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Asynchronous
Christopher Allen Weaver
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ADP:001
Asynchronous
Christopher Allen Weaver Summer 2013 - Summer 2015
Breaking sequence and shifting out of place, the work here comes from mixed mental states, but together shows a critical shift in my connection to architecture. The works presented for Design A and Design C are essentially characterized by a lack of devotion as I struggled to find my drive to continue. However, juxtaposed between these two is some of the work from my second attempt at Design B, which was the full on return of my dedication and passion as I once again became obsessed with learning and designing. This dynamic sets the stage for the ADP collection as a whole, through which the full revolution will be seen.
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Adv. Design A: Florence
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Adv. Design B: Tampa
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Adv. Design C: St. Pete
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Travel Photography
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Adv. Design A Florence, I t a l y
Prof. Steve Cooke Summer 2013
As the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence has been a popular location for students of art and architecture for centuries. Thus, it is fitting that when Professor Steve Cooke takes students to study in Italy, Florence is the prominent location of interest. Staying for three weeks in apartments in the heart of the historic city, students have the opportunity to experience a magical reminder of a world from a distant past. Descending the winding stairs from our residence, we come out onto cobbled streets, a short distance away from the renowned Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, the site of our project: the Brunelleschi Center for Art, Science, and Faith.
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Brunelleschi Center for Art, Science, and Faith
AD A Prof. Steve Cooke Summer 2013
The project began with a story, there had been a great discovery, a chest of artifacts belonging to the Renaissance genius Filippo Brunelleschi has been found with the missive that they must be used to inspire a new generation of like-minded inquiry and education. Thus, a collaborative effort has been formed to build a center for art, science, and faith in honor of this great man. The site selected was the Piazza della Signoria, famously known for being one of the first examples of Brunelleschi’s experiments with drawing in perspective. The project will be home to a fellowship that hosts experts in the various fields, allowing for them to come together and work collaboratively, making great strides for mankind. These fellows would live on-site in residences that encourage the opportunity for commingling. The fellows will work in a large interconnected multipurpose work space, as well as smaller studies that overlook this grand space. The compound will also provide a moderately sized, comfortably private library with a well lit reading space. In order to bring the work done on site to the attention of the public there will be a 65 seat auditorium that is accessed through a welcoming gallery and exhibition space that displays the artifacts of the remaining artifacts of the chest, and the works and research of the fellows hosted on site. Furthermore, there is a series of small classrooms that will allow for workshops to be hosted by the staff and fellows. Lastly, beneath the compound lies a chapel that brings homage to the faith that Brunelleschi held dear. •••
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Adv. Design B T a m p a , F l o r i d a
Prof. Levent Kara and Mark Weston Summer 2015
In the summer of 2015 professors Mark Weston and Levent Kara collaborated on an innovative studio that emphasized the use of digital tools as part of the design process. The work shown here was done as a two week charette that served as an introductory exercise kick-starting the course. Students were paired into teams and tasked to design a tower on the site of their selection within Downtown Tampa. The program was vaguely given as a hotel, however students were given the freedom to let it evolve as they saw fit. The work done on the project exhibited here was completed jointly by myself and Gadiel Marquez. This is Eyries Machina.
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Eyries Machina
AD B Prof. Levent Kara and Mark Weston Summer 2015
“The body conceived of as a machinic assemblage becomes a body that is multiple. Its function or meaning no longer depends on an interior truth or identity, but on the particular assemblages it forms with other bodies.” -Deleuze and Guattari Eyries Machina is a machinic assemblage that gives life to the space above the city. The project began through collaging the critical sections of significant works together into new sections; this tapped into the quality of space already present in these works allowing for a rapid development of pithy spatial conditions. From this, an intricate digital model was crafted by extruding forms off of these sections and intersecting them with one another. The complexity of this model far exceeded the scale of the project, yet allowed for a vast array of interesting elements that could be drawn from for the creation of the tower. The tower is located at 601 N Ashley Drive in Downtown Tampa, Florida. The site was selected based on it’s proximity to Curtis Hixon Park and the Franklin Street commercial corridor. Programmatically this project provides residential units, a hotel with views to the river, and a series of large scale work spaces that could support cinema and video games studios, addressing the growing prevalence of companies in this field and the current lack of infrastructure downtown to be able to support their needs. Thus, by crafting workspaces of a scale that meets the demands of these studios, this project becomes a hub of a new industry in the heart of the city. •••
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2.1. Section Collages (above and opposite)
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2.2. Exploratory Skin Collage
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2.3. Section Extrusion Model (above and opposite)
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2.4. Grasshopper Script for Structural Cage (above) and Exterior Rendering (opposite)
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2.5. Programmatic Diagram (left), Structural Diagram (middle), and Circulation Diagram (right)
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2.6. Perspectival Experience Study Overall (above) and Detail (opposite)
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Adv. Design C St. Petersburg, F l o r i d a
Dr. Vikas Mehta Spring 2014
St. Petersburg, Florida is the epitome of the Floridian lifestyle. Riding on an early boom as a retirement hotspot, St. Pete has been steadily stepping away from a reputation of a city for the elderly, and consistently proving how it is a cultural hub for contemporary lifestyles for all ages, ranging from college graduates, to retirees, to young families and all in between. Yet, despite its many successes, St. Pete still has its problems, economic hardship stifles development in the lowincome neighborhoods just south of Downtown, and the city is harshly divided by the imposing extensions of the Interstate that spur along the north and south edges of Downtown. Thus, for this course students were split into groups and tasked with investigating the city, and choosing a path for urban improvement.
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Urban Redevelopment - St. Pete, FL
A.D. C Dr. Vikhas Mehta Spring 2014
Teamed up with Diana Sanclamente and Daniel Houghton, the initial task for this course was to dissect the city and understand the existing relationships between public green spaces and the water, giving critical insight into the city as traditionally within urban contexts there is a direct relationship between these assets and the level of activity within a space. As expected the main park along the bay is the most active part of the city, with the secondary avenue of activity intersecting with this strip. From here, we began to extrapolate this data and explore potential extensions of green and blue spaces. This exploration and various excursions into the city allowed for us to narrow in on several regions of focus for our city master-plan. The first of the three districts we began to develop ran perpendicular to the water, pulling activity from the Dali museum towards the second of our districts: the current site of the Tropicana field. The stadium is a drain on the surrounding area due to its need for large amounts of parking and the lack of activity on nongame nights. Thus, our plan calls to redevelop the area as a mixed-use, transit-oriented development. Pulling from the existing proposal for a new light-rail in the area, we connected the waterfront to this new development, and North towards the third focal zone of our plan. Just North of the stadium, near the junction of I-275 and I-175, lies a warehouse district, which we are developing into an arts commune due to its proximity to the existing Warehouse Arts District. This region became my area of focus, and the design was driven by the desire to create pockets of public space that could be used for communal work and events. These pockets are encased by live/work conditions, and a core of programs that shares the artists world with the city. •••
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3.1. Ecology Diagram Existing (above) and Potential (opposite)
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strengths connectivity to central; presence of booker creek; access to pinellas trail; adjacent to campbell park
opportunities connectivity to the dali; near proposed light rail; adjacent to growing warehouse arts district; proximity to schools
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weaknesses adjacent to interstate; removed from waterfront; surrounding context is directed away from the site; disconnected from existing social capital
threats adjacent to low income neighborhoods; the public could oppose the loss of a cultural icon; bypassed by 375, the main point of downtown access
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3.2. Existing Figure Ground and Land Use
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3.5. Area of Focus: Warehouse Art Commune
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3.6. Live/Work Row Home Units Leeching Off of Warehouses
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3.7. Booker Creek Moving Through Commune Courtyard
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3.5. Area of Focus: Figure Ground
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3.5. Area of Focus: Site Plan
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T r a v e l Photography
Europe Summer 2013 Seattle Fall 2013 Puerto Rico Spring 2014
Documenting a space with a camera grants perspectives that would have been missed otherwise. Training the eye to become aware of things present in the world around us that would otherwise be missed. This perspective has its merits and flaws (being a single, static frame as opposed to a fluid experience), yet nonetheless one appreciated for its insight into framing space and light. The images presented here showcase the world seen through the camera lens during architectural trips to the aforementioned locales.
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