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UW CLUB REOPENING EAST PARKSIDE LIBRARY NEGATIVE CUBES CHRONIC ALTERATION ENGULFED ARCHIVES SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE SEAM CEDRIC PRICE’S MAGNET
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UW CLUB REOPENING Adv Architectural Studio I Elizabeth McLean In partnership with Iryna Demianiuk
Fall 2020
The University of Washington (UW) Club was built by Paul Hayden Kirk and Victor Steinbrueck in 1960. Located on a hill, its eastern portion cantilevers out to take advantage of the extraordinary views of Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountain Range. The UW Club was originally designed to host faculty gathering events and its entire eastern cantilevered portion is comprised of a spacious dining room. In the summer of 2020, the UW Club permanently closed, failing to sustain itself as an exclusive, faculty-only building for social events.
Coherence of Interior Spaces The main space of the building is an eastern Dining Room. A straight connection between the main entrance and the dining space is provided by the corridor, which circles around the central courtyard.
The UW Club Reopening project aims to transform the exclusive, faculty-only building into an inviting place for each group of campus visitors: students, staff, faculty, community members, and businesses, while providing a comfortable, sustainable, and inspiring environment that stimulates research, innovation, and collaboration with allied industries. Revamping the club into an experimental community center that incorporates a flexible planning framework is a response to the latest trends in education and future campus development plans. Users can create their own enclosures through the new partition system that is aligned with the existing modular grid. Volume is expanded vertically on the western portion of the building to provide even more spectacular views while also adding space for future population growth.
Expansion of UW Campus, Seattle
Structural Grid
The UW campus moved from downtown Seattle to its present site in 1895. Most of the grounds were undeveloped before the summer of 1909 when a world’s fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, took place. The current UW Club building is located on the original site of the Hoo-Hoo House.
The building’s design is based on a modular system of 18 feet structural steel bays, divided into smaller modules of 8, 4, and 2 ft. depending on the purpose of the interior space.
Maximizing the View Topography and Access to Views
Taking advantage of the wooded lot, the UW Club engages the sloping topography to frame dramatic views of Lake Washington and Mount Rainier.
University of Washington 2028 Space Needs The 10-year conceptual Campus Master Plan considers the projected enrollment growth over the 2018 to 2028 time period, which projects a 20% increase in population growth. To accommodate both the increase in the number of students as well as the continued growth in the area of academics, research, academic and research partnerships, and service, an additional 6.0 million net new gross square feet of space is required. Across all space categories, UW recorded space levels on the lower end of the spectrum compared to peer institutions, which suggests the need for additional space to meet future student populations.
CONNECTIVITY PROBLEM SOLUTION
Expanding Pedestrian Network New pathways were introduced through the UW Club connecting Central Campus with East Campus to increase campus integration and promote community engagement with science and technology. The design proposal includes a through passage which starts with a ramp under the main entrance and continues with a network of bridges that link to existing pedestrian routes.
Defining Objectives for Design Solutions
PROGRAM PROBLEM SOLUTION The “Program Problem” was the UW Club’s exclusive nature, as the only users of the building were primarily faculty. This proposal connects the Club with its broader context, blending existing building program with the ones of the surrounding buildings, the HUB and Fluke Hall, acquiring some functions, like educational facilities with research labs, meeting spaces, and offices, and introducing them in a new flexible format. The tracking system based on the modular grid system allows users to adjust the needed amount of enclosed space for various purposes, from official meetings in the incubator to private coffee breaks in the cafe.
Existing and New
Building Program Expansion One of the defined objectives for design solutions is to support and catalyze innovations through academic, teaching, and research partnerships with allied industries. This proposal completely changes the original program while k e e p i n g i n t e r i o r s p a c e fl e x i b l e t o accommodate any future changes. Two different conditions, and how the proportion of functions can be changed depending on the requirements of the time, were analyzed. For the first option, which is applicable during current pandemic times, the proposal is to reduce common meeting spaces and increase the research lab area to 40% of the building and office spaces to 10%. Recreational area is mainly located outside and is reduced from 50% to 29%. To provide a safe and cheerful environment for studying and collaboration, a tracking system and colorful acrylic panels are available throughout each floor. They allow users to adjust the needed amount of enclosed space for various purposes, from official meetings in the incubator to private coffee breaks in the cafe. The second option is for post-pandemic times, and its main difference is growth of the office area from 10% to 29% which promotes collaboration and gatherings. In this case, less partitions can be used to provide more open spaces.
SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEM SOLUTION
Wind Rose The wind rose shows the wind direction and speed at the UW Club. Using a polar coordinate grid system, the frequency of winds are plotted by the wind direction, with the different blue color bands showing wind speed ranges. The greatest frequency of wind direction at the UW Club comes from the south. This new proposal adds protective polycarbonate barriers around the indoor-outdoor areas so that users can pull them up or down depending on wind and rain conditions.
Overview of the Proposed Sustainable Solutions Existing Sustainable Solutions
The average monthly precipitation and the number of rainy days in Seattle is greater in the fall and winter months, and lowest during the summer months. This proposal seeks to implement a rainwater harvesting system that retains excess water from the rainier periods so that water is available year-round for building occupants.
Average Monthly Precipitation, Seattle
Number of Rainy & Sunny Days, Seattle
Section with the Proposed Sustainable Solutions Proposed Sustainable Solutions
Detail 2. Existing and New Wall and a Natural Rainwater Filtration System Section
Courtyard and a Natural Filtration System
Detail 1. Green Roof
Rainwater Harvesting System Rainwater caught by the roof is either absorbed by plants and grass on top or flows off the slightly-slanted part onto the natural water filtration system. Water then flows down to the underground cistern and pumps back up for irrigation on the rooftop or for toilet flushing. Excess rainwater flows down to the hydroelectricity generator and into the newly established river which brings a new micro-environment and additional outdoor recreation space to the site.
Rainy Day at the UW Club
EAST PARKSIDE LIBRARY Design Studio II Carrie Norman Spring 2018 A library-community center hybrid addition was created to revive an old, rectangular, poorly funded Philadelphia charter school. A central, airy atrium invites locals in to read and gather to share ideas.
Ground Floor Plan
Plan Oblique
Top Elevation
Third Floor Plan
Section Perspective
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East Face
Cut Away Sectio
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Atrium
Lobby
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NEGATIVE CUBES Visual Studies II Joshua Freese Spring 2018 Cubic modules were dissected using subtractive elements.
CHRONIC ALTERATION Design Studio I Gisela Baurmann Fall 2017 Today’s technology has allowed us to seamlessly reproduce ancient artifacts from various cultures right in our studio space. Exploring the art of crocheting, a part-to-whole relationship is devised. The artifacts are multiplied and manipulated at different scales and interact with the crochet stitches changing how they are perceived.
Artifacts
Physical Model PVC, foam core, zip ties, 3D print
Front Elevation
Stitch Pattern
Section
Plan
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ENGULFED ARCHIVES Design Studio I Gisela Baurmann Fall 2017 A sublime cantilever peaks out of Penn Museum’s Stoner Courtyard inviting onlookers to come inside and join the journey to the archives. Using the stitching language to create a module and then stitching three iterations together, the addition engulfs the old museum’s archive and makes the old Penn Museum an archive itself.
Physical Module Configuration Exploration Bristol
Physical Model Cardboard, acrylic, and museum board
Stitch Module Development Elevations
Section Perspective
Site Section
Physical Model Cardboard, acrylic, and museum board
Second Floor Plan
Section One
Ground Floor Plan
B2 Plan
Section Two Section Three
SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE Design Studio II Carrie Norman Spring 2018 Designed to cater to the youth in East Parkside, Philadelphia, these book drops are planned to contain mostly children’s titles. The seed pods are supported by a web-like sculptural jungle gym that allows kids to crawl though, climb, and rest on. The book pods themselves are refreshed of their inventory on a monthly basis by a friendly drone that picks up the pod, reminiscent of a bee extracting nectar, and transports it to a library branch where librarians help curate a fresh collection of children’s books.
Axonometric
Fabrication Steps
Physical Model 3D Print, Wire, Vinyl
Physical Model 3D print, wire, vinyl
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SE AM Visual Studies I Nate Hume Fall 2017 Using chromatic and textural strategies, new features and qualities are developed within the vessel. These new features amplify and augment the vessel’s existing geometry.
Seam Isometric with Color
Seam Isometric
Exploded Seam Isometric
CEDRIC PRICE’S MAGNET Design Studio II Carrie Norman Spring 2018 Magnet proposed ten short life structures for cities which would provide public amenities and stimulate new patterns of public movement. These illustrations depict key points to his idea of 'anticipatory architecture’.
Combinations and Displacements
Generated View
Recognizable Intervals
Mobile Infrastructure
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