STACKED PAVILION

PERFORMANCE + OFFICE

HIGH-RISE

BETWEEN BUILDINGS Across the masonry core.

Circulation Rules

WITHIN BUILDINGS : Along facade corners.

GROUND LEVEL: Between buildings

Home For The Blind 03

HIDE + SEEK RESIDENCE

Elective Studio

KYNA LESKI FALL 2021

The competition called to design a residence for a single blind occupant. The tensile interior walls are pulled taut by their connections to the neighboring exterior walls, like sails in the wind. These interior walls are to act like a senstive and responsive membrane between the activity of the outside world and the inside of the house.

The site is a 13 foot wide alleyway. The nested placement of this residence conceals the occupant at street-level, with the openings in the walls to provide snapshots inside.

The house does not just act as a shelter, but as a sensory transmitter with veins into its surroundings. It’s a concealed hideout that allows the blind occupant to “see” into the outside world through sensing.

Flexing Boundaries 04

Tectonic Strategies For The Multigenerational Home

GRADUATE THESIS

ANNE TATE

FALL 2021 - SPRING 2022

Climate changes in the near and distant futures will spur human populations to relocate and re-settle, spurring short-term and long-term housing needs. To support this shift, our cities must modify their current use of spaces to accommodate an increasing population of occupants, whose circumstances and needs are subject to flux. How can we, as architects, design homes to make increased population density not only bearable, but enjoyable? Can architecture minimize its material footprint while answering maximal spatial conditions?

This project seeks to design freestanding modular units that provide both partitions and furniture; the units should be easy to manipulate, giving the occupants freedom to readapt and shape their spaces to meet their changing needs.

PRINCIPLES:

FOLDING + UNFOLDING : Components that take up crucial space but only used several times a day.

SLIDING : Components that need to be frequently reconfigured.

ORIENTATION : Non-kinetic units must be usable in more than one way or available from multiple sides.

TWO-SIDED HOME OFFICE W/HANDRAIL DEFINING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SOCIAL AND SOLITARY

Studies Catalog

SOCIALLY ACTIVE BOUNDARIES

PLANES + MOVEMENT

PRACTICE

EXPANDABLE BED-TO-LIVING ROOM INUITING TRANSITIONS THROUGH SHIFTING PLANES

TWO-SIDED HOME OFFICE WITH HANDRAIL

EXPANDABLE BED-TO-LIVING ROOM

Can adjust height of desks and shelving with lattice.

5:1 BEDROOM NOOKTWO-SIDED HOME OFFICE WITH HANDRAIL

Sound-Proof Privacy Booth

Bedroom Nook provides full-sized mattress on top and twin-size on the bottom bunk. The nook has a built-in desk and closet space.

Handrail built into opposite side of lattice.

EXPANDABLE BED-TO-LIVING ROOM

Bed has two mattresses. Bottom mattress serves as sofa seating as top mattress is folded up.

Top mattress unfolded to make platform bed. This is made possible by “expanding” the wall unit.