SELECTED WORKS 2017-2020
WORKS PRODUCED UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF
JESUS VASSALLO & GAIL CHEN ANDREW COLOPY SARAH NICHOLS PIERGIANNA MAZZOCCA MARK WAMBLE & VIOLA AGO SCOTT COLEMAN BRITTANY UTTING VIOLA AGO
Eric Baik Rice University
Contents 05. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Design Principles 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dialogue House 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Houston Photography Center 33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flexible Living 51. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Boat House 69. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .El Centro Comunitario 83. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TLC For The TMC 97. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Ghostly Remembrance
The works of this studio explores various design principles as foundation for creative pursuits. Through production and analysis of models, paintings, and drawings the student’s design intuition is developed. Developed in a time frame of one to two weeks, each project explored only a limited set of ideas such as color theory and form in order to understand these concepts in depth and clarity. As the studio progressed these design principles were reimplemented in the next project often inheriting the produced work as a foundation. The works displayed in this studio portrays these conditions in an abridged manner. First, a set of specific design principles, and second, projects of accumulated knowledge and complexity.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES JESUS VASSALLO & GAIL CHEN FALL 2017 ARCH 101
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Derived from a series of geometric deformation, the Dialogue House explores the spatial relationships created within the spectrum of public and private spaces. Establishing human perception as the determinant factor of public and private spaces, the project implements voids, apertures, and formal gestures to generate conditions where visual, auditory, and spatial perceptions dictate the public and private conditions. For example, two rooms that are intimate in proximity through visual connection, but far removed formally or acoustically. The emphasis on public and private relationships as well as the significance of human perception thus brands the name Dialogue House. Site: Houston Tx
DIALOGUE HOUSE ANDREW COLOPY & GAIL CHEN SPRING 2018 ARCH 102
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The Houston Photography Center explores the spatial and programmatic effects created from the boolean operations of two geometries. Calibrated carefully to produce the desired architectural effects, the geometries renders a contrasting reading of external simplicity and internal complexity. The exterior reading of the project directly reflects the formal moves used to generate the massing while the interior explores the programmatic implications of the formal gestures. For example, compressed volume of space produce various speeds of circulation ramps, stairs, elevators. Site: Menil Campus, Houston Tx
HOUSTON PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER PIERGIANNA MAZZOCCA FALL 2018 ARCH 201
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Flexible Living is a response to the accelerating dynamism in the fabric of contemporary living. Given that everyone needs housing, but everyone has different style of living, the project explores how a simple and modest sized space can provide a good set of living infrastructure as the background for inhabitant’s style of living. In order to produce such effects, the project obsessively focuses on ideas of free and open space, temporary partitioning of space, and developing an efficient programmatic infrastructure such as the bathroom, kitchenette, circulation. Site: Montrose Blvd, Houston Tx
FLEXIBLE LIVING SARAH NICHOLS SPRING 2019 ARCH202
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RESIDENTIAL
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COMMUNITY SPACE
CORES & ENTRANCES
LANDSCAPE
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MASSING AXON
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The Boat House is a project derived from the building technology of Felix Candela’s Los Manantiales. The analysis of Los Manantiales, a thin concrete shell structure, revolved around three focus areas: geometry, material, and structure, and how they relate to eachother in defining the whole. Thus, the first half of this section displays the analytical work produced to understand how Los Manantiales’s building technology can be adapted to produce the Boat House in Houston Context.
BOAT HOUSE MARK WAMBLE & VIOLA AGO PARTNER: KASEN LEE FALL 2019 ARCH 301
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The Boat House executes the technology from Los Manantiales in the context of Houston. The project unravels the formal massing of Los Manatiales from a circular to linear expression. In doing so, unlike its predecessor, the Boat House follows an orthogonal logic rather than a radial one. In an orthogonal logic, three systems arise to fulfill the programmatic needs. 1. The top shell made of carbon fiber in hexagonal pattern maximizes manufacturing efficiency and structural integrity. 2. A steel and concrete surface structure that produce programmable space. 3. Concrete Hypars that support the entire structure from the ground. Site: Buffalo Bayou, Houston Tx
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El Centro Comunitario contemplates on the cultural fabric of its context. On the outskirts of Madrid, Villa de Vallecas is home to a working class community. With limited free time and its identity distinct from inner Madrid, the residents lack a place of cultural enactment. This community center serves to function as a place of doing - creating, playing, eating, watching. The project privileges the plan as the compositional logic provided by the diagram to the right which unites the relationships of massings, programs, and circulation into a coherent whole. This mini urbanism layout provides a space of cultural production separate from the surrounding mid-rise apartment development - an experiential escape from the modern and mundane. Site: Villa de Vallecas, Madrid, Spain
EL CENTRO COMUNITARIO SCOTT COLEMAN SPRING 2020 ARCH 302
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TLC for the TMC explores two different but related ideas. The first is a critical response to the domineering post modern reading established by the copper colored facades of TMC buildings. By incorporating the copper colored facade onto a residential typology, the TMC signature of copper color is dismantled. The second attempts to counter the effects of the TMC’s architectural motifs programmatically by addressing the ironic demand it presents for its negative: a housing cooperative that celebrates care work — the necessities of everyday life. In such instance, the project recurringly produces something new from the existing through materiality, spatial composition, and form. Site: Texas Medical Center, Houston Tx
TLC for the TMC BRITTANY UTTING PARTNER: CAITLIN SIMCOX FALL 2020 ARCH 401
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30’ x 45’
25’ x 40’
30’ x 50’
30’ x 70’
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The ghostly remembrance proposal responds to the political, cultural, and architectural narrative of the National Theatre of Albania (Teatri Kombëtar). Through Political strong-arming, the illegal demolition of the National Theatre further fueled the long held tension between the people of Tirana, who resisted the theater’s demolition, and their government, which demanded and promoted a westernized version in the theater’s place. As a response to this history, this project attempts to architecturally convey the abstract forces (political, social, spatial) that precipitated the demolition. Through a series of exercises based on inductive reasoning, these abstract forces were translated to the architectural understanding of monument and memorial. In doing so, the project teeter totters between these two qualities, generating simultaneities, ambiguities, and borderline conditions. Formally, the project nods to the original National Theatre by loosely re-interpreting its past geometric language. Materially and tectonically, the proposed systems serve to support and at times reject the formal conditions. Affectually, the project reveres its past: Teatri Kombëtar and its controversial demolition, while presenting conditions for new and future narratives to take place. Site: Tirana, Albania
A Ghostly Remembrance VIOLA AGO SPRING 2021 ARCH 402
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