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oshua anders
Works Architecture Portfolio
Rural Retreat Madison County, Iowa Fall 2012: Landscape Studio Collaborators: Jackie Katcher Instructor: Pete Goche
Projects The Urban Corner Soho, New York Spring 2013: Urban Housing Studio Collaborators: Individual Instructor: Rob Whitehead
Madison Retreat
Perceptual Site Iterations
A series of iterative perceptual studies informed the aura to be designed into a rural retreat in in Madison County Iowa, home of the covered bridges. The goal was to take the unique attributes of the land to develope those qualities in design ideas and imbue them in the creation of the building. The understanding of the landscape was studied through the filter of the question: What is the dimension between the ground and the sky. This in combination with the specific site conditions turned into a building that spanned over a bioswale which is a natural wetland area. As a result it preserves (but brings attention to) natural phenomena while bridging a gap between two different clusters of the site giving visitors a sense of elation within a landscape of dramatic elevated nature.
Experimental Iterations
Soho: The Urban Corner
In the dense historic urban environment of Soho New York, the objective was to create a midrise housing project that mediated perceptual issues with performative issues of a new building in a very old context. These informed the various formal charictaristics which relieves the urban density allowing light into the building and the street which can be at odds with some formal patterns gives the neighborhood it’s unique character.
Typical bay
Winter vs. Summer Sun
Ventilation Concept
Assembly diagrams
Plan layout
Steel Light shelves
Gravel Ballested Roof -Corrogated Metal Decking -Ridged Insulation -Bituminous Water Proofing Gravel top Rooms -metal stud partitions with gypsum finish
Steel frame -Section active structure w/ pinned connections
Cast in place concrete stairshafts and shear walls for fire protection to adjacent buildings and lateral bracing
Buildin Mass -Precast concrete slabs on corrogated metal decking
Systems Integration
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