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Matthew Messner HOUSE ARCH551 Prof.Paul Preissner Prof.Laura Fehlberg PARALLAX ARCH552 Prof.Penelope Dean Prof. Andrew Moddrell INTERIOR CITY ARCH553 Prof. Alexander Eisenschmidt Prof.Sarah Dunn (coordinator) School of Architecture University of Illinois Chicago 2010-11
HOUSE
An Experiment in formal and figural design techniques exploring the implications of the house. With the ‘primitive’ house shape as a constant, scale operates as a variable defining various conditions. Through careful articulation and control of the scale, literal and phenomenal effects are achieved including transparency, legibility, and spacial hierarchy.
Transformation
Transformative illustrations diagram spacial and formal concepts as the house is altered from the original ‘primitive.’
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Transverse Sections
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Plan and Section
Thresholds and level changes produced by the changing scale of the ‘primitive’ shape produce spacial definition in plan and section.
Upper Level
Main Level
Lower Level
House
PARALLAX
Exploration through iterative physical model building informs complex spatial relationships. Comprising of a single folded ribbon Parallax achieves form and functionality through a series of simple moves.
4in. Rubber/Paper Iterations
Wire Frame
16in. Advanced Iteration
Final Iteration
MOVES
The entirety of the project is produced by four moves that form the path, wall, and level change conditions. The 6km of path that make up the 165,000sqft of the project become manageable as the path parallels itself allowing for moments of short cut and expanded floor space.
Folds
Path Making
Level 03
North Section
Level 04
East Section
Ground Level
Level 01
West Elevation
East Elevation
Level 02
South Elevation
Level 05
North Elevation
Ascending
Spacial Relationships
PARALLAX
INTERIOR CITY An investigation into interior shape, space, and form. Early interior studies looked at the performative nature of the interior section through a series of 400 drawings. Notable interiors in architectural history were turned, scaled and reappropriated to gain a new (mis)understanding of their form.
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(Re)Programming Given 1,000,000sqft of program, consisting of Cultural, Academic, and Housing, specific shapes were appropriated accordingly to configure and imagine the beginning of a building form.
Plan Area
Specialized Appropriations
Normative/Specialized
Section
Culture
Normative
Specialized
Museum Robie House
Museum Admin
10X
Confrence Hall
0º
3X
Gallery
Cooper Unioncc
0º
1X
Auditorium
Guggenheim
180º
.5X
Auditorium
Kunsthal
0º
.5X
Auditorium
Parlament
90º
2X
Auditorium
Confrence Center
Orphanage
Art School Gallery
180º
Art School Gallery
Retail Stores Restaurants
Making
Auditoria
Auditoria
Studios
Classrooms
Unite
Library
0º
3X
Library
Main Collection Collection Services
Support Art School Admin
Dormitory
Pantheon
180º
1X
Galavian Center
90º
.25X
Diving Pool
Notre Dame
0º
10X
Driving Range
Sainajoki House
90º
1X
Rock Wall
Pagota
90º
5X
Theater
Pool
Living
Visiting Artist Apts Student Health Center
Student Lounge
Sports Center
Sports Center
Bowling/Gaming Cinima Bicycal Parking
Cinemas
Configurations @ 200%
INTERIOR VIEWING APPARATUS As two dimensional, and historical based studies were exhausted, the IVA was conceived as a means of engaging with pure interior spaces. Experienced through a series of wide angle peep-holes, the interior of the IVA is filled with fantastic interlocking spaces. The IVA played an important roll in the understanding of perception of space and adjacencies.
Fantastic Interiors As the formal aspects of the project were calibrated, the building was divided into the Fantastic and the Normative. Specialized events would happen in the Fantastic spaces and the more banal activities a Normative Typical Plan. How these two worlds relate and interact with each other introduced a third spacial type that produced moments of unexpected delight.
Section The Fantastic shapes of the specialized interiors float in the medium of a Miesien tower.
1:256 SECTIONS
1:64 SECTION
Plan
The interplay of shape and floorplate provide for instances of unique organization.
1:256 PLANS
1:64 PLAN
Site
Situated in the heart of Chicago, at the intersection of the branches of the Chicago River on the corner of Canal St. and Lake St., Interior City, begins to imply an urban interiority. East Elevation
160’=1” SITE PLAN
The Normative
Entering the Fantastic
A Different World
Moving Through Spaces
INTERIOR CITY