

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[C] 1. Pedestal foundation supports:

2. Reclaimed wooden deck instalation:

Wood form-work with poured in place concrete on site.

Harvard Design School: SCI 0642500, Spring 2013 1. Pedestal foundation supports: Wood form-work with poured in place

3. Primary bamboo structural member instalation

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4. Secondary structural member instalation [D]

3. Primary bamboo structural member instalation

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(Re) Discretizing The Geodesic Dome

[Re]Fabricating Tectonic Prototypes, Harvard GSD, Spring 13’ With: Chen Hao, Juan Yactayo, and Yun Fu Fromthere-fabricationandgeometricalunderstandingoftheFly’sEyeDome,ourcritiqueofFuller’sdesigncomesundertwocategories.Firstisitslimitedthicknesswhichresultsfromusingonlyone geodesic sphere with one level of frequency. And second, is the lack of resolution and intention in how the Fly’s Eye Dome engages the ground surface as well as the utilitarian nature of the dome in the architectural play of form and light. Hence, our interest lays in the interaction between multiple geodesic spheres, at different levels of frequencies, as a method to generate thickness which can both, enhance the structural performance of the dome, as well as provide more control of the interior lighting thus enhancing the affect inside the dome. Lastly, through the use of planar surfaces would result in a dome that is easy to fabricate and structuraly stable.

Understanding and fabricating Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome following a process of vacume formed styrene

GEOMETRIC DEFINITION A study of the geodesic frequencies. The triangles can be grouped into hexagons and pentagons. Only the second frequency can be constructed by one module.

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PLANAR GEOMETRIC DEFINITION 10

Understanding the geodesic dome as a link of a ‘two’ and ‘four’ level subdivision through planar surfaces. The planar surfaces are then offset towards the center generating [re] Fabricating Tectonic Prototypes juan yactayo | ricardo solar | chenhao lin | yun fu juan yactayo | ricardo solar | chenhao lin | yun fu [re] Fabricating Tectonic Prototypes structural ‘boxes’ these boxes are then linked together to generate a tree piece module. The boxes difuse light to the interiro of the dome.

GEOMETRIC PRINCIPLE PLE EOMETRIC PRINCIPLE

PLANAR SURFACES PLANE OFFSET PLANAR SURFACES

PLANE OFFSET

PLANE OFFSET

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PLANE OFFSET

JOINING PLANES

JOINING PLANES JOINING PLANES

JOINING PLANES ENCLOSING SURFACES ENCLOSING SURFACES

juan yactayo | ricardo| solar | chenhao lin | yunlin fu | yun fu juan yactayo | ricardo solar | chenhao lin | yun fu juan yactayo | ricardo solar | chenhao lin | yun fu juan yactayo ricardo solar | chenhao juan yactayo | ricardo solar | chenhao lin | yun fu juan yactayo yactayo || ricardo ricardo solar solar || chenhao chenhao lin lin || yun yun fu fu juan juan yactayo | ricardo solar | chenhao lin | yun fu

ENC ENCLOSING SURFACE

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THREE PIECE ALUMINUM MODULE Aluminium geodesic module fabricated through a water jet cutting proces. Assembled through ihad folding and interor bolts.

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Containter House

Marcel Erminy Studio, Texas A&M University, Spring 06 | First Semester The purpose of this project was to design a living space for a family of four using shipping containers 8’x 8’x 20’/40’. This house is designed to be easily prefabricated and to withstand rising water levels. The design utilizes two 8’x 8’x 40’ containers for the main private and public functions of the home, and one 8’x 8’x 20’ container separating other two containers.

The middle container thus becomes a threshold between the public and private functions of the house, as well as a viewing platform from where to enjoy the view from above.

Lastly, sliding panels on the large windows serve to protect against both wind and excess sunlight.

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