David O. Gonzalez
Graduate Dc-CAM My Most Sincere Project... Farm Park
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Documentation Center: Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia NGO - Research/School/Museum Center Dc-Cam Proposal 8,900 sq M Columbia University GSAPP Critic: Studio MDA Fall 08’
Museum massing along spine
Lines resultant of massing
School massing along spine
Lines resultant of massing
Massing along spine
Lines resultant of massing
Dispersal of Victims in Space
Courtyard Night View
Volumes of Space Threshold / Spine
Museum
School
Spine / Museum / School
Result of Stage 4
Volumes of Space
Connection
Refinement of Network Through Site
Refinement of Volume
Result of Stages 1 - 3
Extraction of Volumes
Relationship to Site Volumes
Refinement of Threshold
Program infill of Volume
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PROGRAM Vectors from Past / Future to be addressed
stairs
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Volumes affected based on approach
Refinement of Volumes
CLEANUP BY HAND Approach to Volumes
Lines create Volumes
Filter (Stage 1) Create Push / Pull Force
Push / Pull Force Upon Volumes
Resultant Volumes
Nodes Result of Stage 9
Result of Stage 3
Volumes from Lines
Process through diagrams Intersection of Volumes Connection through intersection
Infill of Extra Space
Connection through surrounding nodes
Node pushes outward to create space
Result Result of Stage 7
Exist / Future Forces
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Site Plan
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Street Perspective - Museum View stairs
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A 3" risers
stairs
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Second Floor Plan
Entrance
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Exterior Night View
Interior Office Space
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Hypothosis - if we create a building based on the events of genocide, so that we lay down a foundation from where to continue from. It could create a threshold that becomes a starting point to a different “better” “warmer”essence for cambodia. While still paying respect to the forgotten.
Section B2
Front View Massing Model
Courtyard Transition
Section B1
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Massing Model Top View By creating a systematic unification of the existing events to capture a threshold of letting go to move towards a warmer (more sensible) essence (future), while creating an awareness and understanding of sensory information of the past in order to pay respect (not to forget their existence).
Exterior Perspective
This is not to be taken literally as a way of creating design through a cliché of pain, or suffering. No, it is more used as what the continuation of the actual victims is and how they are treated and how they feel about Cambodia. IT HAS NO PLACE AND NO IDENTITY. So the system is more on a conceptual level of, the after of the genocide. As offensive as this sounds, what happened, already happened, and instead of creating a “memorial”, create instead a threshold that may allow people to “forget” and PERMIT them to move forward.
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My Most Sincere Project... Mumbai, India/New York, NY Nothing Object Proposal 10,000 sq. ft. Columbia University GSAPP Critic: Reinhold Martin Spring 09’
“Object “
Site Landing Options
If we create an object, as “architecture” and plug it into a city, without giving it a meaning or purpose, it will influence the city more than a predetermined “building”. If we give it to the people then I believe it can truly act as a force to the city, as a beginning of something that can then grow more into the city acting as an injector instead of a subjector.
City Massing View
Perspective Landing “Zones”
Street View
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Can we create nothing, or something meaningless. Why? Because, why do we always to justify ourselves or create something based on something else.
Site Option Rendering - “who cares”
Study Sketches
Section 1
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Study Model 3
Site Option Rendering - “It Fits”
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The “architecture” is not what’s important, it’s the idea if the UGO changing its landing zone, by allowing the people to give it its meaning, adapting “it” instead of adapting to it.
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Second Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
Interior Perspective
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So even if we would try to justify our actions we wouldn’t be able to. Subjectivity does not exist, therefore our actions can be equal by just doing them without any justification or a re-griding of a city to make a project.
Site Option Rendering - “Critics Opinion”
Site Option Rendering - “Mumbai”
“Object” Continued
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Massing Model
My Most Sincere Project...”cold feet” It is more important what the project becomes than how you get to the project. Justification is only a way of pretending what we as architects/designers actually matters. Nothing matters. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for anything. There is no program, no set site, no justification for the form, yet it is still architecture none of that “stuff” matters. Create an “object” drop it into a site and the reaction is more important than the object itself. Nothingness is characterized by an egoless state of being in which one fully realizes one’s own small part in the cosmos. We as architects let our ego get in the way of why and what we design, justifying everything as if it had a meaning to save the world especially in academia. So, no more justification, rather persuasion, that is why it is more important what the people do to the project and what the “object” becomes than what I as “Mr. Architect” can say it is, and that’s why I say the form, site, and program do not matter.
Interior Perspective
Massing Model
Site Option Rendering - “New York”
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Farm Park New York, NY USA Green House Art Park “Plot” Green NYC Proposal Columbia University GSAPP Critic: Kate Orff Summer 08’
Organizing the Ground Plane
Public Art Walls
Different experiences for the different people who live around here. Children, adults, elderly, a place that they can find the “usefulness of the space” while at the same time giving them a sense of place (ownership) when they are there.
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The place that is created should have many different experiences for the different people who live around here. Children, adults, elderly, a place that they can find the “usefulness of the space” while at the same time giving them a sense of place when they are there. It should be treated as a park but a park that is taken care of by it owners which in this case is the whole community. This sense of community brings this idea of community gardens, community parks, community farms, for people to enjoy as well as take advantage of. The project should engage this area of the water and make the connection back to the people through its different uses that we may propose. The threshold area will act as a transition and a sense of beginning to know where you are going to and what you might experience. The area of the threshold maybe could be divided into space for public use and some for more specific uses such as planting of different vegetable and fruits. It should be a place for the community to use but not to take advantage of, a place that they can see as a “refuge” but also a place that they must work for to take care of, a place with many different experiences can bring the community closer together. To give a sense of place to the community, while giving them responsibility of that place.
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Acrylic Model
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Site After
Model
Model
Site
Site Section
Farm Park Continued
Ground Floor PLan
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Organizing
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People have a fundamental yearning for great bodies of water. But the very movement of the people toward the water can also destroy the water. Either roads freeways and industries destroy the waters edge and make it so dirty or so treacherous that it is virtually inaccessible; or when the water’s edge is preserved, it falls into private hands
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When natural bodies of water occur near human settlements, treat them with great respect. Always preserve a belt of common land, immediately beside the water. And allow dense settlements to come right down to the water only at infrequent intervals along the water’s edge. _a pattern languag -Christopher Alexander
Public Garden Plots
Green Houses
Walkways with public art walls
Rendering
Public Art Pavilion New York, NY USA Rendering Public Pavilion Columbia University GSAPP Critic: Daniel Vos Fall 08’
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Art Therapy Museum New York, NY USA “Journey of Perception of Self” Renderings Florida Atlantic University Critic:Josh Uhl Spring 06’
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Sentinal Outer Space Renderings/Animation/ Design Columbia University GSAPP Critic: Chris Whitelaw Spring 09’ Team: Tana Hovland - David Gonzalez
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Architectural Object
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Anywhere “UGO” Can we classify Architecture: What is it? Renderings/Design Columbia University GSAPP Critic: Reinhold Martin Spring 09’ Unfinished
What if we took an “object” called it architecture , and drop it on a site. Does this mean the site is changed? or is it the object that will adapt to the site. What if there was nobody to inhabit the object, will it still be architecture?
Or the complete opposite, what if it was overtaken by people, would this make it great architecture?
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