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Archite is an e
cture vent.
From birth, we have entered into an event in a world that creates as it destroys and destroys as it creates. We are molded by our surroundings, our interaction with nature and mankind marks the epoch of our perception of, space, time and architecture. Our very existence is to participate in this event, for we are an unfinished creation.
STUDIO
1
This studio course concentrates on the relationship between architecture and human experience. Students in this studio were required to chose an object that they interact with daily and develop a semi private museum. the site selected was also determined by the objecct chosen. Emphasis was placed on the site culture, building and human dynamic.
Water Water is an element that transcends all life on Earth. It has the power to cut mountains, the ability to cleanse and the potential to connect. Water (H2O) is the most abundant compound on Earth’s surface, constituting about 70% of the planet’s surface. In nature it exists in liquid, solid, and gaseous states. even if he has never experienced a similar situation. The study of the skills and techniques of improvisation can strongly influence one’s competence in business, personal life, and/or in the arts
Rotation
Watercolor 8” x 6”
Rotterdam
Watercolor, & Acrylic 24” x 36”
Rotterdam
A young, dynamic, international city on the water. Itis a metropolis for architecture, arts and culture. The river Maas River flows right through the city, crossed by the now-famous Erasmus Bridge which has become the symbol of Rotterdam. Countless tiny harbours line the banks of the river, each with its own unique character. Further downstream lies the industrial port that has made Rotterdam the biggest port city in Europe. The port of Rotterdam is the largest in Europe. From 1962 to 2004 it was the world’s busiest port until surpassed by Shanghai. Rotterdam is on the banks of the river Nieuwe Maas (‘New Meuse’), one of the channels in the delta formed by the Rhine and Meuse rivers.
Experiential Sketches / Conceptual model
Today water threatens the very existance of Rottermdam but it is in this death that I find Truth, for like the aging process it is inevitable. Water however does not die, it simply changes state over time. Thus my relationship with it is not only one of wonder and joy but one of envy and fear. Through sound, touch color and taste water makes itself a part of our every day life.
My design anticipates the time when water would invade Rotterdam, letting water redefine its galleries, and become a monumental reflecting pool, which would be a beacon for the future, transcending our understanding and bridging the present to the future. A future that like water will never die.
Lookout Deck River Walk
Outdoor Gallery
Sculpture Library Reflecting Pool
Artist Studio/Gallery Lobby Apartment
Main Entrance
Apartment
Ink, & Graphite 20” x 24”
Rotterdam
Watercolor, & Acrylic 24” x 36”
STUDIO
2
This studio course concentrated on the ways in which a building’s site and environmental context influence architectural design. Students conducted simple site analyses and made design decisions on that basis. The ability to create meaningful design solutions and fulfill simple programmatic requirements is also emphasized. Lectures included topics such as environmental and site issues and the meaning of places.
Community A community is a family, born from diversity, supported by truth, governed by hope and strengthened by unity.
Alacrity
Watercolor, & Ink 10� x 10�
New Orleans “Jazz streams out into the moonlight, French doors open to the night breezes, sweet olive scents the air. Nearby there is laughter, a cork popping, and cafe brulot aflame. Welcome to New Orleans. Here, in this little corner of the American South, where European traditions blend with Caribbean influences, the history is as colorful as the local architecture; the food is the stuff of legend. Haitian and African Creoles developed an exotic, spicy cuisine and were instrumental in creating jazz and Zydeco. Their street names are French and Spanish, the Creole architecture comes in a carnival of tropical colors, and their voodoo is a Caribbean import. The magic is irresistible. A cultural gumbo, they celebrate their differences. In fact, they celebrate almost anything in the Big Easy. They have a saying: LAISSEZ LE BONS TEMPS ROULER -- LET THEGOOD TIMES ROLL. A reminder of their french heritage, a way of life that began three centuries ago. New Orleans lingers on the threshold between the Old World and the New, between history and legend. “
The Bunny Friend Neighborhood Association is located in the Upper9th Ward. Due to hurricane Katrina inAugust, 2005, 45% of the residents fled the city. Today, they are still striving to revitalize and rebuild their community, their mission states : “ To stimulate revitalization and building of thecommunity post Katrina.” The association seeks to rebuild their sense of community, restablishing the extended family, retracing roots, regaining memores, and relocating to their former homes, making Bunnifriend future proof. “
United Diversity Watercolor, &I nk 10” x 10”
Devlopment of Site Plan / Building Orientation
Site is a heterogeneous unit that comprises of nature and the manmade. It is the stage for event of the interaction of the unit.
It is the instruments in life’s orchestra.
Every instrument has its own timbre and pitch but life is that great conductor When the instruments are not harmonious we become aware of the dissonance.
Everything is part of a whole; the entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Architecture is a part of and a response to this chorus;
Elevation Sketch
Graphite 11� x 17�
it raises its voice not to be a soloist but
that arranges them beautifully. To consider site we must study this relationship and seek to be transparent, not
opaque, to grow and not hinder.
to be part of the resounding sounds of life.
Above: Exterior Perspective Watercolor, & Graphite 10� x 10�
Summer Solstice
Equinox
Winter Solstice
Hot Air
Cool Air
Natural Ventilation/ Sun Shading Diagrams
Exterior Perspective
Watercolor, & Graphite 14” x 20”
Site Plan/ Sketches of Views from Site
RainGarden- for rainfall and drainage from parking area.
Large Gutter- for drainage of roof into Rain Garden
Stoop- A small platform, leading to the entrance of a house or building. stoop-sitting was a great pastime and tradition of New Orleans culture
Vine canopy- for seasonal solar shading.
Roof to shelter the performance/ stage area.
RainGarden- to take advantage of rainfall and stormwater runoff from roof and garden design and plant Privacy wall with plantersfor privacy and additional green space.
North Elevation-
Rhythm
Watercolor, & Ink 10” x 10”
Jazz Band in Preservation Hall Watercolor, Ink & Graphite 7” x 11”
The Ramp
Watercolor, & Ink 10” x 10”
Peering out of Art Studio Watercolor, & Ink 10” x 10”
STUDIO
3
Understanding and utilizing structure within a building. the nature of structural systems, including how long-span structures, can affect and inform architectural design. This design project was focussed on structural steel construction. Students were encouraged to take advantage of steel’s properties and characteristics in order to conceptualize and propose a critical evaluation of a mind and body center.
Reflection Look within.. Learn from the past, Acknowledge the present, Embrace the future.
Release
Watercolor, & Ink 12� x 12�
In 1733, General James Oglethorpe landed on a bluff high along the Savannah River. He named it Georgia and made
Savannah
its first city. Savannah is known as America’s first planned city. Oglethorpe laid the city out in a series of grids that allowed for wide open streets intertwined with shady public squares and parks that served as town meeting places and centers of business.
Trustees’
Garden
was
set
aside as an experimental farm where crops essential to silk culture, were grown. However, large-scale silk production did not happen, so interest waned and the garden closed. In 1794 a tavern for seamen was opened and become known as “The Pirates House.” The high bluff on the northeastern corner overlooking the river was a succession of fortifications until designated Fort Wayne in 1812. Today the brick and stone fortifications can be seen arising from General Macintosh Boulevard.
Faced with this state of affairs, a cooperative of individuals have decided to create a place to practice ‘being’: the Re-ligare Institute. By fostering and celebrating not-doing, not-having, stopping, and wholeness, the organization intends to give people a space to step back and become reconnected with themselves, others, and nature. Faculty, administration, and staff will support patrons to accomplish such goals and conduct research concerning the practice of being. Architecture is to become a sanctuary for finding, studying, enjoying, and developing being. As such the building will provide a necessary retreat from real world dis-eases, promote healing, and foster a re-connection at the individual and collective levels. Given its intense focus on being, the Re-ligare Institute demands a building of great quality that highlights
phenomenological presence at all levels and scales. being means to offer pedagogies directed to the subjective (personal, individual self), intersubjective (social, collective self), and objective (environmental, no-self)
Developing
dimensions of
human experience.
This translates
into practices directed to observing, studying, exercising, and expressing being’s others and
mind, body,
and
connectivity
to
nature. And while these aspects of being do
not occur in isolation, it is appropriate to focus on one or the other
to foster particular developmental gains. Hence, the Re-ligare Institute demands programmatic separation and connection, that is, dedicated places to work on our physique or inner mentalscape as well as areas where we can come together in society and nature. For this reason, the Institute seeks to establish fluid yet carefully crafted relationships between urban and architectural spaces, exterior and interior, culture and nature, self and others.
Spatial Programming (Plan)
Spatial Programming Sketches (Section)
Galvanized- Steel Maintainance catwalk. Steel Outrigger
Drop Ceiling Adjustable Blinds
Extruded Aluminum- stick system mullion
Perforated Cortens Steel
Insulated glass with low-E coating
Extruded Aluminum- unit Frame
Main Entrance Experiential Visualization
Watercolor, Ink, Photo & Acrylic 9” x 12”
Main Lobby Experiential Visualization
Watercolor, Ink, Photo & Acrylic 9” x 12”
STUDIO
4
This studio course concentrated on the issues raised by creating new architecture in existing urban contexts with complex social and cultural characters. The class focused on developing an ability to create well developed and artistically meaningful solutions to moderately complex architectural problems. In addition to performing in-depth analysis of the urban site and thefunctional program, students prepared formal building type analyses as a way of understanding the tradition of building in the city. Emphasis was placed on topics such as urban context; social, cultural and behavioral issues; and analytical methods.
New City
Watercolor, & Ink 24” x 36”
Rediscovery Embracing human, social and media ecology to rediscover, reconstruct and regenerate the city.
A city is
Living organism... The road and rails its veins and
arteries
the modes of transport its plasma and the people its blood cells.
It relies on a symbiotic relationship
between them to survive.
Sketch Book (Studio 4) Mixed Media 8.5” x 11”
Conceptual Model
DuSable Park, a 3.5 acre peninsula located at the juncture of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan just north of Randolph Street, was dedicated as a future park in 1988 to honor Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the founder of modern day Chicago. Since 1988, however, the park has not been constructed due first to environmental contamination findings, and most recently to funding issues. The latest major block to the development Spire Memorial- for rainfall and of DuSable Park is the 2009 economic downturn which has halted the drainage from parking area. construction of the Chicago Spire. Currently under development near the mouth of the Chicago River and Aerial Tram Terminalpoint the shore of Lake Michigan, DuSable ParkDocking honors Jean Baptiste Pointe du for trams connecting the site to Sable (ca. 1745-1818), theNavy first non-Native American Pier, Chicago’s River Walk, and settler at Chicago. A neighbouring buildings. Haitian of French and African descent, DuSable traveled to New Orleans in 1764. The following yearDeck he -journeyed up the River to 205ft wood deck, usedMississippi for Taxi and docking otherIndians small St. Louis, where he began Water to trade with the for local and married boats. a young Potawatomi woman. As early as 1772, DuSable moved on to Chicago, establishing a remote trading post near what is now Pioneer Du Sable Park the “Crossroads” Court, just north of the river.DuSable’s world began to change after the Revolutionary War, when the American government claimed the Great Lakes region as its own, and settlers Sound Barriers began arriving from the east. In 1800, DuSable sold his property at Chicago and went south to Peoria. Two centuries after DuSable’s departure, Chicago is an unimaginably different place, home to nearly residents, Lounge three Garden.million Gently inclined grass with skyscrapers mounds public use. In the mid-1980s, developers lining the Chicago River and the for lakefront. began to improve 60 acres of under-utilized industrial land north of the river with residences and commercial structures. To provide parkland for Water Garden- to take advantage of the new CityfrontCenter, the Chicago Dock and Canal Trust donated more rainfall and stormwater runoff garden than three acres of property east Lake Shore Drive to the Chicago Park design andof plant selection. District. The site will soon be transformed into DuSablePark. The Art Institute Water Fountains Chicago’s B.F. Ferguson Fund will commission a statue to honor DuSable’s contributions to the city’s beginnings. The new lakefront park will soon provide an ideal spot from which to contemplate the vast metropolis Chicago has become. Since 2003 progress had been made by the Chicago Park District to complete the required environmental clean-up of the 3.5 acre site. Following the environmental cleanup, the Park District worked with the DuSable Park Coalition to finalize an architectural plan for DuSable Park. The DuSable Park plan includes a sculpture to be designed by Martin Puryear as well as artistic plaques and informational signage which will tell the story of the settlement of the City of Chicago by Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable at the end of the 18th Century.
Building and Site Sections Ink/ Graphite (2) 14” X 11”
Architecture should have existence but no presence
“If Architecture can be said
to have a poetic meaning,
we must realize that what it says is not independent
of what it means.�
Why does it exist?
How does it exist?
Why does it exist as it does? I do not know Only you know the answer
Walk along the Bridge
Rendering (REVIT/Photoshop)
Mall Interior
Rendering (REVIT/Photoshop)
STUDIO
5
Commissioned by an international, multi-media corporation, this project explored the creation of a new urban development.. It was a collaborative studio, with groups of four consisting of two 4th year architecture students and two urban design graduate students. Explorations included in-depth user analysis, study of city structure and systems including transportation, waste management, zoning programming, ecology and education. My resposibilites included vingette design and sketches, schematic planning, zoning, client presentation, design of digital presentation and physical site model.
Urban Spontaneity embraces the balance of order and chaos, crafting enriching, connected, playful moments. spontaneity, refl ection and innovation weave through both the everyday and extraordinary in an active, evolving urban structure.
STUDIO
6
Continuation of sponsored studio.
Design Design is an essential element of everyday life . Even though a design process is unique to an indivial, it is simultaneously relient on knowledge gained from interaction to develop the process.
Creative Collaborative seeks to foster interdiciplinary dialogue with various fields within the design world. It strives to reengage student, professors and their audience with eachother throughout the day. In the creation of products, services and ideas, a designer considers issues of user experience, value, aesthetics, technology and production. At Creative Colaborative, students learn to be adaptive thinkers, to design with all these factors in mind— from the perspective of the artist, craftsman, designer, marketer, client, user, customer and engineer. The School of Design fosters innovation, facilitates professional relationships, and encourages active engagement. strategic thinkers, global communicators, collaborative partners and ethical practitioners
STUDIO
7
Students were required to use the Evolo Competition guidelines to design a skyscraper within a site of their choice that may be threatned by rising sea levels.
Evolo This architectural competition challenges participants to take into consideration advances in technology, explore sustainable systems, and establish new urban and architectural methods to solve economic, social, and cultural problems of the contemporary city including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure and the exponential increase of inhabitants, pollution, economic division, and unplanned urban sprawl.
The city that never sleeps. Its transportation
Manhattan
networks
support the bustling life that enhabits it .
West Side Yard The site of the project is the West Side Yrard. Situated on the west side of Manhattan near the edge of the Hudson River, this rail yard is vulnerable to flooding. Its rails slope downward as they enter into manhattan and connect to major transportation tunnes for New York’s subway. In the even of a fllod New York’s subway can be breached by the water cause the suspension of subway services, and would cripple New York’s circulation, causing chaos and havoc on its already congested streets.
H2O Tower? During a storm in the summer of 2011, Manhattans transportation network was shut down due to flooding, causing chaos in the bustling city that NEVER sleeps. Facing issues of floding and pollution of drinking water reserves Manhattan must act to prevent the debilitating effects of such disasters to its social and urban fabric. The H2O is Manhattan’s answer to sea level rise in 2111. The building will be a catalyst of environmental responsibility and a symbol of the human ability to adapt to the inevitability of nature. It combines urban functions, flood mitigation and water purification. The H2O is a prototype that can be adapted by many cities whose very existence is being challenged by sea level rise. It stands in hope that humanity will reflect and learn from it, that it will marshal a new desire to embrace sea level rise and continue to find innovative ways of providing for and preserving its culture and resources for the future generations.
Just as water is channeled through the city, so to are people in its street. H2O brings this to the forefront as traces of major thoroughfares throughout Manhattan’s plan inform its sectional design.
GRADUATE THESIS The
thesis
seeks
to
counter
the individual mindset that is evident and seemingly rampant in Philadelphia’s urban construct through interventions into the urban
fabric
of
Center
City,
Philadelphia. It raises spatial awareness through explorations in materiality, spatial diversity
and
the
arousal
of
curiosity within three sites with great potential for engagement in Philadelphia’s City Center.
Spatial Relief relief: The word relief has multiple definitions, often referring to a liberation or contrast. When applied to a discourse on spatiality, relief suggests a liberation or positive change. Architecture has fallen into a social trend toward convenience, often opting to neglect or overlook our means of communication, the senses. This hinders the human ability to be actively aware of his collective or individual participative experience of place. This thesis is conceived to foster the individual’s dialogue with others – such as people, architecture, place- within a spatial context. Contrary to what is often emphasized in architectural discourses today, little emphasis is placed on specific dialogues within an event. It is more important that the space allows for, rather than dictate the potential dialogues.
[observation]
The city is a living organism, an avatar of the human body, an extension of the soul...
It relies on people to sustain and nourish it.
STATUS:
The city of our time is a dysfunctional organism, one which is numbing itself in a blind state of indulgence.
THE SYSTEM: [feedback disrupted]
Man and his environment (natural and created): disrupt with man’s excessive indulgence. Give him the means to attain anything or at least allow him to believe that he can.
INJECT:
I am green Consumerism I’m in style a manifestation of inherent
I’m convenient qualities in man: an occurrence of excessive indulgence. An I’m in control obsession with the object, with I’m dynamic gaining, with what one doesn’t have. I know it all I can do it for you
[nonresponsive]
A neighborhood becomes numb; another begins to digest itself. The blood is stifled; it stops providing nutrients to the parts; the whole, the city, the construct.
INTERV
VENE...
[ Disillusion ]
I am green
| I’m in style |
I’m convenient
|
I’m
in control
| I’m dynamic
“What can you do?” everything. | I know it all | I can do it for you. “What have you done?...”
Philadelphia Free Library Pavilion A library is a place of discourse and learning by its nature. The location of the Philadelphia Free Library is adjacent to two major circulation thoroughfares in Philadelphia; at street level the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and sub street level the Vine St. Expressway. These thoroughfares are traversed daily by residents, tourists and those employed in the city, they are seemingly extrovered and the sounds and vibrations that eminate from the of the vehicles that use them dominates the atmosphere with its constant noise. As these are juxtaposed to the library’s introverted character, it is difficult for the discourse that is a library to exist within the fabric of the city and as a result the library can often be overlooked or forgotten. This pavillion is proposed to provide a place of rest, disconnect from the chaos along the parkway. It seeks to give the Philadelphia Free Library back its prominance reiterating the library as a place of discourse, learning and discovery.
Within the ceramic sphere there is a second ceramic sphere with four rest rooms, the properties of the intersitial space created amplify the sound, and increases the reverberation creating a pronounces but superimposed echo as sound reflects earlily off the smooth ceramic surface. Capitalizing on the vibrations from the traffic, the pavillion is a series of slender poles anchored in a plinth that support a seemingly monolythic slab. Looking towards the library the columns are aligned with the classical order, whilst looking along the parkway they become a grid of poles slanted to varying degrees mimiking the vegetation that exists along the parkway with varying densities and heights. At night full length slits in the poles are illuminated by vibration sensitive lights which light the acrylic core of the poles.
Architecture can make
chaos
serendipitous
order
Architecture can make a background become the foreground
Architecture is
discourse
Comcast Garden A garden in the shadows of its contect blossoms again. Time and seasons and light are integral to the existence of it. It is soothing and soft, its planar nature can be used as a canvas to provide interest though a diversty of elements , pathways and levels and light. The Comcast Center Garden, nestled within a sea of sky scrapes, speaks of Philadelphia’s drive to educate and give its citizens a better, healthier standard of living. However it is currently underplayed by its surroundings, and is seeming non existant to those who walk past it. The new garden strengthens the former ildefined edge, and is broken at to allow for access into the garden as well as to peak the curiosity of passers by. These breaks are inviting and also give the garden the ability to “breathe� .
The garden’s design acknowledges and emphasises man’s relationship with nature. Enclosed walk ways spill users into sun light areas, slight incline takes a user onto a level apart from the others, elevated from the street and the rest of the garden. Varying vegitation entices and stimulates the olfactory senses, season by season. and water, a lifeline of the garden, is ever present with its ciculation pronouced throughout the garden.
Thomas Paine Plaza Plaza’s are the social lungs of a city. At a crossroads in the heart of the city, the Thomas Paine plaza can facilitate the uniting a people., giving them a place to be, to live, learn and grow. It can be a place of joy, solace, catalyst for change or even unrest for a person, pair or group. The plaza is a large open area adjacent to the Municipal Services Building and opposit Philadelphia’s CIty hall. It encapsulates each aspect of the project, combining them harmoniously within the site’s upper and lower levels. It provides enclosure within a space that is vast and empty in contrast to its immidiate surroundings. Its four 25 foot timber walls create a monumental facade which honors Pennsylvania’s timber industry which is one of the largest producers of hardwoods in the country. The restroom facilities break the wall and combats the “rest room” stigma that exists within the western world, by giving the restroom extreme prominance within a public space. It provides a diverse set of opportunities for interaction and plays on spatial diversity, materiality, history, and human curiousity transforming this once exposed site into a place that is needed within the city, a place of relief.