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01 FOOD AND CHANGE LEVEL: GRADUATE PROJECT TYPE: COMMUNITY CENTER
02 LEARN AND CREATE LEVEL: GRADUATE PROJECT TYPE: EDUCATION
03 HOME AND CULTURE LEVEL: UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT TYPE: RESIDENTIAL
04 ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK LEVEL: UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT TYPE: URBAN PLANNING
05 BEACON WATCHTOWER LEVEL: UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT TYPE: FOUNDATION
06 THE RHYTHM OF TIME LEVEL: UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT TYPE: FOUNDATION
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FOOD AND CHANGE Year: Fall 2021 Level: Graduate Instructor: Rashida Ng Team Partner: Gabriel Agatsiotis Location: Hockessin, Delaware
Hockessin Community Village is a place that uses food to bring people together and provide an educational and cultural experience. Our goal and mission is to enhance the community experience by creating a cultural hub that acts as a beacon of change and opportunity. By embodying the historical significance of Hockessin Colored School 107 through cultural cuisines and educational attributes, we will help enlighten individuals on the power of diversity. The celebration of food and culture helps speak to the value of diversity in society, promoting the ideals of equity and justice. Food helps to bring people together, and our mission is to attract people from long distances, not just the people of Hockessin. We want this to be a place where people will want to come back again and again for the experience.
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PROCESSION • Arrive and enter Hockessin School107. • Receive an overview of what the site has to offer. • Pick up your schedule for the day. • Find out what events are happening, what food is being made. • Exit through the back into the courtyard
• Pick up your basket, traverse the courtyard. • Find the ingredients you need and drop off at prep station. • Make your way to the kitchen, go to hand washing station. • Start prepping food, working around large communal table. • After the food is made, make your way to your table.
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1- Progression Through the Program |2- East Section Cut | 3- Plan Drawing
• Take off shoes if needed, begin setting the table • Cook the food together, if applicable, and share dishes. • Find a place to rest after meal indoor or outdoor. • Enjoy the outdoor space - movie night, socialize, play games.
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As soon as they visitors are done picking up the vegetables/fruits from the garden, they make their way to the washing station, where they wash the fruits and their hands, and start preparing the food along side the chef. Once the food is done, they make their way to the dining room, where it’s set up appropriately to the specific cuisine
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LEARN AND CREATE Year: Spring 2021 Instructor: Robert Shuman Team Partner: Gabriel Agatsiotis Location: North Philadelphia
The school design celebrates the qualities and artistic aspects of what an Art and Design school should feel like, where its designed to welcome and invite students and staff, with its generous amount natural light and open space that fulfills the corridors an classrooms. Our proposal explores the relationship between interior and exterior, representing the inner creativity of the students that will attend the school. The Courtyard is a great gate away for students to meetup before or after school hours, or to even to eat their lunch, or for visitors to socialize before and after school events in the gym or theatre. Its also surrounded with a public bioswale that is a strategic design that collects rainwater. Students are later welcomed and invited to the school by the grand atrium where it holds the life of the building.
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1-South East Exterior Perspective| 2- South Elevation | 3- East Elevation | 4- Study Facade Diagram
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These sets of graphics demonstrate the relationship between inside and outside presenting both accessible green roofs, the courtyard perspective, and the third level with atrium, that filters light through the whole school
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The School sits between a diverse set of programs, educational, residential, and public. This make its location, easily accessible in terms of transportation
1- Parti/Form Diagram | 2- Site Analysis Diagram | 3- East Wall Detail Section Cut |4- Structural, RCP, and HVAC Plan Diagrams
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HOME AND CULTURE Year: Fall 2018 Level: Undergraduate Instructor: Jeremy Voorhees Location: South St Philadelphia, Pa
Located in the famous street of Philadelphia, South St, this residential project consists of two mixed use row houses designed to fit two workspaces: Arab family restaurant and a cultural center. The rest of the building spaces were made for family housing. Both joint venture business is shared by both residents. The design of both homes focuses on intertwining private and public spaces, where the facade plays a significant role to represent that challenge.
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This Diagram shows where the businesses are located in both homes, and the elevation of the front and the back of the homes.
1-Section Drawings | 2- Front and Back Elevation Diagram | 3- Middle Eastern Cultural Center render
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Both Businesses are located in the first level of the home. Parts of each home share and interact with the public spaces. The first home shares its kitchen with the cafe, while the second home shares its office space that looks down into the cultural lounge.
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BEACON WATCHTOWER Year: Fall 2020 Level: Graduate Instructor: Eric Oskey Location: Grjótagjá, Iceland
The Grjótagjá caves are located underneath the North American and Eurasian plates. The Beacon Watchtower sits on the American side, allowing visitors to walk on the path next to the crevice as they approach the tower. As they arrive they come across the welcome center, and make their way up to the cafe and observatory spaces. The tower is made out of light materials such as metal cladding and polycarbonate which touches the landscape with lightness and sensitivity. The connection bridge starts from the second level of the tower. The bridge expands as the crevice gets wider every year.
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1- Perspective View Render | 2- Section Cut |3- Observatory View |4- Cafe Perspective | 5- Floor Plan Drawings | 6- Circulation Diagram
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TOWER FLOOR PLANS The observatory spaces and programs are both located in the tower, where it also connects with an expandable bridge on the second level. The bridge takes you on the other side of the crevice (the Eurasian Side) The first two levels of the tower hold the programs: the first floor is where the Welcome Center and office are located. The second level is where the cafe and restrooms are. The last three levels are the observatory spaces presenting the visitor different views of the site.
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Iceland has a diverse landscape, and Grjótagjá represents the seasons in a phenomenal way. The Beacon Watchtower represents and celebrates the sites beautiful geography, by using colorful translucent polycarbonate material. This material has insulation with colors that represents a specific season. It glows during the night and brings lighting to the interior during the day.
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1- Tower Elevation Drawing| 2- Seasonal Colors that Occur on Site|3- Different Perspectives of spaces in the Beacon Watchtower
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK Year: Spring 2019 Level: Undergraduate Instructor: Carolina Vaccaro Location: Rome, Italy
This is an urban design project that I did when I studied abroad in Rome, Italy. It explores the possibilities of turning Palatine Hill into an archaeological park. The proposed design involves a wide-open space or a piazza that sits right in front of the Colosseum, a space which was dug into the palatine hill that holds public services, such as a welcome center and historical museum. There are architecture moments that extrude from the ground to catch attention to those coming from the southern part of the park. The goal is to connect paths to the main attractions around the site, to bring not only tourists to space but the Romans and to revive the church and the White Villa that sit in the existing site.
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New pathways are introduced in the Palatine Hill, along with a tram track; this way it brings a connection from Roman neighborhood, allowing residents to have better access to the site, and connect with tourists and visitors
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THE RHYTHM OF TIME Year: Spring 2020 Level: Undergraduate Instructor: Gabriel Kaprielian Location: Andorra Meadow
This is an artist and resident project, that is located at the Andorra Meadow in Wssahickon Park. What initially caught my attention as I observed and analyzed the Andorra Meadow was the confluence of both intimate, and open spaces. Additionally, I was taken with array of beautiful perspectives. The site seemed it wanted present a narrative. The artistic media I decided to study and implement in my design is cinematography.Both architecture and cinema are art forms that share similar elements: such as visual perception. They both define frames of reality and situations of human interactions, where they instill in us a better understanding of the world.
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With Cinematography, I wanted to focus on implementing one’s emotion and perception of the spaces they enter. With my current design I wanted to focus on time and movement, and how one conceives and reads a space in terms of sequence.
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1- Site Plan | 2- Site Section | 3- Introduction to Site |4- Entrance to the Observatory
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When you first enter the site, you walk through cluster of trees, where they hold introduction spaces that frame specific views, or even the observers themselves. Like film, you’re first i ntroduced to a character or a setting, but still not familiar with them yet, I wanted this sequence of frames to leave the observe wanting for more.
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The second part of the design is the observatory space, which emphasizes three sections; exposition, climax, and resolution. Once you leave the observatory space, you enter to watch an artistic film about centered around the site. Once one is done with the land observatory you proceed to circular around the site and loop around a circular path to finally get an overall perspective of the site.
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1- Different Perspective Showing Different Spaces and Rooms in the Observatory | 2- Circulation Perspective |3- Theater Room Section and Perspective |4-
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The theater has an operable roof, that can be removed depending on the weather condition, and the media that is being presented
Study Sketch of the Andorra Meadow