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01 | DOROTHEA DIX NATURE CENTER 15 | HOFEIDE CREMATORIUM PRECEDENT STUDY 29 | RALEIGH CITY FUNERARY CHAPEL CONTENTS
Raleigh, NC
DOROTHEA DIX NATURE CENTER
The purpose of this project is to understand how to improve the relationship between the built environment and the natural world by creating a meaningful architecture that helps not only reveal the beauty of life on earth but also helps to protect, conserve, and enhance it. This project gives an opportunity to develop an understanding about the impact of climate on the design of buildings by designing architecture that is formed and sited based on the unique regional climate factors of sun, wind, precipitation, temperature, and humidity. This project also encourages to go beyond utilizing climate and land as a driver of formal compositions, but to research and develop a conceptual idea that relates to the place including history, culture, the public realm, material, and light.
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SPR 2022 | ARC 403
Don Kranbuehl, FAIA Vershae Hite, AIA
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Boundary Extrusion Infusion Incision Extension Connection
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Design Studies | 04
Development Sketches
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Holsbeek, Belgium
HOFHEIDE CREMATORIUM
FALL 2022 | ARC 405
Matthew Griffith, AIA
Partner: Jennifer MacDonald
The Hofheide Crematorium precedent study focuses on the negotiation between key building systems (components) and how this negotiation supports, indeed is the language of, the architetural concept. Designed by RCR Arquitectes the Hofheide Crematorium rests upon a “gentle basin” within the plains of Belgium. The project is designated to maintain a close and intimate connection with nature to assist the grieving process one may endure during the passing of a loved one. The intent behind this project analysis is to identify defining factors of the project and visualize them in the form of drawing, diagramming, and modeling.
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0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ SITE PLAN N 18
GROUND FLOOR PLAN N 0’10’25’ 50’ BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN 0’10’25’ 50’ 19
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Raleigh, NC
RALEIGH CITY FUNERARY CHAPEL
The purpose of this project is to design a funerary chapel and memorial gardens adjacent to the Raleigh City Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Raleigh, NC. The Raleigh Funerary Chapel and Memorial Gardens serve as settings for private rituals and public use. Funerary architecture comprises some of the oldest and most significant examples of the history of architecture. For millennia tumuli, necropolises, and mortuary complexes served to memorialize the dead and ensure their beneficent participation in the affairs of the living. As people and cultures have reconsidered ways of memorializing the dead and created new rituals for the all-too human transition of loved ones, architecture still has a role in providing answers to the inexplicable and comfort for the living.
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FALL 2021 | ARC 404
Susan Cannon, FAIA
Thomas Barrie, FAIA
Sunken Columbarium | 30
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1. Conference Room
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10. Sunken Columbarium
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Chapel Space | 40
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PASSAGEWAY
Chapel Passageway | 42
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THANK YOU
Margarito Martinez Jr