MLA & MARCH PennDesign Graduate Portfolio by Christian Cueva

CHRISTIAN CUEVA

ARCHITECTURE + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN

Selected Designs

CHRISTIAN CUEVA

ARCHITECTURE + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN

602 N 43rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 410.493.9107 ccueva18@gmail.com

EDUCATION

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

James Corner Field Operations (JCFO)

Dual Masters of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (M.ARCH/M.LA) (Fall 2015 - Spring 2019)

Morgan State University - Baltimore, Maryland Bachelors of Science in Architecture + Environmental Design (Spring 2013 - Spring 2015)

Montgomery College - Rockville, Maryland Associates in Architecture Technology (Spring 2010 - Fall 2013)

Philadelphia, PA Intern Landscape Architect (05/2018 - 08/2018)

Assisted with two large scale projects. First project was in Chicago, Illinois calling for a center plaza and a waterfront proposal at the North Branch Chicago River.

The second project, located at Universal Studio’s LA campus, aimed to program a pedestrian edge as an anchoring point to link existing and proposed public amenities.

Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) Tokyo, Japan Intern Architect (05/2017 - 08/2017)

Worked on a hotel tower at 1111 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. KKAA’s hotel is situated on a steep hill, which called for an architectural design integrated into existin topography while also using natural materials. I participated in from start to finish of the schematic design phase.

GriD Architects

Baltimore, Maryland Intern Architect (05/2016 - 08/2016; 01/2017) Worked on residential and commercial projects for a facade restoration at Merkle; high-end residential proposal at 908 Creek Drive Annapolis, Maryland; and later returning during winter break 2017 to prepare final AIA submittal drawings of a River House project in Virginia later winning an AIA award.

Design Collective, Inc. (DCI)

Baltimore, Maryland Intern Architect (01/2015 - 01/2015; 05/2015 - 07/2015) Assisted with design and graphics for a mixed-use building project at 901 East Fayette Street Baltimore, Maryland; a student housing project at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey; and a mixed-use high-rise project at Kettler Union Market Baltimore, Maryland.

Peters Contracting, Inc. (PCI) Manchester, Maryland Intern Architect (05/2014 - 08/2014)

Helped on numerous design-build construction projects. Tasks included estimations, constructed test-fit floor plans, and elevation studies. I also helped with initial design schemes while also formatting work letters and organizing project meetings. On site, I made sure contractors were on task regulating communication.

Malesardi Steiner Keyes McCommons (MSKM) Architects Washington, D.C. Window Restoration and Repair Project Coordinator (06/2012 - 07/2012)

Served as a project coordinator associating with tenants and contractors, performing plan reading surveys, and making sure all treatments on the removal of lead abatement were completed correctly.

ACHIEVEMENTS

PROFICIENCIES

Pressing Matters 6 Publication

AlA Baltimore: Photography Contest

Computer Aided Design

Arch 502 Project selected to be published in Penn Design publication.

(Spring 2018)

Honorable mention award for the “Big Picture” photography contest.

(Fall 2014)

AutoCAD, Revit, Sketch-up, Rhino, Grasshopper, 3D Max, Maya, Maxwell Render, V-Ray Render, ArcGIS

Research Assistant

lnterschool Design Competition

Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat

Adobe

Awarded a Research Assistantship with Karen M’Closkey Honorable mention for urban design entry charrette. by the department of Landscape Architecture.

(Fall 2014) (Fall 2017)

Microsoft

AIA West Virginia

Other Tech.

Award winning group submission for the River House proposal while at GriD Architects.

(Spring 2017)

Schenk-Woodman Scholarship Recipient Placed first during a one-week long group competition held at the University of Pennsylvania for first year Master of Architecture students.

(Spring 2017)

Chair’s Acknowledgment Award for Design Progress Awarded for advancing the furthest in design capability as a first year Master of Landscape Architecture student at the University of Pennsylvania.

(Fall 2015 - Spring 2016)

University of Pennsylvania Diversity Scholarship Recipient Awarded as a dual in Masters of Architecture & Masters of Landscape Architecture (M.ARCH/M.LA).

(Fall 2015 - Spring 2019)

Studio Design Award Awarded for top urban design project during ARCH 402 Design studio at Morgan State University.

(Spring 2015)

Future Architects Resources (FAR) & Skills USA Asked to jury a design competition for High School students at a State level.

(Spring 2015)

AlA Urban Design Project Presentation Gave a presentation for AIA award winning urban design project, “Nessioni,” to the Baltimore Housing Authority, Planning Department, and residents.

(Spring 2015)

AlA Baltimore: Far Scholarship

Honorable mention for urban design project entry.

(Fall 2014)

AlA Maryland

Word, Powerpoint, Excel

Makerbot 3D Printing, Preparing files to Laser cut and CNC

Award winner for Enlighten Library Competition entry.

(Fall 2012)

English

Sustainability Certification

Spanish

Certificate from Montgomery College.

(Fall 2011)

Advanced

Native

Japanese Beginner

Master of Landscape Architecture

Master of Architecture

CONTENT PLATE ABSTRACTION W/ KENGO KUMA

Professional Work / gradation & levitation

AMPHIBIAN ORINOQUÍA

University of Pennsylvania / LARP Studio 701/ a water reconciliation

MESHING THRESHOLDS

University of Pennsylvania / LARP Studio 502 / a cultural and recreational guidance

NÒDINOSÌ

University of Pennsylvania / ARCH Studio 501/spirits of the winds

SENTINEL

University of Pennsylvania / ARCH Studio 602 / architecture in duration & degradation

PORTAL LINKS

University of Pennsylvania / ARCH Studio 704 / a vertical post-industrial garden

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Plate Abstraction [gradation & levitation]

Professional Work: Under Construction 1111 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles,

USA

Kengo Kuma’s 98-ROOM BOUTIQUE HOTEL proposal is PART OF A FINAL URBAN EXTENSION to Sunset Boulevard bordering Downtown Los Angeles, planned by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM). The urban stretch offers dynamic residential and retail spaces emphasizing high quality design, social responsibility, and commitment to enrich the lives of surrounding communities. A construction of 778 residential units proposed in the overall scheme is to meet the City’s goals for new nearby housing job centers functioning in part of a larger scale transportation corridor. The hotel along with two other residential towers raised above the proposed landscape will allow the crossings of new pedestrian paths and downtown views. Kengo Kuma’s Japanese practice known for MELDING STRUCTURES with their NATURAL SURROUNDINGS becomes fundamental to the urban proposal. The ABSTRACTION of FLOOR PLATES and SHIFTING WOOD ELEMENTS synthesizes Kengo Kuma’s attitude with the site’s steep topographical slopes, WEAVING EXTERIOR and INTERIOR LANDSCAPES as one.

Chunk Model - Floor Perspective

KKAA / Summer 2017

Chunk Model - Wood Terrace

Team: Adrian Yau, Aigerim Syzdykova, Balazs Bognar, Christian Cueva

Chunk Model - Elevation

Architect KENGO

KUMA

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MERGING LANDSCAPES Curvilinear vs. Orthogonal The variations can be categorized into two basic strategies: either the landscape follows a curvilinear, more “natural� language to soften the architecture into the landscape-a gentle contrast-or a strong reinforcement of orthogonal geometry-a bold architecture-heavy statement. These strategies were studied in plan at different levels renegotiating how the interior could begin to meld with the dynamic exterior. Again, viewing the experience as a gradation of horizontal plates with a levitating procession to (re)connect with the sites surrounding landscape.

KEY 01. Sunset Boulevard Perspective 02. Entry Level 03. Lower Podium Level 04. Typical Floor Plan 05. Roof Plan 06. Upper Podium Level 07. Upper Podium Perspective

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Amphibian Orinoquía

Monterrey, Casanare, COLOMBIA

[a water reconciliation]

WATER is the region’s greatest and MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE. The rivers of the Orinoquía make life possible, building an ever-changing system that supports plants, animals, and humans. Monterrey has lost touch with water flows, far and beyond across ecosystems that make up some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet. The TUA RIVER for example is incredibly DIFFICULT TO ACCESS from the heart of the city, leaving people to take informal and often unstable paths to access their river. Private properties form a contiguous barrier to the pebbled banks of the Tua, while PRIVATE HOMES TURN THEIR BACKS to LECHE MIEL keeping the public from embracing the charming body that winds through the city. Monterrey’s disconnect with water speak in relation with conventual urban strategies found at nearby cities including Yopal, Aguazul, and Tauramena. Such methods of turning communities away from their landscapes are in NEED OF NEW SYSTEMS inspiring HYDROLOGICAL AND URBAN CONNECTIONS. For Orinoquía, AN AMPHIBIAN LANDSCAPE IS NECESSARY TO CONDUCT SUCH TRANSFORMATIONS operating between both land and sea. Such alterations would allow for special metamorphic capacities, technological ambitions and intellectual sensitivity to immerge overtime, RECONCILING MONTERREY’S PEOPLE back with their surrounding waters. Design strategies include:

Get-Downs

LARP 701 / Spring 2018

Overlooks

Semi-Private Gardens

Public Gardens

Team: Christian Cueva & Katya Trosman

Public Walkways

Professor Maria Villalobos

Monterrey

Orinico River

ORINOCO BASIN Monterrey

Yopal

CASANARE DEPARTMENT

MONTERREY CITY

WATER SYSTEMS

Atlantic Ocean

MUNICIPAL OF WATER

River Programs

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01. Welcome Center 02. Switchback Park 03. Urban Beach 04. Agricultural Sciences 05. Outer Wetlands 06. Entrance Corridor 07. Residential Corridor 08. Retail Corridor 09. Remembrance Corridor 10. Recreational Corridor 11. North Lagoon 12. Gabion Park 13. South Lagoon 14. Memorial Park 15. Wetland Theater

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RIVER TO RIVER An Amphibian Landscape We question what it means for the amphibian landscape of the Amphibian OrinoquĂ­a to become the protagonist of its urban future? Our project suggests that such a role would require no overly specific or single actor, but instead rely on fluid coalitions. With clear urban and experiential objectives, our project seeks to empower a diverse range of residents and institutions to act both individually and together. Amphibian Orinoquia seeks to invoke a metamorphic capacity to inspire technological ambition and intellectual sensitivity by engaging at multiple scales sculpting proposed public spaces with the following three strategies: a) Systems of Biocultural Programs creating public spaces in a non-linear transversal structure throughout the city able to address flood control, water treatment, education, and agriculture; b) Urban Journeys of Native Canopies helping rediscover viewpoint corridors, urban rectilinear patterns, terraced public spaces and abundant native vegetations; and c) Local Networks of Cosmic Intimacy suggested along their water bodies with a series of public spaces that engage physically and emotionally back to the city.

PROJECT FOCUS In The Grand Scheme

Entrance Corridor 1. Civic Welcome Center

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NO LECHE MIEL RIVER ACCESS A Threshold Barrier Leche Miel located behind existing residents, yearns to recover and embrace their neighboring river. Heights between the bottom of Leche Miel and crossing bridges for instance act as barriers closing any form of public access. Gabion walls built at these intersections provide the opportunity to construct a series of get-downs for enhanced public access. With the combination of gabion walls and minor grading operations, open walkways would begin to generate semipublic spaces between passing residents and private gardens. Such moments would produce a Regional Atmosphere of Biocultural Programs by establishing a transversal non-linear structure throughout the city. The physical and cultural programming would address flood control, water treatment, water education, and water agriculture while also creating public spaces that embrace existing topography, native vegetation, and existing institutions.

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LACK OF TUA RIVER ACCESS A Threshold Destination Tua River parallel to Leche Miel similarly has no access due to the blockage of residents and extreme topographical changes. Undeveloped areas near existing residents provide the opportunity to create entrances, public areas, and overlooks out towards the Piedmont’s mountainscapes.

While Leche Miel integrates the river into the urban fabric--blurring the boundary of the city to the river–programs along the Tua river offer a more naturalistic and immersive experience. Urban Journeys of Native Canopies would inspire vast areas near Tua to help rediscover traditional urban practices using view corridors and terraced public places. The strategy capitalizes on natural assets like slope condition and native vegetation dimensions. Phased implementations for the canopy over time would also both minimize biological and monetary cost while maximizing cultural impacts.

Well Reserved Natural Environments

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Gabion Walls Existing

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Open Public Land

Calle 17 Bridge

Well Reserved Natural Environments

TUA RIVER Code Logic Planting strategies are defined by a grasshopper code, which controls the distance between trees and shrubs, crown radius and height.

These parameters rely on attractor points, which are located in the retention ponds, river and two visual corridors that guarantee a great view from 2 observation points.

The closer the vegetation to attractor points or visual corridors the smaller their sizes are.

ATTRIBUTES Controlled - Distance Between Trees - Crown Radius - Height - Visual Corridors

PLANTING Code Logic

LECHE MIEL Code Logic

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VISMIARA VISMIA GUIANENSIS

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BYRSONIMA BYRSONIMA CRASSIFOLIA

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PROGRAMS GABION WALLS OUTDOOR EATING SPACE OVERLOOKS PRIVATE GARDENS PUBLIC GARDENS / REC. RESIDENTIAL PROPOSED RETAIL PROPOSED WATER

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CIRCULATION PRIMARY EDGES PARK ENTRANCE WATER ROUTES BASIN ENTRANCES STREET CIRCULATION TERTIARY EDGES VIEWS

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TUA RIVER Pool Island

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LECHE MIEL

The Cities Urban Pool

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Meshing Thresholds [a cultural and recreational guidance]

Pennsport, Philadelphia, USA

Meshing Thresholds integrates Pennsport’s community with our site (1533 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd.) and the Delaware River Waterfront. To incorporate such connections, a RECREATIONAL & CULTURAL EDGE are proposed as a way to guide pedestrians through THRESHOLD BARRIERS like the abandoned railway system at Christopher Columbus Blvd. (bottom-right), the Interstate 95 bridge (middle-right), and deserted waterfront piers (top-right). Both recreational and cultural corridors MESH VEGETATION and HARDSCAPE LAYERS to create programmed spaces for pedestrians to relish in taking advantage of existing one ways and bicycle paths (mappings below), also inspiring entry plazas into the site. Shapes and forms created to “MESH THRESHOLDS” are inspired from Assignment 1: Structured Fields where I explored how to associate curves with HISTORICAL and EXISTING GRIDS as seen below.

Vertical Topographic Sections

LARP 502 / Spring 2016

Vacum Suctions

Individual Project: Christian Cueva

Sculpting Plaster

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Open Lawn 04.

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Rec. Field 07.

Wetland 08.

Garden 09.

Rain Garden 10.

Historic Facility 11.

Extended Parking 12.

Skate/Bike Park 13.

Farmers Market 14.

Railway Tracks 15.

Living Classroom 16.

Water Trolley 17.

Lower Deck 18.

Terraces 19.

Bike Trail 20.

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MESHING THRESHOLDS Breaking Down Barriers Meshing Thresholds comprises of an east to west connection made at Washington Ave., Reed St., and E. Tasker St. Such connections are made with layers of vegetation and hardscape added at threshold barriers to create programmed spaces that would help move pedestrians from Pennsport community towards the Delaware River Waterfront. Inspirations are derived from historic railway lines that once crossed into the site challenging existing grids and circulation. Vegetation added include areas at open parking lots underneath I-95, to the abandoned railway lines, and the site towards the Delaware River.

The project effects about 120 acres of land is proposed to be completed in phases from west to east developments highlighting unique proposed moments of skateparks (A), pedestrian railway paths (B), enhanced programs at existing piers for leisure and educational purposes (C), observational points (D), in combination creating new waterfront edges (E).

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Nòdinosì [spirits of the winds]

Manitoga, New York,

USA

Russel Wright’s DEEP CONNECTION to MANITOGA can be seen throughout many of his subsequent designs, where we hope to emulate with one notable exception. Wright was successful in designing a place that paid homage to the ALGONQUIN GIVER OF LIFE (GITCHE MANITOU), while our project seeks to pay homage specifically to NÒDINOSÌ, the Algonquin SPIRIT OF THE WIND. Our pavilion aims to create a space where the presence of the wind and the environment becomes amplified through its INTERACTION with the pavilion. UNSTAINED WOOD allows the weather to exert its influence on the structure as it melds back into the landscape over time. By SCORING the wood allowing it to take on otherwise impossible forms, the pavilion provides a different route forward, while still respecting the natural abilities of the material. As a final effect, RIPPLED FOAM sways in the breeze, visually manifesting the presence of the wind in much the same way the petals of a flower do.

Voxel Strategy

ARCH 501 / Fall 2016

Massing Formation

Structural Approach

Skin Layering

Team: Christian Cueva, Kurt Nelson, Xuezhu, Yuchen

Nòdinosì Final

Professor Danielle Willems

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NÒDINOSÌ Spirits of the Wind

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WOOD KERF BENDING Construction Process Nòdinosì’s construction after iterations of 3D modeling began by laser cutting about 100 wooden panels with engravings for easy kerf bends.

Before the bending, wooden panels were soaked in hot water for easier handling. Wood glue is later applied at designated corners and held together by bar clamps until dry. Once parts are dried, each panel carefully numbered are assembled with two bolts on each side. Minor curvatures kept Nòdinosì’s flexible as planned. Foam panels are later installed after carefully cutting by hand with double sided tape. The following construction along with 3D modeling is completed in under 2 weeks.

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Sentinel

[architecture in duration & degradation]

Queens, New York,

USA

In 2012, Socrates Sculpture park became submerged underwater due to Hurricane Sandy. Nature’s behavior, at times unforgiving, is a constant reminder that signal’s New York’s IMPENDING SEA LEVEL RISE as a major threat to COASTAL EDGE DEVELOPMENTS. The anthropocentric phenomena, a dynamic process that encompasses a certain level of UNPREDICTABILITY. With the use of MOSS, MYCELIUM, and BIOLOGICAL CONCRETE, architecture can act as a character in response to such floods with a PROCESS OF DEGRADATION. These characters would become GUARDIANS or SENTINELS of Socrates Sculpture park and overtime a part of New York’s changing costal landscape.

ORIGIN

ARCH 602 / Fall 2018

50 YEAR FLOOD

Team: Christian Cueva & Prince Langley

100 YEAR FLOOD

Professor Simon Kim

WATER EDGE PROTECTION Concept Sketch

GUARDIAN

Land & Sea

Our approach began in section, examining relationships between the land and sea. The Sentinel, also known as guardian or the watcher becomes an agent of resilience.

The occupants of this vessel become an extension of its own survival.

Resilience is embedded within its character therefore it responds to external stimuli to fortify its own existence. It becomes a passenger in the Anthropocene, the Sentinel reinforces resilience.

The site prone to flooding, and ultimate submergence prompted us to understand the temporal aspects regarding tidal fluctuations. Such occurrences called and led the lower portions of design to become periodically flooded depending on the time of day. With the use of Mycelium walls, these materials near the waterfront would act as mediators that mitigate the duration, and retention of water programmed for public use.

Over time the materials would also dissolve and become part of a new terrain acting as a berm generating new habitats while the upper portions remain intact. The structure essentially becomes a character that adapts to external stimuli.

100 Year Flood

75 Year Flood

50 Year Flood

7’ High-Tide

ORIGIN

50 YEAR FLOOD

100 YEAR FLOOD

FORTIFICATION

The Watcher & Sentinals The site plan illustrates the position of 5 characters. Three of the characters delineate human oriented spaces, and the other two delineate the non-human spaces. The non-human characters on the north and south ends become shells that house ecosystems to be observed by humans in which the shell blooms for greater emphasis.

The theatre embeds itself in the landscape, fortifying itself as the culmination of human oriented spaces.

This character becomes the expression of anthropogenic activities that are expressed through the tube, roof and plaza. Varying levels of human interaction are activated simultaneously on these planes for a dynamic experience.

On the opposite end the Gallery spaces are pivoted above the water, generating aging spaces that overlooks the fluctuating sea water levels. The tubes become bridging elements as characters that houses worlds that are expressed as artifices of natural aging tidal theatre that blooms as berms. Moments of steepness allows the tubes to merge with the aging berms ultimately rendering them as non-human spaces that can be observed by the distant observers.

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MOLTING RAIN SCREEN Mycelium + Biological Concrete The details begin to explore the applications of hybridized wall systems. Understanding components of duration and growth, the details become an insight into the structures morphing typology. Wall sections illustrate how one material degrades the other to create a simultaneous pull of the addition and reduction of matter. Irrigation systems are integrated to produce diverse growth patterns and biotic reactions.

Embedded Wire Mesh/ Scaffolding Over Time

Triple Glazed Timber Frame Alu-Clad Windows Structural System

Mycelium Panel Degradation Gaps Over Time

Biological Concrete Panel Degradating Mycelium Panel

Degradating Spots Embedded Wire Mesh/ Scaffolding Over Time

Concrete Moss Growth Over Time

Ancoring Clip

Pre-Assembled Panels Sill Opening Sash Sill Framing

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Gypsum Board Sheathing

Insulation Biological Concrete Panel Wire Mesh

Mycelium Panel Growing Vegetation Anchor Clip 1 Anchor Clip 2

50% MOLTING

100% MOLTING

MATERIAL REGIME Our material studies begin to explore the relationship between concrete, mycelium, and processes of degradation that could be interpreted through various means. Mediums of burning, cooling, and casting were used to explore how different the following materials would act with one another. Moments of insertion, and removal also begin to suggest how materials could begin to interact and respond to different properties and external stimuli.

KEY 01. Unmanaged Mycelium & Concrete 02. Process of Degradation 03. Moss Growth 04. Moss Growth & Degradation 05. Degradation Control through Panel Thicknesses

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KEY The High-Tube 01.

Senti-Plaza 02.

Sentinel to Guardian Section 03.

The Sentinel’s at Gibbs Point Shoreline 04.

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PORTAL LINKS

[a vertical post-industrial garden]

Istanbul,

TURKEY

Portal Links aims to identify portals as OBJECTS (nodes) hybridizing relationships between existing threshold barriers from the street to basin level. To achieve such associations, ODD-KIN (odd + kinship) strategies of unexpected combinations are found with the application of EBRU paintings revealing unexpected vertical and horizontal connections within conditions of isolation. The sites extreme topographical change calls for such HYBRIDS revealing a diverse set of architectural programming at numerous heights. Unexpected extrusions reveal a VERTICAL POST-INDUSTRIAL GARDEN building networks at numerous horizontal plates. As rigid movements begin to intersect and soften with the sites natural MOSS and ALGAE like materials, spatial conditions are carved producing vertical and sunken gardens, seating terraces, overlooks, and weaving switchback networks. Such strategies inspire a link between existing portals separated on site to a disconnected shipyard basin back to Istanbul, Turkey’s urban environment.

Ebru 2.5 Dimension

ARCH 704 / Fall 2019

Vertical Extrusions

Ebru + Concrete Implication

Individual: Christian Cueva

Moss Growth at Basin

Professor Ferda Kolatan

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THRESHOLD BARRIERS Extreme Elevation Change

KEY 01. A Vertical Post Industrial Garden (Object) 02. Entry Portal 03. Basin Top Portal 04. Basin Bottom Portal 05. Switchback Proposal 06. Existing South Basin 07. Bottom Basin Ebru Cutout 08. Proposed Site Plan 09. Proposed Intervention Object (Plan) 10. Proposed Intervention Object (NE Parallel) 11. A Vertical Post Industrial Garden (Perspective) 12. Proposed Bottom Basin Entry (Perspective) 13. Existing + Proposed Integrations (Front Elevation) 14. Portal Links (Perspective)

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EBRU IMPLICATION Paper Marbling to Site Integration Ebru painting techniques with the combination of digital alterations to create 2.5D imageries are studied to create architectural spatial qualities.

The painting is then overlaid on site leading to a discovery of extrusions, driving a logic and sensitivity towards topographical changes.

Techniques of carving and sculpting begin to bridge vertical relations with an understanding of the ebru in plan. Colors also generated from the ebru exercise including orange, brown, and green finally combine a soft relationship with the site’s existing moss, weathered rusty steellike materials and other natural conditions inspiring a vertical post-industrial garden.

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SEASONAL EXPERIENCE Soft & Hard Associations When entering the basin, a shipyard for building and repair, one becomes enclosed by moss and algae like conditions due to the filling and disposing of seawater. These natural conditions create striations of vibrant colors and growth as they are cleaned out on a monthly basis. With the integration of existing portals onsite, the proposal would include a new opening at bottom level, fully immersing people through fuzzy-like environments. Such moments would be able to change seasonally giving viewers the opportunity to vary experiences between soft and hard resolutions. Programs including sunken, vertical, and hidden gardens take adventage of the sites natural wetness and seasonal operations into a post-industrial garden.

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