michael meo
harvard graduate school of design core
architecture and the urban contract spring 2013 // fourth semester core studio // Harvard Graduate School of Design
Rooting a high-density development in a fragile site, deep in a floodplain and within an extremely seasonal climate and dense surrounding urban context establishes the contextual conflict that fuels this project. The architectural island, located at the terminus of the canal, provides a flood resilient built landscape that elevates vulnerable program and thermally exploits through passive means the manufactured ecosystems of the site. The sun-sculpted tower, rooted deep in the southern-most corner, provides sun autonomy to the neighboring sites. In its deepest shadow rests the bioswale, which harbors a naturally temperate massive body of water whose ebb and flow constantly reshapes one’s perception of the site. The air for all units is inhaled through the bioswale lung and passes through conduit in the thermally massive parking structure providing temperate, oxygenated air to all units. Unit depths are shallow with multiple facades exposed for passive ventilation. The permeable, earth-harboring terraced architecture depresses and dissolves into the densely vegetated bioswale, the infrastructure that unites the site. The inter-elemental architectural strategies provide for a high density site that maximizes comfortable exposure to and exchange with the natural elements.
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urban site model
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conceptual development
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30’x30’ GRID & FLOOD PLINTH -ideal depth for ventilation -maximum depth for daylighting -ideal parking grid -ideal unit structural span -elevated for flood resiliency
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KEY ACCESS POINTS
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-fractures and depresses at corners to create main access points
TOWER SUN SLICE -tower maximum height determined by 25° winter sung angle
AIR LABYRINTH -pulls oxygenated air from bioswale through thermally massive conduit in the parking labyrinth
INNER COMMERCIAL -commercial is interiorized and frames pedestrian courtyard -flood resilient
program
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CANAL
-fractures and depresses grid
RESIDENTIAL
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+30’ 0” - +200’ 0”
TOWER
-introduced at southern-most corner of site to provide maximum height tower & overflow shadow mitigation
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SHADED BIOSWALE
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-flood plane biowsale emerges in aggregate shaded area
COMMERCIAL/RETAIL +18’ 0” - +30’ 0”
INDUSTRY +0’ 0” - +30’ 0”
PEDESTRIAN PLINTH +0’ 0” - +18’ 0”
INDUSTRIAL RING
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-frames the plinth -highly accessible to street traffic
PARKING PLINTH -24’ 0” - +18’ 0”
LABYRINTH/CORES
RESIDENCE
-sits on the public base -flood resilient
-24’ 0” - +200’ 0”
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water SHADED BIOSWALE -aggregate tower shadow contained fully within perimeter of site -neighboring sunlight autonomy is guaranteed
-bioswale is located in aggregated shadow of the southern tower -provides for a cool summer microclimate -uses land rendered less valuable due to lack of solar gain
SW & SE FACADE EXPOSURE
18’ ELEVATED PLINTH
SOUTHERN TOWER
-all units have double southern sun exposure -insures daylighting throughout floor plan -insures winter radiant solar gain
TOWER SLICE
-all vulnerable program is placed above the parking/ industrial plinth
RETENTION WALLS
-winter noon solar angle determines the slice of the tower -provides for more direct winter solar radiation
-the constructed, terraced canal protects architectural infrastructure from flood and tide
PERIPHERIAL SET-BACK
ANIMATED COASTLINE
-winter noon solar angle determines the slice of the tower -provides for more direct winter solar radiation
-ebb and flow animates the landscape -diurnal and seasonal tides and flooding provide for a variable pixilated coastline within the site
WINTER GARDEN ATRIUM
PLINTH AS AN ISLAND
-underbelly of tower becomes a winter garden, shaded during the summer and full of winter light -provides temperate, oxygenated air to units
-in the event of a 20’ sea rise due to global warming or a 14’ storm surge (Hurricane Sandy), the plinth is transformed into an island and all pedestrian infrastructure within is maintained
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air
earth VEGETATED CORE AIR INTAKE IN BIOSWALE -air intake conduits for the labyrinth are located in the center of the bioswale -air labyrinth pulls from air furthest from street and traffic
CONDUIT IN WATER -outside air is tempered by thermal mass of water
PARKING LABYRINTH -air labyrinth conduit flows through the thermal mass of the parking structure -creates meaningful redundancy for thermally massive structure
-the densely vegetated core provides for a temperate, oxygen-rich core around which the pedestrian core circulates -vegetation benefits from silt deposits from tide and flooding
OXYGENATEd AIR INTAKE -all air for labyrinth is first pulled through a vegetated filter -this microclimate functions as the lungs of the site
INTEGRATED PLANTING BEDS -planting beds hung between deep structural members -increases water retention throughout site -increases thermal mass within winter garden
CONDITIONED ATRIUM -air labyrinth for tower pressurizes winter garden with cool air during the summer -during the winter, air first flows through the double skin facade, which fills the atrium with warmer air
MULTIPLE EXPOSED FACADES -each residential, commercial, and industrial unit has 2+ facades exposed to the outside for passive, natural ventilation
WINTER GARDEN ATRIUM -slope of residential towers provides for ideal yearround growing surfaces with the underbelly of the building
PERSONAL GARDENS -gardens occur throughout the entire complex
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plans
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techincal model
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block model
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berklee college of music vertical campus FALL 2012 ////Second fall third Semester SemesterCore CoreStudio Studio//// Harvard Harvard Graduate Graduate School School of of Design Design
The Berklee College of Music Vertical Campus is a mixed-use building that integrates disparate elements of the College’s campus. The building is an environmental machine that passively engages various solar and wind on-site energy flows. The three inflected atria compose the highly socialized, pedestrian cores that form the energetic valleys of the building. The structure substantiates the southern reach of the building, enabling cantilevering to occur with extreme structural efficiency. The cant of the building allows sunlight to penetrate deep, activating the distinct cores. All circulation, structural, programmatic, and environmental systems perform in reciprocal synthesis.
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nergetic formation 45° residential academic public performance gallery
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site extrusion
southern facade solar carve
inner atria solar carve
programmatic hierarchy
program integration hubs between nodes
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floor plates swell from atria and are bound by program depth and site perimeter
fluid body of air in three atria
three microclimates created by passive triangular valve
triangular structural unit follows atria
parallel trusses drive forces down
vertical circulation space frames provide lateral support
planes and modules introduced
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section
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circulation model 3/32”=1’-0”
final model 3/32”=1’-0”
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wellesley college environmental center
Spring 2012 // Second Semester Core Studio (rendered in digital mutlimedia course) // Harvard Graduate School of Design
The greenhouse environmental center emerges from the landscape as a landscape. Its volumes are the nested voids beneath the lifted and pinched slits of structured earth. Depressing and tethering the buoyant strips are existing circulations paths, both vehicular and pedestrian. They press into the structure, causing it to sink back into the natural grade. The landscape building subsumes vehicular circulation and parking, creating a new sense of human scale. The building opens wide to necessary winter light and filters the harshest of summer rays. The pixilated raw structural planter boxes allow for maximum transparency during the winter, at all hours of the day. Opacity increases during warmer seasons as the curve blushes with light vegetation, shading the micro-clerestories. This seasonally performative structure further transforms the building into a landscape.
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sectional development diagrams (stills from animation)
use erate house perate house plan, first floor ouse 2 , multipurpose space
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plan, first floor 5
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wellesley college greenhouses sections 1/16”=1’
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plan, ground floor
wellesley college greenhouses sections 1/16”=1’
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sectional & operable model
structural section model
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site model
final contour model
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technical sectional model
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brookline athletic center
spring 2012 // second semester core studio // Harvard Graduate School of Design
FINAL model
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curtain wall
materials, construction, processes #5 curtain wall
spring 2012 // second semester core materials, construction & processes // Harvard Graduate School of Design mike meo
rotate and place
individual unit and modular strip The four foot long, protruding, triangular fin-pair shades either its own window unit and/or that of the window units below or to the sides. Every window receives an equal percentages of shading throughout the day.
The system is composed of the same module, rotated 4 ways, composing identical 3x3 grids which form the modular strips that comprise the building. The systematic alignment of certain diagonal mullions creates a spiral that wraps around the tower.
outer corner detail
inner corner detail
section and elevation
1/4”=1’
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long span roof
spring 2012 // second semester core materials, construction & processes // Harvard Graduate School of Design
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the kinetic lock
all system generators and nodes
pulley system nodes
fall 2011 // first semester core studio // Harvard Graduate School of Design pulley system nodes
dams (left basin, right harbour)
articulating basin-dam-controlled piers
dam position
raised (linked system engaged)
dam void
lowered (counter-piers raised) dam position
basin dam bay dam dam void basin dam
all system generators and nodes
raised (linked system engaged)
tidal harvaest lowered (counter-piers raised) bay dam
tidal harvaest
articulating tidal-controlled piers
percent of pull distance on node
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percent of pull distance on node
articulating dam-controlled piers
active
active static
bay dam control nodes static roof plates
bay dam control nodes
static opaque and transparent walls
static floor plates
static foundation walls
system reservoir
basin dam control nodes
basin dam control nodes existing infrastructure
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sectional operation
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sectional operation
tide-harvest
low tide
75% pull reduction
harbour dam
static building
static building
48’ pull and release
basin dam
low basin
hight tide
tide-controlled
high basin (+2)
48’ pull and release
100% tidal pull and release: 12 +/-2 feet
linkage detail linkage detail
top locked to building
unlocked tail
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shifting site lines and axiality
shifting sight-lines
oscillating light wells sight-line east/west
basin dam
bay dam
sight-lines north/south
oscillating light wells
bay dam door up, central light wells
low tide
basin dam
bay dam
high tide
both dam doors up, central and peripheral light wells
low tide
river dam door up, peripheral light wells high tide
low tide
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entryway, animation stills
main canal, animation stills
roof view, animation stills
site model
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the hidden room
fall 2011 // first semester core studio // Harvard Graduate School of Design curved deception (in)accessible core
angled revelation
curved deception
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study models
final model
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plan/perimeter
fall 2011 // first semester core studio // Harvard Graduate School of Design
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final model
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pavillion
fall 2011 // Projective Representation in Architecture // Harvard Graduate School of Design
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