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ADVANCED DESIGN A | 08 Touching History//Kri탑anke Renovation Ljubljana, Slovenia
ADVANCED DESIGN B | 34 Challenging Verticality//Tower Project St. Petersburg, Florida
THE CARE OF MAKING | 50 Crafting a Curio//A Gift for Brother
FLORIDA MAP & MAKE | 58 The Inland Horizon //Mapping Seminar Myakka River, Florida
ADVANCED DESIGN C | 66 Adding to the Water//Tubma Reservoir Rayong, Thailand
|Caplutta Sogn Benedetg: Sumvitg, Switzerland 2012 |
|Caplutta Sogn Benedetg: Sumvitg, Switzerland 2012 |
“Architecture is a profession of the body, but also of the soul.” – A Priest in Zürich
|Vicenza, Italy 2012 |
T O U C H I N G H I S T O R Y // K R I Ž A N K E
ADVANCEDDESIGN_A | Prof. Nancy Sanders | Assoc. Prof. Robert M. Macleod |
DE CO DI NGHIST ORY // SITE ANALYSIS
Lively Space (Activated Public Areas) Boundary Path/ Bridge
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Križanke finds itself within the inner edge of Ljubljana’s historic center. Given a boundless presence of history, intervention is equally a project of analyzing place and architectural expansion. The historic origin of Ljubljana starts at the river and is the geniuses for the city’s identity. Just beyond the river architecture generates a boundary (as depicted in the map) which holds Ljubljana’s lively center. Placed just outside of the center’s primary boundary, Križanke experiences a permeated livelihood and gains a more personal identity. Following the spirit of place, the site itself owns both a historical and programmatic palimpsest; given this abundance, and in assuming the ground to be the least sacred, intervention moves into the ground extending the livelihood of the courtyard and articulating the already center of mixed program.
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I N V O K I N G E X P L O R A T I O N //
Acting upon the presence of livelihood, this intervention attempts to, while holding the identity of its current existence, generate a built relationship between user and place. The design uses a series of thresholds, transitional spaces, and viewports all sharing a common goal of invoking exploration leading to a furthered connection to place. The intervention’s existence within the ground allows for limitless juxtaposition of spaces. With the added program of gallery (justified as a public space in the spirit extending the courtyard as well as enriching the culture and identity of the site) the procession becomes fairly specific in terms of the gallery itself; given the totality of the site, this procession is a small moment which enhances the larger network of movement throughout. Procession to the gallery is dependent upon one’s start within the site as they journey to the gallery’s inner threshold; a primary procession may lead one from the site’s present entrance facing a viewport to the journey’s end; moving forward, a serendipitous journey is invoked in the spirit of exploration. 12 |
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England London Slovenia Ljubljana Piran Bled Ĺ tanjel Hungary Budapest Italy Venice Vicenza Verona Brion Switzerland Monte Tamaro Monte Carasso Bellinzona Mogno Rossa Giornico Meggen Zurich Chur Sumvitg Vals Zillis Croatia Pula
|Church of San Giovanni Battista: Magno, Switzerland 2012 |
LEARNING FROM LEGENDS // STUDY ABROAD
TOT R A V E L ABROAD | Tr a v e l S k e t c h e s a n d P h o t o g r a p h y
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J O U R N E I E D E X P E R I E N C E //
Transcending upon places of architectural legend, the importance of travel lies within the experience and, as well, in a deeper understanding of place. During travel, documentation becomes an analytical record of experience moving forward in reflecting instances of place. The most important record during these travels becomes the sketchbook. Consisting heavily of analysis, a semester abroad is very much a sketchbook studio. The sketchbook, more so than ever, becomes an important tool in thought and in design. |31
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CHALLENGING VERTICALITY // RESIDENTIAL TOWER
A D VA N C E D D E S I G N _ B
| Prof. Josue M. Robles |
REVEALING PLACE//PROGRAM
Void of a traditional program, this studio moved beyond a challenge of simple solution and pure spatially generation; the program for this project is a social juxtaposition of mixed classes creating a coexistence between adjacent dwellers of subsidized housing and market value residential units. Approaching form begins in the analysis of place. Before program can be approached, an understanding of site in terms of spatial, cultural, and historical identity is held as fundamental; analysis occurs at both a scale adjacent to intervention and an urban scale. In the present proposal for this site, I have focused my analysis in identifying two main concepts: 1) the juxtaposition and typology of social hubs (left), and 2) the overlapping scales of pedestrian and vehicular equally within the St. Petersburg Downtown Waterfront (expressed on page 43). Through sequential methods of design, the identification of site forces (realized in the analytical process of mapping) influenced the intervention’s character and image as two dimensional analysis transformed into habitable architecture.
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Facing a concert venue and nightlife/social hub, the objective of the western street face became to activate the space between new and old lively centers. This realm, initially intended for the vehicle, is constantly transformed adapting to pedestrian scale public events. The unity of new and old programs may yield the strength to reclaim the street allowing for the permanent adaption of human scale.
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A P P R O P R I A T I N G S I T E // PLACE MAKING
In part, stylistic importance takes hold in adapting to climate and to the context (maintaining the image of the city). Aesthetic methods are borrowed from the practice of tropical modernism; however, the primary influence in form is associated with molding the public realm. Public space dominates the program giving back to the city and acting as a partial solution to the mixing of social classes; a simple formula asserts that shared spaces are also public space in blurring the identification of residence while extending the public realm. |43
GROUNDING MOMENT//THRESHOLD
The power of the public realm within the site begins at the entry. The juxtaposition of program and spatial molding of threshold generate a transitional space isolating and allowing for permeable movement throughout the base level of the podium while dynamic entry invokes public interests. The importance of threshold is in defining boundary and isolation of the public realm within and outside the site maintaining a telescoping procession from entering the city to the compression of threshold faced upon reaching this proposal. 44 |
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CRAFTING A CURIO // A
GIFT FOR BROTHER
The Care of M A K I N G | Prof. S t e v e C o o k e |
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“An experience is destined to each of us at the point of interaction beyond which an object becomes outside of itself. To those who become aware of this journey the experience is tenfold.� - Toy Making
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A GIFT FOR BROTHER//CURIO
Derived from the word “curiosity”, a curio defines a unique and interesting object. Through this project I have crafted a curio, as a gift for my brother, holding the simple function of a pencil. Having recently deciding to not do his homework, my goal for this project was to create an object that invokes interest pulling my brother away from the television into an owned environment to concentrate and not only finish his homework but be inspired to make and accomplish bigger goals. Him owning the heavy level of interaction that the curio now holds, the craft of the object becomes a reflection of my wholesome self. Entering into an autotelic state I engaged design through process of making and the use of ‘found’ materials. Through the crafting of the curio I felt that a connection between my brother and I was beginning to generate; although he was not there physically, in the making of his curio he occupied associative thought (a development I may expect him to share).
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MAPPING & MAKING // T H E M YA K K A R I V E R
THE FLORIDA LANDSCAPE
| Prof. Nancy Sanders | Assoc. Prof. Martin Gundersen |
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Fed via the Myakka Watershed, vast fluctuations of the river influence the landscape as well as the transitions of wildlife native to and within the territory. As a rain fed ecosystem, regular flooding occurs due to heavy summer rains; the resulting change in water level transitions from water infested summers to contrastingly dry winters. Lower water levels seem to support wildlife along the river. In the winter, temperatures encourage strong interaction with the shadeless snaking river between the Upper and Lower Myakka Lakes. However, as the water rises wildlife migrates to the seclusion of the nearby carst typology leaving one abandoned in the tranquil abundance of water. This process is the ancestral origin from which Myakka emanates, it is the heartbeat which gives the territory life, and understanding this process only heightens experience in awe of such natural wealth. 60 |
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Karst Topography Pine Flats
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Myakka offers means of experience through human intervention; acting as a section cut through the constantly fluctuating landscape, the road allows one to briefly encounter other ecologies, such as the pine flats and marshes. In the transitions from winter to summer the marshes become a territory of hidden water. Sharing scale with the lakes, the marshes are as if a sea of vegetation. Horizon is still present, yet a boundary generates between land and sky. Horizon is further distilled in the pine flats. Here one interweaves through long moments of canopy and parries; horizon is both present and disappears, connections to the water as well have all but obliterated. Our experience may be that of horizon and in appreciating beauty, however the origin and the life of Myakka lies in the presence of water.
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THE INLAND HORIZON // EXPLORING THE EXPERIENTIAL DIMENSION
Seeing is our primary bridge in connecting to the natural world which surrounds us. It is in the aesthetics of nature which we claim beautiful. This claim is carried further at the sea engaging the point where sky and land unite; our understanding of the sea becomes that of horizon. Natural boundaries finding themselves blurred one feels as though an equal part of the landscape; it is the visual engagement which leads to this sense of belonging. Paired with the stillness and equilibrium of water, experience is a reflective understanding. This experience is highly pertinent in the liquid land, and inherently the black waters of the Florida landscape. Within the territory of the Myakka River one finds that the marsh and prairie provide the ideal condition from which to experience the inner Florida horizon. While the landscape remains in constant flux, the notion of horizon never leaves. The absence of water leaves its footprint in the winter months becoming an infinite marsh spanning large distances between tree lines. However, in the spirit of transition, an experiential drift does ensue. Without the presence of water, the horizon, though revealing its grandeur and beauty, acts a definitive barrier between the sky and the ground. It is only once one has approached the water that this fortification begins to crumble. First arriving at the river, sky exists only as reflection revealed through the filter of the canopy. Horizon occurs at a small but intimate scale. One feels appropriately protected within the canopy. The transition from river to lake occurs almost in an instant, nature’s grandeur treats one like a smack in the face; here connection to the landscape develops not through scale, but in understanding the horizon. Sky and water unify in a flawless ceremony interrupted only by the aquatic vegetation which gives each its own identity. The lake becomes the destination, given its magnitude one does not move through it as in the river; one can only become a part of it.
“Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.” – Hiroshi Sugimoto 64 |
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ADDING TO THE WATER // TUBMA RESERVOIR PROJECT
A D VA N C E D D E S I G N _ C | Prof. Jan Wampl er | V isiting Prof. Non Arkaraprasertkul |
T H E A V E N U E // P R E C E D E N T S T U D Y
Starting the semester by analyzing successful urban conditions, Las Ramblas, Barcelona held a heavy influence in the future schematic of the Tubma Reservoir Valley. The process of analysis follows a method identifying “the space between� in terms of intensity. From this analysis we were able to identify and borrow from the juxtaposition of a larger organizational parti and their support of smaller moments of singularity. The ultimate development of this idea strengthened the character of the projects spatial association. 68 |
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ADAPTING TO CULTURE // IDENTIFYINGPLACE The soul of the city lives within the strength of its social interactions and its physical adaptions to site. Our vision for the Tubma Reservoir Valley holds character to a city emerged in nature while embellishing Thai culture. The design scheme aims to connect the surrounding context of culture, new industry, and ecology while promoting the emergence of new intellectual, cultural, and commercial capital. 70 |
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The compositional process began with establishing a main spine, which organizes an articulation between the two ponds. Acting as a structure which feeds an active community; the spine becomes the primary pedestrian thoroughfare. Holding the highest intensity, the spine feeds arteries which hold further intimate spaces. The experience and life of the settlement lie within the interweaving of these spaces, opening to a series of public plazas, the most central of which holds ground from its adjacencies to and East Water tower.
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R A D I A L O R G A N I Z A T I O N //T H E P L A N
The plan situates itself with the narrow pass between two reservoirs blurring the line between land and water. er, (specifically one towards an eastern mountain) are highlighted in the organization of secondary avenues. Perpendicular to this view, the spine/avenue, rich in life, works with the East Water tower in establishing landmark thus becoming the primary source of way finding and main artery in place making. 74 |
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| Hardwood & Rubber Plantation |
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| School for Makers & Workshops |
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T H E A V E N U E //MARKET CULTURE
Through experiences gained form travel through various Thai cities, the importance of the market and it’s adjacency to public thoroughfares became understood as an important value to the culture. Given this enlightenment a strong strive was made in the schematic design to merge the market with the primary organizational spine and center of life in the city, improving a Thai identity of place. 78 |
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Plazas act as multi-purposed place, highlighting prime elements of the city such as a destiny which attempts to mimic the livelihood present in city such as Bangkok. Key elements which give life to the city include a large public park that gives back to the people of surrounding communities; an educational hub that acts not only as a school for children, but a place where community can gather and trades can be passed down; a commercial district that hold large scale functions such as higher scale retail, entertainment venues, business ventures, as well as other supplementary functions. Contrast aids the image of paradise, focusing living in a dense center which supports livelihood and allows for the surrounding nature to hold.
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IDENTIFYINGPLACE// A NEW VERNACULAR Sustainability suggests longevity; capitalizing on natural systems, it applies not only to systems and infrastructure, but primarily to the spirit or image of the city. Adaptions to climate take place at the scale of the city and furthermore at the level of architecture. By applying knowledge gained from experiencing traditional Thai architecture, in reference to current technologies, culture, and materials we can begin to suggest a new vernacular. The architectural ideas, within the urban scale of the city, focus on the ideas of transparency and breathability of the structure, in relation to shade and ventilation techniques of traditional Thai architecture.
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LIVING ON THE RESERVOIR// Life on the reservoir could be considered second to their function, however the functional aspect of the site is what gives the city its own identity. The reservoirs’ purpose in extreme circumstances holds the potential of significant change in water level (represented to right). Rather than relocating, this schematic takes advantage of the fluctuation by redesigning the existing slope to allow habitation during a dry season. Not only does this allow for a temporal expansion of space (even the generation of festival), but influences a transformative understanding and respect for place. 84 |
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