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COLUMBIA BOATHOUSE Location: 555W 218th St Square Footage:30,000 sq.ft Critic: Christian Lynch Course: Comprehensive Design 06 The project for this course is to explore the cultural and architectural issues intrinsic to the program of a university rowing boathouse incorporating community -outreach initiatives for inter-city youth. Following the bloomberg administration’s PlaNYC 2030 and the Greater Green Building Plan to substantially decrease the energy consumption of New York City’s buildings and reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, the design of the boathouse should implement innovative sustainable design strategies including but not limited to increased thermal performance and the generation of on-site renewable energy.
INTERWEAVE COLUMBIA VARCITY + COMMUNITY
SHIFT INTERLOCKING
COMMUNITY
VARSITY
PUBLIC/ SHARE SPACE
ENTRANCE
Ground Floor Diagrams Diagram A illustrates the material differences within the walls of the first floor. The dashed lines depict a glass partition while the solid lines depict a metallic perforated partition. The various transitions in glass and metal shifting across the radial axis of the building offer a possibility for material “bleed� across the ground floor. cross section
Diagram B illustrates how people navigate within the landscape through and around the architecture. The striations depict the paths people can traverse in order to weave between the site and building. The lines start from the entrance of the site and branch out in different directions in order to navigate past the boat sheds. The area of overlap where the two paths diverge ironically illustrates a moment of convergence where it creates a possibility of gathering/public seating.
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sitting/viewing
parking lot
entrance
park
entrance
Entrance Gathering zone
UP
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Park view Water view
2nd floor plan
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PRATT DORMITORY Location: Grand and Myrtle Ave Square Footage:30,000 sq.ft Critic: Michael Trencher Course: Comprehensive Design 05
The project for this course is to design a dormitory, a graduate housing community of 55 two bedroom apartments . The goal of the class is to help us develop the ability to integrate and synthesize issues of the site, program, structure, material components and assemblies, environmental systems, accessibility, life safety issues and sustainability into comprehensive building design.
triple unit
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN 2 DUPLEX/TRIPLE UNITS 2 DOUBLE UNITS 2 SINGLE ROOMS
DETAIL BALCONY SECTION SCALE: 1’=1/2” EXTRUDED-ALUMINUM FOR LATERAL REINFORCEMENT & SHADING
triple unit
18’-8”
WATERPROOF-FABRIC FOR LARGE OPENING SHADING OPERABLE WINDOW
2” DRAINAGE PIPE SET-BACK FLOOR PLAN
LIGHT-WEIGHT CONCRETE PLANTER 2 DUPLEX/TRIPLE UNITS 1 DOUBLE UNITS 1 SINGLE ROOMS
GALVANIZED-STEEL GRATING CATWALK STEEL BEAM
double unit
CLEAR INSULATING GLASS WITH LOW-E COATING
STAINLESS-STEEL EXTRUDED -ALUMINUM MULLION
BOLTED-PIN CONNECTION 23’-8”
single unit
SF FILTER SHEET FLORADRAIN FD60 PRECAST CHAMFERED BASE CONCRETE PAVERS ON PEDESTALS W.P. MEMBRANCE 2” RIGID INSULATION
SCAFFOLDING SYSTEM
water evacuated tube operable wood panel
metal panel
operable window for insulation
The system utilizes plant life to shade the interior from the sunlight during spring and summer season, and the balcony acts as a thermal barrier during fall and winter. It has a self-supporting structural system from the building.
triple unit B
STAINLESS-STEEL
EXTRUDED-ALUMINUM FOR LATERAL REINFORCEMENT & SHADING
OPERABLE WINDOW
WATERPROOF-FABRIC FOR LARGE OPENING SHADING
LIGHT-WEIGHT CONCRETE PLANTER
GALVANIZED-STEEL GRATING CATWALK
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POWER HOUSE Location: Gowanus Canal Square Footage:15,000 sq.ft Critic: Adam Elstein Course: Comprehensive Design 07 The project for this course focus on developing scenarios for the adaptive reuse of the B.R.T Powerhouse, a monumental brick building located on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. This building, sometimes referred to as the Gowanus “Bat cave� once held the massive A/C turbines that powered the Brooklyn trolley car system and later served as an informal home to squatters, graffiti artists, and underground musicians.
BROOKLYN POWERHOUSE Gowanus canal lobby
roof
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outdoor garden
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residence studio
canteen
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making
making
third fl
roof garden
roof garden
roof garden
canteen
master studio
ribbon a +ribbon b viewing space/ viewing space
exhibition
event space
master studio
canteen
master studio
exhibition event space
master studio
activity space
activity space
lobby
exhibition
exhibition
lobby
black box/ retails
black box/ retails
workshop
master studio
exhibition
roof garden
roof garden
roof garden
ribbon a +ribbon c viewing space/ working space
workshop
master studio
exhibition
classrooms
classrooms
classrooms
master studio
master studio
workshop
workshop
workshop
workshop
lobby
second fl
exhibition
exhibition
exhibition exhibition
lobby
black box/ retails
black box/ retails
main entrance leased studio
workshop
ribbon c +ribbon b working space/ viewing space
roof garden
roof garden
roof garden
workshop
leased studio
workshop
event space
classrooms
classrooms
event space
workshop
first fl
leased studio
workshop
leased studio
workshop
exhibition
exhibition
entrance
roof garden
roof garden
roof garden
ribbon d +ribbon c working space/ working space
activity space
workshop kshop
workshop
event space
workshops
classrrooms
classrooms resident studio
workshop
resident studio
residence studio
workshop
workshop
workshop
exhibition
exhibition
basement
entrance
roof garden
roof garden classrooms
gallery
activity space
roof garden
studios
leased studio canteen
gallery
master studio
workshops leased studio workshops leased studio
entrance
lobby
workshops
event space
gallery
retail
residence
residence
black box theater
2nd street
roof garden
roof garden
classrooms activity space
canal
gallery
gallery
roof garden leased studio
master studio canteen
workshops sleased studio workshops leased studio
entrance
lobby gallery
event space
workshops residence
lobby black box theater
retail residence
exhibition
classrooms
leased studio
The studio began with an initial on-site charrette and symposium with the building owners, outside speakers, and aac participants and faculty . Students are ask to consider the nature of making (both in terms of artistic production and contemporary “make culture�), the nature of viewing ( both in terms of the display of art and the engagement of urban context), and the potential for embedding relationships between making and viewing by means of tectonic interventions in as historically significant structure.
roof
leased studio overlook the workshops
exhibition space over look the studio space
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Representation Critic: Adam Elstein Course: Digital Fabrication
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TOP VIEW feeding tubes
Underwater Underwa w ter Organism wa emissive shell
this underwa underwater w ter organism exist on the ocean floor, wa navigating that wrap around it’s navi a gating the spaces using tentacles avi t tacles i body.wrapped in the tentacles lies an emissive shell that takes on a form resembling that of a flower petal. The crux of the organism garners and filters nutrition, which it collects using the outreaching“arms” extending from the core.
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ROCKAWAY BEACH
SURF AWAY CAFE
Location: Far Rockaway Beach 59 th Square Footage: 2,000 sq.ft Critic: Zehra Kuz Course: Comprehensive Design 08 The “Surf Away Cafe” is a program that combines the necessity of the community as well as an amenity for the neighborhood. The people of Far Rockaway are part of a close knit community. However, even with their beaches, it has become difficult to bring people to this part of New York. There has become a need for this community to bring more people to the area. In addition to its community, Far Rockaway has many local charity organizations that do a lot for its people; Rockaway Waterfront Alliance being one of them. Rockaway Waterfront Alliance has recently took part in another organization called “Resurf.” Resurf takes old surf boards, has their kids paint them, then they teach these children how to surf. It is a fun way to help children. With these two needs of the community of Far Rockaway we have decided to create a program that combines two programs that could benefit the community. Having an amenity such as a cafe along the entrance of the boardwalk is convenient for the beach goers and can help attract people to the area. At the same time, Resurf needs a place to hold its surf boards, give lessons and to sell surf equipment to the community. Created a surf shop near the beach also allows it to be in close proximity to the water so people would not have to carry their boards a long way.
ROCKAWAY BEACH
A-1 ELEV. A
SURF AWAY CAFE
cafe circulation path cafe secondary circulation path surf shop circulation path surf shop secondary circulation path
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B-1
A-1
ELEV B
SURF + CAFE FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SURF AWAY CAFE
movable elements: ex: sliding tracks existing container parts to re-use fixed elements added on
SURF + CAFE OPEN CONDITION
SURF + CAFE FIXED VS. MOVABLE ELEMENTS
fixed hardware for sliding panels movable elements: ex: sliding tracks existing container parts to re-use fixed elements added on
SURF + CAFE CLOSED FIXED VS. MOVABLE ELEMENTS
SURF + CAFE CLOSE CONDITION