Arizona State University | Fall 2021 ADE 521 Advanced Architectural Studio I
ARCHITECTURE OF RENEWAL INSTRUCTOR:
Elizabeth McLean
STUDENT TEAMS:
Nilo Exar | Mia Hammerstrom | Mathew Varghese John | Solana Pearson Sheifali Bansal | Lylaine Flores | Goran Rajesh Ojha Radhika Uday Dhande | Brady Hettinger | Austin Lind | Helen Ross Nicholas Kalas-Hernandez | Clara Riess | Jake Rosenberger Miguel Ceniseros | Niharika Kuruvada | Priyanka Nakkella | Purva Pansuriya
Th e E x pa n s i o n G a m e Focus and Structure Of The Course
This studio focuses on architectural expansions as a ‘game’ with a set of rules that allow improvements and innovation. The goal is to learn from previous buildings through new expansions and programs, giving them a second life with a sustainable and bioclimatic approach. The course has four modules:
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RESEARCH: Make contextual approaches to the overall topic (history, urbanism, technologies, geometries, materials, programs, author’s biography, etc.). RECONSTRUCTION: Reconstruct all plans and relevant information on the existing building.
EXPANSION: Propose a new expansion or renovation with a new program. IMPROVEMENT: Create architectural improvements to the previous constructions.
Architecture Of Renewal Purpose of Proposed Expansions
This studio moves around the following question: What kind of architecture will be necessary to support higher education in the 21st century? When studying a group of unique academic buildings on selected college campuses across the eastern United States, we review the various constraints that were faced during the surge of construction in the post-WWII era to support rapid increase in academic enrollment and space. The goal is to propose expansions, modifications, and new educational and public architecture to philosophically and physically reinvent highereducation to support the 21st century learning landscape.
Case Studies Buildings of Focus for the Course
Ferry House Cooperative Dormitory | Vassar College ARCHITECT: Marcel Breuer YEAR BUILT: 1951 LOCATION: Poughkeepsie, New York STUDENT TEAM: Exar, Hammerstrom, John, Pearson
Burlington Nuclear Laboratories | North Carolina State University ARCHITECT: G. Milton Small, Jr. YEAR BUILT: 1953 LOCATION: Raleigh, North Carolina STUDENT TEAM: Bansal, Flores, Ojha
Boiler Plant | Illinois Institute Of Technology ARCHITECT: Mies Van der Rohe YEAR BUILT: 1950 LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois STUDENT TEAM: Dhande, Hettinger, Lind, Ross
Meredith Hall | Drake University ARCHITECT: Mies Van der Rohe YEAR BUILT: 1965 LOCATION: Des Moines, Iowa STUDENT TEAM: Kalas-Hernandez, Riess, Rosenberger
Art Gallery | Yale University ARCHITECT: Louis Kahn YEAR BUILT: 1953 LOCATION: New Haven, Connecticut STUDENT TEAM: Ceniseros, Kuruvada, Nakkella, Pansuriya
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Illinois Institute of Technology Boiler Plant
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Mies | 1950 | Chicago, Illinois
Narrative- B o i l e r
Plant
Our building began as a humble boiler plant tucked away in the corner of the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, near 34th Street and Federal Street, and was designed and built-in 1950 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Our design brief was to transform an energy-inefficient structure into a green research center promoting and exemplifying green energy. We expanded the shell of the existing boiler plant; providing multiuse spaces for the surrounding Bronzeville, contiguous communities, and college students to gather. The new, open spaces consist of laboratories, galleries, a museum, and public green spaces—promoting an indoor/outdoor connection to nature and the daylighting concept. We designed and created a train platform permitting easy train access which increases public exposure to the building. The west-facing façade is covered in moss walls as well as algae solar panels; capturing carbon emissions emitted by the train and freeway thus reducing pollution and potentially repurposing as fuel, as well as providing excellent noise mitigation from the train.
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5th Year, Masters of Architecture Three Plus Program Diagramming
Brady Hettinger 5th Year, Masters of Architecture Three plus program 3D Design
Radhika Uday Dhande
Physical Modeling
Helen Rossz 5th Year, Masters of Architecture Three plus program Narrative, 3D Design
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IIT Boiler Plant
5th Year, Masters of Architecture Two Year Program
The Students-
Austin Lind
B u i l d i n g Lo g i c s
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Structure Circulation
Structure: Mies laid out all of his buildings using a grid system. We used a modified 18x24 foot grid system we discovered from the original building. Most other buildings on campus us a 24x24 foot system. Circulation: The original building was a very open space with lots of circulation. We wanted to draw this circulation up into the unused space. By placing a community green roof, we will draw people up and through the spaces to create a vertical circulation pattern.
Existing Structure
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Mies | 1950 | Chicago, Illinois
Logic Is carried through to Final itteration, shown through circulation Diagram
IIT Boiler -Existing Strcuture
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Proposed Floor Plans
Each floor of the conversion supplements the surrounding community in unique ways. The first floor acts as a museum and gallery space, while the second floor accomodates the elevated train station platform but also continues additional gallery space.
First Floor
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Second Floor 1:56
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Mies | 1950 | Chicago, Illinois
The last two floors continue to supplement the surrounding community and greatly benefit the surrounding student population by supplying a lab and collaboration space on the third floor and finally a library on the fourth floor.
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Fourth Floor 1:56
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Sections
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We wanted to use green building practices and an algae facade to tie together the old and the new. The green from the new expansion will spill over the existing industrial building, showing the future of energy taking over the past.
Wall Detail
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RAILING PARAPET
ARTIFICIAL TURF
DRAINAGE SYSTEM
WATERPROOF LAYER PRECAST CONCRETE UTILITY VOID HOLES
TRANSPARENT MICRO ALGAE PHOTOBIOREACTOR
DOUBLE INSULATING WINDOW PANEL
Collage - t h e Boiler Plant
Framework For Design Excellence
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The framework for Design Excellence can be expressed as a set of questions to ask one’s self throughout the design process
Design For Integration
What’s the big idea behind this project? What is its purpose? How do its separate pieces fit together into a coherent whole?
Design For Equitable Community
Who gets to use this building and how does it benefit its users and the community? How has the community been engaged to shape the design? Who is invited in, who is excluded? How does its location and design promote equitable access to its benefits, strengthen its community, and reinforce means of transportation that support health and reduce emissions?
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Design For Ecosystems
How does this project benefit the earth? How does it impact the living systems around it?
Design For Water
How does this project work with and delight in water, and how does it use water wisely?
Design For Economy
How do you provide abundance with an economy of means?
Design For Energy
How does the design work with, rather than fight, local climate to provide a comfortable place for people with the least energy use and carbon emissions?
Design For Well-Being
How does the design promote the health of those who spend time in it?
Design For Resources
Why did you select the materials you did? Where do they come from, what’s their impact (including the pollution and carbon impact of their manufacture), and where will they go after the building is gone?
Design For Change
Why did you select the materials you did? Where do they come from, what’s their impact (including the pollution and carbon impact of their manufacture), and where will they go after the building is gone?
Design For Discovery
How does your design allow the building to learn from its users, and allow its users to learn from the building? What lessons have you learned from the project? Where have you failed, fallen short? What will you carry forward?
Acknowledgements We would like to thank each of the following professionals for volunteering their time and energy for our reviews throughout the duration of the semester:
Robert Cannavino, RA Johanna Collins, RA Kyle Fiano Mikayla Krager, Associate AIA Andrew Marriott, AIA, NCARB Carrie Perrone, AIA, LEED AP Eduardo Robles Whitney Warman, AIA, NCARB We appreciate the many suggestions that were made and realize that you have each contributed to our final designs in one way or another. We would also like to thank the staff at The Design School, including the employees running the design labs, printing services, cafe, cleaning protocols, and the library, for bearing with us and assisting us throughout this semester. Finally, we would like to thank our professor, Elizabeth McLean, for providing countless desk crits, professionals within the community for reviews, an organized framework for the course that kept us all on track, and being there to assist us in the day-to-day operations of the studio.
- Fall 2021 ADE 521 Classmates
Arizona State University | Fall 2021 ADE 521 Advanced Architectural Studio I