Justine Humble architecture + design
outside in CCA
Professor Lorena del Rio As a child I remember spaces in rituals of a catholic school. Time based on feeling different textures associated with arrival, story time, nap time, lunch, prayer, and leave. The most vivid memory from the playground of my kindergarten was a pink tunnel. I remember feeling secluded inside while the exterior world being directed and very different on both sides, a portal from one world to the next.
1/4” Dowel
3/4” CNC milled corner
douglas fir plywood
3/4” CNC milled panel
douglas fir plywood
collection of tactics hide and seek
levels of perception
portal from one to another
balance game
Rituals of a catholic school 2pm
12pm
10am
8am textures with ritual
section A scale 1/16”=1’-0”
section B scale 1/16”=1’-0”
program
circulation
exterior/interior relationship
residual form
w alaa quraishi and carlos sabogal
The colored pencils are movable and allow people to leave impressions of their interactions on the site. As the pencils move back and forth, this intervention becomes dynamic through the engagement of not only spacial variation, but variation of the pieces over a timespan of layered interactions and people.
elevation detail connections
confessional
The intervention is intended as a meditative journey thats form is based on the human body. Various nooks and crannies along the path allow the participants to sit, lean, and hold onto the architecture for contemplation and reflection to occur.
totem pole
The overall project was created in four materials and techniques of fabrication. When making and designing it was important that each new layer respected the material and technique of the segment below. The connections of each layer and the in between were the driving force for this project. With discovering the narrative, the focus was to define a landscape that provides connection to water as it is collected at the top to the way it dematerializes the concrete in the bottom composition.
decomposition of a cube
iteration the main purpose deteriorated the cube, the form was established for a create an atmosphere that
Through the process of was to look at forms of decomposition. As each segment interior complexity changed in a very unique way. After one performance space it was important that the decomposition was specific to the exclusivity of a performance.
I/O
The main intent of the I/O Center for the Performing Arts is that what was once private gets pulled out to the public urban context. The three performance spaces engage with the ground, the occupants at the Ace Hotel, and the adjacent rooftop bar. The performer has the ability to project themselves towards the audience of the interior or to the audience of the exterior of the building. The stages are all located on floors within the building that are open to the exterior but are enclosed with a fixed steel curtain. The curtain reveals the stages and separates the locations in which the performer would occupy.
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concept model
ACCUMULATION OF a CLOUD
EXPLODED AXON
2ND FLOOR PLAN [STAGE LEVEL]
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exterior curtain axon
the refuge
The housing project focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis, the aim is to provide temporary housing in the bay area to give access to various amenities to a population that is currently in need. The overall concept of this project is to delay the threshold boundaries from one location to the next due to the many traumatic experiences already faced by this population. The circulation acts as a type of slowed journey. The proposed building delays the processional experience so boundaries from one condition are not so immediate. The living spaces and kitchens have been pushed out of the units to create momentary pauses on the path of circulation and to create the support that comes from a collective identity.
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physical study models
sharing units
after william morris
Textiles, patterns, and wallpaper focus to the recognition of a seamless surface. A surface that when applied alludes to a continuity. In the case of William Morris this seamless surface was to condition a space into an immersion of being amongst the leaves, petals, and steams. This role of the wallpaper was to take its occupants from one world to another imaginative realm. William Morris created these patterns of foliage to create a continuity and connectedness between all people. Because the flowers and leaves were relatable to all, the surface of the wallpaper became a social construct in which its intention was to not be exclusively understood by one population.
ornamental bipolarity
w haonan jia, jinda guo
Ornamentation does not need to be primarily exterior focused, it should be double-sided. Today, ornamentation is predominantly outward facing. Architects condition the facade while ignoring the intimacy of the interior. Ornament should penetrate to the inside and interface with the unique human scale of the interior. Ornamental interiority can provide not only a visual complexity but instigate tactile and material curiosity.
aquatic accumulation
w georgia came
The geological faros of the Maldives create naturally protected barriers and ecosystems that extend beyond the boundary of the island itself. There are a series of protective layers extending from the edge of the island shore. These include mangroves which act as shock absorbers for the island community, sea grass which provides a rich breeding and feeding ground for the fish, and varying layers of coral which provide protection and growth for other species that exist within the ocean. This project aims to harness existing systems while cultivating new resilient formations and surfaces. These formations and surfaces adapt to the main shell or skeleton of the structure to provide a layered growth system above, at, and underneath the water. These systems accumulate with activity over time that responds to the occupancy above and the ecology below. The bamboo structure at the canopies of the modules extends across the system to create a framework for weaved surfaces for shade and personality from community to community.
ecological accumulation diagram
module size SW MONSOON WIND
housing unit plans
LAND ECOLOGY
HARD CORAL
EXPOSED ISLAND
SEA GRASS/ SOFT CORAL
EXTENDED ISLAND ECOLOGY
Unit Plan Scale 1/4” = 1’-0”
HOUSING CLUSTER PLAN 1/8”=1’-0”
dhanghetti ecology map
site plan + coral reefs
community render
rooftop render
hull detail
compression ring detail
exploded axon walkway detail
an unfolded interior polemic
(thesis in progress)
Intimate and extimate architecture situates ourselves into a culture of trends, times, and fashions. If intimate is that of our rooms where we are who we are as no one is looking then the extimate is that of who we are as everyone is looking; it is the costumes, alter egos, makeup, and hair. This intimacy/extimacy is defined by our surfaces, patterns, and poché of the inside. As a society we are more hybrid than ever with multiple folds, while our current interiors say otherwise. This distortion and de-lamination prepares us for a time of unfolded interiors, where the seam integrates the ability for multiple readings of background and foreground, inside and outside, intimate and extimate, ‘architecture’ and ‘non-architecture.’ While our current understandings of interiority and exteriority do not reflect our non-binary internal and external selves; this thesis aims to delaminate, distort, and pull out interior behaviors in an extimate setting by unfolding the prescribed narratives of the interior, whether through trends of capitalism or trends of the alternative.