IDENTITIES, ASSOCIATION & TIME
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IDENTITIES, ASSOCIATIONS & TIME JORGE J. CORNET 2014 - 2017 Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Columbia University
contact: j.cornet@columbia.edu
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PREFACE Design is intrinsically experienced through the physical reality of the human body. The physical world is a perception of the senses; but, nevertheless, it is in the spiritual realm of human sensibility that identity, associations, and time are essentially perceived. The projects contained in this portfolio are the result of years-long meditations on the nature and perception of design and beauty in the context of history and technology. All of them pursue an understanding of the human identity and its role in the world, as well as associations developed in built form between the person, the city and the role of time in shaping them.
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9 PROJECTS Yamanashi Press
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Anti Diplomacy
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Urban Decalage
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Trans-Artic Expedition
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The Arts Neighborhood
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Progressive Incubator
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Urban Nomads
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Recreational Water
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Absence in the City
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Horizontal Living
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and 7 UNDERTAKINGS Arverne East
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Camera Obscura
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Comprehensive Visibility
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Building with Sand
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Unlinked
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Mexican Identity Monograph
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Temple Hoyne Buell Center
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YA M A N A S H I P R E S S A N D BR TD ER Y AOMAADNCAAS S HT I IN P RGE SCSE N AN BROADCASTING
KENZO TANGE
KENZO TANGE
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1966 - The Yamanashi Press and Broadcasting Center. KOFU, Japan
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OPEN WORK The design of this project was developed as part of the Advanced IV studio in collaboration with Boer Deng, Andrew Weber and Kavya Cherala.
Kenzo Tange's buildings do not change according to the elements' timespans theorized by the metabolists. The building’s growth is untenable according to its structure and envelopes. We propose to reframe the idea of growth to consider the lifespan of whole buildings rather than their constant organic regeneration.
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SYSTEM OF CORES The Yamanashi Press and Broadcasting Center, designed by Kenzo Tange in 1966, is comprised of 16 cylindrical cores which provide circulation, mechanical, and structure to the project. In elevation there are three programs that make up the project, printing press, offices, and radio and television studios. In plan the specific function of each core is visible based on their different geometries.
CIRCULATION VENTILATION STORAGE TOILET
Each core supplies the building as either circulation, ventilation, storage, or restrooms. Each core carries a single function. The building is arranged along a single axis that bisects the building. One enters the building from the street and moves along the axis to the primary circulation cores at the center of the building. Because of the project’s unique relationship to the core research entailed an analysis of other core projects both by Tange as well as other architects, to better understand how cores can change the spatial or structural orientation of a building.
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VERTICAL PROGRAMATIC DISTRIBUTION - ELEVATIONS
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LINEGAE OF CORES - A TIMELINE
LARKIN BUILDING 1920 Frank Lloyd Wright
TOKYO PLAN KENZO TANGE
LARKIN BUILDING
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
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RICHARDS MEDICAL LABS 1965 Louis Kahn
DENTSU BUILDING/TSUKIJI
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TOKYO BAY PLAN 1960 Kenzo Tange
KENZO TANGE
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RICHARDS MEDICAL RESEARCH TSUKIJI MASTERPLAN 1966 LABORATORIES Kenzo Tange LOUIS I KAHN
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YAMANASHI PRESS KENZO TANGE
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G/TSUKIJI
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YAMANASHI PRESS KENZO TANGE
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YAMANASHI PRESS 1966 Kenzo Tange
SKOPJE MASTERPLAN KENZO TANGE
SHIZUOKA PRESS KENZO TANGE
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SKOPJE MASTERPLAN Kenzo Tange 1967
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 1969 Kevin Roche 1970
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BUILDING SHIZUOKA PRESS KEVIN ROCHE
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Kenzo Tange 1970
FIERA DI BOLOGNA KENZO TANGE
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FIERA DI BOLOGNA Kenzo Tange 1974
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LARKIN BUILDING 1920 - Frank Lloyd Wright
UILDING
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LARKIN BUILDING
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
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RICHARDS MEDICAL LABS 1965 - Louis Kahn
RICHARDS MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES
NASHI PRESS AND BROADCASTING 1966
YAMANASHI PRESS 1966 - Kenzo Tange
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YAMANASHI PRESS AND BROADCASTING KENZO TANGE
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SHIZUOKA PRESS - Kenzo Tange 1970
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SHIZUOKA PRESS
KENZO TANGE
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RE-INTERPRETATION OF STRUCTURE
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Because Tange designed the building not as a single finished object, but as sytem in the process of change, we studied a single section of the building to understand the system at a localized level. At the top of each level the core uses a ring to create a lattice of beams to support each floor. Each ring has a particular set of connections based on how the core is oriented to the site or to other cores. Although the building appears to layout a system in which the building can easily expand, there are certain aspects of the building that suggest the building is actually much more static than is expressed. When looking through construction photos we discovered that the buildings structure actually uses steel trusses with concrete poured after the structure is in place.
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METAPHORICAL & FORMAL GROWTH Contrary to the formal expression of the cores, the walls of each core taper from level to level. From the exterior, however, they appear to function as uniformly structural - allowing the building to easily expand vertically as the building grows. The roof level core walls are as thin as 25 cm, where at the basement these are 80 cm thick. Instead of continuing Tange’s metaphor of the core, the design choses to treat the existing building as a new ground plane. The new Yamanaishi will expand vertically as Tange’s design for growth was expressed.
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STRUCTURAL SKELETON - RINGS AND BEAMS
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RE-INTERPRETATION OF STRUCTURE
ENVELOPE SYSTEMS ARE SUBSEQUENT TO STRUCTURAL GRID AND ON A DIFFERENT TIMESPAN
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METABOLISM THEORIES In reevaluating Tange’s theory of metabolism growth based on the reality of the built project, what becomes clear is that buildings do not change according to the timespan theorized by the metabolists. The building’s growth is untenable according to its structure and timespan. We propose to reframe the idea of growth to consider the lifespan of buildings rather than their constant organic regeneration. By associating each part of the project with a specific lifespan the components can change independently where the existing Yamanashi building will be functioned as a structural lattice with a lifespan of more than 100 years. New spaces within the existing structure would have a shorter lifespan of 10 years, based on their construction and program. The new addition has a 40 year lifespan and is designed both in terms of structure and materiality accordingly. The details of each component will be discussed later. Programatically the building functions as a single entity. Based on the changing role of media and the way in which the public interacts with it, the new building is designed to express the spectrum of how media is produced and consumed.
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BUFFER AS KEYSTONE - PROGRAM & STRUCTURE TRANSITION
BUILDING ORGANIZATION The existing building is emptied of its current system of interior and exterior partitions to allow for spaces devoted to the public engagement with media. The new building is designed as a flexible set of office and studio spaces devoted to the production of media, and the area where consumption and production meet in the middle is considered a buffer between the two ends of the spectrum. The three components of the building are connected through the paths of circulation. Although the core remain at their current height, in some of the cores the circulation itself extends to the buffer and new addition. This allows for workers to travel to the top building directly from the street level.
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TIPYCAL FLOOR PLANS - 3 SYSTEMS
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Typical Plinth Floor: Feeder Type Typical Plinth Floor: Consumption Transitional Buffer Floor Typical Tower Plan
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TRI-PARTITE SYSTEM - STRUCTURAL CONTINUITY
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UNITED NATIONS - PRESERVATION
'Photo-Collage of the UN HQ in New York'
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BUILDINGS OF ANTIDIPLOMACY This project belongs to the dual architecture and preservation studio at Columbia. Advanced Core V Studio.
The aim of the design is to portray a new symbol for the United Nations in Geneva. Both an irreverent proposition to existing gridlock hierarchys within the organization and also reminiscent of the corporate diplomatic imaginery of nonbelonging(ness) portrayed at the UN.
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INFORMATION SERVICES There exists a hierarchical dichotomy of architectural spaces in the UN and the Human Rights facilities' of that which is meant to be staged and ceremonial, and those spaces that are used on a daily basis (routinal), that could be considered ‘in service of’ the Council Rooms. The Council Room has a primordial role over the seemingly ‘less important’ support spaces. However, it appears to be that most of the work on the development
and protection of Human Rights around the world does not happen in the long-negotiating processes when the Council meets twice a year for a week, but on the never-ending meetings, research, information communication, negotiations, social meetings, testifying of witnesses from around the world. The aim of this project is to invert the existing condition of hierarchical relationship between what is the space designed for HR Council meetings and the necessary ‘other’ spaces used by, for and, in order to make the first happen.
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UNITED NATIONS - INVERTED HIERARCHIES
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Human Rights Offices Hall of Nations New Entrance Cafeteria Information Services Offices
The new Human Rights offices are located above the chamber room and seating arrangements are made in a council room manner. This is the new room where decisions are made
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‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” by William Whyte.
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URBAN DECALAGE The design of this project was developed as part of the Advanced III studio “Light in the city� in collaboration with Aga Janusz.
Urban space is determined by both architectural and climatic conditions. Sunlight is a changing condition that activates space making it voluble and intrinsic to time. Urban Decalage [time lag] perturbs the sunlight condition on Pier 26 by turning the pier garden into an ever lit space by use of an engineered static mirrored oculus. 45
TIMELESS URBAN SPACE - SEQUENCE
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DIGITAL CAMERA OBSCURA - LIGHT RAYS
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‘SHACKLETON EXPEDITION, 1914-1917"
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IMPERIAL TRANSANTARTIC EXPEDITION ACSA competition. 2nd winner. Developed in partnership with Tom Soldiviero and Adam Schroth
"After the race to the South Pole had ended in December of 1911, Shackletonm a polar explorer embarked on a voyage that would cross the Antartica from sea to sea. Disaster struck this expedition when its ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and was slowly crushed. There followed an ultimate escape" 51
THRESHOLD AMPLIFIED As we reflect on Shackleton's heroic journey, and the transforming landscape of Antarctida, we seek to engage the role of a border crossing station as a point enabling contact amongst people and places. However, the country lines of the map are not as stiff here, as there are several territorial claims on the continent. In close proximity to where Shakleton's vessel was beset, is the intersection of disputed territorial claims recognized by the UK, Chile, and Argentina with access to research stations nearby (which are becoming ever more prominent as the impacts of global warming grow more pressing). This is the context in which this project works, in between water and ice, light and darkness, and bound by place and time.
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Showcasing the structures largest spans, the Grand Customs Hall is located at the terminal of inspection procedures and stands as a beacon in the Antartica waters.
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Purposed for researches and tourists alike, the Antartic Border Crossing Station utilizes a large scale observation deck permitting expansive views into the Antartica landscape.
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UNIT FLOOR PLAN - ARTISTS RESIDENCES
THE ARTS NEIGHBORHOOD This project belongs to the Housing studio at Columbia, part III of the Core Studios. Developed in partnership with Andrew Weber.
Recognizing the imminent incursion of speculative development in the area, we propose to establish a framework in which this transition may take place without shifting the priority of the new proposals from the collective to the individual.
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ARTISTS MIGRATION TO SOUTH BRONX The project takes on the challenge of creating a new community of artists in the South Bronx, by re-using and developing a basic infrastructure and framework that inhabitants can make of their own by adapting and reconfiguring it.
The challenge lies in the preconfiguration of spaces to develop a place for people who consider their ‘place’ in-develovaple. Artists have always been the community to populate ‘left-over’ neighborhoods in the city and kicked-off re-conquering areas of the city for its people.
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MANUFACTURING RE-USE TO GALLERIES TENEMENT HOUSING ADAPTATION TO STUDIOS
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ARTISTS RESIDENTIAL UNITS & STUDIOS
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Studios Stores Gallery Lobby School
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PARTIE WALL 002 _’AMENITIES WALL’ _PUBLIC-SHARED SPACES _VERTICAL CIRCULATION _MASS TO BE CARVED OUT W/ USE
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STRUCTURE DIAGRAM
ONTAL AND VERTICAL CIRCULATION AS WELL AS ACCESS TO OFFICES GH CORE
OVERHANGING STRUCTURE FROM CORE OF OFFICE FLOORS
CLOUD 003 _ASSIGNED OFFICE SPACES _SOUTH ORIENTATION _FLEXIBLE FLOORS/WALLS _COURTYARDS _LIGHT STRUCTURE AND TRANSLUCENT _FLOATING OVER STREET
SOUTH-EAST ELEVATION
NORTH-WEST ELEVATION
SHOWING FACADE OPACITIES AND ‘PUNCTURED’ IN TERRACES
SHOWING GATHERING ‘BUBBLE’ SPACES PENETRATIN
SYSTEM 004 _INTERLOCKING OF TWO ELEMENTS _PLATFORMS GO INTO PARTIE WALL _PARTIE WALL SHAPED BY PLATFORMS _COMMUNITY
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SHOWING GATHERING ‘BUBBLE’ SPACES PENETRATING THROUGH CORE
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PROGRESSIVE INCUBATOR The Business Household is a project developed for the Core II studio as part of personal initiative to create a real estate office model suitable for entrepreneurs.
MISSION: “To create a model where people work to make a life, not just a living� by WeWorks. Located in Long Island City in NY, the incubator serves as a semi-public hub in the neighborhood and serves the community.
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COOP > PURCHASE / LEASE > TIME SHARING > CLUB
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SPATIAL THICKENING OF THE SERVICE WALL The business household is an exploration both in terms of real estate and design. This experimentation emphasizes the idea of a Co-operative office building where a customer own a share of the organization and has a right to use different spaces within the building. The building is therefore organized in two parts: the core, which is meant to be portrayed as the skeleton of the organization. This is where the administrative, shared and service spaces are, such as conference rooms, circulation, etc. The office spaces themselves: ‘the cloud’, is a flexible set of floor plates that can vary in size, orientation and privacy depending on the customer need.
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Bank Cloud Plaza Studios Rooftops
SITE CARVING 001 _PROGRAM AT STREET LEVEL NOW UNDERGROUND _ALLOWS OFFICE AT STREET LEVEL _CAFETERIA _GYM
PARTIE WALL 002 _’AMENITIES WALL’ _PUBLIC-SHARED SPACES _VERTICAL CIRCULATION _MASS TO BE CARVED OUT W/ USE
CLOUD 003 _ASSIGNED OFFICE SPACES _SOUTH ORIENTATION _FLEXIBLE FLOORS/WALLS _COURTYARDS _LIGHT STRUCTURE AND TRANSLUCENT _FLOATING OVER STREET
SYSTEM 004 _INTERLOCKING OF TWO ELEMENTS _PLATFORMS GO INTO PARTIE WALL _PARTIE WALL SHAPED BY PLATFORMS _COMMUNITY
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‘Renaissance painting depicting religious nomads' - Unknown
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FOR THE URBAN NOMADS The Homeless Community Center is an undergraduate design project from my studies at CUA which is part of the sacred studies concentration taught by Silvestrin.
When to engage a community? How to feel part of it without a commitment to it? To deal with the stigma of living on the street and co-constructing the environment.
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UPLIFT THE SPIRIT Community driven complex designated for urban nomads and homeless. This building is part of a series of interventions happening around the city. The infrastructure that infills empty plots within urban lots is meant to serve as a platform for individuals.
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The project is directed and designed for the homeless as well as those people who are nomad citizens of the modern city. In that sense, the aim of the project is to portrays an invitation to interact with the building and community and allow for a first approach from the individual without having to feel committed to enter. The alley reminds the user of those public spaces that usually inhabits, but it is now to become the epitome of a new community, therefore reinventing a life. a population b infill c communities
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FACADE SKIN LAYERS WITH ART CRAFTS
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RECREATIONAL WATER The Manhattanville Natatorium and the underground public restrooms projects are a sequence of designs from the Core I studios.
Water is lifted up from the ground as if a a-temporal infrastructure rose from the site, and by moduling itself to follow the flows of water, creates frames of the city and the surroundings.
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GROUND & 2nd FLOOR PLANS OF POOLS
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Changing rooms Pools Plaza Relaxing area Solarium
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DIAGRAM SHOWING URBAN SECLUDED SPACES: IN SKYSCRAPERS, UNDERGROUND AND HALF-WAY BELOW GROUND
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"A secluded space: it will bring peace to the soul."
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ABSENCE IN THE CITY The public restrooms project is a part of the project designed for the Core I studio.
The public restroom ties the above-ground cuty with the underground infrastructure and emphasizes its secludeness within a public space.
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UNDERGROUND PLAN WITH ACCES RAMP
THE UNDERGROUND CONNECTION TO SKY In a city where there is an exclusive connection with nature and the sky only found in parks or at the top of skyscrapers, there is need for a public space that connects the urban with nature and allows for a peaceful, contemplative moment.
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One of the last privileged nature sites in New York City
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AVERNE EAST WASTE TO ENERGY This project was developed for the Urban Systems Core Technology Course in Collaboration with Jean Gu, Ayesha Gosh, Ben Hochberg.
Re-claiming the Sandy storm devastated area in Queens for a research institute. This institution will become a key element of the life cycle of systems in the city and manage residual waste for the entire Far Rockaway peninsusla.
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Speculation on City-wide
CREATING A NEW COMMUNITY Arverne East on the Rockaway Peninsula is mostly isolated from the rest of the city. This means that it is mostly self sufficient and consequentlyfunctions like a microcosm of the whole of New York City. The isolated Rockaways become a testing ground where we can select specific sources of New York City’s waste production, and test their effects on a preexisting system. This provides an opportunity to imagine this relationship at a more manageable scale to test our ideas, before investigating how they can be used more widely to supplement the functional systems at a city-wide scale. Our scheme proposes a building and site strategy that facilitates the processes of converting waste to energy where the system’s waste byproducts and excesses are also transformed to create a community amenity. The site plan is designed for the process of biodigestion from waste consolidation to energy consumption. It aims to make this process evident to the local population as the public learns about biodigestion in the educational program buildings and circulates among digester eggs and the rest of the system’s infrastructure.
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Waste Transit Truck Route Waste Barge Route Consolidated Waste Pipe Methane Pipe Electricity
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SOIL: Amended mix of subsoils over existing subsoils
FLORA: Broomsedge. Butterfly weed. Purple cornflower
FLORA: Broomsedge. Butterfly weed. Purple cornflower
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FAUNA: Neotropical migratory songbirds,. Butterflies. Raptures. Greategret. Blue
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HORIZONTAL URBAN LIVING Undergradute urban design and housing project. After re-designing urban fabric, took one of the buildings and made into residences
Urban proposal for a re-fit of Red Hook in Brooklyn. This consists of small interventions both at the urban and building scale. These follow the urban fabric and consist of new manufacturing and an increase in the number of residential projects to rise density of the neighborhood.
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RED-HOOK RESIDENTIAL The Park area is a mixed set of commercial corridors that will bring more visitors to the area, attracted by commerce such as IKEA and other more local businesses. The southwest waterfront forms a commercial and leisure venue which is meant to finish off the sequence of arrival into the neighborhood circulating through the commercial strips. The northwest waterfront is to be developed with highend residential towers that face views to downtown Manhattan. The residential proposal is a transitional building from high density urban fabric to park semisuburban housing. This consists of apartment (lowest), townhouse (middle), and single family house units. It creates a composition of public spaces and gardens that connect to the park.
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DIGITAL CAMERA OBSCURA Architectural drawing representation course at GSAPP.
Project developed to find new ways to transcribe the movement, intensity and flow of light particles on surfaces and bodies. The camera obscura becomes a lense through which light is reflected and can be transcribed onto paper.
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DRAWING MACHINE Drawing Machine that uses the concept of a camera obscura in order to capture an abstraction of the quality of light in a specific space. The image and light enters the black box through one end of the camera and is projected onto a reflecting surface that perturbates the image. This filtering of the image is meant to capture the quality of light only and not necesseraly the image itself that is being captured. The light obtained with the camera gives a hint of different properties that the light has in terms of its diffusiveness, its density or its accuteness. Each of the reflectors, of course, are all made of the same sheet of metal. However, these will reflect different shapes of light rays since they bounce light very differently due to the various ways they are treated in terms of finish and bending. The user traces the rays of light projected from the reflected metal onto the transparency and draws over them until he or she is unable to see any more light in the box, since, by then, it will have all been covered by ink.
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DIGITAL DRAWING MACHINE In the second iteration of this experiment, the camera obscura is re-interpreted and through a grass-hopper script that follows similar parameters as the used in the physical drawing machine, it produces different reflections of light that output a set of drawings shown in the following pages. These change due to the density and abstraction of light rays.
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COMPREHENSIVE VISIBILITY Visual Studies Course - Algorithmic Design. Project developed in collaboration with Ming Xu.
Using processing code to calculate isovist of all spots in a given space. The project developed a gradual changing pattern to reflect the difference of visiablity from point to point. Isovist is the volume of space visible from a given point in space.
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ABSTRACT VISIBILITY Isovist is the volume of space visible from a given point in space. in processing, we import a black-white map to identify buildings and walkable space, and use rays from one piont to simulate human sight. With this code, we can analyse how the arrangment of buildings can affect the sight of human and in a certain space, how the visibility changes. (Image above: Shot from video clip that captures moving visibility)
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BUILDING WITH SAND Innovation Project developed as part of the Next Generation Technology elective with Lise Anne Couture.
In response to the exisiting thread of rising ocean waters and the need to continue to build near shore lines, this project uses bacteria in construction sites to develop latest technology in building construction by creating wall-less membranes that are semi-permeable.
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WALL[LESS] MEMBRANE The different steps in the creation of the wall for the excavation process are: 1. Identify area of work and limit of intervention. 2. Deep Crushing and mixing tool with hibrid Rock crushing, mix of grain sands and stone. 3. Inject Bacteria Bacilis Pastruriae around perimeter which calcifies with sand as a natural cement injection. 4. For porosty gradient change amount of bacteria injection in the perimeter. 5. Excavate inside newly created bathtub Take out remainder slurry and expose natural organic bathtub.
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Permeable Semi - Permeable Preassure Filter Bathtub
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Student concentrated in work at the GSAPP studios with new privacy canopy.
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ULINKED Transformable design: project developed in partnership with Ayesha Ghosh and Valerie Lechene under the supervision of Engineer Chuck Hoberman.
Unlinked is motivated by a belief that transformable design can remedy situations such as the lack of privacy and comfort by creating temporary shelters that create enclosure and that can appear and disappear with a very simple movement. "A friendly way to disconnect"
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DEPLOYABLE CANOPY Last year, architecture studios within Avery Hall were refurbished with Silicon Valley open space desks, increasing the number of interactions, conversations and exchange of ideas and techniques between students. While students truly enjoyed the new furniture and amount of thought embedded in the pieces themselves, they also suffered from a lack of private work space where they could hear their thoughts making academic tasks such as reading and writing challenging. The system developed for the project features three sets of ¼”plexi scissor links bridging seven ribs that form a large canopy while extended and a ¾”wooden plane while retracted. It can be slit in and out of its anchor by a single person.
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MONOGRAPH Through the eyes of architecture is a publication developed as part of a series of mongraphs on the study of identity, culture, and race.
The Evolution of Spatial Experience of Modern Mexican Identity
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‘Mexican National Identity in World Fairs Pavilions’ During the industrialization of Mexico under the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz the republic institutions and elites strongly campaigned to show itself to the world. Following the model of modernity of cities such as Paris, the government invested with energy in publicizing the arrival of Mexico to the modern world. Mexico presented itself in the world fairs as the modern country that had overcome what was seen outside as wilderness and un-governability. By recognizing an inherent modernization of the country and pushing it forward, elites and government found themselves re-creating a reality of Mexico outside of Mexico that painted a country of aspirations and
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dreams sometimes not coherent with reality. World fairs before the Mexican revolution were a catalyst and political tool for elites and government to try to change Mexican identity and assimilate it to other European traditions. The reasons behind this will to re-adapt a country’s identity may be diverse and complex. This paper intends to analyze through world fairs Mexican pavilions the evolution and shaping of this Mexican identity by comparing pre and post revolutionary architecture at world’s fairs and understanding what the ideas thriving for a specific architecture explain of the Mexican identity transformation.
Pamphlet developed by the design team for the exhibit.
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TEMPLE HOYNE BUELL CENTER The study of American architecture. Projects developed as a member of the team of GSAPP Exhibitions at the Buell Center collaborating in the construction and organization.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, GSAPP - ARTHUR ROSS ARCHITECTURE GALLERY Fall '14 EXHIBITION THE HALPRIN SHOW Spring ‘15 EXHIBITON ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
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The Halprin Show & Environmental Studies In the late 1960s and early 1970s American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and avant-garde dance pioneer Anna Halprin organized a series of experimental, crossdisciplinary workshops in Northern California. The workshops brought together dancers, architects, environmental designers, and artists in a process designed to facilitate collaboration and group creativity through new approaches to environmental awareness. During movement sessions on the dance deck of the Halprins’ home in Marin County, blindfolded awareness walks through the surrounding landscape, collective
building projects using driftwood at the beach of the Halprins’ Sea Ranch cabin, and choreographed journeys diagramming the experience of the city, participants engaged in multi-sensory activities using looselystructured, written guidelines in the form of open “scores.” The Halprin Workshops, 1966–1971 presents original photographs, films, drawings, scores, and other documentation of three workshops: Experiments in Environment, 1966; Community, 1968; and Leadership Training, 1971.
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IDENTITIES, ASSOCIATIONS & TIME JORGE JUAN CORNET 2013 - 2017 Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Columbia University
contact: j.cornet@columbia.edu
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