CHRISTOPHER A. HAACK
PORTFOLIO SUMMER 2016
Christopher A. Haack Jr. chaack@tulane.edu 760.716.9979
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Table of Contents
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Academic Work Re : Generation
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New Orleans Tanzakademie
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Duncan Plaza Civic Court Complex
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Cal Coast Academy
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Sculpture & Model Work
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Drawing & Sketching
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Professional Work
RE:GENERATION REMEDIATION AS A CATALYST FOR REGENERATIVE HARBOR DEVELOPMENT Spring 2016 :: Prof. Ammar Eloueini
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THE PROBLEM OF POLLUTION
WHAT IS PHYTOREMEDIATION?
Within the San Diego Bay, like many working harbors, is plagued by issues of environmental degradation and pollution as a result of industrial and military activity that has taken place from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Considering the projected growth of San Diego coupled with the impending issues associated with global climate change, a solution is necessary to not only stop said environmental degradation, but to actively work against it. Currently there is a $175 million project underway, financed by both private and public means which is dredging 120,00 cubic tons of heavily contaminated soil from the bay’s heavily polluted southern industrial area. This thesis proposes a way to utilize that soil in a productive capacity through the science of Phytoremediation
Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to extract hazardous contaminats from a polluted site. Harsh chemicals are absorded by the plants and either broken down and neutralized, or stored within the body of the plant itself. The current plan for the dreged soil seeks to bury it as contaminated waste ,however, this thesis proposes to remediate the contaminated soil through phytoremediation in a public and visible way on the bay itself as an educational project.
Contamination within the bay
Site context and detail
Dredging location within the San Diego Bay
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Phytoremediation float diagram
Facility Plan
The facility is placed on the current site of the Tuna Harbor Park, however, the site has been decomposed into a a long linear strip containing the facility, and a series of phytoremediation floats which are arrayed according to need in the bay due north of where the facility lies.
View from floats towards the facility
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Standard configuration
View from the breezeway Low density configuration
Storm defensive configuration
Program Diagram
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Section A
Plans
View from a dance studio
Section B
Section C
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Wall Detail Axon
Front Elevation
Facade Detail Section
Facade Detail Elevation
Back Elevation
CIRCULATION MOVEMENT THROUGH THE TANZAKADEMIE
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Traction Motor
4th F
Counterweight
Elevator Specs: Mitsubishi Electric
Elevator Axon: Mitsubishi Electric
3D Circulation Diagram
3rd F
Fire Stairs
Elevator FIXT_CODE FU_TOTAL FU_WASTE FU_COLD FU_HOT
ADA Ramps Convience Stair
Stair Detail
Ground Plan
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Duncan Plaza Civic Court Complex Spring 2015 :: Prof. John Klingman
11 The redesign of Duncan Plaza involved maintaining the axial relationship between city hall and the public library while demonstrating a new attitude of responsible civic use of water within the City of New Orleans. The large bridge facilitates travel on a civic scale over a geometric waterscape which hearkens to a swamp typology that raises and lowers with rain and slowly snakes it’s way across the site. The building is two pieces, one is an oďŹƒce component which creates the threshold to city hall and the other is a lofted courthouse component which provides airy space for legal proceedings
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Section A
Section B
Site Plan
Low
Medium
10 Year Flood
California Coast Academy Summer 2015 :: Studio E Architects
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Existing 1-Story Historic Storage
Minimum Standar
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Proposed 1-Story School East Wing
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Adjacent Trail City Open Space Part of Multiple-Habitat Planning Area (MHPA)
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Existing 2-Story Historic House (Used for School Administration)
Adjace Eque
Property Line
Proposed 1-Story School South Wing
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Existing 1 -Story Garage
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Drop-Off Area
View from the parking lot
Rear 15’ Setback Line
Fire Lane
Parking
Side 8’ Setback Line
Property Line
Site Plan
Adjacent Property Equestrian Use
Minimum 15’Front Setback Line
Drive Ent
Standard 20’ Front Setback Line
Property Line
Drive Aisle
The proposed new campus for Cal Coast Academy, which is a private college preparatory school that provides a unique education for approximately 75 students in grades 6 through 12, is located on a designated historic site with The Clews Horse Ranch bordering the property on the south and east and the SR 56 paved bike path bordering it on the north and west. The proposed scope includes one new 5,340 GSF singlestory classroom building that includes three wings connected by covered, exterior walkways. The author’s responsibilities on the project included rendering work as well as input on strategy for the series of planning meetings scheduled with the client considering changes that needed to be made relative to new easement information.
Sculpture & Model Work
Untitled 03 - Front 3/4 View
Untitled 03 - Back 3/4 View
Untitled 03 was a study in making a synthetic work based on two opposing patterns of grain and texture. The project was carved from a solid plaster block, cut 15 on a band saw to achieve striated bands and carved on the facing edge to appear like tree bark. The column is situated on a hammered steel base. The Elroy House model was a precedent study of the eponymous project by architect John Lautner. Project was completed with Aubrey Keady-Molanphy.
Elrod House - Northwest View
Elrod House - Interior Walls
Elrod House - West View
Elrod House - North View
Drawing & Sketching
Museum of the City facade detail
Museum of the City - Plans
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Shotgun-style house - Concept sketches
Beyond a full competence in digital means to produce drawings, competence in hand drafting and the art of freehand sketching are core concepts of architectural practice. Tulane’s first two years are heavily rooted in hand drafting as a methodology to grasp scale and understand the placement of a drawing on a page. In addition to this the utilization of freehand sketching is greatly important for all stages of a project’s development to work out concepts in a quick way to be rendered more thoroughly later.
CONTACT: CHAACK@TULANE.EDU 760.716.9979