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I strive for artful, critical, expansive ways of feeling and thinking.
MARCO JULIANI EMAIL_marcotjuliani@gmail.com MOBILE_(520) 954-8150 WEB_mjuliani.com NATIONALITY/ CITIZENSHIP_Ecuador/ USA BIRTH DATE_January 6th, 1990 MARITAL STATUS_Single *3 years of experience
/PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
/SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
/EXHIBITION + COMPETITION
RHINOCEROS 4+5 GRASSHOPPER (CURRENT BUILD) VRAY FOR RHINO ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE CS6 AUTOCAD 2010-CURRENT MICROSOFT WORD + EXCEL REVIT 2012-CURRENT
02/2016
(BASIC EXPOSURE/ PURSUING) ZBRUSH MAYA 2013 3DMAX PYTHON PL VASARI HTML + CSS PROCESSING PL
Junior Designer ENGAGED IN SD, DD, CD PHASES OF PROJECTS OF MULTIPLE SCALES AND LOCATIONS. RECENTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MIXED USE PROJECT IN SAN FRANCISCO, A RESIDENTIAL TOWER IN INDONESIA, AND A GROUND UP HIGH END RETAIL STORE. _San Francisco, CA _ http://www.woodsbagot.com/
07/2013 - 10/2013
Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design Junior Architect WORKING DIRECTLY UNDER PRINCIPALS, I WAS INVOLVED PRIMARILY IN THE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PHASES FOR MULTIPLE CUSTOM RENOVATIONS IN BOTH EAST AND WEST COASTS. _Oakland, CA _ http://www.buttrickwong.com/
05/2011 - 08/2011
Slade Architecture Summer Intern INVOLVED IN CONCEPTUAL AND SCHEMATIC DESIGN DIRECTLY UNDER PRINCIPALS. RESPONSIBLE FOR CRAFTING AND COMPILING WEEKLY PRESENTATION DRAWINGS. PARTICIPATED IN ON-SITE MEETINGS WITH CLIENTS. I ALSO GOT LIMITED EXPOSURE TO CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS. _New York, NY _ http://www.sladearch.com/
/EDUCATION 08/2008 - 05/2013
University of Arizona 5 year BArch
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _ http://capla.arizona.edu/
Minor in Business Administration ELLER COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT _ http://eller.arizona.edu/ _Tucson, AZ
Participation
COLLABORATED WITH MY FRIEND YUKUN ZHOU. _ http://www.dupontunderground.org/ 10/2015
Laka 2015: Architecture That Reacts Participation
EARTHQUAKES’ IMMINENT REALITY AND THE POTENTIAL FOR BOTTOM UP PREVENTATIVE MEASURES INSPIRED ME TO TAKE THIS ON WITH OCCASIONAL COLLABORATION WITH FRIENDS. _http://lakareacts.com/competition/ 04/2013
02/2014 - CURRENT
Woods Bagot
Dupont Underground Re-Ball Challenge
/INVOLVEMENT 04-05/2016
Petchitecture 2016 THIS IS A CHARITY INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT A NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION CALLED ‘PAWS’ (PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT). A SMALL TEAM AT WOODS BAGOT GOT TOGETHER TO DESIGN AND FABRICATE A CAT LABYRINTH THAT WILL BE ACTIONED OFF IN A SILENT AUCTION (PROCEEDS GO TO ‘PAWS’) AND RECEPTION HELD ON WEDNESDAY MAY 25TH AT THE FAIRMONT HOTEL IN SF. _San Francisco, CA _http://www.shanti.org/pages/petchitecture_2016.html 10/2015-CURRENT
WB SF Technical Innovation Group/ SF Computational User Group RECENTLY OUR LOCAL STUDIO FORMED A SMALL GROUP THAT IS IN CHARGE OF ORGANIZING EFFORTS AROUND DISTRIBUTING KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS AROUND DESIGN TECHNOLOGY AS IT RELATES TO THE GLOBAL WOODS BAGOT PRACTICE. THIS INCLUDES ACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH DT LEADERS AROUND KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION, BEST PRACTICES, AND INTEGRATION WITH THE R&D ARM OF WOODS BAGOT. _San Francisco, CA 07/2014
Smartgeometry 2014 Workshop WAS ONE OF FOUR WOODS BAGOT EMPLOYEES SELECTED FROM A COMPANY-WIDE APPLICATION PROCESS TO ATTEND THIS INTERNATIONAL DESIGN TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE. PARTICIPATED IN THE HKSMARTOWERS CLUSTER WHERE WE USED CUSTOM WORKFLOW TOOLS IN GRASSHOPPER TO INTEGRATE BIM INTO THE RHINO + GH ENVIRONMENT. _Hong Kong _http://smartgeometry.org/ 06/2013
d3 Housing Tomorrow Competition Showcased Work
SUBMISSION SELECTED BY CURATORS FOR EXHIBITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE GALLERY. _Tucson, AZ 11/2012
Student Showcase 1st Place
UNIVERSITY-WIDE STUDENT SHOWCASE HOSTED BY THE GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT COUNCIL. PLACED 1ST (WITH TEAMMATE RENE CORELLA) IN THE ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CATEGORY IN THE UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION. _Tucson, AZ
/TRAVEL AND RESIDENCE Berlin
03/2015
Amsterdam 03/2015
Barcelona 03/2015
Oakland/ San Francisco 07/2013-CURRENT
Tucson, AZ
‘2ND HOME’ 2008-2013
Quito, Ecuador
HOME 1990-CURRENT
Tokyo
ACADEMIC TRAVEL 06/2013
Hong Kong
ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL 2013/2014
New York
SUMMER INTERNSHIP 06-08/2011
Kai-Tak Urban Design Practicum
PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN THE DESIGN AND COMPILATION OF OUR STUDIO’S PROPOSAL IN A MONTHLONG CHARRETTE EXERCISE ON THE FUTURE OF THE FORMER KAI-TAK AIRPORT SITE IN KOWLOON CITY. THIS COLLABORATION WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS AT THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG SERVED AS AN INVESTIGATION OF COLLABORATIVE THINKING IN SPECULATIVE URBANISM. _Hong Kong _ http://www.blurb.com/b/4547096-kai-tak-redevelopmentmaster-plan
/LANGUAGES NATIVE FLUENCY ENGLISH SPANISH
/REFERENCES REFERENCES UPON REQUEST.
/CURRENT WORK
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/SF MIXED USE Woods Bagot Architects
/URBAN TENDONS Competition Entry
/HK_SMARTOWERS Smartgeometry 2014
/JAKARTA RESIDENTIAL Woods Bagot Architects
/UNGROUNDED BArch Thesis
/HABITAT CONTINUUM Systems Studio
/KAI-TAK URBAN IMPLANT HK Urban Practicum
/MODULATED ENCLOSURE Paper Tent
image credits: professional renderer
/SF MIXED USE 01 >Woods Bagot Architects >Current Team: Christiana Kyrillou/ John Britton/ Marco Juliani/ Patrick Daly/ Valentino Del Rio >Role: Junior Architect >Project Status: SD- ongoing (images do not reflect latest development). This project is located in an up and coming special use district in San Francisco. The site calls for a programmatic mix and a level of density that will result in a building that will catalyze the neighborhood. It is here that we are finding the potential for an elegant and compact design that addresses the needs of contemporary office, residential, commercial, and urban open space. These programmatic adjacencies require a tightly knit bundling of building systems and spaces: some needing clear separations, while others allowing for a thoughtful overlap. While we want the building to assert itself in the cityscape, the building is planned and designed as an integral player in the larger urban form of the special use district it sits in. Questions of compactness, active street frontage, public open space, liveability, linkage to context are all present in the project’s matrix. This project seeks to address how a piece of architecture should exist as a contained operational unit that is seamlessly integrated to its broader urban context, while provoking a tacit sense of renewal.
/Site Context- Retail + Transportation Corridor
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/Building Massing- Urban Spatial Opportunities
Typology- Compact tower sitting over large horizontal podium. Podium scale reflects neighborhood context. Podium facade engages the already dynamic slope of Post St. This is used as a connective element as one moves horizontally and vertically in and around the project.
Elevated Greenspace- This space is afforded by the light footprint of the residential tower on the podium roofscape. The public space faces the most desirable view of downtown and the bay.
Surface Articulation- The project’s massing is broken down into surfaces that give the project an apparent scale that is closer aligned with the temperament of the context.
/SF MIXED USE
/Podium Program + Systems
Building Services
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/Podium- Urban Expression/Visibility
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Podium Development /SF MIXED USE
/Public Realm Entry 1- After various entry sequence studies we determined that dedicated entries into different lobbies and commercial spaces were adequate: stepping the slabs. These dedicated surfaces are tied together by a broader 10 foot margin of pavers and planters that act as an extended sidewalk. This became the stage set for the convening of the public where light, vegetation, and an extended sidewalk were prioritized over vehicular accommodations. Entry 2- The automotive showroom heritage of the existing building will reincarnate itself in our building in scale and character. Sectional studies and the project’s intended prominence along the main avenue led to a double height entrance that reveals itself beneath a ‘veiled’ massing, drawing the public in and activating the street edge.
Street Elevation
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/Linking Contextual Datims with Activity Vectors Podium Language- The overall massing of the podium was conceived as a duality of an inner volume wrapped by an outer shell. The so-called ‘veil’ became a gesture to signal entry while expressing the glazed inner volume behind it. This language also serves to accentuate the dynamic sectional quality of the site.
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Levels 2- 5 had largely uniform programmatic demands calling for a rather homogenous degree of fenestration along the facade. Thus we sought design opportunities for nuanced expression along the ‘veil’ that would be responsive to both interior/ exterior demands.
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image credits: professional renderer
/Residential Tower- Enclosure + Plans
Residential Tower- Curtain Wall Studies
Residential Tower- Program+ Systems
Building Systems
Apartments (Typical Plan)
Restaurant
Residential Tower- Facade Studies
/SF MIXED USE
/URBAN TENDONS 02 >LAKA Architecture Reacts >Competition Entry >October 2015
Cities along the United States’ Pacific coastline are grossly underprepared for a major earthquake event. Loss of life and damage to life supporting infrastructure is a direct result of a society‘s preparedness. Resiliency to such an event would require a multi-part, systematic, city-wide strategy of preemptive and reactive strategies consisting of tangible and intangible systems: radio-alerting systems, mass transit automatic safety systems, seismically adequate buildings, the rate at which critical infrastructure can be repaired, the evacuation to safety from an ensuing tsunami. Of the stages of an earthquake, the aftermath how it is dealt with is probably the key determinant in the magnitude of immediate and enduring loss and damage. We shift our focus to the event itself: the shaking of the earth. Our proposal can be thought of as a preemptive technology system- a network of seismically passive damping devices that are ‘actuated’ physically by the earthquake. While each device or ‘tendon’ is linked to an average of between 6 and 12 buildings, it dissipates vibration loads inflicted upon building structures and it provides streets with coverage from falling debris.
/Why Mid-Rises? Why Between Buildings?
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3 MID & HIGHRISE & STREET
Retrofitting housing usually entails adding an added layer of structural rigidity between the foundation and the rest of the structure.
Retrofitting viable on case by case basis. Best approach is integrating seismic control systems at the onset of design: base isolation systems, tuned mass dampers, etc.
Retrofitting the city with a systematic, ad-hoc approach- stepping over conventional boundaries of building/ street, private/ public property.
Desired Performace: Building movement to be reduced through base separation from the ground and through dissipation of vibration. Damping devices to counteract building movement directly.
Desired Performance: A collective structural network of buildings whose vibration energy is dissipated by damping devices. ‘Tendon’ envelope to protect the streets.
Desired Performace: The house and the foundation should move as a single body. Cost: ~$5,00o on average Impact: Only significant/ scalar in preventing damage and loss if everyone does it and earthquake strikes while most people are in the comfort of their home.
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Cost: Varies widely. Impact: Scalar in preventing damage and loss as a single highrise contains hundreds and potentially thousands of people.
Cost: One tendon for every 12 buildings. ~$20,000 per tendon. Impact: The street as a current nonsite that is an extension of all buildings would prevent major damages if addressed properly. If damping the buildings and securing the streets of a midrise city’s downtown district is achieved, hundreds and thousands could be saved.
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[CITY-WIDE STRATEGY: APPROPRIATING THE BELT TRUSS] In the example to the left, a ‘super truss’ (a belt truss and a mega truss) is used to divert building loads to the perimeter columns. We are taking the concept they are using to divert vertical loads to the perimeter and reincarnating into a different use. We are looking at the belt truss concept as a structural device that receives and dissipates lateral forces by binding itself to building perimeters, between levels 2-5. Our‘ building tendons’ attach themselves to the buildings along this datum band. It is between this loading area and our ‘building tendons’ that the systems‘s axial forces get resolved and the vibration energy dissipated through the use of fluid viscous dampers. Vibration loads and their transfer from building to tendon to building is uniformly distributed across the system, minimizing strain on any individual building.
^These images are taken from a CTBUH journal paper titled Application of Seismic Isolation Systems in Japanese Highrise Buildings published in 2015.
/URBAN TENDONS
/Downtown San Francisco 2020
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/Sample Dampening Device
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Geometry of tendon shaped to bulb out at connection/ column locations
Viscous fluid damper + tube steel (1st tier)
Tube steel- uniform distribution of energy about system (2nd tier)
Tube steel- Spokes distributed energy back to central hub cylinder which resolves compression loads by redistributing them to spokes (3rd tier)
High Strength PTFE which filters UV rays and is clad in perovskite solar cells. This recharges it during the day and emits light at night. (Enclosure )
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/URBAN TENDONS
/HK_SmarTowers 03 >Smartgeometry 2014: Design + Technology Workshop and Conference >Attendance Upon Selection: Firm-wide Competition >Role: Designer/ Contributor >Cluster/Team: Ramon van der Heijden/ Jason Carlow/ Gustav Fagerstrom/ Alan Tai/ Christian Lange/ Marco Juliani/ Megan Ng/ Oliver Thomas/ Piotr Baszynski/ Luca Maccarinelli/ Binsun Hu/ Amos Chan/ Vincent Ip/ Albert Lo/ Riyad Joucka/ Mariane de Souza/ Alison Li/ Xinliu Huang HK_Smartowers was a topological investigation of the hidden possibilities of the ubiquitous housing block that characterizes Hong Kong, a typology that is a direct result of building regulations and market forces. The uncompromising drive for profits and the need to comply with building codes are the main determinants for the form and prevalence of what we came to coin as ‘clone towers’. Conceptually the exercise was to take a small number of floor plate profiles (the ones that have proved to work in HK) and to produce composite building massings that used these profiles as building blocks. Our massing explorations would not be single extrusions, but rather stacked profiles of different heights that began to effectively ‘carve’ at the simple extrusion. This was facilitated through the manipulation of a grasshopper definition that allowed the team to not only model several massing intents quickly, but also to obtain quantitative data of the components of each: columns, connectors, beams, cladding panels. This allowed us to keep a somewhat real-time inventory and readjust our design accordingly (as the number of pieces we had were limited). The scale models we built were made of laser-cut acrylic beams and columns cut on two axes, 3D-printed connectors, and laser cut Plexiglas panels of seven colors- each corresponding to its respective angle. This limited ‘kit of parts’ allowed for the fabrication of four 1:200 scale towers in two days. This investigation was primarily focused on identifying issues of workflow and ‘data construction’ as a way of 3D modeling and fabricating.
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/JAKARTA RESIDENTIAL 04 >Woods Bagot Architects >Current Team: John Britton/ Kent Wu/ Marco Juliani/ Maulana Murdan/ Patrick Daly >Role: Junior Architect >Project Status: Ongoing (images do not reflect latest development). This project had a very clear outline from the onset. The site constraints and the screening regulation as a result of the building envelope’s proximity to the property line, exposed a very clear set of solutions. The experience of working as the sole junior designer under project designer and principals proved to be very stimulating. My main contribution to this project was exploring the building fenestration throughout and studying the relationship between: enclosure line, aluminum extrusions shading devices, slabs terminations, balconies, services and their manifestation on the enclosure. I developed a Grasshopper script to help study a variety of fin patterns and their implications on shading given varying spacing configurations and varying rotation angles to achieve 60% shading on ‘screened’ faces (per Jakarta building regulation).
/Site Constraints/ Tower Typology
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/Tower Anatomy
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/Facade Development
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image credits: professional renderer
/JAKARTA RESIDENTIAL
/UNGROUNDED 05 >BArch Thesis- Spring 2013 >Advisor: Ruben Caldwell >Suburbs Studio In order to inflect an obsolete system of spatial ordering, the architecture of infrastructure must serve as a framework over which the public realm can exercise radical renegotiations of spatial and programmatic ordering. My proposal is rooted in addressing a new architectural infrastructure that can coexist and slowly transcend the obsolete infrastructure of transportation and development that has in great part led to, and characterizes, the phenomenon of suburbia. Facilitating a transportation system at the scale of the vehicle has led to this very patchwork of unused land. Facilitating a transportation system that can house the public sphere could become the new city-street in suburbia. The juxtaposition of this new infrastructure over the existing one will rearrange the suburban landscape, renouncing to the suburban paradigm. In doing so this new spatial ordering will be closer aligned to our values as an increasingly conscientious society in regards to how we inhabit the planet. This project presupposes that in the near future the proposed ‘fragment-based’ model of development along a piece of infrastructure will be made possible through a further commoditization of property. In other words proprietors will see a business opportunity in renting a piece of their property for public amenity (infrastructure of kinds). With this in mind the infrastructure in this project spans several sites and is anchored at two extremities. The infrastructure itself provides the framework over which a new kind of development can occur, effectively a secondary ground plane that hovers above the suburban one.
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/Urban Speculations- A Case for a New Ground Proposals for Relieving Traffic Congestion in New York By Separating Pedestrians and Vehicular Traffic Harvey Wiley Corbett
New York
Venice
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Current situation: “Street is a chaos of all modes of transportation.”
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Human and vehicles coexist. Congestion creates rich environment. This seems chaotic when extrapolating for future scale/growth.
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First Step: “Pedestrians removed from street to bridges cantilevered from buildings.”
There is a clear division between ‘human’ and ‘machine’ transportation. This model has not been adopted to a great extent because of the cost of building the infrastructure.
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Second Step: “Buildings at ground plane are carved out to make way for more traffic.”
Here the ground plane truly becomes an industrial speedway, prohibiting pedestrians from it altogether.
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Final Stage: “Pedestrians cross streets on overhead bridges and City of the Future becomes reincarnation of the City of Lagoons.”
In this phase bridges connect the elevated walkways. The platform through which the pedestrian experiences the city is now analogous to how the pedestrian experiences Venice. The flow of water and the flow of automobile traffic is analogous.
What can be adopted from the example above is that of creating zones of traffic that maximize the public realm. We could create an an ‘alternative street’ in the suburbs over which city life can unfold. This insertion of a foreign infrastructural typology that allows for flexible development over a seemingly fixed suburban landscape can allow for a conflicted yet rich speculation of the possibilites of urban/ surburban life.
* The black and white images above are taken from Delirious New York.
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/Introducing Public Realm to Suburbs A Suburban Infill Typology- This diagram illustrates what is an attempt to reincorporate pockets of the public realm into the suburbs through a private-public infrastructural network.
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The surburban streets have been rendered hostile to the public. A landscape that has been privatized and unwelcoming. This infrastructural development would elevate a new streetfront of commercial leasable space, public amenities, and even dense residential space. This would effectively reinject the suburbs economically and culturally allowing for a reincarnation of city life in the suburbs.
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/Site Conditions and Patterns Linking Nodes
Adjacent Vehicular Patterns
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Strip Mall
BLDG Parcels Occupied
Bundling of Program
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Accessways to Open Space
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Entry Points
/Infrastructural System- The Backbone for a New Model of Development
Enclosing Roof Membranes
Framing
Horizontal Structural Planes
Ground Vertical Access Points
Main Gravity Lines
Foundation Walls and Footings
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/Program and Spatial Ordering
[reading wings] [neighborhood elementary school]
[single bedroom condos]
[outdoor temporary market space]
[outdoor temporary market spaceground floor]
site anchor
[service corner]
[school circulation core]
[mall parking] [elderly center]
[observation deck] [offfice space]
site anchor
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[single bedroom apartments]
[urban deck] [commercial/ office]
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/HABITAT CONTINUUM 06 >Options Studio- Spring 2012 >Advisor: Susannah Dickinson >Team: Marco Juliani/ Rene Corella
This project is a region-specific typology that seeks to flourish from the shade/water pulses that succulents depend on. Located in the midst of a city-scale storm water retention basin, the proposal seeks to thrive on the very resource it is harnessing, thus becoming a prototype for retention basin architecture and social ecology. The ‘capsule’ becomes the distilled essence of the continuum effort. It is a system-driven living enclosure in which a reciprocal exchange of energy (namely water) dictates it behavioural economy under varying conditions within the basin. Its lightness speaks of its transitory character, one that can be replicated and deployed in a continued ecological practice of resilience and low-impact infrastructure. Its formal and material character resembles that of succulents, optimizing resources and allowing for conditioned porosity, specific to the time of day.
/Site Conditions- A City Wide Basin Tucson Drainage Area/ Arroyo Chico Multi-Use Project:
Downtown Tucson
This project is multi-phase flood-control, native habitat restoration project that is being undertaken by the City of Tucson. The implementation of this series of artificial detention basins serves as flood damage protection to private and public properties, as well as an opportunity to restore riparian habitats that have been affected by careless urbanization.
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transportation
agriculture
educational
site drainage
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commercial
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habitats
Phytostabilization garden Fluctuating basin Effluent basin
recreation/ open space
housing Downtown Tucson
University of Arizona
Broadway Blvd
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/An Open Ammenity Turned Into A Link
Preserving natural habitat:
Establising connections:
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of the sharp Site extremities draw the maximum Establishing architecture’s presence along Acknowledgement the perimeter for minimal impact on the discontinuity in the suburban fabric, the amount of activity, leaving the connective scheme establishes a sense of porosity tissue of the site intact and as low impact basin. in an attempt to reconciliate adjacent development. The extremities become activity centers. neighborhoods.
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Neighborhood conditions are brought into the site: the commercial strip is continued, and the public space required for school gathering is also accomodated and made a part of the site.
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/KAI TAK URBAN IMPLANT 07 >HK Urban Design Practicum- Summer 2013 >Advisor: Mark Frederickson >Team: Marco Juliani/ Jaime Sevilla/ Kareem Najjar/ Cesar Rodriguez/ Nada Asadullah/ Nada Al Qallaf/ Wren Frederickson/ Michael Nardoci/ Joseph Dimatteo/ Yukun Zhou/ Pavel Savine This project served as an exercise in design and speculative thinking. After analyzing the former Kai-Tak airport site, and surveying its broader context, we came together as a team in a multi-part approach to hypothesizing what it is this current ‘nonsite’ could become. This workshop model allowed for a proliferation of ideas and a strong dialogue with regards to urban concerns in world cities. If I could go back and change something about the overall process we went through, I would like to employ data that could inform the built results directly. The data cities generate fascinates me and I want to learn how to harness that data and use it to create architectural dialogues/solutions/speculations.
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urban ammenities
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Site Plan 6
FOCUS AREA -Mixed-Use Residential -Raised Commercial -Interwoven green corridors -Residential Towers
proposed access infrastructure
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FOCUS AREA
-Corporate Offices -Mixed Offices -Commercial -Open Park -Recreational Facilities
night-life district
FOCUS AREA
current high-rise residential fabric- (next phase of project)
open plaza
existing cruise terminal
-Artist Studios -Exhibition Galleries -Restaurants -Commercial -Pier Commercial -Residential
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FOCUS AREA
-Cable-Car Stop -MTR Station -Existing Park -Commercial
mangrove habitat existing tunnel entranc e
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FOCUS AREA
-Aquarium -Hotel -Mall -Cable-Car Stop -MTR Station
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FOCUS AREA
-Open Market -Micro-commercial -Restaurants -Open Parks
MTR
existing park water taxi existing mall
lawn entry
proposed underpass proposed overpass
plaza existing tunnel entrance
MTR existing parks
FOCUS AREA
entry plaza
-Stadium irport museum -Cable car terminal -Indoor Sports Facilities
/KAI-TAK URBAN IMPLANT
/MODULATED ENCLOSURE 08 >Fabrication/ Furniture Elective >Advisor: Jean Luc Cuisiner
The project is an exploration into how a planar material like paper can be cut and given structural properties to create a surface that is self-supporting and thus useful for modulating light. This project seeks to mitigate ubiquitous discomfort in workplace environments through the basic notion of having the ability to modulate and control one’s personal space. Far from encouraging hermetic behaviour, this is a piece of furniture that will act as a membrane that is easily modified for the mood a space calls for. This modular membrane will be a self-supporting system (structurally) through the interlocking of folding planar surfaces. Like the light that passes between the leaves of a tree, the modular assembly of this system will allow for provocative visual permeability. Like the light that actually passes through leaves, the materiality of this system will reveal the broader environment in which it is situated through different degrees of translucency.
/Module Studies
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Site /MARCO JULIANI
/ Module Behavior Studies INTERLOCKING TABS
THESE FUNDAMENTAL FOLDS IN X/Y DETERMINE THE FIELD BEHAVIOR OF THE SURFACE ONCE SEVERAL MODULES ARE CONNECTED- THAT IS, IT DETERMINES IN WHAT WAYS THE SURFACE CAN MOVE.
(INTERLOCKING)
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HORIZONTAL PLATES (INTERLOCKING)
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THE TABS THAT OCCUR AT THE FLANKS OF THE MODULE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MODULE CONNECTIVITY/INTERLOCKING. IN THIS WAY THE PAPER IS COALESCED INTO A SINGLE SURFACE WITHOUT NEED FOR ADHESIVES.
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VERTICAL STRIPS (INTERLOCKING)
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Structural ribs panel b
VERTICAL STRIPS (STRUCTURAL SPINE)
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Lateral bracing
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OCRAM/ INAILUJ 2015