Charles Gurrey
Harvard GSD 2011 m.arch I candidate
year 2
INFINITE TOWER
EMERGING LANDSCAPE
IMAGINING THE HORIZON
RUM ISLAND BOAT HOUSE
PALM POINT FAMILY HOUSE
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year 3
LOFT|MORPH: MULTI-USE FURNITURE
MEDIA WALL
SINE WAVE LUMINAIRE
EXPLORATION IN TECTONICS
GEOMETRIC TILING
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Grad 1
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INFINITE TOWER: THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN ROCK ACADEMY Prof. Levent Kara_year 2 This project is a focused investigation between interstitial spaces of two programmed towers. It also directly deals with the issues of space, movement, and programmatic occupation. The program, a school of Rock and Roll, requires a music hall, library, and study rooms to be dispersed throughout the tower. The continuous play of surface and void between the two towers became essential generative devices in the formation of the programmatic pieces. The main gestures, which make up the tower, work as a support system for the moments in place. This allows the breakdown of scale within the larger moves of the tower and permits flow of interstitial space between the towers.
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music library
study pods
music hall
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EMERGING LANDSCAPE: MULTIMEDIA SKIN Prof. Levent Kara_year 2 The multimedia skin explores the relationships of architecture with its surrounding environment. Located on a nearby field with an adjacent parking garage, the new intervention of a sculpture field and a multi-media skin emerges from the garage, providing various experiences to the once mundane space. The sculpture field draws from its many contextual references and starts to establish a language of lines, giving the field its form. In section the ground becomes truly activated, creating moments for movement, pause, and exhibition for the public. The skin consists of a series of folded plates extending from the garage structure, which creates occupiable spaces and holds interior and exterior projection screens. Drawn from the sculpture field or the garage, occupants move up and through the skin. Within the skin, occupants can find visual relationships between the integrated rib and screen system and the context. The skin contains several music pods that, when inhabited, become interactive moments within the multimedia skin.
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IMAGINING THE HORIZON: DESERT DWELLING Prof. Levent Kara_year 2 To place anything in a desert requires a radical alteration of the barren landscape. The desert environment is context-less. Establishing poetic and conceptual grounds for a possible architecture requires an internal system of references. Watercolor studies and low relief constructions suggest the internal references of the desert and create gestural beginnings of a dwelling for land artists and geologists. Viewed from above, the dwelling appears as a series of lines and carvings into the ground. Thick retaining walls hold back the earth allowing for the ground carvings to receive the roots of the vertical spatial elements. In section, the series of overhead conditions provides protection from the harsh desert elements. The shifting nature of these overhead conditions allows for the capture and circulation of air flow through the project. A central circulation spine serves as the structure to support the overhead condition. The play between overhang and ground is continuous and attempts to create a mutual relationship with the expansive landscape.
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meditation space
thick roofscape
land carving
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desert roofscape
points of vertical interactions
circulation spine allowing for continuous movement of overhead conditions
plan
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longitudinal section
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RUM ISLAND BOAT HOUSE Gainesville, Fl Prof. Mark McGlothlin_year 3 Time and measure are two critical parts of a rowing stroke. Members of a rowing crew must be synchronized for them to function successfully. The anatomy of a rowing stroke can be broken down into two parts. The first is the recovery, the moment the oar is parallel to the water and being moved back into position. Next is the drive which is the moment when the oar hits the water and propels the boat forward. The analysis of the rowing stroke parallels the rhythm of ideas of compression and expansion.
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boat sizes boat storage entrance
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boat progression from storage to water
anatomy of a rowing stroke
recovery 18
drive catch
recovery extraction
first floor
Taking reference from the anatomy of the rowing stroke and the context, the design for the rowing club was developed. The boat house is a low elongated building, which houses the boats. This is the notion of the recovery and expansion of a rowing stroke. The club house, on the other hand, is compact and tall which represents the drive portion of the rowing stroke. Together they form a rhythm in the landscape and the building begins to respond to its context and to each other.
ground floor
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cross section
volumetric study of clubhouse
longitudinal section
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PALM POINT FAMILY HOUSE Gainesville, Fl Prof. Mark McGlothlin_year 3 Lake Newnan’s Palm Point provides a site for a landscape study specific to Florida. The Nature Park is dominated by a density of cypress trees, majestic live oaks and sable palms. These attributes make Palm Point a perfect example of Florida’s diverse and unique ecology. The two rotated volumes which make up the house allow the residents uninterrupted views of the lake and its natural surroundings. Large openings illuminate the main living space and office. The openings also allow the natural breezes coming off the lake to stimulate ventilation. The house mediates between water and land, taking in what the lake has to offer and filtering it through the elements of the house.
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longitudinal section
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folding window allows the spatial and visual extension of the main living space into the context
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first floor
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overhead canopy
exhibit space
lounging area
bench
sofa bench bike rack
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LOFT|MORPH: MULTI-USE FURNITURE Gainesville, Fl Prof. Ruth Ron_year 3 Through use of digital design tools to create form, the LOFT|MORPH study looks at combining single pieces into a multiuse construct. This architectural piece proposes a fluid progression of programmatic movement. Bike storage, seating areas at varied levels [bench, sofa, and lounge chair] and pin up space for the Architecture School entrance all relate to the different scales of occupation.
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fabrication and assembly
MEDIA WALL: International Festival for Architecture and Media 2009 Florence, Italy Prof. Ruth Ron_year 3 project team: Hilary Hemstreet, Bruce Werner, Kyle Proefke, Chris Malcolm, Charles Gurrey, Simon Barrow, Justin Fong, Megan Suau
This project was designed in response to the invitation of the University of Florida School of architecture to the 9th International Festival for Architecture and Media in Florence, Italy. Along with Professor Ron and eight other students, we were given the challenge of designing an exhibition which would function to present our Advanced Digital Design class work. A modular spatial and visual gradient emerged from manipulating the grid of the context. Varying light intensities specific to individual modules highlight aspects of student works. Due to shipping constraints and contextual limitations, material choice lent itself to the use of recycled materials.
project identification
cardboard module
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dot pattern
translucent panel
student work panel
multi-use furniture
grid deformation
2D to 3D
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modular pattern found on the site
dark
medium
light
pattern manipulation of grid
gradiant
cell size determines gradient intensity
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proposed pattern
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SINE WAVE LUMINAIRE Prof. Tom Smith_year 4 Environmental Technology 2 Designing for a reading space, light needs specific direction, diffusion, and intensity. Using the concept of the sine wave to create variations in elevation and section activated the surfaces of the luminaire. The spaced layering of the slats allowed for the diffusion of light to the overall space with controlled intensity. Below the lamp the light is more direct allowing the necessary illumination for reading.
Unt i t l ed1
22 58 ”
15watts CFL Bulb
sine wave
y t = A°sin wtφ
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elevation
section through lamp wall
surface elevation
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serial sections
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EXPLORATION IN TECTONICS: STUDIES Prof. Alfonso Perez-Mendez_year 4 Through a series of short studies, I extracted the tectonic qualities of objects and explored how primary, secondary, and tertiary elements come together to create a constructed system at different scales of operation. Analysis of various types of netting revealed linkages between nodes and voids. Based on these findings, I created systemic components which rely on the repetition of multiple pieces. Through variable manipulations, I related the results at different scales, from small scale such as facade articulation, to a large scale, like an overall structural system.
single weave netting
double weave netting
small scale deployment
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single mesh
double mesh
large scale deployment
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Another study explores the manipulation of surface through cut, shift and fold. Through fabrication, the hierarchy of connective parts suggests a logic of construction. These ideas informed a series of tectonic pieces which create a constructed assemblage that can operate at many scales .
hussein chalayan
plans: creases and cuts
folded plates
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fabricated model
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EXPLORATION IN TECTONICS: SEMPERIAN PAVILLION Prof. Alfonso Perez-Mendez_year 4 In his writings about the primative hut, Gottfried Semper relates the components of the home to elements in nature. These ideas clearly begin to define hierarchical system of constructivity.The analytical comparisons of these Semperian ideas were adapted for use in this studio in form of a pavillion. With Semper’s rationale a found piece of furniture became the generative seed for the project. A series of swooping columns gesture from the ground to the sky relating to Semper’s ideas of the tree being the rooting element from which other components emerge. The roof reflects the concept of the canopy, organic lightwells which reveal the connection between overhead and ground. The varied calligraphy of the skin gently wraps the space, providing a sense of shelter while connecting to outside.
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elevation
wall detail
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roof detail
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EXPLORATION IN TECTONICS: PREFAB HOUSE Gainesville, Fl Prof. Alfonso Perez-Mendez_year 4 A panelized pattern which is generated from the layering and density of grass becomes the primary component of the enclosure system. Additional layers of calligraphy create a varied set of repetitious panels. These systems allow for the components to be prefabricated, flat packed and shipped to the site. This notion of prefabrication is also applied to the main interior spaces through a system of steel frames and wall modules.
context patterns
Gray Scale
Invert
High Contrast
graphic manipulation
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panelization
emerging tectonic calligraphy
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detail of prefabricated component systems
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skin detail
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ground floor
first floor
second floor
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GEOMETRIC TILING Orlando, Fl Prof. Lee Su-Huang_ Grad 1 This studio explored the possibilities of geometric tiling as an organizational system on a large urban site. Located in Orlando, Florida, there are few contextual references except for the nearby highway and run down neighborhood of Paramore. Analysis of the urban situation around the site and in nearby urban conditions helped to understand how the city and its residents function. I explored three types of geometrical patterning in other precedent studies and found relative aspects that became a seed for the project. These findings served as a base for the creation of a geometric tiling system.
PRECEDENT PROTOTYPE RESEARCH
INLAY
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PUFF PASTRY
PATTERN
LES BAINS DE DOCK_ Ateliers Jean Nouvel
YOKOHAMA TERMINAL_ FOA
MADRID OLYMPIC POOL_ FOA
VAKKO HQ AND POWER MEDIA CENTER_ REX
AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM_ 3GATTI Architecture
SHOWROOM AND LEISURE CENTER_ Manuelle Gautrand Architects
MUNCH MUSUEM_ REX
NATIONAL GLASS CENTER_ FOA
AIRSPACE TOKYO_ Faulders Studio
URBAN ANALYSIS
SITE ANALYSIS ACTIVITY DENSITY
MOMENTS
Morning
VEHICULAR MOVEMENT MAJOR ROADS
PEDESTRIAN DISPERSMENT
MINOR ROADS
LOCAL PED
Afternoon
LYSIS
SITE ANALYSIS
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION_ trains and bus routes ACTIVITY DENSITY
NOISE SOU
BUS
Night
TRAIN
MOMENTS OF PAUSE_ view nodes
Morning
MOVEMENT MAJOR ROADS
PEDESTRIAN DISPERSMENT
MINOR ROADS
LOCAL PEDESTRIAN DISPERSMENT
Afternoon
ANSPORTATION_ trains and bus routes BUS
NOISE SOURCES Night
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VARIATIONS IN BASIC HEXAGONAL TILING SETS
PENROSE TILING SET
CAITO PATTERN SET
The basic geometry of the hexagon lends itself to omnidirectionality, allowing it to populate easily through various scales. The different scales can create a structured system which to organize the site spatially. Developing a kit of parts for a hexagon module, the pieces can be arranged to accomodate for various programmatic demands. Modules can be stacked or tiled allowing for growth within the site that extends to meet the needs of the occupants. Regarding the natatorium, an auxillary system was adpated for the program. The main gesture of the pool is a long spanning roof condition. Formed from the hexagonal grid, various modules were developed to accomodate the needs of the pool, including combinations of artificial and direct light, ventilation, and water collection. The modules could be inserted into the exisiting roof frame allowing the elements to intergrate in reaction to the programtic uses in the space.
ROBINSON’S APERIODIC TILING SET
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3D hexagon family tree
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various studies in functional uses of hexagons prototype
movement
occupied space
aperture
cluster variations
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master plan
commercial modulation
public space modulation
exhibit modulation
retail modulation
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office modules
pool floor plan
outdoor pool modules
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variations of roof tiling
variations of roof openings
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