LAURA SCHMITZ
MIT OPTIMIZING FLOWS
COMMUNITY BACKYARD PROJECT
THE LECHMERE LIBRARY: GRADIENT OF COLLECTION AND DISPERSAL
HOUSE FOR AN ORNITHOLOGIST
EPHEMERAL INSTALLATION: SKEWED SEAT UB DEN[CITY]: ACCESS TO GROUND
MOSQUE: SHIFTED CENTER
FORT NIAGARA VISITOR’S CENTER
BAT HOUSE
CULTIVATING CONVERGENCES: WPA 2.0 COMPETITION
OPTIMIZING FLOWS Urban Design Studio Spring 2013 MIT in collaboration with George Beane Optimizing Flows addresses two opposing conditions – abandonment and growth -- by capitalizing on Canton’s location at the confluence of various transportation networks, and suggesting an alternative to the current process by which vacant buildings are disposed. The project proposes one central building, the “Knot,” in which salvaged materials are organized and processed in their journey to and from the port, along rail and road networks. The Knot – housing several discrete functions linked symbiotically through program and space – also becomes a channel for recreational movement: people walking, jogging, cycling or skateboarding, move through building at different floors, elevated above the heavy loading and unloading occurring on the building’s ground floor. High above the truck and rail paths, passersby observe the unloading, processing and packaging of industrial materials. The procession becomes an educational opportunity, an occasion to better understand Baltimore’s industrial past and the harbor’s links to its future. Outside, the paths also reorder the site’s barren industrial landscape, creating new recreational spaces, and topography built from the rubble crushed and processed in the plant. The combination of practical and poetic functions, operating at a number of geographic and economic scales, suggests a novel, and optimistic future for the site and the city.
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> 600
City vacancies 2012
I-95 B&P TUNNEL
NORTHEAST CORRIDOR RAIL LINE
01 HOWARD STREET TUNNEL 02
NY/NJ: now dredging to 50ft Philadelphia: 40-45ft Baltimore: currently 50ft Norfolk : also 50ft
03 03
Charleston: 45ft to 50ft
SHORT SEA SHIPPING ROUTES
Savannah: 40-45ft Jacksonville: 40-45ft
BALTIMORE BELT LINE RAIL LINE
01 RAIL BOTTLENECK 03 CANTON SITE 02 SEAGIRT MARINE TERMINAL
Miami: 40-45ft Port Everglades: 40-45ft
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ROUTES
RELYING MORE EXTENSIVELY ON SHIPPING TOcongestion INCREASE EFFICIENCY Relieving on I-95 + Northeast Rail TONS EXPORTED: NETHERLANDS: 3M GERMANY: 500K FRANCE: 876K UKRAINE: 500K CHINA: 6.5M JAPAN: 2.3M BRAZIL 1.4 SOUTH KOREA 2.1M
Panama Canal lock expansion 2014
US Atlantic Port depths
efficiency by shipping . . . AND RELIEVE CONGESTION ON 1-95Increased & NORTHEAST RAIL
13.7%
CITYWIDE VACANCY (2000)
15.4% CITYWIDE VACANCY (2010)
B&P TUNNEL
$13K - $40K
COST OF DEMOLISHING AI-95 BALTIMORE ROWHOUSE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR
$180M
ESTIMATED COST TO DEMOLISH ALL OF THE CITY’S VACANT HOUSING
245
NUMBER OF PROPERTIES DEMOLISHED (2012)
CE
SEAGIRT MARINE TERMINAL
SEAGIRT MARINE TER
CONNECTION TO GREEN SPACE: RECREATION PATHS PEDESTRIAN GRID PEDESTRIAN PATHS
CONNECTIONS TO GREEN SPACE RECREATION PATHS
SEAGIRT MARINE TERMINAL
RAIL NETWORKS
SEAGIRT MARINE TERMINAL
SEAGIRT MARINE TERMINAL
ROAD NETWORKS: TRUCK DELIVERY PATHS
SEAGIRT MARINE TERMINAL
PEDESTRIAN GRID: PEDESTRIAN PATHS
“Knot,” is the central building in which materials are organized and processed in their journey to and from the port, along rail and road networks. Building scraps are loaded and unloaded here; some are recycled into usable new forms before being shipped to regional or international, while others are cleaned and retailed in an adjacent indoor/outdoor market area. CONNECTIONS TO GREEN SPACE
PEDESTRIAN GRID
PEDESTRIAN GRID
THE KNOT: MATERIAL TRANSFER + PROCESSING/ THESOCIAL KNOT: & EDUCATIONAL SPACE/ ARCHITECTURAL SPECTACLE
MATERIAL TRANSFER + PROCESSING / SOCIAL & EDUCATION SPACE / ARCHITECTURAL SPECTACLE
4TH FLOOR PEDESTRIAN
BALTIMORE REUSE THE KNOT:
a.
01
RECYCLING CENTER
b.
BALTIMORE REUSE
RECYCLING CENTER
RETAIL CENTER PROVIDING DIRECT SALES OF BUILDING MATERIALS AFTER LITTLE OR NO MATERIAL PROCESSING.
RECYCLING SALVAGED MATERIALS FOR RESHIPMENT TO REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BUYERS, AFTER SOME PROCESSING (CUTTING, SORTING, ETC.).
MATERIAL TRANSFER + PROCESSING / SOCIAL & EDUCATION SPACE / ARCHITECTURAL SPECTACLE
05 04 06
c.
02 03
g.
d. 08
3RD FLOOR TRUCK DELIVERY
07 04 GROUND FLOOR
03 2ND FLOOR
4TH FLOOR PEDESTRIAN
e.
h. BALTIMORE REUSE
RECYCLING CENTER
RETAIL CENTER PROVIDING DIRECT SALES OF BUILDING MATERIALS AFTER LITTLE OR NO MATERIAL PROCESSING.
RECYCLING SALVAGED MATERIALS FOR RESHIPMENT TO REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BUYERS, AFTER SOME PROCESSING (CUTTING, SORTING, ETC.). 06 GROUND FLOOR
02 3RD FLOOR
3RD FLOOR TRUCK DELIVERY
04 GROUND FLOOR
03 2ND FLOOR
04 SECOND FLOOR
06 GROUND FLOOR
2ND FLOOR CYCLING + SKATEBOARDING
03 3RD FLOOR
02 3RD FLOOR
2ND FLOOR CYCLING + SKATEBOARDING
GROUND FLOOR RAIL DELIVERY
HIGH DENSITY RECREATION MULTIPLE PROGRAMS MEDIUM DENSITY RECREATION MULTIPLE PROGRAMS
04 SECOND FLOOR
4: pedestrian 3: truck delivery 2. cycling + skateboarding G: rail delivery
03 3RD FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR RAIL DELIVERY
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
MATERIAL STORAGE UNLOADING / TRANSFER ZONE RECYCLING PROCESS PLANT MATERIALS PROCESSING / SORTING (RETAIL) MATERIALS STORAGE (RETAIL) BALTIMORE REUSE (RETAIL) PARK PAVILLION ARTISAN WORKSPACE
A B C D E F G H
SKATEBOARD PARK PEDESTRIAN BOULEVARD TRUCK DELIVERY #3 WATERFRONT ACCESS DOG WALK TRUCK DELIVERY #2 TRUCK DELIVERY #3 CYCLING PATH
LOW DENSITY RECREATION MULTIPLE PROGRAMS LOW DENSITY RECREATION SINGLE PROGRAM EVENT SPACE
public spectacle: pedestrians on top level observing material and people flows bicycles + skateboards
recreation zone
bicycles + recreation zone skateboards
pedestrian path
pedestrian path
trucks path
truck path
Knot
trucks path
truck path
Knot
pedestrian path
material piles
pedestrian path
recreation
Knot
bicycles + skateboards
recreation zone
Knot
bicycles + skateboards
SECTION A zone SCALE: 1 : 500
material piles
pedestrian path
trucks path
material piles
pedestrian path
truck path
material piles
recreation spaces + paths syncopated across site
bike path through industrial side of site, a place of inverted flows of accumulation materials and people
ground level situated between rail + road
distant salt pile
distant salt pile
pedestrian path
pedestrian path
recreation zone
pedestrian path
Danville Ave.
recreation zone
pedestrian path
Danville Ave.
SECTION A
SCALE: 1:500
SECTION B
SCALE: 1:500
COMMUNITY BACKYARD PROJECT: Bogotá, Colombia Urban Design Workshop Spring 2013 MIT, in collaboration with Sneha Mandhan
community planting and plot construction COMMUNITY GARDEN TYPOLOGIES
COMMUNITY GARDENING
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION/AGENCY - The Community Backyard Project
+
RETAIL/MARKET TYPOLOGIES
SAN BERNANDO NEIGHBORHOOD FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE
SEED BANK MAINTENANCE + RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
MAINTENANCE + RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMPOSTING VEGETABLE PLANTING FOOD HARVESTING WATER MANAGEMENT
SELF CONSUMPTION
FOOD SELLING COMMUNITY DINING HALLS (food for the homeless)
IMPERMANENCE ORGANIZATION
PLOT ALLOCATION
IMPERMANENCE
FARMING
PERMANENCE PRODUCT
CONSUMPTION
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION/AGENCY
COMMUNITY DINING HALLS
TRAINING PROGRAMS + EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS WITH SCHOOLS/UNIVERSITIES + VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS
PERMANENCE
VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS FARMERS’ MARKETS RESTAURANTS
COMMUNITY/NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION
SELF-CONSUMPTION 50
RECREATION
INCOME
FARMERS MARKETS
THE COMMUNITY BACKYARD PROJECT: SERVING BOGOTA
ANNUAL CYCLES OF PRODUCTIVITY
Composting Vegetable planting Food harvesting and processing Irrigation and water management Seed banking Maintenance and resource management Community dining halls Workshops and training programs Community building exercises Food selling and farmers’ markets
N food selling - farmers markets community building exercises workshops and training programs community dining halls maintenance and resource management seed banking construction of gardens and ancillary facilities soil remediation food harvesting and processing vegetable planting irrigation and water management composting
2013
2018
50
2023
50 50
INITIAL UP FRONT GOVERNMENT FUNDS
50
PERSONAL INVESTMENT FROM PARTICIPANTS
50 50
SUSTAINED ECONOMY
2028
8-1
silverbeet 20-28
artichoke asparagus
PRODUCTIVITY AND BENEFITS
endive COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
EDUCATION
Health
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Passive recreation
Active recreation
Inter-generational bonding
Restauranting
Farmers markets
Value-added products
Volunteer programs
Team building
Youth leadership training
Community partnerships
sweet corn
School partnerships
Health and wellness education
Food system training
Cooking and nutrition education
Agricultural education
Environmental education
Construction/Woodworking workshops
50
16-2 8-12
8-1
lettuce
RECREATION + RETAIL
okra
Sales training
Community dining halls
Upkeep and maintenance
Resource management
Seed banking
Food selling
Food harvesting and processing
Vegetable planting
Water management
Rainwater harvesting
EďŹƒcient irrigation
Vermi-composting
Organic composting
50
Community based research and organization
FARMING
FOUR-BED CROP ROTATION: organic pest control Area 1: add compost and plant potatoes and tomatoes. When crop finishes, sow onions or leeks for overwinter
16-2
12-1
Area 2: sow parsnips, carrots, parsley. Fill gaps with lettuce and follow with manure in winter
Example of Four-bed Crop Rotation
organic pest control members of any family should not be grown in same spot for more than 1 year
Access to healthy food Raising awareness Physical activity
Social Integration between social strata
Area 1: Enrich area with compost and plant potatoes and tomatoes (Solanaceae). When crop has finished, sow onions or leeks (Allium) for an overwinter crop.
Area 1
Area 4
Area 2
Area 3
Removal of social stigma
Area 4: If this is your second subsequent year, harvest the oni or leeks previously growing here o winter. Then sow peas and beans (legum When harvest has finished, lime soil for Brassicas which will move from area 3 to ccupy the space n
Empowerment and Mobilization Education Food security Safety Stewardship
Area 2: Sow parsnips, carrot, parsley (Umbelferae). Fill gaps with lettuce and follow with a soil-enriching green manure during winter
Area 3: Grow cabbage, kale, aru (Brassicas) during the summer a follow with winter varieties of cabbage and Brussels sprouts.
Economic Source of income Employment generator Formalization of informal vendors
Area 3: grow cabbage, kale, arugala in summer and in winter, cabbage and brussels sprouts
Ecological Water remediation Soil improvement
Area 4: in 2nd year, harvest onions, leeks grown in winter. Sow peas, beans. Post harvest, lime soil for Brassicas
Dust mitigation Noise absorption Increasing biodiversity
produce sold at farmer’s market
DESIGN AND EFFICIENCY
Pathways + Market
Edges + Garden
Composting
Irrigation
N
SITE PLAN
natural water edge passive recreation
individual garden plots agriculture
community gardens agriculture
informal recreational spaces recreation
agriculture
THE LECHMERE LIBRARY: GRADIENT OF COLLECTION AND DISPERSAL Half-semester individual studio project, Spring 2012, MIT
Roof
Program
The library privileges the person that privileges it.The more you invest in it, the more it will give back to you. If you are curious, noncommittal, you will still get a taste. It will let you sample its periphery, so that you might return later when you have more time. To the Passerby, the library presents the notion of a future encounter with that which is protected within its walls. To the Commuter, it will provide temporary shelter and the morning caffeine fix. To the Browser, it gives quick access to desired infofix. And to the Reader and User it will open the depth of its curated and expertly selected collection.
Core
Structure
Quad 4
Ground
Quad 1 The gradient of commitment is mediated by its oblique plans. And the views that it allows across the different grain of inhabitation in its four quadrants are always collected back together by the oblique. The exaggerated perspectival views and the light washing down the oblique tease movement through and exploration of this building, sideways and upward. One is never granted the total view, but the experience of the building’s fragments are both varied and related. The architecture’s task here is to recast the expectations and the experience of the library in a stranger light, it facilitates discovery and pleasure in that discovery, both individual and collective.
Quad 3
Quad 2
Quad 1: Mass of books
Quad 2: Gradient of open trays
Quad 3: Gradient of open trays
Quad 4: Programmed slope
HOUSE FOR AN ORNITHOLOGIST semester-long individual studio project, Fall 2012, MIT
LIVING WALL: INHABITABLE AND PERFORMATIVE
EPHEMERAL INSTALLATION: SKEWED SEAT 2-week studio project in collaboration with Maya Taketani and Trygve Wastvedt Fall 2011, MIT
This installation is an aggregation of waffle-constructed cubes that modify the circulation and rhythm of the north dome hallway of MIT. The boxes also serve as seats and tables that can be rearranged to serve particular needs, creating a continually changing installation. Seat tops were CNC-milled foam contoured surfaces and tables were MDF.
human intervention
Initial Plan
Reconfigured Plan
Connectors
Singles
Top-Partials
Connectior 27” to 36”
Top-Partial 36” Top-Partial 27”
Single 36” Single 27”
Single 18”
Connectior 18” to 27” or 18” to 36”
Connectior 27” to 36” or 18” to 18”
section AA
section BB
Buffalo Sun Path Path of Sun on Summer Solstice at Noon Path of Sun on Winter Solstice at Noon
DEN[CITY]: ACCESS TO GROUND apartment complex: Buffalo, NY Semester- long Comprehensive studio project, Fall 2010, UB
24.5
2 bedroom apartment B
B
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio summer Lopez-Piñeiro winter
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
Composting Opportunities in the City of Buffalo
Delaware Park and Forest Lawn Cemetary plant materials
Buffalo Reuse has tried small scale outdoor composting from neighborhood donations City Residents can contribute their waste for compost
Surrounding businesses such as Lexington Co-Op and Spot Coffee have contributed to compost in past
Site of Apartment Building
Buffalo Central Terminal Experimental composting since “October Storm” provided wood chip supply
Public Library
Broadway
Section AA Looking towards Ellicott scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
City Context
garden
garden
A
A
A A
B
B
1st floor
2nd floor
enter/ exit
1 bedroom apartment B
B winter garden
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: summer winter Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro garden section AA
garden
A B
summer garden
section BB
A A B
1st floor
A enter/ exit
2nd floor
1 bedroom Unit Design apartment B
winter garden
B
summer garden summer garden section AA
winter garden A
section BB A
A A B
B
1st floor
enter/ exit
2nd floor
scale: 1/8”=1’-0”
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
accessible studio
unit arrangement elevation
3 bedroom apartment B
B
winter
accessible studio
2 bedroom
1garden bedroom
3 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
summer garden
3 bedroom
accessible studio 1 bedroom
1 bedroom
2 bedroom
2 bedroom
section BB
section AA
3 bedroom
1 bedroom
1 bedroom
scale: 1/8”=1’-0”
A
winter garden
summer garden
studio/accessible apartment A
A
accessible studio 2 bedroom
B
unit arrangement elevation 1st floor
B
2nd floor summer garden
A
winter garden
summer garden
A
B 1st floor
studio/accessible apartment B
section AA
accessible 2 bedroom accessible 2 bedroom
accessible studio
A winter garden
B
accessible studio
section BB
section AA
Buffalo Sun Path Path of Sun on Summer Solstice at Noon Path of Sun on Winter Solstice at Noon
section BB
A
winter garden
scale: summer 1/8”=1’-0” garden
B 1st floor
Unit Design
A
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
accessible studio 1 bedroom
1 bedroom
1 bedroom
2 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
accessible studio accessible 2 bedroom accessible 2 bedroom
A B
enter/ exit
2nd floor
Buffalo SunACCESS Path Habitation: TO GROUND
Laura Schmitz Path of Sun on Summer Solstice at Noon ARC 403 winter Fall 2010 garden Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro Path of Sun on
Winter Solstice at Noon
summer garden
section BB section BB
B
scale: 1/8”=1’-0”
24.5
accessible studio
unit arrangement A elevation
B
2nd floor
accessible studio
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
3 bedroom
accessible studio 1 bedroom
1 bedroom
1winter bedroom garden
2 bedroom entrance exit
2 bedroom
1 bedroom
accessible studio accessible 2 bedroom accessible to second 2 bedroom floor
summer garden to first floor
B
BB
summer garden B 1st floor
A
3 bedroom apartment, winter
3 bedroom unit, winter section BB
ale: 1/8”=1’-0”
Section BB Broadway
scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
SUSTAINABLE COMPOSTING
First Floor Plan: Indoor Public Composting Facility residents’ parking
vehicle entrance
compost piles
lobby, mail
compost collection from upper floors
residents’ entry pedestrian compost drop-off
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
SUSTAINABLE WATER USE
Local Sources of Compost:
Site: Buffalo, NY
Turning Garbage into Ground
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND
Shredded Paper from Offices
Coffee Grounds from Coffee Shop
611'
612'
Sustainable Water Use
Broadway
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
Sustainable Materials andevaporation Construction
Garden Trimmings from Library
Fallen Leaves from Park
Sustainable Water Use 617'
rooftop rain water collection and storage
619'
620'
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618'
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616'
615'
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613'
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Sustainable Materials and Construction
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Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
rooftop rain water collection and storage
concrete slabs made from recycled aggregate
Local Sources of Compost: Turning Garbage into Roof Ground Plan Site: Buffalo, NY
concrete slabs made from recycled aggregate
gardens waterd by rainwater collection and naturally filtered greywater heavy northern insulation from recycled material
gardens waterd by rainwater collection and naturally filtered greywater
outdoor heavy northernsecond insulation from recycled material
floor terraces in 1 and 3 bedroom apartments units
outdoor second floor terraces in 1 and 3 bedroom apartments units
water jet system to periodically cleanse waste shutes
water jet system to periodically cleanse waste shutes
outdoor gardening allows for natural fertilization and pest control
outdoor gardening allows for natural fertilization and pest control
Elevation
Waste Reduction less energy used to transport waste to landfill
Waste Reduction compost ventilation
less energy used to transport waste to landfill
compost ventilation
scale: 1/8” = 1’-0”
Site Ecology green roofs, gardens, living machine and rainwater he building collection service th the
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scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
evaporation
Section through terraces
scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
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Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND
Local Sources of Compost:
Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
Site: Buffalo, NY
Turning Garbage into Ground
B
Shredded Paper from Offices
Composting Opportunities in the City of Buffalo B
B
Coffee Grounds from Coffee Shop B
611'
Delaware Park and Forest Lawn Cemetary plant materials
612'
Ellic ott
B
B
B
B
Fallen Leaves from Park
618'
619'
620'
62 1'
617'
616'
615'
614'
613'
Wash ingto n
B
Broadway
B
B
B
Buffalo Reuse has tried small scale outdoor composting from neighborhood donations
Garden B Trimmings from Library B
B
B
B
City Residents can contribute B their waste for compost
617'
B
B
N Plans Continued
N
Roof Plan
scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”
Surrounding scale: 1/16”businesses =1’-0” such as Lexington Co-Op and Spot Coffee have contributed to compost in past
Site of Apartment Building
Buffalo Central Terminal Experimental composting since “October Storm” provided wood chip supply
Public Library
Broadway
Elevation
Section AA Looking towards Ellicott
scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
City Context
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Pi単eiro
elevator equipment area
Residential Heating : decentralized /heat only water each unit has gas boiler hydronic heating distribution by floor level via fin tube convectors
individual boilers in residential units hydronic fin tube heating distribution
meter room
elevator equipment area
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Pi単eiro
individual boilers in units fin tube radiation heating
Elevator Equipment Rooms Meter Room
elevator equipment area
Residential Heating : decentralized /heat only water each unit has gas boiler hydronic heating distribution by floor level via fin tube convectors
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND
Hydronic heating distribution
individual boilers in residential units
Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Pi単eiro
plumbing walls
meter room
hydronic fin tube heating distribution
elevator equipment area
Whole Building Residential
elevator equipment area individual boilers in units Residential Heating : decentralized /heat only fin tube radiation heating water each unit has gas boiler hydronic Meter Room heating distribution by floor level via fin tube convectors
Elevator Equipment Rooms
individual boilers in residential units hydronic fin tube heating distribution
Hydronic heating distribution plumbing walls ventilation in parking underground
Parking
75
separate boiler and heating system for Public Program
meter room
elevator equipment area
Public Program Services Whole Building
Building services: HVAC + plumbing
Residential
individual boilers in units fin tube radiation heating
Elevator Equipment Rooms Meter Room
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
slice model 1/4” = 1’-0”
Section Details scale: 3/4” = 1’-0” Section Details
scale: 3/4” = 1’-0”
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
Habitation: ACCESS TO GROUND Laura Schmitz ARC 403 Fall 2010 Professor: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
10 Roof and Water Collection site-cast two-way flat slab with tensile reinforcement site-cast reinforced concrete half-wall Rigid Batt Insulation vapor barrier concrete topping drain pipe
9 Interior Residential Ceiling finish
8 Exterior Residential Terrace two-way flat slab with tensile reinforcement Rigid Batt Insulation vapor barrier concrete topping Railing
7 Garden Assembly site cast reinforced concrete slabs Irrigation pipe Drain pipe Water vapor barrier Soil
6 Interior wall on upper floors Site cast reinforced concrete columns Wall
finish
5 Interior Floor site cast two-way flat slab with tensile reinforcement concrete topping
4 External wall on upper floors Site cast reinforced concrete load baring walls Rigid Batt Metal
Insulation
Mullions
Glass Windows Interior finish
3 External wall at ground level Site Cast Reinforced Concrete Rigid Batt Insulation Concrete Topping Metal Mullions Glass Windows
2 Superstructure Site Cast Reinforced Concrete
1 Substructure Foundations Retaining Wall Basement Slab
Elevation scale:Elevation 1/4” = 1’-0” scale: 1/4” = 1’-0”
Elevation scale: 1/4” = 1’-0”
MOSQUE: SHIFTED CENTER Semester- long individual studio project, Spring 2009, UB
SPHERE PRECEDENTS The ideas of unity, centrality, equality, continuity, and symmetry inherent to the geometric properties of the sphere are disrupted when its center is shifted.
What if Mecca was the center of the Earth?
Earth reoriented to show the relationship of the given site at Buffalo to the city of Mecca, the center of the Muslim spiritual world. The rotated Earth shown in relationship to the addition of a second sphere designed with Mecca at its center.
B
B
A
ROOF ELEVATION SCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"
A
MECCA NORTH
MECCA
SECTION - B SCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"
B
C
SECTION - A SCALE: 1/8" = 1'-0"
Library Expansion Circulation Axonometric
Prayer Space Ablution Pool Women’s Entrance Ramp Men’s Entrance Ramp Mecca North
FORT NIAGARA VISITOR’S CENTER Semester- long individual studio project, Fall 2008, UB
PRECEDENT: PLESHEY CASTLE
In the English motte and bailey castle, Pleshey, the land was integrated and manipulated as a military strategy to create a fortification. Earth was strategically displaced to create voids by moving solids to form protective ridges and ditches which control the method of approach and entry. By changing the contours of the land, the ability of a body to maneuver them and travel through the space was decreased. Exploration through drawing shows the way in which the circular geometry in the positive and negative space of the topography fortified space.
SITE: FORT NIAGARA
Alterations of existing site conditions were common to both Pleshey and Fort Niagara. Both heightened the effects of typical body and ground interactions by creating extreme topographical conditions. Photographic documentation of a section cut through Fort Niagara's site, as an analysis of the changing conditions of the relationship between body, horizon and ground plane which become reference points for one's orientation in space.
LAKE ONTARIO FORT NIAGARA
ONTARIO (CANADA)
LAKE ERIE
NY (USA)
DESIGNING SPACE
The projection of planes created by critical points of change in the topography creates a volume that challenges existing relationships of body, horizon, and ground plane. The sequential path through the programmatic elements of a Visitor's Center at the present day fort focus on ascent, descent, conditions of above and below ground, and access to views outside. The volume's path is an extension of the already hyper-defined land with which it integrates below, through, above, around, and over the topography. As one travels through the Visitor's Center, one is exposed to the fort's history as well as its heightened spatial experiences.
BAT HOUSE
Led by: Professor Joyce Hwang in collaboration with Thomas Giannino, Michael Pudlewski, Nicole Marple, Mark Nowaczyk, Dan Dimillo, Matt Salzer, Jake West, Joshua Gardner, Joey Swerdlin, Summer 2008, UB
Pest Architecture: installed bat house promotes natural “pest control” in public park and has increased awareness about bats’ threatening white-nose syndrome Braille Labeling System: Number and Letter Combinations indicate module and orientation of each CNC-milled fin piece. The cut holes become traveling paths for “blind” bats that can comfortably fit through 2” diameter openings
Fabrication: CNC-milled fin system marked with braille, assembled in units in school shop and transported to site
Installation: Bat House installed at Griffis Sculpture Park, NY, Fall 2010 Approximately 12’ high and 4’ wide Bats successfully have inhabited the structure
CULTIVATING CONVERGENCES: WPA 2.0 COMPETITION in collaboration with Professor Joyce Hwang, and students Nicole Marple, Michael Pudlewski, Duane Warren and Alexandra Lima, Summer 2009, UB
We propose to resuscitate decaying infrastructural artifacts by cultivating a new set of convergences between natural ecosystems and constructed infrastructure. The principal aims of this project are to enable the development of local agricultural ecologies, as well as the propagation of new opportunities for leisure. By beginning a process of increasing public interest and visibility of this area, we hope to increase its economic and social potential for the city of Buffalo, New York. PAST grain processing diagram > linear, regional distribution
Cultivating Ecosystems over time: 3 Phase Process
CURRENT and FUTURE food production diagram > scattered, local distribution
ORCHESTRATING ECOSYSTEMIC CONVERGENCES Seasonal Mapping
This cyclical diagram investigates the relationship between the annual growing cycle of crops grown in Buffalo, the pests that affect them, natural pesticides and pollinators, and associated leisure activities.
Phase 1: Planting
Phase 2: Cultivating
Phase 3: Sustaining