PAPER
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) THE BLOCK ARCH554 Prof. Xavier Vendrell A GO GO ARCH565 Prof. Sam Jacob Prof.Jimenez Lai School of Architecture University of Illinois Chicago 2010-13
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 spatial hierarchy.
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Transformation
Transformative illustrations diagram spacial and formal concepts as the house is altered from the original ‘primitive.’
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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.
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Upper Level
Main Level
Lower Level
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House
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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.
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4in. Rubber/Paper Iterations
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Wire Frame
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16in. Advanced Iteration
Final Iteration
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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.
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Folds
Path Making
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North Section
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East Section
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Ground Level
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West Elevation
East Elevation
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South Elevation
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North Elevation
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Ascending
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Spatial Relationships
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PARALLAX
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INTERIOR CITY An investigation into interior shape, space, and form. Early interior studies look 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.
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Specialized Appropriations
Normative/Specialized
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Culture
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Specialized
Museum Robie House
Museum Admin
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Confrence Hall
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Gallery
Cooper Unioncc
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1X
Auditorium
Guggenheim
180º
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Auditorium
Kunsthal
0º
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Auditorium
Parlament
90º
2X
Auditorium
Orphanage
Art School Gallery
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Confrence Center
Art School Gallery
Retail Stores Restaurants
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Auditoria
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Studios
Classrooms
Unite
Library
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Library
Main Collection Collection Services
Support Art School Admin
Dormitory
Pantheon
180º
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Galavian Center
90º
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Diving Pool
Notre Dame
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10X
Driving Range
Sainajoki House
90º
1X
Rock Wall
Pagota
90º
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Theater
Pool
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Visiting Artist Apts Student Health Center
Student Lounge
Sports Center
Sports Center
Bowling/Gaming Cinima Bicycal Parking
Cinemas
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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 introduces a third spatial type, that produces moments of unexpected delight.
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Section The Fantastic shapes of the specialized interiors float in the medium of a Miesien tower.
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1:256 SECTIONS
1:64 SECTION
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Plan The interplay of shape and floorplate provide for instances of unique organization.
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1:256 PLANS
1:64 PLAN
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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
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Entering the Fantastic
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A Different World
Moving Through Spaces
INTERIOR CITY
The Block The Block utilizes efficient space planning and unique unit organization to allow for each unit to have access to its three interior courts. The appearance of the monolithic exterior belies a bright open interior.
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Elevation and Section
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Unit Aggregation
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Interior of 1000sq.ft. Unit
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Interior Court
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The Block
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A GO GO An initial investigation into the potentials of Architectural representation, A GO GO explores the conflation of plan, section, and elevation. A building without direction and all direction, its floating cubic shape enforces its autonomy. Programmatically a series of Urban Mansions and “Couch Houses,� A GO GO blurs and blends concepts of Aggregation, ownership and community.
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Early 12”x12” Model Studies
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Section/Plan Drawing An Architectural drawing of a nonArchitecture. Plan, section, elevation, pattern, scale, and orientation, come together to realize new relationships and understandings.
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PLAN The final plan, section, and elevation of A GO GO are all derived from the same base drawing. Pattern and line work together to create space that is at once ambiguous as well as specific.
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Plan
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Section
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Elevation
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A GO GO
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