PANHARITH EAN
units of energy, units of housing tidal measure scaffolding axial light recording ephemera loop
n-gon highback metamaquette
Units of Energy, Units of Housing
Re-purposing Paul Rudolph’s Government Service Center Instructor: Carol Burns, Mark Pasnik 4th Year, Community Design Studio Team: Bhavik Mistri, John Teixeira, Vien Nguyen,
The studio worked closely with Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) to propose new schemes and re-envision Paul Rudolph’s Government Service Center in Boston. Each team was asked to work from a specific framework, in this case, ecology is the frame work. The proposal aims to bridge the social ecology of the neighborhood by introducing a residential program with an infrastructure for energy self-efficiency -a solar harvesting net over the site. This infrastructure transforms the courtyard into a perforative public space, one where energy and ecology are monumentalized to attract visitors and movement through the site. A new commercial tower in the courtyard supports the energy net and intensifies use of the site. The structural articulation of the infrastructure has its echo in the undulation of the landscape.
Conceptual Energy Grid: 30‘ x 30’ Solar Panel : 13500 kw/yr
Building Area: 513,000 sf Energy Consumption: 13,228,000 kwh/yr Energy Grid: 980 30’ x 30’ Solar Panels
Composed of 30’ x 30’ solar panel, each can supply energy of 13500 kwh/year.
Existing Building Energy Consumption: Current building energy consumption is approximately 13,000,000 kwh/year, which would need 980 of the 30’ x 30’ solar panels.
Reprogramming Building Energy Consumption: Building Area: 513,000 sf Energy Consumption: 7,695,000 kwh/yr Energy Grid: 570 30’ x 30’ Solar Panels
Given the same square footage, by just reprogramming from an office building to a residential building, the energy consumption drops almost half, consuming about 7,700,000 kwh/year.
Proposed Energy Grid: The infrastructure is design with solar panel embedded surfaces that would supply a hundred percent of its energy consumption.
Infrastructure Undulation and Topography
Rudolph’s Vertical Langage: Existing and Addition
TIDAL MEASURE Waterfront Installation Instructor: Ann Borst 3rd Year, Tectonic Studio Award: Morpholio Pinup 2014, Honor Award
A study of East Boston waterfront that unveils its characteristic through the intervention. The project explores the edge condition on how land and water meets, tidal changes and materiality. Form is generated by a way-finding through a variation of steps along the site. In response, the artificial and natural behavior of the surrounding create the arrangement of each spatial element. Movement is carefully choreographed through specific placement of objects, however, tidal changes unstitch this rhythmic way of moving and the dialogue between the existing conditions and the installation becomes performative. This interaction appears when the ephemeral qualities of the place enable or disable the experience of the static object. Time is evidence of these changes as one witnesses the weathering of the space initiated by the situation of the place. This experience would vary depending upon the time of day that the space is being inhabited.
11:35 am
24hr / Tidal Duration
12:30 am
20mins / Experiential Duration
48sec / Immediate Duration
5:21 am
5:45 pm
SCAFFOLDING Shipbuilding Center Instructor: Ann Borst 3rd Year, Tectonic Studio Award: Exhibited at Wentworth Architecture Department
A new public presence on the waterfront that will engage local residents and the city at large with the exceptional physical, cultural, and historic character of East Boston. Shipbuilding Center will serve as a training program for students and appreciate ship builders to learn the complex skills required in this trade, as well as a place for the public to observe the process and learn about Boston’s maritime history. Using the formal strategy of wrapping public programmed spaces around private area (boat construction warehouse), the concept is to provide duality of workspace and gallery for the boat construction. In doing so, a preconceived workspace becomes monumental. The system of scaffolding is used to extend this formal language. The longitude of movement scaffolding around programed spaces both in plan and elevation, giving different view points toward the boat. These segments of visual connection allow one to experience specific angle of the boat.
Gift
Shop
y bb
Lo
Fabrication shop
Cafe
East Elevation / Drawing
AXIAL LIGHT Urban Sanctuary
Instructor: Benjamin Peterson 2nd Year Studio Awards: 2013 Student Design Showcase by Boston Society of Architects (BSA) Morpholio Pinup 2014, Honorable Mention
A contemplative space that allows users to reflect or meditate on the ephemeral qualities of light and the passage of time The concept of this project is to use light to articulate visibility of mass and the absence of mass and to create a narrative from horizontal space to a vertical threshold. The absence of masses can be seen around the volumes of residential buildings. This information is translated into a vertical language for the design. The narrative begins from a columbarium space, beneath the ground where there are strips of light and a light tunnel that allows direct visibility towards the sky. This connection between the earth and sky creates a promise of a mediated experience moving upward in between the skins of the light tunnel and finally be exposed on the observation deck, where one’s experience is divorced from the dark columbarium and the tightness of the upward circulation.
RECORDING EPHEMERA Public Performance Space Instructor: Ingrid Strong 3rd Year Landscape Studio Team: Greg Jimmie Awards: 2nd Place Winner, The Flights (North End) Competition
A sequence of spaces for social and performance gatherings for the North End neighborhood. Vertical elements reflect the immediate [passerby movement] and the eventual [seasonal changes and weathering], lending themselves to be performative. These polished aluminum verticals allow one to move with them, dance with them, see [with them, in them, through them]. The position of the verticals derives from an existing spatial hierarchy created by the trees. These verticals create fragments of spaces, opening and closing views through their specific arrangement. Between two spaces, these elements rotate, becoming interactive thresholds. The intervention is the sensitive device that records the ephemera.
LOOP: Scale-less, Place-less Hydraulic Infrastructure Team: Pablo Rivera Competition Entry: Foundation Jacques Rougerie’s Innovation and Architecture for the Sea
Reinterpreting an infrastructure landscape into a place-less, scale-less condition to create an immediate relationship between people and the sea. The infrastructure landscape, such as a highway system, responds directly to the context of an urban fabrication. The context of place shapes this landscape and remains a static reference point of its inhabitants, creating familiarity in moving from one point to another. Loop is about a scale-less landscape existing in a place-less condition. One has no prejudice of their context, creating a strong desire to understand the surrounding: the sea. Physical interaction within each loop generates an intuitive understanding of the sea and different phenomenal experiences through different senses: sight, hearing, smell, and touch. The inner parameter of each loop consists of controlled ecosystems that are used for scientific studies.
Context Responsive [PLACE]
Non-Contextual Condition [PLACE-LESS]
Velocity [Force]
Relationship [References]
CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS _Discontinuous coating layer: protecting the ecosystem of the aforementioned layer from the outflow of large waves _Biological layer: a honeycomb microstructure that stores water molecules and absorbs sunlight and carbon dioxide (CO2) for biological growth _Water proofing layer: prevents the interior space from water damage Immediate exposure to seawater would attract algae. However, the microstructure of this wall allows the possibility of introducing new molecules that can attract or repel other organisms, assisting the advancement of the laboratory’s research. This living wall plays a crucial role in atmospheric CO2 reduction for its CO2 absorption. It also acts as a thermal regulator, alternating interior temperature depending on the external solar radiation.
Exhibition Space
Walking Loop
Entry Loop
Performance Stage
Observation Space Research Lab
N-Gon Artforming in collaboration with composer/musician, Jon Sakata Magazine Beach, Cambridge, MA June 2013 Fabrication
An installation for the Magazine Beach Celebration, Cambridge MA. N-Gon is a fabric installation housed inside the 19thcentury Powderhouse. Its polygonal form reflects the crystal structure of the powder. 12 downward fabric sleeves with speakers sounding 12 sonic layers mixing heterogenous archival “memories,” musics, environmental, cultural strata. “An ephemeral mapping of the memory and the latent potential of place through sonic archaeologies and evolving spatial compositions” -Rob Trumbour
Voronoi speaker+ ipod holders
Highback Artforming Rockport MA, September 2014 Design, Fabrication
A one-week design/build project for Rockport’s Illumination Night festival. It is located along the coast as a destination point for people to view the firework during the festival. The gradual aggregation of the design provides platforms for walking through, siting, laying down, and standing. The challenge is to have a dual functions, a viewing platform during the firework night, and a resting area when the festival is over.
METAMAQUETTE Studio Z Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH January 13 - March 10, 2015 3D Visualization, Exhibition
metamaquette exhibits Zenovia Toloudi’s research about installation as an investigation tool in architectural practice. The exhibition communicates through large scale physical models, and visual graphics. The main pieces of the exhibition are the Blanket, Mirco-Ceasefire Under Shadow, and Photodotes III: Plug-n-Plant.
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Blanket: formalizes a geometry in which can flexible and rearrange to be site specific, and reflect its immediate context. The geometry is composed of multiplying a generic triangle.
Mirco-Ceasefire Under Shadow: mimics the spatial quality of casted shadow from a tree. It is aimed to bring this characteristic into an urban street-scape.
Photodotes III: Plug-n-Plant: explores relationship between architecture, technology, light, and plants. It is a spatial element that bring light into the space and is made out of living structure.