Final Architectural Thesis Book - Cal Poly SLO - Derek Ramsey - Studio 400 - K. Lange by Derek Ramsey

DEREK RAMSEY BARCH THESIS PROPOSAL STUDIO 400 CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA K. LANGE

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A m e r r r n e l l c r r

01. issue

T his order is all composed of mov ement and change, and althou gh it is life, not art, we may fancifu lly call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance - not to a simple minded precision dance with ev eryone kicking u p at the same time, twirling in u nison and bowing of en masse, bu t to an intricate ballet in which the indiv idu al dancers and ensembles all hav e distinctiv e parts which miracu lou sly reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the next century will be the century of complexity" -- Stephen Hawking, 2000

emergence

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p r o v i d e d . T h e s e a r e d i f f e r e t h e T E R M E S b e c a u s e t h e y a r e o n t o w o r k i n a t w o d i m e n s i o n e b u t t h e y a r e a b l e t o c r e a t e m u o r g a n i c s h a p e s b y c o l l a b o r a t i fitting together like gum-balls a w h o l e i n t e r c o n n e c t e d p r o d u c t i i b r a t i n g q u a r t e r s i z e d a u t o n o m o t s . T h e s e r e c h a r g e a b l e r o b o r u n l i m i t e d p o s s i b i l i t i e s f , o r g a n i z a t i o n , a n d a d a p t a b i l i t t w o d i m e n s i o n a l p l a n e . 2 M e r g i n g t h e s e t w o t e c h n o l o g i

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emergence

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02. materials studies

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( 6 )

Site

GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH

Site

[1] http:// deepseanews. com/2012/08/ three-ways-oflooking-at-thegreat-pacificgarbage-patch/

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49 Americans consume over 80,000,000,000 aluminum cans every year. Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour, most of which are tossed away. Current global MSW (municipal solid waste) generation levels are approximately 1.3 billion tons per year, and are expected to increase to approximately 2.2 billion tons per year by 2025. The earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trash is increasing with population, and there is not much we can do to potentially prevent this or avoid it in the near future. So lets embrace it. What can architecture do with the trash in order to asist with adaptation and overcoming as humans in this world of waste? The idea of a filter as a porous article or mass through which a gas or liquid is passed to separate out matter in suspension, is an interesting catalyst to a way of thinking of architecture as tool for cleaning the environment. A tool for changing the way one looks at consumption and waste today, here and now. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has just recently been exposed within the past 20 years by a captain who sails between Hawaii and California. Using the GPGP as an architectural site not only allow for interesting ways in order to recycle but may create a sense of awareness for the user by placing them in trash. Essentially creating a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cityâ&#x20AC;? that is self organized using building blocks made of

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Program

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first self-sustaining floating structures of its ( c a p a b l e

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Program

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MANUFACTURE MANUFACTURE MANUFACTURE large scale 3d printing

[ 11]

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t i m e t h e

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05. the proposal

The Proposal

Rising from deep within the Great Pacific Garbage patch, rather than existing solely as a society for the elite, FANTASEA is a conglomeration of designers, scientists and students that thrive off of flexibility and unrestrained creativity. This machine incubates perpetual research and design from which revolutionary ideas emerge, constantly allowing adaptive frameworks for innovation and introductions of new and useful technologies, architecture and products.

The Proposal

The Great Pacific Garbage patch provides an abundance of raw material for the digesters, which consume the floating polymers and strategically convert them to filament. New and existing technologies like 3d printing, sensory robotics, and adaptive mega structures, make it possible for the floating plastic waste to convert into a viable building material, which is organized automatically by the project into a self-sustaining artificially conscious machine/society. Based on a series of inputs from the users, the machine anticipates systematic human ecologies on a newly created and constantly n expanding island manufactured from the users own misplaced waste.

This order is all composed of movement and change, and

The Proposal

site plan

-anonymous

The Proposal

This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance - not to a simple minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing of en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole.

The Proposal

71 SPIGRADISK IS MANUFACTURED ocean plastic level

The disk is packed with supplies and the capabilities for the first colonization of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The disk includes a factory to produce the building material for FANTASEA, small living quarters, agriculture, and the beginnings of a polyester textile mill in order to export fashion around the world.

SPIGRADISKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ocean plastic level

Capable of hold Blue Marlin or a Spigradisk to its Garbage Patch.

he first colonies a factory to quarters, in order to

The Proposal

73 SPIGRADISKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FIRST VOYAGE ocean plastic level

Capable of holding 55 people and a load up to 600 feet long, the MV Blue Marlin or a similar semi-submersible ship will be used to haul the Spigradisk to its pre-determined destination in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

DEPLOYMENT ocean plastic level

The disk is pack zation of the Gre produce the bui agriculture, and export fashion a

ong, the MV ed to haul the Pacific

The Proposal

75 DEPLOYMENT OF SPIGRADISK ocean plastic level

BOT DEPLOYM ocean plastic level

The disk is packe zation of the Gre produce the buil agriculture, and export fashion ar

he first colonies a factory to quarters, in order to

The Proposal

77 BOT DEPLOYMENT ocean plastic level

EXTRACTION ocean plastic level

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he first colonis a factory to quarters, n order to

The Proposal

79 EXTRACTION BEGINS ocean plastic level

Bots extract the plastic and bring it back to the Spigrodisk whereit is processed into filament in the heart. This is then used to initiate the growth process…. Polymers are extracted from the Pacific Ocean and brought back to the spiradisk where it is then sorted and turned into a building material. quite simple. The unusable scraps are then formed into polyester where the fashion team will go to work and develop styles that be exported from “Fantasea” ergo establishing awareness and preparing for the events to come.

INITIATE STRETC n ocean plastic level

Predicted intersit Spaces are printe Probblob bots are

disk whereit is o initiate the

ught back to the ding material. o develop styles areness and

The Proposal

81 INITIATE STRETCH SEQUENCE n ocean plastic level

Predicted intersitial Spaces are printed with vertical circulation integrated. Probblob bots are launched

PROGRAM BO ocean plastic level

Once the plastic done and the ne once and for all. becomes its own to various ship b this inevitable d everlasting spiri over the world in remains of Fanta reincarnation of forgotten waste

The Proposal

83 PROGRAM BOTS DEPLOYMENT ocean plastic level

Once the plastic has been fully extracted the Digester’s job is done and the next step is to rid the ocean of the polymer mass once and for all. The Network becomes severed and each disk becomes its own entity once again. These disks are then towed to various ship breakers throughout the world which are awaiting this inevitable death sentence. Fantasea now creates an everlasting spirit of innovative ideas that can be distributed all over the world in the form of a series of objects created by the remains of Fantasea that are being recycled. “Architecture is the reincarnation of trash” now makes a full circle and puts the once forgotten waste back into the hands of the consumer.

CONSENSUAL SEX SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

NETWORK OF PATHS LINED WITH PARK SPACE LINK THE LINEAGE OF ISLANDSTOGETHER TO CREATE A MORE DIVERSE SET OF COMMUNITIES BY ALLOWING MIGRATION BETWEEN PADS. EACH DISK ALLOWS SPACE FOR AGRICULTURE AND ANY TYPE OF ORGANIC GROWTH.

The Proposal

PROGRAM PROGRESSION

1. Design a. Design studios b. Computer programming c. University d. Fashion e. Science 2. Culture/Social Disk a. Runway (fashion) b. Night Club c. Political Gathering (Live stream of political events on land) d. Bathhouse (consens ual sex) e. Park (outdoor) 3. Resort/Temporary Living a. Rooms (small) b. Edible garden c. Underwater beach – pool d. Restaurant e. Interstitial lobbies on different levels f. Communal kitchen g. Observatory 4. Transportation Hub/Gateway a. Personal transportation cycle-‐capsules – station b. Helicopter landing – Helipad c. Ship acceptance - deck 5. Housing Disk a. Small apartments – all the same size b. Communal spaces c. Groceries d. Longhead turtle rehab facility 6. Services a. Miners b. Back of house c. Food – agriculture, fresh water, etc. d. Power – wind, solar, ocean current, bio reactors.

The Proposal

SPIGRADISK ANATOMY

LILY PAD PLATFORMS FOR AGRICULTURE GROWTH AND HELIPADS

RAW MATERIAL SORTING, HEATING, EXTRUDING, AND STORING EXTRACTOR/EXTRUDER MODULE MANUFACTURING

SPIROGRAPH INSPIRED MEGASTRUCTURE 3D PRINTER

POWER SOURCE - BIOLUMESENT ALGAE BIO-REACTORS

HYDROLIC LIFTS

BOUYANCY RING

The Proposal

SECONDARY STRUCTURE

LIVE CHLORELLA TANKS GENERATE FRESH WATER PRIMARY STRUCTURE DOUBLES AS SERVICE CORES FOR POWER, WATER, AND BUILDING MATERIAL PATHWAYS. VERTICAL CIRCULATION RAW MATERIAL DEPOSITORY

INITIAL DISK IS PLACED AND RAW MATERIAL IS DEPOSITED

MATERIAL IS PROCESSED AND PRIMARY STRUCTURE IS PRINTED

SECONDARY EXTRACTOR / EXTRUDER MODULES ARE CREATED IN THE DISK AND DEPLOYED

CONTINUAL EMERGENCE

The Proposal

AS SECONDARY STRUCTURE IS PRINTED PROGRAM IS INSERTED AND STRUCTURE STARTS TO EMERGE FROM THE OCEAN SURFACE

EXTRUDER/EXTRACTOR MODULE

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EXTRACTED POLYMER STORAGE MOBILE FILAMENT CREATER BIOLUMINESCENT ALGAE BIOREACTOR FIVE 3 AXIS 3D PRINTING ARM AR FULLY PROGRAMABLE TO ALLOW ANY DIAMETER WITHIN ITS CONSTRAINTS

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INITIAL DISK IS PLACED AND RAW MATERIAL IS DEPOSITED

93 MATERIAL IS PROCESSED AND PRIMARY STRUCTURE IS PRINTED

SECONDARY EXTRACTOR / EXTRUDER MODULES ARE CREATED IN THE DISK AND DEPLOYED

The Proposal

ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE IS IS THE THE THE REINCARNATION REINCARNATION REINCARNATION OF OF OF TRASH... TRASH... TRASH...

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EMERGING EMERGING EMERGING OCEAN OCEAN OCEAN PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC DIGESTER... DIGESTER... DIGESTER... EXTRUDING EXTRUDING EXTRUDING THE THE THE NEW NEW NEW OCEAN OCEAN OCEAN FRONTIER. FRONTIER. FRONTIER.

ÂŠ hilary arndt

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studio 400 thesis book showcase

Installation video: https://vimeo.com/118506169

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// Design Creating an ethereal book show experience STUCK was designed to embrace its visitors as they read Studio400â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thesis research books. Professor Karen Langeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth year studio (less commonly known as Studio400) at California Polytechnic State University produced STUCK over four days in order to create an idealistic environment for the digestion of their thesis research from the fall 2014 quarter. The structure constructed out of thirty five miles of tape has two main atriums holding the books in popular book holders and multiple inhabitable tendrils and tunnels for readers to sit in. The design and structural integrity of the packing tape was tested though a series of mock ups in the studio prior to installation weekend. The tendrils, able to hold up to five people at at time, provided cozy spaces for reading and lounging. // Experience Visitors to the book show after removing their shoes entered the installation through a main entry tunnel. Visitors were able to gather and browse the books in the atriums before climbing up into the tendrils for more intimate reading. As nighttime came, STUCK transformed into a alternate experience filled with thought provoking videos, music, and laughter.

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35 MILES OF SELF A D H E S I V E PAC K I N G TA P E

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MAN HOURS

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Studio 400photo Participants: by: hilary arndtDerek Ramsey, Kyle Landau, Makai Johnson, Caleb Couch, Alex Buckthal, Parham Hakimi, Emily Saunders, Stephanie Thompson, Cameron Darr, Patrick Cordelle, Natalie Riccomini, Hilary Arndt, Billy Schreiber, Alexa Dack, Lauren Schultz, Meganne DeRosier, Adam Kogan, Kyle Murray. Professor: Karen Lange

PUBLICATIONS “Stuck” Thesis Book Show Installation

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STUDIO 400 TRAVELS & TRIUMPHS [LINE] Chat history with スススス400 Saved on: 04/06/2015, 14:58

Sun, 02/01/2015 22:31 Derek [] Dexter Rd San Luis Obispo, CA 93405スhttp://maps.google. com/?q=35.300828,-120.664318 22:38

Alex Buckthal

[Sticker]

22:38

Alex Buckthal

[Sticker]

22:38

Alex Buckthal

[Sticker]

22:48

Derek

22:48

Alex Buckthal

[Sticker] [Sticker]

Mon, 02/02/2015 10:25

Steph joined the group.

13:29

Billy Schreiber joined the group.

19:47

Derek invited Meghan Derosier to the group.

19:52

Meghan Derosier joined the group.

20:13

Elsa Brown joined the group.

Wed, 02/04/2015 13:31

Derek changed the group's image.

Mon, 02/23/2015 20:32

Derek invited Kyle Landau

20:32

Kyle Landau

to the group.

joined the group.

Mon, 03/09/2015 21:56

Alex Buckthal

[Sticker]

21:57

Kyle Landau

[Sticker]

22:35

Derek

[Sticker]

Wed, 03/11/2015 15:12

Derek invited Pepe Sanchez to the group.

15:12

Pepe Sanchez joined the group.

22:29

Derek invited Alexa Dack, K-money to the group.

22:30

K-money joined the group.

Fri, 03/13/2015 19:24

Alexa Dack joined the group.

19:44

Alexa Dack invited Cameron Dar to the group.

19:45

Cameron Dar joined the group.

Sat, 03/14/2015 21:41

Parham joined the group.

Sun, 03/15/2015 00:44

K-money (ouch)