The Sun is in the Streets by Carrie Bly

CARRIE BLY Design Portfolio

cv/references available 612.805.6187 carrie.bly@gmail.com

IN THREE PARTS

Architectural Investigations........................................1 City Strategies..........................................................15 Experience................................................................41

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Architectural Investigations Studies and Projects to Test <<---------------------------------------->>

HOUSE FOR A POET

MODEL IMAGES Museum Board Construction

SITE PLAN Pen and Ink

DYNAMIC SPACE Location..................................................................................Fictional Structure.................................................................................Concrete, Wood, Steel

Rhythm makes this house move. The shadows and the light animating solid state, singing into space, growing into the garden... shhh, shhh... and out to the ocean. Leading phrases of the form to catch the sun and tickle the toes of secret whispers. So surprised with laughter they, reveal their shape, and remove their shell. Captured by your pen, Free now to a good home.

Weekend Retreat

WELCOME TO CAMPUS

EXISTING SITE SOLUTION

PROGRAM

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SITE A small, worn-down plain of grass between the only bus stop on campus and the Student Union Plaza becomes the proposed site of a new ticket master booth. PROGRAM A place to wait, mediating circulation and refuge. SOLUTION A welcome for students and visitors into the heart of student life, digitally displaying information on transleucent elevations, and providing a place for pause - to wait for the bus, or in line for a ticket - while facilitating a connection to each and every activity in the vicinity. Location...................................................Union Plaza, Kansas State University Campus Structure....................................................Transparency, Transleucency, Steel and Glass

SITE PLAN AND CIRCULATION

Ticketmaster

COMPOS MENTIS

STUDY MODELS

PRESENTATION MODEL

STRUCTURAL COMPOSITION

A COMPOSED MIND. Location........................................................................................Honduras Structure......................................................................Wood and Steel Tension Rods

Balancing the tectonic and indigenous, lifting out of the earth, making space to consider both the world around, and inside. AN ASSEMBLY OF PIECES WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE A WHOLE The geometry of the units is based on the square - beginning with the square cross section of the structure and appearing in section and plan at a larger scale to define the volume of the space. At times the relationship of square to square seems arbitrary, but when overlaying this geometry of rational numbers with that of the irrational it is interesting to see that the rhythm and placement of the squares correspond to the rules of this secondary geometry.

Fishermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Retreat

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cistern

bed/living

toilet

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PLAN VIEW

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

GEOMETRY STUDIES

upper level shared study storage

bed/living

lower level shared storage/dining

NEXUS: Flint Hills

INTERPRETIVE CENTER

MODEL IMAGES

DETAIL SKETCHES

BLURRED BOUNDARIES Deliver information by layering it into the landscape - drawing it up through the soil, the concrete, the spaces, the displays - exacting, describing the nature of what was happening here. Revealing it, so that the passengers of episodic cross-country road trips, inquisitive school groups and those everyday commuters moving in reliable rhythmic refrains, could hold still for a moment and see that the blur of the highway and the hills was not a product of the 70mph speed limit they had kept one eye on - but in fact, the blur was still happening, even as they slowed to a crawl, and then a pause, finally stopping to see the two landscapes were actually colliding. The highway and the hills were no longer two autonomous entities; they were bleeding into each other.... slowly, but surely shifting the indigenous paradigm. This nexus would become a bookmark, not only for the Flint Hills, but also for Kansas - creating a destination to help define place, provoking questions and thought -

display

access outdoor landscape toilets office kitchen cafĂŠ

Location.....................................................................................Konza Prairie, Kansas Structure.......................................................................................Concrete and Steel

PLAN VIEW: INTERPRETIVE CENTER

theatre entry

THE DESIRE TO EXPLORE - AND THE MEANS TO DO SO.

Contextual Interpretive Center and Travelers Campus

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interpretive center

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restaurant

tower

gas station

SITE PLAN

MOVE to CONNECT: Assembling a Community

SECTION VIEW

INDIVIDUAL UNIT AXONOMETRIC, VOID OF SKIN

IN THEORY The conflicting constraints for this Steel sponsored high-rise competition and the site location in a low-rise local San Francisco neighborhood gave birth to a guiding urban and architectural philosophy: Seeking design which fosters a community, and connects a greater collective within and beyond the structure of the high-rise.

Location..................................................................................San Francisco, California Structure......................................................................................................Steel

IN PRACTICE *The center void allows for sun to shine on the interior streets, facades, and lowest public courtyard space. *Public circulation space at the base of the building allows for mixed use activities, indoors and out. *Circulation Space on the interior of the building forms a loop, connecting three sides of residential units, and one community space for public gathering. The circulation system culminates with space for a full-circle track with expansive views of the San Francisco landscape on the top of the building. *Individual Units connect to the larger whole by providing a entry space, rather than just a front door. The interior is open and core systems are grouped together for efficiency and spatial maximization. Each Unit also has a outdoor space running the length of the unit at its ground level, connecting the urban space in the city beyond with the interior community circulation and courtyard space. This space becomes the front and back yard for each unit, with option for varying degrees of privacy. The second floor of each unit is accessible only from within the unit, and due to a Corbusian skip-stop elevator system, mandates levels of privacy on every-other floor of the building.

Multi-Use + Housing High Rise Community

PLAN VIEW: Public Levels 1 (bottom) to 7 (top)

‘AWARENESS’ Sketch, noting visual connectivity of a stand-alone highrise.

AXONOMETRIC

E R E H W O N D AY S PA

Dream

Reality

Interior View of Heated Pool

Landscape

Filter

Operable Skin

Model: Spa Landscape behind Skin

Structural Bracing and Concrete Core

NO WHERE Los Angeles too, is only a name. Here, there are no contradictions in the present tense, only changes in the paradigm; tradition goes quickly out of style. So check your premises, or go down holding your own fatal ďŹ&#x201A;esh wound - realizing you were both the murderer and the victim, knowing certainly that it was only a matter of time. An interior landscape filtered from - but still connected to - the context of the site. This was the strategy used to mediate a busy vehicular intersection defining the south and west limits of the site, the direct and expansive view of the Ocean (farther west beyond the Pacific Coastal highway), and the city of Los Angeles (with its own highs and lows) surrounding the spa at its north, east, and south edges.

Concept: Vertical Landscape

Translating ideas of filtered landscapes into a building became an exploration of hanging structural systems, moment forces, site grading, weather enclosure, circulation paths, and accessibility. Because of the limited site boundaries, and the larger square footage of the program, it was necessary to expand the building in the vertical dimension - then, adding a second skin allowed the spa to become its own little world. Here, the constant change of the city is allowed to become a part of the experience, accepting variations in light, air, and sound - and writing them on the translucency and operation of the facade as markers for the passage of time. It is quiet inside, but not lost. Location................................Santa Monica, California. Ocean Ave. and Wilshire Blvd. Structure........................................................................................Concrete and Steel

West Elevation along Ocean Ave.

Frame Diagram: locating pools, hangars, truss

Health and Relaxation Day Spa

E R E W H O N Santa Monica, California Ocean Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard

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PLAN +16-22' HEATED A ATED POOLS

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E R E W H O N Santa Monica, California Ocean Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard

PLAN +25'9" Changing Lounges

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GALV LVA LV VANIZED METAL T TAL CAT A WALK AT W GALV LVANIZED LV VANIZED, COPED "T" OUTRIGGER (IN ELEVATION) VA VATION) DOUBLE, GALV LVANIZED LV VANIZED ANGLE SUPPORT SYSTEM SPACED P PACED 4' O.C. (SLIDING WINDOW MECHANISM WELDED BETWEEN ANGLES)

Santa Monica, California Ocean Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard

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A3.2 building sections

Fall 2008

SOIL DRAINAGE MAT A AT WEAT A HER PROOFING, V AT VAPOR RETARDER T TARDER 2" RIGID INSULATION A ATION COMPOSITE DECKING

C 6X13 BEAM (IN ELEVATION) VATION) VATION) LIGHT GAUGE STEEL JOISTS 2" DURAPALM P PALM STRIP FLOORING

GLASS SKIN, SEE A2.1

4X4 STEEL TUBE COLUMN (IN ELEVATION) VATION) SLIDING GLASS DOOR 2" DURAPALM P PALM STRIP FLOORING 1X1 SLEEPERS SPACED P PACED 16" O.C. COMPOSITE DECKING

THIRD FLOOR: SAUNA 22'0"

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STEEL CABLE HANGER, FIREPROOFED GLASS SUPPORT FIN

Fitness - Cardio 603

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Couples Massage 507

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PRECAST CONCRETE P PANELS

Co-ed Heated Pool 301 30

Mens Sauna 303

Womens Sauna 302

Salon 202

FIBERGLASS DECK 4" SHEAR WEB AND FOAM INSULATION A ATION

Co-ed Heated Pool 301 30

Co-ed Heated Pools 301 1

Admin. 101 Lobby/ Event Space 101

FIBERGLASS HULL

SECOND FLOOR: ADMIN. AND SALON 12'0"

SLAT A E PAVERS AT PA SUPPORTED BY SLEEPERS 3" TOPPING SLAB TWO WAY A WAFFLE AY W SLAB, 2' DEPTH, 5" RIBS, 19" DOMES

W 18X76 LATERAL A ATERAL BRACING C.I.P. CONCRETE RETAINING T TAINING W WALL GRAVE A L DRAIN AVE

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FIRST FLOOR: ENTRY AND EVENT SPACE P PACE 2'0"

TRANSVERSE SECTION

scale: 1/8" = 1'0"

LONGITUDINAL SECTION scale: 1/8" = 1'0"

Skin vs. Weather Enclosure 1

Skin vs. Weather Enclosure

WALL SECTION scale: 3/4"= 1'0"

Construction Assembly Sequence for Primary Structural Members

1. Concrete Core and Foundation

2. Install Steel Trusses

3. Install Steel Box Beams

4. Add Steel Hangars

5. Add Lateral Bracing

6. Add Horizontal Support Structure

City Strategies Thesis Conversations <<---------------------------------------->>

A Team Project for Context Networks and City Planning

AN EXPLORATION TOWARDS A COLLABORATIVE FUTURE, A CREATIVE CITY This city - and any city - is so much more than cars, trains, plazas, concrete, steel and glass. It is a complex layer cake of systems and scenarios. It is where possibilities and opportunities come to life. It is a place connected to other places, continually growing and evolving to support the people who live in the city - the same people who make this change and evolution happen. At its heart, the city is a reﬂection of your very own thoughts and actions, your imprint on the simple joys and complex organizations of the place you live. It is your fault, and your pleasure. The city is You and all of YOU together. As a collection of people, images, texts, ideas, and everything else in our studio, we dubbed ourselves subSystem_13. We are all a part of the whole, and are wholes ourselves, but without the context of each other - and a connection to the many resources beyond us, we could not reach our full potential. This project is a glimpse into the effects of collaboration on cities, their systems, and the people who make them. Our researched spanned disciplines, cultures, interests, scales and time - always seeking to expand the confines of a typically mono cultural architectural viewpoint, and the foresight of a traditional ‘master plan.’ We were searching for a place where, yes, you could have a meal of roasted duck and sugar coated potatoes (or the like) at 4 in the morning, or collaborate with an artist from half-way across the world that you met at your local museum, or maybe just take an after dinner promenade along the waters edge. This attitude of connectivity and exchange became very important, and it was our duty to explore it at a variety of scales, documenting and synthesizing along the way. Location...........................................................Your City, Our City, and Sandnes, Norway Structure.................................................Organizational, Fluid, Connected, Open-Minded

<< an exploration towards a collaborative future >>

A VISION FOR CREATIVE CITY: Sandnes, Norway

ROASTED DUCK AND SUGAR COATED POTATOES

What do we see? LOOKING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE “Norway, though on the outskirts of Europe, has the opportunity to connect and contribute to a global network.” -Sandnes Sentrum Company Oct. 26, 2009

Landscapes reflect changes in the values and operations of society.

Existing City Center of Sandnes, Norway

PARADIGM SHIFT The Industrial Revolution happened over one hundred and forty years ago, and yet the built environment of today is still directly responsive to this time we no longer exist in. Where we were once primarily concerned with building containers to store tonnes and kilos of grain or other resources, we are now we are now developing strategies to hold mega, giga and terabytes of information. As we look to the future, how do our cities react to massive economical, ecological and epistemological change - the end of the industrial era, and a global shift towards an increasingly connected and perhaps even ‘greener’ society? These changes are bringing about new demands for communities. It is no longer ‘what you do you want to do when you grow up?’ but rather, ‘where do you want to be when you grow up?’ In this scenario a city’s own context becomes its most valuable asset. Poised at this moment in time, there is space to ask: ‘What does it mean for a CITY to be SUCCESSFUL, NOW and in the FUTURE?’ What is possible? What does it look like? And, where do we go from here? CONTEXT GATHER: SANDNES, NORWAY Norway is a successful country for many reasons including GDP, international relations, government/social organization, education,etc. It’s 7th largest city, Sandnes, has been rated the top place to live in the nation. Due to Norway’s own 1st place ranking on a world stage, this therefor makes Sandnes statistically the ‘worlds best city’ to live in. Are statistics enough to convince us we would be happy? Currently the 8th largest city in Norway at 63,000 people (2009 census) and just 16km south of Stavanger, the nations 3rd largest city, Sandnes is growing by %2.2 every year. At this rate in 20 years the population will be approximately 97,355 people, and in 50 years close to 200,000 people. The city is expected to grow physically at its southern and eastern urban edges along the existing transit lines. Sandnes' concerns with this growth include establishing higher density levels along the local railway and future light rail system, strengthening connections to enhance safety, identity and accessibility, and providing places for children to play throughout the city. The built environment of Sandnes becomes integral to making all this possible. This same built environment also relies heavily on its infrastructure and industry to guide principles of its development. As resources flow in and out of cities, and as this flow aids in the evolution of our society - it becomes necessary to track and facilitate a consciousness of this evolution. Our landscapes (both rural and urban) will change physically because of this, and strive to reflect and adapt to the strategies of maintaining a society. Since 1783 when the first brick factory opened in Sandnes, the area has seen the rise and fall of several industrial fortunes. From the harvesting of local clay deposits for pottery and later bricks, to the production of bicycles, and now the business of oil centered in the Stavanger/Sandnes area. The oil business has brought much to the region, including a very progressive engineering community, wealth, and attention to the region. Norway was the poorest country in europe until the 1960's when oil was discovered in the north sea - in 2009 it is now the wealthiest. However this resource is also moving on, and even the industrial harbor which brought much activity to Sandnes and its shoreline is heading north and out to the sea. This provides the opportunity for high technology to move into the city center - and so the city anticipates a new wave of intellectual resources and would like to prepare for this. There is also a strong agricultural tradition in Sandnes and the surrounding area. There is approx. 384802km² agricultural land area in Norway. Rogaland (the region of Sandnes) accounts for %10 of that with 8590km², producing 748 million NOKs of economic income for the region - approx. %60 of the regional GDP. The primary industry of the Rogaland agricultural region is livestock with cattle, sheep, dairy goats, pigs and hens as the top 5 animals farmed. Grains and grain oil production is minimal owing to the sand and clay soil. Sandnes is the main port for the Jæren agricultural region (a larger area which encompasses Rogaland). Other industries of Sandnes include prefabricated homes, prefabricated concrete shapes and oil platforms. Sandnes is aware of its depth and history, developed through its geographical location and this fortunate flow and discovery of natural resources. Currently the city sees itself as a shopping center, and has the largest shopping mall in all of Norway. The mall is located outside of the city center, away from the fjord and the historic district of Lang St. - two of Sandnes' major amenities. As such, or in any case, is the mass consumer activity of shopping the industry that will take Sandnes 50 - 200 years into the future? What industry will evolve with the growth of Sandnes, and provide an economic base for the shopping market? The city’s growth and resourceful success over time is certainly enough to sustain a shopping center culture for a while, but in light of the paradigm shift and advances in a global knowledge industry, we wonder - is this city really living up to its potential as a model city for the whole world? This is not to say Sandnes should become New York, or Shanghai, or Paris, or even Oslo, Bergen, or Stavanger - but if we look at the city’s infrastructure compared to its values ‘Big-hearted, courageous, and healthy’ and also take into account its unique contextual setting- we find much opportunity for Sandnes to be bold and provocative in its plans for the future, and still maintain an identity that comes from its existing center. What does it really mean to be ‘Big-Hearted, Courageous, and Healthy?’ Where can this take us?

A Team Project for Context Networks and City Planning

Urban Fabric Analysis: Sandnes, Norway

GOALS PROPOSED Regenerate the coastline, reconnect the city to its shore. Transform existing constraints into opportunities, investing in diverse and creative programs, distribute programmatic catalysts throughout the city. Be Bold - Speak to the world!! Grow into the existing mono-centric core, grow more centers. Develop in harmony with existing natural and historic context.

Industrial Site Sites with Global Connectivity Gandsfjord Lang Street Rail Line High-Traffic Roadways City Center Impending Growth/Low Density Zoning

ROASTED DUCK AND SUGAR COATED POTATOES

How should cities PLAN for the FUTURE? PHIDA The motto for the city of Sandnes is: Big-Hearted, Courageous, and Healthy. These are the values they hope to act upon and lead with as they move forward into the future. In 2010 they are celebrating their 150th anniversary, and in doing so reflecting on their past, celebrating the present, and imagining their future. If we expand upon these values, and looking at other successful cities across the globe, it is possible to lay out five values by which the evolution of the city - any city - can be guided by. They are Permeability, Harmony, Imagination, Diversity, and Adaptability - otherwise known as PHIDA Key concepts of any creative city relate to Permeability, Harmony, Imagination, Diversity, and Adaptability. Certainly each of the PHIDA principles have many synonyms (including big-hearted, courageous, and healthy), even drawing inter-lexiconary relationships between themselves, but it is this openness to interpretation, and balance of simple complexity which makes these concepts applicable to societies of the past, present, and probable future. COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY To truly become a global model, and/or a global city, Sandnes needs to engage a level of complexity that starts with 1+1=3. This is actually as paradoxically simple as just having a conversation. Having a conversation starts with connectivity, providing a place to share, exchange and engage a community that draws from both global and contextual resources. It is as though the capacity of a city’s intellectual and physical growth rests on that ephemeral shoreline between the opportunity for global exchange, flowing in and out of its harbor, and the unique perspective of local context, mountained and static to hold it steady. True, it requires balance and delicacy to escape the erosion of foundations, but rocks too wear and weather with time, and the port of imagination is a limitless field of stones as yet un-turned.

1+1=3 Where the solution is the number of resulting systems when the numbers of individually perceived variables are added together. The resultant is not a linear sum, but rather, represents the possibilities of combining entities to achieve multiplicity.

Poly-Centric Texture: Creative Landscapes are connected landscapes

THE BLANKET AND THE STITCH To implement tools such as fluidity and overlapping, the strategy of the Blanket and Stitch can be employed. Through its implementation, opportunities for new program can be created and generated within the context of the city. Taking on the role as ‘the other ground-plane’, The Blanket allows a multiplicity of previously singular systems to co-exist, facilitating harmonious and complex relationships of otherwise singular activities. The Blanket accommodates serious increase of densities, utilizes stitches to overcome physical barriers, and mediates differentiation of use in the public and private realm. It becomes the urban fabric, not dominating or stealing the scene, but rather, weaving it together, inviting new pieces to the puzzle while never assuming its own completion. A Stitch is a connector within The Blanket, often facilitating vertical movement between Blanket levels. At its most basic level, stitches simply connect wherever there is need to connect. They may be implemented in an array of personalities with respect to transportation systems, activities and nodes. The stitch represents places of intersection, connectors between the horizontal and vertical stratifications, places of interaction and the melding of activity, people, and space.

Connected City. ‘Blanket’ levels take conversation above the ground plane, and allow for opportunities with no vertical dead ends.

A Team Project for Context Networks and City Planning

Where do Ideas come from? How does a city participate in their exchange? the berlin wall

the great wall of SANDNES

OPPORTUNITY????

Sandnesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; biggest physical barrier - the National Rail line established in the 1950â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Raised tracks are supported by a solid concrete wall that cuts the city off from its harbor and shoreline.

FLOW OF CONSCIOUSNESS: mapping conversations, intersections and swarms of information collected by a collective of brains; a way for our 13 member team to connect and reflect.

ROASTED DUCK AND SUGAR COATED POTATOES

Projects Parks and Urban Rooms

Density above Blanket

Blanket

Building Density

Transit Rail Light Rail Bus

Roads + Parking Roads Parking Lang Street Avenue

CREATIVE CITY AND ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SYSTEMS Topography

SECTIONAL STUDY: Systems in Layers

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC: Exploring Systems and Layers of the City.

A Team Project for Context Networks and City Planning

FROM INFRASTRUCTURE TO SOCIAL STRUCTURE ABSTRACT FOR EVOLUTION (a brief outline) The working propositions of this abstract are: 1. To promote situations that inspire imagination, adapt to change, allow for a diverse clientele and interaction, and escalate the capabilities of the city. 2. To utilize design as a means of manifesting the unique culture and texture of the city through the interface and content of the built environment, and as a way of supporting a defining and steadfast identity. Signatures: 1+1=3 and Creativity Values: Contextual Identity - â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;big-hearted, courageous, and healthy,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Concepts of the City - PHIDA Tools and Strategies that become extensions of the PHIDA principals, and become attributes of the city which allow a continuous connection between programmatic elements, and encourage the activity of events to happen: Axis, Geometry/Structure, Fluidity, Multiplicity. Node/Flow, Blanket/ Stitch, Overlapping/Layering/Intersecting, and Poly-Centric Texture.

Housing and Population statistics give shape to the growth and density of the city.

Systems/Layers which contribute to the unique texture of the city: Infrastructure, Waterfront, Parks/Recreation, Density, Urban Economy, Urban Service, Local Agriculture, Cultural Institutions. Nodes and Flows of the city are important contributors to texture.

Fluid Landscapes allow adaptation and balance solid foundations. Return the Island to the city stimulate growth and density.

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Regional Rail Line (red) Blanket Level (blue) Service (cyan) Commercial (orange) Residential/Parks (green) Offices (magenta)

SECTION VIEW: Creative City

ROASTED DUCK AND SUGAR COATED POTATOES

COMPONENTS OF A NEIGHBORHOOD URBAN SYNTHESIS

STRATEGY The city is in need of an URBAN STRATEGY; a strategy which mediates growth (in population or industry) with the physicality of our urban environment, and provides the tools to capture opportunities as they occur. The development of flexible and adaptive infrastructure is integral to this idea. The city is in need of a STRATEGY FOR TRANSFORMATIVE PRESERVATION; in the process of change which the city faces, how can a loss of knowledge transfer be avoided? Making connections across time is integral to this idea. 1.FIELD/RIVER IDEA PARK - (anything is possible) The park is unassuming. In the Norwegian cultural context it becomes a vital element of the city, a noted basic need which will assure a place for children to play - a place for the future to grow - and a place which appeals to a higher value than the immediacy of an economic condition. There is a infinite timelessness to a park. It can be a reflection of our uncontrived environment - a continual reaction to existing conditions, revealing the natural environmental changes at small and large scales. It is a place for interaction with a curious ecology beyond reason. Who or what may find a home in the park? It becomes a place for possibilities to transpire and spark with the potential which moves through it. It becomes a home for imagination. While we can find all elements of the P.H.I.D.A. principles in a park scenario - and even perhaps because of this - it is imagination that brings magic to the space. In these moments, we can breathe a little deeper - feel the sun much closer - engage in the dreams of the day - or close our eyes and relocate at will. The park is a texture which is woven throughout the city, appearing in strands or as larger landscapes, but always connecting and gathering with purpose. Of the physical context; the success of the park becomes responsive and dependent upon 3 things: the harmony of the edge conditions which define it, the permeability of the paths which move through it, and the diversity of stimuli located within its proximity. 2.EDGE/SURFACE URBAN INTERFACE - (connective tissue of the city) Edges guide paths. They divide space from non-space. They can grace the sunshine, bend the shadows, and becoming the precipice of a surface - they birth form and texture. They exist on many scales, and at every level, engaging our visual and sensory experience. For these reasons, they have the opportunity to become the connective tissue of the city - acting in harmony to allow for the permeability of movement and structure, people and information. Providing a surface to interact, a place to occupy - this is where opportunity exists to charge our built environment with information. To paint art on the exterior of our houses, to project videos of presidential speeches on the faรงades of our city halls, or to reveal depth and movement through space with a glazed aperture - even the architectural language of the faรงade becomes part of the story. In addition, it is particularly interesting to note that a new industry has begun to inhabit and find a home in 2-dimensional surfaces. Where we were once concerned with storing kilos and tonnes of grain or oils, (and as a result, seeing the physicality of that industry through large 3-dimensional containers distributed throughout our landscapes) - we are now primarily developing strategies to hold mega and gigabytes of information, and viewing that information on small, flat 2-dimensional surfaces. As this new industry of ideas and virtual space manifests, are we seeing the physicality of industry disappear from our landscape? Of the surface environment; it is important to maintain a harmonious contextual physical texture through the use of locally available and found materials, but also to connect globally through an interface with information. The surface of the silos provides an adaptable space to

contain information, and would be in harmony with its existing conditions and projected use. Of the edge condition; the success of the urban space is directly connected to the permeability of movement through the site - formed by the edges which guide it. Harmony is necessary to maintain connectivity. 3.MOVEMENT BRIDGE, BLANKET, ROUND-A-SILOS - (industrial tools) As the population of Sandnes grows, and the city expands its urban edges, it becomes essential to provide a means of connection for pedestrians throughout the city. This connection must be capable of crossing barriers (such as busy roads or rail lines) and draw the edges of the city back into its heart at the edge of the water. It should also aim to expand the urban public space beyond that of the existing ground plane. It is important that these connections exemplify the idea of permeability. If we increase the permeability, we can increase connectivity, security, density, accessibility and diversity - all traits which will help to bring the city into the future. Opportunities currently existing within the city include the population growth towards the south end of Sandnes, along the river and existing rail line, and ascending with the natural topography of the surrounding hills. There is also a plan to install a light rail system along the east side of the Sandnes Central Station. Concerning ground transit, the round-a-bouts present possibilities for dense overlays of movement, and therefor information transfer centers. It would be opportune to develop a new industrial tool located in that position which would conduct these flows of traffic, while gathering and dispersing data, information and possibly even ideas. Nothing contrived, only what is conceived in that place and time - and then documented. The production generated at these various locations could then be analyzed, synthesized, and perhaps acted upon by the corresponding industrial office. In addition, round-a-bouts are a situation not limited to Sandnes, as such, there is an opportunity to expand and connect with similar solutions across the globe. The need to gather and disperse knowledge has become the industry of our age; it is important that Sandnes participates in this exchange and sees its opportunity to engage in a collective intelligence, one that is made possible through permeable physical and virtual landscapes. Of the physical context; nodes need flows - flows require permeations.

The existing condition of the Southern end of the Harbor in Sandnes, Norway. The building shown in construction just to the west of the silos is the city high school, and is now completed.

MARKET FJORD

A Team Project for Context Networks and City Planning

COFFEE HOUSE

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HIGH SCHOOL

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PATH TO EAST SANDNES CITY CENTER +9M

MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND CURRENT EVENTS

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MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND CURRENT EVENTS

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URBAN PROGRAM Permeability MOVEMENT: bridges, blankets, data-loops. Harmony EDGE/SURFACE: Urban Interface, connective tissue of the city. Imagination FIELD/RIVER: Idea Park, anything is possible.

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CAPSULE CHIVE

Diversity STIMULI: Knowledge Catalysts, Program for New Industry. valediction and retrieval

Adaptability SILOS: City Stitch, Intersections in Space and Time.

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“Unless we understand the history which produced us, we are determined by that history; we may be determined in any event, but the understanding gives us a chance.” -Yvor Winters

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OFFICE FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

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“The basic economic resource - the means of production is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.” -Peter Drucker

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC OF THE CITY STITCH

A Team Project for Context Networks and City Planning

CONNECTED Landscape/Local CONTEXT ‘CITY STITCH: INTERSECTIONS IN SPACE AND TIME’ BUILDING PROGRAM The opportunity here is in the possibility for the architecture to connect both the past of the city with its future (acknowledging the silos as an artifact of the city’s industrial and social history), and the pedestrian movement of the neighborhood to the heart of the waterfront (due to the silos location at the most southern point of the fjord). Thus, the grain elevators become a time-capsule for the city, hosting the community’s memories and hopes for 5 - 100+ years, and a node in the path system, connecting vertically greenways and skyways accessed at multiple elevations. 4.STIMULI KNOWLEDGE CATALYSTS - (program for industry) Program to inhabit the edges and become catalytic for the park, paths and city as a whole. It is necessary that this program contributes to the value of the city, aids in accomplishing the goals of P.H.I.D.A., and reacts to its local context. This program must exhibit a sense of diversity, and allow for people of all kinds to 'plug in' to their environment. Encouraging diversity in the city increases the depth of a cities intellectual capital, expands the knowledge base of a community, and consequently, the chances of the city to evolve with the constraints and opportunities of the time. In regards to both the historical presence of industry in the south end of the harbor, and the transition of valued economic resources, there are two programs missing from the existing condition of the area; a Museum of Industry and Current Events and an Office for Knowledge Transfer. These two programs would be a part of the urban strategy to rehabilitate the currently unused grain elevator, and to provide a place for private business to engage in the new knowledge industry. Also located in the area is a High School and Kultur Hus, both programs which would support and benefit from the added program. Specifically, the Museum of Industry and Current Events would be a way to recognize the history of the area, and provide a place to record and track recent events with repercussions in the city of Sandnes. The Office for Knowledge Transfer is a private business that manages intellectual property. People who work here are idea brokers and come from a diverse range of different fields including science, design, engineering, politics, business, public relations, etc. They buy ideas/make investments, file for patents or licensees, publish, and support the development of the idea to its full potential. They then either sell the idea, or produce a new business to take the idea through to its next stage of transfer, or commercialization. The time span for this process is in years, if not decades. Ideas are investments, and the main goal is to enable their implementation and exchange. It is part of the job of the OKT to formulate networks of information, contacts, resources, and to increase the flow of innovations and invention. These ideas contain the impetus for action - they invest in ideas not to quarantine them, but rather, to enable the actions they suggest. Because ideas require ever changing networks of connections, it is also necessary to include in this program a space for documentation; a place which records such networks and their seeds. It is important that these offices are adaptable and connected.

5.SILOS STITCH - (intersections in space and time) As a direct consequence to the growth and evolution of cities, we are left with physical remnants of past events, values, thoughts and aspirations. Over time, resources peak and decline, policies change, infrastructure accommodates, and we adjust our lifestyles to make way for new tools, new art, new values. Because of this, our landscapes (rural, urban and virtual) change and evolve with this attempt to reflect and adapt to the strategies of maintaining a society. How can these left-behind pieces of our built world sustain a relevancy to the landscape they exist in? How can we avoid a loss of knowledge transfer in this process of change? Making connections across time is integral to this idea. These artifacts have the potential to connect generations of people, families, communities and whole civilizations. It is essential that we recognize the history which the future is founded upon and include some level of its preservation into plans for the future. As opposed to un-contextualized revolution, we must consider a way for these artifacts to maintain their historical value while also becoming a functioning and integral part of the future of the city. The city needs to 'live' in these pieces as well. It is important to imbue these artifacts with a sense of wisdom, and this can only be done by putting them into context and revealing their intersections in society over time, from past to present, and potentially future. In this way, the silos can become a stitch in time, as well as a physical stitch to connect various paths and programs. Adaptability becomes an important element to consider; requesting respect for what was, and for the chosen 'es muss sein' of the current contextual intentions. Through the adaptation of the silos, a strategy of 'transformative preservation' can be employed to find harmony with the site, in both time and space. Of the physical program; the success of the silos adaptation lies in its responsibility to mediate the physical movement of paths and engage the urban context in its own past, present and future.

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ROASTED DUCK AND SUGAR COATED POTATOES

Possibilities of Growth: CREATIVE CITY!

Model Views documenting the evolution of Creative City, from existing (left) to it’s growing and imagined future (center, right).

TEXTURE What is it? Why is it important? Why is it always different? Texture in an urban sense is the experience of a place. How you experience texture depends largely on the how the environment of a place interacts with an individual from a sensory perspective. In this sense, the texture of a place is a phenomenological experience, one in which at any one time all five senses are engaged with the possibility of imprinting itself within an individual’s psyche. From this we find that the selections and qualities of materials, noise levels, open space, zoning, nature, etc play a part how we as designers can shape the texture of a place. Texture gives a place its character, its essence, its uniqueness. With globalization reaching the farthest and furthest corners of society, the specific texture of a city becomes vitally important in preservation of not only its culture but of its place in this world. Defining texture can be different for everyone. If one were to ask a musician about the texture of a city, the answer would likely differ from that of a nuclear physicist’s. Descriptive words come from, and are informed by, each persons unique perspective in the world, placing each word as part of a syntax arrangement, creating a specific texture of diction due to each individual personality. Texture exists on every scale, from atoms and particles, to plants and animals, friendships and business deals. Its presence in the city at each of these levels is important because it reveals a diversity of opportunities, and becomes a continually evolving, uniquely specific, product of its citizens thoughts and actions. TRANSFORMATION: WHAT IF? Let’s imagine a possibility for a Sandnes of the future - a city progressed 50 to a 100 years down the road, developing at the crossroads of intersecting mega-systems land and water. By then, its citizens will number roughly 120,000 people (double its 2009 population) and will have grown physically, expanding north and south along its rail line and popular waterfront, increasing the residential and commercial density here as well. Over the years, the city has held fast to its ‘Big-Hearted, Healthy, and Courageous’ values, and as such, has developed with Permeability, Harmony, Imagination, Diversity, and Adaptability inherent to its character. It is a city of Multiplicity, where all citizens are at home in a contextual, evolving landscape, and everything is within reach, at any time of the day. The physicality of the city has changed much since 2010. The street-scapes and their social culture have matured through this recent period of growth, and though Sandnes may not appear as it did in its 150 year old youth - it is still familiar and perhaps even more dear to its citizens now, than before. All these years, they have been growing up together, the city and its people; still true to their core, their history, but adaptable and imaginative when navigating the open waters of possibility. This is what it is like to live in a landscape which is capable of facilitating (and even generating!) an active and connected flow of diverse ideas and events. This is what it is like to live in an environment which is permeable to these flows, and brings harmony into all aspects of urban life; balancing places to play vs. places to work, exportable goods vs. importable goods, or even the effects of significant global events vs. the traditions of local culture. This is what it is like to live in a Creative City - here, anything is possible, and even this vision, is just one of many.

A Team Project for Context Networks and City Planning

“Where did you say I could have Roasted Duck and Sugar Coated Potatoes at 4am after a night out dancing with my friends?” Digital Views of a growing Creative City. Top: South End and Kultur Island. Left: The Pinch Neighborhood. Right: The North End.

Competition for a Master Plan

THE PINK BLANKET

STITCHING TOGETHER A COMMUNITY A competition for the city of Drammen; exploring ideas to re-imagine its development at the neighborhood scale. Our teams proposal focused on strengthening the existing community by connecting pedestrian paths, bridging barriers (such as the train line and major roadways which separated citizens from direct access to the harbor and a school/parks area), and providing the means for an generative sustainable economy. (Winter 2009) Location..........................................................................................Drammen, Norway Structure............................................................PHIDA, Pink Blanket, Organizational

EN BY Å LEVE I Concepts and Strategies The environment, culture and community inherently encompass the promise to interfere with our psychological development and greatly influence the thinking, attitude, goals and personality of society at large. Architecture becomes instrumental in the expansion of vitality and in the provision of emotional relationships. Apart from fulfilling utilitarian aspects, the purpose of architecture is ultimately to stimulate thought. Cities are a collection of unstable systems shaped by events, values, and actions that are leaving imprints, representing cycles of genesis, growth, breakdown and disintegration, continually rearranging and reorganizing. At the transition from disintegration to genesis, paradigm shifts occur. The urban systems find themselves at the threshold of such a paradigm shift, prompting innovative adaptation reformatting the urban environment to the socio-economic era of post-assembly line frame of mind. The industrial society has evolved into a heterogeneous society of the multitude, becoming increasingly more complex. The issues urbanism should be addressing are in the organizing and the articulation of these complexities, where the goal is to develop an urban repertoire capable of creating diverse urban fields that are densely layered and continuously differentiated. The City of Drammen and the community of Strømsø, currently in the midst of such transformation, articulates goals that insist on the rights of humanity and nature to co-exist in a healthy and sustainable condition, incorporating transportation and energy efficiencies as well as responsible use. In view of articulating increasingly complex social affiliations, the PHIDA concepts have been deliberated upon to assure the precise formulation and the execution of intricate correlations between systems and sub-systems. These 5 concepts aim to construct new fields of logics that organize the new level of dynamism and complexity of contemporary society: Permeability, Harmony, Imagination, Diversity, and Adaptability. We propose that urban environments can be designed with the ambition to enhance the sense of organic integration through intricate correlations that favor the amplification of differentiations in visual information. Thus, implementing the conceptual agenda in the existing urban fabric of Strømsø, the following strategies are employed: 1) The Blanket The blanket, taking on the role as the other ground-plane, allows a multiplicity of previously singular systems to co-exist, facilitating harmonious and complex relationships of otherwise singular activities. The blanket accommodates serious increase of densities and mediates differentiation of use in the public and private realm while becoming an urban fabric, not dominating the scene but weaving it together, inviting new pieces to the puzzle while never assuming its own completion. The blanket makes connections possible in a seamless, natural and cohesive manner, facilitating ease of navigation. 2) The Stitch In order to mediate the vertical dimension the strategy of the stitch is implemented in an array of personalities with respect to transportation systems, activities and nodes. The stitch represents places of intersection, connectors between the horizontal and vertical stratifications, places of interaction and the melding of activity, people, and space. 3) Urban Agriculture The elaborated use of urban agriculture and greenery articulates the urban park, and the harmonious connection of urban elements allowing the vision of Strømsø as the regional zenith of cultural expansion. The interweaving of nature a utilitarian, ecological and aesthetic system into the fabric of Strømsø is evident in farm-to-table district, and the noise buffering effect of greenery throughout. 4) Urban Energy In the quest of a carbon neutral future we propose the introduction of agricultural towers, taking advantage of the Venturi effect in the generation of energy. To maximize efficiency the towers have to reach the height of 200m. 5) Urban Culture People are at home when place is made meaningful. Our strategy challenges the mind and provokes the imagination. The Strømsø urban setting is a multitude of different intentions and phenomena expressing a continuously changing field where the light emphasizes drama, variety, atmosphere and mood. Movement in this constructed geography will be a kinetic experience, joyful, fluid, inspirational and ever adapting. If it is to feel at home, then it is first of all a place celebrating the romantic landscape of temperament, seasonal awareness, monumental presence, physical transparency and playful appeal. Strømsø shall be a locus that adores the performance of generations, young and old.

WELCOME TO DRAMMEN! YOUR IMAGINATION LIVES HERE!

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exist in a healthy and sustainable condition, incorporating transportation and energy efficiencies as well as responsible use. 35

The Blanket system allows the pedestrian realm to be expanded with access to sun, open space, and urban interaction. An 36

urban environment can be designed which aims to enhance organic integration, and engage a multiplicity of opportunities. 37

Simply put, the Blanket is made of stitches, and stitches are connections. With this strategy, it is possible for the city to not 38

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At the Intersections of Design Beyond <<---------------------------------------->>

AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF DESIGN

>> STUDYING, EXPLORING, DOCUMENTING Drawing as a means to understand and communicate.

>> EXPERIENCE Working on an bio-dynamic organic farm to learn and live a new perspective on sustainable lifestyles.

>>EXPERIENCE Construction work on the Villa Norheim for design+build firm Box Lab Inc., and homeowner/architect Torgier Norheim, included pouring, finishing concrete, building concrete forms, stud wall construction, roofing, and of course much digging and measuring. We were working on the new American front porch.

>> SYNTHESIS AND COLLABORATION As the editor of the book I coordinated and contributed to many systems and scenarios coming together to form a cohesive whole. I was responsible for the big picture, making sure the unique texture of our collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection was reflective, functioning, connected, and readable.

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