ALEXANDRA GONZALEZ URBAN DESIGN - ARCHITECTURE - FINE ARTS
ALEXANDRA
GONZALEZ
ag3043@columbia.edu | alexandra0514@gmail.com www.alexandragonzalez.net 401.533.8983
EDUCATION
Columbia University | 2011 Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design Rhode Island School of Design | 2010 Bachelor of Architecture - Bachelor of Fine Arts
SKILLS
Fluency in Spanish (native speaker) Portuguese (Intermediate) AutoCAD, Rhino, SketchUp, ArcGIS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe AfterEffects, hand drafting/sketching, model making, furniture design, graphic design and photography
AWARDS/AFFILIATIONS
By the City/For the City Winning entry By the City/For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York Publication Architecture for Humanity_Providence Chapter Member Kinne Fellowship Travelling Prize 2011 recipient Independent Research Project Collaboration with Architecture for Humanity and Red Hook Food Vendors Rhode Island School of Design Student Alliance Architecture - Undergrad Class Representative Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program Rome, Italy 2008 Skin-Deep: Light as Air (Velux competition) Travel Scholarship Recipient Skin Deep: Light as Air Book Rhode Island School of Design – Design Studio Publication Latino Dollars for Scholars Scholarship
EMPLOYMENT / EXPERIENCE
Columbia University | Jun 2011 - Present Associate in Architecture Conduct research and collaborated on the curriculum for the MSAUD Studio Fall 2011 Exaedro | Medellin, Colombia | Jun 2009 - Aug 2009 Architecture and Urban Design Intern Participated on a masterplan design for a new mixed use development within Medellin, CO Rhode Island Department of Health | 2006 - 2008 ADA Consultant / Birth Defects Developed ADA checklists and guidelines for fitness facilities statewide, Conducted site visits to advise improvements and guidance for funds for these ones Institute for Human Centered Design | Jan-Jun 06 Intern Completed ADA training, Universal Design product research and conducted facility visits Mostue & Associates Architectural Firm | 2006 Intern Participated on schematic design and RFIs management on a affordable housing project in Somerville, MA
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MIC
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TOKYO
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[StormWater Industry Management]
CENTER for Urban Farming
[Food Integrating Transit]
[Health Economy]
International Forum
[Organic Waste Network]
[Market Incubator of Change]
URBAN DESIGN
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MIC [Market Incubator of Change] Team Members Anna Gabriela Callejas | Racha Daher |Alexandra Gonzalez | Nisha Mary Prasad
ACCRA, GHANA
Spring Semester - MSAUD Nima Market
According to a study by the AMA [Accra Metropolitan Assembly] most markets in Accra share the same basic needs: infrastructure, sanitation, storage, refrigeration, and drainage. MIC addresses these basic needs as a first priority. Moreover, an entire economy is generated through this conversion of basic needs to entrepreneurship, through which, given the tools, the people provide for their own change.
phase 01 first sanitation pockets and main rickshaw access phase 02 market square, remaining pockets and first structures upgrading phase 03 secondary rickshaw lanes, structures upgrading phase 04 remaining structures upgrading: defining the edges
rickshaw station
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access structures pockets
phase 05 catalyst effect: activating retail activities
trotro station
sanitation pockets infrastructure modules address nima market basic needs
rickshaw lanes access upgrade throughout the market allows for efficient flow of people and goods
hot coff ee r oad
nim ah igh way
mar ket s qua re
modular structure flexible structure offers new floor and roof for the market; each shop can be upgraded individually by using a panel system market square market square allows for different uses: trotro station; added value shops and information center; religious activities next to the existing mosque; wholesale market on wednesdays and street vendors troughout the week
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stormwater
ACCESSIBLE ROUTE Multi-functional rickshaw system for Nima emergency storage pedicabbing
waste collection
delivery of goods
Capacity 574 Gallons Size L-88” W-48” H-48”
permeable surface detail
Added Value Market
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drainage detail
underground tank
MIC redefines the concept of the market as a place of exchange of goods as well as ideas— a place of new flows in addition to the current ones, of education and awareness for change
vegeta bles
adde d valu e ma rket mea t mar / fish ket grain s
pottery
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Re-zoning strategy diagram
Friday 12:30 p.m.
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SANITATION POCKETS This initial strategy which provides toilet facilities, water, waste collection, and information center. It is first injected within the market; however it can easily be adjusted and re-introduced within the existing housing fabric
PLAY PUMP
EDUCATION
TOILET
WASTE
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INDUSTRY POCKETS work as extension of Nima market. Incubators of change, by activating Nima streets, that could be upgraded with infrastructure, they facilitate access and encourage retail activities
water harvesting toilets
urban farming industrial function waste collection water collection
toilet (below) water tank (above)
bikes and rickshaws
MIC seating
platform modular structure
street furniture
recycling and composting NEW ‘INDUSTRY POCKETS’ that support upgrades needed in the market could be implemented next to existing schools
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NEW STRUCTURE
MODULAR UNITS allow for incremental and informal growth
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paneling system: possible materials
solar pannels
permeable roof
refrigeration unit
FABRIC TRANSFORMATION upgrades in existing housing fabric will be encouraged through market transformation; retail activities in the ground floor and housing in upper levels offer a live-work condition; rooftops can activated as part of the house
panneling
foundation detail
new structure edge condition
roof detail
hot coffee road
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OWN [Organic Waste Network] Team Member Anna Gabriela Callejas
NEW YORK , USA
By the City/For the City competition WINNING ENTRY
RESIDENTIAL
30%
1,250,000
We see the potential in converting organic waste into a source of income and a valuable resource for our parks and outdoor spaces in the form of fertilizer.
tons/year
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$$$ REDUCTION OF ORGANIC WASTE GOING TO LAND FILL
possible receivers of fertilizer
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of PARKS, CEMENTERIES NYC = & OPEN SPACES
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farms in NY
1) Select data to determine site’s PROFILE
2) Density X Vacant plot available=
RADIUS of influence and POPULATION shed min R= 1mile
SITE
120,000 people
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CALIBRATE system:
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max density=150,000 people/sqft
housing fabric .................................................
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max R=3 miles
radius
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housing fabric
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waste COLLECTION and COMPOSTING type
TRANSPORTATION
COLLECTION
COMPOSTING
bike
private
centralized
electric car
only public
decentralized
This toolkit was created to identify the collection strategy, type of facility and the architectural intervention that will cater for the waste produced by the population of the area.
4) Define size of facility, if CENTRALIZED composting x population shed
food facilities
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tonnes/ year
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facility size (sqft)
size facility
refurbish
adding attribute to existing location
attatch
fabric
operation
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bikes_info
public o-bins
bike
o-bins_info capacity: up to 200L weight: 10 pounds uses: private and public spaces
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private o-bins
capacity: up to 3 bins [600 L uses: collection of waste/ distribution compost [small scale]
o-waste type
domestic
o-waste collection
comercial
public spaces
bike
27”
32”
educational modules
mini composter_info
24”
24”
bike
capacity: up to 300L/week power consumption: 12kWh/week uses: gathering spaces
54”
mini composting units
o-waste composting
centralized compost
on site
o-waste output
aditional program
educational composter_info
bike/car
capacity: up to 450L weight: 58 pounds uses: gathering spaces
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centralized packaging and distribution to public parks/gardens 2 4”
24 ”
JOB CREATION
EDUCATIONAL COMPONENTS_CITY WID gardening
collection
facility operation
management and finance
teaching
maintenance
food sale
sales and distribution
punch-card
Still images from our educational videos designed to inform the community how to compost, find the nearest facility and incentives/coupons
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Tokyo International Forum Team Member Anna Gabriela Callejas
TOKYO , JAPAN
Asian Urbanism exercise Rafael Vinoly project
Our strategy is to transform the “Yarakucho Station street� into a pedestrian esplanade that starts connecting activities that already happen in the surroundings to the inside of the Forum.
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1_CONNECT
create pedestrian esplanade
2_ ACTIVATE
incorporating small retail activities into the Forum
3_ PEEL
allow underground flow to be part of the open public space
4_ FROM INSIDE OUT
rotate existing geometry to create vertical circulation
Sectional Perspective
existing rail
restaurants ramp pedestrian corridor new commercial spaces
interactive art space
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proposed plan redefines original ambiguity of programs commercial spaces and new programs activate public space
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sketch_ proposed outdoor public space with introduced program
We emphasize this tactic by also introducing commercial pockets within the “protective wall� created by Vinoly and reconfiguring the existing retail activities in order to activate the plaza
proposed plan
sketch_ proposed inside glass hall
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Manhattan 18 open 5 downsized
Staten Island Brooklyn Bronx Queens 12 open[Health 11 openEconomy] 2 open 1Up 9 open 3 downsized 1 downsized Manhattan
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Bronx
Staten Island
Queens
18 open 12 open 11 open 9 open 2 open Team Member 5 downsized 3 downsized 1 downsized Marta d’Alessandro | Heinz von Eckartsberg | Ivy (yezhou) Yi | Paul (byungdon) Yoo
NEW YORK, USA
Bronx
Bronx
Summer semester - MSAUD
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1Up provides the community with a center of interaction that combines leisure and recreation as a vehicle to a physical and menta healthy lifestyle. It is a public investment that will encourage community transformation but also create a stronger economic network that will benefit both the local and regional economy of the Bronx
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Manhattan 1,634,795 23
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people hospitals people/hospital
Brooklyn 2,556,598 15
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Our strategy is to revitalize the community by providing a catalyst of interaction within a vacant hospital lot, by giving back to the community a desirable social magnet that adopts existing leisure and recreation activities as a vehicle to a physical and mental healthy lifestyle
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FIT PROGRAMS
BK
1P
Pilot project Deployables are placed around sidewalks carrying mobile check-up clinics, fresh food market kiosks and nutritional/fitness education
BX
MEMBERSHIP CARD
Income-based membership card provides savings on fresh food, health checks, classes, and fitness options
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Whites 3.65% Blacks 24.74%
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community center 1UP Branch
Hispanics 64.51% Native Americans 0.2% Byungdon Asian Americans 0.03%
Yoo
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731 Kelly Street Bronx NY
t. 718.293.0023
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FIT [Food Integrating Transit] Team Member Anna Gabriela Callejas| Racha Daher|Luis Ramos | Jorge Abad
SEATTLE, USA
job incentive center
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art workspace/ elderly housing
ue S ven ier a rain
The main goal of FIT-UP is to integrate food and people, and their activities through transit that is optimized to transfer people during the day and food during the night. As cities grow, people lose the connection they have to their food, and accessibility to fresh food gets harder and harder. FIT-UP proposes strategies to mitigate this growing problem
food market
mt baker intermodal station
martin luther king jr. way s
ULI Competition multidisciplinary group
Our proposal entails re-thinking the concept of the transit station, and re-defining its typology. From being just a light rail station, it becomes an intermodal transit terminal, that not only houses different transportation modes, but also multi-functions
circulation diagram
figure-ground diagram
open space/urban farming diagram
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increase density
re-route
introduce small scale transit
optimize existing transit
encourage ethnic encourage urban diversity farming
encourage ethnic food
rainwater harvesting
FIT-UP encourages this diversity, takes it to the streetscape, and includes it into the area’s local economy by allocating retail zones for small scale ethnic restaurants, bars, and businesses. Instead of re-creating another downtown Seattle, we are creating a small scale urban pocket that celebrates its local diversity and its ethnic foods, strengthens people’s connection to their food, their local stores, and to each other by promoting communal activity. This in turn attracts people from the downtown area to enjoy a small scale cultural experience.
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rickshaw
intermodal transit station
ethnic shops
irrigation for green roofs and urban farms
rain-water collection
urban farming
fresh food market
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Center for Urban Farming Team Members Anna Gabriela Callejas | Racha Daher | Nisha Mary Prasad
NEW YORK, USA
Sucker Punch Competition Brooklyn Navy Yards
growing containers market area
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cafe gallery
growing containers outdoor growing
ility fac ting pos com
Our project seeks to use the Brooklyn Navy Yard site as an incubator of urban agriculture within New York City. The Center for Urban Agriculture will transform the site into a productive and profitable space that will not only create jobs and help boost the local economy, but its local grown products will result in better food safety
retention pond
classroo ms/labs
outdoor growing
parking
classroom s
market
gallery/cafe ting os mp co
GROWING STRUCTURES
PROGRAM
WATER COLLECTION
Our mission is to build connections between community, food and nature that can inject revenue and engage residents in work and pleasure that improves the well-being of themselves and the broader public.
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outdoor growing
green roof
fresh food market
paved composting container areas facility modules
other pollutants are given off as harmless gases into the air
some pollutants are stored in the roots, leaves and trunk tree roots take in water and pollution from the ground
PHYTOREMEDIATION SCHEME
plants growing medium filter fleece drainage layer waterproofing membrane concrete slab
GREEN ROOF SCHEME
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outdoor growing
growing containers
cafe
Plants take in the converted nitrates as nutrients and their roots help filter the water for the fish The bacteria cultured in the grow beds and fish tanks, breaks down ammonia into nitrates
GROW BED
BACTERIA
Fish produce Ammonia-rich waste
split in 2 renderings (interior/exterior)
FISH TANK
Oxygen enters through an air pump. It is essential for plant growth and fish survival OXYGEN
CONTAINER DIAGRAM [interior]
The shipping container module system,allows us for flexibility of location, higher yield per square foot of floor space, fast installation and the possibility of transplanting each module to another location
gallery/exhibition space
growing containers
composting facility
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SWIM [StormWater Industry Management] Team Member Anna Gabriela Callejas| Racha Daher| Kate Cho
training center NEW YORK, USA
Summer Studio - MSAUD Bronx River
wetlands nurseries pedestrian connector housing connector wildlife zone
Every year 241.5 Billion gallons of storm-water in NYC goes to waste. This condition identifies storm water discharges as one of the major threats to the ecological health of the river. Our proposal is beginning to utilize storm water as a resource as opposed to waste. Our impact begins to suggest a transformative component to the site that works as a symbiotic relationship between ecology and economy
bronx river alliance and research center nurseries connector concrete factory water plazas
barrel factory
INDUSTRIAL ZONE metal recycling filter factory metal factory
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SWIM, will manufacture, install and maintain all elements needed to aid infiltration, collection and distribution of storm water, as well as provide many jobs at various skill levels
ecology north-south ecological connections
east-west urban landscape connections
infiltration
industry collection recreation
channels
tanks
barrels
grasscrete
vegetation
PRODUCTS
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cross bronx expy
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Wetland - River Section
water to river
Bronx River
water to tank
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manufacturing factory water distribution center 0
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50m
pedestrian and water connector
concrete tank water plaza and park
nursery
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SCHOOL for the Built Environment
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Harvesting Education
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ARCHITECTURE
School for the Built Environment Team Members Anna Gabriela Callejas | Racha Daher | Nisha Mary Prasad
KALKUTA , INDIA
Fall 2010 Semester Rhode Island School of Design
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The mission of the School for the Built Environment is to educate students in a way that they can become the visionary thinkers, entrepreneurs, and innovators who change their local community or the world in the service and development of human kind
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Student-faculty interaction
Curriculum-faculty interaction
studios/work areas
Student-curriculum interaction
Faculty housing
learning process conceptual model
classrooms
Watercolor-Photoshop perspective showing main access road and comunity shops
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Rainwater Harvesting
UNIT 1 550 sq feet 24 units 4 students per units Total: 96 students 60 sq ft x Average 62� / year / 12 in = 310 cubic feet of water/ yr Collection Area (sq. ft) x Rainfall (in/yr.) /12 (in/ft) = Cubic Feet of Water/Year
UNIT 2 450 sq feet
80 units 2 students per units Total: 160 students
UNIT 3 600 sq ft
Student Housing
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studio areas/working spaces
classrooms
faculty housing
Experimental Models
Classroo
plaster model of void spaces
ms
area studio s
paces
Facult y housin g
Outdoor
Comm
Librar y
unity s
hops
Ma ssin gM ode l
Sectional Model
faculty housing classro oms
studio a reas/wo rking sp aces
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Harvesting Education New School in Port-Au-Prince
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
Degree Project-Spring 2010 Rhode Island School of Design
The campus serves as a social catalyst, and serves to promote education as the foundation of progress. The design provides spaces that serve multiple functions with the ability to generate revenue for the school while providing much needed communal spaces for the locals. Its purpose is to integrate the surrounding community and bleed into the public park
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Space
WFP Fixed Distribution Sites CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS food distribution site
CITE SOLEIL
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TABARRE
DELMAS
CARREFOUR PORT-AU-PRINCE
PETION-VILLE
Source: WFP, MINUSTAH
No. of people in organized settlements CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS IDP sites (est.) organized settlement
CITE SOLEIL
comm unity spac e
adm inistr ation office s
wate r pum p
TABARRE
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15,000
CARREFOUR
864 1,240 615 4,500 20,000
PORT-AU-PRINCE PETION-VILLE
Source: JTF-Haiti, CCCM Cluster
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS Shelter sites with water distributions shelter sites with water distributions
CITE SOLEIL TABARRE DELMAS A
CARREFOUR PORT-AU-PRINCE Source: WatSan Cluster
PETION-VILLE
The completion of each builing serves as a case study that allows for implemetation of new building techniques and material uses
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Rebuild
houses factory/school EDUCATION PROJECT REPLICATE
CREATION
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COMMUNITY
CULTIVATE
consume
Initial phase begins with a full time production of the brick that will allow for the construction of the facility and the basic skills for the reconstruction of the neighborhood.
The pedagogy includes a production garden that allows the school not only to cultivate crops for their own consumption but to generate income by selling surplus to community
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This outdoor spaces will serve as the place to dry the bricks for the completion of the experimental classrooms, once the construction phase is completed it will become an outdoor auditorium space that will serve the students as well as the community
auditorium
future outdoor auditorium
Brick Process 1. Mining 2. Preparation 3. Molding 4. Drying (up to 2 weeks) 5. Firing (firing around the clock for about a week)
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Bamboo as a structural element
BAMBOO AS A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT ·Split bamboo every four layers ·Vertical Members for additional support BAMBOO AS A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT ·Split bamboo every four layers ·Vertical Members for additional support
BAMBOO - FLOOR PLATE DETAIL
BAMBOO - FLOOR PLATE DETAIL
Rat trap bond_ brick detail CAVITY
cavity
CAVITY
RAT TRAP BOND ·Reduction in cost of the wall by 25%. RAT TRAP BOND · The reduction in number of joints, reduces mortar. ·Reduction cost of 18% the wall by 25%. · 25% less deadinweight, savings in bricks and reduction in number 54%· The savings in cement mortarof joints, reduces mortar. comfortable (5 degrees lower · Thermally 25%outside less dead weight, 18% savings in bricks and that· the ambient temperature) 54% savings in cement mortar · Thermally comfortable (5 degrees lower that the outside ambient temperature)
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BRICK OPENING DETAIL
BRICK OPENING DETAIL
Working area renderings
Bamboo connection detail
BAMBOO - FLOOR PLATE DETAIL BAMBOO - FLOOR PLATE DETAIL
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BAMBOO - FLOOR PLATE DETAIL
Brick opening detail that allows cross ventilation
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BRICK OPENING DETAIL
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Field of Vision New School in Port-Au-Prince
Investigations of the way in which the human eye works responded to my ambitions of light apertures created to subdivide spaces based on their light qualities RHODE ISLAND, USA
Velux Competition Runner-up Design Entry
The iconic wall becomes a gesture that serves the purpose of a retina and allows light to be reflected and redistributed into the production space. During the summer it will become a grow wall while in the winter the dead branches will allow light to penetrate and bring more light into some of the darker spaces
iris cornea pupil lens retina
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iris
Plan detail cast-steel bracket
RECEPTION AREA
First Floor Plan
Wall section The challenge was to transform an abandoned 19th-century mill building in a low-income Providence neighborhood into a mixed-use facility that can support urban agriculture
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PROGRAM BREAKDOWN
growing area
The program for the new building is broken into two categories. The first is the Urban Agriculture Center, where food and soil are grown, and the second portion becomes community/education outreach spaces
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vertical growing vermiculture fish farm fresh food market
Providence-RI sun path diagram influenced the concave form of the wall in order to maximize the sun light within the growing areas
SYSTEM BREAKDOWN
su nlig ht
Growing beds take in the converted nitrates as nutrients and their roots help filter the water for the fish
GROW BED OXYGEN Oxygen enters through an air pump
cross- ventila tion
BACTERIA The bacteria breaks down ammonia into nitrates FISH TANK Fish tank located on the ground floor produces Ammonia-rich waste
FISH TANK
Sectionally, the concave geometry of the iconic wall allows for sunlight to be re-directed to the growing areas, maximazing the exposure to the rays during the winter months
FISH TANK
FISH TANK
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Constructing Stillness
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Morph-Eye
Curious Mindfulness
INSTALLATIONS
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Constructing Stillness Architectural Design Team
RHODE ISLAND, USA
Hope High School,-Providence Fall semester 2008
The objective was to construct a full scale design that will defeat gravity. The final desing consisted of one hundred pieces of 2� x 4�lumber and rope as bonding element
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Initial studies and full scale mock-up
High School’s playground_ Location of temporary installation
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Installation at night time
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Installation can be used as a bench
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Curious Mindfullness Light Installation
RHODE ISLAND, USA
Velux Competition Runner-up Design Entry
By placing a set of mirrors outside the building, along the rail line perpendicular to the northwest face of the building, we sought to create a schedule of light events in different parts of the stairwell
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Documenting the shifting qualities of the mostly diffused light within the stairwell, particularly in the volume spanning the third and fourth floor. Using a digital camera set to a constant exposure and aperture, I collected photographs of a set of views through a generally sunny day
7:15 A.M 7:45 A.M 8:15 A.M 8:45 A.M
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First bounce projections defined the placement of the small mirrors in order to serve as reflectors and bounce to the second location
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Light is bounced vertically, nearly parallel to the wall, raking the light along the surface in such a way that the texture would be revealed
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Light is bounced horizontally from the risers of the stairs, echoing the rhythm of the rise, and also interacting with the passage of the occupants
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While in this very tiny square at Spring Street and 6th Avenue... Each person is a viewer who perceives himself to be at the center of their world among a field of secondary objects. We may also understand the world as a field of active individuals which project onto our center. this installation seeks to engage the multi-perspective reality of the world that we live in and challenge the public-private dichotomy
The use of anamorphic projection enables us to deny the usual conventions of “looking,� by limiting the range of viewing angles
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[prologue]
the transformation of soho square
This project aims to critique the ambiguity of these two concepts and how future public space tends to have less distinction between the two
It raises the question: How can WE occupy the public realm while simultaneously creating intangible private boundaries?
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Constructing Stillness Team Members Carlos Osorio| Kara Dziokbek
RHODE ISLAND, USA
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Downtown Providence Artists as Public Intellectuals
We were interested in questioning the formation of personal identity. The mirrors here are intended to represent self reflection while the spaces between the mirrors represent society. We found the use of the garment stand appropriate since ones composition of identity is usually expressed through ones wear “I feel pretty good, I love myself”
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ULTRA night club MIRABAR gay bar
“What is this?”
“Oh my God, look at myself guys”
“right there, what the fuck?”
Garmnent Stand Mirrors how much does an individual reflect from society vs. how much they reflect of themselves?
“Grrrr”
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