GATES HOUSING FOR A NEWAGED COLLECTIVE
VERTICAL TERRITORY ENGAGING ROBOTIC FABRICATION
TRANSIT ECOLOGY HIGH SPEED RAIL AND DEVELOPMENT IN DETROIT
David M de Céspedes
INUNDATION URBANISM AND INFRASTRUCTURE INJAKARTA
SELECTED WORKS ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN
CORN BELT MIGRATION OCCUPYING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
HOUSING FOR A NEW-AGED COLLECTIVE YONGSAN, SOUTH KOREA
MASTERPLAN: TOWERS ON THE PARK
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MASTERPLAN: TOWERS ON THE PARK
NEW COLLECTIVE FORM
RESIDENTIAL 2000 UNITS 40 FLOORS
Gates
GARDENS
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Collaborators Pooja Dalal, Jordan Hicks
Advisors Vivian Lee, El Hadi Jazairy
VERTICAL GREENHOUSE LOCATED AT ENTRY TO SPINE PARK
SHOPS
30 RETAIL SPACES IN THE BASE OF THE BUILDING
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COLUMBARIUM
RESTING PLACE FOR LOVED ONES
CREMATORIUM
THE DEAD ARE HUMANELY AND EFFICIENTLY PROCESSED
HOTEL
BOUTIQUE ACCOMMODATIONS NEAR TRAIN STATION
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he proposal for Gates as an urban megaform in a derelict context outside Seoul, South Korea began as a formal response to the master plan laid forth by the collective studio. In that plan, the district’s infrastructural spine (a constructed landscape that covered rails and highway) was lined by towers. Gates inverts this condition; the towers become voids. This new collective form is a modern parallel to Seoul’s medieval fortifications. It is a wall punctuated by gates, drawing a sharp division between the city and the spine through a lush forested landscape. The gates, meanwhile, articulate connections. Pedestrians pass through the northern gate to access the top of the spine. The part of the building around this gate features community greenhouses. An arterial road passes through the southern gate, leading to Yongsan’s central train station, and the urban fabric across the spine. This gate houses a hotel. The central gate houses a crematorium and columbarium – necessities in South Korea, where cremation is subsidized and land for cemeteries is scarce.
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section through units and public corridor
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The configuration of housing units capitalizes
on the building’s massing. The project is a single loaded corridor, 40 stories high and 460 m long. All of the housing units line the northwestern side of the building, with the bedrooms along the exterior wall, overlooking the city. The units are small and simple. The sunny southeast side of the building, overlooking the spine, is a 7m wide corridor full of small areas for social interaction, recreation, and communal amenities (from ping pong tables to planter beds to exercise bikes to barbeques to telescopes) helping elderly residents to stay active in their community.
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Along the edge of each void, circulation bays create a connection between housing corridors and surprise programs.
Circulation bays act as expansion joints, utilizing a lightweight grill material which enables transparency forty floors high.
Unit A
Unit B
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Unit C
Each of the three unit types take advantage
of the 3.5 meter width of the structural grid. The unit types are dispersed throughout the spine, favoring irregularity in both the units and the public corridors. In all cases, the private bedrooms face the city of Yongsan and in the distance, Seoul. During the daytime, Gates reflects the city back on itself, reflecting structures and open sky. At night, the building becomes a collectivized beacon, positioning the aging Seoul population at the center of the city, both visually and psycologically. On the opposite side of the structure, the ciirculation corridors always face the spine, acting as a vertical continuation of the public activities along the spine’s landscape.
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Tunnel-Form Construction
Elevated Publics
Secondary Voids
If the housing units provide the glue for the
megaform, the punctuation of public corridors, secondary voids, and diversely programmed gates offer a productive counter-argument to the perceived banality of the a large, dense structure. Although the city-side of the building offers a disciplined repetition of rectangular bays, the view from the spine offers a faรงade of constant g_13
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Ramped Circulation
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activity and difference. Rhythms are negotiated at different scales; three gates of varying heights offer vastly different programs, expansion joints provide secondary repetition through the height of the building, ramped circulation routes ease transitions for residents across mulitiple levels, and secondary public voids allow for the future programming and community-building by the residents.
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2012
Advisors Matias del Campo, Adam Fure Collaborators Ziuliang Guo, Justin Tingue, Andrew Wolking
Ve r t i c a l Te
ENGAGING ROBOTIC FABRICATION THROUGH THERMODEPOSITION ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
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Omni-Directional Interpolation
Derivative Interpolation
Contoured Compatmentalization
Exclusionary Interpolation
Transitory Aperture
High Amplitude Frame
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Low Amplitude Frame
Continuous Interpolation Enclosure
Continuous Interpolation Matrix
Topological Aggregation
Vertical Territories of Recursion worked through the lense of “apophenia,” or the unmotivated seeing of connections. The complementary nature of robotic fabrication and non-euclidean spatial constructs set the stage for exploring alternative futures in which the architect’s role has shifted: from the designer of controlled space to the programmer of controlled chaos. Combining the capabilities of Processing, Maya,
and Grasshopper, several spatial explorations tested degrees of enclosure; each test leading to both physical and digital models. Though slight variations in scripts yields vastly different spatial configurations, the transition from pattern to mesh moved to the fabrication phase. Further, the transition from 3D printing to robotic thermodeposition warranted an entirely different approach for the same outcome.
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Various rudimentary extrusions helped to
manifest clear capabilities and limitations of thermodeposition. Definitions of height, thickness, and width translated to temperature, speed, and force. This translation of languate equated to spatial definitions not based on space, but on thermodynamics.
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Planar sections through the vertical territory
identify varations in spatial opacity. After each layer of deposition, 3D scanning identifies several z-coordinate nodes, acting as the moments of subsequent deposition. Thus, the rules governing height and opacity translate into an indeterminate form. The vertical territory can theoretically construct itself infinitely; although each new layer is dependent on specific coordinates, no two levels are identical.
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2011
Advisor Maria Arquero de Alarcon
Transit Ec
HIGH SPEED RAIL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT DETROIT, MICHIGAN
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City of Detroit - served as a basis for mapping issues related to depopulation, unemployment, and brownfield redevelopment. The argument of transit-oriented ecology positions Delray not as a context on the brink of resurgence, but as a spatial resource for the region, ripe for development not based on inhabitants, but on industries of production and industry. Thus, Delray is envisioned as a simultaneous condition of transit hub, industry, and unpopulated wilderness.
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The context of Delray - a community within the
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Correlation between rail infrastructure, abandoned properties, and unemployment.
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Potential plots of development and remediation in Delray.
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Ground Level
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Roofscape + Water Capture
Circulation + Light Apertures
Elevated Plane + Terminal Entry
Terminals + Objects
Ground Plane + Intermodality
proposed site perspective ofcondition public plain with housing structure rendering of central space of train station
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breakdown of development uses
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2012
Advisors Meredith Miller, Etienne Turpin Collaborators Elizabeth Nichols, Klara Puspa Indrawati, Shinta Hadianti Mecca Dina, Anita Jue Yan Viola Zhang
Inundatio
ENGAGING INTERSECTIONS OF FLOODING, URBANISM, AND INFRASTRUCTURE MENTENG, JAKARTA, INDONESIA
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The Ciliwung River, originating at Mount Bogor, serves as the primary watershed for Jakarta and surrounding cities. The megaregion is referred to as “Jabodetabek,� and includes a broad area that contains approximately twenty million inhabitants. The visual research on Manggarai, a small community largely consisting of informal settlements along the Ciliwung River.
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Menteng Neighborhood Manggarai River Lock Ciliwung River
Manggarai Lock in relation to Menteng, Jakarta
Urban Canal System
The Actor-Network diagram spatially maps
the various agencies, organizations, and levels of government who work collectively to mitigate extreme flooding conditions. Although many of the actors work cooperatively, especially during times of extreme weather conditions, our research found several redundancies, miscommunications, and gaps with regards to managing Jakarta’s intricate system of canals and rivers. The site of interest along the Ciliwung River is located at the crux of three different water systems, all of which disperse water away from Menteng the wealthiest neighborhood in Downtown Jakarta. The Manggarai Lock is a series of barriers, allowing or restricting flows of water, sediment, and waste. The water index [right] depicts the various potential situations of water flow, identifying differences based on season, rainfall, and water volume.
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Actor-Network Diagram of social and infrastructural relationships
MANGGARAI LOCK
SEDIMENT/WASTE REMOVAL
lock anatomy and flooding/variable matrix
TRASH GATE
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WATER LOCK
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Sectional studies of accessible riverfront conditions
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Accessible scenarios along the river’s edge
Although residents largely turn their back on
the various water systems throughout Jakarta, the Ciliwung River represents many challenges of the city; the water acts as a barometer, indicating the overall health of the region’s infrastructures of water, waste treatment, and pollution. The lock was therefore analyzed for its spatial possibilities. Two scenarios along the river indicate potentials for the river where inhabitants play an active role in improving the health of the water system.
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2013
Advisor Rania Ghosn
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Corn Belt
SPATIAL PROTOCOL FOR MIGRATION, RESETTLEMENT, AND OCCUPATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
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he proposal for Gates as an urban megaform in a derelict context outside Seoul, South Korea began as a formal response to the master plan laid forth by the collective studio. In that plan, the district’s infrastructural spine (a constructed landscape that covered rails and highway) was lined by towers. Gates inverts this condition; the towers become voids. This new collective form is a modern parallel to Seoul’s medieval fortifications. It is a wall punctuated by gates, drawing a sharp division between the city and the spine through a lush forested landscape. The gates, meanwhile, articulate connections. Pedestrians pass through the northern gate to access the top of the spine. The part of the building around this gate features community greenhouses. An arterial road passes through the southern gate, leading to Yongsan’s central train station, and the urban fabric across the spine. This gate houses a hotel. The central gate houses a crematorium and columbarium – necessities in South Korea, where cremation is subsidized and land for cemeteries is scarce.
“We don’t talk about the farm much anymore. From what I can tell from the drone monitors, the crops seem to be doing fine...”
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“All of us at Safe Zone 01...I’d say about 200,000 farmers and their families, live on the ring - I hear it’s to protect the prairie land inside the zone.”
All of us at Safe Zone 01...I’d say about 200,000 farmers and their families, live on the ring - I hear it’s to protect the prairie land inside the zone.
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Not sure what the Army Corps has been up to on that island anyway, word is they’re trying to find a way for us to get back to the corn belt.
“...look to the island and all you see is prairie and the Mighty Mississippi, but turn to the horizon and corn grows right up to the edge of the safe zone.�
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“The plains – six...well I guess you’d call them plazas – are spread out around the ring...on the weekends it feels like New York City’s Chinatown; all those people roaming around, dipping below the surface to the markets, then popping back up for some fresh air.”
“They say it won’t be safe for another few years.”
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Maybe it’d be nice to go back, but the Safe Zone’s home now.”