Portfolio by Chandell Gadbois

Chandell Gadbois Selected Works 2013 - 2017 +17089684741 cgadbois0@gmail.com

01 The Incubator Prototype Housing System

02 Co-House Resident Defined Community

03 820 South Michigan Avenue Hybrid College and Publishing House

04 Re-Inhabit CPS Neighbrhood Scale Schools System

05 TopoVerde Ecological City Blanket

The Incubator A new medieval for a new communal.

How do you create belonging while accepting the conditions of the post-internet global nomad? When knowledge is the emerging currency, when collaboration is how to get ahead, when labor is anywhere, all the time, the working class are economic refugees tethered to wifi. This globalized entity of people is seeking work wherever they can - moving as the market demands while still attempting to retain minimal comforts. We recognize people canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t own things but they still need access to things. An economic model where membership replaces ownership is the starting ground for our prototype.

The site acts as a medieval wall, inverting urban growth - densifying its existing footprint.

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Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Medieval City Carcassonne, France

“ There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; peopl and it is to them, not buildings, that we must ﬁt our pla

The site acts as a medieval wall, inverting urban growth – densifying its existing - Jane Jacobs footprint.

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

The site can be rethought as a city, a neighborhood, a block, even a house - any scale of urban unit that can define a community.

Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

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Void/bridges share everything

The site can be rethought as a city, a neighborhood, a block, even a house – any scale of urban unit that can define a community. Tracing the evolution of the medieval city through to 19th century company towns, all the way to modern day campuses, whether Harvard, Google, or the Las Vegas Venetian, reveals that people living and working together in this kind of community is an economic, labor, and social model that keeps resurfacing. 69

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Large overlap share access, infrastructural wall, and everything besides sleep space between all - not just each other

Urban Unit

Silicon Valley California

The singular condition of a 5mx5mx5m cube creates the interiorized urban fabric.

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gabdois, Melanija Grozdanoska In-between City 2016

Plan itera�on of cirlce ﬁeld

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Acknowledging that the individual is the primary social agent of our age, the singular condition of a repeated 5mx5mx5m cube creates the interiorized urban fabric. However, instead of embracing the individualism ofa suburban logic (aggregation of singular autonomous units) or the totalism of modernist logic (field of repeated self-similar units), our project instead proposes architectural landscapes as shared spheres of community. The nuclear family model prevalent in housing today is relatively new, and in many ways unsustainable, so we instead propose a return to a communal housing model. To be part of a collective one needs space to be alone, but the realm of the intimate and the social is not a binary line.

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Plan itera�on of triangle ﬁeld

Plan itera�on of square ﬁeld

Proposing a model that forms landscapes of aggregated cubes using spheres as the primary organizing logic opens a testing ground for a new type of community.

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gabdois, Melanija Grozdanoska HIVE 2016

Houses on streets or even rooms in hotels/dorms are typically arranged along doubleloaded corridors. If a group of people wanted to get to know each other, they would not line up facing each other in two straight, rigid rows, too far apart to really see anyone else clearly, they would instead form one inward facing circle or groups of smaller circles. Proposing a model that forms landscapes using spheres as the primary aggregation method opens a testing ground for a new type of community. 05

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collaboration with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Daniel Godziszewski, Melanija Grozdanoska City_Room 2017

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gabdois, Melanija Grozdanoska HIVE 2016

Squares placed on points as way of genera�ng overlapping social territories

Not enclosing walls of ownership but shared walls of membership.

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

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Our project proposes a softer differentiation of space. Not enclosing walls of ownership but walls of membership, where layers of privacy defined by access, corners, steps, and rituals create different pockets of belonging. Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Wide and open void enlosed at edges

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

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Layers of privacy defined by access, corners, steps, and rituals.

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Wall to Step: sleeping

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

2016

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Not enclosing walls of ownership but walls of membership, where layers of privacy defined by access, corners, steps, and rituals create different pockets of belonging.

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

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Wall to Wall: bathing

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Large overlap share access, infrastructural wall, and everything besides sleep space between all - not just each other

African nomad dwelling ritual deﬁnes privacy

Using the efficiencies of volumetric divisions from Loosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raumplan to Fujimotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s platform plan, we define pockets of belonging.

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House NA/Sou Fujimoto pla�orms of architecture/furniture

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collabora�on with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Not enclosing walls of ownership but walls of membership, where layers of privacy defined by access, corners, steps, and rituals create different pockets of belonging. Wide and open void enlosed at edges 44

Villa Muller/Adolf Loos raumplan - shi�ing volumes

We define one connected interior, where living, working, and playing simultaneously happen everywhere.

Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collaboration with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

Using the efficiencies of Loosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raumplan and Fujimotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s platform plan, we define one connected interior, where living, working, and playing are not parceled out into distinct 8 hour slots, but simultaneously happen everywhere. 41

Interior Nomadism IIT College of Architecture Professor: Lluis Ortega Collaboration with Universidad Torcuato di Tella Student: Chandell Gadbois, Melania Grozdanoska City_Room 2016

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Co-House Open living conditions for a connected community. Co-House is an apartment building in Chicago that allows the members of the community to dictate the usage of the space. The building becomes an extended home, allowing every apartment to form an extended network of family.

The basic floor plan consists of 3 apartments whose only division is a partition wall (left floor plan). Wooden columns allow the residents to build storage structures that can create group rooms (middle floor plan) or divided private rooms (right floor plan). The modular structures. The layout of the building is entirely up to the residents, whether they want a shared space on every floor, or a singular level that community shares.

The fluid space allows for many lifestyle types to function well, from a nuclear family that needs full division, to young adults living together with little privacy. Personal belongings and temporary partitions infill the structure to create a division with varying levels of visibility between spaces.

820 South Michigan Avenue Manipulating harmony and discord. Several distinct traffic patterns on Michigan Avenue exist in harmony due to the regulation of its movement and flow. By applying the same analysis of pattern to the programs needed for Columbia College and Ebony Magazine, dictations of flow result in volumetric removals and additions bridged by small catwalks. The question follows: what new rhythms are created when a typical office building structure is broken up and fragments are introduced into a new environment?

The distorted measure of time resulting from the graphing of morning traffic is translated into a distortion of planametric makeup. Programs accesible 24h by students become islands that float inside the existing mass or move outward into open air. The resulting enclosure creates varied traffic patterns that defy those of a traditional office or school.

Re-Inhabit CPS Reutilizing neighborhood to strengthen community. To save the youth in Chicago, the neighborhood must become a lively, welcoming, and safe place. The strongest tie to a safe community is through the school system. Re-inhabit CPS starts to strenghten community by repairing and renovating underused or abandoned buildings throughout the city, allowing public schools to become more local.

By having a small school that can change with its aging and/or expanding population in every neighborhood, commute time for students and faculty, can be cut down, and more jobs can be brought to the neighborhood in multiple fields. The school will become a safe and enjoyable place throughout the entire day due to a montessori school structure that allows for fluidity of classroom structure and learning level. Giving more freedom to students and their families, garauntees that everyone can have the opportunity to live a better life.

necessary structural elements

Retain or replace necessary structural elements

TopoVerde Every action has a reaction, every cause, an effect, and every disturbance, a consequence. TopoVerde is a response to the lack of ecology in many cities throughout the world; imagining a city as a new topography that generates relationships between ecology and the metropolis, enhancing and enriching social activation through environmental awareness. This topography becomes a destination, a place for exploring, biking, and experiencing cities in new ways. The surface is a self-sustaining ecological net that houses indigenous plant life that interweaves and organically grows throughout the city. The urban environment will benefit from this surface of nature and continue to develop a resilient growth in biodiversity that can positively contribute to daily social activities.