DESIGN STUDIO
FINAL REVIEWS SPRING’23
SCHEDULE OF MAIN CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE REVIEWS
AY
22-23
REVIEW SCHEDULE
MONDAY, APRIL 24
Architecture Foundations II
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 2520 ARCH
FRIDAY, APRIL 28
Undergraduate Synthesis Studio
*Juried review of project posters
1:30 - 2:30: Round Robin Drop-in
Graduate Studio in Architecture (A+H)
1 p.m. - 6 p.m.
TUESDAY, MAY 2
Graduate Comprehensive Studio
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m
Graduate Comprehensive Studio (A+H)
1:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Architecture Communication 3 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 4520
ARCH 8960
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26
Fluid Studio: Mihalache
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Fluid Studio: Brown 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Fluid Studio: Harding 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Fluid Studio: Hecker 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
MONDAY, MAY 1
Graduate Comprehensive Studio 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8520
ARCH 8920
ARCH 8920 ARCH 1510
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3
Design Studio II 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m
ARCH 8920
ARCH 2520 | ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATIONS II
Cayce Art Center/Civic center, Cayce, SC
Guest Critics: AIA Columbia representatives and AIA Greenville representatives
Studio Description: This is the first architectural design projects students develop in the course of a semester. The project is to design a civic institution - an Arts Center for Cayce, SC: a building program consists of exhibition space, artist studios, classrooms, a black box theater, café, gift shop and retail spaces – roughly 35.000sqft. The site is located next to two major quarries (Martin Marietta stone company), framed with two freight train tracks, adjacent to the the River Walk ( a recreational pathway that connects Columbia and Cayce).
The studio is divided into 3 phases: (1) Site analysis – (2) precedent analysis – (3) design.
In the first phase, student analyze various site conditions and determine a master plan in groups that potentially divides the site based on its civic and private use, incorporating outdoor design program, such as an amphitheater, a public park and parking. These initial masterplans guide students for determining where they’ll locate the Arts Center on the site.
The second phases consists of precedent analysis. Various projects similar in program, scale and typology are introduced to students to analyze. Thoroughly analyzing these precedents in terms of program layout, square footage students develop their initial massing strategies. Further, students analyze the precedents through various other lenses (polyvalent dimensions) to extract prominent conceptual ideas that derive these projects.
In the third phase, students return to site analysis with various conceptual ideas they develop through their precedent analysis and synthesize them to come up with their parti model. They develop their architectural response based on their parti.
Faculty:
Asa Pellor Lecturer
Byron Jefferies Lecturer
Clarissa Mendez Senior Lecturer
Harrison Floyd Lecturer
Bryan Beerman Lecturer Dave Lee Associate Professor
Janelle Schmidt Visiting Assistant Professor
JD Gutermuth Visiting Assistant Professor
*Studio Level Coordinator: Berrin Terim, Associate Professor
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIOS
De-carcerate. Dream. Design: Transforming the Philadelphia Eastern State Penitentiary into a Hub for Restorative Justice.
Guest Critic: Sharóne Tomer, Ph.D., Associate Professor Virginia Tech
S tudio Description: We don’t need prisons. Closely related to the rise of the state as a politically organized community, prisons are mechanisms of control, coercion, and annihilation – of the individual body, as well as of collective bodies. The so-called “correctional system” has never “corrected” anything, moreover, it has only amplified and multiplied the problems it has claimed to solve. From the spectacle of public torture in medieval Europe to the contemporary abuse and neglect of inmates in facilities throughout the United States, prisons have generated and propagated inhumane and unjust practices that continue to disproportionately affect vulnerable populations and communities of color. They have destructive long-term consequences that affect not only individuals, but entire generations.
French philosopher Michel Foucault, whose critical study Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison exposed the brutality of a system claiming to reform, argued that damaging correctional practices extend beyond the confines of a penitentiary, under the guise of schools, hospitals, or military barracks. How can we repair the damages? How can we explore alternatives that celebrate and nurture individuals with their weaknesses, needs, and aspirations? How can we restore the stolen dignity of a human being?
This project is about UN-doing. Using the Philadelphia Eastern State Penitentiary (which, after it opened in 1829, became a model for reformed prisons throughout the United States) we will design a hub for restorative justice that provides help, support, and comfort to those in need. In this process, we will un-do and re-examine ideas about rest, work, healing, and atmospheres.
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIOS
What Place is the Upstate?
Guest Critic: Mark
Timmins, Founding Partner of RM100 ArchitectsS tudio Description: Clemson, as an institution and an academic community, sits amidst a ten county region known as the South Carolina Upstate. It’s a substantial slice of the state but one that is without a strong identity. Especially in comparison with the Midlands or the Lowcountry. As a geographical Piedmont it is far less known than the same continent zones in North Carolina and Georgia. Even Clemson seems unable to engage with the area in a meaningful thorough-going way. “It’s just the place where we happen to be.”
So what is the essence of this place, as a place, situated at the foot of the Blue Wall? Why is it so hard to see? What are we missing? What does it mean to be living on appropriated land?
This past December Pickens County passed an ordinance designed to protect Highway 11 which is the Cherokee Foothills National Scenic Highway that runs along the base of the Blue Wall all the way across the Upstate. The ordinance is the first instance of a set of guidelines meant to guide development in a way that won’t adversely impact the natural environment. Table Rock Tea Company was an active voice in the process and helped envision a pivotal role for agri-tourism along the Highway 11 corridor.
Faculty:
Faculty:
Andreea Mihalache Co-Director of Architecture Graduate Programs; Associate Professor of Architecture
Tim Brown Associate Professor
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIOS | CONT.
What Place is the Upstate?
S tudio Description: Their large tea farm is still growing and they have developed an agricultural cooperative to develop more agri-tourism sites along the corridor. Table Rock Tea has invited Clemson students to work with them to design a long-term masterplan that would accommodate the tea farm expansion, and a range of visitor services and amenities - while also looking at the corridor for other potential development sites. The studio project will be to work with them to explore plans for growth that draw deeply on the qualities that make this place unique. And this masterplan will of course be considered against a next level measure of access, equity, sustainability, resiliency and environmental justice. Students will be working at both large-scales and very small scales as we take on site planning, landscape design, facility designs, and programming.
And trying to figure out its what makes this place a place.
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIOS
A Center for Design and Collaboration: The Black Heritage Trail – becoming listeners, building trust and forging new paths of truth
Guest Critics: Rob Silance, Emeritus Faculty
S tudio Description: The Black Heritage Trail in Upstate South Carolina Project proposal has recently been accepted and awarded 3.4 million dollars through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project will partner with the City of Seneca, the City of Clemson, and Clemson University. This project will have a 3+ year timeline starting this spring of 2023.
This studio will be a foundational launch pad for the Architecture and Community Research and Design Center components. To accomplish this task, the studio will design a stand-alone building on one of three sites in Central, SC. This building will be +/-20,000 square feet and serve as a hypothetical Design and Collaboration Center for the Black Heritage Trail Project (BHTP). This new building will establish programs, processes, space, and strategies for the BHTP. Designers will be asked to generate architectural building solutions that effectively and sincerely serve as a vessel for listening, establishing trust, and forging new paths of truth.
The studio will embrace several modes of operation. One will be a somewhat traditional design thinking and production process typical to designing buildings. However, the studio will also be structured around internal seminar sessions and community stakeholder conversations. Ultimately students will need to be focused on how design and architecture can play a role. What role should that be? What aspects of Design Thinking can be leveraged for cultural change and transformative leadership? How should designers embark on projects of this nature? What type of spaces are needed?
Faculty:
Dan Harding Director, Community Research and Design Center (CR+DC) and Professor of Architecture
Tim Brown Assistant Professor
Faculty:
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| FLUID STUDIOS
Los Angeles Studio: ADD_home – The Additive Manufactured Home
Guest Critics: Veronica Acosta Designer/Project Leader at BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group | Chuck Krekelberg, Senior Project Manager at Altura Architects, Asheville NC | Mark Rosenstein, Restauranter Asheville NC
S tudio Description: The term 3d printing has in recent years given way to the term additive manufacturing. The significance of this evolution in terminology confirms the shift of the 3d printer from a representational and prototyping device to a manufacturing device capable of producing entire buildings out of any material that can be pulverized into powder or formed into filament. In the last few years, numerous projects have been undertaken for 3d print houses directly from CAD files. The implications for our discipline are profound.
Additive manufacturing is arguably the most disruptive building technology in architecture since the industrial revolution and will fundamentally alter our notion of how we conceive and fabricate building of our design. The studio will be both exploratory and pragmatic in assessing this technology and its implications on the built environment with an emphasis on exploiting the inherent social and environmental benefits provided by additive manufacturing. Housing in Los Angeles will be the program that we use to understand, examine, and set an agenda for utilizing this technology to promote not only new ways of building but also living engendered by the technology. Students in the course will be intensively utilizing the 3D printers in the Digital Design Shop and also applying the computational knowledge gained from previous coursework to explore the spatial and fabrication possibilities of this technology.
ARCH 8960 | GRADUATE STUDIO IN ARCHITECTURE (A+H)
The Cycle of Hope: Moving Immigration and Deportation Toward an [Alt] Architecture of Health, Safety, and Well-Being
Guest Critics: Bryan Bell, Executive Director, Design Corps, Associate Professor, NC State University, Co-Founder, SEED Network | John Currie, FAIA, FRSPH, RIBA, EDAC, Principal of Health Care, Baskervill | William Schlein, AIA, LEED AP, Healthcare Practice Leader, Vice President | LS3P | Caterina Frisone, PhD, Architect, Associate Researcher, Oxford Brookes University
S tudio Description: In the 1970s economic structural changes due to globalization, ideological and cultural process changes, and the lost legitimacy of overt racism stimulated new laws that hardened immigration rights in the US. Immigration detention continues to be the primarily funded state response to unauthorized migration leading to a large industry of privately designed and managed detention centers. Architects are required to design detention centers to comply with federal standard designs that stem from prisons. Detention centers still feature many spatial patterns and security elements of prisons and thus render similar environmental qualities.
The traditional logic behind the design of the US prison typology relied on claims, now unsubstantiated, that isolating and deleterious environments would “reform” criminals through solitary confinement and reflection. However, recidivism in the US continues to be the highest in the world and many detainees report chronic and debilitating adverse health effects resulting from their experience in “secured housing.”
Faculty:
Faculty:
Lyndsey Deaton Assistant Professor
Doug Hecker Associate Professor
ARCH 8960 | GRADUATE STUDIO IN ARCHITECTURE (A+H) | CONT.
The Cycle of Hope: Moving Immigration and Deportation Toward an [Alt] Architecture of Health, Safety, and Well-Being
S tudio Description: The environmental impacts on human health and wellbeing for detainees is overwhelming calling into question an Architect’s code of ethics to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Human rights violations have led to nearly 200 reported deaths in U.S. immigration detention since 2003, when the government began tracking deaths in detention.
Through a series of guest lectures with an immigration attorney, an environmental psychologist, an immigration philosopher, and several professional architects, students learned about the history of immigration and prison design, the current laws and political challenges, and the environmental considerations for detention architectures. They demonstrated the connection between the environment and theory by adopting a theoretical position on immigration and then developing a conceptual proposal consisting of alternative architectures that support health, safe, and welfare. the control of these systems serve as alternative metaphors? And, if a class hierarchy makes this city belong to one more than the other, can the art of building, as an urban action, make this pyramid look overturned? These questions will be leveraged toward design proposals for a new in-residence resource center for at-risk youth populations in the metro Atlanta area.
ARCH 4520 | UNDERGRADUATE SYNTHESIS STUDIO
Experiments in Social Housing: Exploring Architectural Ideas for the Housing Affordability Crisis
Guest Critics: Sharóne Tomer, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech | Rafael Beneytez, Associate Professor, University of Houston | Bryan Bell, Associate Professor, NC State University
S tudio Description: If we had to single out an issue related to architecture and the built environment as causing social distress in the US, the lack of access to adequate housing would arguably be one of the strongest candidates from any reasonable perspective. Some of the most dramatic societal problems in American cities—from homelessness or gentrification to inequalities of opportunity in education and healthcare—are, at least partially, caused by the current housing affordability crisis and the displacements it creates. However, very little of the innovative drive of architecture, as an academic discipline and a profession, is used to imagine alternatives to the current situation.
While plenty of policy think-thanks, urban planners, and social science scholars are proposing strategies, plans and ideas to combat the current housing crisis, the dominant architectural discourse largely ignores the issue. Can architecture, as it did during the central decades of the twentieth century, look at social housing as a culturally relevant issue? What kind of innovative proposals on affordable housing can architects imagine beyond the reduction of budgets, the simplification of housing units or construction efficiency? Our 2023 Synthesis Studio dives into the problem using the tools of architectural design, acknowledging their limits but also their great potential to imagine new ideas.
Faculty:
Faculty:
Lyndsey Deaton Assistant Professor
David Franco Assistant Professor
Kendell Roberts Lecturer
Julie Wilkerson Lecturer
Kyle Kiser Lecturer
Amy Trick Lecturer
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Residential Resource Center for Youth: Building as an Action
Guest Critics: Ryan Woods, Associate Principal at The Beck Group (Atlanta, GA) | Bill Slowik, AIA, Senior Architect - Fluor Corporation | Lisa Lanni, AIA, Principal - McMillan Pazdan Smith | Burak Erdim, Associate Professor, NC State University
S tudio Description: “Why do you want to venture into this vast world that you are unable to master?” The well-known author Italo Calvino frequently asked this cryptic question himself. The answer seemed simple; just to let helpless modern-day readers see and understand it differently through fiction.
Then, as architects of today, we should perhaps ask ourselves the following question: Can architectural design aid helpless citizens of the 21st-century megapolis to see, understand and live it in a different way? In search of an answer to this question, in this studio, we shall focus on five knotty sites around Atlanta, the city that numerous critics recognized as an archetypal land of neo-liberalism.
The project we study will shuttle between the intimate domestic scale of urban life and its expansive ecological and economic hierarchies. Our site and program analyses shall start with a Machiavellian question on architects’ agenda since the early years of the century: What are the synchronic systems in the megapolis that affect the rhythms and spaces of life? The analyses will continue with two critical questions: Can some sym-chthonic or sym-poietic forces beyond the control of these systems serve as alternative metaphors? And, if a class hierarchy makes this city belong to one more than the other, can the art of building, as an urban action, make this pyramid look overturned? These questions will be leveraged toward design proposals for a new in-residence resource center for at-risk youth populations in the metro Atlanta area.
Faculty:
Dustin Albright Assistant Director
Ulrike Heine Associate Professor
Ufuk Ersoy Associate Professor
8920 | GRADUATE COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO
A Freestanding Stroke Survivors Inpatient Rehab Facility
Guest Critics: Brenna Costello AIA, ACHA, EDAC, Principal, Health Studio Leader, The Smith Group, Denver | Allen Buie RA, ACHA, NCARB, LEED AP, Associate Principal, Health Planning, HDR, Boston | David Ruthven AIA, Senior Experience Lead, Philips Healthcare Design, Cambridge | Maurya McClintock, Director, McClintock Façade Consulting, Asheville, NC | Byron Edwards, AIA, ACHA, Professor of Practice Emeritus, Clemson University | Walt Vernon, CEO, Mazzetti, San Francisco
S tudio Description: This project examines the needs of patients who require long-term rehabilitation care and services resulting from stroke and other brain injury and illnesses. It will explore the comprehensive physical, cognitive, emotional, and social needs of patients who have survived a stroke and need long-term care rehabilitation services along with their families and caregivers. To optimize patient outcomes, these facilities must be designed to be enabling, therapeutic, healthful, and sustainable as well as patient, family and staff centered while providing efficient, effective, and safe settings for delivering a comprehensive range of patient services today and into the future.
Due to significant advances in medicine, many more people are now surviving strokes and other brain injuries, their resulting medical interventions, and comorbidities. The aftermath of these interventions and the resulting conditions of surviving patients often requires advanced long-term inpatient rehabilitation care. Interdisciplinary rehabilitation programs are designed to provide comprehensive care for patients as well as the needs of their families. Best practice facilities are being designed to encourage collaboration between patients and care teams, while providing a comfortable, family oriented, healing environment. Multiple treatment modalities typically include cognitive, emotional, and physical rehabilitation for patients who have sustained strokes and other brain injuries and resulting disabilities.
With length of stays that can range over several months, core design principles involve providing supportive areas for patients and their families, including ample natural light, connections to nature and a variety of large and small activity spaces. To promote continuity of care as patients transition from hospitalization to home, it is important to recognize and utilize comprehensive strategies for rehabilitation services, and transitional care services as a true continuum of care for stroke survivors. Recovery from stroke does not end when one is discharged from the acute care hospital. To optimize recovery, follow up care environments and services provided must be comprehensive, yet flexible enough to meet the needs of a diverse range of individual patients at every stage of recovery.
The site for the project is located on the Prisma Health Memorial Campus in Greenville, SC. It is a sloped wooded site that provide challenges in situating the building to preserve desirable natural features, maintain and accommodate storm water retention for the campus, and provide an accessible building and supportive outdoor spaces for therapy, recovery, and connections to nature. A critical task will be to analyze and identify appropriate building site options within the overall site boundary considering vehicular and pedestrian access, parking, adequate buildable area, views, accessible outdoor spaces, and preservation of hydrological and other natural features.
Faculty:
ARCH 8920 | GRADUATE COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO (A+H)
David Allison
Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture + Health and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Architecture Programs
ARCH 1510 | ARCHITECTURE COMMUNICATION
Opening the Wall: A Wall Design for the Lee/Lowry Courtyard
S tudio Description: The ARCH 1510 studio is structured around a series of exercises (1), that culminates into a final design project (2).
1. The students started with an analysis of a hand-held object, learning how to create drawings orthographically. This work led to an analysis of the geometry, hierarchy, and parti of the object. Through physical model making they further explored the object in terms of space, through a solid-void analysis, which was also translated into a digital model using Rhino3D. In Rhino, the students analyzed the solid-void relationships in a series of sectional figure-ground diagrams. These diagrams were used to develop a wall design. Finally, the students analyzed the movement of the object and further developed their wall design, with attention to moving wall elements, tectonics, structural stability, and craft.
2. For the final project, students were asked to manipulate/adapt/ adjust their wall for a specific site, which is the courtyard between Lowry and Lee Hall at Clemson University. In addition to addressing the human scale, they were challenged to respond to the site. Site strategy / site design was considered as a design parameter in the final wall iteration.
Students will be presenting 2 boards (1st one corresponding to analysis, 2nd one corresponds to their wall design), and physical models they made during the process (optional).
Graduate Teaching Assistants
• Connor Smith
• Gauge Bethea
• Kelsey Barron
• Rachael Jackson
:
• Edgar Alatorre
• Kayla Pratt
• Nautica Edge
• Zoe Jackson
ARCH 8420 | DESIGN STUDIO II
A Textile School for Asheville, North Carolina
• Allie Glavey
• Gregg Ussery
S tudio Description: Located on a prominent downtown Asheville site next to the St. Lawrence Basilica by Rafael Guastavino, this project immediately involves considerations of urban design and architectural context. The program of a residential textile school, imagined as a kind of urban “Fluid Campus” site for a North Carolina university with a textile studies major, is primarily motivated by the many connections between architecture and textiles. While students will refine the program based on their research and interests, related program elements include outdoor public space, a public-facing program such as a gallery, textile school studios and classrooms, and dormitories. The textile theme is expected to influence design at all scales, down to a ½” wall section. This studio is the first semester-long project of the M. Arch I track.
Faculty:
Faculty:
Sallie Hambright-Belue Associate Professor + Director of Undergraduate Architecture
Brandon Pass Lecturer
Ertunç Hünkar Instructor Harrison Floyd Lecturer
Anastasia Maurina Ph.D. Candidate
Stacy Scott Ph.D. Candidate
Berrin Terim Assistant Professor
Doug Hecker Associate Professor
Peter Laurence Associate Professor
Brandon Pass Lecturer
SHARÓNE TOMER, PH.D.
Associate Professor Virginia Tech
Sharóne Tomer’s work sits at the intersection of architectural history and urban studies, through research that explores how architectural practices operate within and address conditions of urbanized inequality, with attention to issues of race, gender and climate change. Sharóne’s teaching, writings and presentations address topics including housing, modernism and urban modernity, public space, and architectural activism. She has taught architectural history, theory, design and urban studies at universities in the United States and South Africa. Sharóne also practiced architecture for nearly a decade in California, focusing upon innovative community housing as well as residential and restaurant design.
RAFAEL BENEYTEZ-DURAN, PH.D.
Associate Professor University of Houston
Rafael Beneytez Durán’s practice spans the fields of architecture design, architecture technology and architecture theory. His works has been recognized and awarded at the ACSA Faculty Design Award 2019, S.ARCH Award 2018, Architectural Review Emerging Architecture 2016 (Finalist), COAM2016 Award (Finalist), 2016 London Biennale Manila Pollination, 2016 London TransArt Triennale, 2016 The Architecture and Design Film Festival New York and Los Angeles, CA,3rd Istanbul Design Biennale 2016, Spanish National Award of Public Parks and Gardens 2015, XI Spanish Architecture and Urban Design Biennale 2011. Rafael has taught at the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University (CoA-TTU), Architectural Association (AA), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM-UPM), and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ESAyT-UCJC) as director of Aesthetics and Composition Program form 2009-2011.
BRYAN BELL, PH.D.
Associate Professor, NC State University
Bryan Bell holds degrees from Princeton and Yale Universities and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1991 he founded the nonprofit organization Design Corps with the mission “to provide the benefits of design for the 98 percent without architects.” His current work includes research on the field of public interest design and the SEED Network which Bell cofounded. His work has been supported with three others by the Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Latrobe Prize of $100,000 to research architecture in the public interest. Bell has published four books in this field, has organized the thirty-three Public Interest Design Institute and eighteen Structures for Inclusion international conferences. He was awarded a National AIA Award and was a National Design Award finalist. He has received thirty grants including seven from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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