JOSHUA INGOLD RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN 2012
Design Principles Bowline on the Bite Design Principles is orchestrated to encourage the discovery of operable geometries and tectonics through close analysis of unlikely generative forms. In this case, a simple knot becomes a tectonic operation that, through the adjustment of tolerances, allows for slippage and figure void compositions.
Group Statement: The principles that guided our design process are simple: growth. We interpreted and expanded the definition of growth to include a multifaceted paradigm for creating and maintaining a connection between the ground and the human experience. Our initial analysis of the site included a thorough exploration of sun orientation, circulation studies and neighborhood characteristics. The synthesis of these investigations drove us to implement a concept of dissipation: meaning both a variation in density of beds and how they relate to the ground condition as one moves from the northeast corner of the site west. Through this alternating density of form we hope to integrate seamlessly the community and our site.
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Section looking to north
Section looking to east
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Elmwood Community garden, Section 4 : Wilbur Yoder, Architectural Design 2010, Department of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design
Community Garden
PREVIOUS PLAN AND SECTION
ROOF LOCATION
SECTION AND SWALE DETIALS
Arch. Design
Elmwood Community garden, Section 4 : Wilbur Yoder, Architectural Design 2010, Department of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design
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Arch. Design Community Music Center This project begins by examining the traces of recurring patterns of movement on site ,human and of nature, that negate suggested pathways. This provides strong intersecting axes between pedestrian movements laterally across the slope, and the flow of runo towards the water. An analysis of the intersections between sound and sight become diagramatic graphs that overlay this axis and generate programmatic and structural form.
Urban Design Elderly Lifestyle Center Front Porch Urbanism Any community designed for a specific demographic bears a paradoxical relationship to the contemporary model for integrated urbanism. We recognize a need for certain groups to have a sense of place, yet should such a place project its identity outward, a barrier is inherently created. This project is an attempt to recognize this barrier using “the front porch“ as a model for the means by which to program the relationship between the street, public services, and private residence.
Advanced Studio Lyceum Competition
Cultivating human presence in a hostile environment is an act of violence. This force of occupation is cut into the field. The natural order is pushed back. We inhabit the consequences of our own cultivation, leaving the least amount of earth needed to support the furrows we dig. Strain cracks the earth, shedding light on our violence. We cut paths to carry our surpluses to these barren grounds. We catch water, store light, and gather heat for times without. The day arrives when we find that we have taken time, and with that time we drive poles into the land to prove we have created our moment of verticality on a horizontal field.
Cultivating human presence in a hostile environment is an act of violence. This force of occupation is cut into the field. The natural order pushes back. We inhabit the consequences, leaving the least amount of earth needed to support the furrows we dig. Strain cracks the earth, shedding light on our violence. We cut paths. We catch water, store light, and gather heat for times without. The day arrives when we find that we have taken time, and with that time we drive poles into the ground to prove we have claimed our moment of verticality on a horizontal field.
Advanced Studio The Charles River: The Ephemeral and the Everlasting Part 1 The river front is considered a common space to be enjoyed and experienced by everyone. However, its value as an amenity to those directly adjacent may serve to justify certain assumptions of proprietorship over this resource. Likewise, current use patterns can have the eect of dictating modes of interaction with the river front as a matter of course which priveledges the priorities of certain parties. Both of these tendencies promote a gradual commodification of the commons. The goal of this project is to confront these assumptions by resisting or inhibiting common place expectations of qualities preserved for priviledged locations and use patterns through the deployment of absurdity, while simultaneously promoting a direct experience with the water’s edge. If successful, this proposal would create charged moments of conflict between diering priorities and challenge the gentrification and suburbanization of public space.
Advanced Studio
The Charles River: The Ephemeral and the Everlasting Part 2 _ Magazine Beach What once was a public greenspace is used to position a sustainable water treatment facility for the catchment of excess storm water that would normally be ejected into the Charles River as combined sewege outflow. Constructed flow beds are raised above ground to provide gravity filtration through engineered ecosystems. Mimicking natural wetlands, flora and fauna are selected to filter contaminants through the biomass and into the ground. The massive substructure needed to support the facility overwhelms the open greenway, but provides a near subterranean complex that co-mingles with the utilitarian facility. The culture that occupies these understructures rejects the commodification of open spaces, seeks a reclamation of public services and adapts to unconventional spaces of inhabitation and community.
typical storm drainage Outflow valve -specifically used for CSO
1st layer __circulation / public overlook
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2nd layer__facility, education, research
3rd Layer__ tunnels, vaults, nfrastructure, bathhouses