Portfolio Anthony Averbeck
Purpose
This volume represents a tripartite foundation of practices in architectural and urban design, research, and teaching. Each of these facets have informed the others symbiotically in my work. The sum of design explorations is a manifesto in the making; with diversity in scope, scale, program, application, and forms of representation. Each project can be understood as a speculation on the designer’s agency to shape complex urban and environmental systems across scales and geographic contexts. Beginning with design work, and concluding with contributions to applied research, design education, and professional practice, the volume is intended to elucidate a trajectory and clarify a purpose.
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Contents Design DO AC
Atlantic City, NJ, USA
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Tamanduateí Corridor
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Double Frame
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South Boston Waterfront
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Mapping Boston
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Bern Urban Extension
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Education Center
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Suburban Infill
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Made in Westwood
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Housing University Life
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Cultivated City
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São Paulo, Brazil
Albemarle County, VA, USA
Boston, MA, USA
Boston, MA, USA
Bern, Switzerland
Yosemite National Park, USA
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Westwood, MA, USA
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Flint, MI, USA
Research Practice Teaching
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DO AC Critics: Matthew Jull, Manuel Bailo with Gregory Orwat and Donna Ryu Atlantic City, NJ, USA
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DO AC Alantic City, NJ, USA Spring 2015 Critics: Matthew Jull, Manuel Bailo Atlantic City, New Jersey has become a victim of its own prosperity; a city that hedged its bets on a toxic mix of speculation, gambling, the Mafia, alcohol, and drugs. The city has been in the decline with the legalization of gambling in other states and cities, and systematic destruction of a historic built environment that cultivated collective cultural and economic capital, in favor of one fueled by the self-serviing neoliberal interests of the casino industry. The studio operated within an optimistic realism, integrating ambitions of developers, architects, and city agencies to devise solutions. DO AC addresses the gateway to Atlantic City, where a nondescript convention center sits that serves its own commercial interests while the city around it declines. A 40-story tower is proposed at this nexus point. First, a cut through the building reconnects the artificially separated commercial front with the residential backside. Second, two structures are erected; one a residential and hotel function, the other civic and commercial. These two entities are then connected with a vertical boardwalk of public circulation space, creating dynamic public streets in the sky. A collaboration with G. Orwat and D, Ryu.
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1. Cut
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2. Two Sides
3. Vertical Boardwalk
4. Horizontal Connection
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Toward a Tamanduateí Corridor Critics: Fernando Viegas and Cristiane Muniz with Elyjana Roach São Paulo, Brazil
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Toward a Tamanduateí Corridor São Paulo, Brazil Spring 2021 Toward a Tamanduatei Corridor is a master plan that approaches Sao Paulo with the understanding that urban development has over time led to a disenfranchisement of the city from its network of waterways that once were essential to Sao Paulo’s cultural and ecological identity. A tributary of the Tiete and an extremely important river in the history of Sao Paulo, the Tamanduatei and its banks have been buried in infrastructure and industrial lands and effectively cut off from the fabric of the city. This project probes the question as to whether 4km of the presently canalized river might become a new green spine that connects the river with its urban context and catalyzes future urban development. We accomplish this through clear design priorities aimed at the enhancement of existing open spaces and the re-appropriation of underutilized spaces. New meaning will be generated through the sensitive conservation of existing historic sites, the creation of a new promenade for human-scale urban interaction, and the addition of anchor sites built around hydro-centric greenspace.
photo: Leonardo Finnoti
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A. Reimagined River Corridor
wet-sand land
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B. North District Development
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C. South District Development
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Double Frame Critic: Charlie Menefee Rural Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
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Albemarle County, VA, USA Spring 2015 Critic: Charlie Menefee On a one-square acre site in rural Albemarle County, VA with a gradual SW slope of 5%, explore the resultants; formal material, environmental; of combining the following constraints on an Assembly (A) occupancy building for a maximum occupancy of twenty-five people. The following rules will guide the conception of architecture: 1. highly reduced material palette (99% two materials) 2. little to no user-defined primary spaces 3. minimal environmental-altering machines 4. simple plan (square or double square)
1. Imagined Site (5% slope)
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Double Frame constructs a double frame system composing 12 structural bays. Two CIP concrete bookends house stair cores, entry vestibules, and service space. A wood insert houses primary occupied space. The building is two stories, with a double roof for heat loss mitigation and enhancement of stack effect. Projected program is food or beverage service, with kitchen and seating on the ground floor, and a mezzanine housing additional seating. Exterior terraces and second floor loggia provide shaded views of the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains.
3. Concrete Superstructure
4. Wood Inner Structure
5. Composite
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South Boston Waterfront Critics: Rahul Mehrotra and Stephen Gray with Ethan Bennett Boston, MA, USA
A collaboration with E. Barr and J. Brookover.
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South Boston Waterfront Boston, MA, USA Fall 2020 Ownership, equity, security, privacy - single family residences embody success and freedom in American culture. The free-standing house offers autonomy and anonymity. With its garden plots, private entry, flexible arrangements, and omni-directional daylight, this predominant typology sprawls ubiquitously across the United States. However, current domestic spatial patterns have led to the externalization of childcare and elder-care, disrupting life cycles, and disconnecting people from community. Rising costs of housing, education, and healthcare, coupled with non-existent wage growth, bar entry to the housing market for those who aspire to upward mobility. Rarely does the available housing stock allow buyers to choose their neighbors, or live communally within their social circles of friends or family. Suburban Infill proposes a model of domesticity that allows families and friends to create multi-generational communities, systems of support, and shared experiences. Choosing from a catalog of smaller house modules, empty parcels and existing homes can be densified with both connected and detached units organized around communal courtyards. A collaboration with E. Barr and J. Brookover.
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Mapping Boston Critic: Mark Heller Boston, MA, USA
A collaboration with E. Barr and J. Brookover.
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Bern Urban Extension Critic: Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani with Dan Lee Bern, Switzerland
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Bern Urban Extension
This project examines how the creation of a new centrality in the urban periphery of Bern can be generated through density and typological diversity engendered by the combination of new affordable housing typologies, co-working spaces, and outdoor public space. The studio prompt seeks to generate a new urban quarter within a polycentric model of the city. Barthes describes
the city as a text that is constantly written and rewritten, a layered, historic, living entity. Thus, as a language comprised of signs and signifiers, the city and its constituent parts should eb structured with elements that allow for legibility, imageability, pattern, and meaning for its inhabitants. New urban extensions must then actively contribute to this text; rather than acting as singular interventions based on self-referential narratives. With the given site as catalyst, but looking well beyond its scope; the project engages the urban and architectural imaginaries of an increasingly-polycentered Bern.
Land Use - Existing
Land Use - Proposed
Circulation - Existing
Circulation - Proposed
Green Space - Existing
Green Space - Proposed
Bern, Switzerland Spring 2021 Critic: Vittori Magnano Lampugnani
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Yosemite Education Center Critic: Ed Ford Yosemite National Park, CA, USA
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Yosemite Education Center Yosemite National Park, CA, USA Fall 2014 Critic: Ed Ford The studio questions how architecture might begin at the micro, rather than the macro scale. Before site analysis and formal exploration, students are asked to undergo a rigorous, iterative study of the architectural joint. Such iterative explorations informed the macro, an environmental education center on Hennes Ridge in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Projects were to incorporate classroom spaces, a dining hall, staff housing, and flexible/expandable housing for students who visit for weeks to months at a time. Yosemite Education Center is a 2-part scheme joined by a nature bridge: head and tail. The head is constructed of steel and timber T joints that allow for flexible expansion of structural bays. This primary space occupies the military crest, forming a courtyard with classrooms, staff apartments, and a dining center forming its edges. The nature bridge then forms an urban whole; a connective spine linking the collective square to the domestic tents.
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1. Traditional Joint
Yosemite Education Center
2. Simplify
3. Add Metal
4. Permute
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DOMESTIC TENTS The tents are conceived architecturally as truss-like constructions of standard dimension lumber, steel cables, and custom steel joints. They are then enclosed in polyvinyl fabric. Cantilevering porches allow the tents to easily aggregate with teach other. The tents are constructed to touch the ground lightly, nesting on the topography on efficient concrete piers.
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Suburban Infill Arch Out Loud Home Competion 2018 Indianapolis, IN, USA
A collaboration with E. Barr and J. Brookover.
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Suburban Infill Indianapolis, IN, USA Spring 2018 Ownership, equity, security, privacy - single family residences embody success and freedom in American culture. The free-standing house offers autonomy and anonymity. With its garden plots, private entry, flexible arrangements, and omni-directional daylight, this predominant typology sprawls ubiquitously across the United States. However, current domestic spatial patterns have led to the externalization of childcare and elder-care, disrupting life cycles, and disconnecting people from community. Rising costs of housing, education, and healthcare, coupled with non-existent wage growth, bar entry to the housing market for those who aspire to upward mobility. Rarely does the available housing stock allow buyers to choose their neighbors, or live communally within their social circles of friends or family. Suburban Infill proposes a model of domesticity that allows families and friends to create multi-generational communities, systems of support, and shared experiences. Choosing from a catalog of smaller house modules, empty parcels and existing homes can be densified with both connected and detached units organized around communal courtyards. A collaboration with E. Barr and J. Brookover.
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daycare
single family home
nursing home
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Reform Zoning Code allow multiple lot splits without setbacks
Suburban Infill
Multi-Generational Living co-living housing typology connected by shared spaces
Pre-Engineered Structure utilize cost-efficient and modular construction methods
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Made in Westwood Critics: Rahul Mehrotra and Stephen Gray with Dan Lee Suburban Boston, MA, USA
A collaboration with E. Barr and J. Brookover.
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Made in Westwood Suburban Boston, MA, USA Fall 2020 Made in Westwood is a speculative metropolitan framework that generates new relationships between productive landscapes, spaces of consumption, and sites of ecological engagement, with housing and urban life as the backbone of a new exurban center. The project asks how an exurban site 20 miles from downtown Boston can become a testing grounds for rethinking the paradigm. A middle landscape once characterized by mono-functional suburbs and disjointed hinterlands can become a new center in a polycentric metropolis. Existing programs will become intensified, dispersed, and finer grained. Selective existing buildings are retained as anchors for the new master plan. With the intent of acting as a catalyst for future centers, a model emerged centered around the food cycle, from production to consumption, with housing and urban life along with sensitive ecological engagement making the project feasible. Structurally, the project utilizes the abandoned railyard as an armature around which the site can be divided into four secondary tangential spines, developed as discrete yet interconnected urbanized districts. These would connect the suburban neighborhood to the west with forested wetlands to the east. Each district is anchored by a dominant program - a community services street adjacent the existing station. A market street, a commercial and entrepreneurial district, and a research and development cluster.
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01. PRODUCTION URBAN AGRICULTURE / MARKETS Agricultural Service and Community Garden Existing Senior Housing Complex Indoor/Outdoor Food Markets University Avenue Mobility Infrastructure Repurposed Railway Wetland Park
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02. DOMESTICITY HOUSING TOWER CLUSTERS Housing Towers: Co-Living, Micro-Units, Affordable Family Units Shared Space Links Public Program Neighborhood Retail Repurposed Railyard University Avenue Mobility Infrastructure Wind Turbine
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03. LABS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FACILITIES Greenhouses & Huydroponic Labs Agricultural Research Labs Repurposed Existing Warehouses Repurposed Rail Spine Housing Cluster
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04. COMMERCE MARKET STREET Greenspace Link Urban Farming Existing Big Box Grocery (Wegman’s) Existing Market Rate Apartments Hybrid Housing Towers Wind Turbine Park Pavilion
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Housing University Life Critic: Margarita Jover Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Housing University Life Charlottesville, VA, USA Fall 2015 This advanced research studio project proposes adapting an existing medical complex into collective housing; specifically housing for first and second year students at the collection of buildings currently occupied by the hospital at the University of Virginia in anticipation of the institution’s intent to move to the south where other facilities are already built. The area is prominent and extremely complex in terms of history, memory, infrastructures, roads, as well as its relative location to Central Grounds, the corner and the Academical Village. Housing University Life challenges the projection of the historic West Complex as a physical and cultural fortress utilizing three primary mechanisms: (1) introduce porosity and transparency through cuts and subtractions from the existing buildings, (2) induce dramatic site connectivity through a connective armature of site paths, elevated walks, and landscape carpets, and (3) introduce urban programmatic diversity, incorporating residential life for students, faculty, and the greater Charlottesville community that is contained collectively within a self-supporting urban block.
Preserve Historic Facades
Remove Non-Historic Additions
Lift Ground Floor to Increase Porosity
Complete the Urban Block with Addition
to US-29
Central Grounds University of Virginia
“The Corner” Commercial District
UVA Coal Power Production Plant Existing Medical School Campus
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Emily Couric Cancer Center
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site visit
Robert Owen, Vision for New Harmony, IN, 1838
RESPONSE TO EXISTING BUILDING Adapt the entry portico? Should the neoclassical entry portico remains, and how might it be re-imagined to project a new face to the University? Build on top? Should the existing height be retained, or is there a possibility to build on top without disrupting the context? Excavate the ground floor? Can a more permeable ground floor open the labyrinthian, internally-focused courtyards and generate a more public ground?
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STUDENT DORMITORY UNITS 2 occupants / room Community units are standard throughout the project. Efficiency and economy is balanced with a deliberate blurring of the boundaries between public and private realms. This results in the feeling of a much larger domestic domain.
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FAMILY APARTMENTS 2-4 occupants / 2 bedroom unit Maisonette apartments span two floors, each with its own stair. Families, faculty, and graduate students can be housed in these units. Autonomy is of the essence, to offer a single family home-like domesticity.
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Cultivated City Advisor: Shiqiao Li Flint, MI, USA
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Cultivated City Flint, MI, USA Fall 2016 Master of Architecture Thesis Advisor: Shiqiao Li The post-industrial American city of Flint, Michigan is at a critical moment of transformation. Emerging economic, ecological, and social crises have called into question established urban logics. While urbanization is moving at a breakneck pace, vast territories are declining. Global economic centers grow and countryside, small towns, and smaller industrial cities stagnate. Shrink-space is the direct result of a widening gap between the core and periphery in the world system. Flint is the 6th fastest shrinking city in the United States. A company city built on the mono-economy of automobile manufacturing during America’s postwar boom, it now finds itself left in the dust by globalization; a city increasingly characterized by decline, dereliction, inequality, and depopulation.
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Cultivated City addresses the irony of the land crisis by returning 75% of the 400 acres of vacant Buick City plant site to a combination of ecological restoration and agricultural production; in theory breaking down the natural/human dichotomy of cities, and in practice offering new economic and cultural potential by bringing production and consumption in close spatial proximity, and slowly reviving Flint’s capacity for making. Spatially, the infinity frame of heavy industrial production is transformed into a new, flexible infrastructure for low-tech production, maker space, and server farms. Towers at the intersection off attractor points hybridize energy production and agricultural storage with housing and public programs, giving visual prominence to the oft-hidden mechanics of the city’s future vitality.
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SERVER FARMS
INFRASTRUCTURAL SPINES
Spatially, the infinity frame ubiquitous to industrial production is transformed into a new and flexible infrastructure for low-tech production; including maker space, co-working space, and server farms.
Multi-tiered, integrated infrastructural elements generate three co-dependent grounds (one for productive land, the other for cars, and the third for a public space.
TOWERS AND STRIPS
PRODUCTIVE LAND
Towers at intersection of attractor points hybridize energy and agricultural production with civic functions. Bars of dense housing interspersed with collective spaces cross the grain of the site.
The project proposes returning 75% of the 400 acres of land on the Buick City site to a combination of ecological restoration and agricultural production of varying scales.
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Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary University of Virginia School of Architecture Project Lead curated with F. Correa and D. Dobrowolski Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary is an exhibition and catalog in-process, to open at the University of Virginia School of Architecture in the Fall of 2020 that examines the role of architects in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in shaping domesticity and urban life across geographic contexts. Housing as typology is one of the richest representations of a city’s history and evolution of culture. The gradual collection of dwellings in multiple forms of existence —from individual to collective and from provisional to permanent— makes up the basic building blocks of a city. The space of the dwelling, as a mediator between conditions of exterior and interior, between the public and private realm, is an essential component in the construction of domesticity and urban life. The project examines the role of the architect in imagining new spaces for collective housing throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in doing so, showcases the architect’s ability to invent novel ways of inhabiting domestic space.
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original drawings produced for Pedregulho Housing by the authors and team, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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São Paulo in São Paulo University of Virginia School of Architecture Escola da Cidade, São Paulo Spring 2020 curated with F. Correa, S.Camacho, D. Dobrowolski photography by S. Plestenjak No other city in the world has had greater a concentration of inner-city post-industrial land as that of São Paulo. This unique urban situation demands attention and rewards analysis. While the history of São Paulo dates back more than 450 years, most of its growth took place after World War II as the city’s major economic engine shifted from agriculture to industry. Today, as São Paulo evolves into a service economy hub, São Paulo: A Graphic Biography—curated by Felipe Correa, Sol Camacho, Devin Dobrowolski, and Anthony Averbeck in collaboration with Escola da Cidade—argues the city must carefully examine how to better integrate its extensive inner city post-industrial land into contemporary urban uses. The show presents a comprehensive portrait of Brazil’s largest city, narrating its fast-paced growth through archival material, photography, original drawings, and text. In doing so, the show brings to São Paulo a new reading of this exceptionally complex metropolis, suggesting new ways of envisioning its urban future.
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Domestic Territories Venice Biennale 2020: How Will We Live Together? Authors: Arctic Design Group and Lateral Office Summer 2021 ADG Team: Leena Cho, Matthew Jull, Anthony Averbeck, Benjamin DiNapoli, Cam Fullmer, Jane Lee, Ben Small, Andrew Spears, Timothy Victorio, Tian Wang Claimed by the eight Arctic nations—Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, United States—while also being the native territory to numerous Indigenous peoples, the Arctic is a complex, contested space in the 21st century. Territorial claims, resource extraction, climate change, and ongoing colonialism reflect the range of ways in which inhabitation has been imposed and negotiated in the last 100 years. Simultaneously, stories of daily life of inhabitants who call the Arctic home further reflect a richly heterogeneous cultural landscape at the forefront of accelerated transformations.
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Isenberg Stair Fine Concrete Amherst, MA, USA 2018-2019 design team with A. Kitchin, a collaboration with BIG Architects Isenberg Stair, completed as an associate with Fine Concrete, LLC with Alexander Kitchin was designed in collaboration with Bjarke Ingels Group. Completed in 2018, Fine Concrete detailed and fabricated a grand staircase in the central atrium of the University of Massachussetts Isenberg School of Management Business Innovation Hub in Amherst. “Designd with interactions, teamwork, and chance encounters in mind” (BIG), the stair is cast from ultra-high-performance concrete, developed in recent decades for its exceptional properties of tensile strength and durability, allowing very thin tread and risers to span a simple steel substructural frame.
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Practice
Harlem Mixed Use Bjarke Ingels Group New York, NY, USA 2017 design team with M. Solé Bravo, project lead A speculative schematic project for transit oriented development in Harlem, New York City, shown here are site models presented to the developers of a scheme that bridges the elevated subway and connects two disconnected urban blocks. The building is mixed use, with retail and commercial spaces on the first two floors treated as an open volume with programmed boxes. A mix of apartments and offices are pixelated above with terrace gardens.
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Elements of Housing University of Virginia School of Architecture Spring 2019, 2020 24"
galvanized steel sheet t=0.1" standing-seam roofing structural plywood t-.5" rafter 1"x1" @ 10" rigid insulation foam t=.5" steel plate t=.6" steel pipe 2 X 4 X .15
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Faculty: Anthony Averbeck (coordinator) Jaime Sanz (coordinator), Robin Dripps, Nicholas Brinen, Maria Gonzalez Aranguren
EXERCISE 01 Drawing Domesticity
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outer whythe 3.5" air space 2" inner whythe 3.5" strapping 1.5" lath plaster balsam bark paint
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Elements of Housing is a foundation studio that introduces fundamental concepts, strategies, and disciplines associated with the design of domestic space, from the dwelling unit to the aggregation of domestic spaces into coherent urban blocks. Applied case studies, lectures, and workshops will build a foundation for a series of interrelated design exercises that construct hypotheses about new spatial, formal, and experiential typologies of domesticity that reshape and respond to changing conventions of life in the mid-sized American city.
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SECTION PERSPECTIVE LOOKING NORTH
EX 01. Drawing Domesticity 1/3” = 1-0”
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As a first exercise, this establishes foundational skills with a focus on accurately observing, recording, and drawing one’s own domestic space(s), introducing fundamentals of measurement, precision drafting, and working between analog and digital tools for architectural representation.
DRAW YOUR OWN LIVING SPACE
EXERCISE 02 Case Study in Collective Living The case study focuses on reading, re-drawing and comparing case studies in collective housing through hand-drawn diagrams and digital drawings. The resultant will be a catalog of precedents to be shared and exhibited across the studio. EXERCISE 03 The Dwelling
EX 02. Case Study in Collective Living
This exercise designs an inventory of domestic units based on a series of parameters and constraints. The first exercise is the development of a horizontal home, the second a sectional home, and the final a home based on a common research theme. EXERCISE 04 Collective Housing in the City This final component synthesizes the ideas, concepts, and techniques from the first three exercises into the development of coherent collective housing blocks for the assigned site. Emphasis is placed on developing strategies with clear strategies for aggregation of domestic units. EX 03. The Dwelling
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City within a City Student: D. Gibbs
This project creates a micro-urban condition within the two city blocks of Charlottesville by aggregating four dwelling unit typologies. As a rule, all had to have access to apertures on a minimum of two sides, to allow for cross-ventilation. The aggregation of units is served by internal courtyards that house collective activities, including gardens and playground.
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Teaching
In Between Student: A. Lin
Sitting in between the bustle of Water Street and the tranquil South Street, this project responds to the different conditions on all four sides. With the stepped trapazoid shape in response to the nearby railway, the tower steps down from the east and west ends and converge in the center, framing a view of the adjacent landmark hotel while maintaining the urban edge on all for sides. The stepping also generates shared spaces in the form of gardens. The plinth forms a strong streetwall with public program to engage the urban interface.
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Urban Syncopation Student: R. Clark
This project utilizes the form of the townhouse to maximize efficient and creative residential design at a scale that rests well in the urban fabric of the small-scale city environ-ment that is Charlottesville, VA. The two units consist of a board formed concrete core contain-ing the utilities for the residence, as well as spaces like bathrooms, stairs, and closets. A wood frame extends out between these cores maximizing access to natural light, green space, and the public domain of Charlottesville.
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Teaching
Giant Steps
Student: A. Grospe This project imagines a new typology of urban housing that could slip into the existing townhouse fabric of the city without disturbing the surrounding neighborhood. This approach allows the slow, relatively non-invasive transformation of the site, where derelict, abandoned, or community owned structures can be rebuilt. The Giant Steps began in the footprint of an existing 5 story apartment building in need of renovation. Sprouting from it are two macro-units composed of four separate smaller units of varying size. This allows the implementation of the project on a variety of scales, and helps foster a sectional relationship between units.
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Anthony Averbeck T. +1 218 849 2321 E. averbeck@gsd.harvard.edu W. anthonyaverbeck.com
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