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FAIZA MEHMOOD Education
Experience
Bachelor of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology | Adjunct Professor
2014 - 2017 | CHICAGO Illinois Institute of Technology
JAN 2019- CURRENT | CHICAGO Design Communications - Freshman year
Bachelor of Architecture (Transfer)
Gensler | Technical Designer
2011 - 2014 | ISLAMABAD
MAY 2018- CURRENT | CHICAGO Worked in teams to finish different bid sets, 3D models, RFPs, presentation documents and graphics for publications. • Manchester Pacific Gateway, San Diego • Le Phare, Quebec City • Wanxiang Urban Planning, China • Southloop Marketplace, Chicago • Aon Plaza, Chicago • Prince Bay, Shenzhen
National University of Science and Technology
Achievements Dean’s Choice Award 2017 | ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Academic performance award for a product design project catering to social awareness
Schiff Award Nominations 2017 | ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Short Exhibit at the Art Institute Chicago Project “Maxima” with Caleb Baldwin selected amongst the top 5 projects of the year.
Mirror Mirror on the Wall 2017 | MANA CONTEMPORARY Exhibiting project “Transparent Hutong” with Caleb Baldwin
Laka : Editor’s Choice Top 13 2017 | MANA CONTEMPORARY Project “ SpongeCloud” ranked in top 13 for an international competition, with Mikel Berra & Yunji Chung
Burnham Prize 2017 | CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL Exhibit of “Dome D’ Dome” with Jennifer Park & Monica Chada
Burnham Prize 2015 | CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL Winning entry “Blinded by Delight”, also exhibited at Chicago Architecture Biennial, at the Chicago Architecture Foundation
Dean’s List Award 2014, 2015, 2017 | ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY academic exellence award
Woodhouse Tinucci Architects | Architectural Intern JUNE 2016- MAY 2018 | CHICAGO Worked in teams to finish different bid sets, 3D models, presentation documents and graphics for publications. • Congress Theatre • Shearer Studio • St. Chrysostoms • Evanston Crown
Jurassic Studio | Architectural Intern JUNE 2015 - MAY 2016 | CHICAGO Helped with administrative work to launch the firm, also explored generative design scripts and fabrication methods for research and small renovation projects • Wolf Residence • Kama Restaurant • Burnham Prize • Tiny House Competition
Kamil Khan Mumtaz | Architectural Intern MAY 2013 - AUGUST 2013 | LAHORE Researched and documented two conservation projects for preservation of Mughal Architecture, in collaboration with WWF and Lahore Conservation Society. • The Lahore Project • Conservation of Gate Bagh-e-Dara Shikoh (Mughal)
Skills Graphic
DRAFTING | RENDERING AutoCad, Revit, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indeisgn, Lightroom, Lumion, VRay, After Effects
Model Making
publications Laka Perspectives 2017 | LAKA FOUNDATION Featuring “SpongeCloud”, with Yunji Chung & Mikel Berra in a section by Monika Thadani
3D MODELING | PARAMETRIC MODELING Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Revit, Unity
Miscellaneous ANALYTICAL | DIGITAL COMMUNICATION Arduino, Unity, C#, QGIS, VR & AR environments
References
Hidden 2017 | MAS CONTEXT Featuring “Blinded by Delight”, with Jennifer Park
Shawn Fawell shawn_fawell@gensler.com
Russell Gilchrist russell_gilchrist@gensler.com
Tim Jacobson tim_jacobson@gensler.com
Contents Prince Bay SHENZHEN, CHINA Mixed Use tower
Wanxiang Masterplan HANG ZHOU, CHINA Urban Planning
Le Phare QUEBEC CITY, CANADA Mixed Use towers
Carbon Chapel CHICAGO, USA Chapel, School project
2151 Hawkins CHARLOTTE, USA Mixed use
Dome D’ Dome CHICAGO, USA Biennial submission
Southloop Marketplace CHICAGO, USA Mixed Use tower
Flumen Clamat CHICAGO, USA Mausoleum
Flumen Clamat CHICAGO, USA Mausoleum
Transparent Hutong SHOUGANG, CHINA Olympic Housing research
Maxima SHOUGANG, CHINA Olympic Housing
Shearer Studio EVANSTON, IL, USA Dance Studio/Artist Residency
Blinded by Delight CHICAGO, USA Biennial Exhibit
Shingled out CHICAGO, USA Low income housing
Shingled out CHICAGO, USA Low income housing
SITE ANALYSIS 基地分析
Prince Bay SH E N ZH E N
Prince Bay land plot DY03-06 Architectural Concept Design
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Inspired by lighthouses, Prince Bay tower was a proposal for an office tower with one of the parameters to be 380m in height which shrunk the floor space to meet the required FAR. The team developed an idea to lift the entire building up and open up a large plaza to the public. My role in this project was to help develop most of the graphics and build the storyline. I was also involved in modelling the design and coordinating some of the renders. vv
SITE CONDITIONS
基地条件 Connection to adjoining mixed use site 与其地綜合体地块接连
Future above grade connection 将来地面以上的连接
Prominent street frontage 显赫街道展示面
Potential retail frontage 有潜力的商业展示面
Context 建筑形体 6
Location of the tower on site
太子湾DY03-06地块建筑方案设计
PROGRAM 项目功能
OFFICE
HOTEL
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酒店
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OBSERVATION
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Program
停车
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Prince Bay land plot DY03-06 Architectural Concept Design
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STACKING 功能叠加
HOTEL AMENITY
观景台
酒店设施
80,000 SM
40,000 SM
太子湾DY03-06地块建筑方案设计
PARKING
BUILDING FORM Prince Bay land plot DY03-06 Architectural Concept Design
20,000 SM
BUILDING FORM
建筑形体
TOWER HEIGHT 塔楼高度 建筑形体
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TOWER LOCATION 塔楼位置
PARKING
RETAIL
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HOTEL
HOTEL AMENITY
OBSERVATION
停车
商业
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酒店
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观景台
太子湾DY03-06地块建筑方案设计
Prince Bay land plot DY03-06 Architectural Concept Design
AMENITY PROGRAM 设施功能 PARKING
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观景台
BUILDING FORM
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Prince Bay land plot DY03-06 Architectural Concept Design
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RETAIL SHAPING 商业的成型
PARKING
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酒店
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TOWER SHAPING 塔楼的成型
RETAIL PROGRAM 商业功能
Design Strategy
BUILDING FORM
“…. a tower that respects all that mother nature can provide, allowing warmth and daylight, whilst providing comfort, serenity peace and joy ….” 大楼感恩大自然母亲一切馈赠，让温暖和阳光充盈，一切如此舒 适、宁静而愉悦……
目录
VISION & GOAL
CONTENT
愿景 | 目标
THE CONCEPT
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THE DESIGN
概念
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WANXIANG DISTRICT MASTER PLAN
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万向萧山开发区项目总体规划
Wanxiang Masterplan
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This was a masterplan project with the PUD team, and my primary role was to help on the graphics. The disctrict is designed to engage pedestrian traffic through interesting paths and bridges while zoning out the site in a way to best use the public transport for the office buildings and residences. The design is around a river, and celebrates it in each of its main zones.
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万向萧山开发区项目总体规划
Site plan
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Le Phare Q U E B E C CIT Y
This project involves 4 towers on the site, with varying designs and my task was to update the renderings for the press & the city to be printed at a large scale with design updates made by the team.
carbon chapel IN STA LL AT ION | CHICAG O
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Using Carbon Fiber as an architectural and structural material, this chapel explores the principles of Baroque era through today’s tools of digital fabrication. The Baroque era spread a style of architecture in the 16th century that spoke of dramatic light, experience of the user and structural integration in the design. Studies of the ceiling of Santa Catarina Church lead to the discovery of the shape of a panel that was used as a repetitive module to achieve the structural and experiential goals. The chapel is a linear structure made of overlapping modules of two different angles. These create columns and then connect at the top to create its triangular profile. The overlap creates apertures that allow light into the structure, apart from which there is an oculus in the center of the space to allow light in.
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The Chapel was designed to be taken apart and reinstalled at JEC Future’s of Composites exhibition 69 |
2151 HAWKINS CH A R LOT TE
2151 Hawkins is a mixed use project being planned in place of a city brewery that held large festivals and events for the city. The project was focused on building a connection with the important streets to help keep the community tied to the site while adding more to it. My role was to help develop the design, model and draw visuals that helped our narrative. This was an update to an already presented proposal, to show the site after all its phases of development, in more detail.
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2151 Hawkins Site +Location Office Massing study FRIdAy MARCh 8, 2019
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DOME D' DOME B U R N H A M P RIZE COMP ETITION CH ICAGO ARCH I T E CT U RE B I E N N I A L
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Dome d’ dome is a playful enumeration and celebration of the past life of the St. Stephen’s church and dome. Its new life revives the value of “congregation” which the dome encompassed. Dome d’ dome renews the significance of the dome not by recreating the formal and symbolic, but creating accessible domes of levity and joy. History roots the new life of the dome. The segmental dome of St. Stephen’s is a hybrid of two pure forms –hemisphere and catenary. The hemisphere was used by Aldo Van Eyck as modernist jungle gym. To Aldo, the simplicity of the form allowed for children to use their imagination. The catenary arc was studied by Antoni Gaudi through his hanging chain models to understand the efficiency of material and load in pure compression. Interestingly, while Aldo’s domes were made for play, they were utilitarian in form. And while Gaudi’s catenary domes where utilitarian in structure, they were ornate in form. This inversion and lineage reciprocates in the new dome layers. The rigid hemispherical domes recall Aldo’s jungle gyms and the soft catenary domes recollects the studies by Gaudi. Furthermore, the wedge figuration on the inner decorative dome translates into a pivoting pattern for the new rigid domes. The structural layering of bricks of the outer dome translates into an intricate woven pattern for the new soft domes. The open oculi of each are layered to allow for climbing up and lounging between. At the top layer, one gazes at an animated projection of the dome’s life in metamorphosis. The singular becomes the multiple renewing its presence at an approachable scale and recalling its lineage. The structural and ornamental are intertwined and reconceived as armatures for animation. And the once formal and spiritual is reborn as a lively, imaginative space for the neighborhood to congregate.
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Dome Shape
Inversion 1: structural layer translated to a woven suspended dome
Inversion 2: decorative layer translated to a rigid metal dome
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The domes overlap and connect through different openings replicating the occulus, and also creating a path to climb closer to the historic dome. Each dome increases the level of complexity, making the final level a reflection of all domes on the ceiling. 07 |
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Developing two types of rigid dome patterns | Increasing complexity Basic pattern developed using the shape of the church’s original decorative panels
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Type 1 Developing two types of woven dome patterns | Increasing complexity Basic pattern developed using the staggered pattern of the church’s original structural system
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Southloop <Marketplace CH I CAG O
A proposal for a development in the south loop, in front of the new neighborhood 78, and the river. The challenges to this project were the site and regulations but the proposals developed were a set of schemes that were our teams best iterations to develop the site in a way that tries to tackle some of the lack of pedestrian traffic, proximity to freight rail tracks and the density in the area. I helped compile this proposal, developed the diagrams and coordinated with the team as they developed schemes, to build the narrative of the project.
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SOUTH LOOP MARKETPLACE PITCH PRESENTATION December 18th, 2018
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SOUTH LOOP MARKETPLACE PITCH PRESENTATION December 18th, 2018
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This Mausoleum houses the children of Chicago, under 18, who have been victims of homicide. Situated at the site for wolfpoint tower in Chicago, which meets the river at one of the most iconic location in the city. The city bears witness to the innocent lives lost. The core elements of this design address the acoustics, the site’s 30’ drop from the street level, and the interaction with water. In executing this design we were inclined towards the ability of sound to connect or disconnect the visitor spatially. Tuning the visitors out of the city, into a state of awareness of this issue through phenomenology. Using the 30’ drop of the site, we were able to combine the procession to the acoustic agenda. The deceased enter from the bottom (dock or parking lot) and the living enter from the top, descend down to the burial spaces and then back into the city. There are deep cuts, dropping 30’ feet in height, in the building that are the paths of descent with a few doorways branching out to burial spaces and an end point. In the burial spaces, there are multiple layers of translucent curtains that absorb all sound, shunning all noise of the city and making the visitors own existence the loudest sound. The burial spaces are lit by water courtyards that people can access and walk over. The cuts themselves are lined with gravel only up to the end chambers, stairs and recessed hand-rail slits. The end chambers are rooms that gradually step down into the water, facing the city. Yet the view to the city is blocked by a wooden screen paired with translucent glass, only the view of the water below is revealed. However, the sound of the city is amplified by a special megaphone insert in the walls, revealed through the hand-rail slit, as one sits down at the steps. This is a tribute to the innocent lives lost daily within our own city.
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Burial Room Collage: Multiple layers of fabrics creating a soft and quiet space 24 |
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transparent hutong OLY M P I CS V ENU E | BEIJ ING
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This is an exploration of possible themes for Beijing Olympic 2022 at an abandoned industrial area. Transparent Hutong takes its lineage from a historic typology being replaced by generic downtowns for an image-hungry development that lacks the experiential richness of old Beijing, Hutongs have different levels of complexity but a key feature is their arrangement as hard shell, soft yolk. Whether it is a line of shops wrapping around 4 houses and courtyard or it is one house itself, Hutongs repeat the idea of a membrane as a larger interface to the city around at every scale. In this proposal, a hutong is redefined to meet different requirements of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s age, namely; larger occupancy, transparency and connectivity. Transparency is met through different tools in this scenario, but the most important is the projected transparency - creating pockets and walls of cinematic projection of one part of the city to the other. Here a shop owner can project their merchandise (or perhaps their instagram feed) to the outer wall of the hutong and stay connected. This caters to the need of an iconic spectacle of the Olympics and creates something long term for the locals. This project is a preface to the next, Maxima.
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maxima OLY M P I CS V ENU E | BEIJ ING (VIME O: MA X I M A SH OU G A N G )
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Maxima is a proposal for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic village. Integrating the locally displaced—rural and urban— communities with the Olympics’ transient population, Maxima houses a neighborhood in a field of vessels dedicated to independent actions. This field blurs the boundaries of privacy to maximize interactions among residents and surroundings. In the age of shared economies, transparent data, virtual societies, and instant communication, synergy is imperative to urban design. Accommodating two main types of interactions, representational and collaborative, mechanical cities can transform into dynamic living organisms through architecture. However, most precedents of Olympic architecture emphasize iconicism for global audience over these interactions. The host cities are embodied in stagnant yet spectacular portraits of their economic and political strengths, that soon plummet to obsolescence. Maxima uses the Olympics as an opportunity to represent the intricacies of Beijing, held dear by the local communities and with which the global communities can collaborate. This proposal is a framework extracted from historical typologies and urban setups specific to Beijing, namely hutongs and siheyuans. Exhaustive studies of relationships and organization of actions developed architectural parameters that meet the evolving social, economic, and political behaviors of the country. Everyday life in Maxima is the monument of the Olympics. The Olympic Village is no longer a device to generate a singular image of Beijing’s economic and social structure, but rather the capital city come-alive with which the world can collaborate and experience. Video Link: https://vimeo.com/channels/1240334/215769619
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THRESHOLDS AND AXIS ANALYZING SIHEYUANS: VESSELS OF ACTIONS + COURTYARD = LIVING UNIT PRIVATE/INDIVIDUAL ACTION SLEEP DRESS UNDRESS MEDITATE WATCH TV PRAY
LINEARS
STORE WORK READ DRAW
DIAGONALS
BATHE COOK WORKOUT LOUNGE PLAY EAT LAUNDRY DANCE DRINK
CONCENTRICS
VESSEL HAS NO WALLS INSIDE JUST THIN COLUMNS ACTING AS SECONDARY THRESHOLDS
LINEARS
FIVE ELEMENTS
Example of a sleeping vessel ACTIONS FOR A LIVING UNIT
RAINWATER COLLECTION
PUBLIC/SHARED ACTION
PRE-FAB METAL STRUCTURE
GARDEN?
WOOD SKIN
ALWAYS CONNECTED PLANTING BEDS
MEET
RADIANT HEATING
TALK
DIAGONALS
CONCENTRICS
Possible Vessel forms
SLEEPING VESSELS
OTHER VESSELS FOR AGGREGATION
Redefining a living unit as vessels of actions to share and isolate different actions
SLEEPING VESSEL (PRIVATE)
LIVING UNIT A
LIVING UNIT B
LIVING UNIT C
Connecting Vessels into an aggregate
LIVING UNIT A
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LIVING UNIT B
LIVING UNIT C
PRIVATE/INDIVIDUAL ACTION SLEEP DRESS UNDRESS MEDITATE WATCH TV PRAY
LINEARS
STORE WORK READ DRAW
DIAGONALS
BATHE COOK WORKOUT LOUNGE
CONCENTRICS
VESSEL HAS NO WALLS INSIDE JUST THIN COLUMNS ACTING AS SECONDARY THRESHOLDS
PLAY EAT LAUNDRY DANCE
LINEARS
FIVE ELEMENTS
DRINK
ACTIONS FOR A LIVING UNIT
SLEEPING VESSELS
SLEEPING VESSEL (PRIVATE)
LIVING UNIT A
LIVING UNIT A
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RAINWATER COLLECTION
PUBLIC/SHARED ACTION
PRE-FAB METAL STRUCTURE
GARDEN?
WOOD SKIN
ALWAYS CONNECTED PLANTING BEDS
MEET
RADIANT HEATING
TALK
DIAGONALS
CONCENTRICS
OTHER VESSELS FOR AGGREGATION
LIVING UNIT B
LIVING UNIT B
LIVING UNIT C
LIVING UNIT C
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Maxima Shougang 46 |
fields of points to populate the regions
site divided into regions: platforms stepping down into the city
fields of points distorted with respect to surroundings
platforms distorted by main axis
SITE DEVELOPMENT
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complete time grid
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main axis through site (train stop to head quarters)
parking underground
PLATFORMS GENERATED BY TIME FIELD
9,781 PEOPLE IN 43,000 SQUARE METER
olympicsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; organizers athletes
circulation/commercial
local population
athlete housing with gyms/facilities agricultural zone with market vessels housing with shared shops/offices
tourists/visitors labor/workers
housing with incubator spaces/studios
temporary population permanent
ZONES WITH LOCALIZED SPECIALIZATIONS
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DEMOGRAPHIC
ice rink
Maxima Shougang 48 |
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site divided into regions: platforms stepping down into the city
platforms distorted by main axis
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fields of points to populate the regions
fields of points distorted with respect to surroundings
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shearer studio W OOD H OU SE TINU CCI | INTERNSHIP W ORK
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Shearer Studio is a small dance studio near the Ragdale Foundation. The studio is fabricated completely out of CLT, and is to serve as a private residence and performance space. My work on this project was primarily to develop the drawings and graphics with the supervision of other architects. These set of drawings were developed initially to study the thresholds of the building to see the interaction of the interior space with the prairie landscape surrounding it, and eventually became our representations of the project for various presentations and meetings. This project has yet to enter its design development phase.
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BLINDED BY DELIGHT B U R N H A M P RIZE COMP ETITION| CHICAGO A R CH I TECTU R E BI EN N I A L
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Vitruvius wrote that good buildings should embody “firmness,” “commodity,” and “delight.” Because engineers and developers now largely control the conversation over “firmness” and “commodity,” architects only maintain real control over “delight.” “Delight” can be interpreted as following our aesthetic impulses, tying architecture to “art.” Contemporary architecture consistently follows its aesthetic impulse. However, our “art” suffers from overindulgence. The art of architecture is infatuated with patterns, systems, tools and technologies. We design beautifully decorated boxes which can perform as structural and sustainable skins. We run wild with parametrics to combine uniqueness with efficiency. We obsess about complexity to the state of delight, but in our euphoria we ignore the political state of architecture. As with a poorly seasoned dish, our overindulgence results in buildings only showing the sweet side without any sour. The unseasoned side to “delight” is political. The political side of “delight” ties architecture to humanity by challenging our cultural needs and desires. Beyond symbolism, the politics of architecture involves having influence with communities, governance, and society. This state of the art of architecture is represented by the complexity of self-referential patterns indeterminately defining our cities. Each pattern overlaid is a translation of modern Chicago building details forming the skyline of Chicago. The patterns are generated using a digital scripts based on the original detail’s ordering system. The layering of patterns, yet lack of depth portrays the superficial approach to validating architecture. We stand beside our patterns, systems and rules to justify “firmness” and “commodity,” but we also hide behind patterns, systems and rules to substantiate “delight.” There is a veil over our eyes, but the image of our city is the same.
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shingled out A F F OR DA BL E HOU SING | CHICAG O T INY HOU SE COM P ETI TI O N
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Homes signify independence and can express individual personalities. Unfortunately, affordable housing is often subjugated by a sameness in form, planning and envelope in efforts to be cost efficient. This often leaves a generic shell which is decorated with personal effects. Our design seeks to create spaces that exude distinctive character through efficient planning while promoting collaboration amongst the youthful inhabitants. This community offers two different unit plans to allow for choice in living styles. Both typologies are organized with adjacent bathrooms and kitchen areas to keep plumbing lines concentrated. The arrangement of modules also considers adjacency of plumbed spaces for mechanical efficiency as well as noise and privacy. In addition to the efficiency in planning, modules are arranged to create a series of shared courtyards. Each courtyard is shared by two or three people to allow for both collaboration and some personalization of each area. All individuals will share two community areas which anchor the site and are easily accessible. Modules are both efficient and unique. Each module is expressed through changes in form and texture. Efficient plans are paired with a variety of roof slopes and shingle patterns. The variety of roof slopes creates an enhanced interior space that can be further personalized by the new dweller. The exterior of each module â&#x20AC;&#x201C; while similar in material â&#x20AC;&#x201C; will vary in shingle patterning outwardly expressing their individuality. Simple means are used to generate distinctive housing types. The collection of modules exemplifies the diversity of independent people living, collaborating, and aspiring together, making a statement that tiny homes can have big personality.
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Slow doer
listeners
Task Oriented
People Oriented
thinkers
speakers
Fast
Designing units around different personality types : Material and Form expression 84 |
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Unit Plan 85 |
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Collective of housing personas with shared courtyards 88 |
Site Plan 89 |
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Elevation and Section 2 91 |