Cory Archie Portfolio 2016

C 2016

ba.Architecture m.arch 2018

“In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.”

— C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn

East River Aquarium Art Central Liminality SF Film Library Temporal Intervention Dynamic Resolution Library

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Name cory archie Birth 02_24_1994 Contact cma2194@columbia.edu +1 5055064193 alleyways.co.uk Instagram _013517

education university of new mexico albuquerque, NM BA. Architecture 2015

Work Columbia GSAPP Output Shop history Student Employee, 2015-now

Columbia University New York, New York, 2015-2018 M.Architecture

University of New Mexico SA+P Computer Lab Computer Technician, 2013-2015 Albuquerque Public Schools FD+C Architectural Intern, 2015

Extra- Governor’s Internship Program curriculars Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2015 AIAS UNM Freedom by Design Chapter Co-Director Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2014-15 skills Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Rhino 3d HTML&CSS VRay AutoCad Cinema 4D

The intention of the East River Aquarium is trifold. 1) To give the inhabitants of Stuyvesant Town a public aquarium in order to keep travel time to all age entertainment at a minimum, 2) to create a space that places the visitors inside the habitat so that they can view the fish, be viewed by the fish, and eliminate any and all barriers between observer, and observee, 3) to keep a visual history of the state of the east river and allow visitors of the aquarium to watch the reclamation of their river from literal “garbage dump� to aquatic landscape oncemore.

Additional goals, 1) to become part of a research facility to restore the east river, 2) to create exhibitions showcasing the prime state of east river aquatic life.

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To Revitalize Downtown Albuquerque In our current condition, we harbor talent and send it off into the world. It is not that the University of New Mexico does not have promising students—we simply lack the incentives to keep them within the state. Students who desire larger, more ambitious projects often leave for either coast if they are free of familial obligations. Or they remain in undergraduate programs for 5+ years.

Instead of transplanting our talent elsewhere, I propose that we move to a new model of development—we build a partnership with another university within the southwest in an attempt to build a regional research core. We can circulate talent within the region, but still keep it in close proximity to the University—which will lead to more research, more jobs, more incentive to stay in the region, and further growth.

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I began to analyze the site in order to develop form and create the basis for my diagrammatic model. I used circulation as a base and drew upon the most populated areas of the site to see where people were coming from residentially and where they were going for entertainment, leisure, and dining.

I proposed a complete re-working of the downtown area in order to re-imagine new boundaries for the art district and create space for new residential homes and a technology district to draw attention from the various labs and companies within the city.

The ground is thought of as a flat plane, merely a surface for movement. The corner is the intersection of two planes with an obvious end.

With my project I began to rethink the corner. There is no beginning or end—one is constantly at the boundary or threshold of the space. By occupying one position, one occupies all positions of the form eliminating the need for up/down/above/below. The importance of the space changes based on the movement of those above shifting light, shadow, and form to create a multipurpose space for the user. The space is constantly in transition, reaching no finality.

The topography is taken from the neighborhood above. The spaces serve multiple functions—parks, skate arenas, shops, theaters—all beneath the percieved ground creating a new “ground” that redefines the limit of the corner beneath a building.

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Best FILM MOMENTS BY DECADE IN SF

comedy drama fantasy horror thriller action/adventure romantic comedy science fiction diameter : # awards won

2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1980 1979 1978 1977 1974 1973 1972 1971 1968 1967 1963 1962 1961 1958 1957 1954 1950 1948 1941 1936 1924

CONCEPT: How were pioneering techniques in film first percieved by the original audience? More importantly, how can architecture be used to preserve, or emulate the sensation first felt that generated the emotion which provoked critics and audiences to place such importance upon certain momentsand scenes in film.

INSPIRATION: Vertigo, by Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo is the perception of motion where none exists. Filmed in December 1957 with location footage of San Francisco, Hitchcock was one of the first directors to take advantage of the dolly zoom, now colloquially known as the “vertigo zoom� to change perception and disorient the audience.

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EMOTIONS AND GENRE anger

fear

disgust

happiness

sadness

surprise

neutral

anxiety

love

depression

contempt

pride

shame

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comedy

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adventure

drama

romance

thriller

horror

western

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FILM MOMENTS BY DECADE IN US

PROCESS DIAGRAMS

FLOORPLAN DIAGRAMS anger

fear

disgust

happiness

sadness

surprise

anxiety

love

depression

contempt

pride

shame

horror

drama

thriller

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FACADE DIAGRAMS horror

drama

thriller

comedy

For this project, I began to consider the subway platform as a place for respite—how can one use the time before travel to center oneself before the journey at hand. I studied various modular projects in an attempt to reconcile my interest in large scale urban city projects that could be duplicated across various platforms with the desire to create various sized spaces for diffusion of energy. I began to think of the meditation pods as temporal interventions, linking the time before and after travel. Each pod adapts itself to the user, creating an atmosphere for the traveler of peace to either start or end their journey with.

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This studio established typological innovation as its central goal and posited that a focused engagement with architectural design thinking constitutes a necessary approach toward it. “Innovation” was recognized as the effect of a historically significant contribution in the lineage of the typology at stake.

In this regard, the library building presented an appealing challenge because its tradition seems to have been driven by constant typological changes.

Our premise was that the six propositions below delineated a design framework capable of facilitating such contributions. They targeted the possibility of collapsing two long-standing dualities that remain at the core of practice in our field: form vs. program and architecture vs. engineering.

1a. From “Shape” to Spatial Organization 1b. From Form vs. Program to Form-Program 1c. From Separation between Floors to Three-Dimensional Infrastructure 2a. From Architecture vs. Engineering to Architecture-Engineering Hybrid 2b. From Structure as Neutral Support to Structure as Spatial Medium

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