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The Ribbon Professor Josue Robles + Ryan Swanson Tampa, Florida |Design C|
Palais des Beaux-Arts Extension
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007-033
2017
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Professor Michael Halflants Brussels, Belgium
Rotterdam House
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034-057
2017
Professor Michael Halflants Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hinge Point Tower
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060-105
2018
Professor Dan Powers Tampa, Florida
2018
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was designed with the intention of paying homage to the historic wall through the preservation of its columns and the abstraction of the columns behind it. Fundamental to the design was the orientation of the views to feature the Royal Palace, the park and city hall. The top level of the extension serves as an exterior open-air orchestra space designed to emphasize the importance of music at the Palais des Beaux-Arts while simultaneously serving as a tool to bring in patrons from the street below.
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The entrance is located and ground level with exterior elevators for accessibility. The ticketing and coat check desk is located half a level below grade.
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The Open-air Orchestra located on the top floor of the extension provides music to guests of the Beaux-Arts as well as pedestrians on the street. The design brings music to the street and the park, uniting guests and pedestrians through a musical experience.
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Perspective views from the sidewalk on the parks edge show the columns that mimic the pillars of the existing wall. The columns support the roof structure and the top levels of the extension where they would otherside appear to float. From street level pedestrians can see the details on the roof where the roof continuously folds in an angular pattern to create an overall curved gesture.
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The lecture hall is located on the second floor at the corner of the Beaux-Arts extension. The trees from Brussels Park provide a scenic backdrop to the lectures that take place in the lecture hall.
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The lecture hall is a double height space, enclosed in glass for both its interior and exterior walls. On the third level, the lecture hall is visible from the cafe. Patrons can look down to view the lectures and straight through for elevated views of the park and street.
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The circulation of the exhibition space moves v i s i t o r s around the g a l l e r y permitting them to enjoy the exhibit while progressing through the space to the levels above.
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Rotterdam House is an eight building housing complex. Each building contains three luxury unit types. Unit style A, 1 bed/ 1 bath, Unit style B, 2 bed/ 2 bath and Unit style C, 2 bed/ 2 bath. The complex has a large central courtyard elevated above the parking garage. The courtyard ramps down to the street level for pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Each unit has an entry at the courtyard level. Unit styles B+ C share a rooftop terrace. They also come with work/live spaces located directly off the courtyard access. Every unit includes a large sculptural glass and concrete staircase.
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Exterior Perspectives of the Southwest corner of Rotterdam House from the water shows a view from the perspective of a passenger on a boat. Surrounded by water, Rotterdam House boasts large glass windows to connect residents with the Nieuwe Maas.
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Inspired by Legos and designed as a modular housing project, Rotterdam House buildings have three Unit styles stacked and over lapping. The design offers varying sizes and layouts for different tenants.
Holding to its overarching concept, each unit has its own entry from the courtyard level . The units overlook the courtyard and adjacent units. The larger units have balconies on the courtyard side. Exterior space in Rotterdam House uses every opportunity to allow tenants to interact. Unit type A is shown in red, B in yellow and C in blue. 054
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All units have open-concept kitchen, dining and living area. The family spaces boast views of the city, the courtyard and the Nieuwe Maas.
The Interior perspective facing southwest shows the inside unit type B. The unit is located on the west side of the Rotterdam House complex.
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Hinge Point Tower
is a mixed used building located on W Kennedy Ave in Tampa, Florida. The ground level of the tower is used for retail. Levels two through nine are leasable offices spaces. The upper levels of the tower are residential units. The tower’s unique footprint is generated by the pivoting shape of the nearby Hillsborough River and allows the tower to optimize views for tenants. The tower splits at the center hinging to allow the North portion of the tower to orient a full facade toward the river and downtown Tampa. At the hinge point of the tower, the halls are enclosed in glass on the East and West sides. The design offers tenants views to the East, South and West regardless of where their individual units are located.
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The lower portion of the tower, designed as office space, is enclosed with a glass louver system designed to protect against Southern sunlight.
The triangulated portions of the site, on the Northern corners, have triangulated fountains with pathways between them for pedestrian traffic. The fountain walls mimic the angled gesture of the tower.
The Perspective facing Southwest, shows the Plaza and office entrance.The design of the plaza incorporates a series of stepped green and paved space.
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The original CPI sculpture plays off the l i g h t entering through the multistory s p a c e enclosed by g l a s s
The entry into the office is located on the west side of the tower. The lobby is a six story height space with open circulation walkways from the garage and elevators to the leasable office spaces. The space is large and open allowing for the penetration of natural light. Inside the lobby hangs a custom multicolored glass sculpture designed for the buildings office lobby.
Inside of the office lobby is a small coffee shop for tenants and office employees. The coffee shop has a small outdoor space visible from the plaza.
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Ground level parking garage
Greenery spills down the side of the parking garage from the top at the pool deck level. The greenery carries from the parking garage wall and steps down to the plaza at ground level. Pedestrians can access the tower from the garage or continue out to the plaza from the second level parking. The parking garage is entered by vehicle from the street underneath the elevated green space on the plaza.
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The residential entrance, located on the East side of the tower, has a porte cochere for tenant use. The tenants access their units and residential community spaces through the use of a glass elevator that runs through the pivoting split of the tower. Tenants travel upward in the elevator, viewing the split of the tower until emerging at the 10th floor where the elevator travels outside the tower. The tenants can look out to the East toward the Hillsborough River or to the West through the split section of the tower.
Residential glass elevators viewed from the lobby.
Studio units have interior views of green walls of ivy separated by glass. The green wall solution, offers tenants the opportunity to look out through glass at natural elements, as opposed to units having solid opaque walls and less natural light.
1 Kitchen 2 Utility closet 3 Laundry room 4 Bathroom 5 Bedroom 6 Clothes closet 7 Living area/ dining area 8 Balcony
The Grand Penthouse unit was designed as a large open floorplan. The living area features double height spaces with large windows. Interior walls have single story height solid walls with glass partitions to allow natural light into interior rooms. Kitchens feature custom casework, island and countertops.
1 Foyer 2 Kitchen 3 Living room 4 Dining room 5 Master bedroom 6 Master bath 7 Walk-in closet 8 Bedroom 9 Clothes Closet 10 Powder room 11 Office 12 Den 13 Movie Theatre 14 Library 15 Laundry room 16 Utility closet 17 Coat closet
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The Grand Penthouse unit has two wrap-around balconies accessible from the bedrooms. The Master bedroom has a private balcony of its own and the additional bedrooms share the second wrap-around balcony. The living/ dining area has a balcony of its own which is deeper to enable users to utilize the outdoor space for gathering of the Grand Penthouse unit.
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Located on top of the parking garage, are the residential outdoor community spaces. Green space, a dog park and a pool are all part of the r e s i d e n t i a l a m e n i t i e s . The infinity pool overlooks Tampa, out toward the Bay.
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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 55 BEACH DR NE ST PETERSBURG F L
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Collective Motion is an urban activation installation. The design is an eight to twelve person bench capable of sparking social interactions that otherwise may not have occurred. The bench is designed to facilitate social interactions for lovers on a date, an individual having lunch and a group of eighth people. The design implements the use of movement both in its form and its function. The installation serves as a twelve person rocking chair . The rocking motion requires collaboration between multiple participants in order to rock, lending to its name Collective Motion.
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The design is comprised of a ribbed structural system connected by steel rods and a wood bracing system. The seats are made up of linea wood slates, notched into the ribbed structure.
The ends of the ribs are connected by a formal notch design + fastened together for a stronger connection. These connections are used in the five ribs that make up the bench.
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Installation on site in St. Petersburg, FL
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YBOR ALLEYWAY 1708 AVENIDA REP DE CUBA TAMPA F L O R
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is an award winning urban activation installation that fabricated for Tampa Bay Design Week. The installation was designed to reinvigorate and activate an alleyway in Ybor City. The design intent was to implement the use of canopies and create habitable space in an otherwise uninhabitable alleyway. The design incorporates the wrapping and twisting motion of a Ribbon to create tunnel like canopies that shade portions of the alley.
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The design is comprised of a ribbed structural system connected by steel rods. The seating and canopy were constrcted with benable plywood twisted to form the ribbon-like curvature of the canopy.
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LED color chaning lights were placed Inside the notches of the ribs and covered with plexyglass. At night the Ribbon lights up the alleyway of Ybor city.
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Thank you to the Museum of Fine Arts and Ybor City for hosting our installations.
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design@lkharper.com lkharper.com issuu.com/laura_k_harper U S F S A C D
A Letter to Young Designers Rather than write about my own experience at USF, School of Architecture and Community Design, I wanted to write a letter that I wish I would've read when beginning my education here. As a student of architecture, you experience a whole new level of vulnerability when presenting your inner most thoughts and ideas for public critique. It can be a very unsettling experience, opening yourself up to criticism in a way that many of us may not have previously been exposed to. This is a letter to those students. Whether you're new to design, halfway through your education or about to cross the finish line, this is something I wish I had learned much earlier in my education than I did. The best advice I ever got was that "If you don't believe in it, nobody else is going to." It took me a very long time to realize just how true that was. So, have the confidence to grow, to change and to just be who you are! You don't need to design like everyone else to be successful. Your greatest strengths are your differences, even when it doesn't always feel like it. Discover your own process and methodology. What works well for others, may not work well for you, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. A lack of confidence will be the biggest thing that will ever hold you back. Never worry a belief in yourself will be perceived as arrogance. Confidence gives us the freedom to explore and try new things. Arrogance is the inability to admit that those things we try, may not always be successful, but it is our failures that provide us with the experiences most beneficial to learning and growth. Look to your peers for inspiration, support, advice, companionship, friendships and feedback, but keep your head down when evaluating your own work. It doesn't matter if you had the nicest model in your advanced design B class. What matters is how much you grew from your design A. The progression you make from who you were, to who you are now, matters more than how you compare with your peers. Focus on your education and your own growth as a designer and a person. You're here to learn, not to compe te . Look to your professors for guidance, not validation. Don't measure your success in grades or praise, but personal growth. Doing things that are safe will get you through, but they won't help you progress. So, be bold! Design diffe re ntly! Make mistake s! Now is the time to try that idea that may not work out. Whether you're a designer or not, believing in yourself is the most crucial step in allowing yourself to grow into your own potential. My hope is that students will read this letter and look within themselves for their validation and measure of success. Whether you're the most naturally gifted student or feel you are starting at the bottom, you have the potential to be infinitely better than you are right now. Education and growth are things we all can and should continue long after we've graduate d. Reaching our goals in our lives or careers is made that much more possible by believing that we can achieve them and understanding that we come that much closer to them every day that we focus on our own individual development. Sincerely, Another Young Designer. USF SA+CD Class of 2019