Nathan Baker Advanced Design Portfolio USF - SACD
This portfolio and the past year and a half is dedicated to my family and friends who have shown me patience, love, and support. None of this would have been possible without each and every one of them.
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ADVANCED DESIGN A Takase Art Center [6]
ADVANCED DESIGN B Legacy Parks [26]
ADVANCED DESIGN C Nexus [44]
SELECTED WORKS Hikari no Hana Armas Arch The Vertical Reef Tea House
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TAKASE ART CENTER Class: Advanced Design A Professor: Michael Halflants Site: Japan Semester: Summer 2014 6
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JOURNEY TO JAPAN
In June 2014 15 peers and I traveled to the amazing country of Japan, and we visited to Kyoto, Nara, Inari, Awaji Island, Hemiji Castle, Osaka, Naoshima, Teshima, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Mt Fuji, Utsunomiya, and Shibuya. After visiting so many places and experiencing so many spaces I can honestly say that Japan is still a huge mystery to me and still has my attention.
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TAKASE ART CENTER How do you fold space? Is it simply creating a space that is formed by folded materials? I would argue no; to fold space there needs to be a connection to one or more spaces that helps the spaces flow into one another. While in Japan, I had the opportunity to visit many of Tadao Ando’s projects and as it happened, our site was located across the street from his Times 1 and 2 building. Being able to be in any of the spaces and still feel connected to the Takase Canal was one of the experiences I also wanted to also incorporate into my own project. I wanted the first floor of my project to be open and have all of the focus upon the canal. The auditorium on the other hand needed to be enclosed which presented quite a unique design challenge, one of which I wanted to make the driving force of my project because it presented the chance to take something massive and use it as a sculpting piece for this art center. The space above the auditorium I designed to be one continuous space that folded into other spaces with the use of an atrium.
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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE [JUNE 16 2014]
SITE PICTURES
•What is Architecture? •The Art of Designing Space •Art - Expressing oneself in the physical world •Design - Created with a purpose in mind; Designing brings with it an air of creation, [probably because creation comes after design] you take something, whether it is a site, ball of clay, or space and then you design something for it or design it, then you create, shape, form, or sculpt the space. •Space - Can not be created by us, all we can do is shape, form, or design it, or maybe around it •The question that arises now is: How does this definition of architecture deal with detailing? Are details a part of architecture?
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T A K A S E C A N A L SANJO
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LOBBY FLOOR PLAN Scale: 0’-1”=10’-0”
Project Name: Takase Art Center Project Address: 90, Nakajimacho, Nakagyo-Ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Japan 608-8004 Construction Type: Type I Occupancy: Museum Building Height: 136 ft Latitude: 35.009° N Longitude: 135.768° E Total Square Feet: 31,130 sq. ft. Time Zone: UTC 9 hours Elevation: 65.6 ft
The Takase Canal is a branch off of the Kamo River in Kyoto. In the 1700’s flat boats were used to transport provisions to prisoners, over the 1980’s this canal and the Kamo River were contaminated with colored dyes that were used to color kimonos. Now in the 20th century it is a slow moving stream that is only 2 feet deep. The contamination was cleaned in 1883 when Tadao Ando designed the Time’s 1 building and put the building’s focus on the Takase Canal. 12
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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE [JUNE 28 2014]
•What is an Architect? •A person who is responsible for inventing or realizing a particular idea or project. •Greek: Arkhi - Chief • Tekton - Builder •Synonyms: Designer, Planner, Builder, Originator, Author, Creator, Founder, Father, Mother •The role of an architect seems to be the one who brings their ideas, thoughts, or will into existence. •Someone who has a will and gives it life. •Does this will change per project or does it stay the same? •Does everyone have the same will? •What is my will?
FINAL MODEL PICTURES
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BASEMENT -2,500
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CAFE -2,430 1.Kitchen 2.Cafe Entrance 3.Men’s Restroom 4.Women’s Restroom 5.Inset Seating 6.Multi-Story Stairs
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AUDITORIUM LEVEL 2 -2,000 1.Storage 2.Sound Booth 3.Auditorium
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AUDITORIUM 1 -4,300 1.Back Stage 2.Stage 3.Men’s Restroom 4.Women’s Restroom 5.Auditorium Seating 6.Entrance to Auditorium
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AXO
The Structure for The Takase Art Center is entirely defined by the cantilevering Auditorium space that sits almost like a boat above Takase Canal. The load bearing walls on the East side of the building have structural Wide Flange columns that attach to Open Web Joist Beams and attach to the columns that are forming the “Hull� of the Auditorium. the back load bearing walls are made of CMU Blocks that fill in the space between the Steel Columns.
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FLOOR TO WALL MATERIAL AXO 1. Finish Stucco 2. Vapor Barrier 3. CMU Block 4. Poured Concrete 5. CMU Block 6. Wood Flooring 7. Grout/Adhesive 8. Concrete Decking
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PLUMBING SYSTEM AXO
The Takase Art Center’s Water connects into the cities main water line and supplies both the Plumbing and Fire Suppression Systems. Each system has it’s own water meter and check valve which then feeds into separate water pumps for each system. The water pumps have a built in jockey pump and double as back flow preventer. The top 7 floors are connected to a water heater with a tank that is located on the roof. Whereas the other restrooms are connected to a Tankless Water Heater that may service just that floor and/or the floor above or below.
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AXO 1.City Electric Connection 2.Connection to city main 3.Electric Meter 4.Transformer 5.Electric Panels 6.Gas Tank 7.Gas Generator
The power for the Takase Art Center is supplied by the city and runs to the Electric meter which is on the basement level of the building. From there the power connects to the Transformer and is then connected to the 3 electric panels, which are on every floor and supply electricity to each floor. In case of an emergency or city power failure there is a generator within a seperate room of the basement with a 2 hour gas tank.
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FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM AXO 1.Connection to main 2.Siamese connection 3.Water Meter 4.Check Valve 5.Water pump 6.Emergency hook up
The Fire Suppression System used in the Takase Art Center is connected to the city of Kyoto’s water line. The water then flows through the buildings water meter, into the check valve, and then to the water pump which doubles as a backflow preventer. On each floor there is an emergency valve that fire fighters can attach to.
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MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AXO 1.Supply 2.Return
The Takase Art Center’s auditorium utilizes 13 air supply diffusers in order to provide the space with an adequate amount of air for both a small and large assembly. With the amount of supply diffusers there will never be an air-conditioning hum or disturbance from mechanical equipment. Even though the gallery space that is on the floor above the auditorium is half indoor and half outdoor the location of the air handler is typical, whereas the duct layout for the office space is the typical layout. Every other floor has a Carrier air handler on it with ducts that supply the floor that it is on and the floor above it. The air handlers are supplied by the Daikin joint Cooling Tower and Chiller that is located on the roof, and the boiler that is in the basement.
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LEGACY PARKS Class:Advanced Design B Professor:Josue Robles Site:London Semester:Fall 2014 26
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LOCALIZING LEGACIES
In the Fall of 2014, I was able to participate in the Barlett’s Development Planning Unit 2014 SummerLab: London - Localizing Legacies. Essentially this SummerLab is designed to have students from different disciplines gather together and use their knowledge to come up with a design solution for whatever the situation might be. For the London SummerLab the focus is on urbanization, and the impacts on a community when there are new developments.
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LEGACY PARKS Three Spaces: Home. Work. Community. This studio was my first encounter with the concept of a Third Space, and focusing on what a community needs and what would most benefit a community. Architecture usually has a focus on a single building and maybe the neighbors that are on either side, but it goes much farther to include the whole community because even if it is just a small site and a house is being built, it still affects how someone experiences that space. During the London SummerLab, we were able to talk to multiple people and organizations that have been and are still being affected by the 2012 Olympics. Many families were moved or relocated in order to build the necessary structures for the Olympics. The families that were moved were promised the opportunity to move back to the same area once the Olympics were finished but the homes they knew would of course be gone in order to make room for something new. It was very interesting talking to locals who were involved in different organizations that were either focused on finding affordable housing or setting up different events that would bring the community together, even if the gatherings were under an overpass.
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THIRD SPACE NEUTRAL GROUND
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CONVERSATION IS THE MAIN ACTIVITY
ACCESSIBILITY AND ACCOMMODATION
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A HOME AWAY FROM HOME
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Occupants of Third Places have little to no obligation to be there. They are not tied down to the area financially, politically, legally, or otherwise and are free to come and go as they please.
Playful and happy conversation is the main focus of activity in Third Places, although it is not required to be the only activity. The tone of conversation is usually light hearted and humorous; wit and good natured playfulness are highly valued.
Third Places harbor a number of regulars that help give the space its tone, and help set the mood and characteristics of the area. Regulars to Third Places also attract newcomers, and are there to help someone new to the space feel welcome and accommodated.
Occupants of Third Places will often have the same feelings of warmth, possession, and belonging as they would in their own homes. They feel a piece of themselves is rooted in the space, and gain spiritual regeneration by spending time there.
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The tone of conversation in Third Places are never marked with tension or hostility. Instead, they have a playful nature, where witty conversation and frivolous banter are not only common, but highly valued.
Third places must be open and readily accessible to those who occupy them. They must also be accommodating, meaning they provide the wants of their inhabitants, and all occupants feel their needs have been fulfilled.
Third Places are characteristically wholesome. The inside of a Third Place is without extravagance or grandiosity, and has a homely feel. Third Places are never snobby or pretentious, and are accepting of all types of individuals, from several different walks of life.
Someone’s economic or social status do not matter in a Third Place, allowing for a sense of commonality among its occupants. There are no prerequisites or requirements that would prevent acceptance or participation in the Third Place.
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DIAGRID Diagrid stands for diagonal grid and is an architectonic type that propagates fluidity. London’s biggest community need that I was able to witness while there was their need for parks or green spaces. Yes, they have a few, very nice parks but those are few and far between. Especially in the area of our site there were barely any parks within walking distance. Therefore in order to bring nature into not just the spaces of my project but to also let it define the structure, I implemented a diagrid. The diagrid was first designed by Buckminster Fuller who creating the first geodesic dome. The strength of a diagrid is found in the triangles that are made by the joining elements. I spent 2 weeks researching and learning everything that I could about diagrids and how to use Rhinoceros [a CAD program] and a plug-in for Rhino called Grasshopper so that I could not only make a 3D model of the diagrid in my project but also 3D print the more dynamic pieces. Just for reference this is only about 8% of the entire code needed to make the diagrid for Legacy Parks.
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FINAL RENDER
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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE [SEPTEMBER 16 2014]
•Canning Town & Custom Housing, Yesterday we heard from a few people’s perspectives about how the Regeneration has affected their lives in a negative way. Displacement is happening all over London and there is no one to stand up for the people whom this is affecting. They are being told, and in most cases made to move, and lose the lives that they have built for themselves. •Architecture is more than just creating a cool and nice form. It is also about meeting the needs of a person or community •Regeneration - the idea of fixing something or restoring something that is dead back to life. But •are these spaces/ places dead? •After hearing from all of these people I have to wonder if the spaces are really dead or if improvement is just forgetting the past and moving ahead. •What Legacy is this leaving for the future of London?
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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE [SEPTEMBER 30 2014]
FINAL RENDER
•Legacy - a gift left for someone • - Anything handed down from the past •Synonyms: Inheritance, Gift, Birthright •Most psychologists would agree that there are 3 basic human desires: • To be loved • To Love • To leave an impact •This last one is particularly intriguing to me because everyone wants feel like their life meant something that they were able to leave some kind of legacy and not just be forgotten. •Therefore I wonder what legacy is London leaving? •What legacy am I leaving?
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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE [NOVEMBER 14 2014]
•Third Space Concepts •The Park: “England is notoriously cloudy and so when they get a sunny day we all flock outside and enjoy the sunlight” - This was a quote from one of the residents that we talked to, and it caused me to want to design a space that not only encouraged people to go outside but also made it easier to go to a nice park since there are so few parks. The first floor is a large urban park and on each floor there is smaller community exterior area to be used as the resident’s backyard where they can grow vegetables and just relax. •The Gap: the first 2 floors of Legacy Parks is a local business incubator where local businesses can rent out a space and sell their merchandise. This space is designed to bridge the gap between the big name stores at the mall and the locally owned and run stores that are suffering under the big brand stores. •The Muse: the first floor is used as a large park where anyone can come and relax. On Friday and Saturday nights there are concerts where local bands can reserve a spot and play their music in order to get their name out there and therefore inspire one another.
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NEXUS Team Members:
Daniel Becker Edward Smith Normelia Amarante
Class:Advanced Design C Professor:Josue Robles Site:St. Pete Semester:Spring 2015 44
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WHO IS PUERTO RICO? He reaches and leaves his mark wherever he travels. He is a community within himself, who is extremely social but has scars that leave others and even him standoffish at times. However, those scars help to make him who he is, he would be so very different without those scars, and he considers them marks of a long-lived life. Pride is a characteristic that he is known for, not in an arrogant way but in a way that shows that, he is happy of not only who he is but also where he has come from. For his community he is seen as old because he has kept to some of the traditions of his parents whereas others he has changed to make them his own. Just like how he still gathers together with his family no matter how old someone might be. Of course like any healthy family he fights but at the end of the day you can find him with his family and friends having fun and enjoying each other’s company. The fact that he provides a space for people to gather and to feel comfortable both physically and socially shows the truth of his intentions. People are his focus. They help make him who he is, the people that you surround yourself with define who you are by how you perceive yourself and how others view you. The people who have left him never forget the impact that he has had on their life and in fact leave their impressions on him. One of his most likeable traits is how carefree he is and how he makes others around him feel the same. As if when you are with him, you can leave all of your cares and troubles behind and just be present. Being present does not mean that you forget the past or have no thoughts about the future but that you enjoy this moment because it only happens once. It has taken years to master this art of being present but he has mastered it and is showing others how to do the same when they are around him. The present is a present. He is Puerto Rico.
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VACANT IDENTITIES Identity is what we use on a daily basis in order to distinguish one person from another or one place compared to another. Our entire lives are wrapped up in not only searching for but establishing our own identity or personality. When it comes to establishing an identity for a city or a part of a city it becomes a bit more complicated, if only for the fact of seeking to merge together multiple attributes of a city. The way that a city portrays itself sets the tone and focus for many years, and not just for the people living there, but for the people visiting as well. There are 3 main Districts that the city of St Petersburg, Florida has: The Edge District, The Central Arts District, and the Waterfront District. These Districts are further built upon by the Variety of Museums, Theaters, Residences, and Public Green Spaces. Even with all of the Amenities present in St Pete there is still an area of several blocks that has been left without an identity. This is the area of focus for my mapping to the left. This area of Vacant Identity is very intriguing because it is the passage from the downtown and Waterfront District to the Tropicana stadium. This stadium is home to the Tampa Bay Rays Baseball team and has become the main tourist destination for the city of St Pete. The purpose of this mapping is not only to identify the area that is lacking an identity but also to highlight the areas that are making St Pete, well, St Pete. Using this research and the interviews that we were able to have with some of the city officials of St Pete, my team and I will be able to design an installation and city master plan for St Pete that can help the city focus in on the identity that it wants by either reestablishing or forming a new set of amenities or qualities. ST. PETE MAPPING
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URBAN TETRIS At the beginning of Advanced Design C our class was split into 3 teams. Each team was tasked with the design challenge of designing an installation which would be located in downtown St Petersburg, Florida. As a team, we decided to design full scale Tetris pieces that would have hexagonal holes laser cut out of them and these holes would then form different images depending on which set they were a part of. All together we had 4 sets: Art, Transportation, Waterfront, and Tropicana. The purpose of the Sets was to talk about the 4 different districts that St. Pete has and how the residents thought they could be enhanced Each set has a Base and 2 movable pieces. The base is made up of 2 conventional Tetris pieces that have been joined together while the movable pieces are “normal� Tetris pieces. Inside all of the pieces we placed LED strips to light up the images we laser cut into the wood.
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HEXAGONAL LASER FILE This is one of four of the same grasshopper code layouts that was used generate the hexagonal holes that was used to laser cut the images into the pieces of plywood. After grasshopper generated the layout I sent the information to Rhino and from there I made an AutoCAD file and set up the laser cut files for the wood.
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NEXUS From talking with the citizens of St Pete during the time that Urban Tetris was installed we learned that all of the residents loved having the Rays in St Pete and that they would hate to see them go. We were also informed of the professional soccer team, the Rowdies, that is being forced to play on a baseball field. Brooker Creek is a small creek that flows through St Pete to continue north through Pinellas County. At the current Tropicana site the creek is covered as much as possible in order to allow for as much parking as they can manage. There was also a large amount of conversation based upon how there is not a lot of reasonable housing options near or in downtown. These issues that we were able to discuss with the citizens became the driving concepts for our project. We decided to remove the dome of the Tropicana Stadium and make it into an outdoor stadium, and to build a full soccer stadium for the Rowdies so as to give them the space they need in order to become a full fledged professional team. We also designed around Brooker Creek, making it the datum of our project. We included 9 new apartment towers with affordable and market rate housing options. Because of the rising artist population in St Pete we also designed in some artist live / work apartments. In the center of the Nexus we have a community center where local businesses can rent out an office space or have meetings. Interstate 175 has created a division in the city, and the best way that we thought of bridging the sides together was to actually design a bridge and to continue it across the site making it our big move.
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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE [MARCH 27 2015]
FINAL MODEL
•We have finally decided to move forward on one of our first ideas and just own it. •Nexus - a connection or series of connections linking two or more things • - the central and most important point or place. •The only way to make long walks bearable especially in florida is with constant shade so if we want to make this Nexus idea possible we need to make it into a park and provide plenty of shade •The Southbound entry is through one of St Pete’s parks and the Northbound entry is from the main pedestrian axis •The Nexus also bridges over Brooker Creek and flows around the community center 56
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WALKING TIME / BUS STOPS PLAN
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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE [APRIL 18 2015]
FINAL RENDER OF MAIN PEDESTRIAN PATH
•Thesis Thoughts •Architecture: The art of designing space •Origami: The art of folding •Biomimicry: The art of using nature to inspire design •Origamicry: the art of using Origami as a means of Biomimicry •Nature: The physical world collectively, including: plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to human creations. •In the basic definition of Nature it clearly states that there is a difference between the natural world and human creations. Why can’t humans and nature be one in the same? One phrase that is often used when talking about Biomimicry is that Nature has been testing things for the past however many millennium, so we can trust the results of what it has discovered. 62
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HIKARI NO HANA Class:Digital Fabrication Professor:Mark Weston Semester:Spring 2014 68
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HIKARI NO HANA Hikari no Hana is Japanese for Flower of Light. My concept stems from the form and qualities of plants, namely the Lotus flower and the characteristics of leaves. The wooden armatures found their form from a leaf, by taking the negative of the Midrib [the middle spine of a leaf that supports the leaf].The center housing piece is 3D printed so as to give the laser cut rib pieces the ability to rotate so that the lamp can open and close. This drawing shows the relationship between the Plan and Section of my Pendant Light. Using an eight sided shape I extended four of the legs out in order to create a relationship between the different over-lapping “Petals.“ In the center there is a piece that holds all of the moving limbs in place. In Lotus’s first phase all of the petals are facing downward and as such, it gives the appearance of an upside down lotus flower. In Lotus’ second phase all of the limbs rotate around one of the prongs that are projecting from the central housing unit, to create the image of a flower in bloom. In this project I focused on kinetic architecture, and how using technology that we have today we can mimic nature not only in how things are connected but also how they move and interact with the world around them.
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ARMAS ARCH Project:Wedding Arch Professor:Michael LeMieux Site:Seminole Heights Garden Center Semester:Summer 2015 74
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ARMAS ARCH Yasmany Armas and Samantha Desjarles have been friends of mine since 2010 and in July 2013 they started dating. In January 2015, Yasmany popped the question and she said yes! On May 28th 2015 they tied the knot! Since I was Yasmany’s roommate and because architecture school has given me the skills to be able to design and build a multitude of things they approached me and asked me to build a wedding arch for them to stand under as they make a commitment to each other for the rest of their lives. The arch is made from pressure treated wood that after being sanded and for the most part assembled, we all stained the arch. The day before the wedding at Watermark church in Seminole Heights we fully assembled the arch and set it up to be transported to the Seminole Heights Garden Center where the ceremony was held.
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“If there are no mangroves, then the sea will have no meaning. It is like having a tree without roots, for the mangroves are the roots of the sea...� Words of a Thai fisher from the Andaman Coast
THE VERTICAL REEF Class:Mapping & Making the Florida Landscape Professor:Nancy Sanders Site:Bishop Harbor Semester:Summer 2015
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THE VERTICAL REEF Bishop Harbor is located along the eastern bank of Tampa Bay, Florida. The history of Bishop Harbor is one shrouded in pollution, whereas the future is one of revitalization and restoration. In 2012 the Terra Ceia Basin became a Preserve and this preserve encompasses the Southern banks of Bishop Harbor. Since 2012 wild life has had the opportunity to thrive without the hazardous and deadly effects of pollution coming in through Tampa Bay. Bishop Harbor is one of the main safe havens for young marine, and now with the protection of the harbor, marine life can now return to Tampa Bay. Typically, we find tree roots digging into the ground to set their foundation and then doing everything in their power to grow as high as they can to reach the sunlight so that they can survive. Trees therefore become the vertical threshold between the land and sky. When you come to the boundary between Land and Sea within Latitudes 32 째 N and 38째 S, you reach a very interesting phenomenon where mangroves become not just the vertical threshold but also the horizontal threshold or gradient to the sea. You see what looks like and actually is the Land taking root onto the Sea.
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Within this same Latitude is also where you find all of the worlds coral reefs. This is no coincidence, seeing as red mangroves and coral reefs have many of the same environmental responsibilities; both nurture an environment for young marine life. Both act as tidal buffers by breaking waves that would otherwise tear away the land. Seeing as Mangroves are trees, they can survive with their roots being completely surrounded by the ground. And this plays into the special ability that sets mangroves apart from all other trees: they extend the roots of land into the sea.
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Mangroves start on the branches of an adult mangrove where they are germinated and then fall off. These seeds can survive for up to 4 years while floating on the sea. Because of the differing densities between salt and freshwater, red mangrove seeds float horizontally in salt water and vertically in freshwater. This allows the seeds to travel for miles without ever dying and when they reach freshwater; they turn vertical and take root. Red mangroves in particular have a very distinct root structure and growth system. The roots begin just like any tree but the difference is that they do not need to go as deep as many trees tend to do; this seems like a design flaw but with having roots that more so act as branches they reach out and might even cover a radius as large as 32 feet. The real beauty of mangroves comes from the community aspect of the trees. In Florida this mosaic is painted with only 3 colors: Red, Black, and White. Red mangroves are the pioneers; they reach into the sea and extend the land. Black mangroves are the footings, they hold the ground together by growing upside down and only have what look and act as straws above ground because they exist in the boundary of low and high tide. All mangrove species have the ability to live in saltine environments by excreting the salt onto their leaves or their branches. Black mangroves can store oxygen and by closing their pores, they can survive high tide. White mangroves act as the final installment, you can tell how far along a certain section of the mosaic is by whether or not there are white mangroves. White mangroves cannot survive right on the water like red and black mangroves but they can live in a saltine environment. They just require more land in order to take root and grow. In addition, they can and in many cases will grow taller than red mangroves.
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Bishop Harbor, FL 27.6064째 N 82.5570째 W LOCATION LATITUDE LONGITUDE
The selection of my site came from my desire to use this class as a precedent study for my thesis in which I will be focusing on Biomimicry. Biomimicry is the art of using nature to inspire design. I began by researching different types of trees and fell in love with the way in which red mangroves grow and the structure of their root system. Over time I found out that their roots are only structural when there are more mangroves, they need each other to survive.
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TEA HOUSE Class:Japanese Architecture Professor:Stanley Russell Site:Hiroshima Semester:Spring 2014 90
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TEA HOUSE Based within the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park there is a sculpture that gives hope to children, The Children’s Peace Memorial. This Sculpture tells the story of one Japanese girl who got radiation poisoning from the nuclear bombs, but placed her hope in the Japanese lore that says that if you make 1,000 paper cranes then you can have your wish granted. This is a Tea House that is made entirely from triangular, modular origami pieces that when placed together can provide structural support. As part of the Tea Ceremony the guest would learn the ancient art of making a paper crane and have views to the steel paper crane that is in the arms of Sadaka. Part of the beauty of Japanese architecture is the Kiwari system which is a way of designing in which everything is proportional to each other. In my tea house the kiwari system is the modular origami folded units. Each one is exactly the same but when joined together they can form almost anything.
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SITE ANALYSIS
HOW TO FOLD A MODULAR ORIGAMI UNIT DRAWING
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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE [AUGUST 20 2015]
•“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.” - Steve Jobs •“Biomimicry begins with noticing what works.” - Janine Benyus •Let thesis begin 98
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