Joanna Brindise - 2016 Work Sample by Joanna Brindise

WORK SAMPLE JOANNA BRINDISE

THESIS | Medellin, Colombia Fifth Year Independent Study This thesis explores circulation through a series of spaces based on the dynamic between home, work and the third space. Through the redevelopment of home and work, and the circulation between, the third space is introduced to the site in order to respond to existing issues of informal density in Medellin, Colombia.

HOME, WORK & THIRD PLACE: Apartment, Cafe Employee, Church This series of spaces deliver a routine to everyday lives. How do you recreate the section of routine? In community building, the third place is the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home (“first place”) and the workplace (“second place”). In community building, the third place is the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home (“first place”) and the workplace (“second place”). In his influential book The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement, and establishing feelings of a sense of place. Oldenburg calls one’s “first place” the home and those that one lives with. The “second place” is the workplace, where people may actually spend most of their time. Third places, then, are “anchors” of community life and facilitate and foster broader, more creative interaction.

amed the most innovative city in the world in , edellin is the capital of olombiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mountainous Antioquia province. With temperate weather conditions, Medellin has been nicknamed as the Garden of den. long the river you find most of the new downtown area, including government, corporate, art, and shopping districts. The informal settlements ring the downtown at a thirty degree slope where the infrastructure subsides. Surrounding the valley of downtown on the slope are sixteen comunas (neighborhoods). Commonly, the higher on the mountain the comuna is from downtown, the more rural and dangerous. This is caused by the lack of infrastructure to get to these areas, and obversely, tend to be trapped there by that same lack of infrastructure.

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA Site Analysis

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SECTION OF ROUTINE Perspective of the user between home, work and the third place.

PABLO ESCOBAR Political context in Medellin, Colombia cannot be explained without the legacy of Pablo Escobar that still haunts the area. As kingpin and druglord leader, Escobar destructed the safety of everyday lives. As he had many who worked for him, including members of the church, his power heavily reigned over the lower class. His strength even through the religious network exemplifies his influence over the people. Not knowing who to fear more between the police and the gorillas (involved persons of the drug war), many could not better their own living standards from their surroundings because lives were at stake.

ST DANGEROUS CITY IN THE WORLD “A SPACE TO JOIN TOGETHER, IN FREEDOM AND DIGNITY”

MEDELLIN: THE MOST DANGEROUS CITY IN THE WORLD

“People who say that a beautiful building doesn’t improve education don’t understand something critical... The first step towards uality education is the dignity of the space. hen the poorest kid in edellin arrives in the best classroom in the city, there is a powerful message of social inclusion.”

TRANSFORMATION WITHOUT RAGE

OGETHER, IN FREEDOM AND DIGNITY”

“A SPACE TO JOIN TOGETHER, IN FREEDOM AND DIGNITY”

Modern metrocables link the city to surrounding barrios and offer sweeping views of the Aburrรก Valley below. The metrocables were designed in response to those living on the thirty degree slope of the valley who were unable to leave their immediate surroundings. Some of the largest impacts were the increase of attendance of students going to school, attention to medical emergencies, and opportunities for employment. Having explored and visited various sites of unplanned urban developments in Medellin, there is not only a sense of the physical aspects of the sites, but also the local perception and ideals to consider. In the current condition, the government combats the unmanageability of the communities by imposing an organization via thoughtless social housing. Entire communities are relocated and then razed to make room for other developments. Locals feel that they are being moved to a disconnected environment of social housing to live where before they appreciated the activity and dense sense of community of the slums.

CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PROJECT PROPOSAL Modern technology, perceptions and existing solutions

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Michelangelo’s Santa Maria

arlos carpa’s astelvecchio and ichelangelo’s anta aria delgi ngeli e emplify the architect’s idea to transition an old space connected to site and time specific conte t and transform it for today. carpa’s thoughts were translated through sketches that framed specific views to describe a choreographed experience of the user. These views capture different perspectives of the highlighted statue, delivering views from all angles and at different scales. The thoughtfulness of the progression of this choreography is developed through the transition spaces from one vantage point to the ne t. esigning stairs that re uire a specific movement and considering space in between from narrow to wide hallways, allow the user to experience a narrated space describing the piece of art. ichelangelo’s icleation aths transformed into anta aria delgi ngeli, (church). The progression of this change is expressed through parallel types of documentation. From hand drawings to photographs, representing architecture through multiple medias expresses the change of the building through time. SPACE THROUGH THE COLLAGE PERSPECTIVE Exploring precedents through collage.

Scarpaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Castlevecchio

THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOME Creating the module from material to unit.

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CIRCULATION AS THE AGENT FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN DENSITY As the pedestrian bridge connects to the gondola station, this proposal allows possibilities for commuting to more areas. This gives the user the opportunity to travel to other communas and downtown within a dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travel. As the circulation is divided from the dwelling, the ground level is given back to the merchants, and they are able to transport themselves, and sometimes also their goods, more comfortably and efficiently.

PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE PROPOSAL This application explores the building of a bridge, utility lines, and nodes of access using locally abundant materials such as guadua. Making use of local material, and thus labor furthers the ideals behind a bridge where the skills and motivations of the community are celebrated. This idea can be translated to communities with other materials and skills.

CITY ON THE MOUNTAINS: Through the use of skyways, platforms, paths and bridges can new urban spaces be devloped to inform new construction from an informal and unplanned settlement to the development of a reorganized socail housing complex.

WORK | CIRCULATION ABOVE, DWELLING BELOW Introducing a pedestrian bridge moves the levels of the circulation off of the sloped ground and gives back the ground plane for the dwelling for customers for the benefit of the merchants.

La Sierra | Medellin | Colombia

THE THIRD SPACE | THE VERTICAL CHURCH The third place, neutral ground, is an opportunity to better relations among chaotic disorganization and distant relations. Some of the largest considerations for development based off of residential perspectives are not the development of residential units, but the access to the shared places. As density of the area narrows the footprint of the church, the idea of the vertical church is introduced.

CIRCULATION THROUGH THE CHURCH The circulation through the series of spaces was derived parallel to the perspectives to the series of events of the Stations of the Cross, the progression of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sacrifice to be experienced through architecture. Emotions derived from the stations of the cross developed the atmosphere and perspective of Christ on his movement to the cross. Spaces developed based on the human form, how the person moves in the space and how the light is represented in the room to offer emotion to parallel Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective.

Station Three: Jesus Falls the First Time Weakened by torments and by loss of blood, Jesus falls beneath his cross. Station Four: Jesus Meets His Sorrowful Mother. Jesus meets his mother, Mary, who is filled with grief.

Station Five: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry the Cross Soldiers force Simon of Cyrene to carry the cross. Station Six: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus Veronica steps through the crowd to wipe the face of Jesus.

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SECTION OF THE THIRD SPACE Connecting the Stations of the Cross in the vertical church demonstrates how individual each station is from the other. The spaces and transitions are able to narrate a parallel perspective of what Christ might have been going through. By introducing the Stations not as art, but as architectural spaces, the sense of understanding and level of reflection becomes exponential as the user physically moves through difficult spaces where genuine empathy can be evoked.

CHURCH AS BEACON During the day as the light exposes the interior of the church through the screen, showing the irregularity of the stations of the cross in elevation. This directly responds to the surrounding pattern of the growth of informal density.

CHURCH AS IDENTITY The lit church at night exposes the screen of the holy figures creating a significant change of the atmosphere at night.

YOUTH HOSTEL | Riva San Vitale, Switerland Second Year Studio Integrated spaces to find balance to bring together the community of people who would gather in the same place.

SECTION WITH CORRESPONDING FLOOR PLAN Multiple room layouts for several different accommodations were laid out with the priority to keep the center open to bring the visitors together at the core.

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1- Concrete Footing 2- Foundation 3- Vapor Barrier 4- Select Fill 5- Concrete Floor Slab 6- 2” Rigid Insulation 7- Exterior Concrete Wall 8- Formtie 9- Formtie Hole 10- 4’ Panel 11- 2’ Panel 12- Parapet 13- Concrete Roof Slab

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CONCRETE WALL SECTION Understanding the components of the material.

CONCRETE AS A MODULE As concrete is used in repetition, the apertures are designed to follow the pattern as well as bring the most light into the space.

LEMBRUCK MUSEUM | Virginia Second Year Studio Creating a fluid motion through the museum to view each of the works of Wihem Lehmbruck through a central circulation of the spiral stair.

NARRATIVE THROUGH CIRCULATION As pieces of this collection are carefully selected, the sequence depicts the timeline of Lembruckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career allowing the visitor an insight of the artist for each piece.

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REPETITION FROM THE CORE The main core, an elevator to reach the top floor to then decline by a series of stairs and ramps allows the visitor to view the art and when back at the core to transition to the next floor, become detached to allow a clearer reflection of each piece.

REST STOP| Blacksburg, Virginia Third Year Ten Day Project Partner Design: ADA accessible, thermal regulated toilet facilities for visitors to the Duck Pond.

Board Form Concrete Wood Slat Outer Wall

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Water Catchment System 1. Filter 2. Inlet 3. Floating Intake . Overflow iphon . Infiltration 6. Integration Controller 7. Electronic Pump Control 8. Pump 9. Pressure Tank 10. Water for Toilets

8x8 timber for lateral support -load bearing structure

4x4 timber for hozizontal support -medium weight

2x4 timber for vertical slats -additional supports/ screen system

Glass Ceiling Detail Connection

EUROPEAN TRAVEL EXCHANGE Fall Forth Year | 40 Cities, 9 Countries, 3 Months Abroad Many buildings try to build a new identity based on its innovation, material palette, and organization, yet it questions the argument: To what does architecture hold to disprove generations of architecture that has already distinguished its identity. Through the accumulation of production, many buildings have outlived their program and in others, sentimental value has ensured their maintenance. Without a functional value, the original purpose of a building becomes useless and left for abandonment and destruction. The circumstances that may cause the disuse of buildings might include cultural shifts, the radical change in technological innovation and catastrophic disasters.

Il Campo Ronchamp Kunsthaus

Almudena Cathedral

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Regensburg Cathedral

Grimm Library

CHICAGO STUDIO | SOM Fourth Year Professional Studio Collaborative Micro Unit housing with urban market at the intersection of Jefferson Park. Partner collaboration under the mentorship of SOM.

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To bring light in to the dense core, the idea was to carve out unites from the south facing elevation to create one large atrium, where assuming the darkest area of the building is now the brightest.

URBAN LINK | Winston-Salem, NC Third Year Studio Linking the considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;grey areaâ&#x20AC;? between Winston and Salem through the development of pedestrian circulation, a library and an apartment tower.

CONCRETE ROOF SLAB- 6”

RIGID FOAM INSULATION

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STEEL ROOF FRAME

CONCRETE ROOF SLAB-4”

SPIDER CLIPS GLASS WALL CONNECTION INTERMECENT PAINTED I-BEAMS PRIMARY STRUCTURE CONCRETE GROUND SLAB-4” WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE PROTECTION BOARD- EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE

FORM TIE EXTERIOR CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE- 9” RIGID INSULATION- 2” INTERIOR CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE- 9” DAMPPROOFING WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE DRAINAGE MAT-3/4” FOOTING DRAIN-4” CANT STRIP COVER OF GRAVEL-6”

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Office Building | Law Office

Meridian Plaza

US Bankrupcy Court Building

Railroad Building

The Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum

Old Salem Towers

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THIRD FLOOR PLAN 1/16”=1’

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Entrance

The location of the site in Winston Salem is between two larger zones with distinctively different personalities. To the north, Downtown Winston is easily spotted as a moderate city and to the south, a historic Salem. The site for the urban link is considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;grey areaâ&#x20AC;? as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only used to pass through from Winston and Salem. With the initiation of grounding Business 40, the elevated bridge over the site will now meet the ground.

APARTMENTS

Defined as prime real estate, these apartments provide the only opportunity to have Winston city lights in your bedroom and a view of historic Salem in your living room. Each apartment room is able to benefit from being between Winston-Salem.

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