Andrew Delle Bovi: Graduate Design Portfolio Project 1

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ANDREW DELLE BOVI SELECTED

WORKS

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P R AG M AT I C O R N A M E N T APARTMENT RESIDENCE Group: Jonathan Lain & Weijia Zhang

Instructor: Matias Del Campo

5. three limbs

4. nine limbs

3. six limbs

2. three limbs

1. Tetrahedron

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he city of Vienna is about to cross the 2 Million inhabitants mark, in this respect the Rathaus is looking for strategies to provide sufficient housing for future inhabitants, without expanding the city limits. This environment forms the frame of the studio and defines the basis for explorations of design techniques that borrow from biological colonies, and their ability to adapt to ecological, and spatial niches. The speculative reality of the project relies on qualities such as repetition and difference, density and objects as well as the sensibilities and ontologies of highly articulated populations. The critical frame within this context is defined by architectural lineages present on the Stephansplatz, where the project is set, and their obsessions for continuous lines present in the Gothic St. Stephan and the Baroque Bishop Palace.

-Matias Del Campo

As stated in the brief above, the work is to leverage the studio's capabilities to create articulated and repetitious geometrical structures in order to accommodate for the conditions of a highly populated and growing Vienna. The building seeks to

solve the dilemma by actively wearing these conditions on its own skin. The densly populated internal and external facades synchonously solve and expresses Vienna's issue of overpopulation head on. Externally the dense and active facade becomes an advocate of raising awarness for the future of Vienna. Internally its articulate geometry produces increased privacy and unique experiences among its users.

Vienna Colonies takes off with an exercise in component generation using a topological mesh modeler. A catalog of components, modules were produced and tested.

Each module could be replicated and combined in some manor to produce a structural logic. Upon considering numerous programattic requirments and site conditions a single component was elected to move forward with. The work was then executed using the polygonal modeling software, auto-desk Maya.

This module was put through a series of drop tests using Maya's built in physics engine. The resulting build up of the dropped component was both pragmatic and simultaneously ornamental, thus Pragmatic Ornament was born.

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1. dropped within boundary

2. boundary rstripped

3. aggregation mirrored

3. fine

2. balanced

1. coarse

Site Elevation

UNROLLED ELEVATION scale 1" = 500'

1:500

CONSIDERING THE CONTEXT OF THE STEPHENPLATZ, VIENNA, OUR RESIDENTIAL HIGHRISE SEEKS TO RESTORE BALANCE TO THE SQUARE. ACHIEVED SYNCHRONOUSLY BY RESPECTING CITY HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS AS WELL AS BRINGING A COMPLEXITY TO ITS FACADE CONTENDING WITH THAT OF THE CATHEDRAL'S.

gym (8th fl.)

studio single double triple 5 unit floor plan (7th fl.)

4 Unit floor plan (6th fl.)

3 Unit floor plan (5th fl.)

5 unit floor plan (4th fl.)

4 Unit floor plan (3rd fl.)

3 Unit floor plan (2nd fl.)

trash kitchen

core and circulation (2 elevators, 1 fire rated stair)

cafe boutique shop

nighclub (-1 fl.)

Parking (-2 fl.)

2 floors (30+Spots)

penthouse setback

depth limit (10m)

bldg height restriction

hot water supply hot water return radiant floor heating

water system, Hot water water supply and and return return natural ventilation Hot supply

Radiant Floor Floor Heating Heating Radiant

air return air supply boiler, chiller, & AHU, 20m2

air system, mechanical ventilation

Air return return Air Air supply supply Air

1. boolean

2. deletion

3. inverted boolean

car 06 park residence 05lobby

boutique

trash 07

kitchen 03

club entrance 04

cafe

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EL ± 0.00m

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arcade 08

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scale 1/8" = 1'

GROUND FLOOR

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ROOF EL + 24.65m

LEVEL 08 EL + 21.65m

LEVEL 07 EL + 18.65m

LEVEL 06 EL + 15.65m

LEVEL 05 EL + 12.65m

LEVEL 04 EL + 9.65m

LEVEL 03 EL + 6.65m

LEVEL 02 EL + 3.65m

LEVEL 01 EL + 0.00m

LEVEL 00 EL - 3.00m

PARKING EL - 10.48m

CROSS -

Unit 4A

1:100

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UHP CONCRETE GLAZING

UHP CONCRETE

FROSTED GLAZING DOOR

2570

FROSTED GLAZING OAK SHELVING

2570

FROSTED GLAZING POURED CONCRETE

UHP CONCRETE OAK CABINETS

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APARTMENT 4A ELEVATION

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APARTMENT 4A ELEVATION

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FROSTED GLAZING

UHP CONCRETE

SINK

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OAK CABINETS

REFRIGERATOR

GLAZING POURED CONCRETE FROSTED GLAZING DOOR

APARTMENT 4A ELEVATION

380

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FROSTED GLAZING

OAK SHELVING

GLAZING

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APARTMENT 4A ELEVATION

2570

UHP CONCRETE

POURED CONCRETE