CONTENTS UNDERGRADUATE WORK: Hotel for Bird Watchers UAC: Urban Activity Center Moscone East Expansion OFFICE WORK: Scale Construction: Models
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Hotel for Bird Watchers +SITE Alameda Naval Air Station, Alameda, CA +PROGRAM Hotel and wildlife center: Museum, gift shop, swimming pool, restaurant, guest rooms, dock +COURSE Arch 101: Case Studies in Architecture | Fall 2010 +INSTRUCTOR Nicholas de Monchaux
THE HIGH-RISE HOTEL THE PENTHOUSE SERVICES
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INSTABILITY/DENSITY A force of instability is introduced to the typical high-rise hotel. Toppled, the programmatic organization shifts from vertical to horizontal, and there is a gradient of density from one side to the other.
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INTERESTS The primary interest of this project is the adjacency and juxtaposition of stability and instability on the site, and how this could be explicated through the architectural medium. The conditions of the site itself are unstable: it is atop landfill, on an ex-naval-air-base, at the edge where the land meets the water of the San Francisco Bay.
The hotel for bird watchers consists of a larger monolithic structure embedded in the land, and many smaller structures scattered in the water connected by a series of docks. The land structure houses the hotel lobby along with the primary public programs, such as the museum and restaurant. The modules in the water, floating, are the hotel guests’s rooms. 7
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STATIC INSTABILITY/DYNAMIC STABILITY The main building is embedded in the earth and thus, it is stable. The guest rooms are scattered in the water, half of each room floating up and down with the tide - they are unstable. However, in section, the opposite is true: the mass of the monolith tilts slightly, while the guest rooms maintain stability.
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POOL/OBSERVATORY
WET/DRY Each guest room has two prim ary components. A static half that sits on a foundation, and a floating half that rises and falls with the tide. Programs like the bat hroom and kitchen reside in the static half , leaving the bedroom and living space to the floating half. The wet/dry relationship is inverted “wet” programs remain dry while “dry” programs float on the water.
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UAC: Urban Activity Center +SITE 9th St. & Mission St., SOMA, San Francisco, CA +PROGRAM Multi-use recreation facility and gym. Includes a full-court basketball court, swimming pool, exercise floor, activity rooms, classrooms, outdoor recreation area, administration, and support facilities. +COURSE Arch 100B: Fundamentals of Architectural Design | Spring 2010 +INSTRUCTOR Roddy Creedon
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INTERESTS/STRATEGY The conceptual premise for this project is a living, breathing architecture that is responsive to environment, program and occupants, and determines varying degrees of permeability in relation to the circulation of air, light, and people. The system used to achieve this is a polyurethane coated elastane mesh stretched over a grid of actuator rods, which are embedded in concrete columns. 14
The program is organized into three primary levels: a public-oriented street level that opens into the basketball court and lobby, an enclosed second level with activity rooms, classrooms, and other indoor-oriented programs, and an open-air third level with the swimming pool and outdoor recreation area.
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CLOSED The building’s “skin” is able to regulate the passage of the environment into the building, as well as people. During the day, the skin might stretch to a fully open position, leaving the street level completely permeable to the public. At night, the actuators could extend and the skin would shut, perhaps for reasons of security or to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature.
BUILDING EXPLODED INTO PRIMARY COMPONENTS (TOP TO BOTTOM): MESH SKIN, ACTUATOR RODS, STRUCTURAL COLUMNS/ROOF LATTICE, ENCLOSED PROGRAMS, CIRCULATION 15
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SW FACADE STRUCTURE
CORNER OF 9TH & MISSION
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CORNER OF 9TH & MISSION
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VIEW NORTH FROM 9TH ST.
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Lost Opportunities: Moscone East Expansion +PROJECT MEMBERS John Lee, Raffy Mardirossian +SITE 3rd St. & Folsom St., San Francisco, CA +PROGRAM Eastern expansion of Moscone South exhibition space. Above grade: Plaza, park, amphitheater, and arecessed recreation area. Below grade: Exhibition floor, concessions, and a “black-box” theater. Approx. 86,000 sq. ft. +COURSE Arch 101: Case Studies in Architecture | Summer 2010 +INSTRUCTOR Brian Price
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SITE The proposed expansion is underground, running below 3rd St. with its roof resurfacing at the lot across the street. We saw this street-level roof surface as a lost opportunity, and were interested in reclaiming this privately owned property as public space - specifically as a mixed-use plaza to serve the many working professionals and residents in the vicinity. 0
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STRATEGY Due to the financially-driven nature of the convention center, we developed an approach that would be highly marketable to the city of San Francisco. In an effort to "sell" the idea of a rooftop plaza, we utilize the roof as an advertising surface to generate revenue for the Moscone. Vertical fins extend up from the structural system of the roof, perpendicular to 3rd St., creating large, leasable advertising surfaces. Exhibitors showing below in the exhibition hall could also utilize these surfaces to advertise their conventions.
AD PLACEMENT STUDY
PROJECTION/ABSTRACTION Advertisements on the overlapping fins would function through anamorphic projection; they would be legible to motorists traveling down 3rd St., appear abstracted to near-standing pedestrians, and invisible to visitors in the plaza.
ADVERTISING/PROGRAM RATIO Assuming similar rates (per sq. ft.) to those of billboards and bus stop ads, the advertising fins on the plaza surface would net a profit. Moreover, the leasing of advertising real estate could bring in revenue year-round, even during the convention center "off season." 23
PROGRAM The human mind can retain up to four differentiated items in its visual working memory - items that can be actively operated upon. For this reason, we chose four primary programs to penetrate down into the exhibition hall: Courtyard, Amphitheater, Recreation, and Entrance.
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NODES Located underneath the center two programs are typically marginalized programs such as restrooms and concessions, reappropriating them as landmarks, or nodes, to help guide the conventioneers. The four nodes also develop a more complex hierarchy on the exhibition floor, where typically the booths closest to the entrance are prized. With two entries and two intermediate points of interest, the potential for more dynamic booth placement exists.
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The four public programs penetrating the roof surface into the exhibition hall below, introduce an element of transparency. This public “intrusion� into the exhibition hall occupies valuable convention floor space, but is offset by the revenue generated on the leased advertisements above. This, coupled with the ability of exhibitors to display up above on the public plaza, results in a dynamic interweaving of the private and the public.
PLAZA UNDERSIDE
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LONGSPAN STRUCTURE The structural system utilized in this project is a beam system that is catered to long-spans, advertising, and housing program. With the Sydney Opera House as a precedent, we saw the opportunity for synthesis of structure and our conceptual interests. Each beam is six feet wide, with a flange that moves between top and bottom depending on the location on the span. This results in an undulating landscape of “fins,� where the webs of the beams serve as wall, bench, and advertising.
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BEAM TYPES
Scale Construction: Models +SITE/PROGRAM Varies +COLLABORATORS David Fedyk, Brian Maguire, Robert Petty, Diane Pfeiffer +OFFICE ZGF Architects
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+SUBJECT Corporate HQ +MATERIAL White oak, polyurethane foam, basswood, walnut veneer, acrylic +PHASE Competition
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+SUBJECT Corporate HQ
+SUBJECT Award
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+MATERIAL Douglas fir, stainless steel, sand-blasted glass, MDF
+PHASE Competition
+PHASE Post-Construction
+SUBJECT Stadium Place South Tower - Seattle, WA +MATERIAL Acrylic, vinyl +PHASE Concepts 37
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