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Psychedelic Suburbs Paul Andersen | UIC
What if difference could be created by enhancing strict guidelines for suburban home design? Suburban communities offer to homeowners an aesthetic that gaurantees one to fit in with the status quo while giving an illusion of uniqueness. The Stapleton North community developers market a high level of uniquenss in one’s home by offering many different options for customizing one’s home, yet results in hom-eogeneity. What if an alternative suburban design linked different variables together, so that they are interdependant of one another? If Stapleton offered an illusion of freedom with a hidden network of control, a new type of suburb could offer an illusion of sameness that caters to the suburban psyche, yet has drastic differences not seen in a typical suburb
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NEW HOUSE RELATIONSHIPS
house types yield new lawn types
interdependant relationship of houses
interdependant relationship of house variables
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ALVAR AALTO | GREG LYNN: EXPRESSION | AFFECT 5 | ANH PHAM | DAVID MULDER
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Shard Wall was created as a response to Greg Lynn’s Blob11Wall. Lynn’s12 Blob Wall argues for an intricacy that requires advanced technologies as well as highly customized parts 17 18 and connections. Shard Wall argues affect can23 be achieved by 24 looking back to more primitive forms: the brick. Intricacy and affect does 1 not 29 require advanced technology and hard to build connections. POLYMER BRICKS 1/4” = 1’0” Rectilinear geometries can achieve the same affect through use of color and the same aggregate rules used for Blob Wall.
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Blob Wall
Greg Lynn’s blob wall creates an affect through the use of intricate forms, aggregated to form a variety of shapes. However, it requires highly difficult customized connections
POLYMER DYE COLOR SCHEMES
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B WALL [2007] LYNN: AFFECT
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In response to Lynn’s blob wall, Shard Wall argues that the use of linear geometries can achieve the same gestural expression and affect without the need for highly customized connections. ASSEMBLY
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Loungescape Liesle Margolin | UCLA Jumpstart
An outdoor lounge/seating system made of aggregate parts in varying sizes. The aggregate system allows for flexibility in shape. The shape of the lounge mimics the movements of organisms that change shape and engulf one another upon their meeting. The loungescape is formed from material test of paper strands.
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Narcissism Marina Nicollier & Alexander Eisenschmidt | UIC
A convention center that provides an interior urban exhibition space for the narcissist. Taking the role of a narcissist, the convention center is self-concerned, while providing both exhibitionist and hermetic spaces for the dweller as one travels up the structure from exhibition, office, retail, to hotel spaces. Starting from the bottom up, the spaces shift from public to voyeuristic to private. Located on the edge of lake shore drive in Chicago, the convention center has its back to the city, yet displays its rich voyeuristic underbelly to the highway.
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Evolution of form
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finishing school Kely Bair | UIC A series of investigations on form is explored through the lens of primitive shapes, textures, and finishes. How can form and effects be driven by the study of texture and finishes? The object and its environment become results of this investigation. The primitive sphere is given shape and posture through manifestations of hairstyle and finish. While hair is given form through the shaping of many strands or the effects of its ciliated ends, the primitive sphere is given features through the manipulation of many hair types. Features of hairstyle and body parts allowable through hair shape lend the sphere his animate form. After a series of formal investigations, one shape is finalized with finish and texture. The object’s room is an evolution of primitive shapes that create an interior environment. Effects of light and shadow are created from its finish, challenging notions of how light may appear through a window.
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Zago /Gibson /Blackenbaker
The search for the highly elusive figure was approached through combination of extruded letter forms. The exploration of the figure was used as a form-finder for an extension for an art museum.
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Augmented Realities Sean Lally | UIC The project explores new realms of possibilities when material energy is used in place of physical building material. It also addresses the Implications of space planning in a subjective reality, when the same environment can be perceived differently by different people. When material energies are used, the shape and qualities of space becomes subject to how different people perceive those energies. It is already known that humans can only perceive a small range of the electromagnetic spectrum and some frequencies of sound waves. More so, people of different age and sex perceive light and sound at different frequencies. What if sensory implants made it possible to augment the disparate realities of different groups of people? The project explores new spatial types and modes of planning when material energies make it possible for different programs to overlap.
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Atmospheres Bi-Directional Emmission
Spatial Typologies
Atmospheres Seat Amplification
Atmosphere Layered Frequencies
Atmospheres Ground Amplification
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Plan Bi-Directional Emmission
Spatial Typologies
Plan Seat Amplification
Plan Layered Frequencies
Plan Ground Amplification
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Energy Types
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Sections delaminate the differing experiences in the same space. Shape of space and experience changes for people with different enhancements occupying the same space, which has implications on socialization.
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Secton A: [1] Man joins space of dancers, but cannot hear the music that they are dancing to. [2] Lady converses with her friend, although she does not realize she cannot hear what her friend is experiencing.
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Section B: [1]Two people can sense infrasound vibrations and stronger frequency of music that man in secion A cannot [2] Although two ladies converse, one can hear richer music that the other cannot.
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Collaborators: Brett Gustafson, Lyan Wan, Maria Tasada, Evan Bliss, Aura Venckunaite
Decadent activities link together to create a connective loop of selfsufficient districts. These self-supporting habitats stitch together disparate parts of the city to form a larger synergistic loop. In a city of green hedonism, it is not enough that resources are responsibly reused; they are sirens that appeal to our human vices and in turn promote unconscious adoption of a sustainable lifestyle. Each district is self-sufficient in and of itself, with the output from one node feeding into another, resulting in a holistic cycle of non-guilty pleasures. The city grid becomes the axial grid of an exploitative pleasure garden, for the journey between attractions to be as enjoyable as the attraction itself. Paralleling the material input/ output of each district’s system is the social and cultural context of the activity. A day’s exploration of exotic woods at the xylotheque turns into a stroll through the aquaponics tower collecting fresh food to be consumed as one climbs this vertical buffet. After dinner, winemaking and drinking occurs on a grape-stomping elevated dance floor above the city. A long night of dancing and libation requires rejuvenation and regeneration the next day at an underwater spa where you get fish pedicures. This sequence of activities can be repeated wholly or in segments as one sees fit for their licentious tastes and whimsical desires.
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Nutrient Resource Nutrient Resource Generation/Distribution Generation/Distribution Thermal Regulation Thermal Regulation through Water Submergence through Water Submergence
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Double or Nothing
Sarah Blackenbaker | F13
Using Grasshopper to generate 2 objects with a highly defined figure and over-determined ground, Abellardo Morell’s technique of juxtaposition is utilized to create a misreading of the two. A new figure may emerge from this process.
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Figure Mashup Elevation 1
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Greystone Row Roberta Feldman | UIC National Housing Services (NHS)
This project was a design build project constructed in collaboration with National Housing Services [NHS] and UIC professor Roberta Feldman. With low housing demands in North Lawndale, the historic greystones were under threat of demolition. In an effort to restore use to the buildings, a community art center is being proposed in these 4 buildings: Greystone Row. The project’s aim is to bring attention to this effort. With a $1,000 budget, the challenge was to construct an intervention (and festival) that could be easily be constructed by students and bring attention from the community. The facade treatment celebrates the greystones by calling attention to the historical ornamentation and the contemporary state of the facade.
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Existing With the abandoned or condemned state of many greystones in North Lawndale, little to no investment is being drawn to the buildings. Because the cost to renovate is higher than the ability to draw in buyers, many of the greystones are under threat of demolition. In an effort to save them from demolition and restore use ot the buildings, NHS proposed a community art center to be held in these four buildings, aptly named Greystone Row.
Intervention The task called for an intervention that was low cost and easy to build in order to draw attention from the local and housing community towards this effort. The plan of attack was not to focus on the poor conditions of the neighborhood or buildings, but to focus on the idea of hope by highlighting and celebrating the historicity of the buildings. We wanted to bring pride to the neighborhood. The installations used color and shape to reverberate the ornamentation of the facade and brighten the contemporary treatments of the windows.
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L’Eixample Housing Blocks Claudi Aguilo & Sergi Serrat | Barcelona
Research
Through rigorous research of the current condition of Richard Cerda’s L’eixample blocks in Barcelona, 3 strategies were deployed to improve ventilation and light qualities of the housing units within.
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Four overarching strategies were used to improve the lighting and ventilation conditions. They include remassing the block to give rooftop terraces, adding a structural system to the facade for patios, reappropriating south facades by shifting the living spaces into the new structure, and re-orienting the interior s of existing flats to maximize light. These strategies can be applied to other blocks with the same issues.
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One specific block in L’eixample was chosen to be transformed following to the above strategies.
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[I] RESEARCH The research on the blocks focused on the program uses through the block, the existing sunlight conditions on the flats, and the amount of mass that had been built out of regulation.
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[2] Strategize The first strategy was to remass the block to remove flats out of regulation and replace them to gain rooftop terraces. The second was to add a structure to the interior facade of the block and reappropriate south facing facades for galleries. The third was to reorient the interior of the flats to face new terraces and galleries. Strategy 2: Stepped Rooftops
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Each flat on the top floor gains a new terrace due to shape of the block massing. The flats on north side of the block gain galleries from the structural addition. Flats on the south side of the block are pushed back to the new structure while the existing facade facing the street is transformed into a gallery.
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