FA23 - ARCH 313 - Architectural Design Core Studio V

ARCH 313 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CORE STUDIO V FALL 2023

DESIGN PORTFOLIO Lindsay Gaiser // Fall 2023 Roger Williams University Lindsay.gaiser28@gmail.com 443-293-6841

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 SEQUENCING SECTIONS 5 PRECEDENT STUDY 8 CULTURAL AND PERFORMANCE CENTER

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Sequencing Sections A Study of Flight Professor: Julia Bernert Architecture Design Studio 313.01 // Fall 2023

Assignment: Design a temporary instillation that uses a sequence of movement to create dialogue between the inhabitants and the site. Find ways to engage the public and create opportunities for interaction.

Context: The site is the quad at Roger Williams University. There are two paths that define the edge of the quad with one path cutting diagonally through the space and another running perpendicular and connecting the two edge paths.

Response: When observing the site, two things stood out to me; the first was there were birds that would be occupying the grass part of the quad. The other was the lack of people off the path; the quad it not used as a gathering space, but as a space for traveling. I chose to center my design around the enhancement of paths and the inhabitation of the process of flight.

I focused on two flying motions, one of a bird gliding and gently tilting its wings, and the other of a bird flapping its wing to gain elevation. I used the same anatomy of the structures for each movement, but each had different angles and stances.

These two movements connect with each other at the peak elevation of each.

The rest of the frames overlap to create a gathering space. Each frame of the wing is extended on each side, and these extensions create the pathways.

Concept Sketches

Sequencing Sections A Study of Flight

Plan

Sequential Vignettes

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Sequencing Sections A Study of Flight

Final Model

Structure Experimentation

Sequencing Sections A Study of Flight

Sequential Moments

Final Model

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Precedent Study Teopanzolco Cultural Center Professor: Julia Bernert Architecture Design Studio 313.01 // Fall 2023

Assignment: Analyze a precedent performance space to help better understand the program and a necessities of a theater, and develop our analysis through diagrams.

Context: The Teopanzolco Cultural Center is located in Cuernavaca Mexico.

It is adjacent to the Teopanzolco ruins. There are two performance spaces, one in the theater itself, and one on the roof that overlooks the ancient Aztec ruins.

Response: Through a series of diagrams, we explained the conceptual connection to the Aztec ruins, the geometrical qualities of the building, and the basic orgazational ideas behind the building.

Precedent Study Teopanzolco Cultural Center

Cultural Context Alignment’s

Cultural Context Alignment’s

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Precedent Study Teopanzolco Cultural Center

Geometric Analysis

Solid Void Relationship

Precedent Study Teopanzolco Cultural Center Theater Seats Stage Backstage Circulation Gathering Halls Box Office, Coffee Shop First Aid Exterior Balconies Restrooms Rehearsal and Dressing Rooms Staff Rooms Maintenance Area

Program: Upper Level

Program: Lower Level

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Cultural and Performance Center A Connection of Axis’ Professor: Julia Bernert Architecture Design Studio 313.01 // Fall 2023

Assignment: The 52nd Street Project aims to teach children between 9 and 18 important concepts like collaboration and creativity. The program is a long term mentoring opportunity that promotes the development of skills in poetry, theatrical design, music, dance, and video. Design a space for this community that responds to the urban context, reacts to the site, and creates an image of the building in regard to the city.

Context: The site is a current parking lot on the West side of the Providence River. It is located in front of what is commonly known as “the mural building.” The site is located in downtown Providence, close to the coast of the river. It also takes place around the rewilding effort that occurred in the late 1900’s.

Response: When at the site, I found my eyes were drawn to Memorial Park, an area that had been part of the rewilding effort. The reason I noticed this was I kept having to turn my head. It was upon this discovery that I noticed the axis of the site and the axis of the park were not aligned. Because of this, there is not much of a connection between the historical downtown of Providence and the newly reclaimed Providence, beside a visual connection. The aim of my design is to strengthen this connection by reorienting the axis of the public building space to be reoriented towards the axis of reclaimed Providence.

I projected the axis’ lines to find their angle of intersection. I then used this angle to create a grid based off the proportions of my stage.

I used the intersections of these grid and the lines themselves to guide my program placement. I assigned the public spaces to the reclaimed axis and the private spaces to the historical axis.

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Cultural and Performance Center A Connection of Axis’

Figure Ground

Materiality Connections

Program

Open Space

Theater Sightlines

School Circulation

Housing Density

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Site Plan

Conceptual Diarams

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Cultural and Performance Center A Connection of Axis’

Section Comparing Private and Public Spaces

Section Perspective

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Cultural and Performance Center A Connection of Axis’

East Elevation

South Elevation

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Cultural and Performance Center A Connection of Axis’

Sectional Model

Sectional Model

Sectional Model

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Cultural and Performance Center A Connection of Axis’

Final Model

ARIANA A. CHANDARPAL

DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Fall 2023 Screentime...............................2 Sequencing Sections

Kadare Cultural Center .............4 Precedent Study

Site Analysis..............8 Downtown Providence, RI

52nd Street Theatre.................12 Final Project

SCREEN-TIME | ARCH 214 | - Fall 2023 This short project’s goal was to create a space for the students of Roger Williams University to interact with as they walk through the quad.

After observing the site itself and seeing how students currently pass through the path, I came to notice many of them on their phones looking downwards.

The phone, which currently stand as a oneon one experience, isolates the students from their surroundings and interacting with the community.

In response, I decided to shift the scale of using the screen from an individual sense to the scale of the community, by playing with multiplicity and physical scale.

Creating a space where films, presentations, news, and other displays can be setup for people to observe in groups.

The screens, made to be outfitted in modules have varying angles, inspired by the angles of which one holds their phone, but to also allow different experiences of observing the screen when standing versus sitting down.

The modules were made to be easily created and broken down, imagined in what would be PVC pipes and a simple screen mesh.

The renderings for this project also happened to be my first attempt in digital realistic renderings.

Completed in September 2023

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KADARE CULTURAL CENTRE | ARCH 313 | - Precedent Study Completed with Cindy Villanueva This precedent study was done to introduce ourselves to the vernacular of theatre building types. In this case, the Kadare Centre was much more than a theatre, as it encompassed an entire cultural Centre. The variety of program spaces it had to offer also resulted in the unique look of the building.

Yurihonjo City / Kadare Cultural Center 15 Higashimachi, Yurihonjo, Akita, Japan

As apart of the precedent study, thorough research was completed to fully understand and interpret the building designed by Chiaki Arai.

All the diagrams and illustrations shown are original and have been created to boil down the information to a visual understanding.

The project’s influences, site context, hierarchy and composition, and theatre context were analyzed and compiled into a booklet shared with the studio.

For the project we also looked at the building’s structure pertaining to the library space with its hovering dome above. A structural model was also completed in term to demonstrate the understanding.

ARCH 313.01 Precedent Study Ariana Chandarpal & Cindy Villanueva

Curated Project Views

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Collage Summary of Project Influences

Yurihonjo, Japan Theatre

Site - Further North, experiences harsher winters + warm summers

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Planetarium

- Using concrete helps to keep building warm

C o n t e x t

- Rainy season begins in June-July

Library

- Does not observe daylight savings

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Site

Residential Water

Commercial Roads

Organic, Irregular, Inconsistent Form

- Located in the East of U.S, mild-cold winters + warm summers - No rainy/dry season - Precipitation is evenly distributed year-round - Observes daylight savings in Nov.

2nd Floor

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1st Floor Site

Historical Parking Lots

Government

Education

Roads

Greenspace

3rd Floor

Extreme Height / Anomaly

Providence, Rhode Island

Commercial Water

Site & Context Figure Ground Diagrams

Building Hierarchy & Composition Diagrams

Entry

Library Plaza

Tourism

Configuration A All 1,500 Seats Expanded

Theatre

From where the roots of the Mangrove Tree land...

Private Spaces

...stem the organic placement of the program spaces.

Configuration B 574 Seats Expanded

Sight-lines and Theatre Configuration Diagrams

Music Studio

Parti Diagram

Structure Model

DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE, RI SITE ANALYSIS | ARCH 313| 81-85 Dyer Street and 18 Custom House Street, Downtown Providence RI, This site analysis was a combined studio effort in order to divide the efforts for the street’s rich context.

In my own site analysis I looked carefully at the sun shade patterns to determine the placement of my plaza for the project of the 52nd street theatre, as well as the wind directions.

For a broad understanding, I looked at the relevant areas around the site pertaining to the theatre program and age range of children.

I also created a site-wide sectional cut through customs street for an understanding of the terrain changes.

20 MIN. WALK

Building Footprints

IN. WALK 10 M

Related to Performing Arts

5M

IN. WALK

The Site

“The site is currently located in the plots of 8185 Dyer Street and 18 Custom House Street, in Downtown Providence RI.

Schools

The Downtown area of Providence is vibrant and colorful, also coined as the “Downcity Arts District”, home to many craft shops, performing art centers, visual art galleries, a dance studio, and restaurants,

RISD Facilities

Directly adjacent to the site is the Providence National Historical District, where the Federal and Victorian architectural styles from 19th century buildings still stand strong. The variety of styles can be seen in one glance on Custom House Street, as an example of how each building stands out.

Brown Facilities

Water

Across the river is the College Hill neighborhood, lively with college age students as various universities have facilities there. Close to the site are the facilities of RISD and Brown University, but also in the area is Johnson & Wales, and Roger Williams.

As the clients are seeking to establish connections with their performing arts departments - the proximity is a benefit to highlight.

As seen in the figure ground, the Downtown area is dense, with narrow streets. The street directly south of the site: Delta Street, is for pedestrian traffic only, until merging with Pine Street.”

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Parking Lots / Empty Lots

Relevant Areas and Proximity Figure Ground

Winter Winds

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Summer Winds

Figure Ground

Sun and Wind Diagram

Age Demographics Diagram

Summer Solstice Shadows

June 21st - 9AM

June 21st - 4PM

December 21st - 10:30 AM

December 21st - 4PM

June 21st - 6:45PM

Winter Solstice Shadows

December 21st - 5PM

CUSTOM HOUSE STREET, SECTION FACING SOUTH 1/32”=1.0’

52ND STREET PROJECT THEATRE | ARCH 313 | This project was for a children’s theatre in Downtown Providence. I investigated the clients of the theatre, 52nd street project, and felt compelled by their mission statement “of expanding creative possibilities through creative expression” Thinking about how to achieve this architecturally, I researched about the performing arts and sought out the different kinds of performance types, and used them as a hierarchy of which spaces can be created to host those kinds of performances.

The theatre space would have its own circulation route dedicated for the actor’s / children to access the main stage rooms and school floor, while the audience enjoyed a processional stair right in front of the east facing glass brick facade.

The glass brick choice of materiality along with brick and metal panels were chosen to pay ode to the historic region surroundings, as brick is a local material, but it would be employed in a modern manner.

Audience

Performers

Spontaneous Performance.

Through circulation or outdoors, these spaces can be outfitted for spur of the moment creativity for children to perform on

- Unplanned - Adaptive - Temporary

Formal Performance

The theatre and Black Box, spaces that can be setup and planned for larger performances, where the performer and audience have strict boundaries, limited interaction with one another.

A sliced model was created for the presentation along with two 1/32nd scale models.

Site Plan - Audience & Performer Boundary

Flexible Performance

These are spaces where the performer can decide how to use the space to their advantage, meaning they can add interactive portions in a formalized space, or a formal performance in a passing space.

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-Audience and Performer Interaction -Adaptive formal spaces & adjunct spaces used

East Facade

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3- Prefunction 8- Public Restrooms 16 - Sound Lock 18 - Dressing Room 15 - Janitor’s Closet 20 - Storage 21 - Makeup Room 22- Roof Terrace 23 - Catwalks 24 - Control Room 27

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Level 1 6- Loading Dock 7- Staff Restrooms 8- Public Restrooms 9- Program Lounge 10- Director’s Office

11- Open Office 12- Kitchen 13- Costume Shop 14- Laundry Room 15 - Janitor’s Closet

Floor Plans

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1- Vestibule 2- Black Box 3- Prefunction 4- Scene Shop 5- Box Office

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Level 4 7 - Staff Bathroom 8- Public Restrooms 9 - Program Lounge 23 - Catwalks 24 - Control Room 25 - Music Studio 26 - Practice Room 27 - Classroom

North Elevation

Sectional Perspective

Model Photos

HOGAN CAIN

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PORTFOLIO

FA 2023 ARCH 313 PROFESSOR JULIA BERNERT

SEQUENCING SECTIONS

In the Roger Williams commons, many students walk on either side of the grass along parallel sidewalks. The goal of this design was to symbolically reach across the commons with catelievered beams to join these paths.The sidewalks are connected by cables, putting each side of the commons in tension with one another.

Following these forces, students might be drawn into the center of the commons for performances, lectures, and other impromptu events.

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Section facing North

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South Section 1/8" = 1'-0"

Elevation facing West

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First Level Plan 1/8" = 1'-0"

Ground Level Plan

SEQUENCING SECTIONS 2023 Experiential Perspectives

PRECEDENT - GRANOFF CENTER 2023

Facade section diagram

Theater site lines diagram

Parti diagrams - Space and Facade shift

PRECEDENT - GRANOFF CENTER 2023

Figure Ground - 1/4 mi around Granoff site

Figure Ground - 1/4 mi around Dyer St. Site with Granoff reference

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

For example, as a conceptual organizational scheme the theater is seperated into a plinth (or a rock) with a lighter wood construction on top (or trees), a relationship meant to be symbolic of nature coming in contact with the urban center.

Within the rock plinth, public spaces such as the lobby, pre-function, and main theater are contained.

Guests enter down a slight grade and thresholds are thickend to encentuate the plinth as a solid.

Within the tree tower, private spaces such as offices, classrooms, and practice areas are contained.

Occupants are meant to look through layers of glass and louvered wood to the exterior as if looking through a cluster of trees.

In between the two, there is an open multifunction space reserved for impromptu public performances or as a private play space for the children.

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Over the years, the Providence downtown has gone under a substaintial transformation in regards to pedestrian connections. In the past, the Providence river has been covered by highways, bridges, pavement, and other industrial activities. However, in the last 70 years, the river has been opened up for new parks, walkways, and pedstrian bridges to take the place of these activities. 81 Dyer St. sits at the head of these efforts to reclaim the downtown as a pedestrain center.

As a result, this theater addresses the pedestrian first by creating a small elevated plaza meant to act as a continuation of the surrounding pedestrian center. Additonally, the theater’s form and materials are meant to blend with these pedestrian spaces by abstracting some of the natural symbols found within them.

Site Circulation Diagram Site

Providence River C. 1972

Providence River C. 2023

Providence River Roads

Britsh occupation of Newport forces colonial trading North to Providence

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Providence is founded by Roger Williams

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1770

Johnson and Wales University is founded

USACE completes first dredging of Providence River to allow ships further into the harbor

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1853

Brown University moves from Warren to Providence

India Point becomes international tradng hub for enslaved people, rum, and molasses

Timeline of Providence Urbanization

New England Electric Company takes over Collier Point and ceases coal shipments out of site

1873

Crawford Street bridge is built to connect Union Station and India Point railways

Coal shipments are brought to Collier Point to be burned in Manchester St. Power Station

1926

India Point becomes a railway hub between Boston and New York

India Point is converted into a park by Mary Elizabeth Sharpe

Interstate 195 is built over 200 Dyer Street through Providence

1938

Hurricane floods downtown Providence in up to 13 feet of water

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Fox Point Hurricane Barrier is completed

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The reconstruction of Insterstate 195 is started, the entire project will cost roughly $750 million

Old pylons from Interstate 195 are converted into pedestrian bridge leading into Providence Innovation District park

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Providence River Relocation project is started by tearing down the Crawford Street bridge

1996

Collier Park is established along with William Warner’s design for the Providence River Bridge

Parking Pedestrian Paths Transit Stops

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 2023

Tree in contact with rock relationship and abstraction

Facade scheme diagram

tectonic scheme diagram

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 2023

Perspective Render - plaza South Elevation

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GREEN HOUSE

L2 - Blackbox

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PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

BLACK BOX

L1 - Plaza

PERFORME

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BATH

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SCENE SHOP

BATH -23"

-87" -79"

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Section perspective facing south

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-31" TICKET OFFIC

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17" 25" CONTROL

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PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 2023 Sectional Model 1/8” and Massing Model 1/32”