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CONTENTS RALEIGH REGIONAL HISTORY LIBRARY
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BOOKLOVER’S PRIVATE STUDY
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CITY CEMETERY DEVELOPMENT
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VILLA D’ESTE VISITOR CENTER
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CHARLESTON MUSEUM OF THE CITY
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CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE PRECEDENT STUDY
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LANDSCAPE SKETCHING
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RALEIGH REGIONAL HISTORY LIBRARY SPRING 2020 | JUNIOR PROFESSOR: MATTHEW GRIFFITH LOCATION: RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA A public library with collections of books, documents, maps, and drawings related to the history of the City of Raleigh Located at the corner of West Street and West Peace Street in downtown Raleigh, this library’s form aims to engage the busy intersection and attract visitors by showcasing a central open-air curvilinear atrium in an otherwise extremely boxy form plates and walls hold the original boundaries of the site and are gradually sucked into the center of the building. A topography change of 14 feet allows for the library to have two entrances facing West Peace Street and one on the back of the site on the second A terracotta rainscreen on the elevations facing West and Peace make the facades read as massive from oblique views, contrasting to the bands of seamless glass that open to the downtown. This rainscreen is more open in areas of the building that are double-height and where views outward are desirable. The L-shaped concrete walls that hold the back of the site act as an anchor for the project and are identical on each hidden from the atrium, making them appear as if lost in the mass of the walls. cutout near the entrance becomes a green roof garden with a smaller-scale curvilinear glass skylight embedded within. This skylight pours indoor garden near the entrance on that level.
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PARTI
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ENCLOSURE
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STRUCTURE
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BASEMENT 01 BOOK AND DOCUMENT STACKS 02 MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL 03 DELIVERY AND SORTING 04 FREIGHT ELEVATOR 05 PASSENGER ELEVATOR
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FIRST FLOOR 01 ARRIVAL 02 LECTURE 03 RESEARCH 04 PASSENGER ELEVATOR 05 CHASE 06 BATHROOM 07 BATHROOM 08 STORAGE 09 FREIGHT ELEVATOR
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SECOND FLOOR 01 ARRIVAL 02 CIRCULATION DESK 03 READING ROOM 04 PASSENGER ELEVATOR 05 CHASE 06 BATHROOM 07 BATHROOM 08 STORAGE 09 FREIGHT ELEVATOR 10 GARDEN
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VOLUME
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THIRD FLOOR 01 CAFE 02 CAFE PREP AND STORAGE 03 GALLERY 04 PASSENGER ELEVATOR 05 CHASE 06 BATHROOM 07 BATHROOM 08 STORAGE 09 FREIGHT 10 READING ROOM (BELOW) 11 GARDEN (BELOW)
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FOURTH FLOOR 01 MAP AND DRAWING COLLECTION 02 CIRCULATION DESK 03 PASSENGER ELEVATOR 04 CHASE 05 BATHROOM 06 BATHROOM 07 STORAGE 08 OFFICES 09 BREAK ROOM 10 FREIGHT
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CIRCULATION
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BOOKLOVER’S PRIVATE STUDY SPRING 2020 | JUNIOR PROFESSOR: MATTHEW GRIFFITH LOCATION: RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA A private study and home for a booklover Located in one of downtown Raleigh’s restaurant and shopping row, vacant plot of land. Only 15 feet in width and 105 feet in length,
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al grid system. es in architecture: plane and frame. The composition is ordered by use of these abstract components. Plane is used as the primary system while frame is used as a secondary system. Planes slip past one another to create space with voids within the trasts the privateness of spaces beyond the planes. In some semi-public areas, the use of a wood louvers system provides more privacy and sun shading while also reading as plane. While the frame passes through the plane at each intersection, the . In some areas , the plane is susused as a foundation wall for the frame. An outdoor patio home, containing private spaces of the program, features a lofted walkway that leads to a greenhouse the joy of greenery year-round.
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FIRST FLOOR 01 02 03 04 05
OUTDOOR PATIO MECHANICAL CLOSET RELAXATION/ STUDY AREA DINING ROOM KITCHEN
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SECOND FLOOR 01 02 03 04
GREENHOUSE STORAGE BATHROOM BEDROOM
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EAST ELEVATION
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SECTION A
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CITY CEMETERY DEVELOPMENT FALL 2020 | SENIOR PROFESSOR: KOFI BOONE LOCATION: RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA Research and conceptual proposal for a mixed-use development that communicates the narrative of a cultural landscape The South Park neighborhood in southeast Raleigh is a historic African from a city growth plan that was segregated because of several restrictions and discriminatory practices . While not in the South Park neighborhood, directly north lies the City Cemetery. This research displays why strategic design and development of a vacant lot adjacent to the cemetery is necessary, not only for the enhancement of the South Park community and for communicating it’s rich history, but also for telling the history of City Cemetery itself. Several community outreach initiatives were used to ensure overlap design. In addition to receiving feedback directly with South Park community members, this work is a part of ongoing research in collaboration with the South Park East Raleigh Neighborhood Association and several stakeholders from Raleigh Parks, The Raleigh Urban Design Center, Greenways Incorporated, and several other groups within the City of Raleigh.
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CEMETERY HISTORY The City Cemetery is Raleigh’s oldest public cemetery, built in 1798. Some of the most important people from Raleigh’s earliest history are buried here. Originally, the cemetery was laid out in four one acre plots: two for white residents, one for visitors, and one for black 1819 as is now owned by the City of Raleigh with no available plots. Characteristic of the cemetery are narrow cobblestone carriageways, cast iron fencing that used to surround the state capitol, and elaborate monuments.
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GATE CONDITIONS There are no main entrances to the site, but several that look identical.
CURRENT VEGETATION There is minimal shading due to removal by a tornado in 1988.
MAINTENANCE eteries Preservation regularly maintains the monuments. They have created an online audio walking tour and maps of graves within and those buried. It is rarely used due to lack of awareness about it.
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BUS RAPID TRANSIT (BRT) The future implementation of the Bus Rapid Transit System in Wake County is important to the city’s development. It is a high-capacity bus-
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NEW BERN AVENUE STOP AT CITY CEMETERY Avenue. The stop will be at the corner of the block where the City Cemetery is located. This provides an opportunity to connect the BRT to the cemetery and South Park neighborhood beyond.
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TREE CANOPY RESTORATION It is necessary to improve the conditions within City Cemetery to make it a more inviting landscape. This includes replanting trees in areas where they were prior to the tornado,
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2030 LAND USE PLAN NEIGHBORHOOD MIXED USE •Neighborhood shopping centers •Pedestrian-oriented shopping centers •Limited to 2 or 3 stories
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CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL MODERATE DENSITY RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONAL OFFICE AND RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE
CITY CEMETERY BRT AS HERITAGE WALK TRAILHEAD The South Park East Raleigh Neighborhood Association has proposed a route for a Heritage Walk through the South Park Neighborhood. Below is this route through downtown Raleigh, slipping directly past the City Cemetery. It is important to make an addition to this route (see right) to connect the neighborhood to the cemetery and ultimately to the Bus Rapid Transit stop beyond. This creates a continuous greenspace from the bus stop to John Winter’s Park and the Chavis Way greenway to the south.
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KEY EXISTING SITE FEATURES
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01 NEW BERN HOUSE
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Transitional homelessness housing program
ICONIC MURAL
03 FIRE STATION THREE Owned by City of Raleigh
Building vacant but mural intact
04 05 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES To be displaced by development per 2030 land use plan
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PROGRAMMING Lower story retail Upper story homelessness transitional housing
Lower story retail housing 2 and 3 stories
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Lower and upper story retail City Cemetery Visitor Center
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EQUITABLE TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL The BRT system is an enormous opportunity to better connect the South Park community to BRT LAWN . This design strategy features a collection of buildings that have mixed-use purposes, in primary axis STADIUM-STYLE that leads from the bus stop, to the cemetery, and SEATING onwards to the rest of the Heritage Walk. internalized courtyard space that opens to the OVERHEAD ART cemetery beyond, giving a visualINSTALLATION connection from both entrances and prompting entry from the cemetery to the development and vise-versa. A change in materiality along the primary axis from concrete to cobblestone pavers, like those in the cemetery, visually draws the eye in both directions. Several landscaping elements also encourage this line of site between the bus stop and cemetery. OPEN PLAZA
LAWN BENCHES An L-shaped area with stadium-styleWITH seating dedicated to bus stop travelers preserves the iconic Welcome to Raleigh Y’all mural along its west-facing wall and features a mural displaying South Park historic imagery along its north-facing wall.
Two overhead art installations provide scale to the somewhat narrow and tall primary path OVERHEAD ART INSTALLATION
allée for scale and comfort. The building portion dedicated to a City Cemetery Visitor Center aims to teach visitors about those important to Raleigh’s early history who are buried in the ground beyond the development. This could be a space for those who work for the Raleigh City Cemeteries Preservation and provide better access to their already established audio and walking tour. IMPROVED GATEWAY
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STADIUM-STYLE SEATING OVERHEAD ART INSTALLATION
OPEN PLAZA WITH BENCHES
LAWN WITH STRING LIGHTING
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CITY CEMETERY IMPROVED CEMETERY GATEWAY
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WALL MURAL WALK Within the development along several facades are several murals depicting historic scenes of the South Park community. This provides a segway to the Heritage Walk just beyond the cemetery and prompts continuation throughout the spaces by providing visual interest.
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THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE AND CITY CEMETERY DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL ECONOMY
EQUALITY
ECOLOGY
•Promotes economic development in a commercial corridor •Parks, leisure, and cultural amenities are key economic development assets
•A workplace investment in an underserved area •Creates a competitive environment for employment and retail development
•Targeted tree planting in cemetery •Tree canopy restoration and growth
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ented around public transit systems reduce reliance on single-occupant automobiles
•Prevents homelessness with increased supply of units and improved environment ing access to high-opportunity areas
VIEW FROM BUS STOP TO CEMETERY
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VILLA D’ESTE VISITOR CENTER SPRING 2019 | SOPHOMORE PROFESSOR: GEORGE ELVIN LOCATION: TIVOLI, ITALY A visitor center for a 16th-century Italian villa Located on the site of Villa D’Este, a villa famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains, this visitor center’s program and form enriches and strengthens the formal ordering principles of the site. The form is an extension of the perfect square of elements placed within the garden below. It is located on the highest terrace, overlooking the infamous landscape below villa from a central square form, a secondary entrance to the villa and a that leads down to lowest portion of the site. The overlapping geometries divide the program into a series of site sunken internalized gallery for viewing artifacts and a mezzanine level for reception gathering. At the center of all of these geometries is a circulation core consisting of a series of staircases and an elevator.
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STRUCTURE TO ENCLOSURE
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CIRCULATION
LANDFORM TO BUILT FORM
PARTNER: SAMUEL OLMSTEAD
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FIGURE TO FIELD
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GENERATIVE GEOMETRY
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PROCESS
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FINAL
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CHARLESTON MUSEUM OF THE CITY FALL 2018 | SOPHOMORE PROFESSOR: BURAK ERDIM LOCATION: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA A museum that tells the story of the City of Charleston Charleston, South Carolina is a port city infamous for its historic architecture, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriageways. The Charleston Museum of the City enriches, strengthens, and interweaves the fabric of the surrounding city by the use of gridded regulating lines as The museum features a below-grade central gallery of columns and walls articulated by the lines of the grid. In the center of the columns is an open-air skylight to the linear gallery on the is capped by a piece of glass for a roof. The gallery with outdoor seating that overlooks the Charleston Harbor a few blocks beyond. A ramp connecting the ground level of the site to the garden gallery has a series of stepped seating areas and plant beds vegetation into the grid system and allow visitors to look down into the glass skylight below. Suspended over the entrance to the sunken central gallery, the garden gallery draws visitors into the site. The two major trees on the site were incorporated into the gridding system near the entrance to the alleyway and in the center of the garden
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PRECINCT 2 Charleston’s second precinct is largely a buildings. While the grays in this diagram depict these typologies and multiple lines mark their points of entry, the blocks of blue show the city’s buildings prior to the Great Charleston Fire of 1861.
SITE
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GRIDDING PROCESS MODEL The long and narrow site sandwiched between two buildings is divided into a series of ed in the surrounding city. While State Street on the west side of the site has more of a residential character, East Bay Street on the east side of the site is a busy commercial street. The program was laid museum entry closest to the residential area is open and gradually leads up to the second smooth transition into the museum from the residential neighborhood. More occupied portions of the program are closest to East Bay Street. buildings are dedicated to circulation from either streets or up to the garden gallery.
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FINAL MODEL
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CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE PRECEDENT STUDY SPRING 2019 | JUNIOR PROFESSOR: GEORGE ELVIN LOCATION: BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN Abstract study of organizational principles used in a building’s design Th Cranbrook Institute of Science was designed by Steven Holl Ar2-dimensional and 3-dimensional diagrams was used to determine the portion and served/served spaces. The building’s entry light laboratory vestibule, a perfect square in plan, is used as the unit of measure to establish a regular grid of elements within the internalized science garden. The program pieces below the grid are “served” spaces, those that are actively used, while those above the grid are “servant”spaces
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GEOMETRY
SLIP
SERVED TO SERVANT
PUBLIC TO PRIVATE
UNIT TO WHOLE
BUILDING TO SITE
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HIERARCHY
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PROGRAM TO CIRCULATION
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PARTI PROPORTION/GEOMETRY SERVED/SERVANT
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LANDSCAPE SKETCHING
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