Mihajlo
Crnogorac
Jacksonville Auto Park Jacksonville, FL Studio 5-6
Reconstructing Urban Voids Savannah, GA Studio 7
Park. Shop. Live. Austin, TX Studio 4
Fashion Center NYC, NY Studio 3
Professional Work Corgan Associates Dallas, TX
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Architecture has always wanted to be a theater of memory. Umberto Eco
Jacksonville Auto Park Jacksonville, FL Studio 5-6
Jacksonville Auto Park The Jacksonville Auto Park explores the intrinsic relationship between the automobile and architecture, while aiming to utilize and transform urban voids created in the city. The site offers a great opportunity to bring back the green spaces to the city and to continue the broken river walk. These underdeveloped areas are currently eroding the whole city, so it is necessary to shape the city and prevent the further decay. The strong gestural movement of the museum demonstrated a dominant feature in the city, creating a beacon in the Jacksonville’s skyline. Its presence becomes important throughout the building’s concept of aerodynamics and car movement. Next to the museum, urban park serves as the catalyst, connecting the disconnected urban fabric in the city. It promotes the public space which revitalizes the whole river and downtown area. Ultimately, the project aims to fill in the gaps of urban voids in the city of Jacksonville and to enhance the democracy of public space.
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CONTEXTUAL SHIFT
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PROGRAM SEPERATION
Site development stages
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SITE EXTENSION
ROOF
FORM EXPLORATION
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1. pedestrian avenue 2. trolley pick-up/drop-off 3. ADA parking 4. amphitheater seating 5. reflective pool 6. ground fountain 7. riverwalk 8. pier 9. loading zone 10. water taxi 11. bioswale
Ayrton Senna gallery
Wall section
Ground level
Longitudinal Section
Second level
Thir
rd level
Structural second level
Urban Park + Museum
Urban Park + Museum
Reconstructing Urban Voids Savannah, GA Studio 7
Reconstructing Urban Void In response to Savannah’s urban void situation, the project aims to reconstruct, reuse, and enhance the existing infrastructure and positively change urban voids as access points to elevated community space. Upon our analysis, we have observed that the pockets and clusters of vacant land erode the physical appearance of the surrounding urban context, over time becoming less attractive to the public ultimately impacting economy as less valued parcels in the city. In order to avoid the corrosive sprawls of urban void, architecture must trigger public discussion and create long – term solutions that will inspire transformation of urban forms. As with other cities, phenomenon of urban voids has always been evident in Savannah, but never consistent. The unpredictable interruptions and gaps in the urban fabric were always overlooked. Moreover, they became the cold markers of Savannah’s society without any rituals. However, their potential use quality can become extremely beneficial for the city’s distinctive culture. We have developed a series of design strategies on multiple scales in the rigid grid of the Savannah’s Historic District where several specific urban voids will be reconstructed and reused. The transformation of vacant lands in the Historic District in the form of urban parks, transitional spaces, or futuristic gardens would elevate the democracy of public spaces. Furthermore, the new reconstructed void typologies would give a shape to the block organization and introduce visual and experiential variety. Our project facilitates and promotes the minor architectures which transcend the contemporary ways and means of enhancing the urban fabric in the city. Our projection sets an example for future generations, demonstrating how these urban vacant voids could become beneficial for the public, and the citizenry.
Current urban voids in Savannah.
The series of diagrams show the specific approach to each design depending on buildings program.
Park. Shop. Live project reintereps and transofrm the notion of traditonal parking garage in the urban setting Thro i
Negative scenario of urban voids.
Positive scenario of urban voids.
Park. Shop. Live. Austin, TX Studio 4
PARK / SHOP / LIVE This studio course concentrates on the issues raised by creating new architecture in existing high density urban contexts with complex social and cultural characters . PARK. SHOP. LIVE. project reinterprets and transforms the notion of traditional parking experience in the urban setting. Through its form, structure, and open space, the building’s dominant architectural presence is achieved with a pronounced cantilever. The elements unite in a concept of car and driver in motion. The active synergetic movement of the pedestrian and drivers in Austin, give a good The ever stopping change of fluid skin continuously changes the human perception of the raw structure. The cantilever is the elongated catalyst for suggesting motion towards the street. With its natural features along its powerful yet light structure the negative space enables the drivers to see the river at all times from the parking levels.
Parti diagram
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Two initial study models which started informing more about the parking and its supportive spaces.
Typical parking level
Ground Floor
The east side plaza opens up to the street, inviting people to experience the retail area.
North side plaza view
Fashion Center NYC, NY Studio 3
Fashion + Architecture NYC, NY
Numerous sensuous transactions occur between the body, the eye and the building as the wearer traverses through space. Like architects, fashion designers produce environments defined through spatial awareness by working with and against the human meanings inspired by a “critical discourse” or an “evaluation of the natural landscape.” Principles of construction, design, and conservation of materials are central to both disciplines, who create their respective structures according to the macro and microsystem they designate. Their fascination for one another seems to “spiral around their mutual desire“ to see life transmuted into art.
Client Alana Sola Algarin Fashion Designer Alana’s approach toward designing and making clothes breaks conventional rules and transcends innovative ways throughout her collection. For example, the muslin pictured here portrays her originality when dealing with two very contrasting features - static and dynamic. The center body piece goes tightly along the body while the sides or the excess of clothes is totally different. This interplay of opposites can be found and seen in many architectural works. Hierarchy is extremely important.
Manta ray and fish bone structure were some of my client inspirational images which were later translated into architecture, shown in the model above.
iNSPIRATION iDEA iDENTITY
NYC
T he arc hi t e c t o nic s o f f ashi o n unf o ld in th e c o nt ainm e nt o f sp ac e whi le arc hit ectu re c o nt inue s t o b e f ashio ne d b y i t s re l at i on sh ip t o t he hum an b o dy.
source metroscenes.com
SoHo Architecture has become an inseparable element of fashion. The worlds of architecture and fashion have a fertile and often colorful reciprocity, and both disciplines explore the human body and ideas of space and movement, that serve as the outward expressions of personal, political, and cultural identity. My goal is to transcend the notion of fashion into a more serious design intent exploration of the radical that aims to reinvent the simple act of clothes shopping into a singular experience - consumerism as culture or religion and shops as carefully choreographed environments or temples. Fusing architecture and fashion creates an environment where spatial, volumetric, and materialistic values are of upmost importance.
East Elevation
north elevation North elevation
Top floor resturant demonstrates dynamic structural branching
Final Model
Professional Work Corgan Associates Dallas, TX
Denison High School
Advanced Technology and Career Center
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