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CONTENTS Selected Works
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Reparative Landscapes
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Con.duc.tion
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MacKenzie Scott Philanthropies
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Articulating the High Line
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Stazione Tiburtina
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Soundscapes in the Commons
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Woven Tectonics
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Ephemeral Waterscapes
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(Co)Exist
Human to Time Human to Atmosphere Human to Urban Environment Human to Urban Environment Human to Urban Environment Human to Community Human to Ecology Human to Ecology Human to Ecology
This collection of work is a culmination of design projects completed during my undergraduate studies. In this portfolio, design works don’t just exist in isolation but rather respond boldly to the contexts in which they are situated. Spanning various scales and typologies, projects aim to harmoniously connect disparate ecological, societal, and urban conditions. As such, the designs bridge the human scale with external forces, encompassing time, atmosphere, environment, community, and human interactions.
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REPARATIVE LANDSCAPES Re-Interpreting Highway Infrastructures
Awarded Charles G. Sands Memorial Medal, Thesis Prize at Cornell
Site: Miami, Florida Typology: Public Landscape Scope: Cornell B.Arch Thesis, 2021 Advisors: Tao DuFour + Scott Ruff Publication: issuu.com/carladeharo/docs/deharo.carlasp21finalthesisbook_digital_version_fo
With the passing of the 1956 National Interstate and Federal Defense Highways Act, countless neighborhoods across the country were razed. All in the name of urban renewal, these massive concrete conduits violently incised through dense city fabrics, interrupting not just social conditions but also ecological ones. While on one hand these foreign infrastructures displaced communities and disrupted social ecologies, is there a way to utilize this same system as an impetus to repair the urban fragmentation caused by itself? This thesis investigates the potential for highway infrastructures to be re-appropriated over time. The project aims to re-imagine the afterlife of urban highways and questions whether these same infrastructures can be utilized to repair the same broken landscapes they have generated. The project sees highways as part of the inherited landscape of the site and seeks to re-establish a fluid continuity of the urban fabric that overcomes the socialecological boundaries derived from the highway’s insensitive construction.
Human to Time
Reparative Landscapes suggests that there is an alternate way to interpret highway infrastructure as generators of unique opportunities for public space. It acknowledges the deficiencies in contemporary infrastructures and strives to situate infrastructural space as common land by prioritizing values of social equity and resource sharing. It asserts that public space is of utmost importance to the health of a city and that the reinterpretation of infrastructure as an asset rather than liability can give new meaning to the reorganization of urban space. The Overtown Interchange is an opportunity to utilize various layers of historical significance, endemic ecologies, and civic rhythms to recreate density and colonize public space in provisional yet significant ways. Although this project is specific to its context, this proposal could serve as a paradigm that could be understood and applied in different contexts. How then can the highway as an agent of destruction be re conceptualized as an agent of repair?
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Regional scale cartographic analysis investigating climate and ecologies endemic to South Florida.
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in-migration african american white hispanic
City scale cartographic analysis investigating ecological, infrastructural, and social factors affecting the existing site conditions.
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Opa Locka
Liberty City Brownsville
Allapattah
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1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s
displaced population
1940s
Historical documents and artifacts collected from the Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida.
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‘56 Expressway Pla n
NW 2nd Ave
Neighborhood scale cartographic analysis surveying existing site conditions and programmatic adjacencies.
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+/- 0-5 Years The re-introduction of the historical city grid sets the groundwork for future programs and implies a landscape that can be molded and remolded over time to reflect the plural needs of social ecologies. Highways are nearing their end of lifespan and local residents place initial plantings.
+/- 5-10 Years The intervention evolves into a form of collective and participatory architecture at neighborhood and metropolitan levels to infill the residual spaces of the site. Highways continue to degrade naturally and there is a clear densification of wildlife happening at the site.
+/- 10-15 Years As more of the site is reclaimed over time, there is further diversification of productive programs and ecological succession. Potential for dismantling certain parts of the highways is debated, with columns remaining as monuments and shading devices.
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biking + walking
parade + festival
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preparation
outreach
gathering
flooding
traffic culture
construction
memory performance
demolition
learning
sports music harvest art
Emergent programs and opportunities mapped on the site as potential spillage, or reclamation, of under-expressway space.
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Path (circulation)
Town Park Village (existing public housing)
Gibson Charter School
NW 4th Avenue
NW - SE
Baseball Field (provided by community center)
Picnic Tables (provided by community center)
Overtown Youth Center (existing community center)
Bike Racks (provided by community center)
Parking Lot (provided by community center)
NE - NW SE - NE
Palm Trees Reserve
Path (circulation)
Mural Painting
Bus Parking Lot
Running Track (provided by schools)
Soccer Field (provided by schools)
NW 13th Street
Courtside Apartments (existing public housing)
NW 3rd Avenue
Elevated Surfaces (provided by Camillus House)
Temporary Shelter (provided by Camillus House)
Path (circulation)
Camillus House (existing non-profit institution)
NW 17th Street
Serial sections cut at each quadrant of the intervention.
Running Track (provided by schools)
NW 7th Avenue
NW 12th Street
Underexpressway Space
NW 11th Terrace
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NW 3rd Ave
Overtown Youth Center (existing community center)
Bike Racks (provided by community center)
Baseball Field (provided by community center)
Walking Trail (provided by community center)
Community Garden (planted by adjacent residents)
Bioswales (planted by adjacent residents)
Greenhouses (provided by community center)
Reclaimed Road (local grass roots efforts)
Town Park Village (existing public housing)
NW 4th Avenue
Elevated Platforms (performance)
Path (circulation)
Reclaimed Road (local grass roots efforts)
Farmer’s Market (seasonal programs)
NW 14th Street (closed off to buses only)
NW 7th Avenue
Camillus House (existing non-profit institution)
Cut Berm (accessibility) Stabilized Surfaces (spectate)
Reclaimed Road (local grass roots efforts)
Path (circulation)
Open Fields (flexible uses)
Bioswales (planted by adjacent residents)
Playground (provided by adjacent residents)
NW 11th Street
Metro Rail (public transit)
NW 11th Terrace
Booker T. Washington School
Outdoor Hangout Spaces (provided by schools)
Soccer Field (provided by schools)
Running Track (provided by schools)
NW 14th Street (closed off to buses only)
Bus Parking Lot
Social Activism Space
Protest (community outreach)
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Phase 0. Openings + Closings. Inventory of site conditions. Lack of pedestrian accessibility + vegetation. Highways operating at full capacity.
Phase 1. Framework + Seeding. Inscribe historical grid. Initial vegetation planted by residents. Highways beginning to near end of lifespan.
Phase 2. Programming + De-growth. Residual surfaces re-appropriated as productive program. Densification of plantings throughout site. Highway infrastructure degrading gradually.
Phase 3. Elaboration + Succession. Further program activation and diversification. Enhanced landscaping and vegetation. Potential dismantling of certain roads.
Phase n. Adaptation + Reparation. Increased site reclamation. Possible connections beyond site edges. Potential decommissioning of highway.
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Daily, weekly, and annual processes occurring within the site.
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Detail section and collage visualization at parade promenade and spectacle zones.
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CON.DUC.TION The College of Climaticism
Awarded William Downing Prize, Featured on Metropolis Magazine
Site: Ithaca, New York
In traditional wall construction, layers of insulating materials are assembled to reduce thermal heat Typology: gains and losses. Neutralizing a Academic Building wide range of climate possibilities, these layers define a rigid Scope: dichotomy between exterior and Cornell Advanced Studio VIII, 2020 interior spaces.
Advisors: Philippe Rahm + Ryan Otterson Publication: metropolismag.com/viewpoints/ future100-for-young-architectsin-training-green-building-strategies-affect-form-and-function/
This project rethinks typical architectural solutions by deconstructing common wall layers to welcome a heterogeneity of micro climates and atmospheric conditions between them. The resulting materiality and spatial quality of the building allows for humans to experience the space through direct contact. The building sites itself as a parasite sitting on top of the existing Cornell University Campus Store. Extracting excess heat losses from the underlying structure’s atrium café, the new school utilizes waste energy as a free heat source to cover part of its heat energy demand without extra energy use. Arranged like an onion of conductive materials, each layer constructs a new atmosphere with a subtle temperature difference. Unlike standard architectural practices where program is allocated based on logical interpretations, the program here is allocated based on the thermal
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zones conceived between each wall layer and the thermal comfort desired by the user. Each layer is a continuous wrap of expansions and contractions around the central metallic core so that the climate of each space is efficiently controlled. The outermost layer is the least thermally stable because it is the most influenced by the natural climate. It contains functions in which students spend the least amount of time, such as the bathrooms and circulation spaces. The innermost layers are subsequently more thermally stable than preceding ones because they are most influenced by the artificial climate. They contain activities in which students spend more time and should feel more comfortable, such as classrooms and laboratory spaces. Depending on the season and activity preferred, the user will choose one layer over another. As a climatic phenomenon, conduction becomes a new tool for architectural composition that deviates from classical ideas of what a design should entail. Arbitrary distinctions of interior and exterior are annulled and replaced with a typology where the natural climate of the site is intertwined with the artificial climate of the building itself.
Site plan and elevation. Conduction defined as heat transfer through a material when there is direct contact and a physical medium.
Carla De Haro metal 16.0 K
h i g h t h e r m a l c o n d u c t i v i t y
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feels coolest
concrete 1.25 K
37oC 20oC
feels cooler
glass 1.00 K
37oC 20oC
feels cool-warm
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wood 0.12 K
37oC 20oC
feels warmer
foam 0.10 K
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Thermal section illustrating conductive heat flux occurring at each material layer. Analysis performed using HT-Flux two-dimensional simulation.
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conventional wall construction function defines program conduction heat flux outside
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cross-laminated timber 0.12 K
circulation core storage & mechanical winter garden bathrooms
foam research labs, fabrication shops, classrooms
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double-glazed glass 1.00 K
lectura hall gymnasium exhibition space library
wood research labs, fabrication shops, classrooms
concrete 1.25 K
cool cafe & lounges cool classrooms cool conference room cool research labs
glass research labs, fabrication shops, classrooms
stainless steel 16.00 K
warm cafe & lounges warm classrooms warm conference room warm research labs
ceramic research labs, fabrication shops, classrooms
free conductive heat energy source from inside cornell store’s atrium cafe
metal research labs, fabrication shops, classrooms
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Floor plan with thermal analysis performed using HT-Flux two-dimensional simulation. Perspective illustrating building materiality.
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Floor plan with thermal analysis performed using HT-Flux two-dimensional simulation. Perspective illustrating building materiality.
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This project was selected as part of the Metropolis 2021 Future100 Prize. Featured article above in both print and digital mediums linked above.
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Site: Atlanta, Georgia Typology: Mixed-Use Offices Scope: Cornell Advanced Studio IX, 2020 Advisors: Mustafa Abadan + Jerry Wells
MACKENZIE SCOTT PHILANTHROPIES Center for Advancement of Social Equity
This projects addresses the social and physical fragmentation of Atlanta. Atlanta is a city that is spatially and socially divided by its expressway system that cuts through the urban fabric. The highway separates the city’s business districts on the east from the communities and local culture on the west. The Center for the Advancement of Social Equity seeks to funnel individuals from the downtown district in the Southeast and reorient them towards some of the most marginalized communities like the Historical Black Colleges and Universities in the South-west of the city. Through its ribbon-like form and allocated program, the building raises awareness about the social and environmental issues permeating much of Atlanta. The building houses the new headquarters for MacKenzie Scott, whose mission is to give back to the most oppressed individuals. It’s design redefines the ideal for an office building by integrating the public community with the private work place. The form is optimized to foster a collaborative work environment centered around a community courtyard. Six levels are connected
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via terracing roof gardens and interior floor slabs allowing for a seamless connection between private and public amenities as well as interior and exterior spaces. In addition, the program includes a public lecture hall, community market, community center, library, public exhibition gallery, and cafe. The landscape of the site is integrated into the program to include an extensive roof park, a sunken community gar-den and green infill for the currently exposed tunnel on site. To combat some of Atlanta’s climate challenges, the building’s facade system is optimized for solar energy harvesting, reduction of solar heat gains, and maximized daylighting as well as natural ventilation. The green roof increases roof insulation while decreasing the urban heat island effect. Parking is designated to the excess space above the tunnel, minimizing the need to excavate the site further than what is already there. As a new public space within the city, this project promotes ideas of urban justice by reconnecting the city’s broken fabric and questioning the role of new civic institutions.
Carla De Haro Vegetated Roof. Reduces storm water run-off and urban heat island effect. Mitigates solar radiation and promotes healthy biodiversity.
Vertical Wood Screen. Reduces solar heat gain allowing for cross ventilation. Varying density optimized for daylighting and passive cooling.
Horizontal Shading Devices. Reflects direct sun rays to protect against solar glare. Enhances thermal comfort and increases building thermal performance.
Photo-Voltaic Collectors. Harvests solar energy to power the building. Optimized location and angle to reduces interior solar heat gains.
Low-E Glass. Maximizes natural daylight penetration resulting in well-lit work space. Provides peripheral inter-office connectivity.
Terraced Roof Gardens. Engages private to public spaces. Connects exterior natural landscape with interior office space promoting healthy work environment.
Public Courtyard. Creates a sense of place centered around community-building. Provides shading and safe space for everybody.
Community Garden. Welcomes the broader context. Encourages diversity and inclusion of adjacent communities while giving back to the city.
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South Facade Section Detail. 1. 2 x 4 mullion 2. Double-glazed glass panel 3. Solar panels angles at 45 degrees 4. Metal railing at 3 feet high 5. Finish floor 6. Steel beam 7. Concrete floor slab 8. Pre-tensioned steel cables 9. Suspended ceiling
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Floor Plan, Typical Office Level. Rendering showing communal lounge space and roof terraces.
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Floor Plan, Observation Level. Rendering looking out into the community courtyard and roof park.
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ARTICULATING THE HIGH LINE Urban Housing as Landscape Infrastructure
Honorable mention at ARCHUE Affordable Housing Challenge
Site: New York, New York Typology: Residential Scope: Cornell Core Studio V, 2018 Advisors: Henry Richardson
Articulating the High Line reconnects the High Line with the Hudson River and the Chelsea community. Once an escape from the fast paced life of New York City, the High Line no longer serves its purpose as an urban retreat. The various developments along it have neglected its existence and alienated themselves from the linear park, the city, and the water. The result is a vertically and horizontally disconnected urban condition. Rather than ignoring its presence, the building manifests itself as an extension of this same elevated green infrastructure, the High Line. The project incorporates a roof garden and community park below by engaging community building and placemaking as the main drivers for design. The elevated terrace typology engenders a sense of community for the occupants and horizontally connects the Chelsea neighborhood with the High Line and the Hudson River. Vertically, the building connects three urban zones: the street with an urban market, the elevated pedestrian walkway with an extended High Line, and the sky with a community roof garden.
Human to Urban Environment
The building’s program is housing composed of double loaded units adapted to accommodate various household sizes. The individual units are aggregated to form a terraced structure that allows for a covered community park below. This porous form allows for natural daylight and ventilation as well as vast views of the river. Circulation is facilitated through two vertical cores leading to sky lobbies that house the building’s public amenities such as the fitness center, childcare facilities, and recreational spaces. These programmatic functions activate the Chelsea community and re-establish a connection between it, the aging High Line infrastructure, and the Hudson River. The building becomes more about the public space it contributes to the city rather than just the housing function it serves. By engaging three urban zones, both vertically and horizontally, the proposal resuscitates the High Line’s original essence and builds stronger community values. Thus, the project can be read as a High Line Oasis, offering retreat from the tumult of urban life.
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Hudson River
Empire State Trail
High Line Extension
11th Avenue Highway
Underground Parking
Section illustrating the building lifted and pulled apart to provide users with a view of the Hudson River and a shared park space below.
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Chelsea Market Extension
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Typical floor plans at corridor and non-corridor levels. Rendering depicting the project as articulation of the High Line.
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Typical unit typologies. Double-loaded corridors aggregated at every other floor to allow for flexible bedroom layouts with terraced gardens.
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Studio (West)
Studio (East)
Duplex, One Bedroom (West)
Duplex, One Bedroom (East)
Duplex, Two Bedrooms (West)
Duplex, Two Bedrooms (East)
Triplex, Three Bedrooms (West)
Triplex, Three Bedrooms (East)
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View from typical unit looking into the home garden with views of the Hudson River beyond.
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View from underneath the shared park space created by the terraced residences above looking out to the water and extended platform space.
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Site: Rome, Italy Typology: Bus Terminal Scope: Cornell Core Studio VI, 2019 Advisors: John Zissovici + Alberto Iacovoni
STAZIONE TIBURTINA From Decay to Revival of Aging Infrastructure
Stazione Tiburtina re-purposes an aging bus station and abandoned green space to serve as a gateway between Rome, the Tiburtina Train Station, and its growing suburbs. The intervention works with the existing abandoned building on site and sunken green space. Monumental wall fragments are deployed to mediate the differing levels of the site and to guide the pedestrian and vehicular circulation through the complex. These walls are oriented to provide a physical and visual connection between two opposite sides of the city. A series of stairs brings pedestrians from the street level down to the sunken garden. This path is further extended as an underground passage that connects to the train station across the street. Concrete vaults are inserted into various parts of the proposed superstructure to provide shaded walking spaces and re-activate the function of the abandoned building. This building becomes the new bus station where travelers can purchase tickets and wait for their bus in the adapted sunken garden. The new arched and vaulted superstructure also contains other
Human to Urban Environment
programmatic functions such as bathrooms, waiting lounges, and a cafe. The design borrows from Roman historical monuments as inspiration. There is also particular attention devoted to the re-purposing of historical buildings and blighted landscaped spaces. The intervention on the site suggests a different way of thinking about how to use aging structures and green spaces in a way that positively benefits community members. In doing so, Stazione Tiburtina serves as a public space, a transportation hub, a sunken retreat from the hard scape of the existing bus station above, and as a spatial and visual connector. The architecture and urban design provoke a memory of the relationship between the ancient Roman landscape and the Roman urban fabric of today. In suggesting an alternative way of thinking about building repurposing, the project serves as an example of building re-use and publicly driven design.
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Sections cutting through adaptive re-use building and underground connection to train station. Rendering at stairs towards sunken park.
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Site: Ithaca, New York Typology: Concert Hall Scope: Cornell Core Studio IV, 2018 Advisors: Peter Ballman
SOUNDSCAPES IN THE COMMONS Bridging Music and Community
Soundscapes in the Commons incubates a civic public space that elevates Ithaca’s cultural position in the Finger Lakes region. Sited at the intersection of Seneca and Tioga Streets in downtown Ithaca, the building sits at an ideal position to activate a pedestrian dialogue between the Ithaca Commons and the new music hall. The Ithaca Music Hall serves as an extension of the Ithaca Commons by incorporating a public plaza as a flexible framework for community activities such as public markets or art shows. This project welcomes people of diverse backgrounds despite a potential lack of interest in music. By naturally drawing people in, the building encourages community connectivity and equitable development. Through the public plaza at street level, visitors are guided to an elevated public space by a series of ramps. When they make it up the ramps, people are exposed to the auditorium and the musicians. The threshold between the elevated public space and the auditorium is a flexible structure that allows for private, semi-public, and public concerts to occur.
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The construction of this threshold reveals itself not just as an innovative architectural feature but also as the community purpose that the building serves. The threshold is designed to be adjustable. The section reveals a symbiotic relationship between the auditorium stage and the elevated public space. This dichotomy allows for a range of concert types to occur, from completely opaque to completely transparent, engendering a relationship between the community with the local music culture. The project re-interprets the function of a concert hall and suggests an inclusive space for its audience. The construction of the building orchestrates a connection between Ithaca, its inhabitants, the local music culture, and the broader Finger Lakes Region. Traditional concert hall design is challenged by proposing a design that is more than just a place where people gather to listen to music. The Music Hall proposes an auditorium that can serve both as civic public space and as space for music.
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Floor plan and longitudinal section.
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Hand-made basswood model at 1/4” scale.
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Construction Detail at 1/2” Scale. 1. Finish Roof Slates 2. Waterproof Membrane 3. Rigid Insulation 4. Poured Concrete 5. Concrete Beam Structure 6. Mechanism for Operable Wood Panels 7. Wood Slat Ceiling Finish 8. Operable Wood Panel System 9. Floor Finish
Exploded axonometric of building structure.
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Hand-made basswood model of roof and ceiling construction detail at 1/4” scale.
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Site: Site-less Typology: Tectonic Manipulation Scope: Cornell Summer College, 2015 Advisors: Jim Williamson + Luben Dimcheff
WOVEN TECTONICS Explorations of a Performative Tool
Woven Tectonics explores elemental architectural topics of order, structure, and space through the operational term of weaving. The construction of a 6” x 6” x 6” relief and cube that embodied this performance was then further studied in the investigation of a quotidian apparatus, the kitchen whisk. Descriptive and performative drawings sought to develop a spatial language of weaving. These two dimensional investigations were translated into three dimensional terrain models. An architectural proposal was finally developed as a landscape intervention that serves as a series of angled spaces that bring the user on a journey of contemplation above, within, and below the site. These spaces are defined horizontally by carved openings in the landscape, and vertically by rock walls that delineate the various pathways that a user might encounter while framing views of the site.
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Topographical model explorations using the whisk’s movement and operative term of weaving as performative drivers.
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Field recordings of whisk motion.
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Analog drawings of final intervention. Site plan and serial landscape sections.
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Tectonic site model illustrating the resulting undulating landscape. Woven space and structure.
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Site: Site-less Typology: Natural Baths Scope: Cornell Core Studio I, 2016 Advisors: Val Warke + Luben Dimcheff
EPHEMERAL WATERSCAPES Dissecting a Flora Species
Ephemeral Waterscapes began with analytical research focused on the intricate nature of the flora species epiphyllum oxypetallum. This organism blooms solely at night and wilts before dawn. It extracts nutrients from the natural elements of air, water, light, earth for survival. The correlation between these moments of fluctuation lead to the design of a drawing apparatus that records the motion of water levels. This generates a field that is represented and reinterpreted in both two and three dimensional mediums. The concept of fluctuating, derived from the drawing apparatus, was developed as a landscape intervention on a cavernous island. The ephemeral pockets of space generated by the ever changing water levels introduce temporary programs to the site. These include natural pools, swim holes, and geothermal baths, all spaces meant for cleansing and rejuvenation. As such, the existence of the landscape and the intervention aim to connect its users, or humans, to the site’s ecology.
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Epiphyllum Oxypetallum, also known as Queen of the Night, due to its midnight bloom event once in its lifetime.
Two-dimensional drawing analyzing the structure of the species’s anatomy and its movement in space and time.
Three-dimensional analytical model aiming to spatialize the analytical drawing above.
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Performative drawing.
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Rhythmic sections generated by water ripples from the drawing apparatus.
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Site: Site-less Typology: Material Research Scope: Cornell Advanced Studio VII, 2019
(CO)EXIST Earthly Material Explorations
“We are the most connected species to roam this planet, possessing the technological ability to instantaneously experience the world beyond our physical limits. We are also the most disconnected, alienated from each other and our habitat.”
Advisors: (Co)Exist addresses man’s Chad Oppenheim + Tom McKeogh increasingly adversarial and unsustainable relationship with the natural world. A series of earthly constructed models seeks to recalibrate notions of destruction through construction. Each study combines one synthetic (man-made) material with one natural (earthly) material to create a new material. Synthetic materials include modeling concrete and glycerin. Natural materials include found substances in the local area such as seaweed and soils. The new materials created are imagined to craft shelter. Small creatures and microorganism begin to inhabit the corroded spaces and organic forms carved onto the synthetic materials. With the passage of time, the surface of the materials become eroded. This is observed by changes in color, moisture, and smell. Human to Ecology
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Material Study 1. Poured concrete mixed with seaweed.
Material Study 2. Casted glycerin mixed with sea moss.
Material Study 3. Casted glycerin mixed with sea moss. Color change after 2 weeks of sun exposure.
Material Study 3. Casted glycerin mixed with local soil.
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CARLA DE HARO Designer, Educator, Researcher cd534@cornell.edu +1 786 344 5986 issuu.com/carladeharo linkedin.com/carladeharo