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Striving to redefine architecture through an avant-garde fusion of simplicity & eclecticism
Chris Burden Gallery Texas Architecture Centre Aquaponic Tower discoTECH Parkwest Valley
The Mark Pattern Jungle Font Hand Renderings
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Chris Burden Dallas, TX, U.S.A Studio 6
The Chris Burden Gallery was designed to enhance the experience of Chris Burden’s art. The art gallery thus complements, rather than competes with the seminal works of this important American conceptual artist. Burden pushes the limits of art by challenging conventions and utilizing machines as extensions of the human body, the purest form of art. His work, primarily sculptures, focuses on the expression of structure and movement. The design of the gallery in turn expresses structure in its purest form, stripping all superficial ornamentation away and allowing the castellated columns and joints themselves to become both structure and decoration. The gallery appropriates and deploys exisiting forms from its local context, just south of downtown Dallas, combining formal inspiration drawn from the surrounding warehouses and utility lines with themes drawn from Burden’s own work. Each Burden work is located in its own gallery space that is suspended within the large scale structure, sometimes high off the ground. The sequence of galleries are arranged in an exhilarating, rapidly evolving promenade achieved through making stark contrasts in terms of height, texture and light, heightening the sensorial experience of the visitors. Upon reaching the climax of the journey, the patron is rewarded with a panoramic view of Dallas, including downtown to the north and Santiago Calatrava’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge to the south.
Chris Burden Gallery Site Plan
Street Panorama
Sketches of form
Sketch of art space
Sketch of spatial connections
Joint Details
Storyboard Moments
Floor 01
Floor 02
Floor 03
Floor 04
Texas Architecture Houston, TX, U.S.A Studio 7 - Integrated Semester
The Texas Architecture Centre, located at 1000 Clay St in downtown Houston, Texas, is a structure designed and built for the people. Spaces separated based on public v. semi-public are not designated specifically for student, professional or public. The delineation of the program is blurred in the TAC because creating community is an essential element of good architecture. In addition, the blur of program audiences’ spaces is done so the public can begin to experience what architects do, students can learn from professionals, who in turn can learn from the public. The architecture profession has insulated itself from the opinion of the public, dismissing it as the critique of a naysayer. Thus architects limit the impact they have on society out of ignorance. This new building will being to reverse the trend. The Texas Architecture Centre strives to create spaces that facilitate the mingling; blurring of the lines between architecture and the public. This structure designed for the people is a fusion between structural expressionism with the use of steel, cables and glass as well as a Le Corbusian-inspired free plan utilizing concrete as the primary material. Appealing to more people by the use of varying styles and aesthetics is a starting point to begin creating community in the TAC. Thus, the Texas Architecture Centre can begin to close the gap between the profession of architecture and the potential to improve human life by creating a space to connect with actual humans.
Game-Changers Sketch
Spatial Planning Sketch NORMAL LIFE
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wind how to be open air without being open air? How to be automated without gases and noise?
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Modes of transportation
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Houstonian weekend
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Integrated Structures Structural Framing Plans
Integrated Systems Roof Water Collection System
The roof of the Texas Architecture Centre is designed as 24 squares at a 1% slope into the center of each which contains a roof drain to collect the water for reuse.
Basement Parking Lighting
The parking below grade is naturally lit during the day utilizing structural glass on the street level that allows light to penetrate down into the space below. This creates a more pleasant, amiable environment for a space that is typically considered sketchy.
Self-Adhesive PVC Window Film
This window film will keep the harmful UV rays out without denying the presence of the hot Houston sun, keep the light in, and allow visibility through. The film would be placed on the SW and NW curtain walls.
Kawneer Double Pane Curtain Wall
In addition to the self-adhesive PVC window film, all of the external windows are double pane windows.
Aquaponic
The sustainable solution for food production
Singapore, Singapore CTBUH Competition
The Aquaponic Tower was designed to be a means for Singapore, which imports 88.9% of its leafy vegetables and 95.3% of its fish consumption, to begin producing a greater percentage of its food. This tower evolved from the ideas of vertical farming and vertical fishing, marrying the two in a symbiotic manner. An aquaponic system works this way: the waste from farmed fish is circulated through a water treatment system which removes the solid wastes. Then the water goes to plants grown hydroponically. The waste is nutrients for the plants and the plants in turn purify the water, which is eventually returned to the fish to begin another cycle. To run this system in a sustainable way, louvres are placed on the exterior of the hydroponic floors for photosynthesis. Direct sunlight on the aquaculture increases algae growth. This dilemma leads to the concept of using the algae as a means for pump energy by placing algae farms on the exterior of the fish floors. Finally, water is collected on the roof to replace the loss of water through evaporation. The Aquaponic Tower would increase Singaporean production of leafy vegetables by 10.1% and fish by 5.5%, thus saving an estimated annual total of $24,213,300. The ingenuity and creativity of the Aquaponic Tower is not so much in the design, which is highly dictated by the function, but in the idea.
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What is Aquaponics?
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Rearing Tanks - Each rearing tank raceway produces 590 fish (480 kg) per harvest with corrals shifted every 13 weeks for a total 52 week growth period - The Aquaponic Tower staggers the production of its 26 systems, thus harvesting every other day for an annual total of 87,625kg.
Water Treatment 1) Clarifiers - removes settleable solids 2) Filter Tanks - removes fine solids 3) Degassing Tank - removes hydrogen sulfide, methane, and nitrogen
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each aquaponic system then placed into net pots g from lettuce and basil to cucumbers and tomatoes available e of vegetables, but each system would yield 4,990kg of basil, 2,900kg of okra or 22,225kg of lettuce annually, produce 129,740kg of basil, 75,400kg of okra, or 577,850kg of lettuce.
Water Collection System
replaces loss of water due to evaporation
Sunlight Louvres
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Algae Farms
creates biofuel to run system pumps
Aquaculture Floorplan Hydroponic Floorplan
disco Castiglion Fiorentino Del Futuro Competition Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy Studio 5
The focus of the disco is to draw residents of Castiglion Fiorentino, Cortona, and other areas in the Val di Chiana, providing an alternate solution as opposed to travelling to discos in Perugia or Arezzo. In addition to this, the concept responds to the history of Castiglion Fiorentino by providing a new “state of the art� laundry facility, recalling the site’s original use. The concept is innovative in several ways: interactive dining tables, an interactive soccer system, a water collecting system, optional PV panels, a contemporary design that still relates to Castiglion Fiorentino and the use of Krion, which is an anti-bacterial blend of powdered stone and resin to create modern surfaces such as the bar and optionally in lieu of the stucco on the exterior.
Castiglion Fiorentino
discoTECH Site Plan
- Castiglion Fiorentino has a medieval town at its center, around which the newer city was built - The site is placed just outside of Porta Romana, one of the three main entrances into the medieval town - Porta Romana is the exit for the one-way road through the medieval town, leaving this area economically and socially dead - The site is placed at a five-way intersection
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Parkwest College Station, TX, U.S.A Graduate Studio 1
Parkwest Valley is a 4,200 bed apartment complex with other programmatic elements such as market, bars, restaurants, and a child care facility. Design through integration was intregal beginning with the sustainable and renewable system designed for the site. The design of the masterplan (first half of semester) was conceived on the idea of the line which became the public path. The structure then stepped back from the line creating a valleying effect as well as an outdoor terrace for most interior units. The second half of the semester was spent developing a portion of the masterplan in greater detail. All in all, the semester project spanned from a massive scale masterplan down through the wall details.
Design Principles Internal Transportation: Invisible and Available
Sustainability and Renewability through Innovative Technology
Symbiotic Connection to the Surrounding Context
Living Spaces: Create Healthy and Comfortable Spaces
System | |Sustainable & Renewable Parkwest Reconsidered|SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE SYSTEM SYSTEM SUSTAINABLE & &RENEWABLE RETENTION POND 6.4 acres
112,511 gal/day
FILTER
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297,000 gal/acre in 18 week growing season
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Energy || Program Consumption ENERGY CONSUMPTION = 50,000 kW/year
WATER USAGE TOTALS
STUDENT AFFAIRS 1,000 sqft
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GREEN GROCER
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CLOTHES WASHER
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2,000 sqft
ALL FAITH SPACE
LEASING ADMIN 1,500 sqft
CUSTODIAL CLOSETS 8,350 sqft
3,500 sqft TOTAL ANNUAL WATER USAGE 100%, 74,460,000 gal/yr
WATER SAVED THROUGH RECYCLING 74.7%, 55,621,620 gal/yr
TESTING CENTER
2,200 sqft
FITNESS CENTER
FILTER
1,200 sqft
DRY GOOD GROCER 2,200 sqft
WATER USAGE FUNCTIONS
TOILET
SEAFOOD SHOP
YOGA STUDIO
1,200 sqft
MAIL ROOM
1,500 sqft
CAMPUS POLICE 1,200 sqft
SWIMMING POOLS
COFFEE SHOP/ CAFE
14,400 sqft
1,880 sqft
1,200 sqft
STUDY SPACES
COMPUTER CARE CENTER
1,110 sqft
URGENT CARE 3,600 sqft
BUTCHER 1,200 sqft
3,500 sqft
(2) BARS 6,000 sqft
STREET LIGHTS ≈1,000 lights
HOUSING 3,400,000 sqft
PIZZA MAKER
1,000 sqft
CHILD CARE CENTER
20,000 sqft
BAKER 1,200 sqft
Energy | Production ENERGY | PRODUCTION HYDROGEN PLANT (4) 176,472 sqft
BIOGAS DIGESTERS 4,791 sqft
PARKWEST VALLEY ANDREW GAZDA
HOUSING ANNUAL TOTAL: 44,014,474 kW COMMUNITY (-HOUSING) ANNUAL TOTAL: 3,426,144 kW CONSUMPTION ANNUAL TOTAL: 47,440,618 kW BIOGAS ANNUAL PRODUCTION: 3,714,240 kW HYDROGEN PLANT ANNUAL PRODUCTION: 98,112,000 kW EXCESS ANNUAL PRODUCTION: 50,671,382 kW
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Opposite: Interior of Structure Perspective
The Mark Challenge: To design a mark using one letter and to create two patterns, one in black and white and one in color from this mark. Solution: Utilizing the letter “W�, the mark was created and from this, the pattern was constructed. The mark was is no longer even visible in the pattern, focusing instead on the complexities and voids in the design.
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Jungle Challenge: To design a font using only circles, lines, and squares on a grid. Solution: In the beginning, an adjective had to be selected to base the font off. The Jungle font was based off the word adventurous. The font was dictated by a very difficult and comlex grid thus creating an adventurous font.
Assisi Street micron pen
Castiglion Fiorentino Easter Procession watercolor
Black & White Composition of Space rapidograph pen & crescent board
Boat on the Shore pencil & watercolor
Texas A&M University 2.5 years
The example project for the CRS Center Texas A&M University is the schematic design for Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences new building(s) and renovations.
Facts
Goals & Needs
Concepts
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Houston, Texas Summer 2014
The example projects for Gensler are the 6th Floor Start Up Guide designed to ease the transition of employees to the newly acquired and renovated space, also including assistative suggestions for the employees beginning the mobility program and an Amenities Study of all the major energy companies in Houston and the surrounding areas.
6th Floor Start Up Guide OMG! Where’s My Desk?! Rice Montrose
WELCOME
This Space is Now Space
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Focus
The sixth floor is experimental, experiential and hopefully inspirational. The work settings offer choices of where, how and when you work. They will continue to evolve from where we are now to where we want to be in the future– to continuously adapt, rather than wait for the right time to change. Yet, space is only one part of the equation, the most important part is you. This is an exciting time. Make the most of it.
Rejuvenate
Houston Learn
For many people, this space may not seem a whole lot different than what we design for our clients. For Gensler Houston, it is a lot different than what we have experienced for years. It may not look different, but it will feel different. How you feel – positive or negative – affects the work you do, your relationships, and your well-being.
Collaborate
SHORETEL
Midtown Uptown
Free Address Lockers
Don’t want to work at your desk right now? Simply forward your calls to your cell. Open ShoreTel. Click on the Logo > Options > Extension Assignment. Input your cell phone number. Then click Ok. Click the Logo > Extension Assignment > “Extension Assigned to: [cell phone number]” To no longer transfer calls to your cell, simply click the Logo > Extension Assignment > Primary Phone
LYNC
Can’t contact coworkers while working remotely? Lync can be downloaded as an App on your iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone or Android. Login in using your Gensler email & password used to login into your work computer.
WIRLESS CONNECTION
11th Floor
Wireless access on the 6th floor will be the same, including guest login information. Wireless connection is projected to be up by September 6th, when the floor is fully populated.
CONFERENCING SYSTEMS
Speaker systems in the 6th floor conference rooms are the same as those on 3 and 4. The only difference are the touch panels which are a newer version. To use, simply click the system you want (ie PC, Laptop, Apple TV) which will turn on the system. The volume is then controlled with buttons on the screen.
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Amenities Study
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GLYMPSE APP
Working remotely will present new problems to overcome and exciting solutions to utilize. One such problem is location. Utilizing the Glympse app, you can now share your location with whomever you please for as long as you please. Receivers of a glympse do not need to have the app to view the location. This will be an extremely useful tool as people begin to go mobile.
Camp Houston, TX, U.S.A Gensler Houston Intern Project
The summer interns of Gensler Houston worked in thier assigned studio for four days of each week but every Friday, we came together to work on the intern project which was the schematic design of the future Camp Strake, a Boy Scouts of America camp. the first few Fridays of the summer were spent researching about the scouts to gain a general understanding of the organization as well as what we were specifically going to design. Then the interns were split up into four groups: Core Camp Facilities, Scout Venture, Cub World, and Leadership Camp, and each group was given a detailed program list. Most of the groups worked together to carry a uniform design between each building of their program. I was assigned to Fleming Cub World which had a program consisting of an Indian Village, a Spanish Mission, a Steamboat, a Treehouse, a Mine Shaft, a Space Shuttle, and an Oil Well. Because we were assigned to design these spaces to be as educational as possible, we struggled to find a uniform design element between all of these diverse spaces. Rather, we decided to show the uniformity in the way that we presented the material. We chose to “child� down our renders to speak towards our audience rather than the heavily realistic views of other groups with older audiences. Also, we presented them as a narrative, a journey of a young cub scout named Scout. For example, at the Oil Well, Scout became a drop of oil and followed the process of oil. In the spaces I specifically designed, the S.S. Strake Steamboat and the Santiago O Este Spanish Mission, the boys had assigned tasks to complete their missions.
S.S. Strake
Santiago O Este
Houston, Texas Summer 2015
The second summer with Gensler Houston was with the core & base-building studio, an exact opposite of my previous summer. The first example project is Memorial Green off of Interstate 10 near the energy cooridor in Houston. I assisted with exterior facade details, lobby design, restroom design and materials, and presentations. The second project is 1111 Main in downtown Houston, a 30 story mixed-use tower. I designed the parking garage as well as the first four floors of the skyscraper.
Memorial Green Restroom Materials
1111 Main - 4 Story Retail
*Rendered by a third party company
Stages Houston, TX, U.S.A Gensler Houston Intern Project
The intern project for the summer of 2015 was a redesign of the Stages Repertory Theatre. From the initial renovation in the 80’s of an old warehouse into two stages, the theatre had several major issues such as ten foot high beams around the stages and a poor entrance promenade. The design presented with three other students provided a sense of transparency by seeing into the woodshop and costume shop and opaquely into the dressing room and rehearsal space. The lobby would second as a bar to provide an opportunity to draw more patrons to intermingle with showgoers to spark more interest in the theatre. The redesign also ensures a thrust stage will be open throughout the entirety of the construction. I was in charge of the floor plans and sections and thus the bulk of the design of the space.
Existing Conditions
Construction Phase 1
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Completed Construction
Costume Shop
Mezzanine Storage
Tension Grid
Green Room
Roof Terrace
Second Floor
Woodshop
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Thrust Stage
Black Box Rehearsal Space Art Gallery
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