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Regional Studies 02 - 13 Harvest City, Jamaica Bay, New York
24-29 Strategic Decommissioning, Cape Cod, MA
Site and Detail Studies 10 - 14 Gurgaon Public Library, New Delhi, India 15 Disassemblable Chair 30 - 33 Re-Imagining Gurgaon, New Delhi, India
Research
Design + Visualization 34 - 37 Aeon - a new visualization of time
Design Research 38 - 39 Mapping, Champagne, France 40 - 41 System Studies
Representation
Technical Works 16 - 18 Construction Documentation 19 Grading Plans
Handwork 18 - 21 Models and Drawings
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Regional Studies Harvest City Jamaica Bay, New York Collaborator: Alicia Gomez | Instructor: Chris Reed
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Regional Scale study of Jamaica Bay The project focuses on the development of urban form as driven by productive ecologies and their dynamics. Through the occupation of aquaculture, the highly eutrophic Jamaica Bay region may be cultured for the growth of algae and thus the production of fish.
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Bottom: Jamaica Bay is privy to four sewersheds thus subject to over 300 million gallons of treated waste water high in nitrogen, waste water discharge everyday causes serious problems of algael bloom and toxic conditions habitat conditions for endemic ecology.
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Catalog of building typlogies and uses. A study of a spectrum created on the basis of built area, building density, Floor Area Ratio (FAR) and inherent functional use. This is juxtaposed with the relationship to the landscape.
Relationship with Water
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Public Infrastructure
Occupational / Institutional - Aquaculture Research Labs
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Relationship with Circulation
Recreational
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Top: Operational and system process of aquaculture production. The system means to create a self sustaining model of production within the context of the eutrophic Jamica Bay.
The project also focuses on pressing environmental issues around sea level rise and storm surge accommodation and the opportunities inherent to human and urban occupation territories.
Bottom: Catalog of Aquaculture ponds
Aquaculture Operation
Algae ponds Spawning ponds
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Brood ponds
Juvenile Oxigenation
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Controlled hatchery
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Catalog of Ponds
Oxygenation
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Angle of Repose / Solar Exposure / Ecologies
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Seasonal role and phasing of Harvest City. Temporal variations in aquaculture production allow for a host of different stages of processes and programmatic possibbilities. These include possibly periods of construction, revenue generation and recreational use.
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Earthworks: Pond construction Operational landscape Recreational - mixed use functions for capital generation
Spring: Wetland planting Aquaculture establishment Residential use
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Wetland habitat Public access to aquaculture ponds Recreational Acitivites
Fall: Wetland ecology First aquaculture harvest Urban and public realm occupation
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The built and productive aqueous landscape allow for a host of different programs in different parts of Harvest City. Built programs such as museums, research centers and housing to boardwalks over aquaculture canals, bird watching and water sports.
Detailed spatial organization and edge conditions in Harvest City in different landscapes and operations.
Recreational + Aquaculture productive edge Museum / art gallery space
Educational and recreational use of aquaculture ponds
Recreational + Infrastructural water supply
Water supply to aquaculture ponds
Road + Water edge used for recreation
Recreational canal along commerical buildings
Hardscape / Plaza along with built program Central public spine along canal Central water supply canal system
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View from aquaculture ponds towards Harvest City. The ponds allow for the growth of marsh conditions that have currently degraded.
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Site Studies
Gurgaon Public Library New Delhi, India Individual Thesis Project
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This thesis project aims to reconcile the morphological differences of the urban fabric of New Delhi - which is of a widespread, low dense and disjointed nature to connect a public infrastructure like a library to a very successful public infrastructure, the Delhi Metro.
With the synthesis and integration of these public flows, the project aims to create a new typology of built public environments that can function in cohesion.
Right: Programmatic reorganization using the existing parking as a driver of both usage, footfall and revenue as the library integrates itself into the two modal infrastructures
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Thrives at the intersection of multiple networks Widespread Network Metro stations become active spaces A Node Connect to paratransit services Active public flow
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Public libraries in New Delhi are infrastructures that lack any reverence, connect or use. They are libraries, that are anything but “public�.
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Left Top: Podium level plan at +3000 - expresses the interface between the library and the public corridor that connects the Delhi Metro to the parking Right: Levels broken up as the footprint of the library morphs due to issues of connectivity, light exposure and level of publicness.
Bottom: Diagrams expressing the connectivity and formal expression of the building
Library Footprint
An inward and outward looking form that embraces the nature of a library’s diverse spatial requirements
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Quiet level of the library with study/research space
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Relatively less public level, consits primary of reading/stacking space
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Library spreads over to create a continuous space with enclosed inward looking courtyard spaces
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Detailed Plan Programmatic disposition within the library Plan at +12.5M Entire level consists of Library functions with the exception of the Community Meeting Space (J) accessed from outside the library.
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Right: Plan at +20.5M Middle: Plan at + 16.5M Left: Plan at +9.5M Library is programmed in such a manner that spaces progress from highly public at the lower levels, to highly private towards the top. Quiet spaces are placed on the top most level.
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Top: Image from the public edge and primary entrance to the library. The podium level of the library is evident. Bottom: View of the back with aditional entrances
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Detail Design Disassemblable Chair Furniture Design | Individual Project
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A chair with no screws, plugs or nails - the chair is designed to be simply be assembled and broken down by the removal of its parts. It is emblematic of the constraints of space and machinery we often experience in todays world.
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Aspiring to be an innovative design solution. With a extremely specific assemblage guided by the understanding of anthropogenics, the chair is a simple but functional output Bottom: Series of assembly
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Design + Visualization Time
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Aeon is a time management tool for a new era. Hollistic, reflective, visually inspiring and privileging flexibility over linearity. Aeon promotes vital downtime and encompasses the unscheduled. Its qualitivative approach to time empowers the user to effectively execute planned activities while radically integrating valued space for unplanned and restorative moments.
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Aeon aspires to revisualize time and our perception of it. It allows users to select unsechulded events / activites they aspire to do more, to integrate within their calendar.
Top: Addition of unscheduled activities / events selected by user Bottom left: Scheduled events - single tap/click displays details including other members
Top row: Selecting and adding unscheduled events to the main ‘day’ frame
Bottom right: Aeon finds gaps within a user’s day to fill with whats important to the user.
Bottom row: User interface of aeon and ability to easily schedule tasks
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Space + Focus Space and Focus are dichotomous functions that emphasize downtime and intense periods of concentration, respectively, to allow for balance and effectiveness. Top row: Space Function that facilitates downtime Bottom row: Focus function that facilitates sustained attention through a timer and disruption free options
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Research shows that the subconscious network responsible for creativity, learning, and problem solving is strengthened during downtime.
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Through these various functions, Aeon supports users in approaching time more effectively and accomplishing what’s important to them, conveying a sense of time as whole. It facilitates a new, balanced approach that transforms time wasted.
Combined in Aeon
disruption-free zone disruption-free zone
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Design Top row: Selecting events/activites to track. Aeon can then alert user of an activity that is chosen to be tracked
Meta is the reflective part of the tool. This function serves to reveal past patterns and activity to increase self awareness and inform better decisions
It can track designated activities, such as important to-dos like “Call Mom” or mundane activities like time spent in transit or on the phone. By illuminating the past, Aeon objectively informs potential in the present and future.
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Goal achieved 66% this month!
You can do your reading during travel!
Last: Saturday Nov, 29th Duration: 5 mins
Range: 120 mins- 11 mins
Range: 10% to 55%
Longest on (4x): 11/4, 11/20, 12/1
Longest on: 11/17 - 5 Hours
With: Matthew
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Representation
Drawing Sketches
Tree Studies Study of a series of native tree species in the Nort Eatern Region of the United States
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Representation
Sketchbook: Hand Drawings and exploration of Landscape Details
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Regional Studies
Strategic Decommissioning Cape Cod, MA Collaborator: Kim, Seol | Instructor: Pierre Belanger
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Military Site in Cape Cod (Brownfield) Military sites, by their exclusionary land-use, create inscrutable boundaries for protection. Due to their expansive size, these sites tend to display unique ecological, spatial and social conditions. Bases all over the US are being decommissioned and re-envisioned (BRAC), presenting the challenge of staging their integration to their surrounding landscapes.
Page: The Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) in context of the Cape. The functions on the cape allow strategic opening of the site. Diagram: Graph displays environmental restoration costs of military sites across the US with the MMR as the second most expensive base.
Environmental Restoration Costs for DoD’s 33 Major Proposed Closures
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Design
Left: Mapping methods of allowing soft infrasturctural industries such as agroforestry and silviculture permeate from the outside in.
Interpreting total decommissioning as an inflexible land-use practice, this project presents the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) as a case study for a more resilient economically and ecologically sound protocol. The hard boundary allows opportunities for permeable and inclusionary programmatic patterns that by producing changes in topography, vegetation and flow present an array of conditions from a permeable periphery to a controlled center.
Right: Phasing diagrams through border decomissioning. Allowing capital and revenue generation from outside in.
Phasing | Site Permeability
Public + Civilian Waste Management + Remediation
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Agriculture Energy Wood Harvest Construction Agroforestry Foraging Camp Grounds
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Design
Mapping topographic changes on an indexical condition on site. Simulations on topography displays the effects of erosion and vegetation growth patterns that alter the terrain radically. MILITARY ZONE - non access - erosion control shrubs
INTERMEDIATE ZONE - underground plume - seedbombing strategy
CIVILIAN ZONE - economy - agroforestry flexible programs
INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION | 1-5 YEARS | Engineered Terrain
VEGETAL EMERGENCE | 5-10 YEARS | Naturally Degrading Terrain
MATURE STAGE | 10-25 YEARS
TRANSFORMATION | 25-40 YEARS
GROUND COVER FOR MOUNDS
SEED BOMBING SHRUBS
SILVICULTURE TREES
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Left: Vegetation growth patterns over different topographic and management regime practices. Bottom: Vegetation in an indexical condition - from unplanned seed bombing over toxic areas that require remediation to planned agroforestry.
Right: Terrain contours that display the mound condition from the Militarized center to the civilian / public edge.
Vegetal Growth on Mounds Spontaneous growth
Seed Bombing in craters for remediation efforts
Planned silviculture plantings for remediation and wood harvest
Mounds as detterrent into Military zone
Intermediate zone of mounds + craters for soil remediation
Large patches of Silviculture
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Indexical Section (Bottom of page): Displaying the range of strategy implementations on the military site, from the inner “central impact area� to the outer more public, productive periphery.
Existing Pump and Treat stations
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Bio Barrier installation to deter movement of toxic plume
Populus deltoides planting for phytoremediation
Seed bombing in craters for water action towards plumes
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Detailed Sectional Study (enlargements of section) for study of topography, plant species and programmatic conditions of the site. From the militarized center to the civilian edge (from left to right).
Wood harvest for initial forest clearance
Planting of orchards in rich soil and non toxic zone. Prunus persica, Malus sylvestris (Orchard Trees) and Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Silviculture practices
Public edge with foraging
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Site Studies
Re-imagining Gurgaon New Delhi, India Collaborator: Swarnabh Ghosh
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Urban Study of Gurgaon An ad-hoc developer driven city where slivers of open space are found on the margins between developer plots. This re-imagination of Gurgaon lays particular emphasis on a ecological infrastructure and restoration using concepts of urban farming on a parallel green network, called the ‘alternator’ that both concedes to and embraces the developer divide.
Left: Mapping the host of social, cultural and ecological issues in the developing city of Gurgaon Right Top: Exploring a connective tissue within the ownership and urbanization patterns of the city. An alternate connector Bottom: Re-imagining the conditions of streams in the city
Mapping Gurgaon
Re-imagining streams (nullah’s)
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Design
The path of the alternator has been formed by the boundaries between various private developers. The alternator literally breaks down the boundary wall to create a common space between the various developers
Community functions plug onto the ‘alternator’ as a means of creating a sustainable, participatory and a more responsible community.
farming around housing inculcating resident
neighborhood park connects with alternator
rain water harvesting urban agriculture promoting local produce
front commercial belt maintaining Gurgaon’s image
citrus grove endemic trees
variety of functions creating a public space
school as a community space promoting children to walk/cycle to school
bicycle and rickshaw stand network of sustainable transport
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Left: Roof Plan along Nallah (stream) that shows the proposed development and inclusionary nature of the built environment and the landscape. Community building along nullah to promote and foster activites and bring residents to the stream.
Top: Programs explored and developed along the alternator in the urban fabric. Rethinking and exploring ownership boundaries in the context of Gurgaon Bottom: Plan of residential block and the alternator adjacent
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Top: Sectional 3D shows the indexical condition between the main commerical ‘golf course’ road, alternator and housing projects
The parallel network - the ‘alternator’ forms a system that spurs growth away from the main road while creating a sustainable network of movement. Produce through community farming initiatives can be plugged onto the ‘alternator’ and sold wherever excessive produce is generated by the community or an individual.
Bottom: Section of development along Nullah (stream) shows the inclusion of public functions to foster a sense of owership and belonging within the community
vertical farming roof gardens
housing
intermediate greens in the commercial zone
urban farming community farming in neighborhood greens plug onto the alternator Recycled grey water from housing is used in these greens.
neighborhood shopping where locally grown produce is sold
gurgaon’s golf course road upgradation/ addition of cycle/pedestrian track on the golf course road while maintaing the commercial “ global city” identity of the city road.
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public greens which may include cooperative farming + grey water treatment reed bed root zone treatment
public utility functions to attract people the neighbourhood and around nallah gets wider at catchment ponds
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Design Research Mapping landscape infrastructure Champagne Region, France
Research
This project through mapping and research begins to investigate the relationship between the urban and the productive landscape. The wine regions of France are seen as productive landscapes that generate a large portion of the economy.
Top left: Map explores estuary and vineyard relationship as chemicals enter the ccean Top right: Map marks the watersheds and river basins around an urban center like Paris.
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Heavy agricultural activity increases water consumption gravely affecting the aquifer + rivers
Flow of Economy and demand for wine production from Paris
To Paris Less than 100 Kms Away
Chemicals from wine production carried downstream Flow of pollutants from Champagne to Paris through Marne and Seine Rivers and the Karstic Aquifer
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Research
Vineyards have settled in regions with higher levels of precipitation and sandy, chalk like or well drained grounds. This has caused adverse affects on their watersheds as the production of grapes pollutes the undeground aquifer and rivers within the watershed. It is interesting to see that the Seine and Marne are polluted due to wine production and then flow down to urban centers like Paris. Contrary to belief, it is these productive landscapes that pollute the river and not the urban center.
Top: Map tends to show a detailed relationship between Wine region and urban center exposing the idea that wine regions have a greater tendency to pollute the watershed. Bottom: Section exposes relationship between wine region, topography, geology and urban centers.
Agriculural land in dry areas create increased pressures for water in the region
Pollution from wine growing and large urban areas degrade the Seine and Marne rivers.
Vineyards located dominantly along river and in areas with heavier precipitation
Topography created by Earthquakes resulted in Belemnite Chalk suburface layer, providing ideal drainage conditions and soil composition Sandy, well drained top soil layer
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High water permeability from surface due to permeable belemnite chalk strata
Marne River
Karstic aquifer flowing to Paris
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Research
System study - Aquaculture growth and species study
Design Research
Top left: Life and growth cycles of aquaculture species Top right: Conditions of salinity and water temperature for harvesting Shrimp, Catfish and Talapia species
System Studies Aquaculture growth cycle of species
Bottom: Explorations in pond morphology and mat conditions of aquaculture production though parametric design
Conditions of growth
Temperature - 20 to 22 C Salinity - 25 to 32 ppt
Temperature - 25 to 28 C Salinity - Resilient
Temperature - 25 to 28 C Salinity - Resilient
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Mat conditions of Aquaculture ponds
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Research
Top row: Graphic representation of Annual Temperature, Precipitation and Vegetation growth patterns in Los Gatos
Geographical Study - Los Gatos Left: Simulation of vegetation over topography Bottom: Species study in Los Gatos California and the change in species diversity upon flooding conditions
Vegetation growth patterns study
Bottom Topography and inundation study of Los Gatos
Understanding climatic conditions
Annual Temperature
Species study
Annual Precipitation
Annual Vegetation Growth