Kristen Gandy Architecture Portfolio 2017

Kristen Gandy AR C H ITE C T U RE AND DESI G N P o r t f o l i o

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My work is a balance between the foundational elements of architecture, and experimentation of physical materials at all scales. The projects are neither strictly avant-garde or systematically driven by research. My work depends on things that are often at odds in architecture, the rules of order and archetypes, and the immediacy of material production and architectural figuration.

While I understand the importance of outlining myself to a future employer, I find this to be self-evident in the pages herein. So, if this description leaves you wondering exactly what kind of work I do, then perhaps this portfolio will accomplish what this text does not.

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Fabricated Mediums: Hardwood, Concrete, Acrylic, MDF, Plywood, Polystyrene Foam, Resin, ABS Plastic, Stone, Steel, Aluminum, Plaster, Masonry, Neoprene, Electric Textiles, Knit Textiles, Printmaking 2016 M. Arch

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In addition to creating spatial scale models and full scale works, I use photography and video to animate imagined spaces.

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selected as a tau b m a n fellow for the 2016 U.S. PAv ili o n At the venice biennale

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RESEAR C H T H RO U G H MAKING

T+ E+A+ M A r ch i t e c t s

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Stone Design

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Detroit

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Re-Assembly

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Selected as a Taubman College Fellow for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale

Worked short-term on the preliminary design of a museum to be built in NYC. Details still confidential.

collective transitions team

Kristen Gandy Xu Zhang Tommy Nam

Deliverables

Residential and Public Library Floor Plans Interior and Exterior Renderings Diagrams Site Analysis and Site Plan Physical Section Model Physical Massing Model Unit Type Specification and Design

Description

This is a 200 unit residential tower with a combined program of a public library and retail services. The project is sited on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. The design explores the reduction of private space and increase of public spaces for both residents and public within the complex. The idea was, by reducing the scale of the units themselves, and expanding public spaces into the whole of the complex, occupants would have more space and amenities than if they were dependant on their single enclosed living units.

Exterior screen envelope M at er i a l section Study model Fa b r i c at i o n + Design by Kristen Gandy

Final Model Fa b r i c at i o n + Design by Kristen Gandy Photo Credit Tommy Nam

collective transitions

S ITE | GO W AN U S C AN AL

F O O TP R I N T | N AVI G ATI N G T H E SI T E

SITE AREA = 56,513 SF 56,513 X 3.44 = 194,404 SF BUILDABLE

Negotiation of the existing corner lot and maximization of public site access

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P U BLIC LIBRARY

The plinth of the tower is extended outward to the canal and public circulation

The public library platforms are connected through a vertical atrium to the residential program

design d i ag r a m s d r aw i n g s: K r i s t en g a n dy a n d to m m y n a m

P U B LI C S P AC E | HE IGHT CONNE C T ION TO C ONT E X T

R E - D I S TR I B U T E D P U B L I C S P A C E

The public program is related to the surrounding public context by height, creating a plinth upon which the residential program can rise

The public program is condensed and opened vertically to create a connection between the residential program and the library

RE SID ENT IA L | C IR C U LA T ION Interwoven public spaces in the residential program connect to the vertical atrium of the library and are knit together with residential circulation

CONTINUOUS FACADE | B UILDING S K IN The two programs of the building are connected above the plinth and entry with a continuous skin which is glazed on the atrium side for enclosure and acts as a screen on the residential balcony side

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Physical model of the screen on the residential side of the building w h i ch i s open air to the residents ba lco n y. O n the library side the system is a cu r t a i n wall.

the joined programs share a screening system w h i ch provides a s e e m i n g ly continuous surface for the shared footprint of these two uses.

axonometric microapartment s pec i a lt y furniture build in design and floor plan by: Kristen Gandy

#dwelling :

micro apartment Description

Further speculation on the modulation of living units within the context of the larger project, Collective Transitions.

The possibility of condensed, efficient, and repeatable typologies has been a fascination in the mind of architects and developers for years.

Smallness of space invokes an architecture of interiority which responds to such serious demands. An expectation of occupation-- specific to dwelling, must coincide with such declaration of urban reduction. ​ Dwelling is a deeper look at the # micro-sized movement in architecture. A survey of the modulation of the domestic desires, all packaged into a more considerate space.

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Collective Transitions 2015

K. Gandy Deliverables

Micro-Apartment Floor Plan Design

Bathing: 70 SF

Custom Built-in furniture design

Storing (above head): 90 SF

Detail 3D Rhino Model of all elements

Free Space (occasionally): 155 SF

Total Floor Area: 400 SF Sleeping : 70 SF

Axon Drawing Spatial Diagram Furniture Design Detail Axons

Cooking: 25 SF Relax/Entertain (interior): 55 SF Work: 22 SF Relax/Entertain (exterior): 55 SF Inform ation

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Sleep Have some privacy when you decide to have that ‘dinner party’ with a transitional wall

Keep A better closet system and storage optimized wall than your parents had in that ‘custom built’ lake house

Cook No camp stoves here, full stove-top range, stainless steel drying rack, and double sink with a full refridgerator.

Examine His/her/their/ them/your storage and vainity inspection zone

Work, if you must Built in storage features around the unit, including this desktop ready hideaway which can double as a dining table.

Bathe Forget about the corner shower add-on you expected to find here.

Full bath and shower is what you get.

Program diagram of microapartment s pat i a l design and use Dr awing+ design by Kristen Gandy

Entertain, Even Don’t worry, you aren’t relegated to the community space and bar tabs. You have enough room for a visitor to sleep and firends to watch you cook their dinner at that party

Outside Time Find your own little slice of romance with a view of your own from a private balcony

#dwelling 2016 Individual Design Work

the bedroom side furniture wall and sleeping space with sliding privacy door shared between bed a nd bathe spaces design and dr awing by: kristen gandy

i n d i v i d u a l ly designed furniture walls Description

A project design of only 400SF challenged the meaning of wall, floor, room, and furniture. This opened the opportunity to architecturally consider the furniture as it made up the space in such a confined area.

The design of each ‘room’ included a double sided ‘furniture’ wall. Each wall uses as much space to create a single object used for multiple programmed purposes which we find common in living spaces. The rooms in this compact, confined footprint, are considerate of the user and potential for reduced living space while still providing the full range of desires related to living.

the bathro o m side design and dr awing by: kristen gandy

#dwelling 2016 Individual Design Work

Initial design Inspir ation s k e t ch o n site adjacent to temple the design inspired by the fene s tr ation of repe ated elements on the temple facade by Kristen Gandy

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2012

U nd erg r a d uate

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Rhino 3D Model of Site and Context Rhino 3D Model with details for sections Residential Unit Plans and Type Design Photoshop and Rhino Vray Renderings Physical Detailed Section Model Physical Massing Models Plan Drawings, Section Drawings, Elevation Drawings, Site Drawings Presentation Layout Design

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http://www.kgandyarchitecture.com/

A proposal for the Louisiana Neighborhood at Zuni in Albuquerque, NM. 2011 Architecture Design Studio University of New Mexico ​ The Zuni and Louisiana Blvd. neighborhood in Albuquerque, NM has a community and culture all its own. There have been markets, community resource centers, culturally unique retail, and a lot of unfortunate design failures. At the time of the proposal, the city was working on a re-branding of sorts. The proposal works with their identity crisis to develop a unique low-income housing scenario of 4 different typologies to meet different needs of housing. There is also a community based program offering space for the once familiar community markets and proprietary development for individuals who are typically unrecognized as business owners. The area has several low-income housing developments which have fallen into security failure, and territorial demand. This housing project offers each unit a reconfigurable facade, a variety of spatial layouts for tenants from studios to 3 bedroom dwellings.

Proposal rendering

Rendering front ele vation al per spec tive

Model: Rhino 3d Render : Vr ay for rhino, adobe illus tr ator , adobe Photoshop by: Kristen gandy

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birds-eye perspective rendering from the front ele vation overlooking the residences shared spaces Physical wall section model t h r o ugh cafe and outdoor community space

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r e s i d e n c e , r e c o n f i gu r e d

De ta iled Exploded Axon Dr awing of the Robotic Programmable M old ta b le

Modeled in Rh i n o 3 D a n d P r o d uc e d b y : Kristen Gandy

PANOT S + MO S AIC S :

Design leads

TEAM

K. Gandy Deliverables

Ana Morcillo Pallares + Jon Rule

the plasticity of hydraulic cement

Description

The objective of this exploration was not to recreate a construction material but to re-examine the physical properties and Kristen Gandy process of making as an opportunity to Diem Tran pursue new possibilities for fabrication and embedding alternative functions. This Tim McDonough research focuses on the liminal condition of the material attributes found in these Helen Han Creative two method for making.

The project appropriates the technique Robotic Table Prototype used to imprint geometric patterns in the finish layer of the Mosaics and Concrete Mosaic Panel instead of reproducing its fixed form, it Test Casting explores alternatives to the embossment Detail 3D Rhino Model for of the Panots through the plasticity of the Table Fabrication Portland cement. The result demonstrates an undefined state which is no longer Diagrams for Exhibition associated with this material or technique, CNC Milled Mosaic for intending to reveal unexpected possibilities Exhibition Base that can reside in a surface as spatial Exploded Axon Drawing support for architecture.

Detailed Parts

Information

http://www.morcillopallares.com/

“The objective of this exploration is not to recreate a construction material but to re-examine the physical properties and process of making as an opportunity to pursue new possibilities for fabrication and embedding alternative functions.�

project team Kristen Gandy Diemtrinh Tran Timothy Mcdonough

Panots & mosaics Taubman Colleg e 2016 research through making

P r o j e c t d e s i g n BY : A s s i s ta n t Pro fe s s o r o f Pr ac t i ce - J o n at h a n ru l e +

Ass i s t a n t P r o f e ss o r Ana morcillo pall ares

Panots

Photos: L ef t:

Taub m a n Colleg e Liberty Annex exhibition. taub m a n college fa b r i c ati o n lab, process a n d r e s e a r ch e xplo r ati o n .

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Perspective rendering of the chunk/ wireframe program for the r e a ss e m b l y plant

Detroit R e a s s e m b ly Pl a nt at the us pavilion venice architecture biennale exhibition 2016

Modeled i n Rh i n o 3 D and render Photoshop Editing by:

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Kristen Gandy

chunk/wireframe

T + E + A + M

2016 venice biennale s u b m i ss i o n Design leads

TEAM

Thom Moran, Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure, Meredith Miller Kristen Gandy, Yu-Yang Huang, Alexandra Chen, Dawn Jeong, Michal Ojrzanowski, Darryl Weimer, Samantha Okolita, Camille Chabrol, Lani Barry, Po-Jen Huang, Stefan Klecheski, Binghao Li, Reid Mauti, Megan Mohney, Yoo Seok Chung, Ian Ting

Co n s u lta n t s

Michael Savona, Asa Peller

K. Gandy Deliverables

Rhino 3D Model of Packard Plant Site and Context Maya Renderings for Full Section Drawing Photoshop Compiling and Render Detailing for Full Section Drawing Photoshop Render Edits for 3 Perspective Drawings

Det r o i t Re a sse m b l y Plant Description

Project Exhibited at the 2016 US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale ​ “Detroit doesn’t have a material problem; its material has an image problem. Recognizing architecture’s capacity to work on and produce both materials and images, our project aims to reverse current perceptions of Detroit. Where others see an excess of ruins, we see an abundant resource for building materials.”

-T+E+A+M Acknowledgements:

This project was made possible by a grant from the Taubman College at the University of Michigan, Anyone Corporation, and the U.S. Department of State. Additional support provided

by University of Michigan Office of Research Infor m ation

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B l o ck One(mostly) of the 5-panel section rendering Modeled in Rh i n o 3 D a n d rendering by: Kristen Gandy Entourage Design and M o d e l S e t u p, Maya Rendering By: Samantha Ok o l i t a Michal Ojrzanowski

The Detroit Reassembly Plant reimagines the vacant, iconic Packard Plant as a rich stockpile of concrete, brick, and other construction materials. The project transforms this resource into a new architectural material. he resulting aggregate mixtures are cast in various forms across the vast site. The new plant includes zones for material sorting and processing, production areas for building construction, a research and development park dedicated to advanced building technologies, public demonstration areas, exhibition galleries, and public outdoor spaces.

The new building forms are constructed within, around, and on top of the Packard Plant’s original columns and slabs. Four building

B l o ck Tw o ( i s h ) o f the 5-panel section rendering Modeled in Rh i n o 3 D a n d rendering by: Kristen Gandy Entourage Design and Model S e t u p, M aya Rendering By: Samantha Ok o l i t a Michal Ojrzanowski

types include mega-masonry mountains with hypostyle interiors, monolithic castin-place shells that drape over the existing columns and beams, room-sized castin-place blocks that sit within existing structural grids, and free-standing conical sheds.

The new cast forms introduce a range of material qualities to the existing Packard Plant buildings. Flecks of brick and concrete fold together the building’s history with less familiar colors and textures, such as milky translucency, bright plastic hues, and reflective metallic sheen.

Description from T+E+A+M http://www.tpluseplusaplusm.us/

Detroit R e a s s e m b ly Pl a nt at the us pavilion venice architecture biennale exhibition 2016 Foreground: Physical Section Model Background: Renderings and Dr awings Printed on Reflective Vinyl

photos by: Kristen Gandy

Blocks fourfive of the 5-panel section rendering Modeled in Rh i n o 3 D a n d rendering by: Kristen Gandy Entourage Design and M o d e l S e t u p, Maya Rendering By: Samantha Ok o l i t a Michal Ojrzanowski

Above: e l e ph a n t d e t r o i t r e a ss e m b l y p l a n t R e n d e r i n g ph o t o s h o p edits by Kristen Gandy rendering perspective design by adam fure r a w o u t pu t i a n t i n g

r i gh t : m ounta in de tro it r e a ss e m b l y p l a n t R e n d e r i n g ph o t o s h o p edits by Kristen Gandy rendering perspective design by adam fure r a w o u t pu t i a n t i n g

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2016 US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Art Handling Architectural Model Assembly Exhibition on Site Changes Gallery Wall Measurements and Installation Display Fabrication and Installation Opening Events Docent

Description

The Architectural Imagination presents twelve new speculative architecture projects designed for specific sites in Detroit but with far-reaching applications for cities around the world.

The curators selected 5 Taubman Venice Fellows who traveled to Venice, Italy to install the 2016 US pavilion exhibition.

The scope of the work included 4 unique, yet related, exhibition rooms which were designated by project site. Each of the rooms included 4 projects designed in response to the curators prompt.

The Venice Fellows installed each project from crate to final opening. The Fellows also served as docents at the press conference and opening events at the pavilion.

US pavilion rotunda Large vinyl applied to tablet with The Architectural Imagination site descriptions and curators introduction to the pavilion project for 2016

D e qu i n d r e C i v i c Ac a d emy Design and US assembly by: Marshall Brown Model Assembly in Venice: Kristen Gandy, Diana Tsai, Marshall Brown Framed Project Images installed by: Kristen Gandy and Brian Butterfield

2016 US PAvilion V e n i c e A r ch i t e c t u r e Biennale

All four exhibition rooms in the pavilion From left to right: Dequindre Cut Site, Packard Plant Site, Mexican Town Site, Post Office Site

e xhib iti o n ins ta ll ati o n From left to right: Two custom postcard displays to the left and right of the rotunda entrance designed by Brian Butterfield, installed and fabricated by Kristen Gandy and Brian Butterfield Top Right: Post Office Site, design by Preston Scott Cohen Installed by Kristen Gandy, Austin Kaa, Brendan BashinSullivan Bottom Right: Dequindre Cut Site, design by Zago Architects Installed by Kristen Gandy, Austin Kaa, Brendan BashinSullivan, Brian Butterfield

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RGB LED’S ARDUINO MEGA

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Kristen Gandy

Illuminating Senses is a prototype for an electronic embedded textile which responds to pressure. The project was a collaboration for a seminar research course advised by Sean Ahlquist at Taubman College, making use of the Stoll Knitting CNC Machine.

Daniel Fougere Lucien Menair K. Gandy Deliverables

Hand Modeled Prototype Test Models Axonometric Drawings Diagrams of Responsive Textile and Layout CNC Stoll Knitted Element Tests with Embedded Sensors and Conductive Yarn Knit Patterns Rhino Model of Final Prototype System for Design and Drawings Fabricating LED system into Final Knit Structure

Information

http://www.kgandyarchitecture.com

​ he project goal was to achieve a feedback T system for users who have low pressure awareness. The textile is embedded with flex sensors along the edges of the acrylic frame, which connect in a circuit to microLEDs which are on an independent textile from the exterior. These flex sensors send information caused by resistance changes, to an arduino MEGA, which was programmed to send signal to the various color LEDs in response to the amount of pressure on the surface.

Acknowledgements:

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Advisor, Sean Ahlquist.

illu min atin g senses Conductive knit textile structure in tension over rigid frame without light responding to flex from touch on the surface.

illu min atin g senses Conductive knit textile structure in tension over rigid frame changing to a blue lit surface responding to force from touch on the surface.

P u s h PokeP u n c h : Tau b m a n Co l l eg e M . A rc h T h e s i s

Description PushPokePunch leverages the properties of concrete’s fluid nature in order to produce a negotiable boundary condition.

Historically, architecture has addressed the spatial marker, or boundary, as more of a barrier. A barrier makes work of actively impeding spatial negotiation, and inhibits relationships across spatial territories.

A boundary, however, has variable definitions of space. A boundary can be as thin as line on a map, as abstract as an idea, or as thick as a buttressed gate surrounding a castle. These variable definitions are seldom made manifest in a physical state.

As a matter of surface and structure, a boundary necessitates a mediation of material between solidity and porosity, a condition which can be readily addressed through use of concrete. Yet, concrete has been most often deployed in the form of impassable barrier conditions, like the mortared stacking of the Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU), for example.

PushPokePunch investigates the latent physical potentials of concrete building units, like the CMU, with consideration to the fluidity of concrete. Here, the fluidity of concrete is incorporated into the unit

team

Kristen Gandy Steven Scharrer

advisors

Tszyan Ng + Wes McGee

mold, permitting a blurring between the casting process and cast outcome, producing both a double-sided unit and double-sided boundary condition.

Forming of the concrete in this way requires an unconventional method of casting. Using a spherical grid, we developed a formwork that allows for both formal variability and standardized construction. This permits a variety of formal conditions and possibilities through a singular unit mold with reliability and repeatability.

I n fo r m at i o n

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Th e s i s R e v i e w Exhibition The final form of 54 unique casts was displayed along with drawings and imagery at the Liberty Annex Gallery for final review and exhibition.

HUG Joint Each of the 54 blocks making up the final form have unique joinery in relation to one another. The types are created by the way the flexible mold was placed in relationship to the previous cast. This type is called a HUG because of the way the blocks embrace to keep their position.

radial Projection As an exploration of form and form making, a system of three types was explored prior to the final design seen on the prior pages. These panels were related through a radial projection drawing method in order to relate on a spherical rotation. This drawing represents the method of design drawing in section and projection.

Drawings and Model: Kristen Gandy Design Collaboration: Kristen Gandy and Steven Scharrer

test panels To test the forms designed digitally through the radial drawing techniques, we 3D printed variations of the panels and tested their physical relationship in space.

In the end this was what led to the less controlled final form because we felt this design was too specific to optimize the flexible mold membrane.

wu space - the urban body

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Arch Design Studio Fall Semester 2015

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Robert Adams

p r o d uc t i o n + Design

3 Research Booklets Designed in InDesign Design and Production of Supporting Film Urban Collages of Beijing and Site Design and Fabrication of Nine 7-Axis CNCed Models and Display Six 3D Printed Models for Sited Design Display Exhibition Drawings

Description

This spatial research project explores the Ancient Chinese Matriarch and Spiritual Leader, Wu, and applies contemporary demands of the Chinese city of Beijing to provide a network of spaces where one may find the benefits of the once daily influential Wu. The investigation began with travel to Beijing for primary research, collection and documentation of spatial information of collective spaces in the city where the benefit of a meditative zone would be most appropriate. A study of matriarchal Wu practices influenced the form and scale of the networked interventions. The designed forms are specific to positions of a human body inside the individually scaled pods, the positions are based on ritual practices of healing in the ancient Chinese Wu methods.

Final Review Exhibition Project display for final presentation and review. Includes produced CNC models, 3D printed models, section model, collages and research, film props from supporting movie.

Dr awing Hand sketch of Wu spaces occupying the chosen site in the 798 Arts district of Beijing. This design device came after studying the traditional Wu practices and spatial uses of the matriarchal body. The drawing was then translated to final 3d digital format for fabrication.

wu space section dr awing: kristen gandy

s elec ted d e ta iled v ie w pl acing the wu space in the urban context

Initial design I n s pi r at i o n s k e t ch S w i t ch b a ck m o u nta in Road by Kristen Gandy

Fracture: year

Transit Based Master Pl a n D e s i g n at t h e En d of the Desert

2012

U nd erg r a d uate

lo c at i o n

A l b uqu e r qu e , new mexico

Deliverables

Transit Center Design Transit Centered Residential Retail Master plan Design Rhino 3D Model Master plan Design Renderings Master plan Architectural Communication Drawings

Description

A proposal for a non-vehicle oriented, transit hub, master planned residential cluster in Albuquerque, NM at the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. Design highly influenced by geologic formation and deterioration. ​ s a studio prompt, the project was aimed A at a presentation to the City of Albuquerque for an upcoming Rapid Transit Bus system.

The site is located at the very edge of the city of Albuquerque, right where it touches the base of the foothills of the Sandia Mountains on Lomas Blvd.

Much of Albuquerque, including this main arterial Boulevard, is oriented around vehicles. The project design removes any vehicular circulation on the site, and designs it into a singular zone on the site.

Info r m ati o n

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Fracture Intensified corridor

Above: Birds-eye view of Site and pedestrian c i r cu l a t i o n z o n e s outside the inner intensified corridor FRA C T U RE : T r a n s i t Based Master Plan D e s i g n a n d P r o d uc t i o n by: Kristen Gandy

r i gh t : Rendering : the intensified corridor, pedestrian zone FRA C T U RE : T r a n s i t Based Master Plan D e s i g n a n d P r o d uc t i o n by: Kristen Gandy

Fracture 2013 Arch Design Studio @ University of New Mexico

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