Christine Chang | Landscape Architecture Adaptive Reuse Portfolio 2021

Portfolio 2021

Christine Chang

Adaptive Reuse Landscape Architecture Tangents

Christine Chang E D U C AT I O N Rhode Island School of Design Interior Architecture | Adaptive Reuse MDes 2021 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Landscape Architecture BLA 2019

C O N TA C T 949. 521. 2285 cchang07@risd.edu 84 Norwood Ave Cranston, RI 02905 christinechangportfolio.cargo.site

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SKILLS

Van Atta Associates, INC.

Adobe Suite Hand Graphics AutoCAD Rhinoceros 3D Microsoft Word PowerPoint

Design Intern | Summer 2017

Creation of sheet sets, irrigation plans, planting plans and bloom charts. Review of arborist reports. Plant material research and powerpoint editing.

Communication Teamwork Individual Work Self-motivation Detail Work

WORK EXPERIENCE

AWA R D S + H O N O R S

Rhode Island School of Design

Award of Excellence IntAr Department, RISD Spring 2021

Thesis Prep Critic | 2021

Guest critic for graduate thesis preparation course.

Graduate Fellow | 2019 - 2021

Designer of first IntAR Department yearbook. Designer and editor of the INTAR Department website, MA final studios “Saving Superman” and “Pell Bridge” websites, “Don’t You Sit Down” Exhibition site. Designer of course poster for “African Food and Culture Series”. Organization of select course materials and aid in deliverable clarifications. Lecturer on “Material Ethics, Aesthetics, and Symbolism” for undergraduate Building Materials course.

Department Lab + Print Assistant | 2019 - 2021

Assisted peers in use of digital fabrication machines (laser cutter and CNC). Assistance in file set up. Maintenance of machines used. Changing plotter rolls when empty and troubleshooting printer issues.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo External Thesis Advisor + Critic | 2019 - 2020 Assisted student on concept clarity, visual and written communication of design intent, and aid in foundation of theory.

Remote mid-review critic for three students.

Randy A. Ridless Scholarship IntAr Department, RISD Winter 2020 ASLA Honor Award Southern California Chapter 2019 Best Design Process LA Department, Cal Poly SLO Winter 2019 President’s List + Dean’s List Cal Poly SLO Select Quarters 2016 - 2019

A F F I L I AT I O N S ASLA Student Member March 2019 - Present MDes 2021 Student Representative 2019 - 2021

PORTFOLIO 2020

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CONTENTS

Cohabitation Posthuman Ecologies

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Overt: Decay as Intrinsic Urbanism

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Movimento Intrecciato

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Shattered Matrix

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To the Moon

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Artifacts

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Anima Making of a Ruin

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Representation

TANGENTS

Biotrophy

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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ADAPTIVE REUSE

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PART ONE

Biotrophy

Overt: Decay as Intrinsic Urbanism Movimento Intrecciato Mend

ADAPTIVE REUSE

Cohabitation

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PROJECT BRIEF

Cohabitation

How can architecture act as a vessel and contribute to the resiliency of natural systems? The adaptive reuse of the historic James A. Farley Buliding in New York City exemplifies how we may re-orient our relationship to nature within the city.

The puncturing of the building improves internal porosity while an interior double facades creates a buffer zone for the many protected species of birds the site receives. The reuse of this site into a public nature lab facility speaks to how architecture may begin to soften the harsh conditions of city life both for humans and animals in order to adapt and become a space of cohabitation.

Rhode Island School of Design | Fall 2020

COHABITATION

The urban environment contributes to the fragmentation of natural habitats and physically showcases the animosity toward wildlife through overly-manicured environments, anti-bird spikes, and the overuse of glass facades.

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context analysis + concept collages

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PROJECT BRIEF

Posthuman Ecologies

Modern architectural movements push us towards surroundings that create disconnect from our sensory relationship to matter and temporality. We must engage with the inevitable decay of the built environment to restore our neglected senses. Reconnecting architecture to local ecologies through adaptive reuse will introduce a true form of landscape urbanism through which architecture and nature become codependent, contributing equally to the human experience.

The constructive disintegration of Philip Johnson’s List Art Building at Brown University in Providence, RI explores methods to repair sensory connections, restore environmental balance, and critically engages with architecture’s singular narrative of control throughout history. Catalyzing decay to break the building’s rigid geometry creates a more porous structure and fluid human experience, while micro-interventions allow nonhuman cultures to consume the building over time: reconstructing this monolithic Brutalist structure to reveal layers of history, cultures, and materiality.

Rhode Island School of Design | Graduate Thesis | Spring 2021

COHABITATION

As we move further into the Anthropocene — an epoch of geologic time where human activity has caused significant impact on the planet’s natural systems — we can no longer ignore the environmental consequences of our actions. The artificial disconnect between humankind and wilderness has caused us to create built environments that reinforce a false separation from natural landscapes.

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man’s relation to nature analysis, concept collage + model

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DECONSTRUCTION / RECONSTRUCTION

REVEAL MATERIALITY breaking of old surface, breaking modernist grid

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SEATING + LANDSCAPE broken down walls reused as landscape surfaces

TRANSPARENT CONCRETE pulverize old walls to be recast into transparent screen walls

REUSE AGGREGATE pulverized old walls recast into new walls that allow growth

PROGRESSION OF THRESHOLDS + MATERIALITY

OLD THRESHOLDS old thresholds maintained as swing doors

NEW OPENINGS rough openings to emphasize deconstruction

NEW THRESHOLDS new doors are bi-fold, sliding, or garage doors

methods of deconstruciton/reconstruciton + spatial typologies

NEW SURFACES new external cork insulation and existing form ties filled with moss plugs

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DAYLIGHTING

WATER COLLECTION

opening of ceiling and south-facing surfaces to allow passive heating and daylighting

surface water allowed to enter water table with roof collection into cistern

RESTORATION

AIRFLOW

ground plane regraded to natural slope and planting beds added for succession over time.

northwest plantings redirect winter winds while southwest winds are channeled through the building

INSULATION PODS

ENERGY HARVEST

excess insulation area eliminated while additional external cork helps create more thermal comfort

PV panels harvest sunlight and is used to fuel mechanical ventilation when necessary

plans + environmental strategies

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PROJECT BRIEF

The George C. Arnold Building, located in Providence, Rhode Island, is a narrow strip of historic architecture within the heart of downtown. This three story, twelve foot wide building is predisposed to additions on the rear facade due to the vacancy created by an adjacent parking lot.

Eight percent of Rhode Island’s blind population falls within the age of sixteen to twenty one. This co-housing project focuses on providing sensorial spaces for this population with spatial tools to help them adapt into a more independent lifestyle.

Rhode Island School of Design | Fall 2019

BIOTROPHY

Biotrophy is the relationship between parasite and host where the host is maintained and kept alive to feed the attached parasite.

In turn, the internal systems react and change in order to support the needs of the parasite.

Washington St

Clemence St

Mathewson St

1/16” = 1’BLIND POPULATION RHODE ISLAND

AGE POPULATION PERCENTAGE

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all ages 22k : 1.05m 2.1%

BLIND POPULATION

BY AGE BRACKET

0-4 400 : 22k 1.8 %

5 - 15 500 : 22k 2.2 %

16 - 20 2k : 22k 8.5 %

21 - 64 10.5k : 22k 47.3 %

65 - 74 3.8k : 22k 17 %

75 + 5.1k : 22k 23 %

Wa s h i n g t o n S t r e e t

D e c i b e l s D( de Bc i)b e l s ( d B )

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context population + sound mapping

Location

EXISTING

DIVISON

SEPARATION

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ADDITION

ATTACHMENT

GROWTH

GROWTH

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Single

Couples

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Shared

Family

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PROJECT BRIEF

Overt: Decay as Intrinsic Urbanism

Is it possible to adopt an interpretive and integral approach to processes of decay and an appreciation for urban mortality?

This project uses intrinsic urbanism as a technique to view and engage overlooked qualities while reactivating sites. Three designed case studies focus on elements of derelict sites within the Bay Area of Northern California and allow for temporal qualities to tell the stories these places hold. The interventions emphasize the spaces to expose a beauty often undervalued through five typologies: highlight, represent, frame, adapt and contrast.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | Fall 2018 - Winter 2019

OVERT

Urban infrastructure evolves with people and culture, often leaving spaces and buildings to become less valued as new developments begin to replace them. These vacant and derelict sites are often seen in a negative vein: physical erosion and lack of intended use transforms them into dangerous spaces for illicit activities. However, these places contain unique material characteristics and spatial conditions that can activate them as sensorial spaces for discovery and reflection.

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intrinsic urbanism viewing urbanism and reuse more holistically in order for spaces to serve more emotional and spiritual functions (Christine Chang)

gentrification

new infrastructure (Aaron Asis) peripheral space peripheral spaces should gain attention rather than neglect (Nan Ellin)

histo (Kevi

demolition (Aaron Asis)

adaptive reuse

‘otherness’ (Michel Foucault)

return to nature (Nan Ellin) procreative ability for matter to recover memories within different registers (Caitlin DeSilvey)

repugnance // attraction (Caitlin DeSilvey)

nostalgia (Tim Edensor) (Nane Ellin) (Kevin Lynch) tranquility (Aaron Asis)

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search for flow + synthesis (Nan Ellin)

philosophical

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vapid urban environments (Robert Smithson)

h value social + cultural shift (Nan Ellin)

life span of building

controlled spaces (Nan Ellin)

oric waste in Lynch)

entropy process of structure into chaos; exemplified within film and literature (Nan Ellin) (Robert Smithson)

avoidance // dependence urban “wilds” become spaces we ignore yet need to function as a society (Kevin Lynch)

urban mortality artefact vs. ecofact cultural matter taking on explicitely ecologial functions (Caitlin DeSilvey) adventure (Tim Edensor) play (Kevin Lynch)

refuge (Kevin Lynch)

alternative forms of flow (Kevin Lynch)

freedom (Aaron Asis) physical

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theory mapping

discovery (Tim Edensor)

Light

Sound

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Shadow

Scent

qualitative inventory

BAYSHORE ROUNDHOUSE

PORTOLA GREENHOUSES

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case study site histories

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Proposed case study 1: bayshore roundhouse

Design interventions for the Bayshore Roundhouse highlight the past uses of the site and showcase the original building. Implementation of typologies contrasts textures and colors within the site to bring attention to material qualities that have been varying through time. This design offers rest areas for those working in the adjacent industrial buildings as well as a usable open space for nearby residential communities.

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E X I ST I N G C O N D IT I O N

ROUNDHOUSE

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TYPOLOGIES

condition open space

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COMMERCIAL

location southern portion

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existing condition vacant space

intervention white walls with “brick”

location uncovered portion of

existing condition open space within tracks

intervention repurposed brick

location southern portion

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roundhouse plan + adjacencies planning

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existing intervention location unused open space acrylic tubing southern portion with existing rails structure with LED of roundhouse lighting

existing open space

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existing vacant space within roundhouse

intervention acrylic tubes with LED lighting during evening hours

location along past rail line, east of roundhouse

intervention white walls with “brick” cutouts to frame views

location uncovered portion of roundhouse

existing open space within tracks

intervention repurposed brick into mulch

location southern portion of roundhouse

existing unused land

existing intervention unused open space white door

intervention grove of deciduous and evergreen trees

location northern and southern entrances into site

location between existing and past rail line, east of roundhouse

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Proposed case study 2: portola greenhouses

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The Garden District The Garden District of Sasn Francisco once consisted of nineteen family-owned nurseries run by seventeen different families.

Winant 2 Ferrari Orchid 3 Gregoire 4 Gregoire 1

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Granara 6 Ferrari Roses 7 Restani 8 Siri 5

Gemignani 10 Victoria Pardini 11 Victor Pardini 12 California Evergren 9

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Olivera

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University Mound 16 Somerset 17 Demilla and Parodi

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historic plot layout + master plan

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ADAPTIVE REUSE existing aged paving

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intervention location cracked sidewalk site edges onto with painted edge adjacent streets

existing remnants of greenhouses

intervention location acrylic boxes with replacing delapidated aeration holes greenhouses

PART ONE

OVERT

existing empty greenhouses

intervention mirrored hanging boxes

location throughout greenhouses

existing empty greenhouses

intervention rope edging between ornamental and wildflower plantings

location ornamental flower clusters in petal-shaped berms

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master plan + indoor planting locations

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ADAPTIVE REUSE

existing

intervention

location

vandalized courtyard

swings

southern courtyards

existing open space

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intervention

location

wooden scaffolding

within past building area to recreate footprint

existing unused open space

existing open space

intervention concrete-cast indoor furniture

location past buildling footprint

intervention mannequins representing past programming

location throughout site

PART ONE

intervention

open space

paving with within footprints of repurposed smaller demolished building material building areas from demolished western campus

existing vacant church

intervention colored acrylic, mimics stained glass windows

location

location hanging within churches

existing empty floors with broken windows

intervention location indoor concrete throughout floors, planters with trees see Planting Axon to grow outwards from windows

OVERT

existing

existing

intervention

location

open space

glowing arches clustered throughout to represent lives as wayfinding devices lost on site

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ADAPTIVE REUSE existing condition flood zone at entrance of building

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intervention location painted half-letters to reflect southern entrance of when flooding occurs central building

PART ONE

OVERT

existing condition semi-demolished ceiling structure with hanging cords

intervention lights attached to ends of existing cords

location throughout floors 1 - 4 as a wayfinding device

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PROJECT BRIEF

Movimento Intrecciato

Users are taken through a spatial procession which showcases the main components of ancient Roman aqueduct systems.

Beginning with a tunnel into the heart of the existing space, they are met with a grand opening in the center with glimpses of light trickling from the existing openings above. Visitors then travel through three floors of galleries along the arcade and reach a rooftop terrace. This rooftop garden represents the ancient watershed’s path through the aqueduct system, containing sculptures which provide cues to the location of major cities in relation to water system — visually connecting visitors back to the local context.

Re-use Italy International Design Competition | Summer 2020

MOVIMENTO INTRECCIATO

The ancient Roman aqueduct, Piscina Mirabilis, is a historic connection between the physical environment and cultural heritage through movement of water. Movimento Intrecciato is the moment of interconnection between the modern and ancient world.

source

tunnel

TUNNEL

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inspection shafts

SHAFTS

settling tank

SETTLING

city distribution arcade

G TA N K

ARCADE

formal strategy. images provided by ReUse Italy

CITY

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*rendering by team member, Rebecca Pepl

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FLOOR IV

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FLOOR II + III

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A Reception B Conference C Offices

D Storage E Restrooms

Misenum Point Tirolle Pompeii

Balae

Posillipo Naples

Puteoli

Atella Acerra Nola

V i a P i sc i n a M i ra b i l

RO O F P L A N

SCIENTIF IC NAM E

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ROOF PLAN 1:250 I J

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Sculpture Restaurant Bookstore

Eq u i se tu m fl u vi a ti l e Hym e n o ph yl l u m tu n b r i ge n se Sce ptr i d i u m m u l ti fi d u m

COMMON NAME Ri ve r Hor setail Tunbr i dge Fimly Fer n L e at he r y Moonwor t

Pe re nnial Angiospe rm s Ce ph a l a n th e ra l o n gi fo l i a

S wor d- Leaved Hellebo

Li l i u m b u l b i fe r u m L. su b sp. cro ce u m

F i r e L i ly

Ve ra tr u m a l b u m

W hi te Hellebore

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F e s t uc a je a np e r t ii

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*interior layouts by team member, Rebecca pepl

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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PART TWO

To the Moon

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Shattered Matrix

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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PROJECT BRIEF

Shattered Matrix Pan Pacific Park is a highly underutilized park within Los Angeles, California. The site sits below grade, creating an implied barrier between the site and its adjacent streets. Additionally, the edges that reach grade are physically walled off due to the backyards of local residences. This creates circulation and visual barriers between the site and its context, causing the site to feel unwelcoming and less used.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | Summer 2016

SHATTERED MATRIX

This project shatters Los Angeles’s well-known grid organization of the city to allow visual and physical connections between context and site. This “shattering” of the urban fabric will allow for a more provocative visual and spatial experience within the site by allowing it to remain below grade yet undulate in topography based on shattered pieces.

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Public Service (banks + post) Housing (single family home) Housing (apartments)

Entrances

Pedestrian Circulation

Vehicular Circulation

Views

Physical + Implied Walls

Sound Permeance

*adjacencies mapping data collection by Jerry Aldrich

Existing

at-grade sidewalk

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Divide + Connect

path

bermed hillside

path

Shatter

berm

path

vegetation hill

USPS

S Gardner St.

The Grove Dr.

Beverly Blvd.

Holocaust Museum dog park (medium to large)

dog park (small)

linear skatepark ditch run

new residental connection terraced hillside basketball court baseball field (existing)

restrooms overlook seating parent seating playground (ages 9+) playground (ages 3-8) restrooms

W 3rd St

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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PROJECT BRIEF

To the Moon The AIDS Memorial Garden is an overlooked trail located within El Chorro Regional Park, in San Luis Obispo, California. The site is nestled behind the El Chorro Campgrounds, adjacent to the regional golf course, and is often overlooked by visitors.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | Fall 2016

TO THE MOON

This design brings a sense of place and identity to the neglected park through the phrase “love you to the moon and back”. The trail head guides visitors in with a light installation and mimics the crescendo and decrescendo of a portal as one travels through the earth’s atmosphere into space. The trail layout is designed with a series of constellations, each representative of positive traits held within the astrological symbols. Visitors are brought to sculptures throughout the site that include the names of those lost from HIV/AIDs within the county. A meadow of blue, purple, and white-casting native flora annually change to mirror the everchanging night sky.

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Site Boundary

Riparian Corridor

Existing Trail

Vehicular Paths

Major Nodes

Scenic Views

Cassiopeia unrivaled beauty mother

Leo courageous vibrant

analysis + concept generation

Libra loving charming

Scorpio passionate charismatic

Ursa Major kinship direction

Pisces modest imaginative

PLANTING LEGEND TREES White Crepe Myr tle Lagerstroemia indica

Memorial Sculpture

Dairy Creek Golf Course

Catalina Fernleaf Ironwood Lyonothamnus floribundus var. asplenifolius MEADOW PERRENIALS Common Yarrow Achillium millefolium

Arroyo Lupine Lupinus albifrons

Big Sagebrush Artemesia tridentata

White Sage Salvia apiana

California Lilac Ceanothus spp.

Mexican Elderberry Sambucus mexicana

Andrews’ Bedstraw Galium andrewsii

Western Blue-Eyed Grass Sisyrichum bellum

Ursa Major Gathering Space

Aluminum Overhead Structure

Cassiopeia

Trail Head

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Aries Scorpio

Libra

Pisces

Leo

Dairy Creek

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entry and gathering space views

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PART THREE

Representation Atmosphere Anima

Making of a Ruin

TANGENTS

Artifacts

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PART THREE

Artifacts Objects tell stories about their individual and collective narratives through texture, color, and physical age.

Artifacts collected in three case study sites are preserved in floating acrylic displays to decontextualize them. Their sensory qualities allow the viewer to interpret an underlying narrative of the existing site.

ARTIFACT

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | Winter 2019

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PART THREE

Representation Classical two-dimensional representation in architecture lacks intrinsic qualities of real, three-dimensional spaces. By using a retro ReelViewer, slides are created depicting journeys through the three case studies in Overt: Decay as Intrinsic Urbanism.

Visitors are allowed to participate during presentations by viewing these scenes through the viewer. Light is able to pass through the image, creating depth while closing off peripheral vision so there is no contextual clutter. This allows the viewer to more accurately understand the mood and tone of the space being designed by eliminating the context of the presentation.

REPRESENTATION

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | Winter 2019

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PROJECT BRIEF

Atmospheres This concept model exemplifies the varying densities within an atmosphere — from screen to solid. It embodies an amorphous entity that changes and transforms based on the viewer’s angle of perception and rotation of model.

ATMOSPHERE

Rhode Island School of Design | Fall 2019

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PART THREE

Making of a Ruin This is the result of a self-created, five-week course investigating the relationships humans have with architectural ruins.

Through cataloging and studying existing ruins along with an observational decay study, it was found that humans project their ideologies onto unfinished architectural objects. A human’s Gestalt-inflected desires to cognitively map connections of incomplete forms — and viewing the whole before its individual parts — can surpass time moving both forwards and backwards in order for the individual to generate a narrative unknown.

In this case, a typical cathedral layout was designed and then broken down into its most minimal, yet telling, components. The viewer is able to gain cues from the lancet windows and vaulted ceilings in order to mentally piece together the architecture.

MAKING OF A RUIN

Rhode Island School of Design | Winter 2021

Christine Chang cchang07@risd.edu 949 . 521. 2285