Selected Works 2018 - 2020
Maggie Martin
Studio Projects Physio Reality Pages 4-9
Via Cavour Pages 10-15
CloudScape Pages 16-21
Design Work Watchtower Pages 24-27
Research Sound Pavillion Pages 30-35
“Man lives and moves in what he sees, but he only sees what he wants to see. Try different types of people in the midst of any landscape. A philosopher will only vaguly see phenomena; a geologist, crystallized, confused rined and pulverized epochs; a soldier oppertunites and obstacles; and for a peasant it will only represent acres, and perspiration and profits but all of them will have this in common, that they will see nothing as simply a view” -Paul Valery “On Painting”
Physio Reality Fall 2020
“Only Nature is truly Continuous. The builders of buildings must contend with construction in parts. Operating thusly, under original sin, the will to continutity and discontinuity is the source of pleasure and pain, virtue and vice. Man is finite and so are his products.” Atlas of the novel techtonics Liz Galvez’s Studio 2020 Fall semester was titled Air Architecture, a studio questioning phenomena, sensations, and environments. What began as a study of insulation evolved to a survey of cavity walls and their many layers that retain our comfort perception. Physio reality challenges the need for central air and the 72-degree artificial climate we often find ourselves occupying and placing full responsibility of comfort in the hands of materials and their manipulation. The project designs walls to be opened, peeled back layer by layer, allowing occupants to explore and become responsible for their environment directly. The project questions the given “recipes” of various wall types, using off-the-shelf materials accounting for the advanced disposal rate of manipulated materials. While the project gains atmospheric connections and releases the occupants from sealed rooms, it also generates an increased amount of waste. An opportunity to catalog the decay of these materials is placed at the forefront of the project. The site’s spine is a large-scale archive, a boneyard of the building’s past.
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Via Cavour Spring 2020
Situated on the corner of Via Cavour and Via Dei Fori Imperiali, one of Rome’s most historic locations, this public building acts as a sanctuary for the neighboring community and visitors. The area is one of the most visited city spaces by tourists, with the Colosseum and the Roman Forum as the building’s neighbors. However, the project is bordered by residences and a school. Through a dual façade, the exterior is wrapped in a barrier, allowing for privacy, while the courtyard façade activates the building through its undulating transparencies. The biaxial plan dissolving from the street edge through the building to the courtyard provides pockets of the program and various degrees of privacy. Upon entry, the visitor is pulled down into the building, then lifted through the circulation and café core or continuing into the protected courtyard space, paralleled with a daycare. A primary event space becomes the building’s center point, with the adjacent café and office feeding into gathering space through circulation. While the exterior courtyard is a primary community space, the rooftop terrace becomes a secondary area for events and viewing of Rome’s most significant archeological sites.
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Cloudscape Fall 2019
Set in downtown Boston Caddy Dan Zahng’s Studio questions urban farmings place in a dense city setting. The project is a statement on the timeline of architecture and the accumulation of use on buildings, particularly the waste accumulation produced by the animal product industry. It focuses on how we design for a climate and society now and later. It provides an answer for what happens when we take accountability for a building 100 years from now. The project flips a neighborhood’s existing building circulation, bottom to top, in reverse. The project is a solution that adapts to rising tides and allows cities to infill as required. The grid system stabilizes existing buildings allowing for the lifestyle change to happen gradually. The project provides a physically sustainable community structure; the project also offers a community park and farm that supports feeding and jobs to the primary residences while still giving the district space to expand.
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Design Work
Watchtower Summer 2020
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Located on Long Farm in Concord, NC, The watchtower is a secondary structure annexed from the client’s home. The watchtower, the lighthouse, and the deer stand all have a precarious history, one a lineage of oppression, one of safety, and the last modern man’s position in nature. However, all place an individual teetering over a landscape left to contemplate for an often lengthy period of time. When a previous professor and mentor asked for a remote office that would allow them to keep an eye and light on the vegetable beds across their farm, a vertical steel structure was designed. The project offers a secluded philosopher’s office, sat atop a micro-library of tools and objects. The thinker passes through the object library through a spiral staircase up to a platform providing maximum look-out space, possibly for contemplating and sipping tea. The visitor then steps down into the office, fit with a builtin desk, movable wall panels, and light tunnels, all manipulated through levers found at the desk. The project prioritizes the client and his hours sat at a desk, providing a modulated home office that reimagines these building typologies. *Currently under construction
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Sound pavillion
“Architect’s Newspaper 2019 Editors Pick Best of Design Award for Research” Summer 2018-2019
The project title, Allotrope, draws from its chemistry definition which involves different physical forms of the same element caused by variation in arrangement and type of bond. For instance, both diamond and graphite are made of carbon, yet they exhibit very different properties. In the case of Allotrope Architecture, the same design and fabrication methods can be applied to generate multiple design solutions at various scales as seen with the proposed architectural concepts at the scale of a brick, pavilion, and infrastructure. Gypsum is one of the most commonly used building materials today. However, despite its ubiquitous appropriation in architecture and construction, few domains of research and fabrication seek to provide opportunistic design approaches for its application. Outside of typical wall board, contemporary production of architectural elements range from cornices to column covers, which use Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) products to pick up the intricacies of ornament. In industry the production of these parts come with a catalog of options allowing for multiple casts using the same mold, not unlike the application of complex formal molds for automobile production. Drawing from these existing processes, the Allotrope Architecture project seeks to find ways to explore innovative alternatives to the use of GFRG, while also developing design methods which allow for repetitive use of molds by aggregating similar panels in threedimensional space with variable relationships between them. + Rachel Dickey with Alexander Cabral, Drake Cecil, William Hutchins, Hana Maleki, Margaret Martin, Jarrod Norris, Ashkan Radnia, Robert Sachs, and Hunter Sigmon. *Description taken from official project publishing, My role as an undergraduate research assistant was spent on drawings and fabrication from start to finish as well as some design influence from previous research.
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