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Ankisha George
The following is a comprehensive selection of work done while at Master Of Architecture candidate at Columbia University Graduate School Of
2016-2017
Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Ankisha George
GSAPP ARCHITECTURE WORKS
Ankisha George
Ankisha George
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP/NEW YORK
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01 Dialogue
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03 Fluid facade 77
04 T he Cloud 109
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Dialogue Course : 2016 fall python Instructor : Ezio Blasetti Design Team: Elif, Brendan, David
Propagation and Interference One key missing feature of the Grasshopper visual programming language is its ability to handle recursion. In Python, for loops, while loops, and functions ending in calls to themselves provide enormous graphical potential, as they can rapidly and continuously create intensively detailed, precise representations whose resultant forms are a direct consequence of the processes underlying their production. The principle of recursion, however, may lose utility if it does not become increasingly refined with each loop, and data stored in objects included in the repeating function must sufficiently benefit from recursion to warrant it as a strategy. User input helps define and establish relations between people and computers. Python’s built-in function raw_input() offers a rudimentary example of how one might engage this principle, as it prompts the user running the script to pass an argument—in this case, a user-defined string—in order to continue.
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However, the pause encountered while running such a script is at odds with the continuity upon which recursion typically operates. The value in recursion is in many cases the ability for the script to handle changing variables on its own at the end of each loop, ideally growing more intelligent every time. In many of the best circumstances, user input and recursion can productively intertwine in a continuous dialogue between computer and human.
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Continuous user input might take the form of capturing video, audio, the movement of a mouse, and any other media or user-generated actions that the computer can detect and record in real time to respond accordingly. Towards this end, like digital media artist Adam Ferriss’ Seeds, this two-dimensional field of pixels propagates color from the mouse’s current position. Colors alternate with each ring of pixels extending from the cursor; when colors overlap they merge values, yielding a variety of unexpected results.
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MET unfinished Course : 2016 summer studio Instructor : Ziad Jamaldene Design Partner: Ywang Yang
The Met Breuer Museum
Museums of the 21st century have more explorations and expectations to support the current infrastructure and culture of city fabrics. The Breuer museum in all its marvel has failed to keep up with this changing current trends in the art industry of the 21st century. This project aims at developing an incremental growth strategy for a museum of the future. The module aims at growing in the dark or dead spaces in the city like the fire stairs and extend into the existing city fabric as it primary means of expansion. Tracing back to the roots of Museum history where a museum is merely a drawing room in the scale of a small living space forms the foundation of the project. Art is interwoven into the existing fabric of the city and used as a trigger to activate unused and unknown boundaries.
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The city framed and disconnected from the inside
The city framed and disconnected from the outside
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Mission Statement 1870: “To be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction.” 2015: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.”
“The Breuer building has proved its status as a singular museum experience unlike any other, and remains one of the most recognizable modern icons in New York and one of the world’s landmark arts buildings. It is in honor of the influential architect who designed it that The Metropolitan Museum of Art has named the building The Met Breuer.”
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Museum Enfilade Museum Enfilade Museum Enfilade
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Blocks Enfilade ? Blocks Enfilade? Blocks Enfilade?
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Permanent Spaces
Museum store
Lecture Hall
Storage
Large Gallery
Sculpture garden
Office
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Small gallery
Street art
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Workshop
Collection of different spaces and programs along the Museum stretch.
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Converting an existing building in the block to provide vertical circulation. The roof of the building has an open rooftop restaurant.
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In the scenario of an existing upper deck floor being converted into a sky room, also providing additional skylights to the townhouse residents.
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The scenario of an existing basementfloor being converted into an auditorium space. The theatre can also be used by the residents for personal shows.
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Adding an entire structure to the exisitng townhouse block. The building acts as an elevator core transporting both people and artefacts to different levels in the block.
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The scenario of an entire townhouse being translated into a museum. The two walls act as storage space with deep rotating temporary walls which acts as doors.
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Second Floor
A lobby is not just a room. It is the transition of a space from the inside to the outside and vice versa. Opening the lobby to the street and having the lobby as an infrastructure for street art with storage spaces for artist opens a new system of infrastructure for street artists.
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Opening the Met Breuer sunken lobby to the street
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Merging patterns of private and social spaces. 66
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Fluid facade Course : Surface, Screen and Structure Instructor : Joseph Vidich Design Team: Da, Erick, Tharunya
Metal laser cutting and fabrication Surface, Screen & Structure is a digital fabrication course within the Technology Sequence. The course focuses on the design and digital fabrication of stainless steel, panelized cladding systems. These systems are designed for the New Inc building, a museum-led incubator and co-working space, located directly adjacent to the New Museum on the Bowery. Utilizing the simple masonry faรงade of the New Inc building as our canvas, this project challenges the fluidity in metals to respond to the complex programs the space addresesses to. The facade is designed as a system of looping chainmails which interlock and drape creating moments of bunching, draping and wrinkling. A new system of construction details were experimented to make the facde structural.
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Ink on fabric Precedent study
Converting the image to black and white
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Diagram of volume
Diagram of aperture
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Inspiration Photo
Influenced Form
Influenced Aperture Characteristics Combined
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Mesh behavioural pattern studies
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EVENTS
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T H I N K TA N K
T H I N K TA N K
MUSEUM
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NEW INC
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B OWERY S TREET
CAFE MUSEUM ENTRY
LOBBY/ CAFE KITCHEN SUPPORT
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P R O J E C T S PA C E Section through the facade
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Exploded isometric detail of the different connections in the system.
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Different iterations the chainmail develops as the building facade.
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Bunching technique to tie the chainmail together 100
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The Cloud Course : 2016 Fall Studio Instructor :Markus Dochantschi Individual design
Micro Mega Cities Studio Randall’s Island and Wards Island are joined islands, located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The island has a total size of over 500 acres and currently offers a diverse catalogue of programs, including athletic fields, picnic grounds, a psychiatric hospital, housing shelter for the homeless, hospitals, state police station, fire academy, and wastewater treatment plant. The island is connected to Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx via the Tri-borough Bridge and via a bicycle and pedestrian bridge to East Harlem. In the 19th century the Island was known for several social facilities, including orphanages, housing and burial grounds for the poor, psychiatric hospitals, a homeopathic hospital, and rest home for Civil War Veterans. Today the island is known for music festivals and art fairs, as well as sport facilities and recreational parks. One of the most underused qualities of the island is its water frontage. The cloud focuses on the use of open ground principles and elevated living based on the wind and tidal currents and keeps changing over time.
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Types of clouds
Negatives
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Testing open ground strategies in relation to water.
Pushing the existing boundaries to create a three dimensional volume of continuous ground, below ground and above ground experience.
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Abstracting the wind pattern to develope form
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Zones of potential public space
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Intruducing additional zones of public space
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Penetration with site boundary
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Intersection of different programs
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Overlaying the different layers of programs on the grid of primary and secondary growth points
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Creating zoning strategies based on intersection of different programs.
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City National Park Course : 2017 spring studio Instructor : Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi Individual project
Land art National Park
Today we are in the middle of a Land art renaissance era. Institutions such as Sculpture center in New York and MOCA in Los Angeles have contributed major exhibitions on Land art in the recent years. Several ambitious projects such as the one mile long “City” by Michael Heizer which was impossible to realise due to its scale and complexity is now nearing completion. The resurgence of landscape within the discipline of architecture and the need to productively engage landscape as a means of addressing broader ecological concerns pushes architecture to rethink and recalibrate its relation to both landscape and nature. The project deals with “City” by Michael Heizer to expand and analyse the potential of landscape and art at a more urban level. The proposal is the expeience of three different scales of art, landscape and nature in a continous network of developments.
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Complex 3 -45, 90 and 180
Complex 1
As long as you’re going to make a sculpture, why not make one that competes with a 747, or the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge. - Michael Heizer
Complex 2 - largest complex 70-80 feet in height and quater mile in length
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The project compares Heitzer’s “city” with the city of Las Vegas to create a series of programs at different scales. Creating networks at these different scale and interlinking them with new types of spatial programs are the goals of the project.
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Las Vegas City Block
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What are the architectural implications for a network to take hold within the city? At one level, this might seem to be a question about infrastructure, and the literal connective spaces and public works of the city. But the tendency to think of conventional infrastructures as networks is consistent with the corresponding urge to think of networks as static formations rather than dynamic multiplicities. Conventional notions of infrastructure are not adequate. Networks are fundamentally concerned with the flow of information.
Their connections reflect intensity and are capable of transformation and reconfiguration and thus, their protocols distribute both agency and control in complex ways. The search for network space is also the search for new modes of territory and collectivity. It is clear that these new forms of landscape and nature as occupation have linked certain public spaces to one another along social and tactical lines. But more importantly, they are taking shape as new types of spatial practices that exhibit the resiliency and capacity for change that are features of intelligent networks.
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H E I T Z E R C I T Y N AT I O N A L PA R K A N D H I G H WAY Picknic area
Gasoline
Marina
Boat fuel
RV camp grounds
Boat Tour
Gasoline & Boat fuel Food Service
Campground
Store
Lodging
Restrooms
View points
Information/Pavillion
Boat Launch
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PAV I L L I O N V I E W POINTS
PAV I L L I O N V I E W POINTS
Ranger station
Emergency telephone
HEITZER CITY VISITOR CENTRE
HIKE TRAIL
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PAV I L L I O N V I E W POINTS
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BIG ROCK
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WA S H I N G T O N M O U N TA I N WILDERNESS PA R K
WILDERNESS
RV PA R K
B A L D M O U N TA I N S
G A S S TAT I O N POINT
G O L D E N G AT E RANGE
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Mt. IRISH WILDERNESS
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P I N T W AT E R R A N G E HP
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Moment 1 Experiencing corridor like highway transition networks
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Moment 2 Experiencing new program spaces such as gas station and restaurants in the desert terrain. 166
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Development of highway. The highway network acts as a major link between the different transition scales. Interpressed with programs along the landscape terrain the highway is the constant part of the travel experience. 168
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Kaleidoscope Course : Fast Pace Slow Space Instructor : Brigette Borders and Mark Bearak Group project
End of the year show fabrication
A hexagon is not just a 6 line figure. It can be interpreted in different ways. When three hexagons interlock they form a Tetrahedron. When 6 tetrahedrons interlock there is a chaotic new shape contradicting the clean hexagonal shape on the other end. What happens when 100 tetrahedrons interlock? The Kaleidoscope is a system of modules which interlock with the base structural frame to create an interactive system of reflections. Each individual modules are designed to accommodate reflective panels which reflect the exterior into the interior.
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Module iterations
Bending and folding
Planar to 3d develpment
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Development of a single unit modular hexagonal system for form finding with study models
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Frame and Module system
Base module for framework
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First stage fabrication units testing tension and compression of the material.
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Top view of the frame and infill system
Front view Diagrammatic construction
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