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EVAN WILLIAM LANGENDORFER I have more than 5 years experience as a successful architectural designer and extensive knowledge to apply to all aspects of a project including concept generation, graphic presentation, code compliance, and construction documentation. I have designed, developed, and documented projects that have included single- and multifamily homes, townhouses, mixed-use, high-rises, and master planning schemes. I am technically proficient in a number of key programs including AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Rhino with Grasshopper, Adobe CC, Microsoft Office, as well as a number of rendering applications. 0405 098 002 langendorfere@gmail.com langendorfere.wixsite.com/portfolio Sydney, NSW
DENNY TOTEM
Residential Tower | Professional page 4
TACOMA TOWN CENTER Mixed-Use Development | Professional page 12
FEDERAL AVENUE Multi-Family Development | Professional page 22
HOUSING DERAILED
Affordable Housing | Competition page 30
BLANKET SCHOOL
Secondary School | Academic page 40
THE GATEWAY
Co-Op Market Hall | Academic page 50
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COMMEMORATING SEATTLE’S LOST HILL
Residential Tower - 31,500m² Caron Architecture Radim Blazej (radim@caronarchitecture.com) 2017 Seattle, WA $155 million AUD
Above: View at Denny Way and 8th Ave. (SketchUp, V-Ray, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Aaron Blaha 4
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The Denny Totem project is a 38-story, 120 meter high tower in downtown Seattle. Still in a design review process, the 31,500m2 structure aims to meet the growing demand for residential property in the area and create a building that reflects the essence of Seattle. Adjacent to a city park and at the edge of tower zoning, the Denny Totem will be forever left unobstructed which allows the building to truly become a landmark for the city.
Occupying a small triangular lot, ~900m2, as well as requiring setbacks and width limits, the form of the tower had to be creative to remain feasible. By developing a narrative that helped to limit the tower’s height and exchanged volumes at the street for an encroachment into setbacks above, a compromised form was established with Seattle planners. Part of the project team from inception, I designed several massing and facade options of the Denny Totem and assisted in developing design narratives, unit designs, and client/city review packages. The tower design shown is one of the options from schematic design developed by myself and is not the scheme in use today. Completed with Peter Tallar and Aaron Blaha
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Left: Map of Denny Hill c.1899 & 2017 (Photoshop, Illustrator) U.S. Treasury Dept., Google Maps Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Opposite: Massing Diagram (SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Below: Denny Regrade “Spite Mounds” Photo: Seattle Municipal Archives
Once occupying 27 city blocks of Seattle’s downtown, Denny Hill was regraded in a massive engineering endeavor. Broken up into two projects that spanned 23 years, the regrade sloughed and power shoveled the hill’s mass into the adjacent Elliott Bay and surrounding valleys. At the base of what was once Denny Hill, the Denny Totem is shaped to mimic spite mounds, the land masses property owners refused to sell during the regrade. By adopting the form of spite mounds, the Denny Totem commemorates not only the memory of Denny Hill but the lengths and engineering accomplishments Seattle’s citizens underwent to make their city great.
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3. Erode podium edge to soften frontage
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5. Patterned push and pull mimics Denny Hill sluicing
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Right, Below: Floor Plans (AutoCAD, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Aaron Blaha
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Challenged by zoning code restrictions, compromises with the city were made in order to take full advantage of the site. While the 40m width limit remained along 8th Avenue, above 26m, the 4.5m setback along Bell Street was eased to an average 1.5m cumulative of all floors. This allowed the tower’s form to undulate using the same four floor plans, producing an irregular facade that gained back residential area as well as creating multiple outdoor terraces for both common and private amenity space.
BOH Amenity Penthouse Type B Type A Type B Type C Type D Type C-II Type B-II Type A Type B Type C Type D Type C Type B Atyp. Atyp. Atyp. Lobby + Retail Parking/ BOH
Section A-A Above: Cross Section (AutoCAD, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Above: Elevation (SketchUp, V-Ray, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer 9
Left: Isonometric of NE Units, Level Type D (SketchUp, V-Ray, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
200mm Post Tension Slab Steel Framed Wall Assembly Mineral Insulation with Air Cavity Tan Brick Veneer Aluminum Casement Window Wall System Spandral Glass Slab Edge Cover
Aimed at projecting history into the present and enriching the civic landscape, a highly glazed tower was omitted for one that included landscaped terraces and tactual materials. In keeping with the spirit of both Seattle and its spite mounds, brick was chosen for the facade’s application, as the material has deep roots in Seattle’s history while also emitting a terrestrial and residential quality. With the 10
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shifting of floor plates along the tower’s elevation, the brick facade remains active and prevents exhausting the material’s use. This rhythmic shifting of floor plates also sets the tower up to use a window wall system, lowering the tower’s costs requiring four main window types over the span of the four typical floor plans.
Top: View from Bell St. & Denny Way (SketchUp, V-Ray, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Aaron Blaha
Above: View from Bell St. & Denny Way (SketchUp, V-Ray, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Aaron Blaha 11
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TACOMA TOWN CENTER DEVELOPING A HUB FOR AN EXPANDING CITY
Mixed-Use Development- 100,000m² Caron Architecture Radim Blazej (radim@caronarchitecture.com) 2017 Tacoma, WA $160 million AUD
Opposite: View from plaza (SketchUp, V-Ray, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Jin Kang
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Below: Site Plan (SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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The Tacoma Town Center development is a two-phase project to be built sequentially, which includes 28,000m2 of retail shopping, ~420 residential units and 5,000m2 of office space. Phase I, which broke ground in 2017, is designed to create a multi-level shopping experience that is centered on an urban plaza. The plaza is designated roughly along the north-south Fawcett Avenue that is vacated between 21st Street on the north edge and 23rd Street on the south edge of the development parcel and provides an important connection of the City of Tacoma’s master bike path plan to the University of Washington Tacoma campus.
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Part of the project team from inception, I helped with design packages and building massing during schematic design and was responsible for the design, development, and documentation of buildings 3 & 4. These two buildings consisted of five stories of apartment and condominium units above two stories of retail, which I helped to submit for building permits. Completed with Peter Tallar, Jin Kang, Brain Kim, Mark Erler, Archana Iyengar, and Paul Sorensen
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1. Extrude along the property line
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The organising concept behind the Tacoma Town Center can be summarised using the analogy of a geode. A geode is a naturally occurring rock formation where beautiful crystals form inside a space within a plain stone. Using this idea, we can begin to see the project form as a multi-faceted, exciting, light-filled plaza space surrounded by buildings whose street-facing appearance is simple and reflective of the utilitarian buildings in the area. This concept can be used in the spatial design of the project as well as to begin to inform the material palette. Simple, relatable forms and materials can be used to bring a sense of contextual grounding to the project on the street-facing facades by drawing from the historic surrounding buildings. The simple exterior material palette is contrasted by the shopping plaza, where light and glass is used to draw the visitor to a space filled with activities such as outdoor dining and music or just a place to relax around the water feature. Similar to a geode, strips of the interior elements can breach the outer facade to convey the sense of the interesting space within by using signage or material choices to signal an entry point to the project. The large glass-covered entryway near the corner of S. 21st St and S. Jefferson Ave is one area where this occurs. Similarly, the grand stair can begin to inform active facade elements on the street. The proposed combination of residential use, office space and shopping will ensure the plaza is lively and active during many hours of the day. Having these particular elements shine out will help draw visitors in from the surrounding campus.
Left: Circulation Parti (Pen on Paper) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Opposite: Massing Diagram (SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Mark Erler 15
The plaza surface, located on the third level, is primarily a hardscape space with paving that is coloured and decorated in a variety of simple patterns. The hardscape paving suggests an active movement of people through the plaza space as they shop, eat, socialise, and enjoy being outside. The plaza also contains a north-south passageway for emergency vehicles and a connection to the City-wide pedestrian and bicycle trail planned along Fawcett Ave. The trail will be integrated into the plaza space to minimise cross traffic interaction. This all contributes to the plaza becoming the central circulation point to the development. As the site is heavily sloped, this allows for the terracing of the residential buildings and helps to create views and connections to both the plaza, city, and mountain ranges beyond. Located at the lowest and most visible corner of the site, Building 1 consists of a mall and parking, allowing anchor tenants to be highly visible and to attract the community into the project. Building 2, located just south of Building 1, is much needed student housing over additional retail. Finally, Buildings 3 & 4 are located to the west, which house the apartments and condominiums over retail and parking. This combination of uses and housing over retail helps to activate the neighborhood, producing a bustling urban infill development that helps the City of Tacoma reach their goal of creating an 18-hour community.
Opposite: Building Areas (AutoCAD, Excel) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Below: Floor Plans (AutoCAD, SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Peter Tallar, Mark Erler, Brian Kim 16
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Opposite: Elevations (SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Jin Kang, Peter Tallar
Right: View north from plaza (SketchUp, V-Ray, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Jin Kang
Right: View from S 21st Street (SketchUp, V-Ray, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Jin Kang
Below: View from Jefferson Ave (SketchUp, V-Ray, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer, Jin Kang
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Comprised of a timber-framed residential structure over the parking and retail’s concrete structure, the project needed to be heavily detailed to ensure proper buildability, drainage, weather resistance, and code compliance. Through collaboration with the contracted engineers,
details were flushed out which created a cohesive building envelope that met the high level of insulation value required by the state while preventing condensation and encouraging drainage.
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FEDERAL AVENUE CONTEMPORARISING
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Multi-Family Development - 1,050m² Caron Architecture Peter Tallar (petertallar@caronarchitecture.com) 2017 Seattle, WA $3.5 million AUD
The Federal Avenue project is a community of eight townhouse units. Completed in 2017, the design creates an attractive, modern development aimed at first-time homebuyers or people looking to downsize in the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill. A key member of the project team from start to finish, I used my knowledge of local and national building codes to design, document, and gain building approval from the local council and city. I was also a point of contact for contractors, clients, and the city, which gave me oversight of the project and its requirements throughout the design process.
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Right: Georgian Residence 723 Federal Ave E. Photo: Caron Architecture
Above: Ten-O-5 Apartments 1005 E. Roy Street by Fred Anhalt Photo: 1005 Investors LLC
Site Georgian/Symmetrical Recreation/Park Brickwork Vernacular/Craftsman 50m 0 Above: Area Map (OpenStreetMap, Illustrator) Credit:: Evan Langendorfer
Opposite: View from Federal Avenue (Photograph, Photoshop) Credit: Caron Architecture
The neighborhood consists largely of colonial revival style architecture, in which the buildings rely heavily on symmetry and are built with little modulation. Use of windows, materiality, and large covered entries help to break up the facades and add to the region’s character. Having the proposed development located within such a distinctly designed area, it was important to take from existing, prominent, and reoccurring architectural features to ensure the development contained a sense of place. These design cues provided the groundwork for how the design developed and helped weave it into its local context.
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3. Regional orientations and floor ratios were applied to the site, helping produce two mirrored masses
4. Required parking was then added to the site, connecting the masses
5. The volume was then divided up into individual units
6. Units were then standardized for ease in construction
Below: Massing Diagram (SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer 24
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Material choices played an important role in knitting this building into the surrounding historic buildings of the neighborhood. As a recurring feature of the area, masonry was relied upon to help scale the building while also reinforcing the character of the street. The textural focus of the development was applied at a similar scale and height seen in the region and helped to articulate the structure’s facade through a balance of window and entryways placement. Building entrances were made easily identifiable by using canopies, lighting and well thought out landscaping, including pathways. Lighting was also placed strategically to provide security and safety without being a nuisance to adjacent properties. The connections to the building from the right-of-way was landscaped to provide interest at the street and encourage pedestrian activity. A single vehicle ingress/ egress point along the street frontage helped to free the facade of a garage and allow for more desirable pedestrian-oriented design. This ingress/egress positioning also helped to split the project into two subdevelopments and created one large service/ access corridor in the rear of the units. To finish off the units, rooftop decks were provided, which allowed inhabitants to take in the surrounding views of Capitol Hill and beyond.
Below: Connection Parti (Pen on paper) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Opposite: Elevations (Revit, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer 26
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Below: Sections & Details (Revit, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Above: View of first floor bedroom (Photograph, Photoshop) Credit: Caron Architecture
Right: View from kitchen (Photograph, Photoshop) Credit: Caron Architecture
Below: View of decks over garage (Photograph, Photoshop) Credit: Caron Architecture
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HOUSING DERAILED THE FUTURE OF MELBOURNE’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Affordable Housing Development - 2.5ha Bee Breeders Conceptual / Unbuilt 2021 Melbourne, AUS
1st Prize Winning entry for the Bee Breeders’ Melbourne Affordable Housing Challenge
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The year is 2040 and the City of Melbourne has found itself without key workers. Over the past decades, residents were forced to sprawl further and further from the city center as affordable housing became increasingly elusive. Now, unable to operate, the city and its governing bodies have been forced to find a solution. Housing Derailed suggests that by altering landscapes and mindsets a new affordability typology and method can occur. Utilising a cartographical approach to identify
viable land, the air rights to the Victorian Railway was chosen due to its proximity to the city, services nearby, and its area totalling the equivalent of nearly 110 city blocks. The railway has a potential to evolve into a far-reaching, affordable housing scheme through the employment of a modular hybrid-mat typology. Each unit offers the flexibility to grow and change. Due to this, the project allows for long-term housing solutions that reconnect residents within the city and reunites the city with itself.
Right: Melbourne Disadvantaged (OpenStreetMap, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Opposite: Component Library (SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Left: Highrise of Homes c.1981 Credit: James Wines & SITE
Below: Operation Snail Homes Photos: City of Melbourne Archives
Melbourne’s residential developments follow a standardised mix of unit types for long term living arrangements or flexibility. These units act as an ever rotating commodity, changing hands every few years and steadily increasing in price. How, then, can a new system be integrated that allows for key workers of different backgrounds to gain entry? James Wines’ Highrise of Homes becomes an interesting model to study. Focused around the theory of Canned Chance, the development attempts to set up a structural system of vertical lots that residents can then fill. The result becomes an eclectic city that reflects its owners and breaks away from the commodification development model. This allows for previous Methods of self assembled housing to once again become viable. Single-family developments, such as Melbourne’s Operation Snail, that once encouraged the homeless to construct their own home can find a place within a larger framework. 32
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used across all projects. Manufacturers would provide their items, which an architect would then work off of. As new designs and obstacles are encountered in projects, architects could request new components be added to the library for future developments, additions, or remodels. Residents would then be given the option to access the library when they wanted to alter their units or they could opt for noncomponent changes. Components could also be returned, refurbished, or sold within the community to continue its life after its first use.
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To create a large-scale framework for a Melburnian affordable housing model, a prefabricated and standardised module was developed that could be easily assembled with little construction knowledge. The module allowed for various components to be created to support the system. This could be new structural members (concrete, steel, etc.), or facades, full modular kitchens and bathrooms, and even windows and walls. This would allow for faster installation times, an overall cheaper build, and design variations throughout the project. To facilitate the creation of these components, a component library would be created and
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To construct a new landscape over the railway, two modules needed to be constructed. Firstly, a concrete module was developed that could be built around the trains without fear of derailment. The module utilised ferrocement formwork that could be left in place as the final finish, allowing for quick assembly while using unskilled labour. Retail could then fill in this space to help subsidise residential costs. This concrete module also allowed for intensive landscaping that could assist in renaturing the site.
The second module is constructed out of pine GLT beams and steel open-weave beams. This system would occupy the space above the cemented new landscape and provide the volume for residences. The module is designed for manufacturing and assembly, allowing for simplistic assembly by unskilled labour or the community itself. The module is designed in a 4x4x3m cube, matching the typical residential layouts. This allows for an easily understood volume that residents know how to outfit.
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2 - Columns are inserted along grid while avoiding the railine
3 - Existing urban grids are extended and applied to the site
4 - Commerical, office, service, and civic uses fill the urban grid and match the area’s character
5 - New landscape is dropped onto the site
6 - Push & pull to emphesise entryways and allow pedestrian access and ground water routing
7 - Cut to allow commercial space to spill onto landscape
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Above: Massing Diagram (SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer 35
Above: View south from Oliver Ln. (SketchUp, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Right: View from Flinders Street (SketchUp, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Below: View from Russell Street (SketchUp, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Right, Below: Floor Plans (AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketchup) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Above: View looking north from Yara (SketchUp, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Right: View looking to Southbank (SketchUp, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Right: View from residential (SketchUp, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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BLANKET SCHOOL A BLANKET APPROACH TO EDUCTIONAL DESIGN
Secondary School - 18,000m² 4003 Ivana Seizova (ivana.seizova@sydney.edu.au) Semester 1, 2020 Sydney, AUS
Opposite: Chronological Site Map (Photosjop, Enscape, Rhino) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Sydney’s population is steadily growing and is projected to exceed six million by 2036. As the area’s population continues to boom, the enrollment of local schools continues to see a steady increase as well. With land at a premium and an increase in school density, the obvious option is to grow upwards. To quickly produce the design of the required high-rise educational institution, parametric design has been chosen as an essential tool. By developing a single algorithm with an array of parameter inputs, the creation of a variety of designs for each chosen location can be thoughtfully achieved. The Blanket School is a blanket approach at parametrically designing a school that can be placed on any lot to rapidly generate its design approach. This method intends to promote the lot’s existing context while also encouraging interconnection, creativity, and safety within a learning environment to better support and encourage students and staff to thrive. To achieve this goal, the Blanket School parametrically generates a building with purposeful program, structure, envelope and daylighting practices intended to create comfortable and flexible spaces that encourage relationships and provides a wide range of learning environments for all types of student learning methodologies. Through this technique, the hope is that the school will remain relevant to future pedagogical practices and student enrolment growth.
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Opposite: Massing Diagram (Rhino, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Right: Wrapped Trees Credit: Christo & Jeanne-Claude
A. Concept of draping to enhance and excite form
B. Mesh drape is lowered onto site
Seen in the many works from both artists and architects, this concept of concealing has long been studied due to the intrigue that it creates within an onlooker. When known objects are altered or concealed in an unpredictable way, their forms become new once more and intrigue is produced in everyday objects.
C. The site and its existing features are draped over to create a simplified geometry
Above: Site Draping Diagram (Rhino, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer 42
This process was seen as a parallel to childhood forts, which transformed household objects into worlds of wonder. With one of the focuses of the project being to attract and retain students, this idea was pursued as it could relate to the occupants. To accomplish this, the existing buildings were seen as the everyday objects and a blanketing form was laid over. This created a lofted and irregular shape that could be pulled, adjusted, and experimented with to solve a range of design goals. Above: Castle Diagram Credit: IKEA
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Due to the east-west orientation and long tower volume, the need for an effective atrium became crucial in the high school’s design. The utilisation of ray tracing and point mapping was executed to produce an atrium that would funnel and reflect light throughout the school. A series of tests were performed that counted light rays that made it through the atrium and met the floor plates below and were then subsequently mapped onto the atrium’s shell to highlight important reflection points. 44
The shape of the atrium was altered with Galapogos to find best form at dispersing rays to floor plates below. This process was repeated across key dates throughout the year and the mapped points were then compiled onto the surface of the atrium. The atrium panels were then divided into categories based on their proximity to a mapped point. These distances are parametrically adjusted to find a mix that suited the size and shape of the atrium best.
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The categories produced from the mapped points were then able to be applied with whatever surfaces suited it. In this case, in order to retain the ray tracing results, the surface needed to be reflective where the points were mapped and transparent where they were not. Reflective
This produced a gradient of panels, ranging from reflective to transparent. These new panel types were then easily substituted in for the categories panels. To further the
design, the mullion frame system was able to be developed around the nodes and panel edges. As the original school was a product of the gold rush, a golden sheen was desired to mirror the history. A brass surface implemented for its resistance to the elements, retention of color over time, and the character created with tarnishing in the future.
Left: Atrium Paneling (Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Left: Panel Types (SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Above: View from 4th Floor (Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Right: View from Study Landscape (Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Below: View from Gym (Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Right: Programming Placement (Rhino, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Below: Programming Gamma Map ( Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer Active/Gym
Active program at top and bottom encourages interconnectivity of the spaces
Quadrangle
Allows light into the existing building and activity to remain on the ground level
Admin
Located near the entrance to provide student oversight
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Allow for events, access to views and the outdoors, and food deliveries
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A roof garden allows for outdoor access without spilling into the park
Exhibition Space
Positioned along the park to engage the public and create a visual connection
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Accomplishing an interconnected program was important to the project and was achieved with space syntax as its backbone. Through pushing for flexibility as well as concrete uses where it was deemed necessary, a program developed that could be used for a number of scheduling choices and will be a model that can support more students in the future if current trends continue. To promote this interconnectivity within the school, the method of space syntax was expanded upon through a gamma mapping approach. This ensured an even and non repetitive programming placement and prevented pinch points from occurring. This is in direct response to the theory of space syntax and ensures moveability within all zones. By accomplishing this, fluid spaces are created and areas of the community can become focal points to ensure connection between peers.
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Opposite: Elevations & Section (Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Above: View from Prince Alfred Park (Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Right: View from Cleveland Street (Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Below: View towards Podium (Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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THE GATEWAY PASSAGE TO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
Market Hall & Masterplan - 7,500m² 4002 Carol Marra (carol@marrayeh.com) Semester 2, 2019 Springwood, AUS
Opposite: View north from entry (SketchUp, Enscape, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer Below: Locality Maps (OpenStreetMap, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Blue Mountains Map
The township of Springwood has always been a place for travelers to stop for sustenance. Today this tradition has begun to fade due to a disconnect from its surrounding area. Nestled off the Great Western Highway, Springwood is hidden from the public and continues to lose out on the tourism that drives the rest of the Blue Mountains. To help the town find a solution, The Gateway project looks at the history and trends in the area to highlight Springwood and usher tourists not only into the town, but also the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountains continue to have a strong tradition in travel (through hiking and biking) and nourishment (through farms, roasteries, breweries, and more). It’s time for Springwood to take back their heritage and become a hub and gateway for visitors on their way to the Blue Mountains.
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By connecting with local bike and bush walking trails, we can begin to increase foot traffic through the town and create activities for both tourists and the local townsfolk. This creates the opportunity to once again nourish visitors by providing a much needed grocery. This grocery comes in the form of a market hall that consolidates the local producers of food, produce, and arts/crafts and highlights the best that the Blue Mountains has to offer. This consolidation brings the Blue Mountains to a single point, allowing the whole region to be experienced and for Springwood to truly become a gateway to the area.
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Right: Springwood Evolution Maps (Photoshop) Credit: NSW State Archive
Below: Cox Road (1814) Photos: NSW State Archive
Below: Great Western Railway (1867) Photos: NSW State Archive
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Home to a spring, Springwood has historically been a place for nourishment. This spring, as well as ridgeline location, helped Springwood to be colonized and become host to both the railway and highway. These transportation veins allowed Springwood to evolve from an Aboriginal settlement to a military settlement and, eventually, into a town. These factors helped the town to grow but also acted as restrictions. The spring has since been lost due it being paved over and the Great Western Highway’s expansion severed the road’s relationship with the town. As seen in the timeline of maps, the town’s growth halted after the highway shifted. As a result, Springwood’s presence has become limited. 52
Based on the contextual research, Springwood’s seclusion from the highway and disconnect from its surroundings is preventing tourism from reaching the town. Three of the largest contributors to tourism in the Blue Mountains are hiking trails, cycling paths, and locally produced foods and could be utilised by Springwood to increase its engagement. Although there is an existing Blue Mountains cycling path, the route ends in Leura and doesn’t continue to Springwood. This is easily remedied by proposed extensions along existing roads. A similar issue faces the hiking paths in the town; few trails are long enough to account for full day hikes. By connecting existing trails, a network can be developed that would link towns and rail stations together. This new
network of trails could facilitate multi- or single-day hikes and would draw visitors through town centers to promote their shops and retailers. There is a lack of grocery options in Springwood and a plethora of local vendors of food and art products. The opportunity is available to join regional vendors together to provide a dedicated location for local products to be sold. The north car park was an ideal site due to its visibility in town and proximity to the highway and train. This development could become a major tourist draw as there are no other market halls in the surrounding areas.
Pedestrian Bridge New Activation Green Street Proposed Market Hall New Welcome Center
New Permeability Bike Path Extension Mixed Use / Housing Hiking Trail Extension Above: Springwood Masterplan OpenStreetMap, AutoCAD, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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1. With highway, railway, and town visibility, the site is an ideal location to welcome tourists
2. Relocate the childcare center, onsite, as previously planned
3. Gridlines follow existing curves and match the area’s verage storefront width
4. Parking is sunk to match the +4-meter drop of the site
5. Pedestrian axis and a view cooridor are developed by extending the existing plaza
6. Filling in around the axes with market/shops, the site can absorb needed retailers
7. Environment conditions are noted and utilised
8. A canopy is created to produce diffused sunlight throughout the space
Above: Springwood Masterplan OpenStreetMap, AutoCAD, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer 54
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With a +4-meter slope to the back of the site, the garage and mechanical services were pushed below grade. This helped to maintain parking for the site while providing an elevated ground floor which could capitalise on surrounding views. The ground floor is made up of three main volumes, two for retail shops and a third for the flexible market hall space. During the weekday, the market hall space can be used for school children to play in, food service courts (which could incorporate the roastery and brewery while being run by the local Acacia Education & Training), as well as for local meetups. During the weekends, the local market can spring up and activate the spaces in and around the building. In the evenings, the space can be used for music/cabaret shows as well as supporting a few local vendors.
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Above: Floor Plans (AutoCAD, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer 55
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Opposite: View west into market hall (AutoCAD, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Right: View west into market hall (SketchUp, VRay, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Right: View southwest into cafe (SketchUp, VRay, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
Below: View north into main entry (SketchUp, VRay, Photoshop) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Right: Roof Assembly & Details (AutoCAD, SketchUp, Illustrator) Credit: Evan Langendorfer
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Steel, being a prominent material in the Blue Mountains, became the primary structural material for this project. Its ability to span long distances and free up floor space for the Market was also an added benefit that played into the decision. By creating a repeating structure that incorporates pin joint connections, prefabrication of the building members becomes much more affordable and installation can be much more rapid. I-Beams are used for the main north-south facing roof members and hollow steel sections are used to stiffen the east-west axis. This section also allows for downspouts and conduits to be hidden and routed through the structure. This helps maintain a clean look.
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2. A slurry of sifted earth and concrete poured
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Earth blocks were utilised for the market’s walls as there was a local provider in the region. With less skilled labor and room for error in the blocks, this process allowed for bricks to be made during the excavation phase and assembled by the numerous masons in the area. The block’s size allowed for a number of other services to be integrated into their design, such as lighting, bicycle lock up, planters, seating, and display shelves.
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