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Connectivity lies at the epicenter of the design development of the Obama Presidential Center. Selecting Washington Park as the site for the Presidential Library generates the opportunity for the program to serve as a social, economic, and iconic catalyst in this area of Chicago. Using existing pockets of vitality further supports the site selection of Washington Park. These inter-connective pieces include the following: local businesses and commercial store fronts created by Theaster Gates, the Arts Incubator Gallery, Garfield Green Line stop, Walter H. Dyett High School, Burke Elementary School and University of Chicago. The Obama Presidential Center will be an interactive museum and archive that also serves as the new headquarters for the Obama Foundation. The design will provide convening areas within and around the site that will further celebrate relationships between educational institutions, infrastructures and public amenities. Ultimately, by contributing to the existing dynamic social patchwork the Obama Presidential Center will strengthen local narratives while continuing to attract artists, leaders, and thinkers from all over the country.
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The analysis behind the selection of Washington Park contributes to the orientation and building placement on the site. The location provides an opportunity to connect to the community. The open spaces located within the site utilize local infrastructure and vehicular circulation in order to better integrate the project into the urban fabric. The building orientation responds to the exisiting programs and amenities which strengthens the relationship between the new site and neighborhood. The configuration of the site provides exterior programs such as; student trial gardens, outdoor rec-study pavilion, and an outdoor gallery serving as an extension to the Art’s Incubator.
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# Connecting Interior vs. Exterior Spaces The form of the building evolves from a series of massing studies. The primary design concern focuses around connectivity. The core concept is translated into the relationship of the building to the site, and the spaces within the interior. The library and musem sever as the two programmatic anchors. The orientation of these spaces responds to the development the exterior. The building form is chiseled away be the outdoor spaces. While the interior spaces are responding to the outdoor environment the building envelope remains ridge, maintaining an overall rectilinear form. The shifting footprint creates a unique dynamic between the interior and exterior spaces.
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This location posits an interesting opportunity to construct a program that weaves into the diversity of the existing system, rather than creating an entirely new framework. Washington Park – Junction Grove, possesses a quality of subtractive suburban sprawl. The vacancies on the site have developed from foreclosures and demolition. The system of programs will aim to be self-reliant and address concepts of generative sociology. Since automation has concentrated wealth into hands of capital owners, the labor market has become disempowered. Capitalistic economies reward merit, but fail to offer the resources for disadvantaged cases to possess potential for contribution. In response, this agenda aims to provide self – sustaining system with a multimodal network that allows existing residents to participate in farming + technological developments = as part of their future, not a regression to the past – within a lively and iconic whole. Lifestyles and families of all types would be offered opportunities to find housing best suited to their wants and needs without having to sacrifice proximity to work or cultural nodes, and bridges would be created to grant the neighborhood fabric precedence over the rail tracks that currently cut a sharp line through the community.
Commercial Practicality and Variety
Housing Something for Everyone
Arts & Culture Practice, Play, Perform
Manufacturing Old Practices, New Tech.
Productive Landscapes Patchwork Connection
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Multigenerational, Singles, & Families Three types of residential buildings, with 19-30 unites each, dot the site between State St. and Wentowrht. Narrow, slightly taller buildings on either side of the metra tracks create a visual bridge for the neighborhood and offer mainly studio apartment in sleek, iconic forms. On State St. and just north of Perry Avenue Farm, parents with young children smaller families have space to live, work and play in building with open green roofs above the first floor retail. Finally, mixed-size and multigenerational living units are located in two low rise buildings that easily adapt to a variety of lifestyles and housing needs.
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Digital Farm
A bike manufacturing operation, producing both high-end and utility bikes, is near enough to residential and commercial development to be convenient, but is at the periphery of the site to minimize disturbances from noise or equipment. The bike manufacturer will draw interest from both global and local markets, and can offer steady jobs in the area as urban biking surges in popularity.
Organic Farm
Old Practices, New Technology
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Near the Perry Avenue Farm headquarters building, vertical farming operations will be installed on top of 'data farms' , with vertical farms helping to keep the servers below them cool. Low-tech farming at Perry Avenue accompanies high-tech vertical farms, which in turn support high power computing, the development frames farming of all types as part of the future, Farm Use
Educational Use
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The intersection of architecture and public art – particularly of the growing field of art under the umbrella of ‘social practice’ – is at the forefront of many initiatives for urban revitalization, and Chicago’s South Side is no exception. In the neighborhood of Grand Crossing, local artist and activist Theaster Gates has worked to drive the creation of an epicenter for such social practice and art-driven community revival; recent projects range from an artists’ housing co-op to the preservation of the historic Stony Island Bank building. Under the guidance of Gates and his studio, the Kenwood Monastery project was developed as a cross-disciplinary collaborative undertaking of ten students and two instructors at the School of the Art Institute. The initial premise of the project was to devise a design and programmatic scheme for the reuse of a former Com-Ed power switching station – now owned by Gates – as a performance space and ‘monastery garden’ for public and private use. Over the course of a year – after a series of material studies, architectural plans, public presentations, and collective inquiries and discussions about the role of social practice in a community – the project culminated in a large-scale installation on the interior of the future monastery space. The installation engaged light and darkness through a series of passageways to exhibit project documents and evoke the ritual progression that will one day exist in the building.
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The GFRY Studio revolved around a two phase process. Phase I comprised of students working with Gates to develop the brown field lots surrounding the exisiting Com-Ed building. These vacant lots would be converted in the Saint Lawrence gardens. A place for individuals to come gather, seek refuge, reflect amongst nature, and experience further sacred connectivity to the exisiting community within the neighborhood. Design ideas and research were applied to the development of the small courtyard located directly south of the Com-Ed building. Phase II, involved a further exploration of the concepts surrounding sacred, procession, ritual, and contemplation. A continuation of inward reflection t o which lead to the design of the installation and simulation for the Back of House - the Saint Lawrence Monastery .
Progression of Program
Progression of Landscape
St. Lawrence Gardens (Phase I)
Future Gardens (Phase III) Monastery (Phase II)
Listening House
Archive House
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& ! The following renders were produced during an advanced architectural rendering course. Throughout the duration of the class we explored using Autodesk Revit 2015, 3ds Max Design 2015, V-Ray for 3ds Max, and Adobe Photoshop. All of these programs were used to advance our modeling and rendering techniques. For our final project we had to select a case study building to reproduce and render using the skills and techniques we have obtained through out the semester. Chicken Point Cabin is a residential project designed by Olson Kundig Architects. The site is located on Hayden Lake, Idaho. The renders demonstrate both interior and exterior spaces of the project, all of which I generated using the various software required for the course. In addition to selecting a case study building to re-create and render we developed a rendering journal. Each week we were required to devise and practice creating custom V-ray materials and exploring V-Ray render settings in 3ds Max Design 2015. Image (A) shows the end product of creating a leather material. The model of the chair was provided from our instructor. (B) Is a simple torus knot that has reflective plastic material applied to it as well as an textured dirt bitmap. This creates a more realistic material with slight imperfections.
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The following sketches were drawn on site while traveling abroad in Italy. Each drawing focuses on principals taught while taking analog graphics courses. The list below indicates the location and subject of each sketch; A - Ponte Sisto (Rome), B - Saint Peter's Basilica (Rome), C - Pantheon (Rome), D Colosseum (Rome), E - Piazza De Ricci (Rome), F - Bell Towers (Perugia), and G - Gateway Streetscape (Assissi).
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