Issuu

Glen Breeden-Ost

MULTI-USE GYM

SPRING 24

Used: Revit, Illustrator, Rhino3D

Tegner Museum Extension

Used: Lumion, Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino3D

Industrial Environmentalism

FALL 24

Used: Rhino3D, Illustrator, Photoshop, CNC, 3D printing, Grasshopper

Industrial Environmentalism 01

FALL 24 CAPSTONE STUDIO

Industrial Environmentalism makes viable the normally unseen connections between natural and industrial systems. Though this process of making it viable it erodes the disconnection from nature created by post industrial revolution technology. The site yields a unique opportunity due to the presence of a prominent water system, the White River, and a concentration of industrial activity. The project blends together these two site conditions, inviting visitors to experience the meeting of the industrial and natural that is present but often inaccessible.

Foam models were used extensively to explore spatial organization. These models were categorized based on common themes. The idea of building on rather than in or adjacent to the generating station emerged through these studies.

Process

This project was split between problem seeking and problem solving. The point of departure was an exploration of the state of environmental disconnect experienced by post-industrial revolution society. This led to an examination of the conditions that created this disconnect. Richard White’s book The Organic Machine became an important source as it explores the changing relationship between humans and their environment from one of close proximity and reciprocity to one of distant extraction.

EXISTING CONDITION

Water from the White River is used by generating station, it is drawn from the river and returned without mediation.

the river

How might we reveal the interdependence of human life and environmental systems so that they become understood to visitors through their experience?

WETLAND

The establishment of a wetland on a vacant industrial site mediates the relationship between river and generating station. Water is filtered by the wetland before returning to the river.

PATH

The natural-industrial relationship created by the generating station and wetland yields a unique recreational opportunity. A path blends together the industrial and natural and allows visitors to experience these interrelated systems

View of Whole Wetland

View of Stacks

View of Ramp

View into Plant Sunken Path Natural Swimming

SITE MODEL

VIEW FROM S WEST STREET

Multi-Use Gym 02

SPRING 24 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

The Near West Multi-Use Gym brings together two programs that initially seem very far apart, a rock climbing gym and an art studio. Through their adjacency parallels between these two elements become apparent. Both require problem solving, intention, and creativity. Introducing these elements into a under served neighborhood allows residents to build these skills and explore areas of creativity that may otherwise be difficult to access.

1-2. While initially separate, the two elements of the program, art studio and climbing gym, are connected through a shared wall which serves as an element of joinery between the two spaces.

3. A shared line blends the facade of the climbing gym with the roof pitch of the art studio, serving to connect the two through a shared viual language.

MODEL

ART STUDIO

CLIMBING GYM

EXTERIOR NORTH WEST

Tegner Museum Extension 03

FALL 23 DIS ARCHITECTURE

This project, completed at DIS Copenhagen, focuses on integrating a museum extension into the Danish landscape. The existing museum houses a large collection of Rudolph Tegner’s sculptures. The extension includes a contemporary sculpture gallery, a collection of Tegner’s paintings and administrative spaces. Throughout the design process of the extension careful attention was given to the connection with the natural environment, both through form and materiality. The result is a subtle building that cascades down the slope of the site, using topography and tree placement to inform the programmatic organization. Skylights create a bridge between interior and exterior space. Each skylight rises above the roof plane bringing the interior outside.

SITE

The site consists of the existing museum and a slope facing the southwest. From the beginning it was important to design with respect for the site and the existing building.

POSITIONING

EXPAND

Building volumes are placed to minimize impact on the trees present on the site. The volumes cascade down the slope of the site.

The building massing is positioned within the slope, preserving the visual prominence of the existing museum. Upon exiting the museum at the bottom of the slope visitors are presented with a completely new view, raveling the mass of the museum resting in the hillside.