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Under Elevated Science Institute Cut-out Space Tech Tower Ecology Center Dis Connection Out of Sight Installation Line to Volume Exhibition Hand Drawings
Tendency Beneath Transit Infrastructure
Under Elevated Final Project, Spring 2017 This project is an effort to look at underneath transit Infrastructure through the lenses of Topography and the manipulation of Ground in order to initiate a new perspective in reading these spaces and ultimately reading the city. Topography
of
City
reveals
the
relation
between Infrastructure and cities Landscape which has been changed and evolved after mass industrialization process of massive Construction of Transit systems reveals the communication and back and forth relationship of topography and the transit Infrastructure. And as the result, we can observe its influence on the ecosystem, culture, economy and so on. In addition, Passing transit infrastructure over the city and its relation to the ground creates a large number of voids through the urban context. These underneath Infrastructure are every day experience of seeing unseen spaces which are home of specific group of people or abandoned in a poor condition. The goal is to reveal the potential of the underneath spaces that has been historically suppressed through amplifying manipulation of the ground.
MANIPULATED GROUND
SITE ANALYSIS
DESIGN INVESTIGATION
The conceptual models
are
representation of the behavior and history of suppression which has been observed underneath transit infrastructures in three identified
sites
with
three
different scale. There is an interesting similarity in a way water and transit infrastructure carves the ground. Both play and connect with it and find their way by shaping one another. However water result in an active space around it and transit infrastructure create leftover
spaces
underneath.
specifically
DESIGN OPTIONS
By studying and comparing the relationship of water and ground and transit infrastructure and the ground, the design idea
proposes
to
continue
stratification of ground to create “Active Ground (Landscape)� that could enrich its environment and bring variety of possibilities. This design investigation intend to increase and reinforce a range of potential and suppressed behavior on each specific site through activating the unseen ground. The possibilities are the result of intensifying actual topography based on weighted behavior at each specific site and different interpretation of relationship of points and curves which create the continues surface of ground.
NODE 1 BREEDING TENDENCY
Transit system above
Runoff water
Pollution Increase of surfaces, allowing water to pass playfully and be cleaned in the process
Pond Algea for cleaning waste water
Pond Wet lands Supporting Facilites
MANIPULATED GROUND BREEDING TENDENCY
CURRENT GROUND
Pond Cleaning waste water
Wet Lands
Connection Pathes
ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
Transit system above
Transit system above
Polluted run-off water
Creeks
Existing Ground
DESIGN ANALYSIS REINFORCING BIODIVERSITY
NODE 1
Physical Model, 3D Printed, Node1, Possibility 2, Under Transit Infrastructure
NODE 2 BREEDING TENDENCY
Connection Engaging with Creative activities Art Studio
Engaging with Current Technology Internet Hubs Computer center Increase in the Diversity of use,Open space as plaza, connection walking paths, resting area
MANIPULATED GROUND BREEDING TENDENCY
CURRENT GROUND
Walking path connection
Creative
Retail
Multi-Functional Plaza
DESIGN ANALYSIS REINFORCING HUMAN ACTIVITY
NODE 2
Physical Model, 3D Printed, Node3, Possibility 2, Under Highway
L0:Dark L1:Shadowed L2:Semi Lit L3:Light
L: Light
E0:NoPlants E1:Ground Cover E2:Grass E3:Fern E4:Shurbs(4 to 10ft) E5:Small Tree(10ft to 15ft) E6: Tall Tree(taller than 10ft)
E:Plants Type
H0:Shelter H1:Walking H2:Biking
H: Human Behavior
B6:Filled
B0:Enclosed Vacant B2:Car B3:Train
B:Use of Bridge Land
U3: Historical/Cultural U4:Educational U5: Automobile Service U6:Food Service U12: Church U13:Factory U15:Commercial U16: Parking U18: Residential U20: Stadium
U: Land Use
LEGEND
Physical Model, Node3, Representing Ground Behavior Under Highway
Site Interpretation
Science Institute Fall 2015 Site of the project is located between city and greenway. This project attempts to challenge and blur the edge between landscape and Architecture. This project is aligned with the theory of Landscape urbanism. Although in a smaller scale of a block, the design attempts to have a larger impact on the neighborhood. The design creates a transition space between city and nature, a connection spot and inviting landscape. Designing a smooth landscape with specific feature of carving out courtyards and pulling out just two important programs while rest of the project is under landscape, provides a poetic peaceful space besides the creek. The smooth landscape of the roof shapes the form of the building underneath, not only provides a connection and ease the access between the river and the street on the top, it is a place to stay and enjoy the view. Both these features of the design also assist the project to decrease the energy use by employing passive heating and cooling strategies.
Green Way
Designing the landscape
Connection to Greenway
Pulling out specific Programs
Carving Courtyards in the landscape
Cutting out Entrance
Think Tank
Theater
Public Plaza Court Yard Labs Library Offices
Designing
a
smooth
landscape
with specific feature of carved out courtyards
The smooth landscape of the roof shaped the form of the building underneath, not only provides a connection and ease the access between the river and the street on the top, it is a place to stay and enjoy the view. Having the public landscape on the top and semi-private court yards under surface, blurs the boundary of public and private.
Court Yards, Physical Model
Entrance, Physical Model
Cut-out Space
The ongoing study is a form
investigatin
on
the
relationship of positive and negative
space
through
defining a relatively simple system that could result in complex spaces and variety of possiblities. [1]
The system starts from a number of points (related to the positive object) which get connected and related to one another in different ways. This connection of points would create a path(s) which
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Tech Tower Spring 2016, Group Project
With the lack of public space in the city and increasing the number of isolated high rise buildings, our design aims to maximize the connection of tower to the city and its surrounding, while providing active public spaces through the tower. The design of tower takes advantage of its adjacency to two main public transportation hubs as a way to filter pedestrian traffic into the main plaza and welcome the public through the building. In our design, the connection between the building and city at different scales is important in order to bring people together as they experience the spaces that are created through the tower. The design intent for the EcoTech Tower provides
collaborative
workspace
and
innovative ateliers to assist TECHSTYLE, the world’s leading trend authority, serving the fashion and creative industries. The program includes
a
nanotechnology
workspace
to
accommodate the advancement of textile
Runway through the volume Architecture as Provocateur The design intent for the EcoTech Tower provides collaborative workspace and innovative ateliers to assist TECHSTYLE, the world’s leading trend authority, serving the fashion and creative industries. The program includes a nanotechnology workspace to accommodate the advancement of textile performance, a textile workshop to enhance methods of textile manufacturing and printing, and ample workspace for designers, artists, and enthusiasts to create the fashions of tomorrow. Located between 3rd and 4th Streets on the south side of the light rail line, the tower is in the heart of activity in Charlotte and at the crossroads of multiple forms of transportation. The architecture of the TECHSTYLE corporate headquarters focuses on weaving together programmatic “threads” of art, business, and community spaces unified by a runway that serves as an active display of in-house designs. The tower will respond to the immediate urban context of the building site by welcoming pedestrian traffic from the two light rail stations and bus terminal adjacent to the lot through pleated, faceted thresholds which recess into the tower form. The voids in the form will provide opportunities for the runway thread to visually engage the city of Charlotte and serve as a privileged view into the otherwise secretive world of haute couture. The fabric ground is manipulated through a similar pleating motif in the ground level public plaza on the north of the site. The wide, folded forms encourage pedestrian traffic to filter through the community thread composed of restaurants, retail, gardens, and the company’s premiere runway thread.
Pleated Curtain Wall
Architecture as an Interface for Fashion The TECHSTYLE Ecotech Tower challenges the notion of the exclusivity of the fashion world by the weaving techniques employed in the building’s
spatial conception. By drawing the pedestrian traffic and local community into the base of the tower, the runway thread provides an uncommon vantage point into the creative world. Though the runway is a filtered interface, expressing and displaying only the
fashions the designer consider worthwhile, the active gallery offers rewards
for both the public and the artisans. The seemingly bourgeois, fashion consumers get insight into the iterative world of design while the atelier can gauge public reaction to their work.
performance, a textile workshop to enhance methods of textile manufacturing and printing, and ample workspace for designers, artists, and enthusiasts to create the fashions of tomorrow.
Johnny Ritenbaugh Nazanin Modares Ravine Mangala
Free standing Runway Structure
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DESIGN PROCESS Development 1:Adapting the Character of the Surrounding Urban Context. Development 2 & 3: Interweaving the Urban Landscape with the Building Mass. Bringing public into the building.
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Development 4: Creating opening toword the city. Ideas of Pleating and Weaving the Building Mass. Development 5: Weaving the runway from exterior to interior building program. Final Mass: The Runway and Pleated Mass
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INSIDE TOWER
The architecture of the TECHSTYLE corporate headquarters focuses on weaving together programmatic “threads� of art, business, and community
spaces
unified by a runway space that serves as an active display of inhouse designs.
Artists/Maker
Business Business Artists/Maker
Business
Community Retail
Program Distribution
Program Distribution
Combined Program Threads and Combined Program Threads and Runway Volume Runway Volume
Specific Program and Spaces
Specific Program and Spaces throughout the Runway Thread throughout the Runway Thread
Program Program Critic R.
Runway Conference R. Runway Runway Retail
Specific Program and Spaces throughout the Runway Thread
Specific Program and Spaces throughout the Runway Thread
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Circulation
Circulation
Public and Private Cores, West Facing View
Public and Private Cores, West Facing View
Circulation
Circulation
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TOWER STRUCTURE Steel diagrid has been considered for structural design. In addition, in order to make the floors entirely free from the traditional vertical columns, we considerd our Runway volume to have a free standing steel structure. helping the exterior steel diagrid to carry loads.
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Detail Section A- The Runway through Upper Threads 1/2”’= 1’-0”
Detail Section Callout A- I 3/4”’= 1’-0”
Detail Section A- The Runway through Upper Threads 1/2”’= 1’-0”
Detail Section Callout A- I 3/4”’= 1’-0”
1" FINISHED FLOOR
CONCRETE SLAB 1" FINISHED FLOOR METAL DECKING CONCRETE SLAB 24" x 14" DEEP W METALFRANGE DECKING WIDE BEAM 24" x 14" DEEP W WIDE FRANGE BEAM 6" GAP
3" x 6" CURTAIN 6" GAPMULLION WALL
3" x 6" CURTAIN UNITIZED CURTAIN WALL MULLION PANEL
UNITIZED CURTAIN WALL PANEL
2" BATT INSULATION
24"BATT x 24" STL. TUBE 2" INSULATION WEATHER BARRIER 24" x 24" STL. TUBE 1/2" GYPSUN SHEATHING WEATHER BARRIER SUSPENDED 1/2" GYPSUN CEILING SHEATHING
SUSPENDED CEILING 1" FINISHED FLOOR
CONCRETE SLAB 1" FINISHED FLOOR METAL DECKING CONCRETE SLAB 24" x 14" DEEP W METALFRANGE DECKING WIDE BEAM
Detail Section Callout B- I 24" x 14" DEEP W 3/4”’=WIDE 1’-0” FRANGE BEAM 6" GAP
Detail Section Callout B- I 3/4”’=3" x1’-0” 6" CURTAIN 6" GAPMULLION WALL
3" x 6" CURTAIN UNITIZED CURTAIN WALL MULLION PANEL
UNITIZED CURTAIN WALL PANEL
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2" BATT INSULATION
24"BATT x 24" STL. TUBE 2" INSULATION WEATHER BARRIER 24" x 24" STL. TUBE
Detail Section B- The Runway through Lower Threads 1/2”’= 1’-0”
1/2" GYPSUN SHEATHINGBARRIER WEATHER SUSPENDED 1/2" GYPSUN
FACADE STUDY
Pleated Curtain Wall with Vertical Mullions
Curtain Wall Panels and Connection to Floor 1. Continuous Frame, 2. Silicon, 3. Horizontal Member
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Ecology Center Summer 2016, Group Project
Taking the train or on a bike, people come over to Bologna Urban Ecology Center to learn, share and enjoy. BUEC is designed to communicate with a wide range of citizens for a whole variety of activities. With this CORE concept (Communication, Openness, Respect, and Equality), BUEC is designed as a place: To gather and communicate, with large open spaces and multifunctional vertical voids that perform both as circulation and a part of a program. With respect to history, with preserving all features of an old paper factory, using recycled and on-site materials to restore material along with the space. With respect to nature, with its vertical open spaces to bring in natural daylight, with using renewable energy as in a solar space, zero CO2 natural ventilation, ground source heating/ cooling system, rain fall management, vertical green space, roof garden and food production.
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Roof Garden
PV Array Layout
ROOF GARDEN
PV ARRAY LAYOUT
Architectural Cohesion ARCHITECTURAL COHENSION BETWEEN BUILDINGS
DESIGNEDCathedral WITH ORIGINAL CATHEDRAL PROPORTIONS Proportions
Vertical Garden VERTICAL GARDEN, IMPROVES ACOUSTICAL CONDITION CONTINUITY OF NATURE THROUGH BUILDING Continues Sloped surface
Greenway GREEN WAY, ENTERS NATURE TO THE INTERIOR Connected Spaces FLUENCY, CONNECTED SPACES Natural SUMMER Ventilation NATURAL VENTILATION
WINTER DIRECT SOLAR GAIN
Recycled Windows USING RECYCLED MATERIAL
Gathering Plaza GATHERING PLAZA
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Recreational: Hiking, Gardening, Making bonds with nature. Spaces: Roof cafĂŠ, Roof gardens (designed that people could have their own garden)
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1. Entrance Lobby 2. Vertical Circulation
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Research: CIRCULATION 3.1-Research Center ENTRANCE LOBBY 4.2-Laboratory VERTICAL CIRCULATION
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RESEARCH Educational: 3- RESEARCH CENTER 5.Training Center 4- LABRATORY 6. Lecture Hall 7.EDUCATIOVAL Work Shop 5- TRAINING CENTER 8.6-Library/Lounge LECTURE HALL
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8- LIBRARY/LOUNGE Business: 9. Start Up BUSINESS 9- START UP DEN
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Recreational: RECREATIONAL 10. Cafe 10- CAFE
11. Office 11-Open OPEN OFFICE 12-Solar SOLAR SPACE 12. Space 13VOID 13. Voids 14- EXHIBITION 14. Exhibition
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Dis Connection Fall 2016, Group Project
The site is located in the heart of uptown, Charlotte where the future Amtrack station is planned. This opens up the opportunity to redevelop the neighborhood, trying to reconnect the uptown with North and East charlotte, from the Johnson Wells University to Music Factory and the Stadium. The site for the Gateway Station and surrounding development has a distinct linear plan spanning from the Music Factory and the Silos to the North, with the a nearby historic Forth Ward neighborhood and Elmwood Cemetery, to the Bank of America Stadium and Johnson & Wales Culinary School to the South. The contrast between public and private, new and old, transit-oriented and community oriented city blocks, became the main challenge and driving force for the design proposal. The variety of building and block scales was an influential factor in creating a sensibility towards Charlotte’s changing urban density.
Green Spaces in Charlotte
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Linear Building Over the Train Lane
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Linear Commercial/ Retail Building
Linear Vegetation Park Along the Tracks
Narrow Walking Street in Between
TYPOLOGY [3]
Community Theatre
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Mixed Used Building
Learning Center
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[2] [3] Out Side Cafe/ Restaurant
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Alley/Back Street
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Low rise local retail stores
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Small scale Building
Carrying Existing Context In Between Public Space
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Retail/Local Market
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Integrated with the Landscape
Medium Sized Building
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Commercial Educational
Roof top Restaurant
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Commercial Building
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Art Opening Preserving/ Revitalizing Natural Habitat
Walking Street in Between
Building as a Bridge
Residential
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[4] Parking Integrated with the Landscape
Roof Garden
Community Theatre
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Parking under landscape
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Roof top Restaurant
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High Rise Mixed Use Tower
[4] High Rise Commercial Tower
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Narrow Walking Path along the Tracks
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Linear Vegetation Park Along the Tracks
Some of the main objectives for the train station include: An urban living room that can serve a variety of public functions ce-level CATS bus facility that will enable weather protected transfers below or above the main public space Landscaped greenways that will provide high quality pedestrian and bicycle access to all the main parts of the station as well as to the adjacent points of interest.
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NODES
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Transportation Hub, Public Plaza
Office Tower, Pavilion
Parking,Public Plaza,Garden
Pavilion, Activating water edge
Physical Model: Transportation Hub
DESIGN STRATEGIES The assortment of simple, bar buildings grow vertically as well as in its density depending on zone of development. The scale of the buildings increases around the transit-oriented area. The negative, open
spaces
that
emerge around the simple bar buildings create a lateral movement throughout the site, stitching together communities.
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Pavilion, Activating water edge
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By stratifying the city vertically in the program-embedded subOffice Tower, Pavilion
strate, the public development takes full advantage of the horizontal footprint. The activated pedestrian walkways become the main connection not only from North to South, but most importantly it becomes the proposals main development
Local Retail around Water
to the heart of the city.
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Out of Sight Spring 2017 Competition:NY Affordable Housing 2017 Second prize winner, Group Project This pilot-phase concept proposal explores the notion that small-scale design can lead to large-scale effects by using an affordable housing unit that adapts to varied urban conditions. The approach focuses on the design of a 280 S.F. unit that incrementally populates different urban site conditions, allowing familiar but also altenative building types to emerge. The basic “L-Shaped” configuration of each unit is predicated on a perception of space that is “Out-of-View” or “Out of Sight”. This visual effect avoids the container-like character typical of most microdwelling proposals.
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Layering Horizontal CLT Panels Loft: Alternative
Layering Load Bearing CLT Panels
Integrated Storage
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United Nations Site, NY
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East River Site, NY
Dwelling Mat (Double layer)
Public Path
Podium+Void
Structure
Pier
Exploded Diagram of Public Spaces
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Installation Fall 2015, Group Project
The design is inspired by the fractal patterns
which
starts
from
lowset
fraction from the edges and gets intense in the middele. The final Cairo Pattern composition is consist of five different tile’s patterns which create the overal design. During the fabrication process, the tabs
DETAIL SECTION @ CEILING
are laid up as part of the panel, allowing for a concealed mechanical connection. The wall must be assembled from bottom to top, as the panels have a stacking logic that governs their placement. EXISTING 2X2 METAL CEILING GRID FIBERGLASS PANEL 3/4” PLYWOOD WASTEBOARD FURRING [CUT TO SLOPE - 85*] SILICONE ADHESIVE EXISTING CMU EXISTING CONCRETE SLAB
DETAIL SECTION @ FLOOR
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Line to Volume Fall 2018, Atlanta Hotel Proposal, Perkins Eastman
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Exhibition
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Hand Drawings
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Office Building: design, representation (4 Hours) 89
These sketches are from my two to four hour hand drawings during my undergradute. I was assigned to do a quick design of buildings in a fix time frame. The representation should include overal exterior perspective, plan and either section or elevation.
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Office Building: design, representation
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