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SAFETY NET
DESIGN EXCELLENCE NOMINATION
Advanced Studio| Fall 2020 Andrew Stone and Claire Townley
The seemingly disparate programmatic needs of the Community Court and the Fire Station are united through one core value: civic service. This project unites those who serve the community and those who take advantage of the services through equitable, accessible, sensitive distribution of space. The microclimate created under the organic timber grid shell forms a safer foil to the harsh overpasses of I-35 under which homeless individuals gather. The Fire Station is separate from the program of the Community Court in some key places, providing privacy to sensitive programs like decontamination and dormitories while superposing the two civic service programs in key locations like the courtyard, and the shared fitness center.
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A safer foil to the harsh overpasses of I-35 under which homeless individuals gather
WESTERN HEMLOCK LATHES (2’ x .5’)
GLULAM BOUNDARY RING (2’ x 2’ )
GLULAM COMPRESSION RING (2’ x 2’ )
GLULAM COLUMN (1’ x 1’ ) GLULAM GIRDER X (2.5’ x 1’) GLULAM GIRDER Y (2.5’ x 1’) GLULAM BEAMS (2’ x .75’)
The timber grid shell intersects a regular grid to create a public courtyard and mediate visual and physical dynamics 7
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Exploring the unique experiences of different users moving through the space
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INVISIBLE CITIES
Speculative| Fall 2019 Juan Jofre
Visualizing Italo’s Calvino’s Invisitble Cities explores the medium of drawing to interpret text into a variety of spatial conditions.
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Hypatia
“True, also in Hypatia the day will come when my only desire will be to leave. I know I must not go down to the harbor then, but climb the citadel’s highest pinnacle and wait for a ship to go by up there. But will it ever go by? There is no language without deceit.”
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“When the camel driver sees, at the horizon of the tableland, the pinnacles of the skyscrapers come into view, the radar antennae, the white and red windsocks flapping, the chimneys belching smoke, he thinks of a ship; he knows it is a city, but he thinks of it as a vessel that will take him away from the desert, a windjammer about to cast off, with the breeze already swelling the sails...
...In the coastline's haze, the sailor discerns the form of a camel's withers, an embroidered saddle with glittering fringe between two spotted humps, advancing and swaying; he knows it is a city, but he thinks of it as a camel from whose pack hang wineskins and bags of candied fruit, date wine, tobacco leaves, and already he sees himself at the head of a long caravan”
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CLIMATE BUBBLES
Intermediate Studio V| Fall 2019 Mari Michael Glassell
DESIGN EXCELLENCE NOMINATION
The global threat of climate change carries potentially catastrophic consequences, yet it is hard for people to fully comprehend due to the small-scale geographic surroundings they interact with in daily life. In order to fully communicate the gravity of the situation, Fighting Global Warming Network Austin Chapter consists of a series of climate-controlled membranes, each of which approximates the climatic conditions of other chapters of Fighting Global Warming Network. Encased in a responsive exoskeleton and curved glass, the flexible membranes expand and contract in accordance with the changing temperatures contained within. In this way, visitors’ paths throughout the building are impeded or expanded as global climates change more and more dramatically.
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The downtown Austin site receives local and global influences
Mapping the cities and their specific climatic crises on a volumetric construct
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Three elements come together to create an integrated system
Membranes approximating the climate of various cities are in constant diurnal and seasonal flux
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The interaction of dynamic membranes and exoskeleton with the human scale
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BLOCS
SEMIFINALIST
Disney Imagineers Competition| Fall 2019 Advisor: Mari Michael Glassell
The current narrative surrounding gentrification in East Austin primarily laments the loss of affordable housing and cultural assets, our project seeks to empower one of the existing resources available to the remaining community: their own creative talents and cultural expression. Considering the recent closing of Austin’s HOPE Outdoor Gallery, our project seeks to create a more intimate and accessible forum for community members to create and engage with public art. As more and more of what originally made Austin “weird” fades away, this proposal seeks to have a dedicated public space open to artists and laypeople alike to continue to foster the unique cultural climate of Austin.
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Collaborators: Hailey Algoe Curtis Lechner Rika Takashima
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Various arrangements of the Blocs to fit programmatic needs 36
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Highway Houses
Intermediate Studio V| Fall 2019 Simon Atkinson
DESIGN EXCELLENCE NOMINATION
Highway housing is part of a larger urban plan to revive an area near downtown San Antonio covered in parking garages. This dead zone is adjacent to I-35 which divides a residential community from the amenities downtown offers. The urban plan focuses on public transit, completely eliminating cars from about 30 city blocks. It reclaims the highway as tracks for high speed rail, and proposes trolley lines running through the community to connect it to key points in San Antonio at a more local scale. Highway Houses is a housing community that straddles the new high-speed rail line, and supports a market place created in the shade under the overpass.
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MEMORY MUSEUM
Speculative| Fall 2019 Juan Jofre
As technology becomes an increasingly omnipresent force in our lives, we must examine how we communicate and disperse information. Today most of our digital communication occurs through a star or tree local network topology in which individual nodes aren’t all interconnected, rather information is sent to a central node and then dispersed accordingly. This centralized network puts tremendous power in the central node to control the flow of information. The alternative is the Mesh topology allows for direct connections between each node, and well designed protocols allow for seamless rerouting of information if a particular node is disabled. Applying the ideas of mesh networking to physical space, specifically exhibition/ research spaces at the University promotes the democratic sharing of information and adaptive circulation. Flexible walls allow each exhibition or research space to act as a node that can expand, contract, intersect or be entirely shut down. This state of constant flux creates a natural rerouting of the circulation paths encouraging people to engage with their environment through dynamic
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Star Typology
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Urban and transit planning removes cars in the greater site
The immeadiate site straddles an I-35 overpass
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modular units are interspersed with green space
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unit layouts cater towards a variety of occupants
units fit into the frame in different configurations
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OCCULUS ACOUSTICS
Intermediate I| Fall 2018 Francisca Aroso
Nothing is more “Austin” than it’s music scene, but the rapidly evolving urban fabric is driving the artists out. Oculus Locus houses spaces for musicians to create, collaborate, and perform. The dynamic oculi are solar responsive and allow for open-air play spaces in the city center. The geometric form, parametrically generated from musical influences in the city, creates unique acoustics and multiple interiorities that allow for flexible spatial and social dynamics.
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A relation between radius and distance from center, extrapolated from the pattern of columns in plan 60
TAMA ART UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PRECEDENT STUDY
The linear relationship is used to parametrically generate a volumetric construct 61
A series of additive and subtractive booleans creates layers of interstitiality 62
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SHAPE OF SOUND
Creative Robotics| Fall 2019 Benjamin Rice
The sound of the sea is a constant thrum with infinite variables. The Shape of Sound aims to capture the unique auditory character of sea at a specific time and place.
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MEMORY MUSEUM
Speculative| Fall 2019 Juan Jofre
The tangible and intangible architecture of spaces has the power to transport us to a different time. The Memory Museum is a collection of spaces with carefully curated light and spatial qualities that aim to transport visitors to childhood. It encourages visitors to forget the preconceptions and worries of adulthood, and have unbridled emotional experiences t. It hopes to capture the magic of the mundane.
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Diagrammatic plan of the memory spaces 76
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