Christian Pepper A design collection
Index for projects
Food Village Train Tech Museum
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Houses for Haiti
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School House Rock
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Lumilink
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QUIPIT
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Digital Library
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Post-playground”ism”
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Turner Middle School
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Urbana to Danville | An Urban Design Strategy
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FOOD VILLAGE Toronto, Ontario/ Group
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Collaboration with : Dimitri Polychonopoulos
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FOOD VILLAGE
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Food Village
Design Notes
What
Food village is a project that focuses on bringing to life a specific alley in the arts district of Toronto, Ontario.
How
Small start up restaurants apply to occupy one of the Food Village’s quick kitchen’s and then occupy the location until they
Why
Food Village was designed with the self-initiated spirit of the food truck in mind and thus the business model is designed similarily. The Food Village is design to be a venue for accomodating various arts from culinary to architecture.
Formal Language
The formal design is driven by an interest in creating a unique exciting environment and the goal to bring to life this rooftop and its adjacent alleyway.
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TRAIN TECH MUSEUM Champaign, IL / Individual
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Design Notes What
A museum delving into the subject of the technology of railroads and trains.
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A museum design that focuses on implying a journey through the space, but allows the occupant to decide their own journey.
Why
The journey experience is necessary in telling the story of the museum. Allowing the occupant to find their own path through the museum allows for them to take in the information they want in the way they chose.
Formal Language
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HOUSES FOR HAITI Design Notes
Léogâne, Haiti / Group
What
The prompt for the competition asked to design housing for a critical region of the world. We chose this recently earthquake devasted area of Haiti to be our site.
How
We designed a unique solution that combines the typical style of housing in the area with some innovative strategies.
Why
The design employs a use of concrete covered foam sheets as the main surfacing device covering a light weight concrete frame. This is able to keep the building light and somewhat flexible while still maintaining the prestige that Haitians derive from concrete
Formal Language
As was stated earlier the form of the building is brought about from a combination of the typical kay design and our own unique adaptations to that.
Collaboration with : Kelly Tang Molly Ma
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Modular panels are fabricated using a foam core interior and a cement and plaster veneer
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After the panels are hung, the rebar is bent around the panel to secure it in place .
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SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK Design Notes
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Chicago, IL / Individual
What
This is a project for a large scale educational and residential facility in the heart of Chicago’s downtown loop district across from Grant Park.
How
The design was conceived as a way to alleviate problems in the CPA system and issues with affordable housing.
Why
This design is able to provide affordable housing in the heart of the city to those who would not normally be able to afford it. It also begins to speak to a larger educational issue and provides a unique conception for a educational reform.
Formal
The shape of the building is as if it is exploding past the two buildings surrounding it. The interior spaces are meant to be challenging to further engage the student’s mind and offer a unique experience everyday of occupancy.
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I AM REALLY EXCITED FOR MY FIRST DAY AT THE NEW SCHOOL IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO! MY FAMILY JUST MOVED IN
OKAY, WELL IT LOOKS LIKE I HAVE TO GO FOR NOW, BUT I WILL SEE YOU LATER.
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C’MON NOW MATT. LET’S RUN ALONG.
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I HAVE ONLY BEEN AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR A FEW MONTHS NOW, BUT ALREADY I FEEL MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN LEARNING AND BUILDING MY OWN EDUCATION. 27
BIG IDEA
FOrmal pROGRAM DISTRIBUTION Program inventory High-Income Housing
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What we proposed was a new model for education which combined learning and living. This idea begins to break down racial barriers and allows for the school system to respond directly to population changes.
Formal design process
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School
EACH SPACE IS UNIQUE AT THE SCHOOL, ITS SO FUN TO JUST EXPLORE THE BUILDING. EACH DAY IS A NEW UNIQUE ADVENTURE IN LEARNING!!!!
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THE NEW SCHOOL PROVIDES BOTH PHYSICALLY VAA THE ARCHITECTURE AND BY THE CURRICULUM FOR THE STUDENTS TO TRULY EXCEL!!!
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ONE REALLY COOL THING ABOUT THE SCHOOL IS THAT IT HAS LOTS OF ROOMS THAT YOU CAN TRANSFORM TO HOWEVER YOU NEED TO USE THEM AT A GIVEN TIME!
LECTURE/PERFORMANCE
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GALLERY/EXHIBIT/THEATER
School
The unique formal language of the building required an equally unique structural design.
STRUCTURAL DESIGN AND DETIAL
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2050 Urban learning model
I really enjoy being able to work on projects out here!
this new learning center sure is amazing! i LOVE BEING ABLE TO LEARN with my friends OUTSIDE!
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LUMILINK Design Notes
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Deployed globally / Group
What
This project was designed as a proposal for the future of social lighting in cities. To connect people across the globe using lighting as the medium of transfer.
How
Each unit consists of a photovoltaic panel, an LED light strip, and a transparent OLED screen grouped with a touch s sandwiched between two pieces of glass. The panels are supported by hollow titanium tubes which house the computer and wiring for the electronics. input.
Why
Bringing an old idea and new technology together to bridge cultures was the inspiration behind our concept. Our project expands the geographical boundaries of these spaces to bring new meaning to human interaction.
Formal
The form is heavily based on the idea of modularity and ergonomic construction, since affordability would be an issue in different countries.
Collaboration with : Nathan Capaccio Dimitri Polychonopoulos
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QUIPIT is an architectural organization in the school of architecture at the University of Illinois. We look to create engagement and involvement among the students, through interesting discussions and projects.
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The goal of QUIPIT is to try to get design students fully invested in their education. We have completed numerous installation projects and proposals. Ranging from swings to video wall propostions. Visit www.quipit.org for more
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DIGITAL LIBRARY Design Notes What
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Chicago, IL / Individual
This project asked to conceive the library of the future. I designed the library of the future as a place for digital and hard copy materials. The library was divided into 4 sections, the main stacks, the children’s floor, the reading floor, and the digital floor.
Why
The separation into 4 sections helps to bring about a dialogue through the bulding of conveyance of information and how digital technology has influenced the process of gaining information.
Formal Language
The physical form of the building is based off of the arrangment of the four 4 main programatic elements. The digital floor rests above the remaining floors similarly to the way a situated above the rest of the world.
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Post-Playground “ism� Design Theory
Champaign, IL / Group
Postplaygroundism is looking at life post playground where we are stuck in studio instead of outside playing around and exploring. It proposes that in order to bring activity to the courtyard, we reinvestigate our yearning for fun. The question then becomes, how can we make the playground, palatable to architects? It certainly could not just be fun. It would have to include some sort of “materialityâ€?, “juxtapositionâ€?, “conceptâ€?, and “sustainabilityâ€? aspect. We would have to worry about “how it touches the groundâ€?, “what aspect of life we are overanalyzingâ€?, “along what datum it is organizedâ€? and what “-ismâ€? we are addressing. It ZRXOG KDYH WR ZKROO\ XQLĂ€HG LQ FRQFHSW $QG ODVW EXW QRW OHDVW LW ZRXOG have to be white. Postplaygroundism accomplishes all of those things and MORE. It is fun too. Conceptually, we want to get students and faculty outside and enjoying themselves thus brightening the mood and desterilizing, destressing the architecture school experience. The slide, teetertotter, and monkey bars recall childhood joy while unique suprises are tucked away waiting for someone to stumble upon them. We are not just organizing space or proposing new areas of seating. We are proposing a place for enjoyment and relaxation: a happy place if you will.
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Collaboration with : John Campbell Chris Woodward Travis Schiess
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Turner Middle School Addition and Renovation Design BLDD Architects
Jacksonville, IL / Professional
The design proposal for Turner Middle School in Jacksonville, IL was a project that a partner at BLDD architects asked me to develop. Over the course of a few weeks in collaboration we developed a design strategy for a new learning facility, which focuses heavily on collaboratively learning through a project based curriculum. The design was built to most effectively support this type of teaching strategy. There are within this design a variety of scales of learning environments mixed wihin individual knowledge neighborhoods.
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Interior Atrium
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Media Center
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URBANA TO DANVILLE URBAN STRATEGY Design Notes
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Urbana, IL / Individual
What
This project was developed as a strategy of blending the divide that exists between the rural and urban conditions.
How
The form of the urban design acts as ďŹ ngers allowing agricultural land to seep into the urban
Why
This allows for a whole new urban environment that never existed before. One that is dependant on both the systems of the city and of the rural land.
Formal
The shapes and forms of the city are intensely dense near the heart of the city. Nearer the edge of the plan spaces are opened up to allow spaces for gardens. Pockets are placed in the city as multi-use public spaces.
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With all this new technology farming has been made easy. I can control all operations at home from my computer
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I really enjoy walking around the city and when I need to go to another town I can just take the bus. It’s always on time.
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St. Joseph, IL Population Area [miles sq.] Density [pop./miles sq.]
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Proposal Population Area [miles sq.] Density [pop./miles sq.]
Ogden, IL Population Area [miles sq.] Density [pop./miles
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Being a farmer, I have come to notice that there is a growing boundary between the rural and urban conditions. What can we do to fix this? 66
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Well Mr. Farmer, let’s bridge this boundary by literally penetrating agriculturally productive land into the urban environment. Then by doing this we create an entirely new urban condition in which to live.
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Fithian, IL Population Area [miles sq.] Density [pop./miles sq.]
506 0.38 1,300
Oakwood, IL Population Area [miles sq.] Density [pop./miles sq.]
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The form of the plan is built from a need for the agricultural land to penetrate into the city environment while still maintaining a certain density within the city and creating interesting functional public spaces.
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In the future we expect large scale farming to become completely automated, while still maintaining a socially involved small scale production of produce. Something like this!
LARGE SCALE FARMING
SMALL SCALE PRODUCE PRODUCTION
That is really exciting, but how does it all work?
Large scale automation.
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Food is grown in the immediate local environment
It is then distributed to markets located within the city
The food and produce is then consumed by individuals
Finally, we want to propose an Institute for Micro-agriculture within this community. So that you can continue developing and researching innovative farming techniques
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I must say it is exciting that someone is looking to develop the future rural/urban landscape in such an intriguing way.
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
We just want to ensure that as large cities continue to rise in population we do not forget the important role agricultural land plays in a truly sustainable future
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
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