ALISON HUO 2017
Hello, I am Alison. This is my architectural thesis 2017. Welcome! I approach my thesis with full of the passion of small, playful and civic interventions that spread around within the urban context as I always wander around the city of Toronto with curiosity and thinking. Enjoy.
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WANDER-LAND
wander
/ˈwändər/ v. walk or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimlessly way. The thesis focuses on architecture in a small and intimate scale to redefining Liberty Village from a predominately commercial and vehicle environment into a park/playground. At the same time, interpreting the entity of architecture as fragments of experiences within the context of the environment as a unity rather than a building in a fixed spot. The intention is to create a detour that transforms the pedestrian view of the urban context into a civic space. The injection of small interventions spread around Liberty Village as a perception of wander-land.
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thesis statement
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CASE STUDY
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table of contents
Parc de la Villette Bernard Tschumi
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Peter Eisenman
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Musashino Art University Library Sou Fujimoto
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Undefined - Summary
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WANDER-LAND (THESIS) Diagram
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Site Info & Master Plan
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B Series
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W Washroom
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L - 3
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table of contents
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PROPOSAL OF LA VILLETTE Folies follow the grid system being planned in the park, which increases the awareness of the sense of location.
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Parc de la Villette is located at the north side of Paris, which has been divided into two separate part by Canal de Saint-Dennis.
Parc de la Villette Bernard Tschumi
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case study
WITH PROGRAM Folies contain programs such as restaurant, stores, concert hall and emergency. It changes the conventional program of a public park that becomes richer. P7 bar/cafe
P5 L2 restaurant
R6 concert hall L6
P4 Store
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R7 N7 first aid
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L9 information centre
L5 restaurant
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WITHOUT PROGRAM The folies are formed by frames, stairs and ramps, which creates multiple walk-through spaces. N4
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N1 L1 R5 L4 N8 J5 R2
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P2 N2
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R3 P3
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R8 P8
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P9
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parc de la villette
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The quantity and variable heights of stele merge with the natural landscape of land, which triggers spontaneous movement of participants and interaction between the context and human beings.
HEIGHT OF STELE
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case study
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MEMORIAL
INFORMATION CENTRE The monument has various heights change the view corridor that the participant will be more focus on the stele itself.
The position of the standing point decides the focal point. While standing at the lower steles area, the view corridor tends to go further back into the landscape
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SECOND FLOOR
MORE ACCESSING POINTS
SPIRAL CIRCULATION
FIRST FLOOR
ENTRANCE
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BOOK SHELF AREA
SEATING AREA
CIRCULATING AREA
The divider acts as the units of the book shelf and structural support.
There are spaces have double ceiling height, which the book shelves become a display without a program, but it still considers as primary structural supports.
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UNDEFINED A device has multiple layers of interpretation that is hard to define or unable to deinfe due to multitude of definitions
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Frame (no program)
Concert Hall (with program)
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Colour Red
Stair
Ramp
Volume
Quantity
Multi-heights
Storage Space
Structural Support
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Divider
Parc de la Villette
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Euope
Masashino Art Univerity Library
Bernard Tschumi
Peter Eisenman
Sou Fujimoto
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WITHOUT PROGRAM Spaces for seating and lay down
Interactive Space
WITHOUT PROGRAM Experiential spaces: texture, lighting, vision
ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION a functional object that associates with the historical aspect of Liberty Village and fragments of daily experiences, which have potential to transform into architectural spaces. WITH PROGRAM CHARACTERISTIC - small/intimate - playful -civic
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- vending machine - market booth
Relationship to The Ground
on the ground
semi-in the ground
in the ground
above the ground
Conditions of Spaces
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Study of Booth Typology
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PHOTOBOOTH
PUBLIC WASHROOM
VIDEO/SOUND BOOTH
MASTER PLAN Residential Area
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Retail/Office/Food Service Food Service
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Path of Detour
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L-3: Pedestrian Bridge
S-1: Walkthrough Canopy
L-2: Walkthrough Canopy
Z-1: Resting Spot
B-2: Photo Spot R: Reflecting Room
Z-2: Resting Spot
B-3: Photo Booth
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B - 1 Resting Spot 23 B series
Hanna Ave
Entrance to Liberty Village Market
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Hanna Ave
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B-1 Resting Spot
Liberty Village Market
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B - 2 Photo Spot 27 B series
Office Building Toronto Carpet Factory
+ 2500 mm
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B - 3 Photo Spot 29 B series
Globacore Inc.
+ 4000 mm DN
Toronto Carpet Factory
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Office Building
B - 3 30
Liberty St
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B-2 Photo Spot
Toronto Carpet Factory
B-3 Photo Spot
King St W
B - 2 & B - 3 32
W - Washroom 33 W
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Jefferson Ave
+ 3000 mm
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Liberty St
washroom 34
W Washroom
35 W
Liberty St
Jefferson Ave
washroom 36
M1
M2
Mowat Ave
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+ 4000 mm
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M3
L-3 PEDESTRI
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M3
M4
Fraser Ave
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