FA21 - ARCH213 - Architectural Design Core Studio III

ARCH 213 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CORE STUDIO III FALL 2021

NICOLE GRIEF Finding Purpose SOPHIA BONO Carvin and Extruding MICHAEL CHMIEL Cultivating Concepts From The Groud Up JOSEPH MEMBRINO Finding The Way Back

KAIA ANDERSEN Responding to Existing Space JORDAN MCDONALD Design From Inspirations WILLIAM PROUT Portfolio CAITLIN BOUFFORD Portfolio ZACK WIENERS Portfolio

Finding Purpose

Nicole Grief

ARCH 213 Architecture Design Core Studio III - Fall 2021 Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art and historic Preservation Karen Hughes Nicole Grief arch 213_05 Portfolio

Project One

Digging and Assembling

In the beginning of the semester, incorporating the use of land was a new subject. In project one, a basic structure was given to us inside of a given landscape.

Project one helped familiarize a sloping land in preparation for our final project. In project five, I was at first hesitant to make such large decisions about rearranging or changing the landscape. Once I became more familiar with the site I was given and a little more confidence in my design. I now understand that making big decisions, rather than multiple small ones, are more impactful and can make a project stand out with larger individual ideas.

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Project One

Digging and Assembling With the knowledge I have gained through all the projects, precedents, and critiques throughout this semester, it has changed my outlook on how landscape and design are connected. One cannot just carve out a spot for where they want a building to go. The design of the building and the design of the surrounding landscape must work in harmony and be equal to one another or else one will over power the other unintentionally. Making sure to be focused on both aspects of a project is vital for making a developed project.

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Project Two Artifact

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Project Two Artifact

I learned that an important element for a powerful design is how strongly the concept connects to the physical design. The connection between the two strengthens the overall relationship between them and can make a more confident project. I learned this in project two because I felt elated and confident about my concept and that confidence showed throughout the rest of the project. The concept was the connection between a boathouse artifact and a seating object through anthropomorphism. With that key word I was able to visualize a strong connection between the artifact and the seating that was in the design process.

As the design was being developed, more and more parts of the seating object began to relate back to the artifact through anthropomorphism. This strong connection drove the project and created a confident result.

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Project Two Artifact

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Project Five Boathouse

This project can be placed in society today and have a positive impact. The boathouse from project five upgrades the Narragansett boat club’s current building into a much larger, more accessible, and overall more appealing boat house for all of the public to use. This building can help engage the community by allowing a larger viewing space to watch the regattas. It also has a large open site which allows seating, viewing, and gathering in different levels of the space. This can create a very experiential environment with the level changes and being immersed into the local nature.

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Project Five Boathouse

A challenge I faced in the semester how to make a direct, yet not general parti. At times my parti’s and concepts would be too literal and specific. At first I was confused as to why that could be a problem.

But I learned that it gives the viewer no space to visualize or imagine any other concept other than was specifically provided. By making it more general it gives more space and freedom to the person viewing. I was able to improve the parti for project five by taking two literal phrases that were used for the parti and summarized them with one word each to allow onlookers to envision heir own similar concept.

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Project Five Boathouse

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Project Five Boathouse

My drawings have improved not simply with minor technicalities, but with how I poche my drawings when working on vellum. When using bristol, sketch paper, or trace, pocheting was always done on the front of the paper to display a very dark and harsh shade. Recently, I learned to work on the back of vellum when wanting to poche a drawing. When there was poche on the back of the drawing instead of the front it still brought a dark shade, but without the harshness and loose graphite smeared on the front of the page. This was a very important technique that I learned and will continue to use it throughout my education and career.

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Carving and Extruding Sophia Bono

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Conclusion

Throughout the semester I tried to convey the aspect of carving and extruding. Starting with project one in analyzing and strategically carving out spaces to create a unique relationship between voids. Working with particular angles to convey the sun patterns to integrate sun and shadow into the massing design. Next looking at project two I kept with angles and using them abstractly I drew the artifact. These angles that came from the artifact helped me design a chair and then continue with the carving aspect of this semester. Underneath the chair was this carving sense when you sectioned it the space got less and less much like the artifact. Lastly, the boathouse really combined the language I have adapted this year with the angles and carving. The building was carved into the landscape and followed the curves of the topography thus creating certain angles that created the boathouse I designed. Overall, I felt that when designing with angles they got refined and were used more eloquently and purposefully with intention for a better design.

Table of Contents A1 Digging & Assembling A mass that synthesizes spatial relationships between subtractive and additive space making systems.

A2 Artifact A chair was designed from the analysis of the geometries of an artifact at the Hershaf museum.

A3 Precedent Analysis The sports technification centre in orio spain was looked at in relation to the water and how the building functioned itself.

A4 Site Analysis The site along the Seekonk River, the paths were analyzed through photos and diagrams.

A5 Boathouse Boathouse on the Seekonk River was designed addressing specific site conditions.

Digging & Assembling A1 Portfolio

Digging & Assembling A mass was taken and carved out to express purposefully portioned and positioned voids. Through these voids addressed where the light moves and how it would move throughout the voids. The premise of carving from the mass was spiraling and this was best exemplified on the roof and through the light wells.

This structure emphasized the light and how it moved within the structure. There are three main light wells angled to follow the sun that casts specific shadows. These shadows start on the ground and as it gets to the afternoon it shines through the passageway connecting the two main spaces. This gives guidance of how one should flow through a building aiding to intrigued within the space. The section is a clear example with how the light wells are shown on how the shadows cast down and relate to people.

The additive part is to showcase the bringing back mass but in a purposeful way. The addition of posts is supposed to create unique opportunities for space and aid in the overall design.

The addition that was made on this mass was to imply this mass came from a rectangle. This gave the roof a purpose for people to exist up there and give more space that is occupiable.

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Artifact Portfolio

Artifact A cowl vent was chosen to analyze its geometry and use those geometries to construct a chair. The cowl vent showed primary aspects when taking it into sections; the main space got less and less shown in the diagram as the representation of the space in blue. When cutting the chair the space is also getting smaller and giving the same concept as the cowl vent.

The second aspect was that there is a primary part being the circular aspect and the secondary being the stem. When abstracting those parts it showed a trapezoid can be constructed through the circle and numerous parallelograms could make up the stem. This created the basic fundamentals for the chair.

The chair is not a replicant of the artifact itself, rather the combinations of the geometries and the concepts the artifact holds.

The chair is made for one person that has an armrest that terraces down three levels for various spaces to place items. Each level gives an opportunity to place, electronics, food, bevrage, ect.

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Precedent Analysis Portfolio

Prededent Analysis The sport technification center in orio spain is a boat house that was formerly the Orio Olympic Rowing Club. The major purpose of the building is for team practice, training, and storage of materials as well as limited public viewing and interaction. The main elements of the building are the vertical steel posts, the glass volume that is the building itself and roof.

The roof resembles the sails coming up when winning and the amount of people in the boat itself and all of this was formed by the act of pushing and pulling. Also site relation to the water is that the building is parallel and therefore gives the majority of the rooms great views to the water. That way it is easy access for the boat to come in and out. Overall the building’s floor plan is quite simple with the only space for the public being on the top floor with a great viewing deck the rest of the space being private.

The Sun Path diagram shows the path of the sun and where the shadows would be cast at certain points of the day.

Starting from left to right the points where the sun is on its parth are 9:00 am, 12:00 pm, and 3:00 pm. These times give the best idea of the full path of the sun and give the best representation of where the lengths of the shadows would be. This is important because there is a light wall that acts as the back wall for the boat storage. This is light well that also helps aid in natural light in a generally dark area.

The Spatial Hierarchy Diagram shows how the floors overlap each other and where each one is located in the overall layout of the building. The bottom floor is not shown because it covers the entire bottom area below all of the other levels.

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Site Plan Spatial Hierarchy Mezanine Second Floor Third Floor Roof

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Site Analysis Portfolio

Site Analysis The site that was analyzed was along the Seekonk River.

The specific aspect about the site was the paths. The path approaching the site and the direct and implied paths integrated into the site. There were two roads, one running parallel to the water and one perpendicular connecting to the parallel road.

There was an implied path off the parallel road running straight into the water. Then there were two softscape paths, one was just above the site boundaries but tapered down in the site. The second path was on the left side that connected to the road.

These paths were lined with hay bails and trees, so you felt immersed in nature blurring the line of being on the path and not.

Overall, the site contained minimal paths, but that left room for a more natural site with countless trees and shrubbery.

Site Analysis

Boathouse Portfolio

Boathouse

Second Floor

The boathouse was designed right off the Seekonk River and the main concepts the building was designed from was integrating the landscape and the function of the buildingThe function of the building was a boat house, so the oar’s of the boat were looked at with their movement back and forth.

Pushing and pulling through the water which created the tilted acces of the building. The topography of the landscape was also used to create specific angles to hug the site and create the best view outwards the water. This ultimately created the chevron shape that was expressed with how the building sat on the site, how one entered the building and how one circulated throughout the building.

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CULTIVATING CONCEPTS FROM THE GROUND UP MICHAEL CHMIEL ARCH.213.01 - ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO III - FALL 2021 ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, ART, AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION GREG LARAMIE

TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 CONCLUSIONS 02 DIGGING + ASSEMBLING 03 WAVEFORM SEATING 04 PRECEDENT - WMS BOATHOUSE

05 SPACES - SITE C

06 NARRAGANSETT ROWING CENTER

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CONCLUSIONS Through the design process this semester, I believe my understanding of the relationship between land and building has improved a lot. The projects we undertook forced me to look at the land and the structures as one, and not independent of one another. For example, in the project Digging + Assembling, the gash through the center of the form was continued into the landscape to give a feeling of continuation and to give the move more depth. The boathouse project forced me to look at not only the forms of the ground we were working with, but also the importance of what takes place on the site. On Site C, we find a path that is constantly used by the community, and the way the boathouse interacts with the path and the hillside is a basis as to why I made many of the design decisions I did. The part of the semester I found most challenging was the time crunch of the final project. In many of the past studios, I felt like I had the ability to let ideas sit and then come back to them and make changes. In this studio, I was forced to move and work much faster, and I do wonder what I may have done differently if I had the same amount of time in years past, or even if I was more used to working at that pace.

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DIGGING + ASSEMBLING

In the project Digging + Assembling, we were given a mass and a site, and asked to carve away at them in order to create space.

The first major move for me was the large crevasse, dividing both the block and the ground into two separate elements. The rotation of the split let me extrapolate the angle to other parts of the project, and work with a sort of “rotated grid” scheme. I also wanted to create three spaces, an entry, one that felt heavy, oppressive, and dark, and one that felt light, open, and airy. At the entry, the occupant is forced down under a large mass, making them feel compressed.

The space at the bottom of the mass is dark, with only small points of reprieve, where light is allowed in. The occupants can use the crevasse to travel up to the “light” space, which is open to the sun and the view in the distance. The linear elements emphasize the light and airy elements of the space.

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WAVEFORM SEATING

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In Project 2, we were asked to create a seating device from a boating element that we found at the Herreshoff Museum. I chose a horn, and abstracted it physically but simultaneously broke it down into its main essence, which is to create sound. The abstracted forms of the horn were able to become the sound waves created by it. The sound waves interacting with one another create a “wave-interference pattern”. At the nodes where they interact, the waves constructively interfere, and the amplitude of the waves are added to one another.

I wanted to use this pattern to create a seating device that was comfortable and responded to the human form. The form of the seating mechanism is taken directly from the interference pattern, where three nodes interact, but is also altered in order to accommodate someone sitting on it. The wicker-like material is used in a way to mimic a compression wave, which is how sound actually travels through the air.

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Site C was characterized by a large and steep hill that took up most of the site. Aside from being interesting to work with by itself, the hill also made it so spaces were not very common on the site. The boat ramp, runoff drains, and road were spaces by the waterfront, of which the road was the most often occupied and utilized. In the woods, there were also several found spaces, spaces that were hidden and revealed while walking along the path. The idea of found spaces had a lot of potential, and is a concept that continued on to become part of the boat house project.

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The parti of the Narragansett Rowing Center was in some ways inspired by the Waveform Seating Project. I wanted to continue to explore the idea of the ways waves interacted, this time in the form of the wakes of two rowboats moving past one another. The two sides of the waves created the two main spaces for programmatic elements, and the space in the center allowed for community integration into the boathouse itself.

As the community, or the occupants of the Rowing Center, walk past the boathouse, the vertical louvers are intended to give the experience of the water itself. The forms undulate and naturally crest and fold over one another. The precise vertical rhythm is meant to counteract the random nature of the water with the order and precision of rowing. The louvers also provide shade for the interior of the boathouse from the eastern light of the sun.

The two distinct volumes are divided programmatically between people and boats.

The upper element is intended for people, where the spaces are further organized from left to right as most-private, semi-private, and the public lounge at the end. The lounge opens up to the river, allowing for views in both directions.

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The waveforms found in the louvers along the facades also are translated into the landscape as hills that create found spaces.

The path meanders along the riverside, mimicking the shapes of the structure while also undulated towards and away from the river to allow for better views. The path continues directly through the boathouse, integrating the community. The viewing deck is located above the boat storage, containing more found spaces and allowing for more views of the river below.

Finding The Way Back

Joseph Membrino ARCH 213 Architecture Design Core Studio III - Fall 2021 Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation Greg Larmie

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Table of Contents Assignment 1: Page 4-5 Digging & Assembling

Assignment 2: Page 6-7 Artifact

Assignment 3: Page 8 Precedent Analysis

Assignment 4: Page 9 Site Analysis

Assignment 5: Page 10-13 Boathouse

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Summary Conclusions

This semester I feel as though I have improved significantly, not just in the work that I produced but also in the ways that I now think. Over this semester, I took what I have been able to learn from past mistakes I have made to be able to create what I consider to be some of the best work I have ever done. Learning about how objects can be inspirational to the design of an object or structure. The ability to take a form of an object and be able to envision the structural aspects of it to then be used to create Architecture was an incredible topic to work on. The biggest thing I learned from this semester was the ability to be able to find good ways to get a structure to interact with the environment and site that it is located in, along with being able to make the structure look appealing to people. I believe that architecture should never subtract anything. The design of the structure should always add something to the site to make it better and not just be thrown together to solely serve a purpose. The building should both serve a purpose and fit with its surroundings.

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Project 1 With the Digging & Assembling project, a big inspiration for my outcome was Tombs and chasms. The structure is broken up into two main spaces, a lower area, and an upper area. The lower area is supposed to be reminiscent of an Egyptian tomb with a Ruf carved-like entrance that leads into a smooth interior, with light wells that ominously light the space. This then wraps around to open back out to the open where there are wooden supports that fade to the upper area of the structure. This is supposed to be reminiscent of archaeological scaffolding.

Making your way to the upper area there are three main spaces to occupy. For the first and second spaces, the scaffolding continues and raps up to cover the area, acting as a shading device for the people in these spaces.

These shading devices were inspired by archaeological scaffolding with a reminiscent minecart track that runs the length of the structure. The second space continues with the chasm theme from the lower area where you can look down into the lightwells to see into the area below.

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Project 1

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Project 2 In the Artifact project, I was tasked with taking an object (a part of a Boat) and turning it into a setting device. I ended up picking a “Bow Chock Cleat”. This cleat’s job is to help pole and hold a boat up against a dock, by using the tension of a rope. From my break down I decided to use “tension” as my theme for the seating device.

When making my seating device I decided to use tension in both a literal and metaphorical way. The literal use of tension was done by using tensegrity legs to hold my bench upright. My Tensegrity legs basically work by having two “U” shapes that go into each other and are held by a rope in the center and two on the side. The ropes are then tensed up to hold the seating device in place.

The metaphorical use of tension comes in with both the layout and intended use of the seating device. The device is intended to be used for, “tense situations” such as a divorce or political meeting space. The tall walls surrounding the space will help keep all of the tension inside for maximum tension between the people inside.

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Project 2

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Project 3 The Rowing Center in Spain is a very interesting structure, with the main structure being completely embedded into the ground and a viewing platform, and a pavilion along the top.

The structure is located 361Ft away from the water atop a tall hill. This is because of the varying water hights, with it being located on a Dam site.

The structures public and private spaces are divided by firstfloor being private and second-floor being public.

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Project 4 When looking at site C there are two distinguishing fetchers of the site, one being that it is located directly on the water, and in the back of the site there is a tall hill that is a bit too steep for walking or climbing safely.

The site comes with a boat ramp with a place to sit. Continuing down the site you will find three stormwater drains. And atop the hill, there are two naturally created spaces along the paths that go along the top of the hill, where people could gather. the site has two main sets of terrain, a lower area towards the start of the site that then rises up to a steeper terrain towards the middle to the end of the site. this site was perfect for me to make my project 5 reflect back to my precedent study of the Rowing Center that was embedded in a hill.

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Project 5 For project 5 “Boathouse” I was tasked with coming up with a new design for the Nareaganset boathouse on-site “C”. My overall design was influenced by my precedent study and how it was embedded into the terrain of its site. My Parti for this project is the literal embedding & structuring. The literal embedding is achieved by the structure being built into the hill, and the stretching is achieved by pulling the terrain out to create three outdoor viewing areas (Labeled as the lower, midle, and upper viewing areas). One of the things I wanted to do with the structure was to have it occupie unusable space. I also didn’t want the site to loos a lot of its natural beauty. My solution to these things was to have the structure embedded into the hill ( A steep part of the hill where people can not be) and to add green space to the roof to make more usable space for the site and to help replace the natureal land being taken for the building.

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Project 5

On the first floor, you have the boat storage room, boat repair room, and lower storage room. The Boat storage area can accommodate over 100 varying boats of all different sizes. The boat repair room can accommodate 12 of the largest boats to be able to be worked on. This floor is just for staff and rowers.

The Second floor has a gym and locker rooms on it, with access to the lower viewing areas outside. There are two locker rooms either being organized as men and women or the Home team/away team. There are three main spaces in each locker room, with a locker space, bathroom, and shower area. This floor is just for staff and rowers.

The third floor has a large indoor viewing area with large windows that looks out at the water. This floor also contains the public restrooms, food prep area, and Mechanical room. This floor is open to everyone. the fourth floor is where the office and meeting room are located. These spaces share the same view as the indoor viewing area from the third floor. The floor also has a set of private bathrooms for the staff on this floor. This floor is just for staff.

On the roof, there is a green space where people could go to lay out a blanket and relax while watching the races.

The path that was on the top of the hill now flows into this area creating a perimeter viewing area where people can walk along.

Finally, down below, there are a set of docks that help play with both the natural forms of the site and the structural forms of the building built into the site. In between these two docks, there is also a boat ramp where larger boats can be offloaded or picked up out of the water.

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Project 5

At the start of the project, I had envisioned my structure to be a beacon of light to help lead the rowers back after practicing in the early morning darkness.

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Project 5

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RESPONDING TO EXISTING SPACE Kaia Andersen ARCH 213 Architecture Design Core Studio III - Fall 2021 Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation Ginette Castro

Table of Contents Conclusion.............................................................1 Assignment 1, digging and assembly..................2-3 Assignment 2, artifact...........................................4-5 Assignment 3, precedent analysis........................6 Assignment 4, site analysis...................................7 Assignment 5, boathouse......................................8-16

Conclusion Throughout the course of the semester, I learned to work with the landscape. Before this semester I focused most of my energy on the design of the space, without thinking of how it would affect the land surrounding it. In these past projects, I have worked with that relationship, between digging space out of the land and adding on top to create new spaces.

During assignment five I grew to appreciate how the land could transform a project, making it unique to the site. For the final project, I was given a site that was mostly taken up by a very steep hill. It took a little bit to figure out how I could design such a large space with these conditions. However, looking back on this project, it was a good challenge to be able to tackle.

One of the challenges I had this semester was relating all of my projects to one another. The precedent analysis, site analysis, and boathouse of course melded nicely together. Though, I was never able to connect them back to the artifact we had chosen for assignment two. I think something that may have been a more useful transition between digging and assembly and the boathouse design could have been an exercise on how to realistically organize space at a smaller scale.

I think this was the first semester for many of us where we had to split our time up evenly between all of our classes instead of focussing solely on Studio, which was a new challenge for me. In the beginning, it was overwhelming trying to maintain a good project for each class. I could feel my level of work in Studio slipping because of this and had to switch my priorities around. Once I put my focus on Studio I saw my work improving from the beginning of the semester and I think I was able to end on a good note.

Assignment 1: Digging and Assembling This first project, Digging, and Assembly, focused on the relationship between spaces being made by taking land away and spaces that were made by adding material. I think that this was a nice way to start thinking about land design. My original idea for this project was based on personal changes after traveling. When I experience new cultures I become more open-minded to new ideas. My layout of the different spaces follows this concept as it winds through narrow spaces and into larger rooms. I also wanted people walking through to have a constant loop of circulation with no direct “stop” and “start” points. As you are never done learning in life. When digging out these spaces I also started to play with the contrast of light and darkness. There is a large space cut out from the bottom corner that has little access to light. On the opposite corner, the space carved out gets maximal light. In between these two, there are narrow passageways that not only lead you around the perimeter but through as well.

As you walk through you come to a large opening in the center. To offer the space filled with darkness and through the center. , through the center space and down. I wanted to continue the contrast of light and dark, airiness and density when thinking about additive space. In one area I left sticks hanging down the side as if to weigh down this half of the space, playing on the darkroom directly underneath. On the other side, I designed upwards and closed off the are dug out with a very open, simplistic design.

Above, the images show the model complete and also with the top off to show the passages and space that go through the center.

The close up images on the right side are to show some of the space in the model. In the top left corner I wanted to show a space that is full of darkness from a different perspective. From this point of view you can see additive pievces wanting to pull the space down. The top right image shows the journey from inside the center, desending down the stairs. here you can see the light coming through from the ther side and the darkness they are about to desende into. The bottom image shows the continuation of the passage around the space and into the large opening.

Assignment 2: Artifact This project began by choosing an artifact that piqued your interest from the Boat Museum. I found an old pulley that I had found interesting to base my design on.

The main part of my artifact that I took away was that it had a fixed bottom and the circular piece in between was able to move. My concept was to play on the opposites. The bottom of the chair is made up of around fixed pieces and the chair itself can move 360 degrees. The angle made from the face of the seat and the fixed object comes from the angle made from my artifact and the fixed object holding it to the boat. The shape of my final model was taken from the geometries I found from the plan view of the geometric multiview. The main idea of the chair being able to spin around is so that the person sitting in it can see everything around them. Looking back on this project I think I would have chosen something else. I had a challenging time coming up with a concept that had not been seen so many times before. In the future, I do think that it may be a good idea for project two to connect project one to the rest of the semester in a more cohesive way. Personally, this project felt disconnected from my design process during the rest of the semester.

Assignment 3: Precedent Analysis For this precedent analysis project, my group and I were given the Conoe Training Center in Tychy Poland. It was designed by RS + Rober Skitek architecture firm in 2020. This was one of a few different projects they have done on the Paprocany lake. All of the projects are based around engaging the public to venture to the lakeside. A large aspect of this project that we took away was the relationship between the building and the ground. In the bottom right corner you can see in the section diagram that the hill builds up around the building.

The architects used this opportunity to create a roof deck as an added viewing platform. Another moment that I took away from this was the use of angles in their project to create a variety of views as well as create interesting spaces to be used. One thing I noticed that I wanted to avoid when designing my boathouse was the clash of public and private spaces. In the diagram shown in the middle, green represents spaces meant to be private and the gray is spaces used by the public. As you can see the public space cuts the private space in two. So if iwas partof the team I would need to disrupt that space to get to the other side, and each time they take the boats out they public will have to avoid this space. Overall I thought this was a beautiful project and I am glad I was able to learn from it.

Assignment 4: Site Analysis During this assignment I studied the edges of Site C. Walking through our site I noticed that the hay bails and the tree line going up the hill mix soft and hard edges to create a natural path.

As you go towards the water the stone sea wall acts as a hard edge creating a barrier for the water. The shrubbery between the sea wall and the water becomes a breezy edge that blends the contrasting elements together.Standing outside of our site looking in from the road you can see that the road is a hard edge separating man-made and natural. In the background, the tree line becomes the edge of our site. The top of the trees also can be seen as an airy edge between our site and the sky.As you follow the bike path through our site we found that the tree line acted as a soft wall guiding you down the path. This was in contrast to the man-made sidewalk and bike path which both created hard edges defining the space. The image shown in teh top right corner is a site plan showing the general areas of the different edges.The map also highlights the various densities of the trees throughout our site. The darker green is more dense areas and the lighter green shows where trees are more sparse.

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Site plan

Assignment 5: Boathouse I started this project by looking at the relationship between the oars coming off of the boat and the people inside. I saw that the people create a strong center line that the oars come off of on each side. I began playing around with how the spaces of my building could encapsulate this idea through their placement. However, eventually I wanted to add another aspect into this concept because I felt like there was only so much I could do with it. To further my design I looked to the landscape which is a large piece of this site.

The first thing I noticed about Site C was that the large hill begins with a gradual incline which quickly becomes steep.

I took advantage of the gradual incline and created a path leading up to the entrance of the building. I built off of the steepness of the hill for the organization of the different spaces. The boat storage, that makes up the bottom floor, acts as the stable “centerline” and the spaces above become stretched further away from the center, as the landscape becomes tighter. I enjoyed the process of this project. By getting a little beter with my time management I was bke to focus on detail during this project which I did not give myself the luxury of in some of the earlier assignments.

Parti

WMS Boathouse at Clark Park.

I took inspiration from this building when designing the dock. I incorporated the use of wood and concrete.

In the diagram shown above: the pink spaces represent what is used publically, the blue is used as private space and the green shows where the added light wells are.

Final Model

Final Model

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Site Plan + Ground Plan 1:1/16th

Second Floor Plan 1:1/16th

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William Prout Portfolio

ARCH 213 Architecture Design Core Studio III - Fall 2021 Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation Samantha Moscardelli

Summary My design process about land and building improved greatly from the beginning of the semester. My design process has more range as I learned to start with breaking down basic geometries into shapes, then incorporating ideas from the landscape of a site, influences from weather and nature, and styles of nearby architecture. This improved design process forces my future projects and approch to landscape to be in cohesion. Projects will fit into and flow with the landscape.

Taking a “stance” this semester and defining many of my own outcomes strengthened my designs. The opportunity to further develop concepts and designs I presented helped improve my design process by forcing deeper and more powerful designs to be created.

The relationship between assignment 3 and 4, the Precedent Analyis and Site Analysis significantly helped in my final design project. Relating how and why an existing rowing center was placed on a site, while ajdusting to the weather, greatly influenced how I designed my final project. The relationship between assignement 1 and 2, Digging & Assembling and Artifact also helped in my final project design, as they reminded me to think about walking through a structure of massive proportions that has been abstraced through certain geometries to create an amazing experience.

My take on the project improves society because it provides the opportunity to experience the beauty of nature at a location where it was previously neglected, as well as providing an aesthetic and functioning building for rowing members to utilize. This project combines each experience as the building and nature become one.

I found designing and redesigning my projects to my liking in the allotted time to be the main challenge this semester. I overcame this challenge by sketching; Instead of devoting too much time to one idea before the next, I sketched each idea quickly and further developed the best working one. I still need to work on justifying why one is the best design idea. I enjoyed designing my project with fitting into the site the most this semester. This process was a challenge, but I enjoyed each and every wrong and right path I traveled.

My ability to communicate through drawings and models improved greatly this semester, as I began to incorporate stronger movements as well as clear diagrams to explain further. This was extremely helpful in my design process, as it was a deciding factor- If I cant explain why a move was made, it was either strengthened or removed.

Digging & Assembling In this assignment, we were asked to “dig” to create a set of subtractive spaces which touched each side of a solid block of mass. This block of mass measures 4” deep, by 4” wide, by 8” long. We were then asked to Design additive spaces to occupy the voided masses. The project was completed with a stacked 1/16th inch chipboard model with a matching section drawing composed on Bristol Board.

I “Dug” my set of subtractive spaces similarly to the way flowing water does though a canyon, as i wanted people inside to experience the massive curved walls surrounding them. My additive structure replaces the removed mass and provides a sheltered finishing point.

Artifact In this assignment, we were asked to document and draw an artifact from the Herreahoff Marine Museum. We were then asked to analyze the artifact with diagrams through the abstracting of its geometries to use as the basis for designing a seating device for one or more people. aspects of the artifact should be seen in the seating device.

I chose a pressure valve from a boat enigine because of the many possible details to explore. I analyzed this artifact by diagraming geometries, exploding its parts, rotating pieces, and similar shapes. My seating device is based off of the shape shown in section, from the valve handle. I wanted to use the curve as the back rest, and exagerate the dichotomy of the curves and angles that describe the valve handle so well.

Precedent Analysis In this assignment, we were grouped with classmates and assigned an existing boathouse or rowing center which we were asked to analyze. This analysis included its parti, relationship to water, public vs. private relationships, circulation, function, site relationship, as well as relationship to surrounding structures.

My group analyzed Bled Rowing Centrte, located on Lake Bled in Slovenia. We found it was built for viewing rowing races at the finish line. The large bleachers are used by the public, while the interior space and deck space above is stricltly for officials and camera crew. It is placed at the finish line for the best view and to serve as the location where the winnres are awarded and photographed.

Poloma Bellizzi

Matt Stach

Site Analysis In this assignment we were grouped with classmates and assigned a site located on the bank of the Seekonk River in Providence Rhode Island.

We were asked to analyze the climate and weather that occured on site A at this location.

My group analyzed how the sun interracts with the site, the flood levels, wind, as well as vegetation on the site.

Giuliana Ciarleglio

Jackson Fecteau

Jackson Fecteau

Giuliana Ciarleglio

Boathouse In this assignment we were asked to design a rowing center for the Narragansett Boat Club on the bank of the Seekonk River in Providence Rhode Island. We were asked to design with a few critical components in mind: how the boats navigate from the building to the water, how spectators can view the rowing activity, and the relationship of the building to the water with emphasis on the flood elevation.

Because i was assigned site A, the site on the river bank side of the road with the least amount of land, i designed my rowing center to start on the land, and cantelever over the water. I separated my design into two buildings; the lower, two feet above the high tide water level, houses the boats and the boat workshop. the upper, twenty-five feet above the water, holds the training and locker rooms, as well as the lounge, offices and meeting rooms. this separation of program was defined by the fifteen foot high flood line, as well as easy water access for rowers and their boats. The lower building’s roof serves as the viewing deck and center of the new foliage filled walking path along the river bank.

Arch 213.08 Portfolio Caitlin Boufford ARCH 213 Architecture Design Core Studio III - Fall 2021 Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation Rick McBride

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Assignment 1

For the first project of the semester, the main goal was to carve out of a block.

After the pieces of the block were cut out, there were additive pieces attatched to the exterior. This block was locationed in a sloped site. In this block, there are three main levels: bottom floor, circulation space, and top floor. The bottom floor has a cantelievered top with a thick support beam. The second floor, circulation floor, connects the first floor to the second floor. The third floor goes through the cantelievered piece and bridges over the second floor.

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Assignment 2

The second project of the semester was analysising a boat artifact from the Herishoff Museum in Bristol, RI. The artifact I chose was an exhaust pipe on one of the boats. This exhaust pipe was drawn and analyzed through a variety of angling, straight lines. Using the analysis and exhaust pip concept, many iterations were sketched in order to try to find a chair design. There were two desgins that I liked. I was able to combine these two ideas into one stool. Combining these ideas took many iterations to find solution that combines them both. After trying many different options, I finally figured out a way to support the chair when in its tallest form. Using a two support system, two staple-like pieces that connect the two pieces together and a support belt so counter the extra weight of a person. This stool is able to switch from one to the other with minimal effort required.

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Assignment 2

The top left photo shows the two support peices used to make the short stool a barstool. The top middle photo shows the stool in its short position. Going to the top rightmost photo, then to the bottom left photo and head right, shows how the chair changes form. The bottom right photo shows the stool in its taller postion.

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Assignment 3

Continuing with the boat theme for the semster, assignment 3 was a precedent study of a famous boathouse.

My precedent was done on the WMS Boathouse. The top left diagram is the parti of the boathouse. The roof of this boathouse was derived from the motion of rowing. Other features of the boathouse that were examinded include the public and private spaces, the circulation, and the light entering the building.

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Assignment 4

After doing the boathouse precedent, we viisited the Narragansett Boathouse in East Providence, RI. We were given a portion of this area, site A, as our site for our final boathouse project. There was research done about this portion of the site in terms of its history. This portion of the site was also examined in terms of paths, edges, spaces, and integration.

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Assignment 5

After doing both the boathouse precedent and the site analysis, I was finally able to create my own boathouse on the given site. The site I had was site A, which had a small portion of land and was mainly water. This influenced my boathouse design greatly because some rooms had to remain a certain height above sea level. My concept of the boathouse came from the relationship between the rower, the boat, and the water. I looked at the static motion of the rower with the dynamic motion of the arms, oars, boat, and water. I also looked at the different angles produced by the arms and oars in relation to the rower and water. I found these angles interesting and jumped from there. There are three floors to my boathouse. The floors are the dyanmic pieces of the boathouse. The first and third floor have similar angles while the second floor has a mirrored angle. The first floor, most private, contains the boats along with extra storage and the mechanical room. The second floor, semi-private, contains the locker rooms, training room, and a viewing platform.

The third floor, most public, contains the meeting room, offices, food prep, storage, mechanical room, bathrooms, lounge, and a viewing platform. The third floor would be where events are held and celebrations can occur. The static motion derived from rowing is the entryway/ stairwell. This piece of the building intersects all three floors and extrudes through the top of the boathouse.

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Asignment 5

There are four elevations and two section cuts for this boathouse.

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Assignment 5

These are phtos of the final boathouse model and its relationship to the site.

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Assignment 5

These photos of the boathouse model show closer details along with the roadside of the building. The middle bottom photo shows the canteleivered entrance of the building. The bottom right image shows the entryway and stairway of the building.

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Summary Conclusions

My design process about land and building improved from the beginning of the semester. At the beginning of the semester, the project focused on cutting out and removing voids. At the end of the semester, with site A, I instead head to figure out how to place a building with minimal land and mostly hanging over the water. These are two very different landscapes and require very different landscape approaches. Although these are different, I feel like they both prepped me for future approaches whether it be in a sloped landscape or on water.

The boathouse challenged my design approach in a multitude of ways. When looking at the list of required rooms to be included in the boathouse I divided them into three sections. I knew this is how I wanted to divide my floors. I also had to take into consideration that, since my boathouse was going to be above water, I had to have certain rooms at least 15 feet above sea level. I was able to look at all different aspects regarding rowing and water. For my boathouse approach I was able to look at the relationship between the rower, the boat, and the water. I looked at the static motion of the rower with the dynamic motion of the arms, oars, boat, and water. I also looked at the different angles produced by the arms and oars in relation to the rower and water. After many iterations, I finally decided upon a concept design that I liked and from there tweaked and adjusted everything as needed.

I believe the boathouse precedent and the gallery review of the precedents were the most helpful for my final boathouse project. The boathouse precedent allowed me to do research on the characteristics of a boathouse and gave me inspiration for my design. I had no previous knowledge about rowing, or boats, or even how to lay a boathouse on water.

My project improves society because it creates a gathering space for people to come together, exercise, and have an appreciation for rowing and the river.

One of the most challenging things this semester was trying to make my chair work. I had two chair designs, one a low stool and one a bar stool. I wanted to create a stool that was about to switch from one to the other with minimal effort. I had found an intricate way for the stool to sit in its small version and lift to its taller version. The hard part was trying to get the stool to stay in the taller version. I tried many, many iterations of this and eventually came up with something. I still have to work on my presentation skills, along with remembering wall and ceiling/floor thicknesses in my drawings. I enjoyed being able to explore my designs and concepts in creative ways this semester. I was able to change my design and better improve it throughout the semester, as well.

My ability to communicate my design through drawings and models improved throughout the semester. As the semester progressed, I was able to pick up some skills that helped me to produce better drawings and models. With better drawings and models, I was able to explain my designs more efficiently and people were able to imagine my design easier. The first project required cutting 62 pieces of 1/16th chipboard at a certain rectangular size. From this, I had to go layer by layer cutting each to scale for my design for this project. Even though I cut them all the same, when I glued them together all the layers were slightly off from each other and none of the sides were perfectly smooth. I learned afterwards that some of the other students sanded the sides of their project down to get perfectly smooth edges. I took this into account for the next project, the chair. For my chair, I did a similar technique to the 62 layers. I stacked the chipboard and then sanded the sides to make the finalized chair look smooth and complete. After experimenting with my initial model of my boathouse, I was able to see how to better put the pieces together to make my final model look finished and all one piece. By doing a first model, I was also able to try out some of the more intricate details of my final model to see what’s the best way to make it. Drawing wise, over the semester I was able to make them look cleaner and more accurate to my actual design. For the first project, I used a pencil to fill in the land void. This gave a sketchy, unfinished look to my drawing. I found a way to make it darker and more finished. I was able to further develop my drawings by also started understanding and translating wall and ceiling/floor thicknesses into my drawings. I also was able to incorporate doors and windows into my drawings as the semester progressed.

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Arch 213.05 Fall 2021, Portfolio Zack Wieners

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Digging and Assembling

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The structure is integrated with the site in such a way that supports sense of growth. The interior spaces and the exterior additions encourage circulation towards the east side of the structure, which is considered the ideal location. The spaces are the largest, and the views are open on the east, while the spaces are comparatively smaller, and the views restricted. This progression from west to east is what delivers the sense of growth through both the site and the structure’s components.

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Artifact

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The artifact that inspired this design doesn’t have an exact name. It is underestood to be a guide for the spinnaker pole on a racing sail boat. The guide itself is composed of 3 rollers that act as bumpers so the pole can move smoothly through, while remaining in control.

In studying and understanding this object, guidance, rotation, and control were all explored through concept sketches and study models. The objects main purpose though, is to guide. The design achieves this through its initial and final positions.

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When the seat rotates backwards, the person is guided to a new position which forces the view to change from being forward, to up the opening and out to the sky. These aspects of the seat collectively guide one’s view from the moment they sit down to the moment they stand back up. The design process allowed for the development of a seat that accomplishes an experience based on the functionality of the artifact.

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Precedent Analysis

City of Alange

Pabellón de Remo

Pabellón de Remo Cattle Grazing

José María Sánchez García

Alange Reservoir

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Key Residential Area Bathrooms/Locker rooms

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Storage

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Gym

Inn studying the Pabellón de Remo, a basic understanding of the programatic elements of a boat house were discovered. Based on the relationship between spaces in an existing and (at one point) functional boathouse, techniques and decisions, as well as flaws and strengths, can be manipulated or carried forward into a new design. Exploring other boathouses as well allowed for different perspectives and possible directions to take my project, all while knowing what is standard, and what lacks functionality for a given program

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Building Water

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Site A Analysis

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Determining a location for a redesigned Narragansett Boat Club requires the analysis of the current site conditions. After analyzing an existing boat house, the positioning and placement of the structure is understood.

The current flooding conditions, population, programatic elements, and the distance to the water should be tkaen into consideration when deciding how to position a redesigned preposal. This was accomplished by visiting the site, and developing an understadning for different possibilities; Distance to the water, versitility, response to existing site conditions, and flooding.

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Narragansett Boat Club Arch 213.05, Fall 2021 Zack Wieners

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After selecting a general area on the site, a concept was developed based on things that exist in or around the boating community. The form and creation of a wake was explored. This concept was developed into a functional structure similarly to how the artifact was developed into a functional seating device. The relationship to the site in which the structure was positioned became supportive of the concept. The importance of integrating the site into the overall project was expressed in while workign with connection to site in digging and assembling.

Changes to Site

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REFERENCE PLAN

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’-0”

SECTION 1 1/16” = 1’-0”

SECTION 2 1/16” = 1’-0” SECOND FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’-0”

SECTION 3 1/16” = 1’-0”

THIRD FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’-0”

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OBS. PLATFORM LOUNGE FOOD PREP BATHROOMS FOOD STORAGE

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CIRCULATION MECHANICAL LOCKER ROOMS

Ground Floor

TRAINING ROOM OFFICES MEETING ROOM

CIRCULATION DECK/DOCK BOAT STORAGE WORSHOP MORE STORAGE

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Second Floor

Third FLoor

The stacked masses that make up the proposed Narragansett Boat Club are organized in a way that creates a form which begins tall, becomes flatter and wider as the structure progresses South. The form of the structure was inspired by the consistent form of a wake, which too begins tall, and ends up flattening into the surface of the water. By researching the program of an existing boat house, the location of the assigned program could be determined. The program of the building is functional with it’s form, which combined with the structures connection to the site, achieves the concept of a wake. A wake is created by a boat that moves forward, pushing water to either side. This aspect of a wake’s creation is reflected in the Narragansett Boat Club through it’s response to the division between land and water. The building’s masses, it’s position on the site, and the site’s response to the structure, all support the form and concept of a wake.