ARIF JAVED
CONTENTS
SEPERATION + Coalescence
STITCHED , KNOTTED + Fabric Restoration
MORPHING , MOVING + Representational, Emotive Line
SOME THING(S) + Somewhere Specific
SEPARATION + COALESCENCE Representational exploration generated from shattered paint bottles. Professor Hart Marlow, Spring 2014 Can representational media become a transcendant, revelatory tool?
STITCHED, KNOTTED, FABRIC RESTORATION Ferry Terminal in Greenpoint, Brooklyn Professor Alex Barker, Fall 2014 How can global spatial complexity be generated through local unit manipulations?
SKIN
STRUCTURE
This project was an exploration of two major concepts. The first was an attempt to generate a variety of functional spaces to meet the ferry program purely through the use of a set of units crafted prior to the addition of program. The second concept was that of using the urban fabric and surrounding street compositions to generate a formal response that was informed by its context. Thus unifying the imposed order of the unit with the existing order of the city.
THE MORPHING, MOVING EMOTIVE, REPRESENTATIONAL LINE Digital media exploration Professors Hart Marlow + Chris Kroner Spring 2015 Can emergent qualities be mined from an existing kit of tectonic parts through varying methods of representation?
A kit of parts became normative points of departure for creation and exploration. My specific fascination was the morphing of the LINE/EDGE to create volume, to create motion, and ultimately to create EMOTIVE space. The implied set of constraints from the given parts morphed into a generating system.
SOME THING(S) SOMEWHERE SPECIFIC K-6 School, Battery Park Gardens, Lower Manhattan, Professor Craig Konyk, Spring 2015 How can Nikolas Pevsner’s ideas of Picturesque town planning be adapted into a system for unifiying a disparate context with a proposed “first urbanism?”
Second floor rendering; library and flexible space underneath. Porous wall (shown in yellow) maintains visual relationship (further detailed on following page) with surrounding urban context.
Townscape visual planning is based on the visual experience of an urban agglomeration. Thus, two systems of view corridors were used to drive the design. On the ground floor, views of the park extended through the proposal (red lines above); on the second and third floors, views of the building from the surrounding urban edge generated the layout and overall form. The plan was the overall generator of the design language of the building. Ideas of visual experience to unify disparate objects (“Program blocks�) dictated a more compositional approach to plan layout.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Section Diagram
Second Floor Plan
Roof Plan
Classroom composition; experiment in how children can learn from nonstandard space
This ground floor render is meant to be an example of how Pevsner’s visual planning idea of deliberately constructed perspective views can be used to compose disparate programs into a unified whole. This particular view places the gymnasium harmoniously into a framed view of the surrounding park context.
Similar to the second floor perspective view shown 3 pages prior, the ground level (shown in the above perspective) also employs a porous wall; however, as the ground level does not have the urban context surrounding it, the porous wall is used on the interior of the building here to create a flexible division between learning space, recreational space, and the park context.