TAILORING SPACE THROUGH RITUAL Minwoo Yang INT402-03-SP2018 Undergraduate Interior Design Thesis Professor. Sheryl Kasak Pratt Institute
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“I don’t need very much now,” said the boy. “Just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.” “Well,” said the tree, straightening Herself up as much as she could, “Well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting Come, Body, sit down, Sit down and rest.” And the boy did. And the tree was happy.
Excerpt from The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein HarperCollins Publishers ©1964, New York
Copyright © 2018 Minwoo Yang. All Rights Reserved.
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Contingency 6 Issues and Interests 12 Thesis 14 Initial Researches and Precedents 16 Concept 32 Project Characteristics Users 42 Site 48 Programs 56 Project Narrative 74 Dangerous Supplement 76 Design Strategy and Development 84 Film Analysis 104 Schematics 112 Final Drawings 114 Appendices 130
Table of Contents
Contingency
noun
2. The quality or condition of being contingent. a) The condition of being liable to happen or not in the future; uncertainty of occurrence or incidence. b) The befalling or occurrence of anything without preordination; chance; fortuitousness. c) The condition of being free from predetermining necessity in regard to existence or action; hence, the being open to the play of chance, or of free will. d) The quality or condition of being subject to chance and change, or of being at the mercy of accidents.
Chance
noun
1. The falling out or happening of events; the way in which things fall out; fortune; case. 1. Absence of design or assignable cause, fortuity; often itself spoken of as the cause or determiner of events, which appear to happen without the intervention of law, ordinary causation, or providence; = accident
Ritual
noun
1. A compulsive act or routine, the non-performance of which results in tension and anxiety.
Practice
noun
1. The actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to the theory or principles of it; performance, execution, achievement; working, operation; (Philos.) activity or action considered as being the realization of or in contrast to theory.
Habit
noun
1. A settled disposition or tendency to act in a certain way, esp. one acquired by frequent repetition of the same act until it becomes almost or quite involuntary Definition Oxford English Dictionary
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PRACTICE CONSCIOUS OCCURENCE
RITUAL
CHANCE ABSENCE UNCONSCIOUS HABIT
Affinity Diagram
Affinity Diagram Extrusion Physical Model
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Affinity Diagram Extrusion Digital Model
PLASTER malleable FOAM mould
Junction Model “Malleable Juncture”
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Plaster casted in sponge form
Thesis Artifact Padlock “The Specialty of Ritual” Patent print poster invented by Lazlo Bako, first issued on July 15, 1975
ISSUES
PRIVILEGED PRACTICE OF INTERIOR DESIGN Interior Design profession often covers projects high-end residential projects, commercial office and retail projects, luxurious hospitality projects, yet, people with low economic status have no access to interior design.
FAILURE OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN Universial design ambitiously hoped to accommodate wide range of users, but fail to address minority in the estimation for its standard,
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INTERESTS
HAUTE COUTURE INTERIOR DESIGN Wearable Interior Customized Interior for Living ADA / Accessibility Standard
PHILANTHROPIC INTERIOR DESIGN ADA / Accessibility Standard Ubiquitous Interior Regardless Economic Status Community Impact from Interior
Issues AND Interests
PREFACE: “A vast majority of people live in dwellings not designed specifically for them, such as flats, and even when this is not the case, most dwellings are passed on to later generations or sold to unknown future residents. .”
-Robert McCarter and Juhani Pallasmaa, Understanding Architecture
Interior design is a selective practice. It either serves for upper class clientele to grand extraordinary, or replicates the standardized spatial configuration to universally accommodate diversity. However, this ubiquitousness overlooks a distinctive personality of each inhabitant, disconnecting the built environment from its user. “Architecture, (interior design) is inherently not empathetic, but it should be, so show how it can be.”
-Craig L. Wilkins at 2017 National Design Award Winners’ Salon
There is an urgent need of remedy. As humans perform rituals to reconnect the body and mind, the disoriented relationship between humanity and the built environment entails the imm ediate ritual between the space and users.
THESIS QUESTION: Can a habitational ritual consciously tailor an empathetic layer to allow for re-engagement of a user with the disassociated built environment?
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Ideation from Humpty Dumpty Ritual Performance of Reconstructing Disassociation
Camouflage Neil Leach Contingency is through the inevitable variables of nature, including human beings. Predictable behaviors of humans are measured and calculated by designers, in order to build an unnatural and inanimate environment that people will not hesitate to assimilate with. Yet, those prediction only sits in the mere imitation; the individual creativity and variable perspective are improbability. However, the uncertainty lies in assimilation of inanimate objects and spaces to natural beings, the human. The fantasy within the space which is drawn by the designers will evoke mimesis of people inhabits.
Emphathic and Embodied Imagination: Intuiting Experience and Life in Architecutre Juhani Pallasmaa The writer reveals critical perspective on the contemporary architecture as it has been apathetic to human life. The architecture has rejected to reflect complex and dynamic human life, focusing “more on form and aesthetic criteria,� and neglecting mutual relationship between people and built environment. There is lack of design enhancing human situations. Architecture and spatial design has shifted its focus on the mere aesthetic, creating humanless spaces. Detached architecture from human life is mere a excluded and selective artwork,
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An Architecture of the Seven Senses Juhani Pallasmaa Juhani, in his writing, delineates sense based experiential quality of architecture, especially interior space. The space he describes is not a space observed by eye, yet by sensuous experience of human. And, he argues that this sensuous space is designed and constructed not by designers or architects, but by users and time that are reflected into the space. Every grab of a door handle is a ritual of a user opening the door, entering or returning to the space. An ordinary habit, through poetically observing, thus ritualizing itself, can be amplified its meaning, evoking a particular sense and experience.
Understanding Architecture (Chapter. Dwelling: Architecture, Dwelling and Home, and Chapter. Ritual: The Form of Ritual) Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa In Chapter Dwelling: Architecture, Dwelling and Home, the authors focus on the most fundamental purpose of architecture, sheltering for people to dwell. Historically, built spaces for people served the task of “a shelter against unfavourable climate and weather, a protection against hostile forces, and a utilitarian device to enable the practical acts of daily life.” But, as meaning of ‘home’ differs from that of ‘house’, the dwelling reflects self-identity of the inhabitant, and serves as the base point to encounter variables of the world. Thus, rather than appealing aesthetically, the good house must bestow opportunities for the inhabitant to fully dwell within, as a base to interact outward. In Chapter Ritual: The Form of Ritual, the authors explain all built environments concretize and manifest “beliefs, ideas and patterns of behaviour,” as each space is designed to serve specific function and to evoke relevant atmosphere. By facilitating the repetition of any behaviour, the built space can develop into the main player of ritual. And, as rituals of pre-scientific enlightenment served to understand and encounter contingent variables, and forming into spatial manifestation, the inanimate space creates new rituals of users through the time of inhabit. Related Works (text) Initial Precedent Research
GANZFELDS James Turrell / (diemension) Variable (material) Unknown / 1976-2013
Ganzfelds, a German term for “the phenomenon of the toal loss of depth perception as in the experience of a white-out� exhibits uncertainty through picture-like entrance to the adjacent space. Due to lighting and color quality, the cut-out of the entrance is perceived as a flush wall. The work demonstrates a relationship between the human consciousness of physical space, and the manipulated perception through human limitation in senses. Spatial manipulation of human perception
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AZUMA HOUSE Tadao Ando / 62 m^2 / 1975-1976 / Osaka, Japan
Azuma House, designed by Ando Tadao, exhibits an unique experiential contingency in a dwelling situation. Whereas roofs and canopies were invented to preserve human living space with a protective atmosphere, the architect removed one third of this shell to expose the house to the nature. The experience within the nature is contingent. It is the rain or any unpredicted natural crisis that holds uncertainty. Absence of human inventions allows the users to purely pray for rain and shine, to accept natural phenomena as inevitable fate, and to develop a ritual of invigoration through being exposed to nature. Adapting unpredictability as ritual practice
Related Works Initial Precedent Research
HOMES FOR HOPE Los Angeles, California
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2016 USC Architecture Students Collaboration with MADWORKSHOP
A Typical Communal Shelter
AN EMPTY LOT
Shelter as a Human Right
Additional Research Homes for Hope USC Architecture Students Collaboration with MADWORKSHOP
JAGTVEJ 69 Jagtvej 69, 2200 København N, Denmark
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2017 WE Architecture collaboration with Vendepunktet, UBA studio, Erik Juul
Homelessness
Integrating Community with Homelessness through Urban Garden
Additional Research Jagtvej 69 WE Architecture
Diagram from www.concretecanvas.org.uk
Video captured from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrGUXk-h0M
CONCRETE CANVAS Prototype 2003-2004 Peter Brewin, William Crawford 24
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INFLATING STRUCTURE
Reflecting Surroundings
Depending on Occupancy Load of Space
Precedent Analysis Concrete Canvas 2003-2004
DOGON VILLAGE BANIAGARA Upper Niger River, Mali 1000-Present 26
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“When dogon families move,”
HOME
HOUSE
COMPONENTS OF DWELLING removal of thatch roof and clay walls eroding back into the earth
Precedent Dogon Village Bandiagara Upper Niger River, Mali 1000-Present
Understanding Architecture, images from Google.com, and Red Obscura
Butaro Hospital is an example of humanitarian architecture. From its initial design stage, the hospital is meant to accommodate patients substantially, fulfilling only the most basic requirement for a hospital: to heal. Furthermore, the notion of designing for its people extended to the construction of the space itself. The hospital, built by local people, provoked social and political change. The sense of ownership granted to the local people exemplified architecture as a humanitarian practice.
BUTARO HOSPITAL Burera, Rwanda 2011 MASS Design Group
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“... the hospital that allow us to heal.�
- MASS Design Group Co-founder, Micheal Murphy, in TEDtalk
From unventilated hallways that made paitients sicker, to exterior hallway and natural ventilation system for each paitients
Precedent
“Lo-Fab� Locally fabricated. Architecture generating jobs, granting sense of ownership for the users. Precedent
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The Poetics of Space Chapter. 4: Nest Gaston Bachelard
Additional Reading / Program Research: a text precedent Poetics of Space: Nests Gaston Bachelard
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CONCEPT: This thesis project suggests how human ritual performance engages in creating an empathetic interior space, a layer between the built environment and inhabitants. The project focuses on the habitational ritual that catalyzes inhabitants’ adaptation in the residential environment. As a remedy for disconnection, the empathetic layer is tailored to homeless people, one of the most marginalized population in New York City, as an urban scale ritual.
TO HOLD CACOPHONY
The project is to manage cacophony of urban context to present itself as a new approach and possibly solution to problem the thesis addresses.
RITUALIZING ORDINARY
The project is to ritualize the ordinary to amplify the existing into celebration.
EXPANDABLE TO EXTERIOR
The project is to expandable outwardly to have community impact, promoting social change.
PUBLICLY PRIVATE
The project is to be inclusive yet protect the essential idea of shelter, a protective layer for the private.
CONSISTS OF URBAN USER AND PROGRAM
ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC IN SOME DEGREE
The project is to address urban users and program in its context.
The project is to be inclusive, thus sharing with neighboring residents.
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CONSOLIDATION OF SELF
The project is to give full attention to each user for ultimate self-enhancement.
SHOWCASED
The project is to be showcased for further inspiration and social promotion.
EMPATHETIC TO ENVIRONMENT
The project is to adapt variables of environmental context.
PROTOTYPE TO BE SPREAD
The project is to be examined as prototype, and to be applied in multiple urban situations.
PHILANTHROPIC
The project is to create space in benefit for users and neighbors including passerby
HUMANITARIAN
The project is to be humanitarian, focusing on the user for its rudimental well-being. Project Characteristics
Case study: the Library Bar at the Hudson Hotel demonstrates cyclical transformation of the space. Because the bar’s business and targetted clients are overlapped with adjacent burger restaurant, operates only at the certain time of day, creating a cyclical routine of occupancy density shift. The routine constantly transforms the space gradually for the operating hours. As whole, the program-complex at the Hudson Hotel creates the spatial ritual that benefits its business and users in high efficiency.
Case Study Relationship to Theme
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HUDSON HOTEL LIBRARY BAR 356 West 58th Street, New York, NY Constructed in 1928, Renovated in 1997 Interior Designed by Philippe Starck Case Study
ENTRANCE FOYER ESCALATOR
LOBBY/ RECEPTION
CORRIDOR
RESTAURANT
OUTDOOR GARDEN
CORRIDOR
LIBRARY BAR
Case Study Analysis: Program Adjacency
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BOOKSHELVES
BAR
INACCESSIBLE BOOKSHELVES
BOOKSHELVES
BAR
PRESENCE OF LIBRARY STIMULATING AMBIENCE Case Study Analysis: Program
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21:00
24:00
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SPATIAL USAGE OF OCCUPANCY THROUGH TIME
Case Study Analysis: Occupancy
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Does programmatic transformation alter experience in the space?
Y Does atmosphere generated by bookshelves affect the mood and how the space is used?
Y Case Study Interview
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USER
I NY LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLD
HOMELESS
TOURIST (AFFORDABLE)
GENTRIFIED REFUGEEE
Transient User Group To emphasize reassociation of a space and users through ritual performance, the targetting user group is to be transient. Short-term inhabitants’ adapting or wearing an empathetic layer to reengage with the disassociated built environment will examine the project assiduously. Possible User Groups
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HOMELESS
Homelessness is one of the tribial concern in the urban situation, thus be solved. The homelessness is caused by various reasons, including financial crisis to mental crisis. Homelessness is not a problem of poor/forgotten group of people, but it is an issue of deprivation of fundamentals of life.
Project User
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User Research
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SITE
HIGH LINE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
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CHELSEA MARKET
29-35 9th Ave, New York, NY 10014 currently Soho House New York (Hotel)
Site Map Site Analysis on Sanborn 2016 Map (left) Exterior Image from https://www.sohohouseny.com
The proposed site in Meat Packing District challenges the idea of homeless shelter in the middle of the highly urban situation. However, homelessness is not a problem that is to be avoided or be hid, but, in fact, an issue to encounter through a particular urban context; homelessness in New York is different from that in other city. As history of buildings in the neighborhood exhibits rebirth of old warehouse buildings into markets, hotels, restaurants and retail stores, the proposed site asks for the phenomena of homelessness to be examined and confronted by residents of New York. Site Map Google Satellite View 52
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Site Visit
January, 10
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August, 15
Site Daylight Study
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Site Physical Model Inflating Interior Space
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PROGRAM
HUDSON RIVER
HIGHLINE
HIGHLINE
HIGHLINE
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THE SHED
HUDSON YARDS
PERFORMANCE
INSTAL ATION
EXHIBITION EXHIBITION
ARENA
EXHIBITION EXHIBITION
CONCERT
Program Research: a project precedent “The Shed” Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Rockwell Group 545 W 30th St, New York, NY 10001 Video captured from theshed.org
LIVING ROOM KITCHEN BEDROOM BATHROOM LOBBY DINING ROOM POWDER ROOM CLOSET DRESSING ROOM GREAT ROOM STUDY ROOM WORK SPACE
GYM SWIMMING POOL LOUNGE PENTHOUSE THEATER SPA MASSAGE STATEROOM 60
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BASIC PROGRAM CONFIGURATION
SPECIFIC PROGRAMMATIC DIFFERANCIATION
LOBBY GYM SWIMMINGROOM POOL DINING LIVING GOROO ROOM O LOUNGE POWDER ROOM KITCHEN PENTHOUS PENTHOUSE CLOSET BEDROOM THEATER DRESSING ROOM SPA SPA BATHROOM GREAT ROOM MASSAGE STUDY ROOM WORK SPACE STATEROOM ENHANCING BASIC PROGRAMS THROUGH SPECIFICIED PROGRAMS
ADDITIONAL AMMENITY SPACES Initial Program Proposal
LIVING ROOM
LIVING ROOM
LOBBY O
LOBBY O
KITCHEN DINING GOROOM O BEDROOM M WALK-IN WALK IN CO CLOSET S
KITCHEN DINING G ROOM BEDROOM M WALK-IN W WALK ALK-IN IN CLOSET C S CO
GREAT ROOM
GREAT ROOM
DRESSING ROOM M STUDY ROOM M
DRESSING ING ROOM STUDY ROOM M
WORK SPACE
WORK K SPACE
BATHROOM POWDER OO ROOM O
BATHROOM POWDER O ROOM
ADDING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
REGROUPING
PUBLIC(SHARED) OCCUPANCY: 10 MAX
LIVING ROOM
LOBBY O Y
GREAT ROOM
KITCH KITCHEN DDINING G ROOM O BEDRO OOM O WALK-IN WALK W ALK-IN IN CCLOSET CO S
PRIVATE OCCUPANCY: 1-2
DDRESSIIN INNG ROOM SU Y ROOM STUD STUDY S OO
WORK W K SC SPACE
BATHRROPOWDER OOM POWDE O ROOM SEMI-PRIVATE OCCUPANCY: 3-5
Initial Program Development Programmatic Breakdown Diagram Program Occupancy Diagram
SEQUENCE: ENTERING
ENTRANCE
STATE ROOM
GYM
LOBBY
LOUNGE
SEQUENCE: AMMENITY SPA
MUD ROOM
LEVEL OF ASSOCIATION TO SPACE
SEQUENCE: DINING KITCHEN
DINING ROOM
WALK-IN CLOSET
LIVING ROOM
CORRIDOR
STUDY ROOM
SEQUENCE: SANITARY BATHROOM
POWDER ROOM
BEDROOM
PASSAGE AS RITUAL PERFORMANCE
Initial Program Adjacency Sequential Program Proposal
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sleeping
toilet
relaxing
changing/ storing
washing hand, face, brushing teeth
entering/exiting
entering/exiting
bathing, showering
laundry
dining
cooking
entering/exiting
Programmatic Enhancement for the Urban Home The proposed program is a homeless shelter. As a typical and an unique urban setting of New York, the project aims to tackle sheltering homelessness with New York’s own resources, such as diversity, trend, and highly urban context. The shelter features to focus on rudimentary service of household, and “urban home.� By providing focused services such as communal shower and bath and powder room, the shelter pursues the total recovery of homelessness through highlighting hygenic awareness. Also, the space is open to hotel users on the floor above, to engage social interaction and communication of humanity as whole. Program Proposal Relationship to the Theme
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Area (sq.ft.)
Quantity
Occupancy
Adjacency
Individual Units
210
9 x2
1-2
Bathroom, Powder Room
Toilet
330
1 x2
1
Bedroom
Powder Room
950
8 stalls x2
2 each
Bed/ bathroom
Kitchen/Dining
800
1 x2
20
individual units
Shower/Bath
780
1 x2
2-3
Dining and other kitchens
Ritualistic experience of washing
Laundry/Lounge
1350
1
30-40
open access, main entrance
Laundry as social gathering activity
Childcare/Lounge 1300
1
30-40
open access, main entrance
Childcare as social gathering activity
Shared Living Room
300
1x2
10
individual units, Small breathing area toilet
Administration Office
140
1
3
Main entrance
Classroom
200
1
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Childcare
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Characteristics
Inflating inward to individual occupants
Ritualistic experience of washing
Program Chart
LIGHT
Individual Units
Toilet
Powder Room
Kitchen/Dining
Shower/Bath
Laundry/Lounge Childcare/Lounge
Shared Living Room Administration Office
Classroom
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SOUND
Individual Units
Toilet
Powder Room
Kitchen/Dining
Shower/Bath
Laundry/Lounge Childcare/Lounge
Shared Living Room Administration Office
Classroom
Program Light and Sound Quality
THIRD FLOOR NET 10241 SQ FT
SECOND FLOOR NET 10241 SQ FT
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NET 20482 SQ FT
REQUIRED SQ FT FOR PROGRAMS NET 19580 SQ FT
Program Spatial Compatibility
HOTELpool POOL / AMENITY Hotel / amenity HOTELbar BAR Hotel HOTEL / LOUNGE
EXISTING E XISTING G SOHO O OH HOUSE OUSE US P PR PROGRAM ROGRAM R OG M
Hotel / lounge
HOTEL / THEATER Hotel / theater SHELTER / CLASSROOM
NEW N E EW WP PROPOSED PRO RO OPOSED P POSED OSED P PROGRA PROGRAM ROGRA AM M
SHELTER / classroom SHELTER / OFFICE HOTELsalon SALON / LOBBY Hotel / LOBBY HOTELbasement BASEMENT Hotel
Homeless Single mother and their children, age 6-13 The proposed program is a homeless shelter. As a typical and an unique urban setting of New York, the project aims to tackle sheltering homelessness with New York’s own resources, such as diversity, trend, and highly urban context. The shelter features to focus on rudimentary service of household, and “urban home.” By providing focused services such as communal shower and bath and powder room, the shelter pursues the total recovery of homelessness through highlighting hygenic awareness. Also, the space is open to hotel users on the floor above, to engage social interaction and communication of humanity as whole. Program Program Development
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Program Program Development Hygenic Rituals
Program Program Adjacency
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MAIN ENTRANCE
COMMUNITY INTERACTION
INDIVIDUAL UNITS
CORE HYGENIC PROGRAM
INDIVIDUAL UNITS
Program Program Schematic
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An adaptable transient dwelling is proposed and located within the Soho House, New York. As the hotel continues to operate, an emergent shelter for homeless single mothers and their children is tailored to their habitational rituals providing progressive accommodation to facilitate a reconnection to society.
TOP
LEFT
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FRONT
Dangerous Supplement Proposal
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Dangerous Supplement Visual Provocation “Wearing Wall”
TAILORING TO HUMAN BODY
Dangerous Supplement Material Study Inflation 80
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SEAM
SEAM
SEAM
SEAM
SEAM
SEAM
PROTOTYPE
Crumpled paper representing inflation
MOCK-UP
*red thread representing inflation tube
PROCESS
BLOWING BY OWN BREATH. VOLUNTARY DEDICATION
This layer is designed for homeless people who lack the fundamentals of living. The layer is worn like a jacket, inflated by each breath of the user, and also accommodates unpredictable weather conditions from living on the street. Through inflation as a method of tailoring, the structure conforms to the body’s contour and re-engages with disassociated external environment. And, its feature of constructing by the users’ own breath represents conscious dedication to confront adverse situation and to adjust their own environment. Proprioception Statement Inflation as method of tailoring
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Scale of Body Inflation Jacket
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A HOMELESS MAN WEARING AN EMPATHETIC LAYER
Tectonic Language Development Inflation as method of tailoring
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OCCUPANCY OF THE HABITATIONAL RITUAL during the rituals, a person occupies different volume of space at each moment. Thus, empathetic layer must also be tailored to the momentary volume of the occupancy of the ritual.
Ritual and Inflation Study of habitational Ritual cooking, dining, taking a shower
MOMENTS OF THE RITUAL
ACCOMMODATION
EMPATHETIC LAYER
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Ritual and Inflation Moments of the Ritual and Accommodation The Empathetic Layer
SPACE TO INHABIT ACCOMMODATION
DEGREE OF ACCOMMODATION
EXTRUSION
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EMPATHETIC NICHE
Tectonic Language Degree of Accommodation Extrusive Inflation
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Tectonic Language Vertical Application Topography
Interior volumes stand autonomous from the overall architectural structure in order to perform the habitational ritual transformations. Adapting inflation as a method of tailoring, the interior volume is expandable and malleable through the use of the space. This metamorphic volume allows the space to be sculptured for individual inhabitant. Scale of Volume Autonomous Interior
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3D PRINTING
Inflation Study
Filled
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Inflation SYSTEMATIC INFLATION
PHOTOS OF STUDY MODELS
Inflation Study System of Inflation Study model
EXPANDING BOUNDARY THROUGH RELOCATING OWN BELONGINGS
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Empathy Study What creates the empathy?
Shelving Modules
Porous
PLAN SCALE:1/2”-1’-0”
ELEVATION SCALE:1/2”-1’-0”
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DETAIL SCALE:3”-1’-0”
Openings
Rotate to invite entry
*rear view
Empathy Study Shelving System
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Empathy Study Sketches
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sheltered / accommodated
wiped
sheltered / accommodated
wiped
unsheltered / exposed
interior
Film Anaylsis
interior
wiped
sheltered / accommodated
wiped
sheltered / accommodated
wiped
sheltered / accommodated
exposed/unaccommodated throughout
temporary
stay
moment of accommodation
temporary
stay
moment of accommodation
Private Units
The film sequence when a human is exposed to natural contingency in exterior space, and different roofs and canopies are accommodating the person by creating the interior spaces. In this project, individual units as the beginning and ending, inhabitants travels through other programs while they are accommodated by different scale, degree and method of the empathetic layer. Each of the empathetic layer, the habitational rituals, highlights the moment of accommodation when the empathetic layer is tailored.
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Private Units
temporary stay moment of accommodation
temporary stay
moment of accommodation
temporary stay moment of accommodation
Film Anaylsis Habitational Ritual Sequential Program
temporary stay moment of accommodation
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Film Anaylsis Spatial Evolvement
Film Sequence
Looping back
Sequence remains, yet possible detours
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Everyone’s Ritual Sequence Overlapping one another. The Public Ritual
Film Anaylsis
While the volume of the space stays autonomous from the architectural structure, inhabitants move through one space to the other; the spaces reflect these transitions of the occupants. Each program interfaces with one another through the empathetic layer, which accommodates the changes of occupancy.
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Scale of Perception Correspondence Occupancy and Circulation
POWDER ROOM
DINING
OFFICE ADMIN
SHOWER BATHROOM
POWDER ROOM
KITCHEN
DINING
POWDER ROOM
KITCHEN LOUNGE
SHOWER
POWDER ROOM
LOUNGE
THIRD FLOOR PLAN - SCHEME 1
CLASSROOM BATHROOM
POWDER ROOM
DINING
KITCHEN
CLASSROOM SHOWER BATHROOM
POWDER ROOM POWDER ROOM
DINING
KITCHEN LOUNGE
SHOWER
POWDER ROOM
SECOND FLOOR PLAN - SCHEME 1
LOUNGE
SCHEME 1.RITUAL SEQUENCE SCHEME 2.FORM ORIENTED
KITCHEN
DW
REF.
SHOWER 8 stalls
DINING
CLASSROOM
LOUNGE3 FOYER
KITCHEN SINK/POWDER ROOM 9 sinks
LOUNGE1 DW
REF.
SHOWER LOUNGE2 8 stalls
LOUNGE3
SINK/POWDER ROOM 9 sinks
LOUNGE1
LOUNGE2
THIRD FLOOR PLAN - SCHEME 2
SHELTER OFFICE
DINING
FOYER
KITCHEN
DW
REF.
SHOWER 8 stalls
DINING LOUNGE3 FOYER
KITCHEN
LOUNGE1 DW
SINK/POWDER ROOM 9 sinks
REF.
SHOWER LOUNGE2 8 stalls
LOUNGE3
LOUNGE1
SINK/POWDER ROOM 9 sinks
SECOND FLOOR PLAN - SCHEME 2
LOUNGE2
SHELTER OFFICE
Shower / Bath 780 sq. ft.
Childcare / Lounge 1300 sq. ft. Classroom 199 sq. ft.
Childcare / Lounge 1300 sq. ft.
Bathroom 330 sq. ft. REF.
Kitchen / Dining 800 sq. ft. Powder Room 950 sq. ft. REF.
Shared Living Room 300 sq. ft.
Bathroom 330 sq. ft. REF.
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Kitchen / Dining 800 sq. ft.
Powder Room 950 sq. ft. REF.
Shared Living Room 300 sq. ft.
Individual Unit 210 sq. ft.
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Individual Unit 210 sq. ft.
THIRD FLOOR PLAN Shower / Bath 780 sq. ft.
Administation Office 140 sq. ft.
Shower / Bath 780 sq. ft.
Administation Office 140 sq. ft.
Laundry / Lounge 1350 sq. ft. W/D
W/D
W/D
W/D
W/D
Laundry / Lounge 1350 sq. ft.
W/D
W/D
W/D
Bathroom 330 sq. ft.
W/D
W/D
W/D
REF.
W/D
Kitchen / Dining 800 sq. ft.
W/D
W/D
Powder Room 950 sq. ft. Shared Living Room 300 sq. ft.
Bathroom 330 sq. ft.
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Kitchen / Dining 800 sq. ft. REF.
Powder Room 950 sq. ft.
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Shared Living Room 300 sq. ft.
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Individual Unit 210 sq. ft.
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Directed Research Interview Name of Interviewee and title/position: Matt (Bartender) Date: 10/02/19 1) What is the main goal/purpose of your facility? Any statistics? Bar. I don’t have, but they(managers) have the numbers, like the average numbers of occupancy and all that. 2) How would you describe your organizational culture? They(customers) come here. They order drinks at the bar, or on the weekend we have waitress, so they order drinks when they come, they either wait here(at the bar) or take a seat on the couch or anywhere, have conversation, they can play chess, checkers or even they can play pool. 3) What is the sq ft. / maximum occupants? We have up to 45 to 50 seats in the room, and it fills up. 4) Is the space spacious? For what the room is, for what is meant to be, for me I think it is big enough. If it was bigger, it wouldn’t hurt. 5) How does the design of this facilities unique? From others or same? There are couple of library bars in manhattan This is definitely unique. We have cows with hats on all the wall, you really don’t find that anywhere. With the pool table, that mirror, and fireplace, as far as design, I think it is very unique. 6) Who are the types of people that c ome to this facility? People from the hotel above comes in. 7) Averages of occupants? Age, gender, economic status 30 to 60. Majority is definetly order. 8) How long do people stay? Varies, just like the bars in general. 9) Is there any feedback about the space/vibe from users? People like its classic atmosphere. Some people might think it is small space, most people enjoys it. 10) Number of staff? At a time? We have around 3 to 4. At busy time, 4. 11) What type of work spaces does the staff require? Just bar? The circulation? Just bar for drinks. 12) What are different places from this facility? Other bars/ library/ lounge area? 13) How do departments interact, with bar, outdoor, burger etc. Umami burger restaurant is on the opposite side of this. There is a private park, yard. There is no bar service out there now. It is a seasonal menu. An outdoor area you can bring your drinks and sit at. You can order drinks here and go outside. And, we also have a bar lounge across from the front desk, and rooftop bar on 15th floor. All different bars are decorated differently for different theme. Upstair bar is more modern looking, Miami-look, whereas here is more antique.
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Umami Burger is completely new design. You cannot bring burger there since we don’t allow food in the bar. 14) What are the public/private boundaries in the space? It is private because it is inside of hotel. If you were a hotel guest, you can just come in here. But if you are just coming in from the street, you can’t come in here. 15) What do they do in public? Works? Does Not? Communication, playing games, and reading. 16) What are the circulations within the space?Deliver? Served? Self Served?In and out? It is self-served basically. People come to the bar and order drinks, then go wherever they want. 17) Any special equipment, plumbing, lighting, technology, or ventilation requirements? There is no special equipment. 18) What are the main safety issues? security issues? There is the security guard for hotel, and they rotate throughout the area, throughout the day. 19) Design and program. Work? Doesnt? Yes. Make it cozy, someone comes here for that. Someone like to read as it feels comfortable. If a person by himself comes, 20) Furniture/finishes. Are they purposeful? Changed? For 15 years, the interior, furniture layout, and furniture itself have not changed. You can see the metal chairs in few seating areas, and that means that original furniture is in process of fixing. They do not want to add new furnitures to mess up the original theme of the space. 21) Attention to acoustics? No. It doesn’t get too loud. 22) Any suggestion for improvement? Just upgrade for the furnitures, matching ones. I would keep it like this. 23) If money is not an object, what would this facility be like? I wouldn’t change it too much for interior design. Maybe some equipment for the bars? 24) What else can improve the space? Keep it that way, as the room has been like this for 15 years. It’s classic. 25) Space for staff to be bigger? More enclosed? This is fine. 26) More space for occupants? Or less? Divided? Etc. It is enough. Additional Information: Are those books real? “Somethings up there are real and fake. That’s only made for decoration. Just decoration. Anything that is standing straight up, it is fake and tilted and sticking out from the shelves. Are real.” “People asks me about the space all the time. I had to learn.” “It is Ian Schrager hotel and the designer is Philippe Starck. He designed the entire hotel from the neon lighted entrance to hotel, hotel lobby and small details in the corridor.”
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Gina, 54 Hotel Guest How many time have you visited the space? -It is my first time here in the hotel. I’ve used the bar a couple times. Have you visited the site in different time? If yes, how was the experience different from now? What do you think makes difference? -I have not been to the restaurant across the outdoor garden. But I have noticed that the bar opens in the evening, as expected. Can you imagine the space without the library/book shelves? -The theme of library and bookshelves is very significant feature to me. It gives a bizarre but cozy mood to sit in. If it were just a n ormal bar without the bookshelves, I wouldn’t have enjoyed as much as I do now. What atmosphere does space generate? And how the atmosphere of the space determine the use of space? - Bizarre and cozy. The atmosphere really gives direction of what I should do in the space. I am reading today. I was drinking yesterday.
Victor, 42 Hotel Guest, pilot How many time have you visited the space? - Few times because our airline has a partnership with the hotel. I enjoy every time I come here. Have you visited the site in different time? If yes, how was the experience different from now? What do you think makes difference? - Since I stayed few days in the hotel, I have seen it closed, just opened, and in the midnight. All fantastic experience, but I especially enjoy when it just opened and there is still sunlight shining into the space. I personally think it could be open in the daytime as w ell. Can you imagine the space without the library/book shelves? - I guess maybe. The library concept adds interesting feeling, but the rest of decoration is also epic. I still like the way it is. What atmosphere does space generate? And how the atmosphere of the space determine the use of space? -It is like a parlor of someone’s antique house. Very intimate.
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Jeffrey 24. Accountant How many time have you visited the space? -This is my third time. Have you visited the site in different time? If yes, how was the experience different from now? What do you think makes difference? -I came here around 6 30 with my coworkers after work because someone else recommended the place that is the first time here. And I brought my other friend around 10:30, which was more casual. Can you imagine the space without the library/book shelves? -After couple drinks, yes. What atmosphere does space generate? And how the atmosphere of the space determine the use of the space? -It is a lot more comfortable, and not as noisy as other bars because it is small.
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