1.0
CYCLING & RECYCLING
A Urban Plaza / Bike Hotspot / City Memorial Academic Work Fall 2012 Instructor: Keith Plymale & Marisha Farnsworth
After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake the damaged Central Freeway in San Francisco was removed and replaced by the surface-level Octavia Boulevard. This urban plaza design aims to adopt the cycling culture of the hayes valley district and to recycle the urban construction wastes to produce a disaster memorial.
The DIRECTION of the post-disaster urban development is derived mathematically and it shows that the renewal process is no longer orthogonal as the existing city grid. Therefore, the local circulatory activities, including cycling, shall be RE-DIRECTED for the residents to conveniently access the new developments.
PERSERVED BUILDINGS NEW CONSTRUCTIONS
LILY ST.
PAGE ST.
HAIGHT ST. OCTAVIA BLVD.
Local construction MATERIAL survey The co-existence of concrete and vegetation in local construction features the post-industrial urban context of this deisng as well as a growing environmental consciousness in SF. Therefore, weathered reinforced concrete is extensively used in constructing this design to exhibit not only the temporal nature of the urban community, but also a permanent mark of time.
In order to share the orthogonal grid developed for the high-speed automobiles, the existing bike lane design sacrificed agile nature of cycling and it is restraining the bikers to travel in a unnatural linear fashion.
PATH ONE
PATH TWO
CITY OBSTRACTION
ROOF PLAN
CITY OBSTRACTION URBAN G GRID FOR HIGHSPEED VEHICLE
BIKE AGILITY ANALYSIS
BIKE PARKING
STORAGE KITCHEN
A
SNACK BAR
A
CAFE
PLAZA
URBAN GRID R FOR PEDESTRIAN-CYCLING
FORMING MASS FROM STUDY N
PLAN
3.0
GOODFOOD
A Urban Conjunction of Food Awareness and Education Academic Work Spring 2013 Instructor: Roddy Creedon, Alan Tse
This course has emphasize on incorporating the building climatic performative strategies in our designs. This design of a hypothetical building we are calling GOODFOOD in response to the local good food movement documented in the film “Edible City�.
Program Allocation
Program Analysis ACTIVITIES
SHARED SERVICES Fast Food
PROCESSING SPEED
TRANSPARENCY
COMMISSARY KITCHEN
FUNCTIONS
WAREHOUSE
GALLERY
Slow Food
Fast
Solid
Separate
FOOD BANK Passer byer
Commerce
Moderate
Translucent
Visual framing
Slow
Transparent
Circulation
Programs with faster spatial characters is arranged in a linear fashion to construct the spine of the circulation
Plant Life
RESEARCH
RESEARCH GARDEN
SHARED SERVICES
Education
CLASSROOMS
COMMISSARY KITCHEN WAREHOUSE
AUDITORIUM
Research
Static
Void/Solid
Structure
GALLERY
COMMERCE SHARED PUBLIC SPACE
Cooking
FOOD BANK
In order to address the continually shifting set of needs in food production, consumption and research all on one site, these set of program analysis organizes the activites by their spatial momentum to create an evolving infrastructure which support those needs.
Clusters of the slower activities is inserted into the circulatory framework set by the faster activities
South Facade Section STRUCTURE
South Elevation
East Elevation
VENTILATION
CIRCULATION VENTILATION
VENTILATION VENTILATION
STRUCTURE
VENTILATION
VISUAL FRAMING
CIRCULATION VISUAL FRAMING
STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE
FAST FOOD
One important phase of the design is to create an architectural facade that corresponds to my building performative research made about cross-ventilation. Hence, I proposed this facade design to promote cross-ventilation with the changing porosity of the skin and its adjacent ventilation courts.
Ventilations courts penetrate and connect programatic volumes
VENTILATION COURTS
OFFICE AND LABORATORY
GREEN GARDEN
AUDITORIUM EDUCATION CLASSROOMS CIRCULATORY GALLERY
GROUND FLOOR PLAZA
STEEL FINS GLASS PANEL
FLOOR FINISH STEEL PANEL INSULATION SPACE FOR HVAC
South Elevation
East Elevation WEST ELEVATION
SECTIONAL MODEL
A detailed sectional model is made to test both the lighting quality and the visual privacy control of the facade design. As a result, the smooth transition between the public and private interior programs is made possible in this design
6.0
FRAMING THE PIER
Berkeley Pier Fish Market
Academic Work Spring 2012 Instructor:Keith Plymale & Marisha Farnsworth
VIEW ORIENTATION
The Berkeley Pier Fish Market is a scheduled weekly, Saturday event that transforms into an occupy-able public facility for the other six days of the week. The experiential transformation along this sequential space is designed to bring the pier to life.
GIRD DEVELOPMENT
INTERACTION MAP
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
DIVISION
TRASITIONARY PLATFORM
VOID ABOVE WATER
VOID ABOVE WATER
City shores are often considered as the boundary of unban developments. Hence, piers at the edge of the two distinct realm have their complex functions in terms of softening the harsh division and creating a transitionary platform to evoke te semanitc and narrative potential of the site.
ONSITE INTERACTION RECORD
EXTRACTED SPATIAL RHYTHM The onsite survey of the visitor’s circulatory behavior in relation to the orientation of the views allow a fomal logic to arise in the consequential design.
2
1
SECTION A
A
SECTION B
B
DINING
COMMERCE
FISHING
RECREATION
TOURISM
MARKET
FISH PROCESSING
The extremely linear form of the pier fosters a sequential allocation of the programs. With the aid of the spatial rhythm developed before, the program allocation decisions correspond to the circulation design. C
SECTION C D
E
SECTION 1 SECTION D
2
ROOF PLAN
TOP LEVEL PLAN
1
LOWER LEVEL PLAN
PROGRAM ALLOCATION SECTION 2 SECTION E