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min spandiari aespand@gmail.com 619-995-8132
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ERTICAL COMMUNITY / EVOLO COMPETITION 2010
East Village is the largest District in downtown San Diego, located east of the Gaslamp Quarter and southeast of the Core District and Cortez Hill. This neighborhood was once a blighted warehouse district, now, revitalized by the upbringing of PETCO Park in 2004. Visitors and tourists can now attend the baseball games, enjoy luxury hotels and restaurants, rooftop, bars, cafes, boutique shops, galleries and live music venues all over downtown, San Diego. At this rate of high development and increasing tourism and residency population, it is expected that by 2050, San Diego’s population will top another 1.5 million. In anticipation of San Diego’s density increase and provided capacity, vertical integral communities are one of the most discussed future development proposals in San Diego and all over the world. A vertical community’s foundation is based on a community’s cultural, social, economic and structural needs. It is a responsive, adaptable and integral design strategy for a developing community.
People, communities and urban cities are engrossed in variable layers and complexities, while accumulating intensities of development throughout time, when architecture stays static. By using a biologically responsive skin structure, it will be able to house people in 2010, as well as supporting the density population of 2050 by having the ability to grow and accommodate for the needs of the community.The skin’s characteristics are just as our own skin, having some level of elasticity, flexibility and adaptivity, but extremely durable, long lasting and changes as we change through time. The skin responds to the current needs of its time in social, cultural and economic changes. It grows as the community grows, it changes as it changes, they are integral.
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The skin structure is based on biological tensegrity seeking out its scientific and structural components of adaptation and development. Cellular Tensegrity defines new rules of biological design that govern the skeletal structure of the biological shell / skeleton. By using a similar type of skin design for architecture as cytoskeletal skin of molecular cell structures, can help in environmental sustainability and providing for community necessities.
Biological Tensegrities Science+Structure
Year 2050
Skin as structure
Main Circulation
View from Broadway street to vertical community
Main Structure
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rain station / 2010
Park School Airport Santafe depot New Train station
Downtown San Diego
Project site
New Train station
Main goal & concept: + Provide public & green spaces + Increase job opportunity + Improve density in downtown San Diego area
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ENTRANCE TICKETING CONCOURSE CIRCULATION INFORMATION BOOTH STATION SERVICE OFFICES SECURITY EMPLOYEE FACILITIES RETAIL RESTAURANT FOOD COURT REST ROOMS COFFEE SHOP
Plan view
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- retail Structural Diagram
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- concourse
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ixed used High-rise / 2010
The social, cultural,and political aspect of architecture has potential to transform the way we perceive the world. The site is dealing with major issues like transportation, homelessness, lack of business opportunity and contextual sustainability. This project is investigating how mixed-use high-rise building can be part of the solution of these issues for downtown San Diego.
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Project site
Program: Residential Commercial Restaurant & caffè
Mixed use-high rise
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Plan view
1. Court yard 2. Hotel entrance 3. Commercial space 4. Restaurant 5. Cafe & bar 6. Bathroom 7. Underground parking 8. Electrical room 9. Mechanical room 10. Bicycle storage 11. Residential entrance 12. Office 13. Hotel lobby Section
Interior view
Residential plan view
View from balcony to ball park
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ast village-master plan / 2011
EAST VILLAGE
MASTER PLAN PROPOSAL
SITE ISSUES: Job opportunity.
+ a park [green pathway] along the fingers of the fault line : Breaking the Grid + rezoning East Village to provide for the community’s future needs: . economically . socially . sustainably + bringing back the Arts and Education into East Village + reconnecting the neighborhoods and green spaces of San Diego + providing East Village with an Iconic destination of a park + designing for East Village to be an entirely walkable community + to provide for ALL of East village residents [ie. homeless.]
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Parks.
Parking.
Trolley line.
Historic district.
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EXECUTION: Create more job opportunity like retail spaces, commercial spaces and corporation.
Create more green spaces throughout the site and to provide relief from hardscape and more sustainable future
Take advantange of under ground parking
Improve public transportation with bus, bike and pedestrian path
Opportunity to take advantage of adaptive reuse, remodeling, and redevelopment/ rezoning.
LAND USE + RE-ZONING DIAGRAM :
Mix use/Retail Student Housing/Retail Existing Housing Mac Corporation Building Mix Retail New Building Parking Structure Residential/Retail Police Station Live Work Lofts/ Artist Lofts Performance Art Center Museum Park Newschool Restaurant Albertson/Apartments Gas Station
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SUSTAINABILITY WATER RENEWAL + RE-USE:
rain wa ter
drinking water
toilet + s
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planting + trees
desalination treatment. greywater system. greywater system integration.
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EAST VILLAGE
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East Village, San Diego
SITE AXONOMETRIC
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nnovative office environment / 2011
Critical Position: The lack of social interaction with the corporate environment has created many social issues. the economics rendered the everyday day life American employee to the slave of the society.
Goal:
A -bring social interaction B -innovative office environment C -allow for programmatic modification
Program
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Police Department
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15th AVE 16th AVE
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Option A (main ) - Corporate office 1- Retail, commercial 2- Gallery / museum 3- Shopping center 4 A- office spaces 4 B- classes, studio & admin 5 A- kindergarten 5 B- library
Economic Education
1- Entrance 2- Courtyard 3- Courtyard 4- Office building 5- Shopping center 6- Parking
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Option B - Education / School
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Allow for programmatic Modification
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N Location: 1403 BROADWAY ST. , 92101
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1- Lobby 2- Reception 3- Waiting area 4- Executive office 5- Open office 6- Conference room 7- Bathroom 8- Emergency stairs 9- Open stairs 10- Kitchen 11- Electrical 12- Storage 13- Print center
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View to entrance & commercial spaces
Level 10- Option A
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1- Studio space 2- Open stairs 3- Lounge / group study 4- Kitchen 5- Print center 6- Private study 7- Storage 8- Electrical 9- Research room 10- Computer lab 11- Emergency stairs 12- Bathrooms
3 View from public space to office building
Level 10- Option B
Diagrams Stairs to allow social interaction Within floors
Gallery Circulation
View from south to office & courtyard
View from public space to downtown San Diego
Hierarchy
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Section through facade
1 1- Double skin facade 2- Steel beam 3- Glazing 4- Mechanical 5- Operable window 6- Finish floor 7- Corrugated aluminium 8- Concrete 9- Air insulation
Structural Diagram
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Concrete core Fresh air
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Secondary steel beam Primary steel beam Steel column
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Metal Louvers