+growth+ advanced design portfolio joseph brisco
advanced design a ben franklin botanical library
advanced design b tampa international airport nipon-do shinjuku sky garden apartment station
advanced design c chaudiere falls redevelopment
the street
armenia ave master plan
landscape as urban ecology
sulfur springs ecological redevelopment
japanese architecture teahouse
care of making the pollen box
florida landscape seminar the post citrus landscape
[ contact info ] joseph brisco 8618 tarpon springs road odessa, fl 33556 (813)293-7602 jbrisco@mail.usf.edu
advanced design portfolio
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m haflants | spring 2013
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adv a | ben franklin library 7 weeks
[ project data ] client: peabody museum sqft: 20,000 location: boston, ma
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research administrative kids teen
bookshelf structure fire escape
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stan russel | fall 2013
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tampa international airport client: tampa international airport sqft: 1 million location: tampa, fl Tampa International Airport is considered one of the best medium sized airports in the country and is looking to make a presence internationally. Airports are the modern gateway to a city, they are your first contact and experience with what a place is like. The central concepts behind this project are my own experiences growing up in Tampa waiting for my dad weekly at tampa international airport, holding that moment of being runited with a loved one sacred, and also exploring what an authentic experiece of Tampa that would allow visitors to get an immediate sense of Tampa’s culture. Theskin of the building is meant to be an expression of Florida’s carst topography and allows for native florida vines to grow in the voids. Rain being another central feature of Tampa is highlighted by the skins undulating surface allows views of rain washing down the glass away from the building into the swamp surrounding it.
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2nd floor - ticketing + monorail station
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1st floor - baggage claim + monorail station
wetlands experience
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the skin system is self supporting by carefully placing the circles to reduce weight and provide openings that based on sun orientation would be filled with plants, provided with openings. the skins inspiration is from florida’s karst topography, this allows visitors to experience tampa’s climate from rain to sun, and helps provide an interesting interaction of native plants and modern design.
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this layer helps support structural system a, it is intended to simulate movement and is inspired from joining techniques commonly used in aviation. the coloumns themselves are concrete and use steel hardware.
this structural system shapes the form of the building, skin panals are attached ontop of this layer. The primary structure is a steel i beam reinforced with 2� steel pipe cross bracing. The long spans are supported on the interior by structural system b.
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54 shinjuku sky garden apartments | 7 weeks
shinjuku sky garden apartment tower
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a.1 site plan
client: jreast shinjuku station in tokyo, japan is the busiest subway height: 100m station in the world, seeing more than three and a half location: tokyo, jpa million commuters a day, using primarily a mall as its eastern exit, the east japan railroad company is planning an expansion to the entrance to the subway that includes additional retail, an apartment tower and space for urban agriculture. the new entrance brings light down to the platforms and provides a more proiment entrance to both the community and the subway. in the past transit in japan serviced the farmers, allowing them to take their goods into the city, with most of tokyo and yokahoma developed together, agricultural space is rare. with recent advancements in horticulture japan has produced indoor farms that are more efficient then field farms. carrying that over into japans demand for agricultural space the buildings skin system was intended to provide a medium for which plants of any kind could grow acessible to commuters, shoppers, and residents.
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rotenburo plan
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typical traditional apartment plan
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9th floor garden
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residential sky garden
the sky garden unites the two residential towers creating a unique gathering space that allows residents to hang out, have a community garden, and fosters interaction between floors. it is also a celebration of japan’s view of man in nature and tokyo’s vertical culture. the section cut to the left depicts how the sky garden unites the floors below and above, while section s.1 depicts the interaction between towers.
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adv c - chaudiere falls redevelopment | 14 weeks
chaudiere falls redevelopment
the chaudiere falls is an important missing link between quebec and ontario. formely a lumber mill, industrial cea nter, and originally a sacred site to the first nations of canada. the government wants to see all three constituitents of canada to be united and represented in this development. the purpose of our project was to bridge the gap between the ottawa and hull side of the ottawa river through this landmark. throughout this project we developed two main paths: the industrial path and the leisure path. client: ncc, wyndmill urban redevelopment location: ottawa, ca
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the industrial museum is one of the main nodes along the industrial path that runs between ottawa and hull. because of its close proximity and accessibility to the canadian war museum, the idea is that these two museums can work out some kind of a deal with visitors to sell tickets that gain the holders access to both museums drawing in more people to both places and encouragin peole to use the development happening along chaudiere falls. the site for the museum itself on albert island already has something of an iconic psoition isolated on the water and the site’s rich industrial past has quite a story to communicate through this museum and the exterior extension of it located in the park by chaudiere falls.
in order to better bridge the gap between the two existing heritage structures on albert island that make up the industrial museum, there are a series of three bridges spanning between them. these bridges draw from the industrial nature of the site, and are designed as bold steel trusses that bridge between floors that ramp slightly between two different floor heighs, making the experience of the gallery space a more fluid one between buildings. beneath these truss breiges the pedestiran path winds its way through mounds of earth support industrial relics and the bridge help to provide a small amount of coverage and a nice sense of enclouse for the people below. the industrial museum is made of a rennovation of two existing heritage structures on albert island. there is currently no connection between these two buildings, but rather just a large courtyard. within this courtyard space there is an incredible framed view of the peace tower on one end and this end where the entrance to the now industrial museum is located. the branch off of the industrial path works its way through this courtyard space and leads to both the view of the peace tower in the distance as well as the entrance to the museum and the pedsetrian-firendly booth street. the space within these buildings is a gorgeous display of wood and iindustrial struture and is already laid iout in such a way that would make a great gallery space an easy fi into the layout of the buildings
the industrial museum is sited on albert island, right across a small inlet from the canadian war museum. this site connects on one end to booth street, the road that joins otawa side of thje hull side across the river and the site connects on the other end of th industrial bulkhead that begins out designated industrial path. the groundscape branches off of this main industrial path and winds its way up to booth stret where the main entrance of the museum lies. along the path are a series of mounds that contain at their pinnacle a celebrated industrial relic similar to the langauge taht happesn in teh industrial park that happesn a littel furthur up the industrial path
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this is the french speaking side of the national capital region. the neighborhood primarily houses the pentagon of canada, and didn’t have much life. the proposed community intended to provide a friendly pedestrian enviornment enriched with urban agricultural, foraging, fishing and ecological information. included in this redevelopment plan is an entertainment area located across booth street, as well as a road diet to booth street.
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By extending confederation blvd to the new route it will create an abstracted version of the washington mall encopassing the majority of museum and cultural destinations that Ottawa has to offer including those proposed in our project. The route extension will put the Canadian War Museum, the Ottawa Holocaust Memorial, and the Le Brenton Flats redevelopment. ottawa river mall 1. parliment 2. ottawa holocaust memorial 3. canadian war museum 4. canadian industrial museum 5. first nation’s museum 6. museum of civilization 7. national gallery of canada
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leisure path 1. cardboard factory 2. pool/ice rink 3. riverwalk retail 4. farmers market retail loop 5. artist’s village along the path and the residents of a boardwalk that happens along The leisure path is designed as these studios. The main loop then the river’s edge facing Hull. The more of a loop, and connects the moves north across the bridge and main loop continues east across a old Cardboard Factory with the on to Hull, where the path runs bridge and through a humble live/ development on the Hull side. The work studio that has a public front along an extensive boardwalk along region around the Cardboard Facthe river. This boardwalk would tory, as well as the building itself, along the path. The first floor of have a series of nodes and activiis meant to be a retail environment these studios is a place in which ties along it, and a series of smallwith two main paths that meet up on these artists and craftsmen that er paths that work their way uphill the eastern side at a natural land- live there display and sell their to the retail of Hull, and the rest scape and wave deck that overlooks wares to the people meandering along the path. The upper floors of of this new development beyond. the river. The upper levels of the these row house typologies are the The loop then continues south along factory can be converted to more living quarters Additionally, across the other main bridge and connects commercial purposes. We have cut the street an old heritage building back to the main retail area. a valley through the factory that becomes one of the main paths, and has been converted into a market overlooking a park, and this market this split is covered overhead by may be used by both the people some industrial structure. There is walking also
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the street
vikas mehta summer2013
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Streets make up the majority of our public space and are often built for primarily vehicular traffic creating inequality, wasted space, and unsafe conditions for pedestrians. Armenia avenue is a culturally significant urban street that has been comprimised for vehicular traffic and parking. The street has many services within a short walk, as well as mixed use residential properties, and also has evidence of using the street as an extenion of the living room or living above the street, however it is actually rare to see a pedestrian. The perception of the street is that it is run down, even though it is quite vibrant. The prevelence of the vehicle and the perception are major deterrents to pedestrianism which is hurting the neighborhood economically. This project aimed to improve the pedestrian condition along the street, enhance the life above/on the street, and change the perception of the street. red - excessive speed yellow - moderate speed green - appropriate speed
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[ existing conditions ] due to the need for cars to get in and out of private property parking lots the sidewalk is sloped to allow egress, this creates an unsafe condition for pedestrians and takes away useable property from the property owners lack of cross walks coupled with unnecessarily wide lanes is causing excessive speeding making crossing armenia extremely difficult the intersection at columbus drive has a clear hierarchy to vehicles that prevents pedestrian traffic from crossing columbus ambiguity between the street edge and property edge is causing a negative perception of the street and making it uninhabitable for residents of the street people are using the bus on the street however, all bus stops on armenia are unprotected from the elements. to encourage less vehicule use, stops need to be improved to protect poeople from the rain and sun mixed use properties are present on the street and residents have furniture on balcanies and porches suggesting the residents want to observe the street and use it as an extended living room the perception of the street is very negative, but the reality is that it is quite vibrant, poor streetscape conditions are to blame for the negative perception.
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[ n. armenia ave improvement proposals ] addition of benches for places to rest and newspaper machines that serve pedestrians who are sitting with something to do, as well as children for something to play with a tree shaded path functions to shade the pedestrians from the sun but also serve as a barrier between the pedestrian and the vehicular traffic arcades serve the businesses by allowing them to convert what is currently parking space to an extension of their space, so cafes can have tables out, residents will have more balcany space and markets will be able to have products on the sidewalk reclaim parking right of way in certain areas to slow down traffic, and also allow a shorter crossing distance for pedestrians the mixing of businesses could help create more activity in the neighborhood, a perfect place for this to occur is at the laundry which has an abandonded building adjacent, if connected the building could serve as a place to have drinks or something to eat while doing the wash the community garden will connect the mixed use apartment building with the mixed-use laundry/ bar and provide a nice view to wash your clothes to
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owners of property with a parking space should consider transforming the space in to a parklet temporarily or permanently if possible
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landscape as urban ecology shannon basset
yi wang
fall 2013
mary alvarez
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Sulphur Springs Park is a historical park and neighborhood five miles north of downtown Tampa. It was once a thriving neighborhood however in recent times its fallen on hard times and has been polluted over the years. The city of tampa is looking to redevelop the neighborhood to help give it a second life. Included in the redevelopment plans are a mixed-use community intigrated in to nature as well as revisiting the palimpsest of the site by repurposing the dog track and reintroducing the natural pool All processes of cleaning of the water and protection from the water would be taken care of by natural processes and terracing of the site. To help keep Sulphur Springs identity the neighborhood would establish a modern typology that reconnects to the past and to the park.
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[ existing conditions ] The water is too polluted to swim, the only existing option is a concrete chlorinated pool that is pay to use, which ends up excluding most of the neighborhood since it is one of the lowest income neighborhoods in tampa The excessive parking leads to high crime, low property values, as well as run off that pollutes the river The park itself has a chain linked fence around most of it including along nebraska avenue which sends the message of separation from the neighborhood. The park also doesn’t serve the natural processes needed to sustain an ecosystem or to deal with the pollution and run off There is excessive under utilized space throughout the park and site
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The proposed design is meant to restore the vegetation, river banks, and river habitat by recovering Florida’s native landscape and introducing a water and green system that work to clean the spring and the Hillsborough river. Establishing social equality through mixed income development as well as equal opportunity for recreation and acess to locally grown organic food. The dog track complex is to be converted in to a community center, the track will be turned into a lazy river for the community, and as an attraction for the city. As part of the green and blue system an aquaponic agricultural sytem is intigrated into the design of the new buildings. The aquaponic system will raise fish that fertilize the plants, and plants that clean the water for the fish. To improve connectivity, paths were made under the interstate along the river to connect the spring to the water tower These concepts will restore a beautiful landscape and re-establish Sulfur Springs as a destination neighborhood.
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japanese architecture stan russel
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japanese architecture | tea house | 7 weeks
Mitate is the Japanese concept of an expression which gives freshness and element of surprise. Repurposing something that might otherwise be thrown away.
The materiality was to send a message of the waste produced by our technological advances with cell phones that are designed to be obsolete within a year creating massive e-waste. Japanese art has been influenced by Zen philosophy by ways of minimalism. The one corner style is a method in which painters who follow Zen try to convey the image with the least amount of brush strokes as possible. Wabi is to be not dependent on things, to be poor, one corner style embodies this by not being dependent on excessive detail, but trying to convey the entire emotion and scene in as little as possible. Wabi literally translates as poverty. The worship of poverty, the freedom from wealth, power, and social position was something that was translated in to several elements of Japanese art and architecture. The simplicity and clearness of structure is where architecture see’s zen. In Japanese architecture it is the blurred line between inside and outside, the function of the tea garden as a spatial experience and the honesty of materials. Sabi is rustic unpretentiousness, in Buddhist terms this is the state of just “being.� When this is translated to architecture it is the simplicity of historical association, the imperfection in the materials.
117 The Kiwari system is based on “timber splitting� that laid out the frame work for proportions. These changed from period to period. In Kiwari A: is the thickness of the column, B: Men, is a unit corresponding to one tenth of the thickness of the column and C: Men-uchi which corresponds to eight-tenths of the thickness of the column
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119 The garden is designed as a mental experience, the tea ceremony has a spiritual experience culminating in a entheogenic experience. The garden and the ceremony especially in post Muromachi Japan when soan allowed the guests to not just observe objects but the whole experience. The garden which seems like something natural is actually not, everything is carefully chosen to be an experience of human consciousness bonsai which is a human manipulation of nature, the selection of stones, resulting in the intention of making the guests focus on the sublime elements of the ceremony. first type of Zen garden is one that uses Chinesee Sung landscape painting, with elements that inspire the “three The distances” (foreground, middle ground, and background) The elements that make up the garden are rocks a pond a bridge and an artificial mountain on the far side of the pond and the background is of the Arashiyama foothiils. A type of scenographic landscape. The second type is a simple interoverted meditative gravel garden with rock groups in a rectangle. The gravel serves as a meditative focal point, conjuring the thoughts of sabi because of its irregular geometry of raked gravel. The last type is the path that leads to a tearoom called roji and developed with Rikyu. The last type is specifically aimed at altering consciousness. The path is carefully thought out in terms of materiality, rhythm of pace, and enclosure. The stone path is irregular and has slight deviances is it, and also constricted to only allow one person at a time. This element of the roji transitions the mind from normal experience and remove distractions that exist in normal consciousness. “The roji is simply a path leading beyond this fleeting world” this quote talks about the transient quality of spatial experience, one of the elements of the entheogenic consciousness. Another element of psychedelic consciousness embodied through roji is the interconnectedness of suchness. The moss’s relationship to the tree, the relationship of the path to the tree, and the space in-between.
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steve cooke spring 2015
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care of making - making life
the pollen box
Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred from the anther (male part) to the stigma (female part) of the plant, thereby enabling fertilization and reproduction. This takes place in the angiosperms, the flower bearing plants.
Cross-pollination, also called allogamy, occurs when pollen is delivered to a flower from a different plant. Plants adapted to cross-pollinate often have taller stamens than carpels or use other mechanisms to better ensure the spread of pollen to other plants’ flowers. Pollen is transmitted by air or a biotic pollen vector. The zinnia flowers to the left are an example of cross-pollination the top two photos are the parents of the bottom zinnia. Biotic pollen vectors are animals, usually insects, but also reptiles, birds, mammals, and sundry others, that routinely transport pollen and play a role in pollination. Mammals are not typically thought of as biotic pollen vectors, however humans have created several new breeds and varieties of plants by cross-pollination, in this sense humans are a type of biotic pollen vector. The pollen box is a technology developed to aid humans isolate flowers for cross-pollination. This technology allows humans to be a type of biotic pollen vector.
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A pollen box contains two chambers separated by a micron screen. The top chamber is where a flower is placed. the flower will shed its pollen by gravity or by breaking apart the flower. The pollen can then be harvested (separated from flower) by pulling out the plexi tray at the bottom. The pollen is then collected in a plastic bag or applied to a cue tip. Then you apply the pollen to the desired mating flower.
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florida landscape seminar
nancy sanders spring 2015
the post citrus landscape
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the blue represents the freeze of ‘85 which damaged most of odessa’s citrus stock and left it suseptible to greening. the red represents the threat of urbanization from a dead grove, odessa’s character is threatened by the continued urbanization of tampa. developments like the one from the image will forever change odessa’s character as a neighborhood. the green is nature that has reclaimed my familys grove and created a new florida landscape of the private reserve. below are cross sections of the property to show transformation of grove to private reserve
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healthy groves of odessa
1985 freeze damages citrus statewide
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nature/urbanization claim groves
what will florida’s post citrus landscape be
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view from citrus tower in clermont
Early in the mornings I used to pick oranges to eat and juice for breakfeast. We had several different types. It was many years before I ever had a store bought orange. I remember in the winters my brother and I used to toss ponderosa citrus at eachother like they were snowballs, and this was a perfectly Florida thing to do. Today all of our citrus is gone and most of it in the area as well. Threatened by extreme weather, urban development and diseasem the iconic crop of Florida faces an uncertain future in its adopted home. Following freezes, hurricanes, and now the deadly Greening disease. Florida’s citrus industry is being devestated. Citrus farmers must adapt by adopting new crops, and protect Florida’s rural areas from being paved over.
effects of greening on florida’s citrus industry 2005-2014 $4.5 billion in economic loss
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citrus x sinesis 1513 ponce de leon plants citrus near st. augustine
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after a major freeze in 1835 that decimated the citrus industry in the Carolinas and Georgia. This was one of the first migrations southward of the citrus zone 1835
first grapefruit trees planted in Tampa area
1870s odessa founded as a lumber town
After a couple of fires and the depletion of Odessa’s forest, the timber industry was devastated and shut down bringing rise to the citrus industry in the old logging line which becomes the Orange Belt Line
view from citrus tower, florida citrus thrives surpassing california in production
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freeze of 1894 devestates florida citrus, peter demens sells orange belt line to henry plant
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