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post, mastered anderson city school weaving furniture the vertical microcity the machined landscape (un)fragmented culture
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post, mastered fall 2016 clemson university
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This post office in Central, South Carolina utilizes the town’s existing water tower as the site location. To speculate how mail delivery may evolve in the coming decades, the post office is a parcel service institution that uses drones for the delivery of packages and mail. The design reimagines what constitutes signage and iconography for small towns. Rather than simply enshrouding a water tower in a coat of paint that greets visitors with “Welcome to Central, South Carolina”, it wraps the water tower in an architecture and institution so that it may become the heart of civic life. 04
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The act of waiting and queuing is celebrated with a playful staircase that wraps the various chutes and vertical channels and allows for moments of pause and reprieve. And, like a coat of paint, the architecture does not alter the integrity of the water tower itself, never touching the tower but wrapping it in such a way that people may engage with it like never before.
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The new post ofďŹ ce affords views of Central and of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. The height of the water tower further facilitates the use of drones as a delivery tools. The verticality of the water tower allows for a celebration of the various transit elements: chutes, elevators, parcel ramps, and stairs.
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The facade itself engages with the drones. Individual cells house drones and allow for them to enter and leave the facility with parcels through the use of an automated glass door system. To allow for the facade to be changing and reective of the mail activity, when a drone is “homeâ€? in its respective cell, the cell is to be illuminated.
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anderson city school
spring 2017 clemson university, in collaboration with stacy davis
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A public school is funded by and for the public. Thus, it should be regularly utilized by both students and the community alike. In the urban core of downtown Anderson, South Carolina, the city itself can become the school, and the school can become part of the city. By creating a pedestrian street within the existing grid structure, generating varied public spaces, dispersing community programs across the site, and allowing storefronts to reveal internal activity to the path, the project becomes an urban tissue. Students are integrated into urban life, as citizens and students alike inhabit the school as part of the city.
typical urban fabric
breaking down the school into its programmatic spaces and dispersing elements can create a small, walkable cityscape
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the school as a community asset: programmatic breakdown classrooms labs work spaces counseling cafeteria
for students: “public”
fitness center gymnasium auditorium health clinic recycling center library
typical school
intermixing programs not affiliated with the school that are accessible to the public at large creates more diversity and makes the school an integrated part of the city
for all : “super public”
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student body
learning tracks 150 students
600 students
divided into disciplines by interest
curriculum breakdown engineering/ technology
150 students
humanities
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design
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science
50% of courses
50% of courses
project-based learning:
need space for work station for each of the 600 students
classroom courses:
need space for up to 300 students at one time
The educational model for the school incorporates both project-based learning and traditional classes. Thus, space needed to be allocated for both student workspaces and for classrooms. Students are divided into tracks for the project-based learning disciplines. The students of the same track are intermixed in workspaces so that they may cross paths with others of common interests at various grade levels. A system of modules regulates the programming and architecture of the school. The ground level is devoted to community programs and lab spaces, while rotated groupings of classroom and workspace modules, also integrated with community program spaces, allow for diversity in spatial arrangements at the upper levels. The unique conďŹ gurations on each oor also allow for the creation of terraces for outdoor learning, while mezzanines cut between workspaces facilitate further collaboration. Community program modules are sized as needed and distributed across the site. These shared community entities act as anchors about which circulation elements and groupings of classroom and workspace modules can be arranged.
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dividing the block along paths of the city grid
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create secondary paths and voids around public spaces
two different groupings of classroom and workspace modules are rotated, stacked, and mirrored across the site and can be interlocked in various possible combinations
2:1 classrooms to workspaces
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laboratory space community programs circulation tower
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additional voids create terraces and outdoor spaces at upper levels
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key community programs architecturally bridge the path in strategic places
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Development of varied public spaces at the ground level encourages occupation of the site by community members and students. The use of different textiles on the ground oor distinguish areas of transit from areas of reprieve. At the upper levels, community programs bridge the path to celebrate them. Circulation through workspaces fosters interaction between students.
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Beyond the integration between the public and the student body, the student body itself is intermixed. The project-based learning model fosters interactions between students of different ages and interests, supported by open plan arrangements, mezzanines, and adaptable indoor and outdoor classroom spaces in the architecture. The sectional relationships of the buildings allow public and super public programs to also share terraces at various levels and encourage transition between the programs.
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The facade uses tubes of different functions to add both depth and purpose, as well as to link the public space and the architecture. The tubes act as gutters, solar-heated water pipes, and lighting. Polycarbonate tubes with ellipsoidal reector spotlights at each end create a glow on the exterior that calls patrons to the school, creates a glow on the interior from the outside, illuminates public spaces, and wraps under cantilevered elements to blend the lines between wall and ceiling.
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weaving furniture fall 2014 clemson university
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This prototype chair challenges the notion of what humans expect of their furniture, as well as how it inuences how a person experiences his or her environment. Using only nylon webbing and plywood, without any adhesives, screws, or nails, the constructed piece keeps the sitter moving and on edge as the seat undulates due to the vibrations in the room. The warping of plys appears precarious to generate a sense of unease for viewers, though the seat is in fact stable. To demonstrate the complex way in which the materials work together to create a functional seat, the inaugural testing of this piece was enacted as a performance art at the ďŹ nal review.
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the vertical microcity spring 2016 clemson university
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Presently, we live in a world in which suburban sprawl has generated a dependence on automobiles. The separation of public and private spaces that are linked by the automobile is a signature of suburbia and often desired by suburban residents.
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It is predicted that by the year 2097, if the current rate of oil consumption continues, the earth’s oil supply will be exhausted. What would happen if this came true and science was not able to provide an alternate solution? The setting of my project is in the US in the year 2080, when fuel is still existent but scarce.
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This microcity is a response to this crisis. Those in the suburbs or rural areas would likely not want to pick up and move to a massive metropolis, but if they could migrate a short way to microcities in their own communities, they could maintain a life in the regions they hold dear.
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nick’s (local bar) on ground
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In the microcity, vertical movement is substituted for horizontal movement. Elevators and stairs are made to be public spaces. The inefďŹ ciency of suburban life and horizontal, automobile transit is preserved, as public and private sectors of life are separated with a deliberate excess in the vertical direction.
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The microcity, housing approximately 900 to 1,000 people and with over 250,000 square feet of retail and commercial space, affords the option of walking to most of the day-to-day needs of a person, from recreational areas to restaurants, grocery stores to libraries.
The poetics of this project are founded in that the new city is on the site of a former Walmart. The expansive site of a big box, previously lacking a sense of place, is made to be a center of culture and life. The people of Central enliven both the new construction and the repurposed Walmart elements. 37
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The microcity densifies and increases in verticality the deeper into the site one progresses, preserving more “suburban” conditions at the entry.
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A central park that is recessed into the earth contrasts the density and height of the built city. The Walmart rooftop becomes a central upper level plaza that is also linked to the park and other civic entities through bridges and stairways.
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4 Through stacking, mirroring, and turning the various spaces at different levels on the varied types of circulation towers, there are virtually endless possibilities possible to contribute to making each dwelling tower unique and tailored to different ways of living.
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Through stacking, mirroring, and turning the various spaces at different levels on the various types of circulation towers, there are virtually endless possibilities to contribute to making each dwelling tower unique and tailored to different ways of living.
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individual units have windows at opposite walls for cross ventilation
windows at top of shaft evacuate hot air
main corridor allows for natural vertical air ow ground level windows allow cool air to enter
air return air handling unit
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The elevators become a new type of inhabitable space.
[1] the elevator enables
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access of some rooftop areas and can become a more sheltered extension of the large extended balconies
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elevator is a moving lounge to be occupied rather than simply used for transit. furnishings and amenities invite the user to stay.
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an extension to a communal kitchen
[5] at the ground oor, the elevator acts as a semi-private reprieve or even a porch or patio to the public arena.
the elevator is supported with a steel structure that works with the structure of the entire facility.
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glass doors and enclosure allow visibility in and out to exterior or to private/semi private space
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the machined landscape fall 2015 clemson university
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This boat house was designed to serve the numerous rowing teams who come to train on Lake Hartwell in Clemson, South Carolina. A key concept of the design was to explore the way in which rowing pays homage to nature while simultaneously celebrating modern technology through utilizing manufactured equipment. Additionally, the progression of events leading up to competition was brought into the limelight; the transition from land to water, from civilian to athlete, is celebrated with a dramatic ramp.
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Outdoor and open-air occupiable spaces are prominent to celebrate immersion in nature. The forest of machined columns serves to link land and water through its extension beyond the shoreline, to generate private interesting circulation in free navigation of the landscape, and to assist in distinguishing public from private spaces.
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athlete path parallel to ramp
procession to water procession to water visually linked, procession tophysically water divided
private descends to docks, gym, locker rooms, team deck as part of procession down ramp
visually linked, physically divided
public ascends to viewing deck to visually linked, watch descent of physically divided athletes [private] down ramp
levelled columns give sense of ascent and descent
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give sense of ascent and descent levelled columns give sense of ascent and descent
private levelled columns public approaches give sense of ascent perpendicularly to and descent private descends ramp to docks, gym, levelled columns locker rooms, give sense of ascent team deck as part and descent of procession private descends public ascends to private descends down ramp to docks, gym, viewing deck to to docks, gym, locker rooms, descent of lockerwatch rooms, team deck as part [private] teamathletes deck as part of procession down ramp of procession private descends public ascends to down ramp down ramp
to docks, gym, locker rooms, team deck as part of procession down ramp
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viewing deck to watch descent of athletes [private] down ramp
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(un)fragmented culture
fall 2015 clemson university, in collaboration with stacy davis
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To enrich the Clemson community from cultural, educational, and recreational standpoints, this proposed design operates as both an English as
a Second Language school and an independent cinema. Modular gathering spaces serve dual
purposes, used as classrooms by day and cinemas by night. To express the time-sensitive program, the polycarbonate wall system of the building transforms from day to night, from a nearly opaque surface shielding private study to a nearly transparent one revealing activity and calling patrons to the cinema.
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The idea of fragmentation drove this project; the way in which space is fragmented in ďŹ lm inspired the design. Changes in materiality and offsets to generate shadow lines make the walls appear separated from the roof and ground. Views within the interior are fragmented due to the angular paths one must take.
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