JULIET MCCOOEY University of Pennsylvania - Weitzman School of Design M. Arch Candidate, Class of 2022
Selected Works ECOLOGICAL PLAY Childcare + Community Center | Spring 2021
CHINATOWN CENTRAL MARKET Laboratory + Market + Station | Fall 2021
RESILIENT COMMUNITY LoLux Urban Housing | Fall 2020
PHILADELPHIA POWER PARK Urban Market | Spring 2020
WELLNESS NETWORK Competition: Market + Clinic | Spring 2021
FRACTIONAL MANIPULATION Museum Archive Extension | Fall 2019
TRANS-MUTATIONAL MATTER Cabinet Installation | Fall 2019
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ECOLOGICAL PLAY Spring 2021 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Miroslava Brooks Site: Stamford, CT. Collaboration: Elisabeth Machielse
Play is a powerful experience and tool for children in the way it allows them to explore new ideas, learn about their physical and mental capabilities, and understand their surroundings. When combined with education, the values of these playscapes can compound into an even more incredible experience. Ecological Play will allow children and adults alike to come together and connect to different ecologies in a playful, light-hearted way. The focus was to create a fun, explorative, and open learning environment that includes playgrounds and winding pathways that are closely connected to the buildings and different ecological zones throughout the landscape. The site includes a wild meadow, sensory garden, playgrounds, and learning areas, all filled with different types of trees and flowers. The main buildings consist of three clusters embedded in the site creating a small village: there is a childcare center, community center, and event space. The green walls
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Form Chunk
in the entrances are meant to emphasize how the landscape becomes a part of the architecture and welcomes in the visitors. In between the buildings, a meandering path brings visitors down to the river’s edge. The original form for our building is derived from a notched hexagonal toy by Isamu Noguchi. When looking at how these pieces could be assembled, we were drawn to the volumes that were created when we interlocked the pieces. We wanted to preserve these spaces and highlight the voids, cantilever, and the gaps between the pieces that create a floating effect. The color palette emphasizes the playful and active materiality by picking up on the vibrant streaks of color going through the stone and utilizing them for elements such as the colorful reflective metals of the columns and railings. Lastly, the ‘gaps’ are held up by the forest of colorful columns which doubles as a fun element for children to weave between.
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1. Drop Off Area 2. Childcare Center 3. Atrium 4. Climbing Wall 5. Lobby 6. Exterior Classroom + Play Space 7. Classroom 8. Childcare 9. Restrooms 10. Multifunctional Classroom 11. Circulation to Lower Dining Hall + Covered Schoolyard 12. Reflecting Pool 13. Ramping Landscape 14. Event Space 15. Flexible Performance Space 16. Performance Stage
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17. Restrooms 18. Community Center 19. Sculpture Garden + Entry Courtyard 20. Lobby 21. Multifunctional Classroom 22. Playlab 23. Ball Pit 24. Exterior Playscape 25. Climbing Wall 26. Restrooms 27. Exhibition Space 28. Sensory Garden 29. Public Park 30. Ecological Study Area 31. Public Playgrounds 32. Wild Meadow
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Floor to Facade Connection And Window Frames
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Curtain Wall and Roof
Curtain Wall To Green Wall
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Lower Courtyard Exhibition space Atrium / Lobby Multi-media room Playlab Multi-purpose
Roof and Stone Paneling Detail
7. Play Space 8. Lobby 9. Offices 10. Classroom 11. Dining hall 12. Kitchen
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Interior Classroom Render
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Atrium Render
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Street Side Elevation
River Side Elevation
From the street side, the building looks relatively low, making it feel very approachable for pedestrians, while from the riverside opens up to show more of its height and invite in the landscape. 16 | Ecological Play
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CHINATOWN CENTRAL MARKET Fall 2021 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Ferda Kolatan Site: Manhattan Bridge Arch and Colonnade Collaboration: Diego Ramirez Site Chunk
The site consists of the Manhattan Bridge Arch and Colonnade with a portion of the abutting highway. These architectural Icons have a disjointed relationship with the surrounding context of Chinatown, and their spaces are primarily non occupiable and inaccessible to the locals. Our interest lies in the contrasting tensions between these two icons, the area they occupy, and how they may be hybridized to fill the needs of the community, create new opportunities, and cultural contrasts. As you walk through Chinatown, you become encapsulated by aromas and colorful displays of different types of food. The Chinatown Central Market adds a new language to the iconic narrative of Chinatown’s food culture. It has transformed the non-programmatic
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and representational arch into a central icon and point of transit of an evolving and expanding Chinatown. There is a symbiotic relationship amongst the three main fundamental programs of the Cultured Lab, the Vending Market, and the Connecting Chinatown Central Station. The existing triumphal arch has been rehabilitated from an un occupiable icon into a productive machine. After witnessing the price of meat increase and the supply diminish during the COVID-19 pandemic and researching the role meat plays in the climate crisis, we wanted to find an alternative to help Chinatown maintain its food culture. The laboratory, while fairly compact, is able to produce a large net gain of products for Chinatown and that of larger New York, reducing the environmental impact required from traditional means.
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The synthetic meat is cultured, grown, and distributed in the laboratory. Then the products travel through a conveyor assisted system into the modern vending market through a series of transportation tubes located on the interior of the main colonnade. As products reach market level they are sorted based on time and are available for the public to pick up.
Cultured Meat Distribution Conveyor
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Cultured Meat Laboratory
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Ventilation Fan Among Roof Flora
Offset steam from the laboratory as a result of the sterilization process feeds wild hydrophilic flora and creates a new clash of nature verse technology on the site. The artificial and cultured nature of below gives way and feeds a new natural system above. The vending style marketplace is located between the Culture Laboratory and the Subway Station. The integrated vending system that features housing and transportation for cultured meat products within the space. The coffering motif from the Manhattan Archway is brought below and hybridized into truncated stacks that allow for required vending machinery to be integrated within the singular wall system.
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Vending Marketplace
Ventilation Fan Among Roof Flora
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RESILIENT COMMUNITY Fall 2020 Urban Housing Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Jonas Coersmeier Site: Brooklyn, NY
Material Study Utilized for Textures
The design studio LoLux Commons developed hybrid typologies for lowincome and luxury housing, and it proposed a new kind of public common space in Brooklyn, New York. LoLux Commons simultaneously focused on the two primary growth markets of New York City’s real estate: luxury condominiums and affordable housing. It discussed these two extreme segments in context, probed into their interaction and systematically worked out areas of synergy in order to add value for various stakeholders and for the community at large. My urban research analyzed the influence of the sea level rising due to global warming on coastal cities. My research inspired me to address its influence on architecture, especially housing. In a few years, the sea level will rise and begin to alter the area surrounding the Brooklyn Navy Yard, including our current site. Therefore, I propose a new,
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elevated ground level supporting this community that will help combat and adapt to the effects of the rising sea levels, storms like hurricane Sandy and, flooding. This new ground is aligned with the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. To create this space the first two levels of the existing building will be removed, making it apart of the elevated ground. The entrances are now located under the cantilever of the existing building. The communities’ public program incorporates growth and education of Coral. Coral reefs are important and relevant because they protect coastlines from storms and erosion and the Algae produces oxygen. Coral will be grown in nurseries that are in the base of the new ground. This will provide jobs for local community, bring in students from surrounding schools and welcome biologists as well as offer opportunities for recreation.
Cluster Section
The community contains studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments and well as a dorm style living apartments. These apartments have three to four bedrooms, a common living space and kitchen. Additionally, there are one story, one and a half story, and two-story units. On each floor residents have access to common study rooms that are located between the dorm style living spaces and access to shared balcony spaces.
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Building Section
01 New Ground Level 02 Sea Level Raised 15 ft 03 Sea Level Raised 10 ft 04 Sea Level Raised 5ft 05 Prior Ground level
06 Public Cafe 07 Public Education Center 08 Public Roof Top 09 Communal Balconies 10 Proposed Housing 11 Existing Building Height 12 Adapted Existing Housing 13 Pedestrian Bridge Across BQE 14 Public Courtyard 15 Coral Research Laboratory 16 Flood Mitigation 17 Coral NJursery uliet McCooey | 31
01 Public Cafe 02 Public Education Center 03 Public Roof Top 04 Communal Study Rooms 05 Communal Balconies 06 Proposed Housing 07 Existing Building Height
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08 Adapted Existing Housing 09 Pedestrian Bridge Across BQE 10 Public Courtyard 11 Flood Mitigation 12 Coral Nursery 13 Coral Research Laboratory 14 Coral Habitat
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Proposed Addition Plan 01
Circulation Diagram
Shared balconies act as an additional form of egress, connecting the entire floor.
Apartment Types
Studio One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom Two-Story - One Bedroom Two-Story - Three Bedroom Two-Story - Four Bedroom Dorm / Communal Living Common Study Room 34 | Resilient Community
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Circulation Diagram
Shared balconies act as an additional form of egress, connecting the entire floor.
Apartment Types
Studio One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom Two-Story - One Bedroom Two-Story - Three Bedroom Two-Story - Four Bedroom Dorm / Communal Living Common Study Room 36 | Resilient Community
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THE PHILADELPHIA POWER PARK Spring 2020 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Andrew Saunders Site: Callowhill, Philadelphia, PA
Urban Artifact Site Relief
Throughout the new digital age, urban artifacts have developed the ability to transform their formal functions. The site relief defamiliarizes urban artifacts found on and surrounding the existing site from the past and present by giving them a new scale and function on the site. The Philadelphia Power Park is a power station that takes on a new public face by incorporating the value of human generated energy. The energy the visitor exerts can be collected and generated into revenue in the form of cryptocurrency. The Philadelphia Power Park will supply power to the community and help improve citizens’ health and finances.
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Callowhill is experiencing a great wave of gentrification, forcing many residents relocate. This market will provide the neighborhood with a cheaper source of energy and help residents stay in their homes by offering a way to generate additional revenue by translating their physical movements into a tangible value. Power Park will welcome people from all demographics in an innovative way. Whether a visitor wants to do a serious physical work out or just relax and have fun with their family or friends. The Power Park will give back to the city of Philadelphia as it juxtaposes traditional power plants through the incorporation of leisure and public activity.
Kit of Urban Artifacts
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Stone Wall Under Viaduct
Figural Relief
Defamiliarized Wall Study
Our studio gathered a kit of urban artifacts for our reliefs. After researching the work by Louise Nevelson, I was inspired by the compositional qualities of her reliefs and her utilization of different of islands of density. These are highly populated clusters that contrast the subtle surrounding bas relief. Therefore, the center of each ring to appears more populated as it opens up to the courtyards below. The ring’s form is generated from the manipulation of one of the original artifacts. They become an extension of the viaduct since it is another ring on the urban scale. The rings are held up by a series of trusses and only intersect the ground at one point, giving the illusion that they are floating.
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Bas Relief
Defamiliarized Wall in Context
Through the defamiliarization of the stone wall found underneath the existing viaduct, I was able to reinterpret the relationship between solid load bearing plinths and light industrial structures. The existing stone has a dense and heavy materiality, so I gave it a new life by making it light, and transparent. The glass facade allows the building to glow, providing the neighborhood with additional lighting at night. The glass blocks are not completely transparent, creating clouded views to the outside. Additional frame windows break the order of the facade and frame different views of the neighborhood.
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The organization of my market stems off the idea of Constant’s New Babylon project where he imagined that in the near future, automation would free human life to dedicate itself to collectivity and play. Therefore, the market’s rings are inhabited by leisurely activities as they hover above a below ground labyrinth, where the machines work to collect the energy. But, unlike New Babylon, the above and below elements of the market have a symbiotic relationship. The visitors power the building and the crypto mining machines through leisure activities and then receive compensation.
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Vignette of Running Track
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Vignette of Velodrome
These spaces are lined with sensors that record the visitor’s movement and energy. For example, as a visitor runs across the track, the power of each step is collected. Then this can be exchanged for cryptocurrency in the lobby when his or her workout is complete. This Power Park breaks the order of the conventional marketplace by placing visitors into both roles of the vendor and customer. This market will provide the neighborhood with a cheaper source of energy and help residents stay in their homes by offering a way to generate additional revenue by translating their physical movements into a tangible value. Vignette of Entrance View
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WELLNESS NETWORK HOK Futures Design Competition 2021 Site: Mill Creek, Philadelphia, PA Collaboration: Elisabeth Machielse Aerial Perspective in Site
This project focuses on improving the physical, social, and environmental health of the surrounding community. In addition to the market and maternal health clinic, our proposal includes a greenhouse, shading design to reduce solar heat gain, and a ‘pop-up’ community space that can be used as a vaccination clinic, soup kitchen, or for other community events. The layout emphasizes circular focal points that encourage movement and connect the site’s program together, thereby bringing people together into the central spaces. Additionally, the central courtyard includes a plays-space for children to interact and acts as an extension of the park across the street. Market’s canopy is a perforated metal system that helps prevent solar heat gain. Panels are laid out in a geometric pattern, which is inspired by the geometric ornamentation found in Islamic mosques. There are three different types of markets allowing a variety of vendors. The farmer’s market is a flexible space that allows vendors to bring healthy, locally grown food daily since
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there are not many healthy options in the area. The open market vendor stalls provide a small kitchen, storage area and window counter for takeout service. The enclosed food and vendor space offers a larger space for vendors that wish to stay at the market for a longer period of time. Additionally, the Café on site is an educational and non-profit restaurant. It includes a fullservice kitchen and a demonstration kitchen, to teach at risk youth occupational skills. The community greenhouse provides the cafe staff and local residents a place to grow their own food. Extra food from the greenhouse and cafe can be used in the pop- up soup kitchen to help community and reduce food waste. The maternal health clinic is a privately run clinic offering residents of the neighborhood prenatal clinical services that is convenient, comfortable, and familiar. Programs will be run by midwives and nurse practitioners, as opposed to physicians. The clinic will have a direct relationship with a local hospital in case of emergencies.
Project Diagrams 1. Pathways to enter site from surroundings 2. Pathways converging on site 3. Derived pathways and building forms 4. Intersections and program shaping 5. Curve study to connect spaces
Site Plan
1. Philadelphia Masjid 2. Clara Muhammad Square 3. Fast Food Takeout Restaurant 4. Gas Station 5. Quba Institute Day School 6. Islamic Learning Tree Academy 52 | Wellness Network
Exploded Axonometric
Market Canopy Market Type 1: Farmer’s Market Market Type 2: Open Market Vendor Stalls Cafe: Education + Non-Profit Restaurant Pop-Up Space for Community Events Market Type 3: Large Food + Vendor Space Playground Maternal Health Clinic Community Greenhouse
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FRACTIONAL MANIPULATION Fall 2019 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Maya Alam Site: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Interpretation of Various 3D Site Scans
As objects move through the translational process from physical to digital, they are inevitably losing parts of themselves. The article, Ripping Reality: Blind Spots and Wrecked Data in 3D by Hito Steyerl, evaluates how modeling processes are driven by interpretation. The proposed archive extension gives the Penn Museum Archive a new public face. The public will have a new opportunity to experience history that is usually hidden away in private storage. Through the exploration photogrammetry, I learned how three-dimensional scans result in a display of fractional space. Each physical disruption and imperfection are transformed into a new sense of space. Therefore, through a series of interpretation and replication, these objects become a former illustrated version of themselves. Our studio also explored casting. Through these studies I discovered that a cast is a translated
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copy of an object, since it interprets the mold and produces a new language through a set of discrepancies and mutations, that is impossible repeat identically. The form of the proposed archive is a result of the introduction of manipulated digital casts to normative geometry. The digital casts are taken from distinctive moments of three-dimensional scans of the existing museum courtyard. When you make a cast of an object, you are disassociating it from its original time. Even though the cast originated from the current site, it takes on its own identity and purpose. The main street entrance breaks through the mesh and invites the visitor into the large exhibition space. The interior is an oscillating response to the surface below. The ramping floors are utilized as an archive exhibition space. The top right volume of the building intersects the existing on the second and third floors. This space will operate as additional office spaces.
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TRANS-MUTATIONAL MATTER Fall 2019 Architecture Studio School: University of Pennsylvania Professor: Maya Alam Site: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA Collaboration: Danny Ortega + Helen Han
Cabinet Axon
Trans-Mutational Matter is a proposed cabinet to house artifacts from the Penn Museum. The article Ripping Reality by Hito Steyerl describes how translated objects from the real to the digital are inevitably losing parts of themselves through the translational process. These translated objects are then only a former illustrated version of themselves, thus making us no longer an exhibitor to these pieces, but the performer. Our project “Trans-Mutational Matter” takes a similar approach in context to the artifacts that we are given by the Penn Museum and tries to invoke a conversation
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in what it means to replace representation with replication. Artifacts in museums are often displayed on pedestals. The proposed cabinet absorbs the artifacts, presenting them in a new light. The form was developed by breaking down the shapes and slowing making something new, while leaving something behind, reminding itself of its formal self. Then we introduced the scanned manipulations to create a dynamic relationship with the normative, creating a new perception with the conflicting objects languages.
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