Franco Architecture Portfolio Columbia GSAPP
ALBERT FRANCO Master of Architecture GSAPP 2015
Table of Contents
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Living Interface, Beyond Barriers
CBIP- Manufacturing Bazaar
Linear Movement Facade
Designing with collaborative computational elements.
Creating movement with in the builiding skin for displays.
Optimizations of environmental systems and nesting.
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Pool of Reverberation Synthesis
Maverick Bank
Dismantling associations of social class with sound. Creating public space with in a bank typology.
Page Nº 51 Multifaceted Surface BBQ
Creating a pavilion from one surface with many different programs.
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Armature: Housing of Stability
Light Density Publishing Co.
Revitalizing and reconnecting Harlem to the lower Manhattan. Complex skins rationalized into simple designs.
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LIVING INTERFACE, BEYOND BARRIERS
Studio Critic
David Benjamin
Program
Prototyping/Production Factory
Typology
Public Building
Focus Software
Living Mushroom Brick Factory Rhino, Grasshopper, Galapagos, Ladybug
The premise of the project is to design pilot factory for a biomaterial company Ecovative. The site for the brick factory is located in Campinas, Brazil, South America’s largest hub for many biotech Manufacturing companies. The project is grounded in the densely populated city center. The Projects seeks to address Campinas, Brazil as a circular economy. The Living Interface Factory seeks to create a new business model for large-scale production of building materials. The programs that allow the circularity of Production are a local Coffee shop and Corn Vender’s distribution center. Unlike many other Factories, the Living Interface Factory is a public building that depends on its locals to purchase coffee and corn. The Bio waste of coffee and corn provide bio-waste nutrients for the living building envelope of the factory. In this project I was seeking to find a balance between a Biomaterial design, a public building, and a large-scale production factory.
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Architectural Context Gestures Being located in the city center off of a busy plaza influenced how I could address the public. Typical factories usually run horizontally and use lots of ground floor. 3
Final View from Campinas, Brazil Street View Since the factory was embedded into the skin of the building, the important factors of the design become wall surface area and wall height. To achieve large-scale production, then the building then became much taller.
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Programatic Axon
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Programs were chosen by the necessity of seeking to achieve a biomaterial factory of circular production and create public interest in the product. The inclusion of a local corn distribution center and a coffee shop were essential to achive a building responding to the circular environment.
Research desks and Cafe Interaction and exposure of research scientist to the public visiting the coffee bar is essential to spread knowledge of the new brick product. 6
Optimization to Minimize Annual Radiation
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To create the form of the building, a multi-objective optimization was set up to with to opposing goals. These screenshots shows an optimization between maximizing the amount of surface area for next bricks on the vertical walls, as well as minimizing annual radiation for the roof of the whole building.
Prototyping Stage for Robotic Brick Assembly With a new material such as bio-grown mushroom bricks, a prototyping stage open to the public for demonstration is needed. Here, a demonstrator explains how these bricks can be used for all types of constructions even very complex assemblies.
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Maximizing Bricks Nested with Variation
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The inclusion of automated robotic harvesting was essential for a vertical brick factory that can produce about 60,000 bricks a week. Six automated Robots fills, scans, and empties, thousands of molds continuously. The envelope is nested on both sides with six different mold shapes, the most common brick shapes used in the building industry.
Social Street Niche with Robotic Encounters The building is also rounded and has Niches to create continuity with the adjacent plaza the corners for continuity of plaza and to create areas for the public to engage with the interface. 10
Roof Sagging to Minimize Radiation
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Because these factory walls are solid, the source of light for the building became the roof. The walls undulate at the top to create situations were the walls act as self-shading for the roof. The roof design, made of ETFE panels, is then slumped to decrease the annual radiation of its surface.
Section Through Roof Sag and Prototyping Center This section reveals the relationship between four programs, the research desk area, the coffee shop, elevated prototyping space, and the lounging platforms along the back wall. The back wall climbs up seven floors and is perfect for seeing whole building in operation.
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Cantilevered Balconies for Coffee and Observation Hovering about the whole factory, one can enjoy a coffee and observe every step of the factory process from automation, brick harvesting, prototyping presentations and social interactions. 13
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Bazaar Manufacturing Design Work-flow This diagram shows the relationship between the new manufacturing process, bazaar, and how the elements come together to create one condition for a craft bazaar.
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Element Work-flow for Bazaar Types This digram explains how parameters of each component can be adjusted to create different types of bazaar conditions. Here, four different types of bazaar can be made. 15
GENERIC BAZAAR
CBIP- MANUFACTURING BAZAAR
Studio Critic
Laura Kurgen, Scott Marble
Program
Industrial Manufacturing
Typology
Factory/Market
Focus Software
Rethinking Imported Goods Catia , Rhino
The studio premise was to explore the computational collaborative model. Our platform was Catia. Each designer was to explore the capabilities of Catia as a design tool. Catia is more commonly known as a software for Aerospace engineering and used by some architects such as Gehry and Partners and SHoP Architects. This created a platform where designers can share and collaborate with each others parametric models. We shared models and edited the scripts to adapt to our own intentions. With such an ordinary approach to design, our discussions were almost focused on the parametric adaptability of our models. The program of the building was a manufacturing complex located in Brooklyn. The complex is seven large identical buildings that come together to create an industry city. The design proposal was to create a bazaar space within this manufacturing space. The bazaar space would open these small scale manufactures to market on special occasions. At these moments the public would be invited to see new products and methods of manufacturing. The Bazaar will act as actuator for the space and bring it new life every so often.
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Existing Condition
Rethinking Circulation The first architectural gesture was to move the main manufacturing circulation to the exterior perimeter of the building and create a bazaar space on the interior of building.
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Element Usage
BAZAAR 2.0
ALBERT FRANCO, SUKWON LEE, TIMMIE TSANG // SCOTT
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Populates typical manuTIMMIE TSANG 2014 facturing floors with larger openings that create bazaar spaces. VOID FOR NATURAL DAYLIGHTING LANDSCAPE CIRCULATION ALBERT FRANCO, SUKWON LEE, TIMMIE TSANG FOR // SCOTT MARBLE & LAURA KURGAN SUKWON LEE 2014
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Bazaar Partitions E-ROOF
LEE Create adaptive BUMHEE store 2012 front system that is activated druing a public opening.
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TYPE - A SETBACK VAR: 0 to 10 deg FLUCTUATION: -6 to +6 FREQUENCY: 1.0 x STR. BAY * MIN. DEMOLITION
TYPE - B SETBACK VAR: 10 to 30 deg FLUCTUATION: -12 to +12 FREQUENCY: 1.0 x STR. BAY
TYPE - C SETBACK VAR: 10 to 30 deg FLUCTUATION: -12 to +12 FREQUENCY: 0.5 x STR. BAY
TYPE - D SETBACK VAR: 30 to 60 deg FLUCTUATION: -24 to +24 FREQUENCY: 1.0 x STR. BAY * MAX. DEMOLITION
TYPE - E SETBACK VAR: 30 to 60 deg FLUCTUATION: -0 to +0 FREQUENCY: N/A
Parametric Iterative layout of space In this matrix, different types of bazaars are accomplished by adjusting the quantity and distribution of programed spaces. 19
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Sectional Studies These are screenshots with measured inputs and outputs that can be manipulated to create different GENERATIVE SURFACE DESIGN conditions.
Sectional Studies Extremely different spatial conditions can be adjusted all together instantly. 20
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These illustrations take a closer look at two different types of bazaars and the undulating landscape in between. The undulated landscaped is detailed for greenery, display space, and vertical circulation.
Final Section Proposals Final section drawings where created of the parametric models to visualize the spatial conditions between the bazaar, overlapping spaces, undulating landscapes, and prototyping space together.
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Movement Concept Image Ideas of movement and adaptability were suggested from these advertisements. Knowing that Adidas is a shoe company that focuses many different shoes and tries to compete in a market of athletics, we thought that we needed a facade that would adapt for new releases. 23
LINEAR MOVEMENT FACADE
Studio Critic
Joseph Vidich
Program
New facade for Adidas
Typology
Urban Retail
Focus Software
Facade Rhino, Grasshopper, Solidworks, RhinoCam
The objective of this double skin facade was to shade an existing building of Adidas retail store and corporate office. With a large facade facing the south, a shading system was desired. The second skin was to be designed with intent to accommodate Adidas. The program of the building includes Adidas display spaces, retail, show opening gallery, and offices. With our concept of movement, we decided to create a second skin that was adaptive and physically changed in appearance as well as a system that was modular. Each module was connected to the existing mullions and spanned a series of steel cables from one to the other. The design had gone through many prototypes before we built full scale and half scale models in stainless steel. In replacement for steel, for the half scale model we used a tensile elastic rope.
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Double Bay Organization These bay drawings were important to understand in the module and know where to break this system down to create a prototype. Between the new second skin and the old, there is a cat-walk for cleaning the existing building. 25
Rendering from Intersection This render contextualizes our building in New York City. Because its located on a corner it has more opportunities to be more notices during new shoe release. The facade will open and close for shoe releases.
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Staged Movement
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Programed Facade Process The building facade was programed for which modules would be open and closed during the first initial exhibition. As other releases came new pattern could be made with the facade. 28
Simple Mechanism Latched Joint
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These detail show the bay module that was built at half scale and how these cables would be attached to the steel. The turnbuckles allow these cables to adjust as the facade is changed throughout the year.
LED Embedded Prototype This prototype shoes the LED lighting that is embedded in the model for each module. The lights will illuminate the cables at night and hence allow the structure to disappear at night. 30
Material and Movement Testing
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Small scale prototypes were important to the design process. During this process we explored many different materials and reoriented the design to vertical modules with horizontal cables. Lighting, materials, transparencies, and cables were all decided through the exploration of prototype.
Assembly Drawings Assembly drawings were made to show the simplicity of construction. These drawings would be organized in a series of sheets that matched a key elevation for an easy installation. 32
Final Prototype A half scale prototype helped realize the proposal. The model included was design to show the movement and lighting of the new facade. 33
Building Envelope Section
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OPEN LOBBY
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Meta Concept Diagram With many goals for the building, this diagram draws connections between the bank, its’ programs, and interconnected vectors that correlate with each other.
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MAVERICK BANK
Studio Critic
William Arbizu
Program
Local Bank
Typology
Land from building
Focus Software
Public Support Rhino, Grasshopper
The new local bank have just found its location in the middle of downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has been getting gentrified for a few years. Maverick bank is placed in this neighborhood to help the local public and local businesses to ground them selfs in there owe community. Recently, many of the local have been pushed out of there rented homes and businesses. This bank is host for the community to learn and growth financially. Maverick banks is a public building. Maverick seeks to help the community with its educational programs and financial knowledge. Programed with The banks is sandwiched between two public spaces, the roof top park and the ground plaza. The plaza is adjacent to the business and development center, where meeting rooms , public seminars, and Lectures are hosted to impact the communities knowledge of finance and business development. Unlike other banks this bank is one to resist gentrification.
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Program Diagrams
Bank Level Plan and Roof Access A small bank, mostly with digital transactions, is sandwiched between a roof park and a ground plaza. Here shown, the main bank floor with entrance to from the roof park. 37
Public Engaging Plaza A vibrant plaza connects the public from the urban streets. Here shown and impromptu rap show with small audience. This space is usable by the public upon reservation. Th plaza is directly connected to the bank and business development entrances. 38
Elevated Bank for Ground Plaza The bank stands firmly on a corner between plaza and park. It is exposed from all directions and accessible from a mellow sloped concrete plaza. 39
BANK BUILT FOR LOCALS BANK WITH PUBLIC SPACE
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Roof Surface
Bank Floor
Interior Pools and Programs The bank is filled with natural light and expresses its transparency with glass on all sides. In this view I wanted to emphasize the continuity between the roof terrace and the bank. 41
Plaza Surface
Roof Scape 04
Steel Frame 03
Main Bank 02
Plaza level 01
B&D Center 00
Structural Exploded Axon Each level of the bank is separated into layers. There is a significant overlap between each level. I this diagram I try to reveal the structure, platforms for walking, usables spaces and panelized system.
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CAN AN ARCHITECTURE OF REVERBERATION DISMANTLE ASSOCIATIONS OF SOCIAL CLASS?
Sound and Circulation Section Unrolled This diagram shows the unrolled section of the whole building. By cutting through some of the tubes one can clearly see how the sound moves from one space to another. 43
POOL OF REVERBERATION SYNTHESIS
Studio Critic
Cristina Goberna
Program
Aquatic center
Typology
Agonistic Urban
Focus Software
Synthesizing Rhino, Grasshopper, Maya, Vray
Located between two communities, the new pool of reverberation synthesis, is struggling to resolve interactions of conflict. The site is located in a neighborhood that has been depleted the local Columbia university community. Over many years Columbia University has planned an expansion that will destroy many homes of low income residence. The new location for this pool is replacing an parking lot, sandwiched between a low income residential tower and the Harlem community library. The new pool of reverberation will now become the common ground for unity of both communities. This pool is to be used by both Harlem and Columbia community. The swimming pool is an interesting common ground because most people are stripped down from all accessories already. Without the many objects that identify the people of New York as fortunate or unfortunate, the pool then can begin to disguise the other less visual senses that help us decode one another. Sound is often how one can find out where one is from. For some, accent can give information of what part of the world, state, enclave, neighborhood or even what kind of educational background on has. My goal for this pool of reverberation is to disassociate sounds of people from themselves. As one swims in the pool, sounds of the site and voices from different locations projected into the swimming pools. Hence synthesizing two communities through sound reverberation.
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Meta Concept Image This image shows how the tube form used as circulation, separation interior from exterior, swimming pools, and to move sound from one place to another. 45
Sound and Movement
Racquetball ball and Cheering Crowd Sounds.
Pedestrians and Park Sounds
Transit Stop Sounds
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Street Presence Since this building is grounded in between tow communities, the building was not to take on the appearance of the context. The building would stand as an anomaly to separate itself from the historic ties of community conflict. 47
Site Design for Context Axises The site was fully designed to bring people engage the community to use the landscape and explore the building. 48
The Original American BBQ Originally, an American suburban past time, we wanted to bring the BBQ to the Parks of New York city. With our pavilion people could enjoy out door BBQs with the community in a public park.
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MULTIFACETED SURFACE BBQ
Studio Critic
Jason Ivaliotis
Program
Pavillion
Typology
Parametric Installation
Focus Software
Surface Design Rhino, Grasshopper, Solid Works, RhinoCam
This design was created from one surface. The intention was to create a multifaceted surface that was able to be very plastic and conform to many programs. The surface model of the pavilion was to act as a BBQ, table, shading structure, and seating area. With the initial intention of creating a pavilion with a embedded BBQ, the design began as a flat surface and went through a series of operations in order to accommodate many functions. The site for this pavilion was proposed to be placed in parks around New York city. The Pavilion is composed of Stainless steel metal and Plexiglas.
Initial triangulation studies in paper.
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Architectural Gestures By manipulating one surface, a pavilion was created with many functions. The pavilion can be used for BBQ, shading, seating, and as a table. 51
Proposed Installation at Butler Library Lawn This image shows how the pavilion would be used if it were installed at Columbia University. The pavilion would be great for warm summer days. 52
Detail
Prototype
Axon of Proposed Prototype When broken down into parts one can see the folded and tabular assembly of each component and how these components cane be overlapped to create a structural surface. 53
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Unrolled Detail Components The components are broken down into three different types; Infill Plexiglas panels, open stainless steel frame panels, and solid stainless steel panels. Together they act as structure, ventilation, and source of light.
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Point Grid
Shifted Grid
Tetrahedron
Triangulation
Reciprocal
Analysis Displacement
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Computational Processes and Analysis
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These diagrams illustrate how the computational model was structured and overlapped. Also, Stress and displacement analysis were done in solidworks to make sure all curvatures and loads were possible .
Proposed installation at the Park A group of people use sit at central park and use this pavilion as a bench, table, and shading device.
Prototype Images These are three images of the prototype made at full scale. A Small portion of the model was made as a flat panel, pieces were folded, overlapped, and pierced with rivets. 56
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LIGHT DENSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Studio Critic
Anton Martinez, Elias Martar
Program
Publishing and Gallery
Typology
Industrial Office
Focus Software
Facade Rhino, Grasshopper, Galapagos, Ladybug
This building a facility for light manufacturing. Its permanent residence is the Light Density Publishing Company, a business that publishes design and art books and holds gallery openings related to their published work. The programed spaces in the building include, offices, archival stacks, open galleries, a library, an auditorium for presentations, and a compact printing center. How can one use a existing material in a way that contradicts its original intention? Custom light weight CMU blocks were designed to be rotated into position and used as a shading screen. CMU blocks are typically used to create surfaces that appear to be heavy and solid. In this case, the new brick is as a light and airy second skin that filters natural light through its openings.
The use of a material with a heavy appearance lifted off the ground and used a s a double screen.
Creating a pattern for the brick rotation brings different qualities and levels of light into areas with specific programs. The bricks are mounted on to steel rods during installation and do not rotate, there after.
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Expressing Verticality through linearity
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Naturally, a building of this proportion is seen horizontally. This image emphasizes the verticality of the buildings skin. The bricks are mounted on rods and rotate on central axis. This vertically was achieved through the design of spacing and rotation of each brick.
Ground Level and Level 02 Plans The ground floor foot print is much smaller because each facade is cantilevered out 10ft. On ground floor there is a showroom, cafe, and information center. The second floor is a double height space with a library, archive, and auditorium.
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Cross Sections These images were created early on to try to understand what the office spaces would look like int relation to the floor to ceiling heights and the new double skin. 61
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These sections will give a better understanding of the steel structure of the building, as well as the cantilevered double skin and drainage and insulation solutions. 62
Corner Detail
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More often then not corners of buildings are resolved poorly. For this reason I like to look closer at the corner as an opportunity. This corner come to a clean edge. As the bricks leave the edge they begin to rotate out for more sunlight.
Corner Render This render shows the density of the custom brick facade. It also gives a closer look at how these bricks begin to rotate out to bring more light in to the building. 64
Atrium View This view one can see the undulated in glass atrium , the rotating bricks and catwalk between the two skins. 65
Elevation with bricks This drawing shows the pattern that was chosen for the south elevation. This pattern is more dense in areas when more shading is needed. 66
Seating along the Atrium This detail was created to emphasize and create more discussion with in the office and to cerate an area with people can meet with natural light. 67
Section Detail at Atrium This is the drawing detail for the atrium that is shown on the left. The idea was to make the slabs look as thin as possible while allowing the users to utilize the raised floor as a seat. 68
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ARMATURE : HOUSING OF STABILITY
Studio Critic
Douglas Gauthier
Program
Housing
Typology
Urban
Focus
Community Development
This housing project is located in east Harlem at Manhattan’s north east waterfront edge. This community is suffering from high levels of crime, low income, and lack of amenities. The building anchors the top of Manhattan as an icon of a new founded resilient recovery. Located on Park Avenue, the building is in a prime location to rejuvenate the urban landscape between the museum district and its surroundings. It is to be seen from afar a mysterious shifted structure to allure those who are unfamiliar with its purpose.
East Harlem perceived as a wasteland by outsiders. No support for safety, education,jobs, and culture.
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Plan for Revitalization This is the conceptual vision of creating a new envirnoment for growth of the community and creating more opportunities for the locals.
Site Plan This drawing contextualizes the site. The project is at the upper east edge of Manhattan. To the right of our side is the Hudson river that divides upper Manhattan and the Bronx. 71
Rethinking Circulation
Mixed programs This is a typical floor plan that shows how the howl building shift over and towards the river. It also shows the residential units, core, and library study rooms.
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Speed vs. Access Private
This Diagram addresses the intermingling of program in relation to speed and public / private accessibility
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As the concept of armature comes to life, on sees the interstitial space between the programs on each end becomes important public space. The lower level is connected to the streets. The upper level is only accessible by the residence.
Layout Concept The idea of armature was created with in the city and with in the building. This diagram helps organize the plan with programs on each end and housing and circulation in the center. ARMATURE
PROGRAM
PROGRAM
Urban Sectional Studies The idea that the programs would be places on the ends led to studies of the circulations paces in between. The in-between spaces became an important part of the design that was initially found through studying the armature.
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Formal Gestures
Engulfing the Site
Raising for Site Access Opening for Light
Urban Ventilation and City Circulation
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Units These plans and axons show the spatial condition of the units and the number of people that can occupy them.
TYPE: MICRO UNIT 391 SQFT
Urban section The urban section exposes how the building addresses light and air, as well and gives a clear understanding of its relationship to the height of its context and it visibility for the cities edge.
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TYPE STUDIO UNIT 535 SQFT
TYPE 1 BEDROOM UNIT 815 SQFT
TYPE 2 BEDROOM UNIT 1020 SQFT
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Urban Armature Holds the Cities Edge As an urban project this building grounds the cities edge and asks to be seen as something more then just housing with additional programs, but an armature of reconnecting east Harlem to the rest of Manhattan. 79
A BUILDING THAT IS A ARMATURE BETWEEN BOROUGHS
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