kyle
014 storefront studio folio 1 / sketches 2 / reading the city 3 / insertion 4 / independent study
sketches / kyle
sitting dangerously close to the Seine Notre-Dame Cathedral, ink pen, PARIS.
014 storefront studio folio
surprisingly breezy Quai Branly Museum, ink pen, PARIS.
sketches / kyle
on the ground in the morning MĂŠtropolitain entrance, ink pen with watercolor, PARIS.
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weekend of tourism and nice lighting Mont Saint Michel Abbey cloister, ink pen, LE MONT-SAINT-MICHEL.
sketches / kyle
a sunbaked afternoon Bibliothèque nationale de France, sign pen, PARIS.
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the sound of construction Maison La Roche, ink pen, PARIS.
sketches / kyle
humidity and cappuccino Tram in Basel, ink pen with watercolor, BASEL.
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the leaf stayed Beyeler Foundation, ink pen, outside BASEL.
sketches / kyle
independent travel, shadows, etc. sketchbook, ink pen, VIENNA MUNICH ISTANBUL.
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sitting on a hard edge, it’s hot cave houses in rock formation, graphite pencil, GÖREME.
sketches / kyle
skylines everywhere Bosphorus strait ferry, ink pen, ISTANBUL.
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unexpectedly dodging cars sequential perspectives down street, sign pen, SELÇUK.
reading the city / kyle
everything is better in section Centre Pompidou urban studies, graphite pencil, PARIS.
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painted faux colorful details everywhere dock of Portofino urban studies, multiple mediums , PORTOFINO.
reading the city / kyle
this is a business district? La DĂŠfense urban studies, ink pen, PARIS.
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me: “Do you come to the park often?” woman: “No.” me: “Why?” woman: “...Leave me alone.”
insertion / kyle
lens; an altered perception; a new perspective “Bridging Burnet Woods”, CINCINNATI, O.
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tactile, visual, sensual, redolent, muscular
insertion / kyle
scenes
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“Breathe, breathe in the air. Don’t be afraid to care. Leave; but don’t leave me. Look around and choose your own ground.”
insertion / kyle
“Bridging Burnet Woods”, final exhibition board, 014 STOREFRONT STUDIO
014 storefront studio folio
MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria Laurids and Manfred Ortner renovation, 2001. Vienna’s main cultural center featuring the Leopold Museum, MUMOK, and Kunthalle Wien. The MuseumsQuartier’s narrow threshold entry creates an incredibly personal experience into Vienna’s main cultural center. The program of the space gradually unravels as the user traverses the path’s various elevations, eventually being dropped down into the central space via a long stair that lays adjacent to the MUMOK museum. The sound of the main city begins to drown out as the activity of the public space within begins to get increasingly louder.
independent study / kyle
Piazza San Marco Venice, Italy Jacopo Sansovino, notably. rehabilitation, 1537. The public space between Procuratie Vecchie and Nuove, surrounding the Campanile. By compressing a user in the threshold between Venice’s narrow streets and the main piazza, the “awing” sense of scale and apparent significance is amplified as someone proceeds inward. Light works in this favor as well; shadows in the “in between” darken the line between the “inside and out” of the public space, creating a seemingly “bright” arrival. Moving inside, the smells of fresh bread and sweet candy from the perimeter restaurants fill the space. The musical sound of the combination of various amateur performers scattered around immediately greet the arrivee upon entering.
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Palais Garnier Paris, France Charles Garnier 1875. The first opera house of Paris built for the bourgeoisie in the Second Empire Beaux-Arts style. In the Paris Opera House, many would argue that the approach (in the threshold) is more important than the arrival to the theatre. Built as a place for the bourgeoisie, it is meant to only host the opera, but more-so be the place in Paris “to see and be seen”, by the city’s most prominent figures. By stretching the order of spaces to take up half of the experience of going to the theatre (in section), Garnier’s making it quite easy for people to treat the pre-show and intermission as a total separate social event. The grand stairs only add to this affect, extending the visual experience to another floor.
independent study / kyle
Banhof Basel SBB Basel, Switzerland Cruz y Ortiz Architectos 2003. A train station addition with the intent of connecting the parts of the city the tracks divide. Cruz y Ortiz Architectos solves the problem of a divided Basel in the most fluid way by extending the characteristics of the city on either side of the dividing train tracks. This creates a seamless transition moving north to south in this part of the city. The experience is realized in a cafĂŠ-populated pedestrian street replica, that looks similar to modern-day shopping mall. On either end of this main path, the foot traffic moves out onto the street without and apparent obstruction. This threshold simply extends the city experience upward, and across a divide, solving a major planning problem.
Fall 2014