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Infill Housing Project
Carriage Artist House
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Kleido Pavilion
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This project was developed keeping in mind the importance of public/private spaces, sunlight enterance, and circulation throughout the house. To make the most of the available space, vertical and horizantal concerete planes were used to organize the spaces yet kep them open to allow sunlight to enter every room. The programs were arranged with the most public (Kitchen) on the ground floor open to the backyard, and the most private (bedroom & bathroom) on the upper level, and then the most quiet and isolated space for the Artist on the roof. The circulation is fluid and open between the spaces.
Carriage Artist House
The following project was located in Savannah, Georgia. The architectural typology in Savannah has adapted to the narrow and limited lot psaces, where houses are packed together with just the 1 ft fire wall separating them.
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Process Diagrams Space organization with respect to garage placement
Schemetic Concept Models
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Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
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Axonometric
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For this project, the idea of the carriage house was further developed. Using a narrow and long site lot, we were required to design apartment buildings, and solve the urban design problems related to sunlight access, zonning, and access for the disabled. The site was located in South Beach, Miami but the Precedent and site analysis was carried on a site in Savannah, Georgia. The concept of the vertical planes was carried on in the development of the project and its facade. The density of the planes would respond to the usual activity on the street, i.e the sides of the building facing an active road with pedestrians and vehicle noises the facade would be heavier to allow for more privacy and break the noise intake. Also, these vertical planes reflect on the inside of the apartment to form space partitions.
Site Documentation in Savannah, GA
Site Plan 230 E Oglethorpe, Savannah, GA
Single Side Elevation
Repeated Street Elevation
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Program and Facade Diagramming
Program Key
Sleep Bath Cook/Eat Living Outdoor Entry/Circulation Commercial
Living--Circulation
Facade Division
Window in the middle
Final Facade
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Infill Building Plans C
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Infill Building Sections
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Rear Elevation
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Glass Window Embedded in Concrete Aluminum Tube Verticle
Steel Structure Embedded In Concrete, attached to Verticals Metal Plates, Attaches Structure to Concrete Beam
Typical Unit Axo
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Wall Section
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For the interior, the Brain Studio was used as a precedent. The bookshelves dominate the space entirely. All the windows are framed by bookshelves, and the bookshelves frame the enterances and exits, as if they’re allowing you in or out. The main window is on the ground floor and it captures the Farnsworth House completely in its view. As for the mezzanine floor, the window is on the opposite side, where it captures the beuty o fthe forest and the river. The staircase that leads uppstairs is hidden in the back which allows for a continues and fluid movement without interrusptions on the ground floor, but it also creates a quiet personal space away from all the books with a ceiling to floor wall view of the forest.
Author’s Library
The Author’s Library is focused on Fransworth House. The aim was to design a library for an Author with the view ofarnworth Housefor inspiration. Some elemnts of the House were used like raising Library off the ground, and big windows that capture the outdoors like a photo frame.
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The Brain Studio Study Section A
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Plan B Axon
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Plan A
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Library and Farnsworth in relation to each other
Plan and Elevation
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Library Plans, Sections and Axo
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Elevation 1/4"=1'0"
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Plan 1/4"=1'0"
Section 1/4"=1'0"
Bookshelves Books Used shelves Shelves for storage
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Axonometric 1/4"-1'0"
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The infinity Observation Tower was designed through the exploration of tectonic connectors that moved in the x,y,z axis. The connectors were then repeated on a vertical support up to 20 connectors. The tower is located on Lakeworth Beach. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary structure was to be carefully examined. The concept behind this project was the inversion of the curvature of the flower petals. Once the connectors are arranged they can be adjusted to form their own ripple through the tower. For an observer looking down or up, the repetition of the connectors give the illusion of an infinite repetition.
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Process
PROCESS DIAGRAM
Final connector details
x & y movement
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single connector
Development Movement through the tower
A slow motion of a flower blooming, shows how the petals start from the center out.to subtitute here, the rotating side starts at one end of the slid -ing part & slowly mov -es away to touch back at the opposite side. this way the viewer gets a different experience at each floor. Looking down
Looking up
at moments when the floors are touching they become one floor. this is more public.
at moments when a floor is individual, it becomes more intimate and personal.
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top floor is all one floor. it is the most public. it has a place to eat and sit and enjoy the view.
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ELEVATION
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Because the available sites were limited in space and usually in-between buildings Voronoi system was the most suitable way to make the best of the available square footage.
Kleido Pavilion
The Kleido Pavilion was developed through the use of Grasshopper and biomimicry conceptualization. Th research started with crystal atoms and their abnormal aggregation through the voronoi system which was applied in grasshopper. The aim of the pavilion is to attract pedestrians from busy street sidewalks to enter the pavilion and then exit on the more neglected alleyway in the back of the buildings which is only used for service puporses.
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The assigned site for the Biomimetic Pavilions is Miami Beach, Ocean Court, fifteen blocks long. Ocean Court is a service Alley, hidden in the back and rarely has pedestrian cirrculation, so it has become unused. The aim of the pavilions is to attract people from the busy streets, to enter the pavilion and exit into the other side, the alleyway. Such a process would bring attention to the alleyway and start a development, that can later on spread to the rest of the unsued alleys.
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Biomimemtic Research
Calcium Ions
Ions form complexes
Quartz A disordered solid is formed through uptake of Calcium Ions and further packing and develop ment of the strings
Crystalization Process
Crystals of octacalcium phostphate are formed by organization of complexes further uptake of calcium.
Quartz contain 1 Silicon Molecule, 2 Oxygen Molecules (SIO2) and covalent bonds. When they form, their molecules develop in hexagonal clusters.
Quartz Crystals
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Icosahedron In the center of rotation of a string of SiO multiple intersection of atoms occur and for an Icosahedron geometric shape.
Icosahedron Another translation of the 3D Icosahedron is the 2D shape.
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Disordered Quartz molecules have a random packed organization. They form in a voronoi structure.
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Physical Form Finding
Phase 1:
Each module is made up of one foam sphere and 4 magnets that represent the oxygen atoms that allow attraction betweeen simple Quartz Molecules. The experiment was to test and absorb the different forms that occur when the molecules collide randomly.
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Phase 2:
Biomimicry
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Free Rotating Joint
Fixed Joint
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Joinning
Professor Sara Pezeshk
Crystal Growth Pavilion
Joinning and rotation
Marina Mikhaiel & Lauren Grzenda
Configurations
The same process was repeated using the Icosahedron geometric shape. They were attached with four magnets and put in different containers and then their different configurations and joining systems were observed.
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Digital Form Finding
1) Starting point on a plane
4) The plane slpits along this line
2d Voronoi Diagram
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2) Another dot is added and the points are connected
3) At the midpoint of the connecting dots a perpendicular line extends to the edges of the plane
5) Another point is added and the process 6) The plane is split once again is repeated
6) All done!
3d Voronoi Diagram
A grasshopper script was developed to apply voronoi cells in a certain geometric shape. In this case the Geometric shape would become our site and the Voronoi Cells become the enclosed space for the pavilion.
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Regular Icosahedron
Turnicated Icosahedron
Irregular Turnicated Icosahedron
The shape of the Icosahedron has developed from a regular Icosahedron to an irregular icosahedron unit after using the voronoi script.
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Site Analysis A: Voronoi Applied on the Macro Scale
Major Roads
Hotels
Pedestrian Routes
Commercials
Mixed Use Land
Residentials
Pedestrian and Main Roads Diagram
Land Use Diagram
Zonning Diagram
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Macro Site Analysis
Point Cluster Points are placed depending on the program of each building, buildings associated with more pedestrian/ population will have a highier number of point cluster.
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Point Placement Key: Residences 1-2 pts Community 3 pts Mixed Use 4-5 pts Commercial 6-7 pts
Voronoi Grid Applied Vornoi Diagrams are based on point clusters. Because areas with more activities and population of pedestrians have more points than residential areas, more voronoi cells/ cluster of cells will be there, locating a potential site for the arist pavilion.
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Projectional Photography
Kaleidescope Art
Variation Programs
Light Sculptures
The other programsthat will be included in the other iterations of the pavilion, will be programs derived from Arts using Light, whether projection lights or natural light.
Light Illusion
Projection Art
City Fabric Voronoi Diagrams created for each block shows the denser areas on each block’s fabric. The more compacted cells define potential sites for the artist’s pavilion.
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Site Locations For site location, the voronoi grid that was created was used as a new grid system applied to the block plan. The difference between prospect sites and the voronoi grid becomes the new site geometery for the pavilion.
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Site Analysis B: Voronoi Applied on the MIcro Scale, Pavilion
Crystal Pavilion 1 Program: Kleidoscope Gallery Location: 533 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139 Fabrication: Panel Fabrication
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Solid Boundary
Point Cloud
Voronoi Cells
Cell Subtraction
Cell Framing
Process Diagram
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Site Plan
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Plan
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Elevation A
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Section A
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Elevation B
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Section B
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Joints
Ground Connection
Glass Panels
Wood Frames
Pavilion
Fabrication Diagram
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