01 URBAN OASIS 02 SEE AND BE SCENE 03 BRIDGING THE GAP 04 SHADE GROWN JAVA ARMAN HOSSEINI PORTFOLIO_M.Arch
01 URBAN OASIS 02 SEE AND BE SCENE 03 BRIDGING THE GAP 04 SHADE GROWN JAVA ARMAN HOSSEINI PORTFOLIO_M.Arch
01 URBAN OASIS In Progress, ARCH602
Urban Oasis is a building that seeks to be carbon negative and scrub CO2 from Tribeca, NY while acting as a beacon for progressive change required to combat global warming. Located by the Canal Street Holland Tunnel exit, where over one-hundred thousand cars pass every day, Urban Oasis utilizes fluid dynamics to filter the surrounding air. Utilizing the stack effect, the building enables cross-flow filtration, pulling particulate matter from the air and into plant beds, resulting in increased vegetation growth and the return of the native wilderness to Manhattan.
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AIR MONITORING STATION
NYC METRO 123 | ACE
AIR PROCESSING
WATER COLLECTION TANK PARK
SEMINAR ROOM
AIR INDUCTION
Ground Floor Plan
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RESEARCH CENTER STADIUM SEATING CARBON MOLECULAR SIEVE
AIR PROCESSING STATION
PUBLIC WALKWAY
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Second Floor Plan
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SIPHON COLUMN PULLS THE COLLECTED PARTICULATES TOWARD NEGATIVE PRESSURE TO PROVIDE VEGETATION WITH NUTRIENTS
BIFURCATION INTRODUCES OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXTENDING
Air Filtration Process Overview
EDGE SURFACE INDUCES A LOWER PRESSURE ABOVE, WHICH CREATES THE SUCTION FOR THE SIPHONS
SIPHON FEEDS CAPTURED AIR PARTICULATES TO FEED PLANTS
AIR DUCT AIR PASSES THROUGH THE DUCT AND GETS FILTERED THROUGH ACTIVATED CARBON
NO2 CO2
NO2 CO2
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AUDITORIUM “SUN WELL”
ENTRANCE / EXIT TO NYC METRO
CLASSROOMS
EXHIBITION
LABS
Building Section
STACK EFFECT SYSTEMS Various mechanical and programmatic tubes converge systematically to create a symbiotic relationship. The exterior surface contours promote greater air velocity above, creating a stack effect that will draw air particulates up for plant bed nutrition.
LIBRARY
OASIS
RESEARCH CENTER
PATH TO EXHIBITION
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02 SEE AND BE SCENE ARCH601
There is a grandiose mentality that is present in Miami, where great wealth is put on display. This is showcased through high-end fashion, art, luxury condos, and especially high-end classic and super cars. The latter makes Miami a car-focused city. The synergistic opportunity between the car culture and glitzy lifestyle is what makes Miami home to designer parking structures as Herzog and de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road, Zaha Hadid’s Miami Beach Parking Garage, Enrique Norten’s One Ocean, and Frank Gehry’s Pennsylvania Avenue Garage. Yet the trend for high-end parking structures has evaded the Art District. The potential for such a structure peaks beside the Wynwood Walls, one of Miami’s most visited tourist attractions. The relationship between tourists wanting to see and residents wanting to display invites a parking condo for extravagant cars. The gallery condo hybridizes the experiece of car culture with the experience of residence.
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EXISTING CIRCULATION Tourists visiting Wynwood Walls enter the park to see unique and dynamic art.
PROPOSED CIRCULATION The adjacent sight aims to become a part of Wynwood Walls by serving as an extension of the gallery.
View from Wynwood Walls Park
Typical Unit Arrangement Individual parking lots below units provide a display case for the cars, visible from the public park.
To First Floor Car Exit Ramp
Parking Platforms hang beneath individual units Creates car "display case� for ground floor to engage parked cars Pedestrian circulation through the ground level Car Entrance Ramp
Perspective of Ground Level
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Car Circulation Private Car Parking Deck Pedestrian Circulation Private Residence Garage Ramp
Plan - 1st Deck Duplex, Lower Level
Private Garage / Car Showcase Pedestrian Deck and Entrance to Roof Deck
Plan - 1st Deck Duplex, Upper Level
Car Cul-De-Sac Pedestrian Roof Deck
Plan - 2nd Deck Duplex
Private Car Garage Decks (open air)
Plan - 3rd Deck
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STACKED
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Section depicting public, resident, and parked car relationships
SLEEVE
GARAGE-TO-UNIT TYPOLOGY The traditional grouped parking lots separate the resident from the car. By fragmenting the parking into individual lots and staggering throughout, the resident and car experiences coalesce.
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03 BRIDGING THE GAP ARCH502
In an effort to reconnect downtown Philadelphia with the dilapidated immediate north, the shared working space is designed to attract the general public to walk through the galleries, lounge areas, and the apex “bar/club� under the Benjamin Franklin bridge. The site takes advantage of being at the epicenter of a dynamic context, surrounded by a forking road, train, and two highways. The result is an active workspace to inspire the creativity within. The natural circulation will attract individuals to the region north of the bridge, serving a major role in reconnecting the fissured city tissue.
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CLUSTERING To understand the movement of people and the attractive force of art, an in-depth study was taken on the art of murals, sculpture, installation, and relief throughout the Center City region. These locations (marked with a black dot) naturally occur in clusters. Theory: public art tends to be exprienced grouped with other art, bridging these groups will provide a method for experiencing the city. By replicating the clustering pattern, the structure's programmatic spaces can be experienced in clusters, which will allow ease of navigation and experience all the art and creativity that is produced within.
Typical Cluster Arrangement Contains a complete grouping of studio space, workshop, and other support spaces. These spaces are connected through open view and sound, so the inhabitant of any space may find inspiration from other cluster-mates.
APEX CLUB
WORK CLUSTER 3 WORK CLUSTER 2 WORK CLUSTER 1
PUBLIC AMMENITY
Arrangement of Clusters
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04 SHADE-GROWN JAVA One-Week Competition
The objective of the food-cart garage is to spur urban development around a self-sustainable harvest and sales of goods unique to the region. Growing coffee under shade is slower than traditional sun-bathing, but yields a higher quality in flavor, health benefits, and supports biodiversity of the local ecology. The Benjamin Franklin Bridge provides an untapped opportunity for shaded coffee farms, which will boost the local economy, give way to better coffee, and result in a better social atmosphere. The food-cart garage acts as a sales center, where customers may learn about growing coffee, enjoy the product, and be exposed to the vacant space available for their own coffee plants.
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ELEVATION Shows the base structure, the overhanging canopy, and the sample coffee tree display.
EXPANSION The parked food-cart becomes an extended branch of the garage’s second level deck, providing additional seating oriented towards the bridge's gardens.
Lower Space
Upper Deck Restrooms
PLANS Dotted lines mark the mesh canopy. Lower level plan shows the position of a sample tree at the center.
PROPOSED FOOD-CART ROUTE The modified food-cart has a top deck for lounging and passenger rides. The cart makes stops throughout the city to promote the coffee and offer a ride back to potential coffee-growers (red), or distrubute coffee to famous restaurants and banquet halls (black).
Franklin Square
TRUST Gallery
Franklin Fountain
Liberty Bell
The Bourse
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