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“in Private� addresses how architecture is impacted by the private realm, specifically regarding program. It focuses on how reading related programs, such as libraries and reading rooms, provide ample conceptually drivers, addressing questions regarding classification and knowledge and how these drivers impact how users learn in parallel to specific types of architecture. Inside and outside relationships as well as notions of sequence, ritual, and transitions between group and individual spaces will be explored.
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+ MODERN STUDY “a new Gothic arch...� Second Semester Studio / 2017 Professor: Hans Tursack Law Library, Ann Arbor, MI This installation aims to pose a conversation between the Gothic revival style of the existing Law Library and its underlying steel frame by the aggregation of the Gothic arch in a way that denies its rectilinear nature. The space allows students to experience the architecture of the library at the height of the chandeliers. As one enters the smaller spaces, they are pushed upward through the structure, emerging into a large space that is flooded with natural light, acting as the only indication of passing time.
SITE ANALYSIS
Dense Motion Site Location
DESIGN STRATEGIES Circulation Innovation
Stagnant Motion
Existing University of Michigan Law Library
Renewing Facade
The site is located at the epicenter of the University of Michigan Law Library. It is placed on the path where students are most engaged with one another and their surroundings. Its position aims to force students to move from their stagnant study spots and immerse themselves in natural light flooding from the infamous facade windows.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW LIBRARY INSTALLATION SITE PLAN 1/4�=1’
Repositioning the classic Gothic arch orientation to reflect the advanced building technology used to construct this library
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Creating a way for users to experience the library at all levels engaging the facade view, chandeliers,and windows
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Secondary Skin Study in Open Space Elevated Communication Interrupting Stagnant
To reflect and distort the stereotypical facade orientation, reinventing the Gothic revival style of the library
Creating a way for users to experience the library by engaging the space at the height of the chandeliers and window
Creating a way for users to experience the library at all levels engaging with each other on the busiest pathway for traffic in the existing structure
This space interrupts the stagnant nature of studying at the library creating an avenue of motion within the dormant zone of the site
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Single support connection joints lock the individual Gothic arch in place making the aggregation of the form easier
Double Rotation Connection Joint
Double Rotation Lock Connection
Wooden support lock joints derived from Japanese joinery allows the gridded skeleton of the form to be structurally sound
Single Support Connection Joint
CONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES
Double rotation and lock connection joints help arches connect to one another in one direction of rotation
Double rotation connection joints allow arches to connect to each other while also giving the freedom for them to rotate in a different direction
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+ READING ROOM “a space of enlightenment...� Second Semester Studio / 2017 Professor: Hans Tursack Northern Michigan A retreat in Northern Michigan acts as an quiet get-away for the intellectual of the space. The reading room is designed to highlight sensory moments between introvert ed and extroverted space. Moments of tension and compression squeeze the user into different spaces where they become engulfed in the nature of the site.
Immersion Zone Dispersion Zone Site Location
The site is located in the northern part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is at the cusp of a body of freshwater and a dense birch tree forest. The edge of the Sleeping Bear Dunes are at bay as well, setting up a landscape for one to immerse themselves in to learn.
As one transitions from the main extroverted space to the bedroom, they must walk around the back end of the structure and look out toward the water and ascend into the dense birch tree forest. This moment of natural amplification produces a calming atmosphere before retreating for the day.
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POCKETS OF NATURAL AMPLIFICATION
Before one enters an introverted space to engage in reading and writing, a view of the landscape is framed from the balcony. This open air space produces a meditative atmosphere, allowing the user to feel, listen, and smell the air and look to views o the landscape.
The rectilinear envelope of the structure acts as a contour to house objects in conversation. It is not disturbed by any of the interior’s components.
The fireplace and the stair bookcase are two sculptural objects enclosed within the exterior enveloped. The architecture is based off these objects in conversation.
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Respecting the Envelope
Objects in Conversation
DESIGN STRATEGIES
Glimpses of the water flicker through chards of window as one enters the structure and passes the stair bookcase hallway. These amplify the user experience by providing peeks of the landscape. As the user transitions from this hallway to the main fireplace room, a large, gaping view of the water appears enhancing the intellectual space.
The study has furniture that is built-in to the space with predetermined views to the landscape. Each view promotes a different atmosphere. When one sits at the desk, they are engulfed by views of the dense forest, a view aiding in concentration, whereas when one is researching, there is a more relaxing view facing the water.
Extroverted Space The main fireplace room is a public area of studying. Users can read and write, while also engaging in discussion with each other. It is the only space in the structure that provides the largest view into the landscape, which amplifying intellectual stimulation.
Introverted Space
Extroverted Space Introverted Space
Although the stair bookcase hallway is an individualized space, it forces users to engage with each other about their topics of interest. As one pulls a book from a shelf, a void is created, producing a view into the kitchen space, forcing users to converse.
The bedroom space is the one area in the structure that poses an atmosphere of total, individualized relaxation. Its views to the water and open skylight to stargaze immerse the user in a meditative space that restores the mind for a new day or learning.
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“... enhancing learning through nature...”
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“in Resuse” reevaluates the institution of a museum. It aims not to recreate an institution paralleling the existing, but rather designing a “non-umental:” building annotation, critiquing and transforming the institution. The new contemporarium focuses to design new interfaces with the surrounding environment and its audiences. “In Reuse” emphasizes the overconsumption of material in society and how it can be recycled to create new types of architecture.
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+ WRAPPED MUSEUM “...an architecture of debris...” Third Semester Studio / 2017 Professor: Steven Lauritano Museum of Contemporary Art: 1978 Chicago, IL
Gordon Matta Clark’s “Carribean Orange” uses destruction as the main architectural driver. With each careful slice, a new type of spatial component is produced in the project, but where does wooden debris from each cut go? The debris from each wooden stud wall section has the potential to become a new type of architecture.
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Room 1 DESIGN STRATEGIES Gordon Matta Clark’s “Carribean Orange” embodies an idea of shadow acting as poche through each strategic slice of the MCA Townhouse. A shadow in a photograph is considered as an area of nothing or a “blank space.” In the “Carribean Orange,” what can happen if shadow starts to act as the foreground of the photographs?
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CONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES When shadow comes to the foreground, it starts to behave like poche, creating new barriers, thresholds and spaces for one to move. Having analyzed the spatial potential of Gordon Matta Clark’s the “Carribean Orange” through the only documentation of the project, photo collages (left), formal plans, sections, and axonometric drawings can be produced to define this intervention through conventional, architectural drawing tactics.
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By piecing individual photographs of each floor in the MCA Townhouse, connection zones can be identified. These zones help in understanding each of Matta Clark’s strategic slices. In understanding Matta Clark’s slicing maneuvers, a formal section drawing of each floor and the MCA Townhouse in its entirety can be produced, embodying the idea of shadow acting as poche.
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DESIGN STRATEGIES In studying works by Christo and JeanneClaude, specifically the wrapping of the Reichstag in Germany (below), the idea of wrapping a wooden stud wall section (right) around the naked facade of the MCA building became interesting. Using wooden debris from Gordon Matta Clark’s “The Carribean Orange,” can this material be used to produce a silky fabric-like effect in wrapping it around the MCA facade? If wood can behave like fabric, as well as being used as a construction material, it has the potential to produce a new type of architecture.
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The 1964 Museum of Contemporary Art Building is flush to the “The Carrbiean Orange” Townhouse site. Its exterior facade is naked, posing to be the perfect canvas for a potential design using debris from Gordon Matta Clark’s slicing concept in “The Carribean Orange.”
Puncturing Connection Joint
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CONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES Bundling is a construction element that lets the system produce certain aesthetic qualities. It helps to produce open-air and enclosed spaces by being a filler piece for holes in the overall system.
Layering helps the system become more flexible. It aids in the wrapping effect by allowing the wood to become more flexible, turn corners, and bend, adhering to the museum facade.
Puncturing helps the construction system transition to different scales. It aids in producing furniture-like elements, as well as aiding in the flexibility of the system.
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+ RECYCLED CAFE “...a new museum experience...� Third Semester Studio / 2017 Professor: Steven Lauritano Museum of Contemporary Art Cafe Chicago, IL The monumental MCA, with its dramatic staircase and intimidating facade, calls for a more inviting space that engages people with the art world. By displacing the interior cafe on the exterior sidewalk, the design is meant to give people a profoundly intellectual experience, engaging with the arts, but outside of the sacred contemporary art museum.
SITE ANALYSIS The site is located in a valley of Chicago surround by skyscrapers. The institution accumulates little traffic near its entrance due to its temple-like presence. Most people crowd toward the museum’s back park area or its busy street corner where the gift shop entrance sits. The goal is to allow people to engage with the site in a more inviting way. Stagnant Cafe Traffic Dense Sidewalk Traffic Site Location
MCA CHICAGO CAFE INTERVENTION PLAN
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Breathing Construction
Stacking Construction
Wrapping Construction Wrapping is a technique used to create distinct spatial qualities within the overarching structure, such as enclosures.
Stacking is a construction method used to produce open-air spaces and smaller scale, individualized areas in the system.
Breathing is a method used to help the structure transition from the facade to a multidimensional form as it grows from the exterior of the museum.
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MCA CHICAGO CAFE INTERVENTION CONSTRUCTION DIAGRAM
CAFE + EVENT SPACE 1. 2. 3. 4.
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The juxtaposition between the wooden members and the stark aluminum material of the facade attracts people to enter the museum by walking through this cafe.
People engage in debate, discussion, and are aware of current events happening in the art world and at the museum, bringing life to this intimidating street corner.
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CAFE CONSTRUCT As the construction plugs in to the exterior facade of the MCA, it produces horizontal members all in a line that stick out from the facade wall. This line creates a space for the cafe bar.
Seating Cafe Space
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MCA CHICAGO CAFE INTERVENTION PLAN
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BUILT STORAGE Holes produced by the construction system produce nooks for cafe and event storage at the museum, as well as open air pockets that help with ventilation throughout the cafe.
LOOSE ENDS The ends of the system that cannot be woven in the overall structure “poke out” to produce furniture at the human scale, such as tables, chairs, and benches.
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+ “NON-UMENTAL” INTERVENTION “..reduce, reuse, recycle...” Third Semester Studio / 2017 Professor: Steven Lauritano Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Art is an international currency that can pass through borders easier than the Euro or the dollar. Its shipping has become instantaneous allowing museums to cycle through exhibitions almost weekly. However, once the art is displayed, what happens to art storage boxes and shipping containers once the works on our exhibit?
SITE ANALYSIS
The site is located in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art’s backyard space where people engage in museum community activities, directly above where shipping trucks deliver art every day.
Delivery Truck Path Site Location Dense Museum Traffic
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STORAGE DROP-OFF The art storage shipping containers and storage boxes are delivered to the MCA with new artwork and set aside in museum storage.
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COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE Based on a catalogue of parts provided by the architect in how debris can be put together and placed within the structure, a new architecture is created by museum curators and janitors.
The arching system is a construction logic that curators choose to lock into a slot system within the facade to produce individual, closed spaces in the architecture.
BUILT FURNITURE The wedging construction is used such that the system can be implemented at the human scale. It helps to produce tables, benches, and parts of the system that adhere to the human scale.
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M C A C H I C A G O A D D I T I O N P L A N 1/16� = 1’
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BUILT LIGHTING Enclosing is used specifically to produce electrical, plumbing, and natural lighting effects within the structure. Its many arms adhere to numerous wiring mechanisms and help plug into both slot and jig conditions.
FACADE CONCEPT ”...a system incorporating slots + jigs to create a new type of architecture dictated by janitors and museum curators...”
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The 9x9 square grid includes an aggregation of aluminum panels that reflect the existing aluminum panels on the museum facade. These panels make up a majority of the jig and slot construction system for wood to be placed.
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The installation’s 9x9 square grid, with four stories, has a handful of glass panels aggregated throughout the system. These help bring light into the structures and are mostly void of any slot or jig conditions.
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Enclosure Construct
ENCLOSED The prefabricated system, with its jigs and slots, can start to produce moments of enclosure throughout the system. Encloses are produced when debris is placed in jigs. This fosters a space for people to engage in the art world with one another outside the sacred exhibition space.
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FURNITURE The prefabricated facade walls start to produce furniture elements when debris is strategically placed within slot conditions. This gives people a space to be immersed within the museum while engaging in other activities as well, such as reading or writing.
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The material biproduct of art storage and shipping vessels does not go to waste, but rather is used in specific construction logics through jigs and slots to produce light fixtures. This construction logic produces electric light fixtures throughout the system as well as producing holes for natural light to seep through the installation.
“How will this system grow and change over time as more art is delivered to the MCA?”
DESIGN STRATEGIES + Over Time By expanding the MCA out by four panels high and three panels wide, a prefabricated system has been designed to create a new type of architecture incorporating debris from art shipping containers and storage boxes. The MCA receives new exhibitions almost weekly, and art is transferred between borders easier than the Dollar or Euro. Over time, this structure will expand and seep out onto the museum’s public backyard space producing outdoor pavilions. These areas not only create spaces for people to engage in the modern art world away from the exhibition space, but also create outdoor public space for all people in Chicago. It gives every person an equal opportunity to become involved in the arts and have a say in where debris will be placed in this prefabricated structure.
“How will this construction logic change once wooden art boxes are no longer used for storage + shipping?”
“in Nature” explores the idea of design through making and research. It steers away from the hyper-meticulated end result that most strive for when designing and rather gives up the control to master designing a preconceived image. Designs purpose in “in Nature” is to find a masterpiece through other forms of logic and agents that engage and interpret space in a different way.
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+ TABULA ACCUSTICA “...music resonating with nature...� Design Workshop No. 5 / 2017 48 Hour Project: Ensamble Studio Tippet Rise Art Center Yellowstone Park, Montana
The Tippet Rise Art center calls for a new destination for the arts, where a visitor can enter directly into nature through the arts with large-scale outdoor sculptures playing a major role. Working with rock and earth, different methods of research and technical processes are developed to manipulate a natural, structural, and acoustically sound form on the site.
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Each part was produced by casting different form works with concrete. These form works varied from styro-foam moldings to bags of trash. Each separate form work was used to test texture, form, and sizes for various iterations of concrete, ground, and slab conditions.
Conducting Part to Whole
The site is located in Yellowstone Park in Fishtail, Montana. The structure is meant to emulate a Greek Temple “lost� in the surrounding landscape, equipped with mountains, rolling hills, and wildlife.
After each part was produced, part to whole relationships were analyzed. As a ground piece was solidified, the column conditions and roof slab are all one cohesive construction logic, a balancing act. If one column is removed, the roof slabs will tumble and the roof slab is only in tact if placed properly in the system.
MAIN AUDITORIUM + STAGE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Auditorium Outdoor Stage Outdoor Arena Dressing Rooms Storage Space
Tabula Accustica houses the new performance hall center located in the Tippet Rise Art Center. The earthy, robust site allows the structure to be acoustically precise.
It is designed to emulate a Greek Temple, a temple for music and the arts that is one with the natural landscape, equipped with a stage, auditorium, and storage space.
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Outdoor Seating Hiking Terrain Plaza Space Event Space
The roof slab of this structure is always accessible to the public, whether it be for public lounging space or for hikers to take in spectacular views of the landscape.
This space fosters an environment for large event space happening at the Tippet Rise Art Center, whether it be parties, charity events, or outdoor concerts.
“in Tandem” is a study on the spatial qualities that are produced when a curvilinear form must adhere to the orthogonal constraints of normal building conditions. Curved and rectilinear geometric elements are “in tandem” with one another by intersection, parallel orientations, and overlapping.
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+ HOUSE OF BUDDAH “..transforming the soul through design...� Second Semester Studio / 2016 Professor: Keith Mitnick Ann Arbor, MI
A carved-out space sandwiched between two buildings in downtown Ann Arbor provide the city with a Buddhist community center for people to learn, study, meditate, and immerse themselves within the Buddhist faith through community.
Concept derived from John Stezaker Photograph, Double XX
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INTERSECTING VOID + EXTRUSION Form submits to surgical performance. A solid becoming its own void. An object flattening onto a sheet of a drawing. ‘The same form’ doing a multiplicity of work. Stretching and collapsing the moment, moments.
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Extrusion Void Intersection Negative Space of Form
Flattening the volume of this form starts to evoke spatial qualities between the intersection of a void and an extrusion.
The same form does a multiplicity of work alluding to potential experiential spaces within the volume. The dissection of the form through single moments makes this clear.
Moving +Carving Space
Views to Sky by Carved Stair
View Out to Bell Tower
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TRANSCRIBING SPATIAL QUALITIES + Orthogonal Building Convention
SITE ANALYSIS The site is located in between a hotel and a parking structure measuring only 36 feet in width and 128 feet in length. It provides views of Ann Arbor’s beautiful skyline and sunsets. This compressive site fosters the perfect environment for a curvilinear building mass to be carved and adhere to rectilinear building constraints.
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Studio and meditation spaces always have views into the central carved out staircase. This provides the structure with perpetual natural light and views toward the sky, a natural amplifier reflecting faith in the Buddah.
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“in Public” deals with the relationship between designed space and the body, with two different projects, aimed to implement this relationship on two different sites, focusing on cultural constraints in the public realm. Specifically, “in Public” aims to address the question of how architecture can reconcile paradoxes between its equally material and symbolic meaning, through the binary relationship between architecture and the user, and architecture and its surroundings.
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+ OBSTRUCTED LIBRARY “merging the natural and urban...” Second Semester Studio / 2017 Professor: Hans Tursack Argo Park Library Ann Arbor, MI
Argo Park is a space where the boundary between the urban and natural landscape can be blurred through the obstruction of the park’s existing linear path, which is regularly cluttered with runners, bikers, and walkers. This public space aims to create different experiences for people as they are moving through the landscape.
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OBSTRUCTING THE PATH
Ann Arbor’s Argo Park is situated between the cityscape and a canoing livary. However, the park and the city are disconnected. This library blurs the urban and natural by obstructing the linear pathway of the park forcing city people to engage with nature.
The linear path way that exists can be obstructed through placing walls and pavilions along the linear path. These guide users through the landscape, creating predetermined views and walkways.
Producing Experience
SITE ANALYSIS
Obstructing the Linear
The park’s existing path way is a straight walk from the canoe livary parking lot to the other side of the Huron River. It does not engage the users with the existing landscape or the surrounding cityscape. This calls for a path obstruction/ intervention.
In obstructing the linear path, pavilions are placed in between the solid massing walls to produce moments of dark and light between the transition of spaces. These areas of tension and compression create different views based on how the massing walls and pavilions are oriented within the landscape.
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DESIGN STRATEGIES Looking to precedents such as Michael Heizer, Jorge Silvetti, and Alvaro Siza, this indoor and outdoor library uses concepts derived from Yves Alan Bois’ “A Picturesque Stroll Around ClaraClara” to guide people down a particular path. Different atmospheres and environments are created in each space, forcing people to interact not only within the program of the library, but also with the natural elements on the site, those being reflective water, glistening grass, the horizon of the river, the noise of the wind, and the smell of fresh air.
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+ IN BETWEEN “a new student space...” Second Semester Studio / 2017 Professor: Hans Tursack University of Michigan Hatcher Library Addition Ann Arbor, MI
The Hatcher Library addition calls for a “space in between,” addressing the potential for a new type of learning in the public realm situating students between the library and the University Diag. As students, it is not only important to be educated in the arts and sciences, but also informed about political, social, and global issues happening in the world today.
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DESIGN STRATEGIES The University of Michigan Diag is a central traffic intersection cluttered with student groups including religious advocates, politicians, musicians, and community charities. It is a place to learn and become educated on issues outside of the library. This library intervention aims to address the potential for a new type of learning in the public realm by blurring the boundary between the interior traditional space of learning in most traditional university libraries with the exterior atmosphere on college campuses, an atmosphere that provokes freedom of speech, protesting, and collaboration between students, townspeople, and professors.
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STUDY SPACE BLURRING THE INTERIOR OF THE LIBRARY AND THE PUBLIC REALM Initially visiting the site, the library space was too compact and silent. If students moved to open a book, another student or the librarian would glare near the suspected noise. This intervention provides a new type of learning in the public realm by steering away from the stereotypical, dusty, “nose in book” library.
PRODUCTIVE
Fuller’s geodesic dome, historically, a representative of radical , political change in architecture was used to derive the form this intervention uses to address a new type of learning.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER + Form
Tange’s 1976 Expo installation was studied to understand how this library intervention would be constructed and “plug-in” to Hatcher Library, a historic piece of architecture.
KENZO TANGE EXPO + Construction
The Osaka ‘70 Expo installation was used to study how a space frame could produce individual spaces within the overarching construction system to help produce single study spaces.
OSAKA 1970 EXPO
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Munich’s Olympic Park space frame was used to construct th roof garden of the Hatcher installation. It shows how a space frame can deviate from its rigorous construction to create large, open spaces.
MUNICH OLYMPIC PARK + Open Air
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GARDEN LIBRARY
ARCHIVES BASEMENT
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“... a juxtaposition of open-air and enclosed space...”
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MATERIAL COMPOSITION
Specific panels of the space frame are clad in white aluminum. These panels help to produce private, individualized study spaces within the whole system.
CLADDING ZONE + Aluminum
The space frame is a tetrahedron aggregation of nine foot equilateral triangles. Each triangle is connected through a ball joint connection (below). The ball joint allows the triangle to be aggregated in eight different directions while still being structurally sound. Each panel material is screwed into the triangle through three small arms protruding out of each triangle. These secure the panels in place and allow the window conditioned panels to be opened and closed.
Glass clad panels produce study spaces that let users view what is happening on central campus, but are closed off from sounds and smells. These areas allow for studying while still being aware of campus activity.
CLADDING ZONE + Glass Fogged glass spaces allow users to be closed off from all campus activity, but be able to make out contours of natural elements. The inhibited view offered by this material amplifies the surrounding nature.
CLADDING ZONE + Fogged Glass Open air panels allow users to be completely immersed in the site. These panels give users a sense of smell, temperature, sound, and views onto the Central Campus Diag.
Ball Joint Diagram
Single Arm Diagram
CLADDING ZONE + Open Air
Individual Study Space
STUDY CONSTRUCT Individual study pods are formed based on how the space frame is clad. These areas are immersed within the Hatcher Reading Room allowing users to engage in group or “head down” studying.
Private Study Rooms
Open Cafeteria
PUBLIC SPACE The large, open cafeteria space punctures the Hatcher Reading Room and “hangs” over the busiest lane of the Diag. It is an area for people to relax, study, and immerse themselves in campus culture.
RESERVE ROOMS Large private study rooms are available for all students to reserve for individual needs. These are located on the roof of Hatcher, the least busy area of the space frame, yet they overlook the Diag, providing a glimpse to he exterior.
Roof Garden
NATURE ENCLOSURE The roof garden provides users with an outlet from the library to be outside and immersed in nature for study breaks or group projects.
“... blurring the boundaries of the interior library...”