cyle king selected works
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table of contents the new excess
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r.e.o.
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architectural clay formworks
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lisabona
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the new excess architecture and the green new deal fall 2019
The green new deal proposes massive overhauls to the existing infrastructure in the United States encompassing energy, transportation, and cities to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Although not a bill, it exists as a resolution to outline what America needs to change to avoid literal disaster. Through examination of the potential of excess and excessiveness as architectural methods, possibilities arise using these resources as tools of creating architecture and urban systems. Excess is generally
seen as the continuous overuse or over-seen methods that are often perceived in an unfavorable way. This leads into the theory, and eventual title, of creating a “New Excess”, and conceivably redetermining the narrative that follows excess. The proposal foresees an idea of manipulating inefficient forms of waste into productive uses in our society. This position emerged from research pertaining to sustainability which is defined by the language of austerity, reduction, and optimization.
KALAHAR AWARD FINALIST Instructor Course Location Partner 4
Shelby Doyle ARCH 401 Des Moines, IA Jacob Gasper
United States high-speed rail map
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des moines zoned pollution
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NX2e, N2, N3c, MX2 EX, N3b, P1 N1e, N5, F
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excess plastic utilized as both concrete aggregate and interior elements
excess plastic collection gathered at architectural nodes
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excess cO2 stored into concrete or piped into earth for permanent storage
excess cO2 collected by fans
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carbon capturing fan
5% plastic aggregate 95% concrete
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15% plastic aggregate 85% concrete
65% plastic aggregate 35% concrete
75% plastic aggregate 25% concrete
des moines intersection to downtown des moines
to principal park
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intersection of two railways
to housing
to downtown des moines
material loading material proessing
plastic dropoff arrival and departures
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recycling node + spatial program process 11
concrete + plastic columns
crushed, recycled, 3d printed filament as concrete aggregate
5% plastic aggregate 95% concrete
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35% plastic aggregate 65% concrete
65% plastic aggregate 35% concrete
75% plastic aggregate 25% concrete
1” : 1’
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floor plans
algorithmically generated
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1st floor
2nd floor
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r.e.o. reclamation education organization fall 2018
San Francisco, along with the majority of California, suffers from an ongoing drought that was declared a state of emergency in 2015. In response, this project aims to utilize the only form of water that can be relied upon; the saltwater of our oceans that continue to rise due to the ongoing change of our climate. Through a series of exposed water pipes aligning with the structure of the city’s trolley system, sea water is pulled from the bay, desalinated, and stored at the site atop Nob Hill to be distributed throughout the architecture and entire city. Additionally, the city faces a substantial homeless population that continues to grow as the economic gap of its citizens widens. Often this is handled by cramming people in warehouselike shelter spaces.
Instructor Course Location Partner 18
Leslie Forehand ARCH 302 San Francisco, CA Jacob Gasper
The selected precedents exemplify how architecture has the potential to rehabilitate by de-emphasizing private spaces in favor for social spaces. Intertwined within the tower is a trade school aimed to inform residents on the reuse of materials and additional green practices. The spatial sequence of the vertical towers utilize these properties through the housing of students and its program and the connecting social spaces. Standing atop Nob Hill, one of San Francisco’s tallest of seven hills, this project serves as a monument towards not only the homeless of the city, but also a symbol of the unmistakable economic gap.
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precedent analysis
social housing projects mediating public-private space
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The Six Brooks + Scarpa Architects
Housing Île Saint-Denis Périphériques Architectes
Centre Village 5468796
Jagtvej 69 WE Architects
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water tower
public + private
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public plaza + fresh water connection
diagrid structure
desalination pipes
trade school
circulation
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model dimensions: 2’x2’x11’ scale: 1:64
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architectural clay formworks 3d printed clay as reusable formwork fall 2020 - spring 2021
This research explores the capabilities of clay as a reusable formwork for concrete. Through the utilization of geometric code via a robotic arm, clay is printed creating cylinders of parametric variety for the potential of a concrete cast within the interior once the clay has reached a leather hard state. These prints are examined upon both their aesthetic qualities and their ease of replicability. The basis of this project is that clay, without being fired, can be reused as a sustainable solution for concrete formwork in addition to its capabilities of complex
geometries. The resulting concrete casts exhibit representations of architectural elements that are unique to this sustainable method.
-2021 ACADIA CONFERENCE FIELD NOTE -2021 NCUR PRESENTATION -2021 ISU WEARABLES SHOW -ISU SYMPOSIUM ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION -UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE FUND Instructor Course Location Partner 28
Shelby Doyle ARCH 490b Architectural Robotics Lab, Ames, IA Jacob Gasper
2021 ACADIA Field Note : Process / Product
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custom clay extrusion system utilizing compressed air
5” x 5” plywood air compressor hose coupling 2” x 1/2” bushing fitting 3” x 2” pvc flexible coupling
3’ x 3” polycarbonate
end cap assembly
3/8” diameter threaded steel rod
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custom clay extrusion system
initial experiments in prepration for 1:1 scale casts
clay formwork
removing formwork from cast
finished cast
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clay cylindrical print analysis
experiments testing layer height, clay consistency, print speed, and psi
5mm
6mm
80 mm
80 mm
10 mm skirt distance
2 skirt layers
2 skirt layers
1:2 Clay : H20
1:2 Clay : H20
10 mm skirt distance
40 psi 40 psi
5 mm layer height 6 mm layer height
- 10 mm/s robot velocity - failure after 8 layers - ran on T1 (manual control)
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16 layers
8 layers
- 10 mm/s robot velocity - failure after 16 layers - ran on T1 (manual control)
4mm
3mm
80 mm
80 mm
2 skirt layers
1:2 Clay : H20
2 skirt layers 1:2 Clay : H20 10 mm skirt distance
40 psi
4 mm layer height
24 layers
- 10 mm/s robot velocity - failure after 24 layers - tallest print at 100 mm - ran on automatic - resulted in less user error
10 mm skirt distance
40 psi
3 mm layer height
28 layers
- 10 mm/s robot velocity - failure after 28 layers - although having more layers, the overall cylinder was the same as 4mm - ran on automatic - resulted in less user error 33
final clay molds and corresponding concrete casts dates + variables of clay molds
29 March 2021 - 60 psi - 14 mm/s - KUKA speed - 4 mm - layer height - 6.75 : 3 - clay : water 26 March 2021 - 65 psi - 14 mm/s - KUKA speed - 3.5 mm - layer height - 6.75 : 3 - clay : water 26 March 2021 - 50 psi - 20 mm/s - KUKA speed - 4.5 mm - layer height - 6.75 : 3 - clay : water 25 March 2021 - 50 psi - 20 mm/s - KUKA speed - 4.5 mm - layer height - 6.75 : 3 - clay : water 23 March 2021 - 47 psi - 23 mm/s - KUKA speed - 4.5 mm - layer height - 6.75 : 3 - clay : water 20 March 2021 - 65 psi - 9 mm/s - KUKA speed - 3.5 mm - layer height - 6.75 : 3 - clay : water 20 March 2021 - 65 psi - 11 mm/s - KUKA speed - 4 mm - layer height - 6.75 : 3 - clay : water
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16 March 2021 - 65 psi - 9 mm/s - KUKA speed - 3.5 mm - layer height - 6.75 : 3 - clay : water
final cast variable analysis
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final column assembly
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isu wearbles design show set
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lisabona a paradise in hell, lisbon, portugal fall 2020 lisabona.cargo.site
It may be that no disaster is truly natural, but all disasters are social. In Rebecca Solnit’s book, A Paradise in Hell, she depicts how disasters find existing frailties in society and pry them open, revealing existing inequities and injustices while temporarily disrupting the systems that enforce those biases. The earthquake, tsunami, and fire of 1755 Lisbon marked a significant change in the western world. This fissure superseded the future of the blank slate city plan only to expose the layers of past histories.
But what histories were revealed? What systems were brought to the surface? What new societies revealed themselves from the past and how would it predict the future of Lisbon? The following research exists as a manifestation in the form of a meta-historic geofiction imaging the state following disaster Solnit writes about that we have titled “the gap”.
KALAHAR AWARD WINNER Instructor Course Location Partner 38 40
Firat Erdim ARCH 403 Lisbon, Portugal Donovan Bunn
Portrait of the Marquis of Pombal, by Louis- Michel van Loo and Claude Joseph Vernet; 1766
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“Crisis throws off the balance and into some sort of unpleasant, yet dynamic state...” -Lebbeus Woods
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(as) “not a linear construction consisting of the temporal casuality where the present follows after the past, but where past and present exists symbiotically on the same plane in a perennial process of becoming.” - Henri Bergson
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PROCESS
thinking by making
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DISASTER
earthquake, tsunami, fire
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on tradegy“Overwhelmed by the amount and variety of viciousness in the world, a does of direct response unpleasantness is a good antidote to creeping misanthropy, as it feeds off of our concern for others” “a meta-response, arising from our awareness of, and in response to, the fact that we do have unpleasant direct responses to unpleasant events as they occur...it shows what we care for” -Feagin
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the gatherer
the recollector
the portal
the theatre
the temple
the builder
the king’s path
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pombal’s plinth
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