I am pursuing imagination And finding reality Living with a passion Ignited by Love
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CONCEPT
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Invite people to explore, discover, and establish healthy personal habits and community relationships. Circulation ramps express movement inside-out and outside-in which sparks curiosity and thus an invitation. The contextual river bend, bridges, and Jacksonville’s ship yard past are used to link the building to the site, and YMCA’s mind, body, spirit principle maintains a connection to the mental, physical, and spiritual exercise spaces required of a YMCA.
Jacksonville’s Riverside YMCA Jacksonville, Florida
Design Studio 6.2 - Spring 2013 - Professor Michael Alfano
JACKSONVILLE SHIPBUILDING ESTIMATED 1917 FLORIDAMEMORY.COM
The pool wall slides open and closed to take advantage of natural ventilation of the pool space in good weather situations. The panels that compose the wall are side hinged in tracks which are mounted to the trusses within the structure of cables supporting roofs and floors over the pool. This structural and adaptable system is fitting with Jacksonville’s past of building ships and fits also with the analogy of Man building his body - especially related to the pool.
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SYSTEMS The building structure is composed of concrete piles, strip footings, and pads as the foundation system. Exterior concrete shear walls are used for backwalls of courts, lockers, and offices as well as fire stair and elevator cores. Steel framing is utilized in floor and roof spans, while HSS tubing is used to create a twelve foot deep truss which spans the pool’s width. These trusses allow the roof and floors above the pool to be suspended from cables. The exposed cable connections within these spaces allow visible connections to this structural system of expressive nature--fitting for a place of expressive exercise.
POOL OPENED
The operable wall/roof above the pool opens vertically to shade the game court while the pool is open to the outdoor air. The panels are glazed with aluminum frames that allow fixed louvres to be mounted on the exterior to shade from summer sun. Air conditioning (temperature and humidity) controls are monitored by two systems - one for the building and one for the pool. The condensers are located in the entrance pools/fountains which use running water to act as a heat exchanger and also create the white noise of running water for the dramatic entrance affect prior to being released into the atrium.
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PROGRAM 1 - Pool 14
2 - Tropical Smoothie
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3 - Gym 4 - Aerobics Studio 5 - Aerobics Classroom 6 - Squash Courts 1
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8 - Dining Area / Multi-purpose 9 - Fitness Equipment Store
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GROUND LEVEL 17 - General Storage
NORTHEAST AERIAL VIEW
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RAMP CIRCULATION
EAST AERIAL VIEW
ELEVATION WITH RAMPS
NORTHEAST RIVERFRONT VIEW
CABLE STRUCTURE
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SECOND LEVELS
THIRD LEVELS
FOURTH LEVELS
MAIN ENTRANCE CIRCULATION
MULTI-USE GAME COURT ROOFTOP
ATRIUM FROM 2ND LEVEL CHECK-IN
PROCESS My first action was to map the river bend and bridges associated with the site.
GYM FLOORS
This diagram process stopped when the model used an intersection of a doubled and flipped curve that produced the dichotomy of man-made rectilinear form and the natural curves of the river. The result is one of intake from the road and release to the river.
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NORTH MONROE STREET
THE TALLAHASSEE BEACH AMPHITHEATRE
HILLSIDE OVERLOOK
CANYON RECREATION
CORE @ SHARER ENTERTAINMENT HUB
MASTER PLAN
PARTIS
Area of Focus: “The Strip”
Physical Connections & Realignment
Transit Hubs & Points of Sale
The preliminary proposed demarcation of primary zones include The Strip, Lakeshore Beach, The Green, and The Hillside Overlook. The primary area of focus is The Strip. Effective and efficient physical connections are made. Transit hubs are strategically placed as “nooks” that assist the implementation of the Point-of-Sale. These nooks integrate bus stops, signage, and retail, and they become public relaxation spaces for all who wish to use them. Visual connections completed the initial design process.
Dynamic Visual Connections
I. THE STREET AND CORE
(ZONED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT)
- Pave Medians, Lanes & Sidewalks in front of businesses
PHASING
- Transit Hubs Developed
II. THE BEACH AND CANYON
(ZONED BEACH FRONT RETAIL DEVELOPMENT)
- Excavate Beach, Canyon & Amphitheater - Install Beach Front Avenue parallel to Monroe - Fulton Road Bridge, Sharer Road Bridge, Allen Road Bridge - Extend Fulton Road to Monroe Street
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III. ENTERTAINMENT HUB
(ZONED RETAIL & ENTERTAINMENT DEVELOPMENT)
- Re-develop Roads With Street Parking through site
- Parking Structure & Tunnel Across Monroe Street - Route Old Allen Road along side of parking structure
IV. AREA RESIDENTIAL CONNECTORS
(HIGH DENSITY TERRACED SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT)
- Parking Structure between Stone Road and Fulton Road - Develop Overlook Park on top of hill - Remove Hospitality Street - Re-route Fred Smith Road around park
SUMMERWOOD AVENUE
TUPELO TERRACE
MONROE STREET
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EACH FRONT RETAIL
SITE SECTION THROUGH BEACH FRONT RETAIL BOONE BOULEVARD
EXISTING RESIDENTIAL
RESIDENTIAL UNITS PARKING BENEATH TERRACE
MONROE STREET
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TUNNEL CONNECTS PARKING STRUCTURE TO ENTERTAINMENT HUB MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
SITE SECTION THROUGH ENTERTAINMENT HUB
FULTON ROAD BRIDGE
SILVER SLIPPER LANE
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CANYON ROAD
RETAIL AND ENTERTAINMENT DEVELOPMENT
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Tallahassee, Florida
Design Studio 6.1 - Fall 2012 - Professor Eduardo Robles
FINDING THE REAL
TALLAHASSEE
North Monroe Gateway
CONCEPT Acquaint travelers and locals with the natural features of the Tallahassee area by placing sculptural signage abstractions along Monroe Street. Each sign sparks interest in the wonderful areas that Tallahassee has to enjoy and promotes travel around the city. This segment of North Monroe Street and its adjacent contextual environment furthermore becomes the abstract embellishment of natural features that have defined Tallahassee from the beginning and will continue to define Tallahassee to the end.
This project will establish the identity of the North Monroe Street Gateway through the use of signage, interaction, hierarchy and contextual relationships. Subsequent elements that shaped and drove the design process included Tallahassee topography, relationships of zoning and activity centers, and areas of improvement. The interactive landscaping of the Beach & Green Entertainment Hub is an experiential summation of the natural features of the Tallahassee Area. Overall, the area becomes a series of portals of interest that jump people into and out of The North Monroe Gateway. 9
NIGHT-SCAPE ON MONROE WITH UP-LIGHTS ON TREES
MONROE STREET becomes an outdoor shopping mall on the ground level. Vehicular access to buildings is from parking lot entrances on connected roads to the strip. Transit hubs utilize nooks carved from the development masses that provide the spaces for the Tallahassee Natural Feature Abstraction Sculptures. These nooks then become great points of sale for retailers as people wait for a bus, sit and eat, or meet friends and family. The DESIGN GUIDELINES stipulate the use of “Real� or durable materials for the overall development of the area as a quality and relatively vernacular three to four level architectural display. (Wood, Limestone, Concrete, Brick, and the stainless steel and aluminum metal and glass for storefronts and fenestration) Planters and grass along Monroe Street are buffers for people to enjoy the wide thirty foot pervious concrete walkways. Street lights are in the bioswale medians and uplights are on trees.
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THE CORE AT SHARER ROAD
THE CORE AT SHARER Road provides an expansive release from the slower enclosed traveling experience created along Monroe Street. The water fountains that fill the circular void are visual and sound generators for emphasizing the sculptures located in the pools. The pedestrian bridge provides people the opportunity to cross Monroe Street while shopping without coming in contact with vehicular traffic. Bicyclists enjoy a five foot wide bicycle path. The pool walls serve as sitting walls and are directly related in their limestone faced design to the planters along The Strip. The materiality of the bridge emphasizes the traditional materiality of Tallahassee with the red brick facing. The circular development
terminates with two live oak trees to the north that frame an entrance to the Tallahassee Beach. Walking into this area invites people to use the pedestrian bridge and therefore walk along the storefronts on the ground level. Three or four levels of hotel space is located above retail in the north developments relating to the beach front views and equal height apartments in the south developments relating to the existing residential neighborhood. Crossing the bridge provides a wonderful view to the beach and the Sharer Road bridge between the two live oak trees.
WATER FOUNTAINS AND LARGE SCALE SCULPTURES
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AMPHITHEATRE BY DAY
THE AMPHITHEATER is a sublime atmosphere that draws people’s favorite performers into AMPHITHEATRE BY NIGHT Tallahassee along with the surplus of over two thousand entertained people and their business.
THE ENTERTAINMENT HUB is filled with developments of retail, recreation, and entertainment. The courtyards become organizing elements for different atmospheres for shopping and playing. Larger developments might include a movie theatre complex, a brewery, and perhaps indoor miniature golf or laser tag. A tunnel connects the parking structure across Monroe Street to the hub. 12
ENTERTAINMENT HUB AERIAL
TALLAHASSEE BEACH
REAL
allows people to come into the area to enjoy a setting of beach front retail shops comparable to those at Lake Ella further south on Monroe. This destination draws people into the area on nice days and gives nearby residents a place to come and enjoy on a regular basis. The stormwater catchment makes this feature one that combines with the multiple locations of bioswales and rain gardens in the area to help capture runoff from the area. The three bridges are visual and physical connectors that engage both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The beach provides the more public space between Sharer Road and Lakeshore Drive, while the heavily treed interstate buffer gives people the option to enjoy a more peaceful and secluded environment. The transitioning from beach to canyon occurs at Sharer Road and gives the possibility of walking and jogging around the
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entire loop of beach and canyon. This use of beach and canyon emphasizes the interrelationship of man and nature. These areas of nature display the spatial relationship of the area between massings and voids of green and water.
CANYON ISLAND
CANYON RECREATION
space creates a place that submerges individuals into a surreal atmosphere that serves as boundary definition and destination. The views into and out of the canyon and the physical interaction with it become sublime experiences. The ramped entrance into the canyon provides an access point that is optimized for the development of a natural sciences building and aquarium into the side of the canyon wall that furthers the experiential qualities of the area and allows people to interact with Florida’s natural qualities. A bridge to an island allows a place for a garden and water to be pumped over the edge of the bridge to create a water fall. The walls primarily have water trickling down while one location shown contains another man-made water fall over the wall. The entrance to the canyon creates anticipation and surprise.
CANYON BOATING UNDER ALLEN ROAD BRIDGE
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DUVAL STREET @ TENNESSEE STREET APPROACH
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ENTRY PLAZA ON CALL STREET OVERLOOKING COURTYARD
Steele Center Tallahassee, Florida
Design Studio 6.2 - Spring 2013 - Professor Michael Alfano The City of Tallahassee and Star Metro wanted to vision possibilities for the re-development of the current CK Steele bus plaza on Tennessee Street. As a team of three, we produced this solution of mixed-use retail and office spaces wrapping a public courtyard. The driving concepts of this design were to maintain a 360-degree inviting approach to the site and maximize thermodynamic study to decrease energy consumption.
Room was left on the site for a civil rights museum and study center to tie respect the aspect of CK Steele’s story of Tallahassee’s bus boycott. Pull-in bus parking is provided underneath the museum and contains two electric charging stations. The courtyard is the primary driver for invitation onto the site. The four corners are opened for direct visual and physical entry and exit to and from the courtyard. Water features define the boundary of the outdoor paved surface, while trees provide shade for seating around the perimeter. This space becomes a place for bus-users to relax while waiting and food vendors to setup shop during the day and night.
The project assignment began through development of these concepts and a projected schedule to follow that split daily amounts of work amongst the three of us. We then produced a standardized presentation layout to document all work and began precedent research. Site analysis and palette selections then directly preceded the design process and proposal. In the end, all work was documented on the powerpoint presentation along with a comparison of “projected” versus “actual” schedule. The slide images are from the final segment, “PROPOSAL,” of the presentation.
Technologies associated with this building are also visualized in the presentation, and, therefore, a “whole building” is designed.
OVERLOOKING COURTYARD FROM 3RD FLOOR BALCONY
MULTI-FUNCTION COURTYARD
There is also a more private seating area and restaurant on the Call Street level that is more appropriate for people working and living in and around Steele Center to come and have lunch or dinner.
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EAST-WEST SECTION
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LoDa Centre Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.
LoDa Centre, located at the intersection of Springhill Avenue and Dauphin Street, is both a landmark gateway and link to the old center of Mobile. The 182,000 square meter mixed use complex responds to the city’s implementation of smart growth strategies and their call to enhance the Lower Dauphin Entertainment & Arts district by increasing population density and promoting healthy living and activity in the area. The attempt at maximizing quality of life in and around the complex is clarified with the fitness center and its quarter mile running track 108 meters above street level that embraces the three towers and the space it allows the local and visiting populations to use. Gardens are located throughout the complex and provide areas for residents to form comfortable community relationships, workers to break to, and visitors to enjoy. Controlled natural ventilation and daylight is also introduced through use of atriums and sun shading which are fundamental to increasing atmospheric quality. Sustainable energy use is a hidden feature of this project. Exterior surfaces that are prone to heavy wind loads 40 meters above street level utilize turbines for converting this prevalent form of energy to electricity, thus transforming the skin into an energy harvesting façade. The design of these turbines is similar to vertical shaft turbines but turned horizontally and modified to funnel wind loads through the casings. The result is a source of power regardless of wind direction. These casings become a platform for photovoltaic technologies and provide solar shading during summer months. There is also a small on-site power generation plant located under the parking facility which is designed for harvesting and refining methane gasses from waste lines in the residential tower. Gravity feed rainwater cisterns supply commode water and cap all three towers. The smallest is on the office tower and shares the rooftop with cooling towers that feed chilled water under the running track to the hotel and residential towers. Transparent exteriors use quadruple glazing with a salt hydrate phase change material that reduces heat transfer through the glass. The exterior walls are composed of pigmented precast concrete panels. Structurally, the towers are composed of site-cast concrete substructures and cores with steel superstructures.
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STREET LEVEL
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STUDY MODELS
NORTHWEST AERIAL
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DAUPHIN STREET PLAZA
RUNNING TRACK
Mobile, Alabama Visioning Project Design Studio 4.1 - Fall 2010 - Professor Roy Knight This project included visiting Mobile and planning the city into the 20 - 50 year future. As a class, we saw the recently proposed Master Plan or “New Plan� for Mobile, and we divided our class into five key areas of Mobile for visioning with each student developing a unique vision for a single area.
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Magnolia Park Shopping Center Tallahassee, Florida
Design Studio 4.2 - Spring 2011 - Professor Eduardo Robles Renovation of an expansive shopping center facade and remodeled courtyard with additional 3rd level of residential units. Through use of an in-depth site analysis, the facade took on the function of tying the building into the surrounding area. This involved a natural feel of ground level limestone rubble and heavy timber with powdercoated steel connectors supporting a continuous run of overhead vegetation that both provides shade and water treatment and visually connects the facade to nature. The entries into the primary rental space are visually marked by a change in pavers used to create paths into the parking area. One of these paths connects directly with the primary courtyard entry which has a very light feel from the rolling aluminum fins that create a transition space in both parallel and perpendicular entry paths. Inside the courtyard, the use of a live oak is a visual and functional benefit to the space. The paving pattern takes on the function of tying the area into the fabric of its surrounding neighborhoods by branching out from the tree to the columns that surround the courtyard interior. The names of these neighborhoods are then written vertically on the columns.
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I developed this map of Tallahassee to better understand the site’s location in terms of the city’s general layout of some basic land uses such as residential, education, retail, offices, and government buildings.
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SOUTH APPROACH ON MAGNOLIA DRIVE
EAST APPROACH ON GOVERNORS SQUARE BOULEVARD
NORTH-WEST AERIAL
PARK AND TRACK LOCATED ABOVE PARKING FACILITY
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WEST ELEVATION
WEST-EAST SECTION
Magnolia Park Centre Tallahassee, Florida
Design Studio 4.2 - Spring 2011 - Professor Eduardo Robles A continuation from the renovation of the shopping center, this project was to be located in front of the parking area adjacent to Magnolia Drive. The program was very flexible...calling for three 40,000 sq. ft. levels of mixed uses. Including 7,000 sq. ft. of clear floor space for a fitness center. Everything was up to the students. I installed a parking structure below grade and used a vegetated top to act as a local “park� with a playground and an outdoor performance stage. A 1/4 mile running track is provided for use in conjunction with the fitness center, and may be used by all building occupants and fitness center members. The fitness center itself is a clear floor for flexible layouts and uses with a space frame supporting the roof. The roof systems were optimized for day-lighting, water catchment, photovoltaic + solar thermal, and natural ventilation. The wall system provides reveals at exterior columns to break up the long facade with vertical elements that provides a tempo for movement past the building and shows the modular dimensioned design. Programmatically, the ground level is retail, the second level is office space with the fitness center located at the North end, and residential units are located on the third level.
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Shipping Container Village Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
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Design Studio 3.2 - Spring 2010 - Professor Enn Ots
This plan was developed shortly after the earthquakes that devastated the people of Haiti.
These four slides were presented and given to a design firm in Atlanta that was actively involved with disaster relief in this region.
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Design/Build Desk Object Design Studio 2.1 - Fall 2008 - Professor Elizabeth Lewis The project was very free to interpretation from the instruction of designing some desk object that was to be in use for the remainder of that semester. The project began on a Friday and was due to be presented the following Friday. My initial thought was a drafting surface, and my initial sketches and design quickly came to realize the needs for portability, security, and storage space. The design uses a flip & slide drafting board that allows drawings to remain attached by tape, flipped and slid shut, then locked. The Para-Liner was a vital part of making this a more valuable tool. There are storage areas inside for utensils and paper which have access to wing nuts that tighten the steel clamps to most any desk or table. Swivel wheels and a handle are attached for easy transport. This project has proven to be useful in all of my design studios and should continue to be useful well into my future.
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Beyond Tradition
Florida A&M University Campus, Tallahassee, Florida Design Studio 3.1 - Fall 2009 - Professor Donald Gray This project is an expansion of the music program at FAMU. It houses an auditorium and recital hall along with classrooms, offices, and administration spaces.
The project briefing called for a structure that is “an expression of music to the D/HH inhabitants as the sound of music is for the hearing.” Along with this, I took some motivation from Renzo Piano when he said, “As an Italian, I am very grateful to tradition, but at the same time, I hate tradition. Tradition may kill you...may actually paralyze you, so you need to counter balance between gratitude for the past and desire of invention.” At semester’s end, “Beyond Tradition” won the studio design award.
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Everything you can imagine is real. ~Pablo Picasso
Ian Sommerfeldt, LEED速AP - Florida A&M University - Tallahassee, Florida http://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmsommerfeldt ian1.sommerfeldt@famu.edu - iansom86@gmail.com -850.445.8652 MAY 2013