TRANSLATIONS PRODUCTION of MUSIC COMMUTER RAIL STATION AGGREGATED VARIABLE STACKING DIMENSIONS 21 FURNITURE INSTRUCTIONS for SABOTAGE ICE HOTEL
TRANSLATIONS studio SPICUZZI 10.2006
0. Start Lazlo Moholy-Nagy’s Konstruction of 1923-25 1. 3D Space Through figure-ground and depth studies the painting was interpreted as a 3 dimensional layered construct.
2. Void Space The spatial construct was studied to cast its spatial counterpart, void space.
3. Inhabitable Space The cast void was given scale and program to derive an inhabitable space.
Program: a space of reflection, a space of exchange. Are these spaces necessarily different? Example: a concert hall – at maximum capacity it is a space of exchange, empty it is a space of nostalgia, reflection. Human density and behavior, as well as the spatial dimensions/scale are determinant in defining the circumstantial programs to the two spaces. Then why not create connections between them? Visual connections and the play between required effort and gained comfort are henceforth explored. Result: 2 spaces for human occupation.
PRODUCTION of MUSIC studio SPICUZZI 12.2006
Where in the process of art, does it become art? Music Where from the composer, interpreter/performer to the performance, recording, production, editing and listening does the art in music happen? Is any experience in music less valuable? Is there any musical experience/production without any auditory experience of it? To portray music in this building, several experiences of music in its wide spectrum are portrayed in the different programmatic spaces. The building is an unusual agglomeration of these different levels of experience.
“To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility.� -Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Site Ann Arbor, MI, USA Urban Infill on the intersection of Liberty and State Street. Two theatres as well as several retail businesses flank the site. Program The building accommodates spaces for live performances, recording, practicing, editing and production of music, as well as a music cafĂŠ. The different programmatic spaces are all united by a unique circulation to bring them together.
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1. Music CafĂŠ 2. Production Booth 3. Back Terrace 4. Exhibition/Circulation Space 5. Auditorium 6. Recording Studio 7. Bathrooms 8. Storage 9. Rehearsal Studio
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Program The building accommodates spaces for live performances, recording, practicing, editing and production of music, as well as a music cafĂŠ. The different programmatic spaces are all united by a unique circulation to bring them together.
Alley An existing alley flanks the site on the south. A mirror alley flanks the music cafĂŠ on the top level.`
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1. Music CafĂŠ 2. Production Booth 3. Back Terrace 4. Exhibition/Circulation Space 5. Auditorium 6. Recording Studio 7. Bathrooms 8. Storage 9. Rehearsal Studio
The Music CafĂŠ A place where you consume music. You sit and listen to music you order from a wide and broad library in genre (taking advantage of the digital age.) You can choose to select the music you listen or just listen to a playlist that is made for you. You can choose to listen through earphones or speakers, as well as in small groups of people or by yourself.
Auditorium The auditorium is for a small audience, so as to not compete with proximal theatres but more to add a new scale in performance.
Façade Glass is not acoustical in general. Using OMA’s Casa da Musica in Oporto as a precedent, a double layered sinusoidal glass scheme is developed.
COMMUTER RAIL STATION studio OSLER 02.2007
A commuter rail will connect Detroit with its outskirts Site Ann Arbor, MI, USA The site is a triangular lot just west of Main Street, on the corner of First and Williams Street. It is next to a parking lot.
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The envelope of the station seeks to extend beyond the station to create a perimeter wall around the west side of the parking lot to shield the cars from the street. 4.
Such circumstances prompt the envelope to go underneath the rails of outgoing trains.
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Folding Spatial restraints inspired the use of one major material to envelop the station - corten steel.
Despite the dominance of corten steel, wood, glass and concrete where also used. The interaction and connection of these materials was intrinsic in the overall design.
AGGREGATED VARIABLE STACKING parametric modeling 04.2007
Parameters f(x) - Floor Plate Length g(x) - Angle Difference h(x) - Height offset between floors
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Using Digital Project Software, certain parameters and relationships where employed in the creation of a population of models. The parameters and relationships are user controlled features.
As angle g(x) increases Floor Plate changes as shown
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Regular Floor Plate
Ramped Floor Plate
Based on the previous framework, the floor plate was taken into account with aims to improve it. The goal was to create a means of vertcal circulation within the floorplate.
Floor Plate w/ Corner Ramps
Based on the previous framework, the floor plate part was taken into account with aims to improve it. The goal was to create a means of vertical circulation within the floorplate.
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Parameters f(x) - Distance to Top of Building i - Integer resulting from the relationship f(x)/15 Minimum value of integer is restricted to 4 f(x)
A relationship involving the distance of the floorplate to the ground, helped define the varying radii of the structure.
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Rest of curve is halved Radii of Tubes (r) r= f(x)/100
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DIMENSIONS 21 EDITORS: Zain W. AbuSeir, Jason Dembski, Kamana Dhakhwa, Stephen Killion, Luis Felipe Paris, Caitlin A. White FACULTY ADVISOR: Christian Unverzagt 03.2008
Dimensions is the annual, student produced journal of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning that seeks to contribute to the critical discourse of architecture and architectural education by documenting the most compelling work produced by its students, faculty, fellows and visiting lecturers.
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FURNITURE 07.2009
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INSTRUCTIONS for SABOTAGE studio MANKOUCHE 09.2007
Instructions for what? Besides the actual parts a scale model set includes: a cardboard box, plastic frames with the plastic parts and plastic wrappers . Respectively, they shelter, organize, provide rigidity, and protect. Yet we only use the parts. Why not redefine the set then, to include all its components? Besides we already know their function
Redefine/Sabotage Ultimately, this sabotage will require new instructions.
maintain fragile pieces within frame to preserve original rigidity
slide pieces through existing openings, prioritizing the best fit
bend pieces appropiately in order to unite them in adverse circumstances insert sections into frame to connect with the rest and create structural support
build left wing section incl. propelers and engine, but w/out the engince covers
wrap w/ cross section of the box lid to create a protective buffer between the model and its surroundings
cover w/ plastic wrapping those pieces that are fragile & require protection
ICE HOTEL studio MANKOUCHE 12.2007
Site Sault Sainte Marie, MI, USA Across the river is Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada. 4 canal locks connect Lake Superior with Lake Huron. 2 are in disuse. The iron filled ships that swamped the locks are barely a presence. Sault Sainte Marie exists divided and connected.
For 7 months every year, the waters of the river and the canal freeze. Ice must be passed through the locks several times before ships can sail through. Sault Sainte Marie is a changing landscape.
Program Winter - Ice storage and Ice fishing resort. Summer - Fishing hotel & scarred landscape. Spring & Fall - Everything in between. Glacier processes and the existing condition inspired the creation of a new landscape that behaves as a yearly ice age. Meanwhile, the central building behaves as a container. It collects ice, ice fishing cabins, and hotel guests. It is not a hotel, it is an epicentre of collection. Hotel guests are spectators to the changing nature of the objects collected.
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metal coping 1/2” anchor bolt base flashing gravel waterproofing 5” rigid insulation
steel beams
HVAC Supply hung ceiling joint 1/8” steel ceiling unit
steel girders
2nd floor interior rooms are hung from roof instead of transferring load to lower floors
steel columns
poured concrete floor
steel deck
12” x 4” galvanized steel louver
steel girders
1.25” steel frame for glass
1/8” toughened glass 8” poured concrete floor
3” high composite steel deck 12” x 12” galvanized steel tube steel connection, bolted and welded
steel pier
1/2” bolts 3” x 3” galvanized steel k-brace 12” x 12” galvanized steel tube
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foundation wall
12” x 4” galvanized steel louver
12” x 12” galvanized steel tube 12” T-steel connector 1.25” steel frame for glass 1/8” toughened glass 1/8” floated glass
12” x 12” galvanized steel tube
welded connection 24” x 24” steel plate 12” tie 24” x 24” concrete foundation
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bed courtyard
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kitchen serves ~50-75 ppl. cook the fish you catch
ICE ROOM/TEMP room in winter
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Ice It arrives. It is processed. It is stored. It creates towers. It creates rooms. Ice Rooms Only while the ice is there, rooms of ice add to the general hotel room population. Door frames and bathrooms await its arrival. When it leaves ice fishing cabins take over its space. Co-existence Spring. Ice and Cabins coexist. The process is gradual from one to the other. It is ever dependent on climate.
FORKLIFT Load ~4000 lbs
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237.0 in 189.0 in 88.0 in
Turning Radius 70.2 in Frame 41.8 in
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12’ 7’ bed bench fishing hole hearth
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1cu = 57.22 lbs Forklift Max = 69cu Average 60 cu Max. Stack Height = 15’
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Ice Cabins In the extreme winter, they are leisure. In Sault Sainte Marie, they are tradition. They are minimal: only a bed, a bench and four holes for fishing. Release When they river freezes the cabins are released. They leave the container and populate the outdoor. Ice comes in its absence.
Ice Hotel The building rests on piers to permit the changing landscape to define their relationship.
“Objects perhaps created for eternity from marble and mirrors, or for the present from paper and flowers — objects made to die at their appointed hours, and which have this sense of death among their characteristics. Objects, which can be easily carried about, if we choose to become nomads, to stay in one place forever.” Superstudio, 1971