[AC] CORE DESIGN PORTFOLIO 2019 | 2020
ASTRID CRUZ The University of South Florida School of Architecture and Community Design Core Design Portfolio | 2019- 2020
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INTRODUCTION
“My name is Astrid Cruz, and my portfolio is a depiction of all the knowledge I have attained while being enrolled in the Core curriculum sequence of the School of Architecture and Community Design at the University of South Florida. I have learned that architecture is not simply a study that creates buildings, rather one that aims to shape human experiences through the manipulation of form and space, all in the practice of understanding scale, hierarchy and language. I understand my role as designer to be one that finds different ways in which expression can be embraced, and allow architecture to be the media that houses all forms of my creative expression. This portfolio visualizes the exploration of expression and experimentation, conveying the challenge each young designer aims to achieve; establishing a language, aimed in servitude towards the development of new architecture.�
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CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ART AND INNOVATION CENTER LEVENT KARA
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
MIAMI, FLORIDA
THE WAR MEMORIAL MARK WESTON
PANDEMIC PREVENTION CENTER MARK WESTON
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA WATERSPORTS DISTRICT TARA DOZARK
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK DIA BEACON ANNEX TARA DOZARK
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CHARLESTON INNOVATION CENTER
CORE 1 | PROFESSOR LEVENT KARA
PROCESS
ONE: ANNOTATIVE INCEPTION
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SOUTH
WEST
EAST
An exploration of a series of facades began to take importance throughout the earlier phases of the project. Different forms and translucencies allowing an experience that shelters technology and innovation in its design to be mirrored not only in a physical sense, but metaphysically as well.
[ 1 ] Reception area [ 2 ] Innovation classroom [ 3 ] Outdoor cafe [ 4 ] Lounge/ Offices
CITE ANALYSIS [ 1 ]
CITE ANALYSIS [ 2 ]
CITE ANALYSIS [ 3 ]
ELEVATION SKETCH [ 1 ]
[ 5 ] Innovation studio [ 6 ] Bathrooms [ 7 ] Art display gallery [ 8 ] Study space
[ 9 ] Innovation pavilion [ 10 ] Multipurpose room [ 11 ] Rooftop cafe [ 12 ] Outdoor study space
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Facade
The facade aims to exalt meaning in the realms of scientific literacy by opening a window of opportunity where light can openly travel through every space in the intervention. As recent studies suggest light can foster and enhance creative development, the facade is a metaphor that aims to embrace the development of new scientific innovative designs through the act of making.
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SOUTH
NORTH
EAST
[ 1 ] Reception area [ 2 ] Innovation classroom [ 3 ] Outdoor cafe [ 4 ] Lounge/ Offices
[ 5 ] Innovation studio [ 6 ] Bathrooms [ 7 ] Art display gallery [ 8 ] Study space
[ 9 ] Innovation pavilion [ 10 ] Multipurpose room [ 11 ] Rooftop cafe [ 12 ] Outdoor study space
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Innovation
The innovation pavilion is a space that aims to expand the traditional practice of science academia. The space is integrated with a series of modern art as well as small pods where students can resume their academic assignments. The purpose is to challenge how scientific studies is practiced, and integrate art in the mixture with the purpose of expanding creative performance and development. The Innovation pavilion is wrapped with the facade of the building, to allow a space where light can enter and create an environment where academic advancement is celebrated. The pavilion is adjacent to the offices where teachers and other university staff members can share spaces, along with galleries and conference rooms.
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[ 1 ] Reception area [ 2 ] Innovation classroom [ 3 ] Outdoor cafe [ 4 ] Lounge/ Offices
[ 5 ] Innovation studio [ 6 ] Bathrooms [ 7 ] Art display gallery [ 8 ] Study space
[ 9 ] Innovation pavilion [ 10 ] Multipurpose room [ 11 ] Rooftop cafe [ 12 ] Outdoor study space
NNOVATION PAVILION PERSPECTIVE
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[ 1 ] Reception area [ 2 ] Innovation classroom [ 3 ] Outdoor cafe [ 4 ] Lounge/ Offices
RECEPTION AREA / ENTRANCE
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[ 5 ] Innovation studio [ 6 ] Bathrooms [ 7 ] Art display gallery [ 8 ] Study space
[ 9 ] Innovation pavilion [ 10 ] Multipurpose room [ 11 ] Rooftop cafe [ 12 ] Outdoor study space
Circulation
The journey through the intervention begins at the reception area where you are able to openly visualize the main atrium that connects all the levels of the building. The facade is vaguely perceived, but it is foreshadowed through a sequence of openings in the interior windows of the second floor. The stairs shift a gradual 15 degrees to the right in order to create an altered visual illusion. The offices are on the west wing of the building, adjacent to the restrooms and small galleries. The third level is comprised of most of the classrooms and lecture halls, as well as the innovation pavilion. The building has a extensive exhibition of modern art along with light materials in order to shape space in a way that is similar to that of a museum. The use of material aims to create a large and open atmospheric condition that allows light to be manipulated more freely through the building.
FACADE
STRUCTURE
LEVELS
EAST
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FLOOR PLANS
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Entrance Lobby
[ 01 ] Reception Area/ Entrance [ 02 ] Innovation Classroom [ 03 ] Outdoor Cafe
02: Art Galleries/ Offices [ 04 ] Lounge/ Offices [ 05 ] Innovation Studio [ 06 ] Bathrooms [ 07 ] Art Display Gallery
03: Innovation Center [ 08 ] Meditative/ Study Space [ 09 ] Innovation Pavilion/ Garden [ 10 ] Classroom/ Multipurpose
04: Rooftop Cafe
[ 11 ] Rooftop cafe [ 12 ] Outdoor Study Space
Sectional Studies
Charleston, SC | North facade
On the north facade of the building one can come into close proximity with the overall atmospheric environment of the city. The campus is one of the main areas where urban development occurs through the city. it is one of the most populated parts of Charleston, where students and commoners walk through every day. The intervention’s facade falls in adjacency to the street in order to enhance the experience of the people who walk parallel to the structure.
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ANALYSIS
Light took an important role early in the project when the question of innovation and academic performance arose. The distortion of light is a specific technique adopted through the development of the project. In an attempt to avoid the harsh rays of the sun on the interior of the building, the facade was developed. The diverging opacities and shapes allow light to be distorted and soften the shadows of the sun. The facade’s use of tenebristic light allows a softer casting of shadows in the interior spaces of the facade, and aims to bridge a connection between architecture and the effects light can have on academic performance.
ROCHESTER WAR MEMORIAL CORE 2 | PROFESSOR MARK WESTON
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Cyanotypes
The project began through an exploration of different art media that can create an architectural language to convey your ideas while developing a design. The exploration of the chemical cyanide allowed us to create abstracted canvases with the purpose of decomposing the architectural information developed in the graphic. Through a sequence of sketching and layering the cyanotypes began to take form and later on developed to become the abstracted landscape of the project.
CYANOTYPES
SITE SKETCH
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[ 1 ] Gallery [ 2 ] Cafe [ 3 ] Alien Rocketship artifact [ 4 ] Multipurpose room
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[ 5 ] Apocalypse Hall [ 6 ] Incubation Unit [ 7 ] Bioengineering Lab [ 8 ] War-Memorial Lecture Hall
[ 9 ] Horizontal cenotaph [ 10 ] The Tank [ 11 ] Submerssive Integration [ 12 ] Human Hall of remembrance
PROCESS
TWO: DIVERGING DIMENSIONS
TOWER SKETCHES
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CYANOTYPE COLLAGE
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The Nodes
TOWER
THE WALL
The project is composed in a sequence of 3 architectural nodes. The first being a horizontal system called The Wall, then a vertical system called the Tower, and lastly a subversive system called the Floor ceiling condition. Each Node aims to express the 3 different dimensions in which an architecture can be designed; upward, downward, and horizontal. The 3 conditions house artifacts in commemoration of a post apocalyptic war that is theorized to have happened, where aliens come to invade the planet Earth. The scenery takes place 50 years after the War. , where humans have began to rebuild their cities.
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FLOOR CEILING
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ENGINEERING LAB PERSPECTIVE | NORTH
[ 1 ] Gallery [ 2 ] Cafe [ 3 ] Alien Rocketship artifact [ 4 ] Multipurpose room
[ 5 ] Apocalypse Hall [ 6 ] Incubation Unit [ 7 ] Bioengineering Lab [ 8 ] War-Memorial Lecture Hall
[ 9 ] Horizontal cenotaph [ 10 ] The Tank [ 11 ] Submerssive Integration [ 12 ] Human Hall of remembrance
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The War
In a battle of humans and aliens, the cite aims to visualize the affects of a post-apocalyptic environment, where luckily humans have won. The Wall houses a remembrance hall with all the names of the soldiers lost in war while the floor ceiling houses an alien artifact in its core, and the tower a man made rocket ship with burned down alien explosives.
TOWER
FLOOR CEILING
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NORTH EAST
SOUTH WEST
[ 1 ] Gallery [ 2 ] Cafe [ 3 ] Alien Rocketship artifact [ 4 ] Multipurpose room
[ 5 ] Apocalypse Hall [ 6 ] Incubation Unit [ 7 ] Bioengineering Lab [ 8 ] War-Memorial Lecture Hall
[ 9 ] Horizontal cenotaph [ 10 ] The Tank [ 11 ] Submerssive Integration [ 12 ] Human Hall of remembrance
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BIOENGINEERING LAB PERSPECTIVE | SOUTH
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[ 1 ] Gallery [ 2 ] Cafe [ 3 ] Alien Rocketship artifact [ 4 ] Multipurpose room
Promenade
The experience of the site starts at The Wall, where the names of the lost soldiers at war are displayed through a long horizontal glass wall, with the purpose of creating an visual illusion where ones reflection is displayed back. The Promenade then splits into two paths- one that leads to the Tower, and the other that leads to the submerssive Floor ceiling which is adjacent to a body of water in Rochester, NY.
[ 5 ] Apocalypse Hall [ 6 ] Incubation Unit [ 7 ] Bioengineering Lab [ 8 ] War-Memorial Lecture Hall
[ 9 ] Horizontal cenotaph [ 10 ] The Tank [ 11 ] Submerssive Integration [ 12 ] Human Hall of remembrance
Memorial Entrance South- East view | Rochester, NY
A large Alien exploded rocket ship sits hanging in the center of the Tower, visualizing the importance the War had in our history. The rocket ship can be touched and experienced in a physical sense on the first and third levels of the tower. On the first level, an information tour is provided, and on the Third level is where the entrance of the ship lies, where one can experience the interior of the ship. The second levels of the tower become more privatized, housing a sequence of Labs that are aimed to provide society with the resources to re-stabilize the population through bioengineering. A sequence of galleries follow, to remind the occupant of the importance in its ability to document events of human history and their atmospheric conditions.
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PERSPECTIVE SECTION
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THIRD LEVEL
01 SECOND LEVEL
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THIRD LEVEL
The Tower aims to bring emphasis on how impactful the war was on society at the time. It’s importance is synonymous to the conceptual relationship between the Tower and the Ship, which is visualized by the Rocketship being dramatically submersed to the core of the model, a metaphor that aims to symbolize how the effects of the war cannot be removed from human history, the same way the ship cannot be removed from the Tower. The ship is a habitable object that aims to exalt the architectural experience of the occupant by creating a sense of disruption- an unordinary form of experience.
[ 1 ] Gallery [ 2 ] Cafe [ 3 ] Alien Rocketship artifact [ 4 ] Multipurpose room
[ 5 ] Apocalypse Hall [ 6 ] Incubation Unit [ 7 ] Bioengineering Lab [ 8 ] War-Memorial Lecture Hall
[ 9 ] Horizontal cenotaph [ 10 ] The Tank [ 11 ] Submerssive Integration [ 12 ] Human Hall of remembrance
TOWER
FLOOR CIELING
MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
INCUBATION UNIT
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Longitudinal Section Rochester, NY | North Facade
The projects sectional graphic displays the journey in the promenade which starts with the Hybridized Landscape and ends with the Vertical Construct. Habitus is the way humans perceive the social world around us, the concept of the project lies solely on perception and on the idea that how we perceive the past sequence of events in our history is what shapes our present and gives the memorial it’s meaning.
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[ 1 ] Gallery [ 2 ] Cafe [ 3 ] Alien Rocketship artifact [ 4 ] Multipurpose room
[ 5 ] Apocalypse Hall [ 6 ] Incubation Unit [ 7 ] Bioengineering Lab [ 8 ] War-Memorial Lecture Hall
[ 9 ] Horizontal cenotaph [ 10 ] The Tank [ 11 ] Submerssive Integration [ 12 ] Human Hall of remembrance
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FINAL MODEL | TOWER
Vertical Construct The Tower | South Facade
The experience of the tower begins in the ground, where the tower is lifted above the water and the land creates a floating effect while walking up to the building. The tower has a series of look out points into the water, as well as the other nodes of the project. The first level houses the main lobby, where the occupant’s experience with the rocket ship intervention is more pronounced than any where else in the Tower. The second level houses a series of galleries and commemoration halls.
MIAMI DISEASE PREVENTION CENTER
CORE 2 | PROFESSOR MARK WESTON
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[ 1 ] Courtyard [ 2 ] Lobby [ 3 ] Gallery [ 4 ] Waiting room
SKETCH [01]
SKETCH [02]
SKETCH [04]
[ 5 ] Waiting rooms [ 6 ] Doctors Office [ 7 ] Patient rooms [ 8 ] Rooftop cafe
[ 9 ] Atrium Space [ 10 ] CDC security office [ 11 ] Covid-19 Historical gallery [ 12 ] Pandemic prevention hall
PROCESS
THREE: THE EXPLORATION OF DICHOTOMIES
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A series of abstracted site drawings were adapted as a form generator in the early stages of the project. Highlighting Miami’s different architectural conditions, and the relationship of medical facilities found in the area in correspondence to pandemic prevention and control. The correlation between the site and the adjacent areas of importance are highlighted through these graphics. Bryan Cantley graphics were a precedent in the early stages of process in the project and served as a generative device.
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[ 1 ] Courtyard [ 2 ] Lobby [ 3 ] Gallery [ 4 ] Waiting room
GROUND LEVEL
FIRST LEVEL
[ 5 ] Waiting rooms [ 6 ] Doctors Office [ 7 ] Patient rooms [ 8 ] Rooftop cafe
[ 9 ] Atrium Space [ 10 ] CDC security office [ 11 ] Covid-19 Historical gallery [ 12 ] Pandemic prevention hall
SECOND LEVEL
Pandemic Control THIRD LEVEL
FOURTH LEVEL
In the age of a global pandemic, the importance of understanding how pandemic control affects the health became an important part of this project. The research of how pandemic control affects medical facilities, and the regulations that exists became very important in organizing the spacial dynamics of the floor plans. A series of “cleaning rooms� where occupants moving in and out of spaces that might be infectious were adopted as a CDC requirement. The building is also organized in a way that the infectious occupants never come into contact with the occupants that are inhabiting the building to simply experience it. The west wing is the primary gathering unit for possibly infectious patients, hence the location of the waiting rooms, patient rooms, doctors offices and meditation pods.
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
LEVELS
CIRCULATION
WEST WING
CURTAIN WALL
FACADE
GRAMMATIC ANALYSIS
MAPPING: MIAMI
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[ 1 ] Courtyard [ 2 ] Lobby [ 3 ] Gallery [ 4 ] Waiting room
[ 5 ] Waiting rooms [ 6 ] Doctors Office [ 7 ] Patient rooms [ 8 ] Rooftop cafe
[ 9 ] Atrium Space [ 10 ] CDC security office [ 11 ] Covid-19 Historical gallery [ 12 ] Pandemic prevention hall
ATRIUM SPACE
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Perspectives
The perspectives visualize the atrium that is at the center of the Project, connected by the West wing and the facade. The interior atrium aims to create a sense of connection to the outside, especially for those who are visiting the center and having to self isolate or quarantine. It allows the person experiencing the space to not loose connection from a human requirement, which is to be connected to nature.
Main Street Elevation
West view | Collins Ave.
The facade aims to distort light and create an experience that is unique in the district of Miami. The precedent of the facade is Cooper Union, located in NYC. While the facade provides a contemporary and modern depiction of form, it juxtaposes Miami’s traditional Art-deco style. It also aims to provide a fresh contemporary environmental condition in the zone of Miami beach, emphasizing the idea of juxtaposing dichotomies that construct the conceptual dynamic of the project.
Longitudinal Section East view | Collins ave.
The section visualizes where the patient rooms are located, as well as the outdoor gallery located on the ground level of the facility. There is also a sequence of meditation hubs, and greenrooms for the patients who are required to quarantine inside the facility. The West wing is designated as a “No enter� zone, which is where the quarantined patients are located.
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FINAL PRESENTATION BOARD
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ST. PETE WATERSPORTS CENTER CORE 3 | PROFESSOR TARA DOZARK
PROCESS
FOUR: HYBRIDIZED LANDSCAPING
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The Facade
SOUTH
KAYAK SHOP
The St. pete pier brings a new environmental condition trough the focus of modern architecture in the Tampa bay community. The site centers on the development of projects that bring contemporary form of expression to the Downtown district of St. Pete. The forms developed in the project aim to be abstractions of the cite, with the purpose of not removing the architectural language that is visualized through the site. While exploring the conceptual approach of the project, the idea of shade and comfort began to arise. The facade aims to provide shade, which ultimately brings comfort to the occupant.
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HYBRIDIZED WALK WAY | SOUTH
[ 1 ] Break room [ 2 ] Offices [ 3 ] Watersports lecture hall [ 4 ] Conference room
[ 5 ] Bathrooms [ 6 ] Kitchen/ bar [ 7 ] Multipurpose space [ 8 ] Multi-media room
[ 9 ] Outdoor deck [ 10 ] Kayak shop [ 11 ] Storage [ 12 ] Hybridized walkway
Oceanside Promenade Spa Beach Park | St. Pete, FL
The water-sports facility expresses the essence of movement and fluidity in the environmental condition of the site. Being an oceanside intervention, the essence of a fluid environmental condition is important in order to showcase the language of the overall site. The environmental condition served as inspiration in the development of the form of the intervention. Aimed to shadow a language that expresses the water, wind, and landscape of the site in a metaphysical sense.
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Sectional Studies Spa Beach Park | St. Pete, FL
Spa beach provides an open lookout point, surrounded by a large body of water on all adjacencies. The intervention aims to embrace the movement of the wind circulating the building by providing open ceilings that allow ventilation to surge through the interior. The intervention also aims to embrace the geometric parti of the St. Pete pier intervention, while also not removing the architectural language established throughout the site.
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[ 1 ] Break room [ 2 ] Offices [ 3 ] Watersports lecture hall [ 4 ] Conference room
[ 5 ] Bathrooms [ 6 ] Kitchen/ bar [ 7 ] Multipurpose space [ 8 ] Multi-media room
[ 9 ] Outdoor deck [ 10 ] Kayak shop [ 11 ] Storage [ 12 ] Hybridized walkway
KAYAK RENTAL UNIT
The exploded axo and perspective visualize the structure of the intervention, a modernized approach aimed to embrace the anatomy of the architecture. The kayak rental unit jets out, cantilevering on top of the water, with a docking center at the end, to facilitate the process of renting and using water-sports equipment, in contrary to the west facade, which is focused more on the view of Spa-Beach.
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
STRUCTURE
INTERVENTION
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DOCKING PORTS
DOCKING PORTS
BEACH VIEW
BEACH ENTRANCE
AERIAL VIEW
EAST ELEVATION
BEACH VIEW | SOUTH
OUTDOOR PATIO
BEACH VIEW | NORTH
KAYAK SHOP
SOUTH VIEW
[ 1 ] Gallery [ 1 ] Break room [ 5 ] Apocalypse [ 5 ] Bathrooms Hall [ 2 ] Cafe [ 2 ] Offices [ 6 ] Incubation [ 6 ] Kitchen/ Unit bar [ 3 ] Alien [ 3 ]Rocketship Watersports artifact lecture[ hall 7 ] Bioengineering [ 7 ] Multipurpose Lab space [ 4 ] Multipurpose [ 4 ] Conference room room [ 8 ] War-Memorial [ 8 ] Multi-media Lecture room Hall
[ 9] Horizontal [ 9 ] Outdoor cenotaph deck [ 10 ] The [ 10Tank ] Kayak shop [ 11 ] Submerssive [ 11 ] StorageIntegration [ 12 ] Human [ 12 ] Hybridized Hall of remembrance walkway
Oceanside Elevations Spa Beach Park | St. Pete, FL
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The elevations visualize how the sun affects the intervention. The renderings visualize the movement and pathways that can be taken in order to pursue the watersports activities provided by the proposal of this intervention. The structure is composed of two docking ports, one on the Northern side of the building, and another on the cantilevering form that expands out on top of the water.
WEST VIEW
WEST ELEVATION
NYC HIG
GHLINE DIA BEACON ANNEX
CORE 3 | PROFESSOR TARA DOZARK
PROCESS
FIVE: MECHANICAL MATRIX
ACRYLIC STUDY
The project began through an acrylic study as an analitique of the city’s geometric adjacencies. A concept model followed to express the abstraction of the city’s adjacencies as well as connect the developing geometries that were generated throughout the process. The 3-dimensional result was the draft perspective, where the idea of a facade began to develop.
CONCEPT MODEL
DRAFT PERSPECTIVE
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The City
CONCEPT MODEL
DRAFT SECTION
The concept model organizes the parti of the building, which shapes the ongoing theme of the project. A dichotomy is visualized: A large mass juxtaposed with an adjacent facade, united through an open space with a large stair case at the center. The connective space embraces the expression of music in a metaphorical sense. While the Dia center focuses of display of contemporary art, the Annex proposes a display of Music and contemporary art centered of Music. The concept model aims to visualize the monotonous ways the occupants of a city typically live their lives, robots of a capitalist system, yet there are still moments where the gears stop turning, and human connections are embraced through the expression of art.
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PERSPECTIVE SECTION
[ 1 ] Basement [ 2 ] Ground Lobby [ 3 ] Highline entrance [ 4 ] Gallery
[ 5 ] Restrooms [ 6 ] Classrooms [ 7 ] Lecture Hall [ 8 ] Offices
[ 9 ] Audio-visual space [ 10 ] Outdoor gallery [ 11 ] Storage [ 12 ] VR space
[ 13 ] Rooftop cafe [ 14 ] Artist apartments [ 15 ] Penthouse
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FLOOR PLANS
STREET VIEW
[ 1 ] Basement [ 2 ] Ground Lobby [ 3 ] Highline entrance [ 4 ] Gallery
[ 5 ] Restrooms [ 6 ] Classrooms [ 7 ] Lecture Hall [ 8 ] Offices
[ 9 ] Audio-visual space [ 10 ] Outdoor gallery [ 11 ] Storage [ 12 ] VR space
[ 13 ] Rooftop cafe [ 14 ] Artist apartments [ 15 ] Penthouse
Atrium Perspective
South- East view | NYC Highline, NY A series of terraces allow the viewer to look out into the city, and experience different angles and views of the highline, which are linked to the plaza’s structural parti by revealing adjacencies to the city’s landscape. The atrium’s program is aimed to connect the juxtaposing facades that create the structural parti of the Dia beacon Annex, a space of unity where the city is romanticized and the architecture enhances the journey.
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The Machine
CONCEPT MODEL [2]
The Highline expresses New York’s ongoing development of urban display, and showcases a contemporary approach of modern design. The Dia Beacon Annex focuses on expressing an environment dedicated to the community in showcasing New York City’s “machine” way of living. The project aims to create an event venue for the community, where dynamic cultural expressions can surge. The facade gives a blurred unique effect that is a representative element of the city’s context (a metaphorical system), symbolizing the city’s ominous atmospheric condition.
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[ 1 ] Basement [ 2 ] Ground Lobby [ 3 ] Highline entrance [ 4 ] Gallery
[ 5 ] Restrooms [ 6 ] Classrooms [ 7 ] Lecture Hall [ 8 ] Offices
[ 9 ] Audio-visual space [ 10 ] Outdoor gallery [ 11 ] Storage [ 12 ] VR space
[ 13 ] Rooftop cafe [ 14 ] Artist apartments [ 15 ] Penthouse
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EXTERIOR RENDER
[ 1 ] Basement [ 2 ] Ground Lobby [ 3 ] Highline entrance [ 4 ] Gallery
Music
The proposal for the Dia Beacon centers in the development of artistic expression in Music and The Arts. The grand staircase that connects to the highline aims to express this idea in a physical sense through its large and bold declaration. In the development of classical music, large and bold gestures are required to evoke a sense of rhythm that moves you. The same concept is applied in the expression of the grand-stair case, which unites the dichotomy of the project, which is adjacent to the main Atrium of the project that unifies the facade of the Building, and the curtain wall. This threshold moment bridges the connection of the two juxtaposing forms that create the structural composition of the building.
EXPLODED AXO
[ 5 ] Restrooms [ 6 ] Classrooms [ 7 ] Lecture Hall [ 8 ] Offices
[ 9 ] Audio-visual space [ 10 ] Outdoor gallery [ 11 ] Storage [ 12 ] VR space
[ 13 ] Rooftop cafe [ 14 ] Artist apartments [ 15 ] Penthouse
Exterior Rendering
South- East view | NYC Highline, NY The exterior rendering visualized the materiality being adopted i the Dia Beacon Annex. The project aims to create a facade that is still open to the city, and serves as a lookout pint to embrace the Highline. By allowing a series of open spaces, and exterior circulation, the habitant is always in connection to the exterior of the building, not loosing sense of the Highline and always in connection to the adjacencies of the city.
Thank you for your consideration.