[JESSE CHAPMAN] UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | M.ARCH 2016
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UPTOWN CRAFT GRAFT [UW]
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PG. 4 - 9
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MUSEO DEL TEVERE [UW]
REDMOND REC CENTER
OROBOUROS PROJECT
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PG. 14 - 19
PG. 20 - 29
MAP THE SQUARE
WATERFRONT HOT SPOT
1:1 TECTONIC MODEL
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[VOLUNTEER] ART & OTHER PROJECTS
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PG. 30 - 31
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PG. 33
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PG. 34 - 35
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THE UPTOWN CRAFT A
MAXIMIZE F.A.R.
CREATE INTERIOR PUBLIC SPACE
LIFT TO ALLOW ALLEY ACCESS
MAXIMIZE CRITICAL VIEWS
[UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - ARCH 500: FALL 2014] Part of a larger urban design intervention to establish a hub of innovative creativity in Seattle’s ‘Uptown’ neighborhood, this mixed-use building surrounds a lively maker’s plaza that connects to a district wide pedestrian market alley. The public can interact, share, and relax with the crafts people in the plaza, browse the shops where they sell their wares, or try the latest creations from up and coming chefs in the Learning Kitchen’s cafeteria. Residential units fill the floors above the commercial street level with a equal mix of live/work lofts, 1-2 bedroom apartments, and affordable housing studios to encourage resident diversity. 5
URBAN DESIGN PLAN: INNER BLOCK PLAZA GREEN SPACE ACTIVATED STREETS NEW EAST-WEST ALLEYWAY CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL PROJECT AREA
ALLEY CONNECTION TO MAKER’S COURT
INNOVATION DISTRICT URBAN DESIGN:
• Make Uptown a place where people gather to exchange ideas by encouraging public engagement and spontaneous interaction • Increase mix of uses throughout district in clustered nodes of activity connected by green streets and alleyways • Provide affordable spaces for artists and innovators to live and work
URBAN DESIGN GOALS:
CONTINUOUS ONE STOREY
MULTI-STOREY
BLOCK DIVISION BUILDING DENSITY HIGH
BROKEN
POOR
ONE STOREY
MULTI-STOREY
BUILDING DENSITY INTEGRATED PARKING
PARKING LOTS
PRISTINE
PARKING REDEVELOP PARKING LOTS GREATER BLOCK DIVISION NSPARENCY PROPERTY CONDITION
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PARKING LOTS IGNORED LOW
HIGH
INTEGRATED PARKING POOR
LOW
ACTIVATED
PRISTINE
PARKING TRANSPARENCY ALLEY CONDITIONS TRANSPARENCY PROPERTY CONDITION IMPROVE ALLEY PEDESTRIAN CONDITIONS
HIGH
QUEEN ANNE AVE ENTRY TO ALLEY CONNECTION AND CENTRAL COURTYARD
As a group exercise to explore the relationship between planning and public space, the team developed a urban design for the Uptown neighborhood to give it a greater sense of identity using the Seattle Urban Village model. After creating guidelines, sites were selected and individual mixed-use housing projects were developed that represented the potential of the new design standards.
URBAN DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS: Weston Norwood Lisa Glenn Bradford Untereker Ji Hye Kim Virginia Bradbury Kameron Selby 7
PROGRAMED SPACE: CRAFT WORKSPACE PUBLIC / AMENITY SPACE RETAIL CAFETERIA
L6 - RES: APTS / ROOF DECK
RESIDENTIAL
L5 - RES: APARTMENTS
L4 - RES: LOFTS & APTS.
L3 - RES: APARTMENTS
L2 - RES: LOFTS & APTS.
L1 - ALLEY / COURTYARD
L0 - STREET / UG PARKING 8
SECTION PERSPECTIVE - EAST
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SECTION PERSPECTIVE - NORTH
MUSEO DEL TEVERE
[UW STUDY ABROAD IN ROME - ARCH 504: FALL 2015] The Museo del Tevere [Museum of the Tiber] in the formerly industrial Testaccio district of Rome encourages residents to reconnect with the Tiber River on a personal level through play, participation, and education. Public pools allow users to experience different qualities of water in relation to the historic building and modern industrial landscape. A partnership with the adjacent MAXXI modern art gallery provides the opportunity for local artists to show interactive exhibits related to the theme of the river. The extension of a pedestrian trail through visible water treatment terraces on the waterfront will lead through example to create an iconic riverfront identity. 11
MUSEUM ADDITION AND VIEWING PLATFORM
INTERIOR POOLS AND EXISTING ARCADE
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SITE PLAN
GROTTO GALLERY EXIT TO RIVERBANK
PROGRAM DIAGRAM: MUSEUM: - EDUCATION - PARTICIPATION
POOLS: - PLAY - PARTICIPATION
RIVERBANK: - EDUCATION - PURIFICATION
SITE SECTION: UPSTREAM TO PONTE TESTACCIO
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RED REC [UW ARCH 503: WINTER 2016]
The RedRec Center in Redmond, Washington strives to bring community and playfulness into the heart of the city’s municipal campus. Located at the end of a large park connecting the Sammamish River with the growing density of downtown Redmond, the wellness center creates new civic spaces that connect to City Hall and the adjacent public library. The dynamic structure reflects the activity and movement of the interior spaces at varying scales: the monumental exterior, the occupiable truss of the fitness area, and the lighter ceiling trusses of the pools.
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PARKING GARAGE
PARKING GARAGE
SENIOR CENTER
POLICE STATION
CITY HALL
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LIBRARY
PROGRAM DIAGRAM:
PARK VIEW
RECREATION ACTIVITIES (POOL, RENTAL ROOMS, CAFE) EXERCISE ACTIVITIES (GYM, FITNESS, TRACK, STUDIOS) EDUCATIONAL (COMMUNITY CLASSROOMS) ENTRY / MAIN CIRCULATION (CLIMBING WALL) SUPPORT SERVICES (OFFICES, RESTROOMS, UTILITIES)
DEVELOPMENT SKETCHES
STRUCTURAL CONCEPT DIAGRAM 17
FACADE SCREENING TRANSLUCENT POLYCARBONATE EXTERIOR SCREEN REDUCES GLARE IN CRITICAL AREAS WHILE ALLOWING AMPLE DAYLIGHT. OPENINGS IN THE SCREEN CREATE CONTROLLED VIEWS TO THE PARK AND CITY.
SECTION PERSPECTIVE - NORTH 18
SKYLIGHTS TRANSLUCENT HORIZONTAL SKYLIGHTS ON THE FITNESS LEVEL MAXIMIZE DAYLIGHTING WITH DIFFUSED LIGHT.
PASSIVE VENTILATION ATRIUM USES STACK EFFECT AND CEILING FANS TO DRAW WARM AIR THROUGH FITNESS SPACES.
ACTIVE VENTILATION
PASSIVE VENTILATION
FORCED AIR HVAC SYSTEM INTEGRATED INTO THE TRUSSES OF THE POOL VOLUME FLUSHES OUT WARM HUMID AIR AND CHLORINE GAS FROM THE SURFACE OF THE POOLS.
AUTOMATED VENTILATION GRILLS WITH INTEGRATED SEATING LET IN FRESH AIR TO FITNESS AREA
GEO-THERM. HEAT PUMP POOL HEATING AND COOLING UTILIZES THE LANDSCAPED BERM TOWARDS THE MUNICIPAL PARK AS A GEOTHERMAL FIELD FOR A GROUND-SOURCE HEAT PUMP
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS
L2 PLAN: FITNESS / CLASSROOMS
L2 - FITNESS
L1 PLAN: MEZZ. SEATING / PARTY RMS
L0 - POOLS AND MEZZANINE
L0 PLAN: GYM / POOLS / LOCKERS
L0 - GYM AND CLIMBING WALL
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FROM NECROPOLIS TO METROPOLIS: AN EXPLORATION OF HOW DEATH CAN INFLUENCE ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN SPACE
CONCEPT COLLAGE OF THE MEMORIAL NURSERY
GRADUATE THESIS: THE OROBOUROS PROJECT [UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - FALL 2016] Committee:
Gundula Proksch | Brian McLaren
This thesis explores the changing attitudes towards death through the design of funerary architecture that is a resting place, processing facility, and public amenity. A new hybrid typology combining aspects of the cemetery and columbarium is proposed, housing the dead in a way that is dense, temporal, and creates moments of exchange between the presence and absence of life. The Orobouros Project seeks to re-evaluate death in the urban environment, to continue the communal nature of the city in the memorial of the necropolis, and to be a generative force for the improvement of the civic landscape.
The project utilizes a new, more energy efficient, water based process known as resomation to propose an ecological alternative for the disposition and remembrance of the dead. Resomation produces powdered remains, like traditional cremation, which can be collected for scattering or memorialization, while the remaining organic matter can be processed using bio-filtration for horticultural use. This potential to grow plant life plays a key role in the mission of the new typology, focusing on death as part of a larger natural process of growth and renewal. 23
1. PARTING 2. SEPARATION 3. MEMORIALIZATION
PHYSICAL REMAINS
MEMORIAL OBJECT
CEREMONY
4. CELEBRATION
PUBLIC MEMORIAL
CIVIC REGENERATION ORGANIC REMAINS
TEMPORAL VEGETATION
PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE
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SECTION OF COLUMBARIUM LIGHT WELL
After the parting ceremony, those left behind will be given the option of taking the ashes to scatter or interment of their loved one in the columbarium light wells. They are then asked to select a seedling from the memorial garden for donation to the city parks or to take and plant as a personal reminder.
3D FRAME STRUCTURE
MEMORIAL URNS
Geometric forms have long been associated with the human body, and the exploration of proportions and spatial forms rather than religious or cultural symbols provided a basis for a more inclusive organizational schema. Investigation began with the hope of using the geometric order of the committal system to bring cohesion to the entire project. The tessellation of an elongated hexagon form introduces directionality and spontaneous open spaces not found in the traditional grid. This led to the exploration of a three dimensional space filling equivalent, the rhombic dodecahedron. These primary shapes can expand in multiple dimensions over the life of the building, and provide a framework within which the complex program can shape and alter space.
MEMORIAL WALL EXPLORATION
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The constructed topography of the park swells and falls over the site from its highest point, carved through with paths and plazas, surrounding the building’s solid base with an earthen berm. A public path sweeps over the base at the southeast corner, eroding its way through the form before cascading down to meet the existing pedestrian trail at the northwest corner. Reading as a continuation of the sculpted landscape, the visitor is invited onto the terrestrial plinth as an extension of the park. Eddies carve out larger spaces with framed views: out to Elliott bay and Mt. Rainier, over the park to downtown Seattle, across the docks to the Olympic peninsula, or the wooded Queen Anne hillside.
LEVEL 3: NURSERY & COMMITTAL
LEVEL 2: NURSERY & COMMITTAL
LEVEL 1: PUBLIC OVERLOOK PATH
LEVEL 0: CEREMONIAL SPACES
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LONGITUDINAL SITE SECTION - WEST
EXPLORATORY COLLAGE
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THE PROCESS(ION) OF MOURNING:
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The funerary journey begins in the main plaza. Mourners enter through a gently sloped and narrowing tunnel (A) digging down into the building’s solid foundation. Arriving in the central gathering gallery (B), translucent stone windows set deep in the corridors lead mourners towards the ceremonial chambers.
The ceremonial chamber (C) is the most internalized space in the project. The casket lies in the center of the room surrounded by radial benches of mourners; all are equal in front of the dead. The resomation room remains clearly visible as a reminder that the process is an integral component of the parting ceremony and the transition from presence to absence.
PROCESSIONAL DIAGRAM
D. VERTICAL CIRCULATION WRAPS AROUND THE COMMITTAL TOWERS
A. ENTRY TUNNEL DIGS INTO BASE
B. GATHERING GALLERY LIGHT WELL AND CEREMONIAL CORRIDORS
The central gallery light well towers act as the main vertical circulation (D) from the lower ceremonial level to the upper growing floors. Connecting through interaction with natural elements (E), mourners are drawn upward along spiraling stairs to a world of greenery and life.
F. MEMORIAL NURSERY LEVEL
E. THE TOWERS ARE OPEN TO THE SKY
The light well committal towers are accessed from platforms suspended within growing frames (F). A location is selected based on view, proximity to others to whom the deceased was close, or preference for the particular landscaping of an area. After the resomation process is completed in 3-4 hours, a brass urn is filled with the remains and inserted into the memorial wall. G. THE PUBLIC PATH IS THE CEREMONIAL EXIT BACK TO URBAN LIFE
C. THE CEREMONIAL CHAMBER IS LIT FROM ABOVE BY A COMMITTAL TOWER
Finally, whether mourner or public explorer, all visitors exit the same way, circulating down one of the memorial light wells to the public path (G) that lies between the two worlds. The last step of the procession is back out into the public realm of either the waterfront trail or fractured park landscape in a gradual transition back into the active urban environment. 29
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MAP THE SQUARE: SEATTLE DESIGN IN PUBLIC EVENT [VOLUNTEER - SUMMER 2016] Received Honorable Mention in the at the 2016 AIA Seattle Honor Awards
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Map the Square was a physical art installation and interactive mapping project by the Young Architects Forum that sought to spur conversation and public involvement with the built environment in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square. The installation began during the Seattle Design Festival’s block party in Occidental Square and ended with three park-lets on International Park(ing) Day a few weeks later. In response to the theme of ‘Design Change,’ the team asked the public to identify issues in their urban neighborhood through physical and online interaction with eight Map the Square kiosks deployed around the area. The kiosks encouraged people to stop, look, and interact with their environment using colored tags showing where they felt a change should take place. On Park(ing) day volunteers performed informal interviews, talked about the role of design with the public, and encouraged further involvement. The team then recorded the tagged locations and compiled the information for the city and local business association to use in future visioning for the area.
Park(ing) Day The kiosks were installed at three additional locations for International Parking Day.
Each tag associated with an urban intervention and color informing the public of good urban elements. People were encouraged Blue = Acess Entrances to take photos&of the locaRed = Sociability tions they would like to see Yellow = Uses & Activities changed with their chosen Green = Comfort & Image tag. White = Write your own
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FotW: HOT SPOT STAGE [VOLUNTEER - SUMMER 2015] Friends of the Waterfront is a non-profit group promoting awareness of the development plan to create a new boardwalk park in downtown Seattle while rebuilding the Elliott Bay Seawall and the Alaskan Way Viaduct. This large infrastructure project will take many years to complete, in the meantime the mission of FotW is to maintain public interest through a variety of participatory events.
TEAM MEMBERS:
Lisa Glenn | Calder Danz | Alden Mackey | Penny Maulden
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The ‘Hot Spot’ stage at Pier 57 was one such project, designed and built by an interdisciplinary team at UW. As a volunteer involved with the construction and installation of the modular components, I helped refine the design to fit logistical, budget, and time constraints. The stage has since been used for a variety of free performances, concerts, and events for all ages.
1:1 TECTONIC MODEL [UW - WINTER 2015] For a little over three decades, Shigeru Ban has explored the use of recyclable materials, in particular cardboard tubes, to construct high-quality, low-cost shelters for victims of disasters around the world. The Paper Log House was first deployed in Kobe, Japan after a major earthquake in 1995 and has since been refined for other climates and needs. A full-scale mock-up of part the house was built in the atrium of Gould Hall as a group exercise in Design Development. We selected this project because of its innovative construction, sustainable, and humanitarian goals. As one of the more experienced members of the team, I utilized my background in fixture design and construction to help replicate and build the project as efficiently as possible.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Calaa O’Donnell | Rui Bao | Ming Yin | Weston Norwood
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ART & OTHER PROJECTS The graphic media I use most often are charcoal, pastel, and watercolor. I like the tactile quality of charcoal and pastel, and their ability to be richly layered and express texture. My photographic interests have focused on texture, dynamic line, and the way light and shadow can animate the most mundane objects. I frequently photograph subjects found in the built environment and enjoy working with self-developed black and white film, rather than digital, because of the hands-on nature and unpredictably of the development process.
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