Stephen Fleming Undergraduate Portfolio

Stephen Fleming Undergraduate Portfolio Auburn University 2018

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Table Of Contents Kabuki Theatre Museum | Tokyo, Japan

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Mobile Apartment and Hotel

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Arts and Cultural Center

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Manipulated Disorientation

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Module Wall

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Rural Studio Farm | Greenhouse Workroom and Tool Shed

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The Zig Zag Chair

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Magnolia Grove Watercolor

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Architecture of the City | Rome, Italy

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Kabuki Theatre Museum Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Spring 2017 / 4th year Project During the Edo period, Asakusa became known as the entertainment district. For most of the twentieth century, it remained a major entertainment area in Tokyo. The area was heavily damaged by US bombing in WW II, but was rebuilt after the war. Asakusa has not fully returned to its reputation as the theatre district, therefore the Kabuki Museum strives to stimulate growth in bringing back old traditions. Kabuki is a classical Japanese dance-drama where this type of theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its actors. The word “kabuki” means “The art of singing and dancing.” It can be interpreted as “out of the ordinary” or “bizarre theatre.”

Kabuki is a very dynamic art where actors use all areas of the theatre including the stage and a foot-bridge, which extends into the audience, in order to manifest one frequent theme, dramatic revelation or transformation. The form of this museum emulates the dynamic acts of kabuki while the structure dances up the facade. The proposal offers a hub where people can watch a show, explore the exhibitions of traditional kabuki theatre, and learn about the innovations of the mechanics involved with the play. Afterwards, they can dine in the restaurant that overlooks the Kaminarimon, which means the “Thunder Gate” and Kengo Kuma’s Tourist Information Center.

The “floating lantern” on the facade emulates traditional lighting used in theaters during this era.

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The inverted, exposed, concrete structure creates an eloquent stance in a series of diverging columns. The v-shaped columns flip on the cafe so that from the exterior, the columns appear as if they are “dancing up the building,” an interpretation of the definition kabuki: The art of singing and dancing.

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Progression By creating a frame with a transparent edge, the image of a “floating” volume was created. Then a loggia was developed to give space back to the public. This also helped to bring light into the lobby because of the glass wall that wraps the north and east facade. By exposing the columns on the third floor in the fifth model, the

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cafe gained outdoor, covered seating which overlooks the intersection. After flipping the columns on the third floor to achieve a more dynamic structure, a 2’ thick ribbon window on the top theatre floor helps to visually break up the solid mass while allowing visitors to look back at the intersection when they sit down.

The “Floating lantern� glows at night to provide soft light for the interior exhibition space, while also resembling a traditional screen used in theatre from the exterior.

East-West Section

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3rd Floor The restaurant capitalizes on the views across the street towards Kengo Kuma’s Asakusa Culture and Tourism Center to the right, and the Kaminarimon to the left.

Kabuki Theatre Backstage Classrooms Exhibition Space

Restaurant Gift Shop Lobby Office

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4th Floor The double-height exhibition space uses channel glass to diffuse the natural daylight that enters the space and illuminate the interior at night.

Kabuki Theatre Backstage Classrooms

Exhibition Space Restaurant Gift Shop Lobby Office

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8th Floor The double-height kabuki-style theatre seats 80 guests. Circulation around the theatre is important to consider because the actors need to be able to pop out without being seen by the audience. Trap doors allow actors to quickly fall down into the backstage and dressing area.

Kabuki Theatre Backstage Classrooms Exhibition Space Restaurant Gift Shop Lobby Office

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Mobile Apartment and Hotel Mobile, AL / Fall 2016 / 4th year Project Mobile, Alabama receives heavy amounts of rainfall annually, which can be a problem because 50% of the downtown district is made up of parking lots. There is a lot of runoff that causes flooding, and the city does not feel like it has a dense urban environment. The studio put together a model of downtown Mobile in order to study the density and propose a future plan for how the city might develop. Businesses, food production, transportation and the water system were studied in order to propose new systems that will help the city prosper. By incorporating concepts from the studio’s new city plan proposal, this project strives to activate the ground floor by organizing public space along the street front. The importance of environmental awareness inspired the need for passive cooling through cross ventilation in all apartments to create a more comfortable, living environment.

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Because 50% of the downtown district is made up of parking lots, the city does not feel like it has a dense urban environment. As a studio, the class put together a model of downtown Mobile in order to study the density and propose a future plan for how the city might develop. The white buildings are proposed in order to activate the city by inserting more shops, businesses, and apartments. The studio divided into smaller teams to study the existing conditions of the city’s water system, transportation system, food production, and businesses in order to propose new systems that will help the city continue to develop.

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Third Plan

The site is located two blocks Northwest of Bienville Square, a historic city park in Mobile, on the corner of St. Michael St. and North Joachim.

The two taller bars to the north and west provide a view across the green roof over to the city park.

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Second Plan

Ground Plan

A series of ribbon windows underneath the walk up apartments let light pour in to the back of the retail and office sharing spaces while lifting the facade off of the ground of the courtyard to appear as if it is floating.

The section through the double height lobby of the hotel provides a view that overlooks the elevated courtyard.

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Typical one unit apartment

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Typical two unit apartment

Breaks in the facade let in more light to each two bedroom apartment through floor-to-ceiling apertures. The long floating facade will glow at night from light bouncing off the columns.

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3D Rendered Section

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Passive Cooling Strategy Apartment units designed with windows on both sides to allow cross ventilation

Water cistern below elevated courtyard Green Roofs HVAC and Mehanical Room

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Arts and Cultural Center Mentone, AL / Spring 2015 / 2nd year Project The community lost one of their major icons when the Mentone Springs Hotel burned down. This project will be the new symbol for the town and revive the foundation of art and music that this area shares and loves. The new center will be an art, music, conference, and teaching facility. The community does not have an ample amount of money, so the project needed to be phased in 2 parts. The concept of this project is to connect views with the landscape by taking advantage of its location on the highest point of the site and appear as a piece of art displayed on a grassy site. By creating a design that is Eco-efficient, multiple spaces can be used throughout the day without the intense Alabama heat making the experience uncomfortable.

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Phase One This phase provides a large multiplurpose double height space that reaches out towards the South overlooking the organic farm. A second story indoor balcony provides a place where judges can overlook the stage below or a sound booth can be located without interrupting the event. Classrooms on the second floor offer both an East and West orientation to allow for a variation of light intensity throughout the day. A second story outdoor balcony that overlooks the coutryard offers a shaded space for people to have a an outoor class without feeling the intense heat in Alabama. When the weather is nice, it serves as a place to watch concerts or activities that involve a stage that take place in the lower courtyard.

Phase Two This phase will add five more 450 sqft classrooms that take advantage of the views of the surrounding landscape. It is a single story conditioned building that includes a second story multipurpose pavilion. The rainscreen slips past the edge of the building to become the shading structure that wraps the pavilion. The rainscreen frames two important views: one looking towards the organic farm to the South, and the other connecting views back towards the city of Mentone to the Northeast.

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East elevation showing the view from the street

Section through the courtyard

The experience throughout the design is unique to one’s position upon the site because the rainscreen allows and denies certain views. The direction of the wood draws the eyes of the viewer out to the scenic views of the landscape.

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Manipulated Disorientation Auburn, AL / Summer 2014 / 1st year Project The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is located in Auburn, AL off of South College St. As the museum continues to grow, an addition will be needed to hold all of the new artwork. The intent of this project is to recontextualize certain indirect and visually intriguing moves from the existing museum.

Several locations in the new addition play with the mind’s perception through intentional manipulation of ground level, depth perception, and distorted spaces.

The mirrored facade erases the massive volume of the museum in the surrounding landscape.

On the approach to the site, the building is visible from the south, but as the viewer passes by, the building’s clear definition becomes hard to see because of the mirrored glass. The entrance to the museum descends down a ramp into the lobby and brings a dark and heavy feeling upon the person experiencing it. The long hallway leading to the light gallery has angled walls to distort the depth perception of the viewer creating a unique experience. As the viewer reaches the end of the hallway, a window reveals a glimpse of the Jule Collins Museum. However, because the museum is sunk into the ground, the viewer is looking out at ground level which provides a new perception of the existing museum.

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North elevation showing the sunken courtyard.

By sinking the courtyard, people appear less visible from the street.

A Section through the entrance ramp and light gallery space.

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Module Wall Summer Option 2014 / 1st year Project The objective for this project was to design a wall made from individual modules that interlocked and overlapped with one another to shape how light bounces off and moves through the wall. The block wall stands 18” x 12”. The modules designed needed to be no more than 2” x 2” in order to create a wall that supported a brick. With the combination of two modules, light can penetrate through and reflect off the surface to create an intriguing pattern of light and shadow. The images to the right show light channeled through the wall versus light reflected of the surface of the wall.

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Rural Studio Farm | Greenhouse Workroom and Tool Shed Newbern, AL / Fall 2015 / 3rd year Project Stephen Fleming / Zack Cundey / Ryan Taunton / Maggie Wohltjen / Andrew Lang The Passive Solar Greenhouse is an ongoing student project on the Morrisette campus. This phase of the project first identified that the gardener did not have an efficient place to work. A functional space with storage was developed, and then constructed to unify the location of the activities of the gardener. The proposed design aims to create a sense of functional transparency and display the process of the organic farm. It was important to the team to provide a learning space where future students can understand the farm expansion and process. A concrete floor in the work room provides a flat surface for the gardener to sit at the table. The concept of hanging the structure from the existing frame keeps the structural integrity of the greenhouse and offers the gardener an easy cleanup by sweeping dirt between the wall and the floor.

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Since the greenhouse has an existing structure, the team had to imagine how the new project would work in relationship with the old. The team explored the concept of inserting the new addition between the existing structure versus adding an exterior shell that would wrap around the framework. The question of the level of enclosure was assessed after talking with the gardener and learning about what activities he might use the space for.

Wrapping around the existing structure

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Inserting between the existing structure

The class divided into small groups in a charrette where each team was assigned a different material in order to develop ideas on how to address the following questions: -How does the project relate to the pre-existing greenhouse structure?

-What is the most effective way to organize tools on a farm?

-How can the space be designed to provide flexible storage?

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Photograph of before and after

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The concept of hanging the new project from the existing structure led the team to develop a detail of the corner of the gardener’s workspace so that it could extend past the edge of the barrels.

A partial plan of the greenhouse showing the gardener’s work room and tool shed to the North.

The greenhouse is located on the northeast corner of the Morrisette campus which is off of AL-61. The master plan of the Rural Studio Farm demands for expansion in order to promote sustainability. It was necessary to observe all of the elements that make up the system of the farm to understand how the project will make an impact.

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Since the farm is looking to expand, tool inventory was necessary to assess how much space will be needed to properly store the tools in an organized fashion. Documentation gave the team a baseline to understand the amount of space needed in order to fit everything in side the tool shed.

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The team chose to use wood as it provided the best option for flexibility of storage and ease of installation. Because the tools are an extremely important part of the farming process, wood provided a clean backdrop to support the concept of celebrating the tools as if they were on display.

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The Zig Zag Chair Newbern, AL / Fall 2015 / 3rd year Project Stephen Fleming / Andrew Lang The project took place during a semester at Rural Studio where a team of two had to design the process of building an existing chair and then construct it in the woodshop. The goal of the project was to build the chair as close as possible to the real design.

Research about the chair and its designer Gerrit Rietveld helped the team gain background knowledge and acquire useful information that would help in the construction process. The chair was intended to be mass produced in a factory that would require specific machinery. The woodshop only had a basic inventory of tools, so the design of jigs to cut the angles of the chair became a crucial element in the process.

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Zig Zag Chair

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Magnolia Grove Watercolor Newbern, AL / Fall 2015 / 3rd year Project Size + Media: 36� x 24� Arches Paper Just outside of Rural Studio, the Greek Revival mansion Magnolia Grove lies in Greensboro, Alabama. The house was named for the 15-acre grove of Southern magnolias in which it stands. The two-story masonry structure was built in 1840 and the front facade features a monumental hexastyle portico with Doric columns.

Visiting the site offered the opportunity to understand the proportions of the facade and the details of the structure. Sketching the building built a process that led to drafting the first elevation. After developing a final draft, the studio began to watercolor the elevation in order to give the building both texture and depth.

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Architecture of the City Rome, Italy Study Abroad / Spring 2016 / 3rd year sketches

The studio traveled through Rome and many other Italian cities to study ancient buildings and how magnificent spaces were shaped throughout history. The purpose of walking through the city everyday was to understand these spaces through sketching while experiencing first hand the environment that surrounds them. Learning how to think about space in more than one way was important in order to comprehend and create analytiques that overlapped plans with sections and axonometric projections. By thinking through this type of lens, relationships between different aspects of the city now become clear and easy to understand. Studying ancient architecture and the core fundamentals of design help establish the background knowledge needed in order to re-contextualize old concepts in modern architecture.

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