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summer
SW
wint er
Housing
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Openings for summer
Openings for winterr
Offices
Major Openings in the building
Mixed-Retail
Offices
residential
Pedestrian traffic dominates much of Boston especially between the three most traveled subway stations. This skyscraper reconfigures the notion of neighborhood and open space into a vertical orientation. Neighborhoods of programming consist of: housing, retail, and offices that are connected to each other through three main cores and open spaces. Vertical connections are also maintained visually through openings in the floor plates. The open spaces on each level connect the programming as well as develop permeable conditions that are repeated throughout. The form of the floor plates, in conjunction with the skin, was developed through the interaction of wind throughout the year and the relationship to the sun. This form allowed us to utilize the idea of vertical faming up through the south west side of the building.
commercial
commercial neighborhood
QUINCY MARKET GOV’T CENTER
BEACON HILL
residential neighborhood
site
FINANCIAL DISTRICT
DOWNTOWN CROSSING
WATERFRONT
vertical farming pod
neighborhood CHINATOWN
commercial commercial
commercial + hotels
neighborhood pods
public green space + vertical farming spaces
structural system
How can vertical farming develop a meshwork of neighborhoods?
water
air
= 100 people
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Exhaust Hydroponic wall module
Enclosure
Rain water
Toilet black water
water
Anaerobic reactor
Anoxic reactor
8’
Aerobic reactors
Exterior facade Aquaculture tank
Storage
Hydroponic walls
4’
Interior enclosure
Mixed Income Housing Complex, West of Chicago Our intent is to design and develop a residential project in Chicago that welcomes inhabitants from all walks of life into a unified and diverse neighborhood. A unified neighborhood is one that has broken down the standard boundaries of alienation typical in both big cities and suburban areas. Inhabitants can cross paths with each other and look forward to greetings and conversation. Gathering together as a community can be a regular occurrence as well as a special occasion. A unified neighborhood is one that the residents can take pride in and call home. Diversity is this neighborhoods ability to cater to many different walks of life. Not only from a socio-economic standpoint, but also from different age groups, population demographics, cultures, and lifestyles.
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A5-1
A5-1
A5-2
Third Floor Plan 22' - 6" Second Floor Plan 12' - 0" First Floor Plan 0' - 0"
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1 1/16" = 1'-0"
School of Architecture Design in Inwood Hill Park Taking a natural site surrounded by an urban context, connecting the opposites became exploration. Mirroring the city, a long building full of the main school (work) programming. It creates a wall that then links through bridges of different heights into terraced connected buildings which house the student activities (play). This progression is seperated in itself by main circulation paths going in all directions. This campus plays with the idea of seperating urban and natural, private and public, and spatial interactions. Using layers of different privacy and orthoganally lines, they link together to create a campus that is private from the urban area, yet public within itself.
summer winter
Wood Shop, Metal Shop Library Central Core Graduate/ Research
Library, Lounge, Pin up
Studios, Research Wood Shop, Metal Shop,
City
Nature
area of architectural intervention
moderate low-E insulated glazing used for reflectivity and environmental impacts. 11’x15’ panels.
Student CenterArchitecture school
N School of Architecture
Telecommunication Medical Clinic, Nepal A design of a medical clinic that uses telecommuncation techniques in a third world country. The design is community oriented in design and form, making the programming more connected to main roads. The flows follow the intersections of similar programs and create a more fluid space. The flow of the facades and interior, move through the mountainous town haptically and move the users in a strategic manner.
BUILDINGS PUSH CITY INTERSECTION PUSH TERRAIN PUSH
MAIN ROAD PULLS BUILDINGS PUSH
WEAVING
FLOOR PLAN DIAGNOSIS DIAGNOSIS LABS
PATIENTS ROOMS
STORAGE
WAITING
labs connect to diagnosis & surgery
SURGERY
patients rooms connect to
OFFICES offices connect to major program
Visual haptics occur when the viewer “feels” something with their eyes. This occurs due to the fact that we interpret things based on what we have pysically felt in our past experiences. We are able to look at something and use our past feeling sensations and feel them as we caress the object with our eyes and interpret what it is in relation to the distance we are standing from it. Architecture has been experienced in everyones past, and we all are subjective to it. We want to develop a building that plays with people’s subjective pasts using visual haptic interactions and force the people to interpret and interact with what is in front of them at different scales and at different views. By doing this the notion of the hospital can become personal and every person can interact with it differently or physically by using their eyes. If we limit or twist the spatial distances within the building, people will become more involved and perhaps feel the building with different senses. We will create a consistant, emotional atmosphere of different episodic views.
TRANSVERSE SECTION 1
TRANSVERSE SECTION 2
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
Intermixing Complex Urbanism with Natural Habitats Housing units built on a redesigned wetland on the coast of California. Units come together like lik Crystallizat Crystallization
Basic grid used for design. Created based off the sites boundaries going from curvy to structured.
Circulation Cir Circ Ci C irc irrrcu ulattion io
Movement towards the wetlands
Community Comm Area
Green ways
3 main wetland areas
Brackish Wetland
High Marsh
Natural Contours
Medium Marsh
Man-Made Park
Low Marsh
2 main circulation areas
Ecological Park
3 main community areas
Brackish Wetland Medium Marsh Unit Type A
Unit Type B
Scale: 1/4” = 1’
Unit Type C
Scale: 1/4” = 1’
Integrated Lifestyle Housing
[Academic use only]
A housing project that focuses on the interactions of the residents within the buildings as well as the sites around them. Using an overall pattern of main paths and changing their heights at different moments create different visual and physical movements. We placed three horizontal oriented buildings that connect through structure, land and landscape. Three main paths cut through forcing residents to come upon each other at random. One of the main parts of our scheme is the use of land sloping up and covering structure. With the different levels of land, gardens and exterior leisure spaces can interact visually and auditorally. The units are all set up to have the bedroom and living areas on the south wall.
Entering on the second floor brings people into the main exterior spaces. Located on the back of the main building is a group of community spaces going from floor to floor, connected to each other. This allows for every unit to have access to the community spaces from their own entrances. Allowing people to come together by choice.
Boston Housing Experiment Design of a structure on small urban corner site of an intersecton of two roads. The building would house four families of varying sizes and specific needs which each level and space is designed towards. From a single mother and two sons, a gardner and an elderly man who loves astronomy, the building challenges how these differences can come toghether and fit in one building. A corner vertical space utilizing the sun connects the families socially. The building at its base is designed to minimize the site impact and allow for circulation from the streets to flow through.
SECOND FLOOR
openings in floors allow sun to bleed through at random spots.
FIRST FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
MoMA: 181st street This project was mainly created to bring two communities together in a space that is engaging through art and places for people to hangout. Using a method of half underground and half out, the design I created could privatize and utilize spaces as well as create open spaces on the ground plain over top of the building to utilize every area space could be. This design puts a central path through the structure to engage people with the building either closely or from afar by physically or mentally moving there eyes. This allows for people to use the spaces for other things besides art, but as places of relaxation or park like activities, which allows the site to retain its “park� like feel.
Right Elevation
Front Elevation
Roof Plan
Floor Plan
RPI Cafe Design With the use of a grid of trees and a grid of walls, on a major circulatory site on our campuse, I was to design a place for hangout. The design was combining indoor and out. The indoor was a cafe, able to be used in the winter, bringing in sun light. the outdoor northeast side opened the structure to the main path of circualation. the organization of the structure was very site oriented allowing for multiple paths of intersection and moments of hangout and interaction between students and faculty.
Elusive Transformation with Social Interplay room design
Experimental Floor Plan
Designing a room around the word “Play� using scripts to create a mathematical system. To design just one room around the idea of playing, a system was created to allow the users to interact with the walls. Through this wall system, that could potentially move allong a scripted path or use a scripted rotation, the user could create different spaces within the one big space for different multiple programs. Also the walls could be interacted with to allow for the creation of furniture, shelving, surfaces for eating, climbing, sitting, laying. The room could also have the potential to interact with other rooms in a building by moving the walls, openings are created for different traffic flows between rooms or even openings for visual interactions.
Front Elevation of Scripting Plan
Interchangable Floor Plan
Section of Scripting Plan
Section of Scripting Plan
Plan Using Scripting