Alberto Arostegui Thomen Undergraduate Portfolio 2019
This Portfolio represents four years of hard work and a life time of passion for architecture and it’s fields. My architecture is pragmatic, thinking of addressing society problems, at the same time is empirical as the design process take shape itself. My work talks about coalition, globalization in the merging of elements; Sustainability in the way I design with nature; and community as the main driver of a design. Architecture comes first as the act of designing and then comes the story which is learn thought the process.
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Alberto Arostegui Thomen
Experience
Education
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May 2019
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
Sep- Nov 2017
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
Jun- Aug 2019
Chattanooga Design Studio
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture
Study abroad in Lacoste, France. Architecture, Architectural History and Printmaking.
Position: Urban Design Intern | Duration: 10 | weeks Location: Chattanooga, TN Worked with two other interns on the Bus Stop Hotspot Pilot Project, guided by the Studio’s Urban Design Coordinator Lindsey Wilke. Tasks included but, where not only limited to, conduting research; compiling and analyzing data; creating a survey and taking part in community engagement; attending meetings with urban planners, Architects and CARTA members; presenting our work and proposal as a series of drawings and diagrams.
June 2018
NaturaAvventura Camp/ Treehouse
Position: Designer/ Camp Counselor | Duration: 4 weeks | Location: Santiago, Dominican Republic Developed, designed and built a Treehouse for Natura. Engaged the children with the building and design process, nature and sustainability. December 2017
PIIAU Architecture Studio
Position: Intern | Duration: 4 weeks | Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Worked in the construction site of the restoration of 16th century homes of Santo Domingo. Created 3D models, renders and introduced Revit to the firm.
December 2016
Batey Rehab Project
Position: Intern/Volunteer | Duration: 1 week | Location: Barahona, Dominican Republic
Skills
Volunteered to construct homes for low income families with a team of students using vernacular materials and a modular system. Helped fundraise the project. Revit Insight 360 Rhinoceros
V-Ray ArcGIS Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Office Hand Drafting
AutoCAD SketchUp
Adobe Illustrator
Model Making
Adobe Premiere
Involvement
Personal Qualities 2017- May 2019
February 2019
Personal Interest Language Agriculture Science Fiction Sustainability
Sketching Woodworking
Organized
Hands-On
Determined
English Spanish-Native
Thoughtful
SERVE Volunteer
Helping the community with volunteer works. Creating and maintaining community gardens and others building based projects.
Radical Architectural Discourse (RAD)
Participated in teamwork and charrette style design workshops designing a skyscraper for refugees for EVOLO.
January 2019
AIA CoteTop 10 Award Submission
Collaboration in a conceptual project with another SCAD student redesigning the city of Savannah for 2030. Used the ten design measures framework to achieve sustainability excellence.
February 2017
Honors
Sculpting Print Making
2018- May 2019 August 2018
Africa Day Charrette
Participated in a SCAD group charrette to design a modular home in Africa using local materials.
SCAD Dean’s List KoozArch Blog Article and Interview: “I want to save the world”
November 2017
SCAD Lacoste Open Gallery and Open Studio
September 2015
SCAD Art and Academic Honor Scolarship
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Sculpture Museum of Asheville
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Savannah 2050
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The Giving Tree School
French Broad Rive Art Boardwalk
“Upcycling in the city”
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“I am not citizen of any country”
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Maison Olivier “A Farmer’s atelier”
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I Want to Save the World
“Undergraduate Portfolio” was design and produced by Alberto Arostegui second edition July 15, 2019 all images used are made by Alberto Arostegui thanks to all the co-workers, professors, architects, and friends which have been part of my journey. Special thanks to my family. 00 Portfolio
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Sculpture Museum of Asheville
Freanch Broad Rive Art Boardwalk
The Sculpture Museum and Art Boardwalk surges from the necessity of an expansion of the Arts District of Asheville. The town effervescent arts and outdoors seen help make this duo of different program the perfect combination for the beautiful site right on the French broad river side. A museum for sculpture in a park that is designed for the view of site specific land-art by multiple artist. The project is an anchor point for recreation Asheville, NC activities, art, and the Eco friendly community, hosting and protecting local vegetation Museum/Park Design as well as a 30 riparian edge that protects the park from erosion. 30,000 ft2
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Access
Water Flow
Its really important for a museum to have easy access, art Letting water move through is really important in this site, is move quarterly and even often, for this reason there is as it moves to the lowest parts of the site the bioswell vegdirect access to the museum storage. etation helps to dissipate the water.
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Concept Models Layering of paths, art and nature and the different qualities of the building are demonstrated in this paper made models. The layers intersect each other and when looked from above they work to make a composition. Tridimensionally,the different layers interact with each other giving life to it.
Elevated Path One of the main paths of the site developed as small different sections that demonstrate different characteristics. As you see in these few examples the paths evolves into a set of stairs that work as an amphitheater, it interacts with nature as you walk within the canopy of the trees. The path is designed in order to offer universal accessibility connecting to the street and with ramps to the site. The main purpose of the elevated path is to give specific views from where visitors can see the land-art in the park. Views are framed and directed by elements in the path, at the same time it gives you enough freedom to wander. The path uses small changes to redirect your views, focusing the view into the land art. The path leads you to see all the site and to look at how nature, art and architecture are integrated. landscape design portfolio 05
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Elevated Path
The elevated path is one of the main paths that guide you through the site. As you walk across the tree canopy you will be getting another perspective of the site, you find a sens of freedom and peace. The path is design to encourage views and experiences that are impossible from the ground by inserting design elements like wall or open window frame that induce the visitors to look at the land art and natural elements scatter around the site.
Section: Riparian Edge with walking, Running and Biking Wondering Path
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Section: Wondering Path,
, Bench and Bioswale
Section: Direct Path, Bridge, Bioswale and grass Chan-
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Giuseppe Penone, 'Luce e ombra'
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The courtyard leading to the entrance of the museum has elements from all over the site, water representing the river, different types of vegetation and the three different paths.
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1. Courtyard 2. Lobby 3. Cafe 4. Gift-shop 5. Main Gallery 6. Storage 7. Office Level 1
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8. Small Works Gallery 9. Main Gallery 10. Gallery 11. Storage 12. Loading Dock Level 2
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Relationship The building maintains a strong relationship to the site. The three main paths all closely interact and finally connect to the entrance of the building
Views The museum focuses itself inwards with glass walls that engage the interiors with a courtyard. The entrance leads visitors into the courtyard. Views outwards are extremely specific and point out to specific points. 16 academic project capstone
Program The museum is a result on the whole site, it is forms of different progra
Art Phases The art is tr4ansported to the from this point on there is on from the storage space to w this is through the courtyard.
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Circulation The circulations of the visitors happens with a set of two hallways that are at its core a continuation of the paths. This hallways serve as transition from one space to the other.
Outside-Inside This wall delineates the separation from the urban environment and the streets of Asheville into a more pure spaces where the visitor takes on a journey.
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Vegetation thought the Year The paths end in a Greenhouse which has a living machine that cleans gray and run-off water in site. It also hosts the growth of the new generation of plans that would be planted next spring. The process starts in winter when raisin trays are planted with all kinds of bulbs and seed these start growing in the following months and are ready to be planted and bloom on spring.
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Water Management A series of levels with different vegetation help clean gray and run-off water before it is purified by a living machine and returned to the river.
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Savannah 2050
“Upcycling in the city�
What would be the city of th future and how is going to work? Acting as a cultural hub on the southern coast, the city of Savannah ,Georgia continues to thrive and grow. With this prosperity it can be difficult at times to look towards the future and question what may become of such a city. In the near future, what will the city of Savannah, Georgia evolve to be in the year 2030? The 2030 flood line within Savannah due to climate change will displace hundreds of people, the highway will no longer be usable and city will become disconnected from the world. These issues ignited our design goals. Pushing further in our research, we found maps of the vacant lots and green spaces currently through Savannah and then thought about how we Savannah, GA could begin to eliminate the need for cars through the city if we began to connect Master Plan these spaces together. 20 academic project group
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2050FLood Line Public Buildings Recreational Multifamily Home Single Family Home Education facility Vacant Lots
Flooding Looking at the data for future flooding, because of climate change, we realized the huge change and damage that it could cause to the city, from displacing hundreds of homes and community spaces and even making highways no longer usable.
What could be done to make Savannah safe and prosperous for everyone in 2050?
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Walk-ability Implementing the use of the vacant lots in the city and the already existing green spaces and overlaying a 10-minute radius we make the whole city walkable. Churches
Community Gardens
Community Centers
Health Care
How can we make the whole city walkable with the use of the vacant lot?
Using the vacant lot A vacant lot doesn’t become a typology itself, it contains different typologies. Using the 10 minutes radio around and Applying the data on the community pieces it was easy to figure out what each community needed and what they didn’t allow the vacant lots to provide that each community needs. Vacant Lots not only connect community and people but also resources. Each Vacant lot becomes a receiver and sender of resources and utilities from food to mail, to water and electricity that comes from the central Hub or outside the city creating a web of connection. This measure makes the transportation of resources fast, easy and carbon neutral.
Schools
Green Spaces
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Bike Path ADA Ramp
Farming in the City Accesible food, grown in the city
Changing old Habits Eliminating vehicular transportation: By closing one ramp into the city pedestrian and bicycle traffic will increase using the I-16 ramp as a commuter route and allow tourist to get a better view of the city. This would create a new place for nature and man to prosper together. With this measure, the project brings the city one step closer to a city of the future.
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Adaptable Landscape Amphitheater/Rain Water Collector
This conceptual section shows how all the pieces of the master plan working together as The Hub.
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Farming in the City Accesible food, grown in the city
What if food was grown and processed in the city? If food is grown in the city everyone has to form part of it. Agriculture in the city would give jobs to the people while connecting them back to nature and to different groups within the community
A.M.S (Agriculture Moving System) Machines are an essential part of the city of the future, but it is important to maintain a balance and not forget that humans are the priority and cities are made for us. The diagram shows how both, machines and humans work together in order to make the recollection process faster and efficient. The machine helps the human re-collector to move and deposit the vegetables and fruits in the conveyor belt which organizes and distributes the produce.
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The Hub Community Center and Living Community
Resilient Housing The modularity of the grid helps to create a divide between public and private. The modularity of the grid helps to create a divide between public and private and allows the growth of the complex as society grows. The platform is lifted on stilts to prevent the flooding of important built structures and allowing space for parking lots. This characteristic makes the structure resilient to future environmental change.
In order to use the vacant lots of the city a grid system was created to get a uniform base for the cross-laminated modular pods that contain each of the community typologies Resources
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The Giving Tree School The aim of this project is to design an innovative Charter School that generates a symbiotic relationship between the school, the community, and nature. With the rights of humanity and nature to coexist in a healthy, supportive, diverse and sustainable condition. Using passive environmental techniques in architecture to make a netSavannah, GA positive space while teaching the students to live a better life. The goals are achieved, K-6 School breaking the boundaries between inside and outside, architecture and nature. The Net25,000 ft2 zero School was designed using AIA COTE Top Ten design framework. 30 academic project
The courtyard promotes non directive play and learning in a safe environment for the children .
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The project aims to create not only a self-sufficient structure but a building which can be a supplement to the growth of the city. Our proposal is a catalyst for change in the way people think of a school, which can be achieved through thorough understanding and consideration to the City’s needs. Moreover the key to its success is resolving an optimum solution in sustainable development which is defined by a balance in equity, environmental impacts and the economics which enables this development. The images above represent some of the activities that the design and program of the school would promote Giving the kids a different framework upon promoting a better future.
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Vegetation as Design Tool This diagrams demonstrate key measure necessary to make this school possible in this site. They show to use vegetation in order to react to different parts of the site and how to create the appropriate environment within the school.
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Morphology Diagrams
Morphosis Diagrams
wall mass: it works following the pattern of the block and enclosing the block heart.
cut: separete the mass to make a clear parti and to separate program.
rotate: connects the building to the community and becomes the learning hub. north
extrude: aline south facade to the south axis to maximise sunlight.
canopy vines midstory canopy water vegetation deciduous canopy
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is located in Savannah, GA, close to the Savannah River. The geographic location and cultural context of Savannah lye at the heart of our values. Cultural factors like the city’s demographics, residential communities and landmarks are of paramount importance, as they are the tools needed to generate a design that addresses social and economic divides. Local site and climate conditions will initiate the school’s form, by embedding sustainable principles generating a symbiotic relationship with its environment. With a low supply of good educational facilities, the economic demographics suggest a very high demand for innovative schools. Fusing contextual assets with a pioneering design strategy exposes the community to a sustainable lifestyle. Furthermore, Savannah’s economic position impact’s our approach to mindfully design with the abundant resources available. Maximizing through long term investment to create synergy that will lead to economic viability
community future community
primary secundary
private semi public public
built in: use the topography to create outside.
vegetation
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The Lenguage of the Block
the community looks outward of currently: currently: the community looks the block, leaving residual space inside the outward of the block, leaving block emty space inside the block
vegetation: a green space for the community vegetation: a green space for the community to look after, where they can perform a to look after, where they can perform variety of activities. a variety of activities involving outdoor spaces.
school: makingSchool: the block heart making thericher block with heart richer with a schoolinterweaving program, interweaving a school program, private private and public and outdoor spaces and public and out door indoor spaces.
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11. Kitchen 12. Showes 13. Storage 14. Courtyard 15. Vegetable Garden 16. Green House 17. Basketball Court 18. Lobby 19. Machine room
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Program
Subtraction
Gardens
The school is laid out around a central courtyard making the architecture a protective net. This layout gives direct and indirect access to the courtyard to every room in the school making this exterior room the heart of the school.
The substation of square footage to the program is not a loss, in the opposite the students gain. Better connection to nature promotes focus and outdoor classroom enable non directive learning opportunities for children in developing stages.
Gardens are meant to be experience and each garden of the school provides a different experience from a private courtyard to a public park with soccer field inviting the community.
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playground
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Program vs. Vegetation
lobby cafeteria classrooms library multi-purpose gardens gymnasium restrooms storage facility janitor closets mechanical room corridor
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library multi-purpose gardens gymnasium restrooms storage facility janitor closets mechanical room corridor
multi-purpose gardens gymnasium restrooms storage facility janitor closets mechanical room corridor
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IHU_Human
“I am not citizen of any country�
Every day in Myanmar hundreds of people leave the country through the border of Bangladesh, some of them walking great distances, some of them navigating, but all of them going through the same journey, encountering the same fear of not being accepted by the country, they once called home. Ethnic conflicts are getting worse every year, and so are the refugee living conditions. Refugee camps cannot replace the homes that have been lost, the sense of belonging and freedom is no longer present. In Miyanmar-Bangladesh response, IHU, creates a place right in the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Border designed to embrace human distinctions by unifying them into a cohesive environment. Conceptual A community where we are all seen as equals, as individuals, and as humans. 40 competition project group
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A building that is anywhere everywhere. A building, for anyone and everyone. Double-unit modular housing
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Hydroponics module
Modularity IHU is designed to have a temporary unit arrangement. The grid system contains railings through which the residential units can move freely. The community is created through the temporary quality of the building which emphasizes the sense of home no matter where you are, blurring the concept of what we consider place. It encourages new interactions between residents, to promote integration and a resilient environment.
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elevator belt
detachable boat
spar buoy foundation
Tidal Powered Lift
pedestrian circulation
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Generating a self sustaining community the water tower Provides the community with food and water.
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tidal transportation belt fishing west side
multi-faith space
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spar buoy foundation
desalinization system
hydroponic tower
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Integration Through Expansion IHU has a structure based on a modular grid, which allows for the addition of residential units, green spaces and communal areas, designed to evolve throughout time. The grid allows IHU to expand vertically as well as horizontally, generating more open spaces, increasing the walk-ability throughout the complex and adapting to residents’ needs. Maritime Mobility, Modularity Each module in IHU has the ability to be separated into a smaller unit that unfolds into a boat which provides residents with a way to move outside the complex, giving them independence and freedom. The boat module can also be used in case of emergencies, since it is equipped with a kitchen and a lower compartment that serves as a temporary room. It contains solar panels and a water desalination system to cover residents’ needs. Meaning human, IHU attains to relink a broken society by becoming its own entity. Providing a home for the citizens of the world. There is no need for borders, nor walls, because there are no divisions between us.
Bamboo Constructions Details
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Maison Olivier
Lacoste, France Residential/Small Business 3,000 ft2 48 academic project
“A Farmer’s atelier”
In a small village on the south of France, the site lies on the south face of the hill. It is a beautiful terraced topography with retention walls that can date back to the V century. With this in mind, the architecture tries to fit into the environment and use the terraced quality in advantage having a dialogue with the site history. The project serves as a retirement home for a farmer with intention to connect to the land transforming his passion into quality olive oil. it is proposed that the house is built on stages as the vernacular ‘maison’ of the area. The house was designed with passive environmental strategies in mind.
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Site Plan
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Topography The old terraces found in the site are restored and reused to create dynamism as well easy access to harvest. Terraces are an advantage to agriculture, by helping maximizing the land use and preventing erosion.
Climate Control The building is located on top of the hill, a wall serves as protection from the north winds and louvers protect the south side of the house. Vertical and Horizontal louver are used respectably in the east and west and in the south.
South The south facing program helps to better control sunlight and it gives open views of the luveron valley and the mountains.
Structure Structurally the building is hold by a cantilever structure attached to a wall, this decision is made to eliminate structural elements as columns on the south facade.
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Room Floor Plan
The kitchen is directly connected to the terraces, giving direct access to the olive harvest. While working in the inside you get an 180 degree view of the valley and the mountains. Industrial Kitchen
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1. Bedroom 2. Bathroom 3. Exterior Stairs 4. Industrial Kitchen 5. Storage Room
Program 1. Bedroom 2. Bathroom 3. Exterior Stairs 4. Industrial Kitchen 5. Storage Room
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Summer Sun This atrium like opening creates stack ventilation and also provides indirect light to both of the spaces, first and second floor.
EXPANSION JOINT 6" WELDED MESH SLAB ON GRADE 4"
MOISTURE BARRIER DRANING MAT
L SHAPE REBAR #4
CONCRETE FOOTING REBAR #4 4" GRAINING PIPE GRAVEL
Winter Sun Concrete walls and floors become thermal collectors. They maintain the spaces warm on winter radiating during the night the heat gained during the day. Because all the rooms face south there is a direct contact with sun on the interior of the spaces. That’s why the rooms become Sun space during winter. The louvers work efficiently letting winter sun in and keeping it cool in the summer.
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ROOF MEMBRANE ALUMINUM FLASHING WOOD CURB (2X4) RIGID INSULATION 1" PLYWOOD DECKING STRUCTURAL BEAM (2x4 HOLLOW STEEL) MULLION (2X4) STRUCTURAL COLUMN (2x4 HOLLOW STEEL) DOBBLE PANEL GLASSING
LOUVER SYSTEM REBAR #4 CAST CONCRETE WALL
L SHAPE REBAR #4
2ND FLOOR- LIFE SAFETY PLAN 7' - 4"
WELDED PLATE ANCHOR BOLT
LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE SLAB 4" LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE SLAB 6" CONCRETE BEAM
1ST FLOOR- LIFE SAFETY PLAN -1' 8"
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Movility in The City
Chattanooga, Tn Urban Design / Transit
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Bus Stop Hotspot
This project is the result of an internship at the Chattanooga Design Studio. It was prompted by the studio as a result of a study done with Gehl, where they found that most of the people in downtown Chattanooga spend their time near or on bus stops. As a collaboration with CARTA the transit authorities of the city. We studied how to improve bus stops around the city and specially in down town, in order to make them a space for everyone and avoid gentrification. The project advocates for the use of transit and transit oriented development with a study of different context and different bus stop typologies.
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Context Analysis
Hill City North Neighborhoods
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The Downtown Area has some of the most used bus stops. It is the densest jobs area in all Chattanooga with over 12,000 jobs. The bus stops are surround by a midrise office building with commercial spaces.
UTC Campus is condensed in this area. With faculty and housing buildings scattered around. The university has a population of 10,700 students.
This park breaks the University campus is and the East Neighborhoods in two. It is also an essential destination for recreation as well of having the Metropolitan Ministry across the street.
There are three other hospitals in this segment. That fact makes it an essential destination for accessible public transit.
History Time line
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LEGEND over 6,000 2,500-6,000 500-2,500 over 400 C
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All the Data represented her comes from the WeGO Transit Guidlines and the CARTA Transit Guide
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The Pilot Bus Stop is going to be implemented in one of the bus stops at Market. St as is one of the most used bus stops in the system. This proposal shows what the bus stop could be if it was implemented permanently and if sufficient funds where raised. The space is created for everyone with access to different types of amenities from up to date signage to multipurpose sitting, playground, and a vegetation wall to protect the users from the street. The Pilot Project
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Polisemic: Conceptual representation of the project. An image with different meanings, which can be interpreted differently by different people. The users of the “entrecourtorium” do not believe in the established system; for them, it is rotten from the inside. That’s why they don’t work by their rules. They find alternatives to fix problems. The architecture as a tool provides office workers with an opportunity to express their oppressed feelings and share them with people below them in the social hierarchical pyramid.
I Want to Save the World This project is a criticism of the different hierarchical, bureaucratic and economic systems that reign society and the word. The project is not to be seen with any biased opinion; either anarchy, communism or socialism. This is just a critic of a reality that our world faces today; money and power dictate our everyday life and reflects on the shallowness of the systems. THE “ENTRECOURTORIUM” IS A TOOL FOR THE PEOPLE Site Less WITHOUT A VOICE. Is a refuge from the things these systems can do to them when the Civic truth comes out. Architecture is not going to change the world, but it may change the 15,000 ft2 way the ones higher see the ones below.-
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“THE FURTHER A SOCIETY DRIFTS FROM THE TRUTH, THE MORE IT WILL HATE THOSE THAT SPEAK IT.” -George Orwell
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The users of the “entrecourtorium” do not believe in the established system; for them, it is rotten from the inside. That’s why they don’t work by their rules. They find alternatives to fix problems. The architecture as a tool provides office workers with an opportunity to express their oppressed feelings and share them with people below them in the social hierarchical pyramid. The person seeking personal, economic or sexual freedom, but a hostage of the system. Frustrated by the mechanisms of the system and the social hierarchy but, someone who wants to challenge it. The one that is not scared anymore. With something within itself that encourages to challenge what has underestimated him many times.
HOW THE REVOLUTION STARTS? 1. The individual feels alone, in this vast group of people. The office is no his habitat and the bureaucracy drives him crazy. 2. In his mind, countless thoughts and he cannot work.
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3. a relive from the office, a break from the madness. Here he gets detected by the cameras and sensors. 4. The entrecourturium find its way and extends it hydraulic capsule to reach to the individual.
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5. Here the revolution starts, inside he meets people and in the auditorium has the opportunity to express himself freely.
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Cut-Out: Technical representation of the project. Drawing similar to an axonometric in which you can see the inside and outside.
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At first, the program offered a space where you came to liberate stress from work and you only had communication with people inside it. Nevertheless, it slowly became a place of anarchy where you not only could speak freely inside it but also the thoughts of the ones inside were expressed as one voice out to society, connecting the people and raising awareness. The entrecourturiom only works if humans have the courage to speak their minds. As a machine it would not work without us, so it needs a group of people as any other revolution does. Some people support revolution but there are the ones who take justice in their own hand.
At the end is only on humans to do what is right to save the world.
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