Cameron P Cole CarcelĂŠn portfolio :: architecture
[works]
Small Farmers Project :: Eugene, Oregon Blair Streetfront Project :: Eugene, Oregon Kirjava Satama [ master’s thesis ] :: Helsinki, Finland I.S.I.S. Center of Lane County :: Eugene, Oregon Crane Garden :: Eugene, Oregon Enclosure Details :: Nature Center :: Eugene, Oregon
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[principles]
Environmental stewardship :: touching the earth lightly Cities and landscapes :: thriving, interconnected urban and ecological systems People :: making the built environment work for all users Problem solving :: reconciling function and poetry at all scales
Small Farmers Project :: Eugene, Oregon Ten architecture students collaborated with seven low-income latino families to design and construct a structure for the families’ collectively owned and run berry farm. Program elements: :: tractor storage area :: covered, outdoor berry-packing and vending space :: walk-in cooler The farmers do not own the land, so the entire structure is demountable and transportable by pickup truck. All phases of the project were as collaborative as possible, with frequent cycles of feedback between the students and the farmers. We began defining the ‘problem’ in September, 2010, and celebrated the ribbon-cutting in October, 2011.
Collaborative, iterative, inclusive design process. Communication coordination :: across languages and media. [ Full-scale mockup + diagrams + drawings + models + dialogue ]
Existing conditions, summer 2011
Blair Streetfront Project :: Eugene, Oregon Wells Fargo and the City of Eugene sponsored a streetfront improvement competition between three local businesses, in summer and fall of 2011. Mi Tierra’s project team of three young design professionals collaborated closely with the family that owns the taquerĂa. Our project won the competition, earning an additional business development grant for the owners. Recently completed dining area fall 2011
MI TIERRA PROPOSED ENCLOSURE FOR DINING AREA SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
BIKE RACKS
MI TIERRA TAQUERIA
NORTH
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Dining area 2.5 years later; spring, 2014
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BLAIR STREET
Kirjava Satama Competition [ master’s thesis ] :: Helsinki, Finland Urban Intervention :: Redesign of Helsinki’s South Harbor Architectural design :: Helsinki Museum of Baltic Industry & Ecology
Finland :: World
Finland :: Baltic
South Harbor urban design objectives :: +
accommodate uses [ tourism + fishing ]
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extend urban fabric into harbor
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provide opportunities for people to interact with water at different scales.
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integrate landscape [ street + park + water ]
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Urban fabric + park extend through proposed museum and into harbor
integrated landscape [ park + building + harbor }
visitors pass through an enclosed wooden box as they move from primary exhibit space to bridges.
compression
Helsinki Museum for Baltic Industry & Ecology services vs. interpretive
The museum is oriented with its back to Observatory Hill, bridging Observatory Park and the South Harbor Waterfront.
services administrative
The objective is to link this important urban park to the urban fabric and to the harbor. Three gallery-bridges extend from the hillside over the South Harbor, with additional gallery spaces reaching into the water, enclosed in hydrostatic glazing. As visitors descend into these spaces, they can view out into the harbor to compare its ecological health to the exhibit content in aquariums within the museum.
cafe cafe outdoor seating bookstore interpretive demonstrative prototyping workshop
welcome classroom labs tidal pools for lab exploration
The museum is a timeline of human technological/industrial development and the ecological consequences of each time period on Baltic ecosystems. Each of the three fingers corresponds to a time period, framing a view of a building from that era in the urban landscape across the harbor. Just as the museum’s architectural form weaves park, water and city together, the exhibit content reinforces the connectedness of human activity and ecology. The narrative culminates in a workshop that opens out to the harbor. Here, visitors can interact with technologies that look toward a sustainable industrial future.
Section through finger
Integrated Illumination
electric lighting
daylighting
Section along timeline
Presentation models
<< >> Process models :: urban :: schematic :: design development
whitaker garden riparian edge bascom riverbank trail system
Crane Garden :: Khenkho Eugene, Oregon
link to downtown eugene
demonstration garden + kitchen for the practice and study of indigenous food traditions
Eugene is home to about 1,500 people who identified as Native American for the 2010 Census, constituting about 1% of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population. There is no single dominant tribal affiliation, but rather a diversity of cultural backgrounds. Indigenous people in the United States experienced forced estrangement from their ancestral lands and ways of life when Europeans and AngloAmericans imposed assimilation measures, displacement, and worse. Today, Indigenous people not currently living on reservations are further separated from their tribal heritage by distance. Several federally recognized tribes in Oregon have offices in Lane County; the Confederated Tribes of Siletz is the only tribe that currently has an office in Eugene. The purpose of the Crane Garden is to provide a place in which people from a variety of cultural backgrounds can engage with indigenous customs through the cultivation of traditional plant, and the subsequent production of food and art using plants grown here and elsewhere. The site is adjacent to the Whitaker Community Garden, a thriving community agricultural space.
confluence of cultures + food traditions in eugene
The Crane Garden is conceived as two separate buildings: a messy zone to support the garden, and a clean zone with offices, classroom/resources room, and storage. A place for classes, workshops, ceremonies and performances celebrating the diverse cultures that preceded the arrival of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest.
structures that connect ::
axis through classrooms links garden to river
:: to indigenous building traditions that preceded them
:: to the indigenous arts made inside them
:: to the landscape that sustains them Suspended glass canals convey rainwater to sculptures inspired by traditional Pacific Northwest indigenous motifs; water then flows into streams integrated into the garden, and into the Willamette River.
Nature Center :: Eugene, Oregon Enclosure Details East Elevation
Eave :: Section Detail
Sill :: Section Detail Window :: Plan Detail
Construction assembly based on rain scre en principle for effective deflection, drainage, and drying [appropriate for rainy/humid Pacific Northwest climate]. :: thermal breaks :: lapped flashings :: staggered studs to optimize thermal insulation
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Thank you. cameronpcole@gmail.com cameroncolecarcelen.com