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Laredo, Texas Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
NAF TA corridor
complicit expansion, remission of ground
Thi s p r o j e ct i s the r e s u l t o f s e v e r al weeks of research on the border region. Research included a week long visit to the border region in and ar o und Lar e d o , Te xas and Ne uv o Lar e d o , Tam ual i p as . Th e s tud i o b r i e f asked us to respond to the research and our experience at the border. Th i s pr o j e ct i s an i nd i v i d u al pr o j e ct completed in an academic setting.
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Laredo , Texas , U S Nuevo Lare do, Tamaulipas, Mexico 1500’ 3000’
1 in : 3000 ft
6000’
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laredo, texas
SITE SIT SITE
nuevo laredo, tamaulipas
Each year hundreds of Mexicans dies as the result of American consumerism and our desire for drugs, cheaper goods, services, and labor. These victims of fatal crossings of the border go unnoticed and unacknowledged. This project is a memorial. It proposes a constructed territory where each death is recognized and marked physically for visitors. Because this memorial records an ongoing tragedy, it grows physically with each additional death. This project is also then, an act of penance, for as it prows it takes away more an more land are from the American side of the border expanding the Rio Grand into the USA and reducing the capacity for security. The continual erosion of the American banks asks each visitor to contemplate their role in the creation of the memorial. The project is situated in the government-owned Rio Grande River and adjacent derelict land between International Bridge 1 and 2. It is accessible to citizens from either side of the border, regardless of citizenship status, through pedestrian entry points on the bridges.
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plates build up along the political border between the United States and Mexico and cast their shadow accross
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initial studies explored utilizing the space of the bridges and Rio Grande, the existing intersection of the border between Mexico and the United States of America, and the NAF TA corridor the mass, an aggregation of pieces starts to accumulate the numbers of those who had died crossing the border
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this memorial, as it is proposed, constructs a territory where each death is recognized and marked physically for visitors
each death is marked by an 84� x 28� steal plate. The plate is roughly the size of the human body when entombed
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this memorial, as it is proposed, constructs a territory where each death is recognized and marked physically for visitors
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no numbers or names can be found on the plates, they are void of any identity besides that which they have to the viewer and to the structure as a whole
the territory created is ephemeral, as shadow and mass intermingle, the space changes as the sun moves over it and visitors pass through it
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the memorial records an ongoing tragedy; it grows physically with each additional death, giving the polemic of the migrant a physical presence
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plan
1” = 100’
plan
1” = 100’
cross section
longitudinal section
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plan at entrance
plan within mass
section at entrance
section within mass
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plan
1” = 100’
a yb detroppus si etalp hcae swolla osla taht erutcurts leets rotisiv eht yb noitapucco rof
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plan
1” = 100’
The memorial records an ongoing tragedy; it grows physically with each additional death, giving the polemic of the migrant a physical presence. The project then is also an act of penance, for as it grows it takes away more and more land from the American side of the border, expanding the shared territory of the Rio Grande into the USA . The continual erosion of the American banks asks each visitor to contemplate their role in the creation of the memorial, whether this role is passive of active. As the sun moves over head the visitors shadow can be seen projected on to the ground and beneath, beside that of the plates. The project has no real end, as the prospect of political resolution is grim and there will always be a desire for inexpensive goods and services which will inevitably draw migrants across the border.
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complicit expansion, remission of ground
Thi s p r o j e ct i s the r e s u l t o f s e v e r al weeks of research on the border region. Research included a week long visit to the border region in and ar o und Lar e d o , Te xas and Ne uv o Lar e d o , Tam ual i p as . Th e s tud i o b r i e f asked us to respond to the research and our experience at the border. Th i s pr o j e ct i s an i nd i v i d u al pr o j e ct completed in an academic setting.
winter_2009 raoul wallenberg studio UG4 s t u d i o c r i t i c : A n c a Tr a n d e f i r e s c u 2009 raoul wallenberg second prize 007
Utilizing a branching structure with an imbedded logic, public spaces are trapped between the bars of program. The bars contain hotel rooms, lab spaces and offices: private functions. The trapped spaces contain lounges, auditoriums, librarys, cafeterias, etc
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PLAN
SCALE: 1/8” = 1’
green space
major circulation paths
the territory created is ephemeral, as shadow and mass intermingle, the space changes as the sun moves over it and visitors pass through it
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bacteria within custom petri dish
thread used to bind landscape
BAR: bifucated agregation resort
This project for a hotel/resort/laboratory was derived through explorations of biological growth, while taking that information and applying the system to the building as a form generating tool. The system is then located within a defunct quarry at Kelley’s Island, Ohio. This project was completed with a group of peers in an academic setting. With respect to the distrobution of work, all group members contributed in either concept or execution of each drawing or model. No decision was made without each group member’s support
bass wood model
fall_2008 UG3 Alex Timmer Rick Cosgrove Bernard Peng studio critic: Karl Daubman 2009 tcaup undergraduate merit award 029
Utilizing a branching structure with an imbedded logic, public spaces are trapped between the bars of program. The bars contain hotel rooms, lab spaces and offices: private functions. The trapped spaces contain lounges, auditoriums, librarys, cafeterias, etc
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first floor plan 1” = 100’ 13
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1. LOBBY 2. HOTEL ROOM 3. FLEX SPACE/CONFERENCE 4. STORAGE
each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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second floor plan 1” = 100’ 10
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1. LOBBY 2. HOTEL ROOM 3. GARDEN 4. RESTAURANT
each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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third floor plan 1” = 100’. 6
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1. HOTEL ROOM 2. LOUNGE 3. OFFICE 4. LABORATORY
each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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roof plan 1” = 100’
each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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perspective section through central public space trapped within the bars
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invisible cities: responding to italo calvino
The goal of this project is to create a response that is directly abstracted from a given section of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. From this response, to our individually asigned cities, the construct is translated from the space of the drawing into a three dimentional object.The object is then put back into a two dimensional format.
This project is an individual project completed in an academic setting.
fall_2006 architecture 218 studio critic: dawn gilpin student show participant 2007 051
the initial response to text imagines a city that reaches upward, while drawing from the landscape beneath it
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plan
1” = 100’
the object dipicts an aggregation of pieces where individual units break free and grow upwards
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putting the object back into the two dimensional format, results in a blending of language
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in search of the (w)hole: theshadow pavillion
summer_2009 research through making project leader: Karl Daubman assitants: Alex Timmer Ngoc Thy Phan 2010 AIA Small Project Award 2010 Michigan AIA Design Award
each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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the plates provide shade and c r e a t e a c o o l e r, s o m b e r s p a c e in sharp contrast to the arid landscapes of the region.
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each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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SECTION
each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
NOITCES
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the plates provide shade and c r e a t e a c o o l e r, s o m b e r s p a c e in sharp contrast to the arid landscapes of the region.
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PLAN
each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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each plate is supported by a steel structure that also allows for occupation by the visitor
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