Spring 2014 Final Projects

Tristan Bassingthwaighte

Copenhagen, Denmark

Located in Scandanavia, Copenhagen is a city that has existed in many forms for centuries. A famous port and nexus of culture, host to Jan Gehl and Hans Christian Anderson, this city has been at the forefront of art, music, science, and exploration in Europe for centuries.

Today, Copenhagen is one of the greenest cities in the world, with a large portion of their population biking to work, even in winter. They invest in wind energy, new technology, and are often called the happiest people in the world. Older styles of construction are omnipresent in the city, from the common Canal Homes to classical architecture. This is a city that both dwells in the past and defines the future.

A project exploring ways in which people may be brought together in new ways, while celebrating all cultures as well as the self, would thrive in a city where such things are already a daily occurance. The atmosphere created by the Danes is extremely conducive to the holistic aims of the project.

Freetown Christiania

This is the burough within Copenhagen where the site and project are actually located. While it was originally ramparts to the old city in the 1700’s, it eventually fell out of use and became abandoned, despite being closely placed to many of the city’s great attractions. In the 1970’s, the empty land and broken buildings were taken over by counter culture advocates, hippies, and people who felt they didn’t quite fit in with normal society. Today, it is a small town within a town, an eccentric location full of architecture sans architects, nationally famous music festivals, a huge abode for artists, and a haven for people to go when they want to live outside of the normal strictures of society.

In short, this is the ideal place to found aSpire. The ideal of breaking down borders and moving past our preconcieved notions exists here in droves. The amenities provided in the tower would bolster the community of Christiania both financially and as a place of gathering.

Hygge, the Gift

aSpire seeks to accomplish its goals not by being solely a new construct for the people of Copenhagen, a traditional program may be great financially, but the relationships between people and cultures extends far beyond that. This tower is a vessal for Hygge, the Danish concept of coziness, good times, warm among friends. Enjoying an aesthetic moment in time with people dear to you. To create this among strangers is the goal of the project, and it is accomplished by providing a juxtaposition of trials and sanctuaries for groups as they struggle to reach the top of the building. It is, in short, an enclosed environment that fosters cooperation and communication between people who would otherwise not come to know each other.

Rooms that need multiple people to open a door, cross a passage, activate lights. Scattered floors with calm resting places, views over the entire city, comfortable and warm environments. A last ascent to the top. The relationships that bring us together, time and experience with people, is created through the experience of this building.

The major precedent for my tower design is the Tameer Towers currently under construction in Abu Dhabi. A 73 story building with a seven star hotel, adjacent residential towers, and assorted commercial and residential programming. Most striking is that the tower straddles a canal, which leads boats into a private marina owned by the project. This is accomplished through a combination of clever work with cores and the balanced integration of diagrid structural systems. The two feet of the tower meet high over the water, forming a flying sky lobby, and the tower continues up.

My own project takes this programmatic element and applies it to the Hygge gift of Danish culture and the qualities of the ramparts of Christiania. Resting on two seperate footings, the tower is initially commercial and mixed use, straddling a landscaped area that begins as an open space and narrows as you move through the structure. Instead of a marina, you come to a secluded peninsula, hosting a quiet landscape and places for contemplation. Like the marina, you may only access the space through the path provided by the building, and the eccentric structure is held together with dual cores and a diagrid structure.

For my podium level, several levels of floors were pushed back to create a massive public space that is both outside of the building and beneath the diagrid supportive structure. This provides places for people within aSpire to gather, hold public events, and observe Christiania in action.

Tameer Towers project, Gensler, Abu Dhabi

aSpire from across the canals

Inside the main atrium on the 10th floor

The dual footing, passage to the hidden peninsula of the project

The summit, where one engages in the ritual of the fire. During their climb each person keeps a small peice of paper with them, recording their doubts or trepidations.

Once at the apex, they may place the paper in a small fire, burning away those feelings.

To be reborn, one must first slay oneself.

Near the end of the tower program we have a reduction, and thus sharpening, of experiences.

The last ascension is a simple spiral stair, entirely closed off, yet open to above. Weather and light may enter, and they become more noticeable the higher one climbs. This is a transition space, from an absolute void of the senses moving ever closer to the last experience.

The curtain walling on the upper portions of the tower change out of necessity. We are now so narrow that horizontal members jut out and can be unbalanced visually. The solution is the installation of vertical finned curtain wall systems.

This allows for a reduction in overall solar gain when desired, but also follows the form of the building.

The use of a diagrid in the construction of the spire was paramount, it is the only method of construction that can afford the structure appropriate support as it tapers into the sky. Minimal space is used on interior walls, allowing the occupants to have as much space as possible, even in the thinnest parts of the building.

Diagrids are also extremely efficient, using less materials that traditional construction. This can save money during design, let the tower remain lighter than it otherwise would have, and by virtue of these it can be built higher. This was taken to the extreme in aSpire.

On the open wall of the public podium, louvers are included to manage the incoming southern sun, which can be intense during the summer months. Fully maneuverable, these may be rotated vertically to block a majority of the light, or left horizontal for clear views. User controlled curtain wall accessory.

In the lower levels, aSpire is a mix of various program. There are two footings, but both share complimentary functions and are open to the public. Restaurants, offices, shops, and entertainment make up the bulk of the podium level.

At the tenth level, this culminates in a massive semi-enclosed space; outside the building yet inside the diagrid. The hub of activity within the tower, every level and amenity can be quickly reached from this point, or you may simply take your time to enjoy the views.

Here the tower is bifurcated. Continuing up the facade looking over the podium are offices and select businesses. On the far side facing north is the bulk of the residences. The core in this section is dual-faced, serving each, yet keeping them seperate. The final program of the tower resides in the spire, where the experiential programming dominates.

Residences

Hygge Climb

Service levels

Mixed Use

Public Podium

Service Access

Lateral Loads

Gravity Loads The first diagram shows lateral wind loads, and how they’re absorbed by the diagrid before being transfered to the core, and then the piles.

The second diagram shows simple gravity loads, with the wieght of the building being supported both by the core, as well as the diagrid structure.

The third diagram is the largest floor within the structure, showing that each point farthest from the core has at least two exits for fire egress.

All subsequent floors, being smaller, also fall into the safety bubble.

The fourth diagram is marking the footing and piles, showing them moving through the layers of sediment to the bedrock below.

The last diagram is calling out the location of the passage between the footings, allowing people to reach the hidden peninsula and meditative areas of the site.

Below, concept of what aSpire would look like from the Church of our Savior, on the outskirs of Christiania.

Footing and Piles

Passage Through

The sole way to move from the public face of the intervention to the secluded peninsula on the other side, the Chasm is a sensory refresh. Open and bright at the entrance, as one passes through it they are pressed in by the walls and made small by the rapidly elevating ceiling.

The last steps open onto a grassy slope leading down into a deeply reflective area. Mostly woods and paths, the sole true feature of the peninsula is a pool, immeasurably deep, where one partakes in the Water Ritual. Grounding the sky from a distance, and gazing into you from it’s edge, this half of Aspire is centered on the pool. Rugged land, reflective water, the design is focused on introspection and clarity.

Front Elevation

Section

Ground Plan

Stephanie Cass

Stephanie Cass — Tower Design Studio — Ma Ri Kim-Johnson — Spring 2014

PROTEST!

Lit parum qui quiame lat rest, conseque exeriat molor moluptae poriorro mos mollorp orest, conet qui qui untium as pos magni ipitio evelit entibusam quis simod quo eturibus

Envisioning

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r e f in e m e n t The Creatives live in this system.

Rome open discourse democracy/republic center crossroads soap box western intellectuallism internet ideas

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» hopeful » yet known » progression » forward movement » positivism

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Cultural Experimentation Zone [CEZ]

contemplation space

messy creativity of life

The Curious participate and take away an experience.

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speculative space

labs

meeting rooms

workshops equipment rooms

classrooms

stores

cafes

sculpture garden

exhibits

multi-purpose hallway

stage outside theater nightclub

communal meeting hall

» aware of current events » artistic » interested in past & future » diverse » connected

» future » centered » bottom-up » ownership » empty » potential

PlatformOpen aspires to become a space for an emerging culturally-minded generation to explore cultural assumptions and experiment with deliberate synthesis through a process of (X) with the intent of establishing a mecca of free expression and critique.

together

spread

flow

chaos

» » » » » » cyclical rebuild upon reject identity discovery

» understand » reject » accept » evolve » status quo

connect

» multi-disciplinary » messy

Key Considerations: being a visible symbol of expression, becoming a cultural mecca, remembering the natural and the historic on the way to a brighter future!

» not temporary » life-changing, if not world-changing

Sketched below are the first ideas, exploring respectively the movement in the gesture of rising up and giving back public space in a vertical tower.

ex The Guides contribute to the movement & direction.

» » » » » » » » »

» new » “third world” » naive » unexplored » young » tabula rasa

» separate, yet connected » unrestricted » ready for paradox

» to be repeated » prescriptive method, emergent solutions

With a history fraught with the violence of riots and war but infamous for information suppression, I wanted give back a positive way to protest: a holiday!

Defining the Gift

» new territory » risky » dangerous » paradigm changing » observation

Shanghai, for me, is a place that holds both familial comfort and the mystery of unexplored identity.

Concept: » controlled » scientific method » western » deliberate

WHAT IS MOST PRECIOUS? ──

Lit parum qui quiame lat rest, conseque exeriat molor moluptae poriorro mos mollorp orest, conet qui qui untium as pos magni ipitio evelit entibusam quis simod quo eturibus

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Tool #1: The Narrative Map Begin with a concise statement of the intent of the project. (PlatformOpen aspires to become a space for an emerging culturally-minded generation to explore cultural assumptions and experiment

with deliberate synthesis through a process of (X) with the intent of establishing a mecca of free expression and critique.) Break it down into action words (goal) and descriptors (feel).

Tool #2: Modeling the Gesture

Visually represent the relevant ideas: gesture of giving, chaotic creativity, program ideas.

Tool #3: Word Cloud Programming Define the program by expanding on the process taking place: creativity.

Site: Where & Why

Resource as inlet, platform as outlet. This is a Cultural Experimentation Zone, free of government interference for the benefit of the country.

Tool #4: Material Board Picture the words, feel the ideas, what is it made of?

events

plazas

hearts & nodes

scale: uh soa

edge & gateway

secondary loops

movement

axes

SHANGHAI Keep & Celebrate

1 2 Normal Channels Fail Conditions Ripen

3 4 Take Off!

Build-up of Stress in the System

Reformers Rebels Citizens Change Agents

Businessas-usual

Steady State

TRIGGER EVENT

NanJing Road Gateway Forest Old Age Rituoso Elevated Highway Shanghai History Museum

Replace Municipal Gov. Bldg.

Public Order Police Station Main Axis

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Activist “Failure”

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Success!

Moving On

HOLIDAY! (guided positive protest)

Stages of a Social Movement It’s not about changing the heart of Chinese culture, but nurturing its positive aspects and encouraging a more vibrant, expressive self.

In A Practical Strategist, activist-educator Bill Moyers describes the phases a society goes through in order for change to manifest. He also notes the level of activity of different groups within the society.

This inspired the definition of my gift as a weeklong event to be housed by the tower. This is the “process of (x)” from the narrative map.

From it also came an idea of program as a cyclical process of change.

The site, People’s Square, was chosen for it’s prominence in the heart of old Shanghai.

With the PuDong skyline of dominating the international image of the city, The People’s Tower will represent the noncommercial, “big feet”* version of city life. The intent is to crowdfund the tower, inspired by the new skyscraper of Bogota.

Analysis (above) calls out elements to be kept and celebrated versus ones to be replaced. *term adopted from lecture by Kong Jian Yu

Model Sneek Peak:

Stephanie Cass — Tower Design Studio — Ma Ri Kim-Johnson — Spring 2014

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Stephanie Cass — Tower Design Studio — Ma Ri Kim-Johnson — Spring 2014

Stephanie Cass — Tower Design Studio — Ma Ri Kim-Johnson — Spring 2014

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Stephanie Cass — Tower Design Studio — Ma Ri Kim-Johnson — Spring 2014

Sarah Chitwood

SYNAPSE S a r ah C h i t w ood A rc h 5 4 2 Ma R y K im - Joh n s o n

p r e c e d e n t s t u d y . co n c ep t id ea

air handling unit

c oo l i n g t o w e r c h i l le r c o l d / ho t a i r d i s t r i b u t e d t h r ou g h ou t f l o or a n d returned into exhaust vent a n d e x p le ll e d t h ro u gh ro of

b o i l er s

“ Fr o m R a n d o m n e s s E m e r g e s Fo r m . ” “CHAOS : When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.”

The skyrise SYNAPSE aims to understand how structure and program can result from chaos, similar to the dichotomy of the Japanese Language, with the intent of developing a system allowing for order in a dense and chaotic urban environment.

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D esig n C riteri a: 1 . A number o f set sy tems in whic h to d eve l o p str uc ture fr o m.

2 . S truc tur e is a visual ma rker, and is internal l y l it.

3 . Limited or no use o f c o l or 4 . Rea da p t an exisitng ar ea/ar c hit ec t ure f o r a new p ur p o se .

5 . Cr eate a buil d ing wi th mo vement.

6 . S houl d be c l o se to c i ty c ent er 7 . M ust be a p or t c ity ( sp ir itual p l ac e) 8 . Cr eate l ow- p rof il e entr anc e.

9 . A l lo w fo r a va riety o f system to c o mbine to ge th e r to c r ea te o rd e r .

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1 1. C onf usion sh oul d be buil t a round ord er and vic e ver sa .

1 2. Lo c atio n h as a st ro ng hist oric a l c o nn ect ion.

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MEDITATION WITHING SEOULS CITY LIMITS

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DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS 3.

STAINLESS STEEL 4. CONNECTOR CLAMP 5.

OUTTER SILICONE STEEL WITH INNER RUBBER BASE 6.

STAINLESS STEEL CABLE .

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GLAZED CORNER CLAMP

Torre Vida Valencia . Spain Jeremy Mendoza

Raising the Land and Creating the Neatherworld New Paths of circulation open in what once was a barrier between the old and new Valencia

Introducing the spine causes the ancient lifeblood of the city to pool

The innards begin to create movement, pumping the life throughout the city

A functioning organ begins to breath new life into city

Site Plan

Torre Vida Bridges two halfs of a city that has been divided forever by the river Turia. since being rerouted around Old Valencia, the Life-Blood of the prosperous port town is rejuvinated with the introduction of the Tower of Life, Being the house of immortality, the path to one’s spiritual and physical salvation occurs on these grounds, where research on improving humanity’s well-being and the beginnings of the immortal life occure in sync.

Apex - 280 meters

A

Level 69 - 262 meters

Sub-Roof Plant Floor (66th Floor)

B

Typical Residential Floor (62ndFloor)

Level 48 - 182 meters

Typical Hotel Floor (40th Floor)

Sky Lobby Transfer Floor (32nd Floor) Level 31 - 118 meters

Plant Floor (31st Floor)

C

Typical Office Floor Plate (10th Floor)

D

Level 4 - 15 meters Level 3 - 11 meters

Facade Detail A Roof Diagrid Connection

Facade Detail B Residences

Facade Detail C Commercial

Gravity Loading on Diagrid and Core

Facade Detail D Ground Connection

Diagrid Node Connection

Lateral Loading on Diagrid and Core

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Elim Ng

spiritual place

tradition

HONG KONG

ARCHIPELAGO TREASURE MAP

Arriving for the first time, we are blinded by the beautiful skyline of Hong Kong...

...until we find that Hong Kong is a collection of different cultures.

gift

As we reveal the cultures, we reveal the city...

program

DEATH ...a space of living always have a need of space for the dead.

1) BEFORE DEATH: RESPECT LAND heart

DEATH ...a space of living always have a need of space for the dead.

demolished detention center existing pier

site

concept

SOKO ISLANDS

THE REVIVIFY EFFECT

We reveal a demolished refugee detention center from the British colonial era.

Facing the issue of overpopulation and limited land use teries, the response is to densify and revive outlying i

263m ROOF

SERVICED APARTMENT

235m TOP PLANT

TOP PLANT PLAN

TYPICAL HOTEL PLAN HOTEL

SOUTH ELEVATION

0m ENTRY

BRIDGE RETAIL

25m BRIDGE

RETAIL

70m OFFICE LOBBY

OFFICE LOBBY PLAN OFFICE

95m HOTEL LOBBY

BRIDGE PLAN

2) DURING DEATH: ACCEPT PROGRAM heart cemetery public space

REVIVIFY EFFECT

e issue of overpopulation and limited land use for cemee response is to densify and revive outlying islands.

LATERAL LOAD

Double core shear wall bracing

GRAVITY LOAD Distributed along columns and core

REVIVIFY

ELIM NG ARCH 542

earth

3) AFTER DEATH: BRIDGE AXIS

spirit

skyrise ocean = spirit

spirit

city = earth

earth

RAIN

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263m ROOF

15 7 8

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3 16

235m TOP PLANT

10 17

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13 12

WALL SECTION

DETAIL SECTION

SKIN AXON

S-2 10 3 2

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WALL SECTION

1 Laminated safety glass, 19 mm 2 Individual fixing, stainless steel, 125 mm dia.

3 Round stainless steel bar, 35 mm dia 4 Tie, stainless steel, 14 mm dia 5 Glass fin, 19mm laminated safety glass 6 Inner glazing, frosted finish toughened safety glass, 10 mm 7 Stainless steel glass fixing 8 Steel fin 9 Sheet steel, 1.6 mm 10 Luftungsgitter Stahl verzinkt 11 Steel angle, 110 x 110 x 10 mm 12 Adjustable anti-glare blind 13 Fire-resistant lining 14 Opening light for ventilation 15 Aluminum capping plate 16 Silicone joint 17 Heating/ventilation duct

S-2

DETAIL SECTION

S-3

S-4

18 Water penetration

18 Foundation 19 Air gap w/ damp proof membrane 20 Diaphragm wall 21 Drainage 22 Raft foundation 23 Pier

95m HOTEL LOBBY

19 20 21

70m OFFICE LOBBY

22

23

S-3

25m BRIDGE

S-4

0m ENTRY

Chelsea Silva

Joey Valenti

ENERGY lighting • color/material palette • renewable energy systems RESPECT honesty of materials • connection to earth • surrounding context FLUIDITY skin • circulation • material MEDITATION lighting • material palette • aromas • vegetation RHYTHM repetition • design patterns • textures BALANCE

MUAY THAI MUAY THAI IS THE MARTIAL ART OF THAILAND. BEYOND BEING AN ANCIENT FORM OF COMBAT, IT HAS CARRIED THAILAND THROUGH CENTURIES OF STRUGGLE AND CHALLENGES AND IS THE HEART OF THAILAND AND ITS PEOPLE. IN ITS MOST HONEST FORM MUAY THAI EMBODIES ALL THAT IS GOOD AND PURE. IT IS A PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RELEASE AND CHALLENGES THE SELF TO FIND THIER SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO THE EARTH.

BANGKOK, THAILAND

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CREATING A PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ESCAPE IN THE HEART OF THAILAND’S CAPITAL CITY.

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SKY GARDEN APARTMENTS SKY LOUNGE HOTEL SPA FITNESS RETAIL SHOPS

SITE

PROGRAM

URBAN INFLUENCES

A PROGRESSION OF FORM FINDING

DISCOVERED CONTAINED

ABOVE

THROUGHOUT

WITHIN

CLARITY

FLUIDITY

BALANCE

AN EVOLUTION OF FORM IN SEARCH OF A TOWER WHICH EMBODIES CLARITY

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CLARITY, FLUIDITY, BALANCE, RESPECT

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GROUND LEVEL - LOBBY

SECOND LEVEL - PODUIM

EXOSKELATON

HELICAL CHIMNEY

TYPICAL HOTEL

BRIDGES

RING BEAM

STRUCTURAL ANATOMY

BREATHING OUT

SHANGHAI TOWER AS A PRECEDENT

LATERAL DEFLECTION

SOLAR ORIENTATION

CORE

TYPICAL APARTMENT

ROOF - SKY GARDEN

A-A ROOF GARDEN

A-A

SKY GARDEN

B-B SKIN + FLOORPLATE

APARTMENTS

B-B

SKY LOBBY

HOTEL

SPA GYM

PODIUM

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