AJT | Portfolio | August 2018

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THE LIBRARY ASCEND This is a proposal for the 21st century library for the city of Providence, Rhode Island. In this assignment students were challenged to consider the purpose for the college-level library—beyond the essentials of research and reference. This library is a hub for knowledge. It keeps a extensive collection of digital and printed media, but brings to the forefront gathering and assembly spaces encouraging collaborative learning, lectures, and workshops. [ 01 ] Section Model

Rhode Island School of Design | Architectural Design Studio | Spring 2017 | Crtic Dongwoo Yim

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[ 02 ] The design process began with detailed research and analysis of the site, a parking lot adjacent to the Providence River, in the historical “Jewelry District�, where most surrounding structures are repurposed factories.

Immediately across the river are the campuses of two thriving schools— Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Both colleges are expanding their campuses to this side of the river, but mostly dispersed labs, research centers and studios. The placement of a library on this site has the potential to be the new anchor for educational facilities in this district.

The concept of developing an educational space between districts developed into the simple diagram for the library, a design where the lowest floor aligns with the grid of the downtown, and the floors following twist until the top level aligns with the grid of college hill across the river. This creates a building where the circulation is directly correlated with its orientation within the city. [ 02 ] Inital Concept Model [ 03 ] Exploded Axon

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From there, the idea of a “twisting” structural and spatial sequence becomes designated to program by placing the book stacks on a continuous ramp around the edge of the building, which wraps around the main body like a ribbon. This serves as the primary access to the program spaces in the core as well as an integral placement for most commonly circulated books. The ramp system also creates a series of small “nooks” from the negative spaces of the twisting structure, which become individual study spaces. [ 04 ] Plans

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The core of the library holds active community spaces of the library, including expansive reading room, special collections, meeting spaces, classrooms and a lecture hall/auditorium. The top floor reading room is the center place of the library, adaptable to everyday use or special events, and is lit though a large natural skylight on the ceiling. By placing the main reading room at the top of the library, it is revealed as the final part of an experience, the highest point of the ascension in the library. [ 05 ] Electric Lighting Simulation, Exterior View [ 06 ] Sections

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CIVIC TERRAFORM This is the work from a studio focused on imagining the civic gathering place as terraform, or, between object and landscape, a shaped container that owes as much to its terroir as to its internal contours.

Interestingly, the program chosen here is one of the most traditionally introverted spaces, the auditorium.

In designing a home for a company of performing arts, it was required to go back deep into the history of public music and theatre. Everything was designed in considering performing arts as artistic expression for the masses, with the theatre a music hall a place for entertainment, protest, and wonder. The cultural phenomena of performing arts here at play will be used to derive the architectural discourse found in aspiration to reconcile the programmatically rich and detailed interior realm with a landscape of sculptural and civic presence. [ 01 ] Nightime Entry Render

Rhode Island School of Design | Advanced Studio | Spring 2018 | Crtic James Dallman

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[ 03 ] The site art hand is a parking lot situated between two historically significant Libraries in Providence: the massive, monolithic postbrutalist Rockefeller Library at Brown University; and the 19thCentury Greek Revival Providence AthenĂŚum. The site itself is a steep hill, already lending itself immediately to a partially buried building. To derive form, a series a studies were performed on the site to develop the unification of surface and container. [ 02 ] Site Plan [ 03 + 04 ] Topgraphical Studies

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Through the process of 1/64 small scale massing studies, I began to figure out ways of integrating essential programs in the the natural features of the site. Ultimately, however, the buildings became a landscape of their own.

The site was ultimately dived up at the civilian level, the main auditorium was to pressed up against the main street, and it is connected to a smaller blackbox theatre. The main entrance is between these two theatre boxes, still in the exterior. The shapes of the buildings creates a very narrow entry way which then opens up to a large lower courtyard on the backside of the theatre leading into the large lobby which can function as another performance space. Above the lobby is another small theater with windows on all sides, what I referred to as the “glass box� theatre. Above all of these spaces is a large undulating roof which serves as an outdoor amphitheater. [ 05 ] 1/64 Study Model Iterations

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[ 11 ] Finally, of my main interests with the building was the duality of performance—the interaction between performer and audience. Ultimately I used that to set up many “key” perspectives to be experienced in the building. The glass box above the lobby allows transparency between multiple performances, both indoor and outdoor, allowing the boundaries of the performer and audience members to be far less clear. The main theatre itself takes a cue from Aalto’s theaters, with a semi-circle seating arrangement that is asymmetrical, giving every seat a fantastic and different way to experience the performance. The greatest performative duality of all its the roof itself. It slopes up as it faces the skyline, with two potential setups for stages, a lower enclosed performance or a large upper performance with the city skyline as a backdrop. On the top of the hill the roof itself gently slopes back into the hill, allowing for ground level access just at the base of the upper hill library. [ 07 + 08 ] (previous pages) Plans [ 09 ] Render [ 10 ] Sections [ 11 ] Render [ 12 ] Exploded Axon

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URBAN ECOLOGY This project is a vision for the neighborhood of Olneyville, Providence. Olneyville, once the industrial center of Rhode Island, is a community that has fallen into decay since Rhode Island’s economy moved away from the textiles and metal smithing industry. My main goal is to reorient the community around a natural river on the site, once used to power the old mills, but this time by using natural means and ecological necessities to design artificial interventions on the site. In this project, both the ground and living spaces are equally considered, as the ecology works in parallel to the places of dwelling, while also promoting housing that can create a place for a community to thrive for generations. [ 01 ] Photography of exisitng Olneyville

Rhode Island School of Design | Urban Ecologies Studio | Fall 2018 | Professor Peter Tiguri

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[ 02 ] (this page) ArchGIS study of need for hosuing in Olneyville.

Overlay compages flood zones and population density. (inset) Olneyville in comparison to rest of Providence

To make the river the most important part of the site, I first redesigned the land around the river, by pulling the earth up from the river, softening the river’s edge and creating a series of small hills on the site with the excess land (these small hills guide runoff from surrounding the site). All of the mass of earth I removed was returned to the site, simply reshaping to provide a more healthy ecology. From there, the insertion of dwellings started by considering everything I construct as a field, or forest of baring walls which placed on a grid don’t prevent the land from moving naturally, but rather hold their place as the land evolves and shapes around them. This ground strategy also distinguishes public spaces and private spaces, as housing retains to a linear grid, while public spaces take the form of circle pathways and courts carved between the hills, which signify inclusion and social spaces. In addition, these pathways guide the drainage from the housing and structures, all placed on top of the hills. [ 02 ] Site plan

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[ 02 ] Unit assembly diagram [ 03 ] Unit plans

Three bedroom apartment

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Every unit is designed with windows on both sides, promoting natural ventilation and maximizing natural lighting in the spaces. Between every set of units are shared vertical green houses. These green houses can be opened at the top to act as a chimney and ventilate the units in the summer, or can be closed up and opened to the units, using natural heat gain to help warm the units. In addition, these units are the places for the exposed tanks of the living machine, for filtering the water from the complex, and which act as a deeply integrated system. These spaces also become an ecological necessity which creates a social condition, these shared spaces build more interaction between neighbors.

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STUDIO NORTH Studio North is a design build conducted every summer in Norwich, Vermont for ten architectural students under the guidance of award winning architects Keith Moskow and Robert Linn. For summer 2017, our group of students developed a design for a wood burning Sauna which was built on a trailer so it could be moved between the lakes and ponds in the mountains of Vermont—with the experience of the hot sauna and cold swim in mind for the user. The added benefit of constructing the Sauna on a trailer is creating minimum disturbance to the landscapes—a structure with no permanent foundation. The Sauna was completely designed and constructed by the students in the course of just one week.

Moskow Linn Architects | Design Build | Summer 2017 | Keith Moskow, AIA and Robert Linn, AIA

The overall concept of the Sauna was to think of it as dark cave, with the wooden structure creating a “nest” around the sauna itself which had to have no openings to the outside.

After exiting the Sauna, there is a transitionary space, which is semiopaque, a place for either changing as well as functioning as a small greenhouse. This transitionary space can also light up in the night time, giving the Sauna the nickname of the “lantern”.

The structure is traditionally framed by 2x4 pine, the interior is cedar boards, and the exterior is cladded in cedar shingles.

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DISCOVERY THROUGH DRAFTING Architectural analysis is an intense drafting course taught in the second semester of RISD’s architectural program. Every student is assigned a significant work of architecture, which must be hand drafted and digitally modeled. A process in which we completely deconstruct the work and then reassemble it, in order to build our own understanding that project’s architectural logic.

Rhode Island School of Design | Architectural Anaylsis Studio | Spring 2017 | Professor Gabriel Feld

The building I analyzed was the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), designed by Brazilian architects João Vilanova Artigas and Carlos Cascaldi.

Completed in 1961, the São Paulo’s School of Architecture is a significant part of the architectural history of Brazil and all of the South America.

The project is completely concrete, monolithic in size, and evokes a temple like presence as one approaches the building. The interior is defined by a huge central atrium, surrounded by the studios and classroom spaces on the exterior walls. This building was the first to view the school as a place of openness, freedom, gathering, protest, and performance; something which a shared space such as this should hold. I analyzed the building as an assemblage of many parts, all working collectively with each other, and how a unified space can create a dynamic, and enriching learning environment. [ 2 ] Exploded axonometric [ 3 ] “Worm’s eye” detail. [ 4 ] Interior of João Batista Vilanova Artigas’ School

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PORTUGAL: M AT E R I A L PRACTICES Although separated by the Atlantic Ocean, Providence and surrounding New England towns have deep ties to Portugal. An influx of immigrants from Portugal, who settled in New England in the late-18th century, links the two regions. Providence, East Providence, Central Falls, Fall River, and New Bedford, among other towns, continue to function as vital hubs for Portuguese Americans today. This sutdy abroad course offered a unique context in which to study making and adapting the natural and built environment towards sustainable models of design innovation.

Rhode Island School of Design | The Making of Design Principles | Fall 2016 | Professor Carl Losritto

With the concept of materials, nature and urban systems in mind, much of my research in Portugal was focused on the presence of water as an organizational tool, hierarchical power, and symbolic element. These three ideas are intertwined in how cities are for developed, and how human interventions were are formed from nature.

This page consists of excerpts from my final book of journal entries, drawings, and photographs.

This work is about human relationship with nature and material. A Padrão is a large stone cross inscribed with the coat of arms of Portugal that was placed as part of a land claim by numerous Portuguese explorers during the Age of Discovery. There has always been a part of humans with a desire to control nature, to gain power over the world, to view it in a “God-like” perspective.

This installation was placed on a site in transition, an old apartment complex that has broken down and is overgrown with grasses and moss. It is no longer accessible to humans the way it used to be since a small asphalt road has been laid down next to it and the ruins of the complex building are behind a wall of stone. This site itself proves the opposite of the orginal Padrão, as here, in a dense urban environment nature has reclaimed this patch from man.

The material of the Totum is cork, connecting to Portugal’s relationship with the land.

Cork comes from a tree native to Portugal which is continously harvested year by year in the country. Overall, we aimed to capture the history in Portugal between man’s relationship with land through time and the ongoing struggle humankind faces in its place with nature.

A collaboration with Daphne Do (RISD furniture ‘20)