exercises in doubt social housing
pp.
1–38
DISTRIBUTIVE LUXURY columbia gsapp, fa15, critic: mario gooden. partner: harrison bush. challenging poverty aesthetics and the architecture of social housing. prisons
pp.
39–54
INTEGRATED REHABILITATION columbia gsapp, fa16, critic: tatiana bilbao. rethinking spaces of incarceration and attachment to community. infrastructure
pp.
55–66
NEW-NEW DEAL columbia gsapp, sp16, critic: nahyun hwang. partner: jason danforth reviving the architectural grandiose of urban infrastructural projects. archive
pp.
67–80
ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY columbia gsapp, sp1, critic: karla rothstein. questioning the implications of storage, memory and archive via olfaction. land art
pp.
81–10 4
DESERT EXHIBITION columbia gsapp, sp17, critic: julian rose + garrett riccardi. exhibition and creativity at the intersection of architecture and landscape. natatorium
p p . 1 0 5 -112
URBAN CATHARSIS columbia gsapp, fa13, critic: christoph kumpusch. addressing social reconciliation through architecture of shared repose. technical
addendum
p p . 11 3 -1 3 4
PRAGMATIC STUDIES columbia gsapp, fa14–fa16, critic: varies. studies in fabrication, tectonic culture and curtain wall design.
6 exercises in doubt 3 experiments in pragmatism g s a p p 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 17
by harrison cole nesbitt
social housing distributive luxury south bronx, nyc partner: harrison bush columbia university s p r i n g 2 0 14
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Addressing the desire for redevelopment in the Southern Bronx, a residential intervention is presented under the context of competing policy, zoning and proposals – each distinct and often conflicting in desired outcomes. Ineffective economic policy and poorly integrated mixtures of commercial activity, public housing and private residences paralyzes communities. Any site intervention must consciously address issues of policy and programmatic redundancy, while protecting the interest of the economically and socially stratified residents vulnerable to displacement under standard redevelopment practices. A proposed waterfront housing intervention must confront this desire within the tripartite context of life/domesticity, policy and culture industry. Value within New York City housing exists beyond the notion of simple square footage. Closet-size living spaces fetch remarkable prices within neighborhoods such as TriBeCa and SoHo neighborhoods, while Williamsburg pricing continues to soar. In the city of density, space and location compete as luxury. We answer the question for an affordable housing complex with a solution capable of redefining the perception of a home, community and city at large. Units are stripped to their most salient ‘domestic’ spaces, resisting the ability to nest or recluse in the apartment or home. Under the context of cohousing principles, space is redistributed to shared community space and facilities. In reducing redundancy, shared amenities are furnished to utmost luxury, transgressing the perception of affordable housing. Units are aggregated into clusters, interspersed with communal spaces, seeking to build social capital within the imemdiate locale while fostering interaction between floors through more public facilities such as child-care, laundry and café areas. The combination of these initiatives coupled with a cohousing approach transforms the site into the living room for both the immediate residents and community at large, while providing an alternative mode of living that challenges the traditional stereotypes of domestic living.
distributive luxury
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conceptual plan overlay
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Bedroom B
Living Room
Bathroom
Bedroom A
Kitchen/Living
Bedroom B
Bedroom C Bathroom Kitchen
Bedroom A
Bedroom C
Hallway
Hallway
Over 24 hours, two New York apartments were video documented and mapped according to occupancy and use in each space. The least frequently used spaces are labeled exogenous, reconfiguring the standard apartment as an aggregation of the most essential functions. Residual space can be redistributed to as a collective resource, satisfying economic desires for density and efficiency as well as improved ammenities for residents.
spatial study
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Essential Space 340 ft2
Apartment B
Living & Dining Space
Kitchen Space
Laundry Space
Sleeping
320 ft2
75 ft2
75 ft2
Space
Essential Space
Apartment A
425 ft2
Living & Dining
Sleeping
Space
Space
above: salient domestic space lef t: analysis of domestic use
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Given program is compartmentalized and fractured, provided as discrete entities to be strategically manipulated. Program is fragmented and subsequently rearranged to explore potential adjacencies and organizational strategies. Conflating an exploration of affordable-housing stereotypes and a contemporary obsession with self-image, Joseph Albers’ Homage to the Square epitomizes image and composition. Nesting, separation and connection inspire an organizational strategy of shared use that is both ego-centric and hyper self aware.
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conceptual program adjacency
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unit shared unit within clusters shared between unit shared between building and community
program
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above: conceptual program nesting lef t: josef albers homage to the square ( program applied)
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Integrating the unit, enhanced public program and guiding program strategy, a weaving of private and public function reveals potential, micro scale organization that would foster the development of social capital both between neighbors and across floors. Residual public program is then redistributed as community space, establishing a reciprocal relationship with immediate context.
program
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conceptual program weaving
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Site strategy is articulated by a series of formal gestures that iconify structure while integrating building program with the immediate community. Ground plane has been landscaped as a continuous, slight slope declining from North to South. The waters edge has been excavated in three cuts to ‘extend’ the waterfront as a testament to the frivolity of real-estate value. Excavated land is accrued in a large pile in the middle of the site – a proverbial monument to value. The human scale condition is park-like and without specific destination. Open to the public, the site stands as a crucial link to future waterfront park development. Primary building access exists at street level, where the slope of the road matches the slope of entry, sweeping context up and into the development.
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site plan fragment
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The reduced domestic space offers new spatial configurations of the domestic unit. The curtain apartment questions the notion of privacy and division within the home and between other units. The relationship between homes becomes a conscious act of exposure, as one reveals or obscures depending on relationship, activity and comfort with being viewed. The corridor unit retcognizes the hallway as the most social and frequently used space in the household. All programs are situated in the pochĂŠ of the walls, minimizing square footage while maximizing use value of circulatory space.
unit study
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above: layered domestic unit lef t: corridor domestic unit
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The unit has been stripped to its most salient functions: hygiene, minimal storage, and rest, with a kitchenette for small meals. All units are furnished identically – paneled glass and reflective mullions encase each apartment with an internal operable translucent curtain. Showers and closets are encased in similar curtains. Consciously exposing or concealing one’s unit impacts the experience of other residents, changing floor condition from one of open transparency to one of obscured reflectivity.
unit study
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single occupancy unit
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unit study
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double occupancy unit
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unit study
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shared occupancy micro unit
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unit study
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interior concept models foam, acrylic, plaster
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The unit has been stripped to its most salient functions: hygiene, minimal storage, and rest, with a kitchenette for small meals. All units are furnished identically – paneled glass and reflective mullions encase each apartment with an internal operable translucent curtain. Showers and closets are encased in similar curtains. Consciously exposing or concealing one’s unit impacts the experience of other residents, changing floor condition from one of open transparency to one of obscured reflectivity.
massing studies
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massing studies foam, wire, cement, paper
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massing studies
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massing studies oak, acrylic, wire
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Continuity, repetition, rotation and shift is conveyed in axonometric layering. Layered interiority exists as an inward and outward process. All spaces reflect and obscure while functioning as personal display cases. As a museum of self, all objects are consciously self-curated, to the point that one becomes curated by the architecture and program. Deleuze’s model is a dynamic one. “[t]here is an oscillation, a perpetual exchange between actual object and virtual image.”
interior
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partial axon
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interior
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typical plan-axon a
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typical plan-axon b
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typical plan-axon c
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conceptual diagram
prisons integrated rehabilitation harlem, nyc columbia university f a l l 2 0 16
program adjacency diagram
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prison
The New York City prison system closely approximate Foucault’s carceral archipelago. Responding to the ineffectiveness of low-security prisons, marked by a 60% recidivism rates, proposed is a minimum-security rehabilitation and re-entry facility for non-violent offenders. Current low-security prisons are recognized for little to no education programs, opting for detention-based punishment that leaves offenders with little opportunity for reintegration on release. The proposed institution rejects the outdated system of social, geographical and architectural isolation that characterizes current North American prisons in favor of a locally integrated, small-scale institution. Occupying the residual rooftop space of residential R7-zoned blocks, the facility asserts a community presence without the need for additional physical footprint - surely satisfying complaints of prisoner economy. Drawing from a scalable program and modular architectural system, the facility is adaptable to existing spatial conditions with the capability of spanning multiple blocks. Essential to the facility is a program of horticultural therapy. At the pod (8-inmate) and facility-wide level, inmates collectively activate the currently underutilized courtyard spaces at the ground level of most residential blocks through the creation of community gardens. Beginning within the institution, inmates contribute to garden development internally, gradually working in the community-accessible courtyard garden below through the course of their term. Entrenching a community-integrated program, access to and from the facility and garden is filtered through existing public facilities including police/detention facilities, churches, adult education spaces and community centers. Such programs, already present in most prisons, provide economic means of program while providing valuable points of contact between outside community and inmate.
integrated rehabilitation
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program adjancency concept
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prison
high risk zipcodes public transport jails courthouse
With nearly all New York City jails operating at or beyond capacity, organization of occupancy has been replaced by simple availability of space. Considerable public money is spent transporting prisoners to and from distant courthouses. Locating facilities in close proximity to courthouses and high-offender communities offers economic benefit while offering new means of healing for prisoner through community immersion.
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church
police
courtyard
community center
adult education
above: east harlem site map l e f t: c o n n e c t i o n m a p o f N YC p r i s o n s / j a i l s
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prison
available recreation space
available program space
Residual FAR of housing block rootops is appropriated for the proposal, respecting zoning setbacks and skyplanes. The presence of community centers, churches, police stations and adult education facilities offer points of contact between community and institution inmates.
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church
police
courtyard
community center
adult education
a b ove: b l o c k- i n s t i tu t i o n d i a g r a m s l e f t: c o n n e c t i o n m a p o f N YC p r i s o n s / j a i l s
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prison
plans
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top: 2f plan - dome stic quar ter s bot tom: plan detail
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prison
plans
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t o p : 1f p l a n - r e h a b i l i t a t i o n l e v e l bot tom: plan detail
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prison
plans
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top: roof top recre ational spac e bot tom: street level communit y garden
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prison
community program: school giveback: library
community program: church giveback: maintenance
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community program: community center giveback: seminar + lecture space
community program: police station giveback: cost + efficiency
to p: b l o c k- p r i s o n s e c t i o n bot tom: circulation via communit y program
infrastructure new-new deal partner: jason danforth bronx, nyc columbia university s p r i n g 2 0 16
infrastructure-site condition
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infrastructure
At the intersection of the proliferating neo-libreal Knowledge Economy and the deleterious effects of aging infrastructure, an opportunity to fundamentally reposition late capitalism, restoring the nostalgic vision of the New Deal founded upon a robust public sector, united in an equitably prosperous, modern metropolis. The infrastructure of New York City presents a site of latent spatial and informational data representative of a diverse and expansive population. Through public-private partnerships between city and extra-territorialized corporate entites, a cooperative proposal is presented, calling for the occupation of bridges, highways, power plants and waste water treatment facilities with industrial scale research facilities. Through the provision of discounted public land rich in valuable and expansive data, a condition of giveback is organized between corporation, city and public - lessening the antagonistic through what could be seen as the New-New Deal. Crumbling infrastructure is restored to operating condition through the investment of private corporation, improving reliability and consistency of services for the city at large, while immediate site is reshaped through architecture to provide new recreational spaces in the previously off-limits zone of these facilities. Through these privately funded interventions, architecture is afforded the capacity to recapture agency in an age of globalization, image and excess, while repositioning monumentality as a new basis for the production of meaning in the metropolis.
new-new deal
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massing model: acr ylic + concrete
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infrastructure
Local power plants and expansive open space are appropriated for agrilcutlra testing, while the minimal ring provides over 1 million square feet of laboratory space, housing, storage and administrative facilities. Adopting this program into the architectural boundary, the limit of domesticity and industry is sharply defined, entrenching the monumentality of boundary. New urban territory is given over to public as green belt, granting views to activity within while restoring recreation facilities to the the otherwise underserviced neighborhood.
power plant
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above: plan + images lef t: site a xon
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infrastructure
With strong visible presence from both Manhattan and Queens, the waste-water treatment research center extrudes upwards as a monumental ring delineating working space from nearby recreational facilities. Latent human biological information in aggregated waste provides valuable data for medical research and product testing. Previously inaccessible treatment equipment is covered by a canopy of landscape available for public use, granting new public space, while eliminating infrastructural eyesore.
waste-water treatment plant
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above: plan + images lef t: site a xon + section
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infrastructure
The highway research center appropriates unused space within a massive Bronx interchange. From the installed observations towers and viewing decks, analog human behavior on the road can be collected. Achieving minimal architectural footprint, the leftover space is activated as a semi-wild nature preserve for species displaced from local fields and marshlands, while at-grade roadways limit human access.
highway interchange
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above: plan lef t: site a xon + section
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infrastructure
models
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massing model: acr ylic, concrete, oak
archive architecture of memory brooklyn, nyc columbia university s p r i n g 2 0 14
atmospheric rendering
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archive
The relationship between identity and remembrance is a historically far-reaching phenomenon associated with visual stimulus. As a tool for recollection, however, visual stimuli fall short in the ability to elicit a complete, emotive response. The visual, like consciousness, is made of stark boundaries that hold firm between experiences. A park appears a park no matter how many times it has been seen. The olfactory, however, blends sensation into a mixture invested with emotion and memory. Our perception of scent escapes stasis. It is dynamic, evolving and changing as the meaning is reinterpreted through observation and experience. The ebb and flow of scent constructs an ever-shifting composition of the allegorical, disrupting boundary into a field of suggestion for one to decipher. Memories of odour instigate sudden moments of recollection as traces of scent activate particular memories free from context, integrating them into the assemblage of personal narrative. The Edifice of Memory acknowledges the human desire to remember. It archives the fragmented artifacts of memory, while providing the environment necessary to piece together and discover the past through immersion in scent. Exploiting the intimate relationship of the olfactory bulb and the formation of conditioned emotional memory, 1000 scent tubes contain the odors associated with each olfactory nerve within the human nose. Using headspace chromatography, the aromatic essence of an artifact is extracted. A unique code associated with the proportions of base notes are embodied within the cylindrical deposit through the presence of light-transmitting filaments. The architecture of an individual experience contained within the architecture of collective storage, the interaction with these memories is sanctified through procession and order.
architecture of memory
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interior-ex terior concept
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archive
A serial study of phenomenological, morphological and operational conditions: ephemeral, cellular, blending – through material experiment. Latent architectural potential is revealed through diagram and analysis, establishing the syntax for building and programmatic design. Elements fold, laminate and blend through extended exposure to intense heat, distorting an understanding of constituent parts.
material exploration
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above: resultant material studies lef t: experimental process diagram
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archive
Established syntax is applied to understanding relationship between architecture and memory. Site context is collaged with historical urban condition and greater city fabric. Memory abstracts the physical while reorganizing our lucid understanding of individual vs. urban. Memory reveals itself as a decentering device – a means of recalling and restructuring our past as a method for establishing the present. Applied to building, program blends between public, private and support conditions, coalescing within the central entry.
diagramming
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above: restructured site plan lef t: program diagram
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prison
Divided into six components, structure is organized as a processional experience. A displaced entry insulates the building from the public context, while the release of used scents into the plaza creates an aroma-scape around the building that draws external curiosity. An extended hallway terminates at the reception. One may choose to descend to the lowest level, where a field of one thousand scent tubes allow bespoke tailoring of individual fragrances. In the upper levels, one may access deposits held within the skin of the building and interact with them using the individual isolation pods suspended within the center.
interior
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above: floor plans lef t: exploded a xon
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prison
Operating as repository, the building skin retains a performative function through the insertion and removal of individual scents. Perforations accommodate the cylindrical deposit that retains the unique code describing the combination of base notes required to create the scent. The presence of light-transmitting filaments inside the deposit corresponds to this code, existing in varying degrees of density that impact the opacity of each cylinder. Light from the exterior filters through these deposits into the interior space, producing a monastic atmosphere. At night, internal illumination casts changing patterns into the urban fabric, flickering as deposits are made or removed.
memory deposit
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above: repositor y system lef t: repositor y zoom
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prison
concept image
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transverse section
land art desert exhibition white sands, nm columbia university s p r i n g 2 0 17
physical model: gypsum, strathmore card
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land art
Reading land art sites of the American Southwest presents an ecologic index of the regional story that makes the area so visually unique. A heterogenous collection of microecologies, all sites come to be understood with ultraspecificity contingent on environmental conditions. In this capacity, the region has historically drawn creatives, most famously represented in the romanticized landscape renditions of the Hudson School painters, seeing an institutionalization of artist-residencies in the late 19th century. Continuing today, National Park artist-in-residency exist in the same capacity, appealing to rustication, isolation and connection to landscape. Looking to landart, however, a different creative engagment with the landscape extends beyond immersion, leveraging the medium itself as a means of expressing entropy, scale and measure. At the intersection of these actions and the artist-in-residency program is an opportunity to test the architectural capacity to catalyze ecological forces for new creative potential - directly engaging the inspirational qualities creatives have been inspired by. Situated in White Sands National Park, 3 artist live-work-spaces, housing 12 artists in total, and 3 exhibition spaces, will draw from the 500,000+ visitors per year in an experiment with desert domesticity, creative production in extreme landscape, and the nature of exhibition in tension with environmental entropy. Directly engaging the inherently persistent change of the gypsum dune fields, the architectural proposal, manifest of repetition and similarity, serves as both measure, austere icon and sculptural geometry derived from existing desert forms.
desert exhibition
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lightning field
250mi
whitesands
100mi
el paso
5mi
15mi
30mi
regional map
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land art
200’ 2
4
6
2 year migration
350’
The unidirectional windforces that shape White Sands desert provide a level of measurable entropy by which an architectural intervention can be developed. Livework spaces within the tower operate above the zone of entropy, in which the exhibition space exists - confronting the ecological conditions of the desert.
local ecology
120’
30’
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live-work
exhibition
15’
above: inter vention t ypology lef t: dune dynamics diagram
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land art
Studio C
Exhibitions Studio B
Studio A
1hr Walking
1.5hr Walking
3/4mi
1.5mi
Whitesands National Park consists of 275 square miles of dune field, though visitor engagment is limited to less than 20 square miles. Organization of intervention will overlay and intersect with existing visitor program, drawing from pre-installed infrastructure, while drawing visitors deeper into landscape
site
no access
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ground cover
tourist zone
high dune activity
site
site map
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land art
live-work
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+0’ - Entry
+70’ - Mezzanine
+30’ - Sleeping Quarters A A
+80’ - Work Space B
+50’ - Shared Living
+120’ - Observation Rooftop
above: t ypical plans lef t: unfolded a xon
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land art
live-work
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above: view at ground lef t: view from obser vation deck
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land art
Three semi-porous bars slow dune migration, capturing sand to shape interior exhibition program while creating a rip-tide of dunes within the greater dune field at large. The presence of the exhibition center elicits sweeping topographical change through minimal intervention, while leveraging dune ecology to produce a new form of dynamic exhibition within the desert.
exhibitions
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above: plan sequence lef t: unfolded a xon
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land art
Year 0
Year 2
Year 4
Year 6
Year 8
Year 10
Visitor center typology functions as thickened wind fence to slow dune progression, accumulating over a 10 year cycle putting exhibition program in tension with desert behavior. Open air program at ground is eventually overtaken by the dune, granting access to the protected exhibition space above.
exhibitions
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above: a xon lef t: dune accumulation
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land art
exhibitions
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top: ground plan with s and inf iltration above: upper galler y plan
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land art
exhibitions
10 0
elevations
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land art
exhibitions
10 2
sections
10 3
land art
extended art campus
10 4
exhibitions–tower concept images
natatorium urban catharsis harlem, nyc columbia university f a l l 2 013
concrete, steel, acrylic massing model
10 7
natatorium
The persistent redevelopment of New York city systematically ignores the interests of the marginalized populations it affects. With it’s considerable public housing stuck, the recent wave of gentrification in Harlem has encroached on territory essential to the stratified residents of the city. Essential amenities and services are slowly replaced with unaffordable alternatives, while formerly open spaces are replaced with luxury residential units. Such behavior has fueled neighborhood class tension, pitting the established population against new residents. Situated in the green space of the Frederick Douglass public housing development, a pool serves as an architectural intervention offering an allevation of these tensions, while providing an opportunity for integration of new and old. Elevated from the ground plane, existing public space is doubled through an occupiable roof. Traditional social norms are challenged through program and architecture, as unisex change rooms precede an open, communal shower space. A central pool provides a space of repose and connection with the adjacent community space. Rotating walls and open floor plan accommodate changing program according to the desires of the immediate residents, while the pool draws the new population into contact with the existing. Under the pretext of relaxation and community functions, while exploiting the vulnerability associated with conditions of exposure typical of pools, tense relations can subside through shared experience and use of the facility.
urban catharsis
10 8
interior moment perspectives
10 9
natatorium
interior
11 0
Space of Communtiy
Space of Repose
Open Balcony
Elevated Circulation
Adaptable Program Space
Dry Path
Wet Program
Space of Cleansing
Changing Rooms
Communal Shower
lef t: acr ylic, wire, aluminum, mesh concept model a b ove: r o o f p l a n , m a i n f l o o r, p o o l p l a n
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natatorium
interior
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transverse section
technical addendum distorted structure movable team: mustafa k han, gabriel ruiz-larrea columbia university f a l l 2 0 16
column installation
11 3
technical addendum
organic consequence
plantonic ex terior and distor ted interior
Automated technologies used in what is believed to be ultra-precise replication and production are mined for inconsistencies and imperfections through the repeated duplication of a simple column form. Through a reapeated process of 3D-scanning, contouring and rebuilding a circular column, distortion is overlayed upon itself, sculpting the familiar into foreign artifact while retaining its original function. Faithfulness in technology is questioned and mined for its artistic qualities, seeking to make explicit and celebrate the errors often attempted to be minimized and avoided.
distor ted structure
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lef t: column diagram above: column installation 2
technical addendum unitized curtain wall lulea, sweden columbia university s p r i n g 2 0 17
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technical addendum
6.25"
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4.10"
BLACK PRE-PATINATED ZINC SHEATHING
70 ยบ
PRE-FASTENED PLASTIC SHIM
1.00"
3.25"
7.00"
1.75" SQUARE ALUMINUM EXTRUSION
Drawing from the economic and energy efficiencies of the naturally cool climate in Lulea Sweden, located 40 miles from the arctic circle, a server center is proposed. A unitized curtain wall of pre-patinated blackened zinc offers a performative architectural solution for addressing air circulation requirements. Variable openings limit street-level vision of mechanical systems, while accommodating light passage into interior spaces. Waste heat from servers is recycled into occupied maintenance levels of the top two floors, the humid air from which is then evacuated into the air cavity between curtain wall and program. Condensation on louvers accelerates oxidation, making explicit the interaction of program and environment.
unitized curtain wall
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lef t: louver detail above: cur tain wall elevation
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technical addendum
+108’-0”
+91’-0” +90’-0”
5’-0”
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10’-0”
10’-0”
10’-0”
unitized curtain wall
12 0
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18’-0”
12’-6”
1’-0”
10’-0”
roadmap details at operations level par tial elevation/plan + t ypical floor to floor
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technical addendum
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unitized curtain wall
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roadmap details at server level par tial elevation/plan + t ypical floor to floor
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technical addendum
unitized curtain wall
12 6
lef t: typical anchor mullion at operations above: t ypical anchor mullion at ser ver
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technical addendum
unitized curtain wall
12 8
l e f t: t y p i c a l s t a c k j o i n t s at o p e r at i o n s (to p) a n d s e r ve r a b ove: t y p i c a l s t at i c m u l l i o n s e c t i o n at c e i l i n g (to p) a n d s e r ve r
technical addendum diffused enclosure bronx, nyc team: jason danfor th, alex rosenthal joem Sanez, brendan vogt columbia university s p r i n g 2 015
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31 X 14 RA
8'-11"
TYP. FLOOR RCP_SCALE 1/8” = 1’
DELUGE SPR
16 X 7 RA
FSD
FSD
FSD
FSD
FSD
G
EXHAUST AIR TRANSFER DUCT & DIFFUSERS
LED LIGHTS (TYP) 48 X 21 RA
20.00
23.50
19'-0"
19'-0"
19'-0"
19'-0"
19'-0"
19'-0"
EXHAUST AIR TRANSFER DUCT & DIFFUSERS
LED LIGHTS (TYP)
DELUGE SPR
TYP. FLOOR RCP_SCALE 1/8” = 1’ FSD
A
FSD
FSD
FSD
48 X 42 RA
23.50
19'-0"
12X12 SA
19'-0" 12X12 SA
12X12 SA
19'-0"
19'-0" 12X12 SA
19'-0"
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
8'-11"
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
Men WC
19'-0"
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
B
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
16 X 14 RA
24 X 28 RA
8'-11"
20.00
31 X 28 RA
FSD
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
FSD
FSD
LED LIGHTS (TYP)
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
Th
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
FLUORESCENT TUBES ON TRUSS (TYP)
12X12 SA
EXHAUST AIR TRANSFER DUCT & DIFFUSERS
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
DELUGE SPR
12X12 SA
31 X 28 RA
FSD
FSD
FSD
FSD
FSD
8'-11" 8'-11"
54'-8"
8'-11" 8'-11"
24 X 28 RA
FSD 12X12 SA
Thermostat
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
12 X 18 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
Thermostat
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
Thermostat
48 X 42 RA
VAV 12X12 SA VAV
12X12 SA
12 X 18 SA FSD 12X12 SA
Elevator
Th
12 X 12 SA
FSD 12 X 18 SA 12X12 SA
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
31 X 28 RA
Th
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
VAV VAV
24 X 24 SA
12X12 SA
12 X 18 SA
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
12 X 12 SA
24 X 28 RA
8'-11" 8'-11"
Thermostat
24 X 28 RA
54'-8"
Thermostat
Thermostat
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
Thermostat
12X12 SA
VAV
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12 X 18 SA
VAV 12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
VAV
Thermostat
12X12 SA
24 X 24 SA
48 X 42 RA
A center for small-scale manufacturing in the Bronx presents a new industrial aesthetic. Single-layer translucent channel glass provides an external rainscreen, protecting an exhaust-conditioned circulation corridor wrapping the interior production zone fronted by light-diffusing, honeycomb-panelite glass. Tenant floors are suspended from a monumental truss by slender rods, maximizing usable floor area. the double-skin envelope provides a cacophonous buffer between the coarse channel glass and smooth storefront glazing of inside working space, appearing monolithic during daylight hours, while glowing and expressing the structure of the building at night. FLUORESCENT TUBES ON TRUSS (TYP)
7TH FLOOR RCP_SCALE 1/8” = 1’
Th
FSD
12 X 18 SA 12X12 SA
24 X 28 RA
8'-11" 8'-11"
12X12 SA VAV
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
24 X 28 RA
12 X 12 SA
12X12 SA
36 X 36 SA
AHU
7TH FLOOR RCP_SCALE 1/8” = 1’
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
16 X 14 RA
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12 X 18 SA TOILET EXHAUST
Thermostat
12 X 18 SA
Thermostat
24 X 28 RA
8'-11"
12X12 SA
12 X 18 SA 12X12 SA
FSD
24 X 28 RA
8'-11"
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
FSD
12X12 SA
VAV
12 X 18 SA 12X12 SA
Elevator
Elec.
F
G
Men WC
36 X 36 SA
E
Thermostat
12 X 12 SA
12X12 SA VAV
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
24 X 24 SA
Janitor
G
VAV
24 X 28 RA
D
31 X 28 RA
24 X 24 SA 12X12 SA
VAV
OSA
12X12 SA
FSD 12 X 18 SA
48 X 42 RA
36 X 36 SA
Elec.
F
AHU
Janitor
E C
12X12 SA
12X12 SA
12 X 18 SA
36 X 36 SA
24 X 28 RA
B
FSD
TOILET EXHAUST
24 X 28 RA
D
Thermostat OSA
12X12 SA
C A
LED LIGHTS (TYP)
EXHAUST AIR TRANSFER DUCT & DIFFUSERS
DELUGE SPR
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