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LIVE MIX LIGHT
2nd semester undergrad studio
january-april 2009
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LOGAN SQUARE HIGH p02-11
3rd semester undergrad studio
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LA GRAND PRIX p30-37
TX FALLEN HEROES p38-43
4th semester undergrad stuido
january-april 2010
independent practice
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LOGAN SQUARE HIGH 10
DANNY TRAVIS 3rd semester undergrad studio
september_december 2009
LOGAN SQUARE, CHICAGO, IL With over 2000 new high school students, the latest addition to the Chicago Public School system creates a large scale structure in the midst of the small scale residential community of Logan Square. The area surrounding Logan Square is filled mostly of single family row houses, large grassy boulevards, a cafe, bakery, a small theater, and other small businesses. Buildings typically range two to four stories and the grid of Chicago’s streets is briefly interrupted by Milwaukee Ave. stretching to downtown.
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Logan Square High is a large scale building, over 150,000ft2 that addresses its surroundings without an overwhelming presence on the block. The school’s form, derived from the blocks other volumes and the ever present grid of the city, creates spaces for simple movement, large open public space, and all the necessities required to house the ever increasing population of Chicago adolescents. 12
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The site is surrounded by small businesses and small residential plots. Their volumes influenced Logan Square High’s street condition, the aggregation of spaces and overall building height. In later iterations, and eventually the final building, the grid created by these buildings form the movement between volumes and footprint of the building’s form.
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Lifting the grid off grade a new public space is created beneath the raised volumes that allows for the auditorium to expand. Large vacant spaces between volumes allow for natural light to reach the interior spaces and the open area below. Movement travels along the axis of the grid, providing ease of access and clarity. Furthermore, the grid creates a structural system that encloses means of egress, elevators and mechanical rooms.
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DANNY TRAVIS 2nd semester undergrad studio
january_may 2009
DETROIT, MI
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The New Detroit International Center is an essential space for immigrants in the city. A place to meet, obtain legal services, and learn about paths to citizenship. It also provides spaces for start up businesses, living and work spaces. The location of the International Center in midtown Detroit’s cultural center adds to the sites diversity. Wayne State University and College of Creative Studies (CCS) students share the area with visitors of the Detroit Institute of Arts and local residents. The integration of people around the site influence the design, programs, and interactions within the building’s spaces. Inside specific programs combine to create new spaces meant to spur innovation and challenge typologies. Senses influence patrons’ movements both within and around the building to stimulate the interior economy and the surrounding area. These various programs project outwards onto the buildings facade and surrounding areas creating a volume that adds to the city block without overwhelming the site.
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The studio began with an investigation of buildings as lamps and the influence of light. This lead to the creation of a lamp meant to influence its residing space with shifting planes of color. The layering of various colored planes changed the mood, size, and usage of a space.
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The major volumes surrounding the site, The Park Shelton Apartments and the CCS dorms influence the form of the New International Center. 12
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Examples of the intersection of specific spaces create unique situations between peoples public and private or work and home lives. The homeoffice, the loft-art gallery, the alley way-clothes dryer and the shopping mall-performance space. 10
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The mix of people surrounding the site manifests itself further into the building’s program. Spaces are created into live-work spaces, a performance-restaurant space, and gallery-movement spaces.
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The senses play a vital role in interweaving these various spaces. The crossovers interact three dimensionally, within the same plane and from floor to floor. Smells from test kitchens reach the noses of customers in a designers retail shop a few floors away; colors of textiles overflow railings emitting color into the atrium; the sound of a quartet playing on the main floor reach the ears of an artist in his gallery and CCS students walking to class.
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The all glass facade allows light and colors of the interior spaces to project outwards for students, patrons, and citizens to see. The International Center’s two exterior volumes combine with the third volume of the CCS dorms to replicate the three volumes of the Park Shelton to create a new balance on the block.
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DANNY TRAVIS
MARIA SVIRIDOVA
independent practice
september-december 2011
DETROIT, MI The call for submissions asked designers to focus on urban centers. What are urban centers? What is Detroit’s urban center? How do urban centers interact and influence a cities population?
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Urban centers provide a number of services and amenities for citizens: stores, restaurants, bars, parks, employment, transportation, etc. Every city has a unique blend of these amenities that attract people to them. Slow growth in downtown Detroit is due to a number of these factors. In analyzing these, two proposals were introduced to promote the city’s urban center, economic development and population growth. Lack of retail space and no broad plan for the increasing vacant land were determined to be two major factors inhibiting Detroit as a major urban center. Each of these factors produced projects that both opposed one another on the idea of what makes and urban center and in scales, one macro and the other micro. The two projects were later put on display at the Detroit Public Library for the Detroit By Design 2011 Symposium.
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and vacancy, by focusing on the least utilized areas and naturalizing the spaces. Until development can happen on the land, it is taken over by fields of flowers and tress. As landscapes span highways, the fabric of the city becomes reconnected. Taking cues from existing public installations, abandonment is selected as a way to preserve structures of the past and create new destinations.
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until designated use has been established, land is covered with wild flowers and other vegetation
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taking cue from some notable existing urban art installations, and turning detroit’s ruins into artworks, and in turn destinations
new park land: playgrounds and dog parks inflatable octopus installation original artwork by Filthy Lucker & Pedro Estrellas
large scale photo installation, here a student on Emma A. Thomas school; photo credit: DetroitUrbex; art concept by JR, the artist
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On the other side of the spectrum, downtown Detroit lacks a common indoor public space as well as a central shopping district. The only two locations that qualify currently are the sparse interior shopping locations in the Renaissance Center and Greektown Casino.
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Currently, attractions are limited to large events and nightlife and a mall would encourage a daytime influx of people. Creating a mall it would attract people to the downtown, add a vital amenity to the downtown community and encourage economic growth.
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DANNY TRAVIS
MARIA SVIRIDOVA
independent practice
july-september 2011
DETROIT, MI This city has seen a massive depopulation over the years and the common image surrounding this once prosperous urban center is now one of plight, vacancy, and crime. However, recently there has been a slow resurgence in certain neighborhoods; a once abandoned downtown is seeing an increase in businesses; midtown is regaining traction as a central cultural center, and hospitals are encouraging employees to move in locally. Artists and entrepreneurs are arriving to make their mark on a city that allows for a blank slate. New ideas are encouraged, urban farming is a reality and urban interventions are championed.
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Here, in Detroit’s midtown area stands an empty, rarely used grassy plot of land at the corner of Cass and Canfield. Owned by the neighboring apartment building, the site is located near Wayne State University student housing, apartments, and restaurants. Across the street a new development is under construction. This simple urban intervention, the construction of a bench, helped to encourage the spaces use for the apartments residents and neighboring citizens. It’s design provides seating for those that come here to walk their dog, wish to sit outside and read a book, or enjoy a conversation with a friend.
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The project looked to explore how a small intervention in an underutilized greenspace could active it for multiple uses. The bench was to become a catalyst for future expansion of the area. Its design is split into two parts, along with the intersection of Cass and Canfield, create a boundary to this new space. The two halves are to be perceived as one continuous band, undulating vertically to form benches, planters, areas to lay down and a table. The benches opening allows for access to the park from the other corner of the space where residents park, enter and exit the apartment building. Phase one (pictured) was completed and succeeded in providing residents of the apartment building and their neighbors a place to sit and read on a nice day, walk their dog, enjoy one anothers company. 10
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LA GRAND PRIX DANNY TRAVIS 4th semester undergrad studio
january-april 2010
LOS ANGELES, CA A city best known for its movies, love of cars, sunny skies, and warm weather is not a utopia as many may believe. The L.A. River, a concrete trough that cuts through the city, has been largely ignored and mistreated. Many of the city’s citizens remain oblivious to the river’s polluted waters that can only be seen from the various bridges that cross its concrete banks.
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The LA Grand Prix is not only an event, meant to feed on the dreams of Hollywood and LA’s love of cars, but an architectural intervention to bring awareness and foster solutions to what is currently an eyesore for many locals. The structures built along the river have functions that extend beyond the single event. A pedestrian bridge, parkland, access to the river and two band shells ensure that this previous unused space is consistently busy with locals. This increase in attention is bound to spur further action to conserve and protect the river’s vital waters. 12
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An individual module was developed prior to a chosen site. An aggregation of this module was created, manipulated, and researched. The individual and aggregation of the module looked to discover different scales and spaces that could be created from a single unit. This heavily influenced the various forms and program created in the final structures.
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Los Angeles’ car culture, it’s sprawling highways, and Hollywood movies like Grease and Gone In 60 Seconds have made people dream of racing in the LA River. The new site provides the infrastructure for the LA Grand Prix, an annual Formula 1 race, and various other racing activities. 12
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KENNEDALE, TX The United States Fallen Heroes Foundation asked participants to design a memorial to honor those that have died fighting for our country. Competitors were asked to create an area of reflection and relaxation, a landmark that could be seen from the nearby interstate, and an area listing all those that have fought for the United States and the various states and territories that they represented. The memorial represents each of the United States, commonwealths and territories and the District of Columbia as a concrete plane, uniting to create a central tower. Each plane is scattered with large square columns representing the many that gave their lives fighting for our freedom. Within the central tower the concrete planes create a quiet, calm space that opens up to the sky above. The memorial’s overwhelming dimensions gives visitors a sense of grandeur, allowing them to wander the forest of reflective and illuminating columns to become one with those that were lost. The central landmark tower symbolizes the great power we as a nation possess, united as one.
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