JOSH MINGS
PRAISEWORTHY COMPETITION Columbus, Indiana Architecture Depository
DSGN5200 - M.Arch Thesis � 2011/2012 Academic Year � Profs. Scott Ruff/Kentaro Tsubaki, RA/Elizabeth Burns Gamard Outstanding Thesis Award, Thesis Commendation, Selected for Provocations: Ogden 8 2012 Exhibition
Twentieth-century philosophy was driven by either/ or: Modernism with the abstract and pragmatic, Postmodernism with the material and poetic. Either/ or is no longer sufficient. Architecture necessitates a both/and condition, bringing together the abstract and material, the pragmatic and poetic, and the object and field into a cohesive whole creating dialogue with context and disseminating meaning. In Columbus, Indiana this both/and proposition exists through the patronage of J. Irwin Miller. It is a belief that architecture “reflects what a city thinks about itself and what it aims to be”. Columbus’ Modernism responds to previous generations, bringing together pragmatic and poetic. This thesis aspires to create an architecture depository, a record of Columbus’ material history. In combining Eero Saarinen’s Irwin Union Bank with a pragmaticpoetic addition, the project engages in praiseworthy competition with it’s architectural ancestors.
ANALYSIS/CONCEPT Saarinen Planes/Void
“A good life is one led in praiseworthy competition with one’s ancestors. The best response to the gifts we receive from previous generations is to create something of lasting value in our own time and in our own way for future generations.” — J. Irwin Miller
COLUMBUS Learning from material history
JACKSON STREET
WASHINGTON STREET
GROUND FLOOR The Dialogue Begins
ROCHE ADDITION AND SAARINEN OFFICE BLOCK NOT INCLUDED
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FIFTH STREET
MORPHOLOGY A Dialogue with Eero Saarinen
FIFTH AND WASHINGTON A sentinel for Columbus’ architectural heritage
LONGITUDINAL SECTION A both/and dialogue with Irwin Union Bank
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JACKSON ST MODELNUMBER TRADENAME PRODUCT MATERIAL
HORIZONTAL TURNS VERTICAL Continuing Saarinen’s Void
SECTION MODEL Views shaping planes and void
LEVEL 3 Views to architectural landmarks shape solid and mask
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EXHIBITION LEVEL 3 North Christian Church/Miller House
SEGREGATION (BOTH/AND) INTEGRATION Louisiana Civil Rights Institute (New Orleans, LA) DSGN3200 - Integrated Design Studio � Spring Semester 2010 � Prof. Doug Harmon � 16 Weeks Published in Tulane School of Architecture ReView 2009-2011
Segregation (Both/And) Integration explores the both/and condition of dualities versus the traditional either/or. A bridging gallery and unifying Cor-ten steel facade integrate segregated community and institute buildings. The gallery creates an uninterrupted plaza that serves both institute and community. Gallery, community and institute spaces integrate at the main stair, which through the use of reclaimed sinker cypress, evokes a front porch condition for the institute, allowing it to be both public and private, rarefied and everyday, segregated and integrated within the community.
ENTRY STAIR A “Formal� Welcome
COURTYARD Performance Area/Public Plaza
CONCEPT SKETCH Plaza/Building Integration
SKIN AFFECT Conceptual drivers of Form
Segregate Institute and Community
Integrate by Bridging
STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM Steel Bridge
Integrate with community by creating public plaza
Mask segregated parts to create integrated whole
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Through Institute and Community Buildings
PLAZA Public/Performance
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ARCHIVE Permanent Gallery
SKIN AFFECT Cultural Manipulations
COLLISIONS OF DUALITY A New Dance School for the Moulin Rouge (Paris, France)
DSGN3100 - Architecture Design Studio � Fall Semester 2009 � Prof. Kentaro Tsubaki, RA � 12 Weeks Published in Tulane School of Architecture ReView 2009-2011
Inspiration
MORPHOLOGY A dance of solid and void
Solid Manipulation Three solids are created to contain all active program
Void space can be used by dancers to inform movements during practice and editing
Void Manipulation
Dancers as solid creating void space in between/ altering with movements
Merce Cunningham Ocean
Initial Response
Collisions of Duality explore the notion of collision inherent in the urban fabric of Paris, France and how those collisions can inform the Solid/ Void relationship in architecture. The collision of Haussmann's plan versus the medieval, organic layout of Paris informs the void space of the building, creating an axial public void. Public functions inhabiting the void space inform the semi-public and private solids of the school and vice versa. As in dancing, where the bodies of the dancers create void space between them, the void space can also inform the dancers in their movements. By breaking up the program into three solids representing a group of dancers, a glazed public void opens up allowing light to enter the school, a crucial concern for an urban infill project that typically only has access to light from one side.
Solids manipulated according to program, contextual, and phenomenological needs
Public spaces become partof void, which is shaped by and gives shape to solids
COLLISIONS Local and Urban CONCEPT SKETCH Site Driving Form
Local Collision
Haussmann creates a physical boundary between Arrondisements. Below Sacre Couer a seedy nightlife develops, colliding sacred and profane
Sacred
Romantic notion of Paris Sacre Couer
Urban Collision Profane
Adult stores, Moulin Rouge
Haussman’s plan for long axial boulevards collides with an organic street grid built over time to create a new Parisian urban fabric
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC Layers of Construction
Structural system
12" Site-cast two-way post-tensioned Concrete flat slab construction 12 X 12 site cast concrete columns 12" Sheer walls as required
Infill wall
6" 20 GA metal studs 5/8" Gypsum wall board on interior side 5/8" Water resistant gypsum wall board on exterior side R19 glass fiber batt insulation
Skin structure
Various sizes 20 GA metal studs as necessary 4x4 tube steel as required for stability
Moisture Barrier
3/4" DENSGLASS exterior sheathing TYVEK vapor barrier Mounting clips for rain screen system
Rainscreen
Trespa Meteon Facade System panels
Windows
1" Thick LOW-E reflective glazing
SECTIONAL MODEL Stair through Public Void
TRANSVERSE SECTION Void as Activator
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Photo courtesy of Jill Stoll
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION Interplay/Interruption of Solid with Void
THEATER LOBBY/COURTYARD Void connects with exterior
THEATER LEVEL Public Void
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MUSEUM Void becomes horizontal
GROUND LEVEL Solid and Void
MUSEUM LEVEL Public Void
SHIFTED REALITIES A (new) New Orleans Typology (New Orleans, LA) DSGN4300 - Study Abroad Studio � Summer Semester 2010 � Profs. Byron Mouton, AIA/Cordula Roser Gray, RA � 4 Weeks Published in Tulane School of Architecture ReView 2009-2011
Shifted Realities - A (new) New Orleans Typology deals with the various shifts that need to occur to create a new housing typology to match the new realities of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina while keeping positive aspects of the traditional New Orleans Housing typologies, namely the front porch. With a FEMA requirement to building livable levels above the base flood level elevation, the ground floor becomes an open outdoor area for both residents and community. Unit geometries are shifted for daylighting, outdoor space, and reducing exposure to the western sun.
MORPHOLOGY Shifts
Thought
Social
Access
View
Courtyard
Utility
Galleries
Ground
Appropriation of familiar forms to create both familiar and unique
Front units shift to provide back units visual connection to street
Shifting of mass above ground allows for community use of ground plane, strengthening community center
Second level unit shifts to create courtyard for adjacent restaurant and outdoor space for third oor unit
CONCEPT SKETCH Shift of scale
Familiar galleries become shifted to create covered outdoor space for each unit
Ground plane shifts up to create sense of privacy for residents
Circulation core at center breaks down mass and provides solid/void relationship to context through rhythm
Utility core becomes planametric driver separating private and public areas of each unit
THIRD LEVEL Typical 2Bed/1Bath Layout.
RESIDENT GREEN SPACE Urban Garden
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Closet
UTILITY WALL Plan Driver
Mech
Bedroom
Bath Closet
Kitchen Bedroom
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GROUND LEVEL Public Space
FRERET STREET ELEVATION Shift in Scale
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Through front units
RETHINKING HISTORIES The Orleans Avenue Outfall Canal (New Orleans, LA) - with Drew Mazur DSGN5100 - Advanced Studio Elective � Fall Semester 2011 � Prof. John Klingman, RA � 16 Weeks
Given a historically rich site at the beginning of the Orleans St. outfall canal, histories of site were reimagined to create an appropriate beginning for the new Orleans Avenue outfall canal. The levee becomes habitable, creating single and multifamily housing, an exhibition path remembering the physical history of the site, and a restaurant as well as a path connecting Lakeview and City Park. The wetland becomes an area of repose and passage, a void contrasting with the newly programmed levee, and also serving as bioremediation of storm water runoff before its eventual passage to Lake Pontchartrain. The exhibition path becomes a floodwall, unleashing memory instead of holding back water, enabling New Orleans to regain its identity as a water city.
MORPHOLOGY Housing Block
Site Context: Single Family Residence
Addition Of Single Family Residences
High Density Apartments
CONCEPT SKETCH A new beginning Lift
Split
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SITE PLAN Connecting Lakeview with City Park
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CITY BARK DOG PARK
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE The Levee, the Wetland and the Floodwall
HISTORIES/PATHS Generators of Form
GENERAL HAIG ST Response to Lakeview
Before Hurricane Betsy: Levee
City Park
Before 1900: Wetland
HOUSING
City Park
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Pump Station
Post-1970 : Floodwall
Parking
EXHIBITION PATH Floodwall of Memories
THE STORY OF BUILDING: SVERRE FEHN’S MUSEUMS Research Fellowship (Norway)
2011 John William Lawrence Research Fellowship � Summer 2011 � Lecture available at www.joshuamings.com Book available for purchase at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2537931
The museums of Sverre Fehn tell a story. A story of building, place and time. One of modern architecture’s lesser known figures, Fehn was both a modernist and regionalist, interpreting Modernist ideals within the Norwegian lexicon of heaven and earth, life and death, sense of place, and his notions of moving the horizon. Many of his works are lesser known due to their remote locations, all but one of his museums being located in the Norwegian countryside that shaped his approach to building. Fehn tells a story with his museums. The museum becomes the object due to careful examination and placement of exhibits. The architecture becomes a story of place, of time, one that moves the horizon. The connection of heaven and earth is always apparent in the architecture; the way the museums meet the sky and the way Fehn brings in and moves the horizon within his buildings. By researching Fehn’s work, a new understanding of combining global theory with regionalist thought will emerge. In my research, I have prepared a story of interaction with Sverre Fehn’s museums and the context that shaped his approach through sketches, photography, and experiences. This interaction will serve to further understanding of the notions of place and story; phenomenological aspects of building that make the invisible become the visible.
NORSK BREMUSEUM Fjærland
AUKRUSTSENTERET Alvdal
HEDMARKSMUSEET Hamar
WALL SECTION NOLA Museum of Hydrology
ELEVATION With Global Design Studio 2007
MAIN ENTRY Construction and Concept come together
TECHNICAL/CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION Various Projects as noted
Academic and Professional Work ďż˝ A focus is shown on reconcilng concept and construction
WALL SECTION Comprehensive Studio Spring 2010 EPDM Membrane Rigid Extruded Insulation Board 2x2x.25 Steel Tube To Support Metal Skin @ 6’ O.C.
CUTS INTO SKIN EXTERNALIZE PUBLIC SPACE AND ALLOW VIEWS TO CITY
11ga Perforated Corten Steel Panel, Weld To Skin, Attach To Storefront 1” X 8” Reclaimed Cypress Flooring Access Walkway Support 11ga Perforated And Profiled Corten Steel Panel
SKIN DIFFUSES NATURAL LIGHT TO PROTECT ARCHIVES/ART FROM UV RAYS. INTERNALIZES PRIVATE SPACES WHILE ALLOWING NATURAL LIGHT
SKIN MEDIATES WEATHER, WHILE ALLOWING THE WEATHERING TO SCULPT IT’S AFFECT Double Pane Low-E Glazing Access Walkway (Maintainance) Column Beyond 14” Concrete Structural Slab/ Transfer Beam (Post-tensioned) DOUBLE SKIN SYSTEM PROVOKES CHIMNEY EFFECT AROUND BUILDING, REDUCING NEED FOR HVAC Pre-cast Concrete Panels (Silkscreened) R19 Glass Fiber Batt Insulation 5/8” Type X Gypsum Wall Board 5 1/2” 20 Gauge Metal Studs @ 16” O.C. 14” Concrete Structural Slab (Post-tensioned) Weather-resistant Silkscreening Column Beyond
Double Pane Low-E Glazing Storefront System Mullion
8” Concrete Slab Thickened Concrete Slab Edge/Pile Cap
INTERIOR AFFECT Construction enables affect
JOSH MINGS
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