ASIMIR SUTER WINTER
an architecture portfolio
Projects
My Space Loom Tentsion Vertical Campground
My Space Breath of Fresh Air This is my design proposal for a space where I would live for a monh. Incorporating breath as the concept. I applied its concept at all scales to create a beautiful open space. The design at large represents a lung, creating fresh air from the plants in the center. The plants not only cool and filter the hot air people breath out, but also act as a curtain. The tubes are large enough for people to inhabit as small rooms, sleaping, reading,
working and so on. The different sizes of tubes provide veriety in usage. As the tubes do not have closures, the plants provide visual and audible privacy from neighbors across the courtyard.
Loom A New Perspective Alien. Something foreign, intriguing, and mysterious has landed in the Vltava. What is it? Lets go check it out and discover what it is. An alien experience, a new perspective. Loom is a light house. Bringing attention to Pristave, as a beacon of light in the night. As you enter its long narrow path, you are led into the hull, bellow water level. The path opens onto a tall cylindrical tube, lined with vertical wood spires reaching up to the sky and framing it elegantly. From across the
water it is mysterious, alien and intriguing. Once entered, It transports you to the sky, giving you only on perspective, up. After emerging from this experience you have a new appreciation for your surroundings, and will look on what you have seen many times with a fresh perspective.
Tentsion Can You Fix My Sweater? Simple, Beautiful, Cheep, Easy To provide a structure with all above requirements, which could house travelers overnight as a temporary summer structure. I turned to the insights by Bukminster Fuller on the relationship between tension and compression. Compression defies gravity best, while tension distributes loads the best. Using thin plywood sheets sewn together, the structure is in constant tension between the bent wood, and string stitching. The wood acts as a tension and compressive element providing structural stability.
The stitching provides easy assembly on site from flat shipped panels. The resulted shape is both functional providing a fire place, surrounding seating and a sleeping platform behind. As well as esthetic with its natural centenary curves. Tentsion is also sustainable; using formaldehyde free plywood, rough cut lumber, and natural fiber rope. Left alone in the woods, Tension would merely become part of the forest floor, decomposing into soil.
Vertical
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udents Loved Dormitories? As an exercise, I worked with clay and my imagination to form and shape the interior atrium/core of a building. Assuming a rectangular infill, I modeled the clay to be the void. Bending my mind to understand the relationship between solid and void. We live in the void, yet we shape the solid. How come we do not shape the space we live in? Or is there something to be said for adapting to unusual spaces, which defines the human need to be creative? I took my conceptual development, and applied my realistic problem: Most dormitories
suck. In my analysis and study of this phenomena, I found that the hall way is he key. As the leas cared about space in most dormitories it offers the greatest opportunity for improvement. The failure of dormitories and the success of campsites, is their profoundly different approach to the hallway. I strongly defined the four categories of inhabited space. Public: Open to all and owned by all, Semi-Public: privately owned but open to public, Semi-Private: Privately owned and open to close neighbors, Private: Privately owned and privately controlled. I also explored the different scales of space, from the large hall, to the tall atrium, to the low cielinged dim common space, and finally the cozy, bright private rooms.
Can a hallwa than just a h Most dormitories are full of spaces like this. Endless hallways that fill dormitories are a monotony and a testament to the failures most dormitories are.
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Yet, hallways are not all bad. In fact, most freshmen life happens in the hallways of dormitories. Maybe hallways being misunderstood?
What if the hallway serves all social functions of the building?
Say, if we look at campgrounds we can see a similarity to dormitory layouts, but also a profound difference. In a campground, the tent becomes your private space, while your living space is shared more openly with everyone.
All social activities take place outside of the tents. This may sound like a worst nightmare for a married couple with a newborn, but as a student this is great. In student life, most socializing takes places around food and pure leisure time. Placing the kitchen and shared spaces together provides a very social environment where no one feels left out, or intimidated.
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thank you ! Kasimir Suter Winter kasimirsw@gmail.com kasimirsuterwinter.com +420 728-554-396 PO Box 397 Hudson NY, 12534