ALEXANDRIA SANDHU SELECTED WORKS
FRANKLINTON RESIDENTIAL MASTER PLAN CRITICS: ROB LIVESEY + BART OVERLY AUTUMN 2016 DURATION: 15 WEEKS
“Eight Blocks Broad” was spawned from the idea of including a variety of housing types from precedent research. The challenge of the project was the length of the site and its unusual thinness. Our solution was to subdivide the site into 8 equal blocks, with Broad street as its center. Each 175’ x 105’ block then uses the same 17.5’ grid to bring consistency across the blocks. These dimensions were established due to their flexibility to perform in various housing and building typologies from townhomes to tower. Public buffer zones occupy the space between blocks and are activated by the programming on the street level across the site. The symmetry across Broad Street sets up pair relationships according to the blocks proximity to Broad. Each pair utilizes a formal operation (wrap, shear, extrude, tilt) to relate to its counterpart. The result is eight unique blocks and four unique pairs.
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one site = eight blocks
broad street axis
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site axonometric
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site section
ground/site plan
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block six
block 1 - tower unit plan
block 3 - 2 BR unit plan
block 6 - 3 BR unit plan
block 7 - townhouse plans tower unit interior [1 4 ]
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POST OCCUPANCY: THE TRIBUNE TOWER CRITICS: ASHLEY SCHAFER + STEPHAN PETERMANN AUTUMN 2017 DURATION: 15 WEEKS
We chose to research the Chicago Tribune Tower to investigate how the building has been transformed throughout history in order to project a future use for this tower. We have analyzed the use of the newsroom and the occupancy of the Tribune throughout the past 100 years and have projected the next phase for the building to be unoccupied by the Tribune and occupied by a new wave of news media. Our design has manifested as a field condition of news production to be created by individual organizations or individuals. .
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selected frames from research
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news
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cores
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ROMAN REFUGEE HOUSING CRITICS: BEN WILKE SPRING 2018 DURATION: 10 WEEKS
The studio prompt included the combining of three seemingly disparate things: the 1909 theorem, Rome, and the anthropocene. The issue that I chose to tackle when combining these three things was immigration and the Roman refugee crisis as it is today. I have forwardly projected through the EU’s refugee policies and forecasted an uprising of space-filling communities in the eternal city. Rome is filled with sublime voids with pressure placed on their doors. The tension between the government and these immigrants will soon burst and something will have to happen within the city walls to address the problem. The historic buildings will be filled with favela-like housing communities that use the interior of these buildings in a new way.
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CHICAGO BIENNIAL FIRM: MONADNOCK ADVISOR: JUSTIN DILES FABRICATION COORIDNATOR DURATION: 12 WEEKS
The principals of this Rotterdam based firm approached me to lead and coordinate the fabrication of their design entry for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial which was co-curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee. The theme was “Making New History�. I had met the partners of Monadnock at a symposium held at The Knowlton School in the spring of 2017. They had a design in the preliminary stages and we worked with them remotely to design something that could be fabricated within the time frame and budget. I coordinated all of the production and solved fabrication problems as they came. I assembled a team of four students to pack and drive the pieces to Chicago and install for the next week.
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BILLBOARD | ELEMENT - STRUCTURE
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MONADNOCK | CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL 2017
BILLBOARD | ELEMENT - STUCTURE | SCALE: 1/50 | PAPER SIZE: A3 | 17 AUGUST 2017
TOWER – BOTTOM ELEMENT 'B'
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Photos by Tom Harris Photography MONADNOCK | CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL 2017
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TOWER – AXONOMETRY BOTTOM ELEMENT | PAPER SIZE: A3 | 17 AUGUST 2017
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ONE:TWELVE JOURNAL EDITOR ADVISOR : CURTIS ROTH ISSUE ISSUE ISSUE ISSUE
009 + 010 : 2014-15 011: 2016 012: 2017 (WRITTEN PIECE) 013: 2018 (WRITTEN PIECE)
The student publication at The Knowlton School is called One:Twelve and is run by myself and another graduate student. We release a journal every semester that I not only assemble but also write and draw for pieces in the issues. We develop the call for submissions every year and this past year it was focused on vernacular and it’s role in globalization. The most recent issue was a call for a lampoon edition of the journal marking the journal’s twelfth year as a journal: One:Twelve’s twelfth. I did a piece on architecture mission statements and how ridiculous they have become. The piece was accompanied with a series of black-out poems curated to create new messages. One:Twelve has also gone beyond the written publication by hosting forums and discussion panels from within and outside of the school.
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