Maria Teleman Architecture 2021-24 A collection of projects valuing the multi-scalar impact of design.
Grand Exchange
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The Loop
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An Intentional Community
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The Devil’s Rocker
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Three-in-One
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Grand-Exchange A library, squash center, and urban plaza in the lively neighbouhood of Fair Haven in New Haven, CT.
Fall 2023 Instructor Stella Betts
My proposal seeks to enable an interlocking exchange between library and squash, while also considering more broadly how the site can be leveraged on an urban scale.
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Recognizing the importance of the existing library meant preserving all the load bearing masonry walls, and viewing what remains as an artefact. The new library programs wrap the building, creating juxtaposition between old and new. The design promotes informal interaction through the use of the public stairs and sunken outdoor space. The building becomes and extension of the street, welcoming its vibrant community into the site. A play with elevations enables different forms of activity to take place throughout the outdoor space. Moving into the site from the commercial avenue (Grand) towards the residential neighbourhood (Exchange), greenery is used to densify the back lot, creating a visual and auditory barrier for the quiet street. Maria Teleman
Concept Diagram: Elevations
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Grand Avenue
Exchange Street
Site Section
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Site Context
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Business Hours and Activity (top left) Areas of Rest and Shelter (bottom left) Night Visibility Conditions (top right)
Existing Conditions Analysis
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Site and Main Floor Plans
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Fragment 1/8” Models
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dimension 8” x 5” x 7” dimension 42” x 12” x 36”
Street Facade
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Daylighting 1/2” Model
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Daylighting 1/2” Model
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Floor Plans
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Outdoor Spaces and Ceiling Sample
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Sections
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The Loop An elementary school and community center on the site of the Montreal Municipal Golf course.
Fall 2020 With Jonah Rappaport (all content produced in collaboration) Instructor Mariel Collard Arias
The school is a one storey loop organized around a main circulation hallway which separates the loud public spaces from the quiet private spaces. Using the existing tree line and topography, four quadrants were defined: the first one being allocated to the community center while the remaining to the three elementary school cycles.
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The quiet-loud scale aims to subdivide the school into smaller program elements categorized by the number of users, moving from the communal quadrant to the student-used central courtyard all the way to the single class outdoor learning spaces located on the outskirts of the building. While the cycles generally resemble one another in layout, communal student spaces, like the cafeteria and gymnasium, located between the cycles prevent repetitiveness. The circular layout therefore continuously provides various spatial experiences while moving through the main hallway. Maria Teleman
Tree Lines
Concept Diagram
Building Plan
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Site Plan
School Program Community Program Major Axis Minor Axis
Existing Treelines
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Critical Root Zone
Trees Removed
Tree Densities and Transparencies
Red Oak
Site and Existing Tree Conditions
Hawthorn
Colorado Spruce
Scots Pine
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Design Guides
Program Distribution
Window Typologies
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Floor Plan and Design Strategies
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01 Main Entrance and Lobby
02 Lunchroom Area
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03 Zone for 5th and 6th Grade
Floor Plan
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Plan Zoom-Ins
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Exterior and Interior Collages
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Section and Elevation
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Section A-A
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Summer: Displacement Ventilation
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Spring/Fall: Mixing Ventilation
01 High-Tech Strategies for User Control
02 Rainwater Harvesting
03 Daylighting and Shading Techniques
04 VRF and Geothermal System
Environemntal Strategies
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Wall Detail
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Structural Isometric
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Cutaway Isometric
Construction Assemblies
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Isometric Overview
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An Intentional Community A center for the deaf and the blind community forming a collective of 50 people in Fair Haven Heights.
Spring 2024 Instructor Joeb Moore
Identifying communities of need, I focused on the deaf and the blind. The project attempts to create an environment that allows individuals and groups to overlap as they seek to connect through shared experiences, common needs and fluid desires. The center acknowledges various gradients of impairment, demographic, public to private as well as outdoor to indoor needs to provide spaces where these overlap to different degrees. Barrier free design, sound control, color and texture coding as well as clarity of contrast were the main factors to consider when designing spaces for both the deaf and the blind. Distributing the program around a central garden highlighted by an aromatic cedar tree found on the site, various micro-climates are created. These act as anchors connecting the activity room, common area, play area, laundry room, units and library to one another. Maria Teleman
Concept Diagram
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The Site The site located in Fair Haven Heights is large, untouched, forested. From a human experience, one walks the site, interacts with the soil, the leaves, the tree trunks and looks up to admire the canopy and its wildlife. The site emphasizes an almost exclusionary multi-sensorial environment through its current purity. At a human scale, I saw the site as being about its senses. As we intervened on the site, how could we emphasize the existing, untouched nature of what once was?
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Identifying two communities dependent on contrasting sense, I wanted to create an environment that allows them to overlap as they seek to connect through shared experiences, common needs and fluid desires. While the deaf highly rely on their sight, the blind are highly reliant on hearing to orient themselves in relation to the space they occupy. By intensively researching these two communities and trying to understand their needs four factors overlapped for both: visibility, acoustics, materials and light. Deploying these needs on the site varied on the degree of impairment, the demographic, the public/private realms and outdoor/indoor conditions. Experiential models intended to address various conditions were generated to synthesize the extensive research phase, generating the following design guidelines:
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Private Spaces
Shared Spaces
Outdoor Spaces
Who and How?
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Private Spaces: The Deaf
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Private Spaces: The Blind
Friday, March 3, 2023
Private Spaces
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Shared Spaces
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Outdoor Spaces
Shared and Outdoor Spaces
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A Central Connector: The Cedar
Loud Quiet
Loud versus Quiet Site Subdivision
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01 Garden 02 Common Area 03 Play Area 04 Laundry Room 05 Units 06 Library
Program Distribution Nodes
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Site Strategies
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Site Model: Wood, Foamcore, Frosted Mylar Topography: Layered Chipboard, Spray paint
Site Model
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Sources of Tranquility
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Common Area and Activity Room
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Nature and Wayfinding
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Play Area
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Dynamic Exchanges
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Units Area and Laundry Room
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Design in the Details
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Library
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Sectional Experiential Moments
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The Devil’s Rocker A project seeking to question and redefine the design of the rocking chair.
Summer 2021 With Michael K. Mayer (all content produced in collaboration) Personal Project
Inspired by Matter Design’s work, The Devil’s Rocker uses first principles thinking to redesign the standard rocking chair by transforming the relaxing experience into a thrilling adventure.
45” radius ordinary rocking chair
By using computational tools and manipulating the center of mass (COM), we position it closer beneath the center of rotation (COR) compared to an ordinary rocking chair. With a greater seat tilt, the user can rock back, creating the illusion of tipping over as their upper body is almost horizontal, while righting themselves due to the moment created. The built prototype was milled using a CNC machine, maximizing precision to achieve the desired design. dimension 42” x 22” x 29.5” material baltic birch 2 x 0.95” glue-up, 3/8” oak caps, 3.5” wood screws, wood glue
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30” radius our concept
COR COM Concept Diagram
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Rocker Principles
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Assembly Diagram
Concept and Chair Assembly Diagrams
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Three-in-One A game designed to extrapolate the concepts of La Maison de Jean Prouvé.
Fall 2023 Instructor Michael Surry Schlabs
Jean Prouvé was a self-taught engineer and architect from France. Starting as a manual worker in the iron industry, he developed an interest in innovaion through craftsmanship. After having to leave his factory in 1954, he began building a home for himself and his family in Nancy. This autobiographical house became a practical application of his architectural philosophy, the site of a tangible conclusion. Faced with the need for improvisation, Prouvé applied his innovative thinking by putting prefabricated items to new uses. A simple and honest type of domestic architecture was created. This game wishes to embody the values of La Maison Jean Prouvé. Reconfiguring a set of components, players can play three games, each with a different scope. The design invites participants to generate new variations through innovation and collaboration. Fitting all the pieces flat on the base becomes a fun little bonus game. Maria Teleman
Game Poster Inspired by L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Janvier 1946 dimension 14” x 20” material 3/4” mdf, navy spray paint, 1/8” cork, 1/2” basswood dowels, 1/4” basswood & acrylic dowels, masking tape
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Multiplayer Setups
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Alternative Game Configurations
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