DavidZawko
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David Zawko Advanced Design Portfolio
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Projects
1 Harlans Hollow Design A | Investigation
of the Kentucky Coal Mines
2 Gardiner Museum Design A | A community
space in Toronto’s art district
3 Grand Central Hotel
Design B | Defining the entry into downtown Tampa
4 Adding to the Water
Design C | Crafting communities on Thailands Reservoirs
5 Independent Work
Care of Making | Independent Study | Freelance Design Work
6 Restless Landscape Mapping and Making the
Florida Landscape | Cedar Key Florida
[6] City of Harlan Kentucky
Harlan Kentucky | Folk Art Museum 01 Advanced Design A Nancy Sanders
Existing mine shaft
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Harlan Kentucky | Folk Art Museum 01
w Advanced Design A | Spring 2012 Professor Nancy Sanders 8 Weeks
Kentucky Coalfields
The City of Harlan, Kentucky, lies in a hollow, deep within the Appalachian Mountains. It is a place of darkness, where the mountain peaks only allow sunlight for six hours a day. The city is covered in the remains of mining the land for over a century. Every year, each congregation has to re-paint their church white as the coal dust swarms the town turning everything gray. As the snow falls from the surrounding peaks it blocks the only access in and out of the town. Growing up in Kentucky, you hear tales of this place. Its infamy even lies within a song, stating “You will never leave Harlan Alive�. It is referring to the people who grow up in this town and continue to depend on its coal for their livelihood.
Photo Credit R.A. Matthews. http://caboosecoffee.blogspot.com
StudyModel
A
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Materiality 01
This project proposes revitalizing the existing mine shafts, exposing the rich history that lies within. As technology has evolved, the method used to collect this natural resource has too evolved. The current practice is mountain top removal [MTR], where explosives are used to remove hundreds of vertical feet of mountain, exposing the coal within. Strip mining was used primarily since the 1970’s, leaving hundreds of mine shafts abandoned and forgotten. You can trace several settlements beginnings back to the coal industry and at that time people would go to great lengths to find a generous coalfield. What remains are towns established in extremely isolated locations, valleys where you would never choose to live otherwise. Harlan Kentucky rests in one of these valleys.
[12] Study Model
“A stair is fixed in place, and thus speaks significantly about the place of a person, even when the person is absent� Tod Williams
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Ascension
This Project intends to create an architecture that inserts itself into a place without affecting its identity or erasing any trace of its history. Treating the site as a cavity rich with elements of light and materiality, the architecture becomes the vehicle which carries you through. The spatial sequencing of the project is interwoven with the vertical circulation. A single Staircase winds throughout the mine ascending to the artist home above. Galleries are placed on the interior of the public stair to allow the artist work to be displayed within the mine.
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Section Study Progression | Site Study
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[20] Interior Perspective
Vertical Gallery
The Stair acts as a gallery that contains various pieces of American Folk Art that originated from within Appalachian Mountains.
[22] Final Section Model