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ACADEMIC WORK
PROFESSIONAL WORK
STUDENT WORK
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CHAPEL AND MEETING ROOM
Gainesville, Florida Master of Architecture Advanced II
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The programmatic definition of chapel and meeting room is bound by the debating plane of a university campus. Placed at an integral intersection within this context, the folding nature of debate serves to unfold each domain within the spectacle of debate as an itinerate discourse. Chapel is further defined as an individualized and in-folded debate, a spectacle that rises above the plane of social debate below.
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LIBRARY
Palace of Knossos Master of Architecture Advanced I
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The programmatic elements of library as conventionally defined are challenged through a kinetic, haptic sense of knowledge in which reference, conveyance, retrieval and storage are maintained through the workings of the body as it negotiates a landscape of spatially charged platforms.
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there is a dialogue that exists
not in words
but in the movement of the body
-- the eye, the hand, the feet
in stasis or in action
the body is
the vehicle for the dialogue there is a dialogue that exists
within space
SUSAN R. KLAUSSMITH MArch, BDarch
it is made known through
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light and shadow
rendering form in silhouette and surface in (the movement of) shadow / line there is a dialogue that exists
across space
between spaces of stasis and a space of action in point / counterpoint they are never physically joined
READING ROOM
there is a dialogue that exists
Cubic Construct Master of Architecture Advanced I
upon a surface
it is in the play of light and shadow marking (temporarily)
a progression of moments
there is a dialogue that exists
within a surface
in the essence of carved and extruded space marking (permanently) a progression of moments there is a dialogue that exists
beyond a surface
it is in the structure of space marking
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The programmatic convention of reading room is challenged by an assertion of space as a charged field in which physical components of housing knowledge define the edge conditions of a specifically delimited cubic construct. These edges of mass, line and plane, and the opposing nature of their intersections, articulate a physically integrated abstracted place of reading – a navigable and occupiable void
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MARSHALL STUDENT CENTER The University of South Florida Tampa, Florida Gould Evans Associates, PL Project role:
Project Architect
Team members:
John Curran, AIA Project Director Alain Valdes, Project Designer Jeet Singh, Project Designer
Landscape Architect: Civil Engineer: Structural Engineer: Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection:
David Conner & Associates Ash Engineering Walter P. Moore TLC Engineering, Inc.
One of the largest in the Southeast, the new Student Center provides a gathering place for student organizations and a focal point for many of the University’s activities. Replacing the original 1960’s student center, the new facility embraces the history and diversity of student life within a new modern construct integrating the technologies that the 21st Century student expects.
Awarded a 2009 AIA Tampa Bay Merit Award
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SITING THE PROJECT The campus is an interrelated landscape of large, urban-scaled spaces, and small, intimate-scaled spaces. The Student Center notes this existing contextual dialogue, providing the backdrop for diverse programmatic elements and exemplifying the diversity and richness of student life. The building's iconographic presence, developed through its forms and selection of materials, reinforces the campus' arrival sequences from the north, the south and the east.
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PROGRAMMING Acknowledging the diversity of the University community and the goal of sustaining and strengthening its connectivity, the Student Center as Village -- a collection of buildings centered about a Town Square - is the organizing principle for the project. Adhering to this principle, the building's program resides in a series of pavilions focused on an atrium, providing a central gathering space and access to all program elements. The geometry and form of the pavilions within the Student Center are distinct elements, clearly defined by an architectural character consistent with the activities accommodated within. Collectively, they speak to the diversity of the University itself, and, through their interrelationships within the space of the Atrium, they speak to the connectivity of student life. P
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LIDIYA ANGELOVA
Phenomenology of Home Master’s Thesis Project Adjunct Professor School of Architecture and Community Design University of South Florida Project role:
Thesis Committee Member Master’s Thesis I Studio Critic
The ideal of home is explored via the perspective of an immigrant, noting that the word home has no clear translation in Bulgarian, her native tongue, but rather must be explored through a number of words that hint at its meaning (дом [dom] or къщa [kashta] (house), бащино огнище [bashtino ognishte] (paternal fireplace), and роден [roden] (native). By dissecting these terms and analyzing their components, constructs emerge that compel the observer to enter and dwell with-in, with-out and inbetween. P
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LIDIYA ANGELOVA
Phenomenology of Home Master’s Thesis Project Adjunct Professor School of Architecture and Community Design University of South Florida Project role:
Thesis Committee Member Master’s Thesis I Studio Critic
…home provides us with a certainty and familiarity rooted in a rhythmic repetition of actions and perceptive knowledge of the spaces we are in. …the program [for home] acquires a…ritualistic aspect, …home is a sacred notion. (Lidiya Angelova) Program: Entrance/Threshold, Window/Light, Fire Place, Shelf, Stair, Sleeping Devices: The Fold, The Space of the In-Between, Intersection, Floating Planes, The Cave, The Frame, The Carpet. P
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Elevating Communication (Part 1: The Problem) Sequences from first exploration into film in which the traveled experience is portrayed as an isolated experience. Part 1 presents the traveler as isolated from place when traveling through place, and thus never grasping a true essence of place.
THAO NGUYEN
Elevating Communication Master’s Thesis Project Adjunct Professor School of Architecture and Community Design University of South Florida Project role:
Master’s Thesis I Studio Critic
The work negotiates the edges of transportation and communication inherent in the need for fastpaced movement, extracting elements of architectural notions through the devices of photography, video, models and drawings. The work sought to discover a greater connectedness to a contemporary blurred experience.
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THAO NGUYEN
Elevating Communication Master’s Thesis Project Adjunct Professor School of Architecture and Community Design University of South Florida Project role:
Master’s Thesis I Studio Critic
Elevating Communication (Part 3: The Traveling Perceiver) Primitive Communication Sequence P
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