Graduate Portfolio: Penn

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Homa Farjadi, ARCH 701 Architectural Association, London / Fall 2010 Penn Partner :: Michael Wetmore

I This project seeks to reconnect the disjointed post-industrial landscape by redistributing site occupations into a network of high-capacity nodes. By expanding the flood plain into the site, the project explores these shifting occupations of the River Thames as a new type of urbanism.

Through the lens of boundary porosity, the site’s boundary perforations equated with access points in the existing site conditions of North and South London. The capacity of people allowed through these access points became a launching point for mapping these conditions parametrically in Grasshopper.

I This allowed parameters to visualize connections of access points characteristic of the North and South boundaries. Using parametric modeling, we then mapped the influence each node had on the rivers edge, creating a new field condition that enabled us to redistribute program vertically.

I The pathways and reconstructed landscape are networked along the new field condition, taking into consideration how this new network plugs into the existing tube and road circulation and larger city connections. As a result, a re-occupied landscape that is conditional with the tides provides a hierarchy of networks, creating a hybrid landscape with occupational shifts in program and water connections.

I By using flooding as a strategy to remediate the landscape, along with the concept of the terrain vague, the networked condition of the reoccupied landscape along with the density towers allow chance programming to occur within the landscape, embedded pathways, and the main catenary bridge that spans the length of the site.

[ in ter change ] - noun

interchange

1. to change places or cause to change places; alternate; exchange; switch

I networked landscape // masterplan I

I masterplan // tidal changes I

Arch 701 // Critic :: Homa Farjadi Occupational Shifts Site :: London, UK Concept :: reoccupying the tidal landscape Program :: n / s bridge connections program density towers I site plan // high tide I

^Penn partner :: Michael Wetmore

I regenerated landscape // circulation I

ULI Hines Competition ULI Hines Team Competition University of Pennsylvania / Spring 2010 Penn Team :: Alexandria Mathieu, Brian Zilis, Kate Mandel, Riggs Skepnek Team Advisor :: Tina Manis

I The Village Green addresses both economic and sustainable issues through a phased approach to development. Based on our analysis of the past and present East Village and surrounding area, the intent of our proposal is to design a setting that fosters education, cultural, and recreational opportunities for residents and tourists.

I Phase One: Redefine, is marked by an introduction of several educational components and a new pedestrian promenade. The green infrastructure along the west of the site acts as a system of ‘markers’ for the compelling site feature- the Downtown Graben Faults. Most importantly, the green infrastructure acts as a catalyst for establishing the new pedestrian character of the neighborhood linking the educational facilities.

I Phase Two: Identity. The East Village is deeply rooted in the rich history of San Diego's port and military industries that are now in decline and bereft of a strong identity. The green infrastructure is the first step of establishing a new identity for the Village Green. The next is The Green itself: an urban beach that provides for recreation, relaxation, and celebratory events. Anchored by the civic program of a public pool, there is also a skate park, recreational playing fields, and a wildlife sanctuary.

I Phase Three: Connect. A wide of array of programmatic amenities are now established in Village Green acting as the basis for exchange amongst local businesses, institutions, and a budding tourist economy. Now a popular place in San Diego, a hotel/condominium development and fringe commercially focused mixed-use properties will complete the exchange of urban ecologies.

I earth + volume exchange // site strategy I

fault line

skycab

split landscape

museum of industry

community pool

fill topography

the beach

hotel/condominiums

I green corridor // VillageGreen I

+3 library

criminal hearing rooms

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civil hearing rooms + support offices + investigations

restaurant

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civil courts criminal courts

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average tide lobby secure holding

cafe

theater

cut + fill landscape

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climate tunnel/circulation

[platform]al investigations Phu Hoang, ARCH 602 University of Pennsylvania / Spring 2010

I Now What? A Future Vision of an International Court of the Environment (ICE) I This project imagines a new form of global political institution that requires radically new architectural organizations and spaces. The ICE would transparently rule in environmental law, investigate “eco-crime”, and enforce environmental compliance. The design of the ICE addresses two types of architectural performance—one programmatic, the other functionally linked to the engineering disciplines. Parametric modeling software was used as a diagramming tool to model the complex programmatic and environmental relationships required.

The question then becomes...

I How will an International Court of the Environment perform—architecturally, environmentally, and politically?

I In studying sectional displacement within the courtroom and courthouse, the inherent relationships were investigated between physical raised platforms to social positions of power, formal spaces of security, and the observation of the spectacle. Focusing on overlapping viewpoints of different user groups within the courthouse as a redefined platform within a new topography of Roosevelt Island, NY, the project proposes to re-formalize the courthouse’s existing spatial relationships according to individual and collective platforms found within the viewpoint overlaps. The viewer’s platform is constantly changing due to the rise and fall of the water tide, creating different landscapes within the archipelago.

[ plat form ] - noun

platform

1. a horizontal surface raised above the level of the adjacent area, usually as a stage for public speaking

tieback system :: cold formed steel attached to living wall system

steel tubing [ primary ]

batt insulation

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c-channel studs

facade interface

1” metal mesh with shotcrete

3/8” moisture retension mat

2 x 1/4 plasterboard with vapor barrier

cork board faced with Hessian felt acoustic wood panel

rockwool insulation

panelized system :: 3’ x 3’ grid with 6” x 6” planting grid

irrigation drip system

window to wall connection

sliding glass door

void to floor connection

water catch basin steelgrate cover and sewage drain

finish concrete with radiant heating/cooling

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foundation concrete

rigid foam isulation

lawyer offices

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earth tunnel

view: exhibition high 0 low

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Brian Phillips + Julie Beckman, ARCH 704 University of Pennsylvania / Spring 2011 Penn partners :: Thomas Michael + Valmik Vyas

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I This project seeks to repurpose the ravines of Haiti as ecological and programmatic engines for development. Inserted at strategic points along the ravine, the project consists of pre-fabricated structural ribs that line the localized cross section. The fabricated framework, along with a flexible panels and filtration meshes, form an operational circuitry along the length of the ravine. This system functions ecologically as a freshwater filter, preventing erosion, cleaning grey water and storm water runoff, and restoring natural habitats. Simultaneously, it creates new spatial opportunities, redefining the street condition along the natural borders of the ravines, increasing accessibility, and expanding into the surrounding urban fabric to contribute to the existing value of community, provide an opportunity to form an economy, and restore the surrounding agriculture.

I The ravines as a new site typology provide incredible spatial potential, primarily because of the vast amount of unused and underdeveloped territory it provides. But it also serves as a corridor identity, naturally cross-cutting through the urban fabric. However, due to overpopulation and an overall mismanaged infrastructure, the ecological benefits of the ravine are now limited or lost, mainly due to treating the ravine as a dumpsite, creating disease-ridden water conditions, while limiting accessibility and freshwater collection points. Furthermore, because of deforestation and flooding conditions in the more rural areas, there is a larger problem of erosion and loss of habitat.

I Therefore, because of these major environmental and accessibility issues, the overall goal of the project is to repurpose the ravine, maximizing its natural potential to serve as a distribution, filtration and collection agent, as well as an ecological and programmatic corridor.

[ stream line ] - verb

streamline

1. to improve the appearance or efficiency of; to construct or design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow

I haiti today :: ravine as design urgency I

water filtration

trash collection

Arch 704 // Critics :: Brian Philips + Julie Beckman Design for Delivery: Constructs for Haiti Site :: Port-au-Prince, Haiti Concept :: reoccupying the ravines Program :: new pedestrian corridors water + trash filtration + collection I ravine as a site typology :: layered infrastructure I

circulation

trash filtration

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filtration

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development

enclosure paneling

I fringe condition :: site plan // accessibility I zone 2 :: fringe condition - site context 2

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water filtration system I multi-functional system :: operational circuitry I

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enclosure unit structural ribs

trash collection unit enclosure panels

ground plane access points

water filtration meshes

base concrete strips

water level indicator

ground level layer water collection area

I programmed enclosure :: classroom space I

fine gravel filter

filtered water collection

coarse gravel filter

I water filtration + collection layers I

filtered water collection circulation strip

sand bed filter fine gravel filter coarse gravel filter

I collection area :: filtered water + trash I

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