Table of Contents 6 BOZAR EXTENSION 26 BAY HOUSING 36 ENHANCING THE CORE 48 VERTICAL COMMUNITY 70 RESETTLEMENT PROCESS 90 BISECTING THE UNION 110 EXTENSION OF THE MORGAN
An entrance addition to Horta’s historic Beaux Arts Museum
a social housing project that nestles within one of Rotterdam’s harbors
A mixed-use tower with multilevel public integration
A MIXED USE TOWER IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS A layered approach to modernizing ancestral grounds
Sculpting a new urban core
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TAKING A PROJECT THROUGH DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
THINKING AND MAKING EXPLORING DESIGN PROCESS THROUGH A NOCTURNAL MAP
Nathan Mickelson Uninversity of South Florida School of Architecture and Community Design
address 13434 Village Circle, Apt 234 [Tampa, FL]
emails
Nathanmickelson@gmail.com Nmickelson@mail.usf.edu
Phone
(352) 242-7042
(Brussels, Belgium)
Advanced Design D
Nathan Mickelson 2017
Professor Halflants
BOZAR EXTENSION
An entrance addition to Horta’s historic Beaux Arts Museum
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Palais des Beaux Arts The site for the entrance addition to Victor Horta’s “Palais des Beaux Arts” or “Bozar” is within the royal quarter of Brussels, opposite to the palace and other stone-made governmental buildings. The Bozar, built in 1922, is situated on the slope between the higher and the lower part of the city, its main facade being on the lower end of the slope. the height of the building was restricted so as not to compromise the King’s view of the Brussels’ skyline from the Royal Palace, meaning most of the building’s 8 levels are underground and are lit from the buildings signature roofscape of skylights.
Front View
Main Facade and context
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A DIALOGUE WITH VICTOR HORTA The concept of the work is to create a spatial and connective interplay with Victor Horta, a key architect in Belgium’s Art Nouveau movement, by tapping into his vocabulary: the curve, the light from above, and the grand staircase. The curved mass wall becomes the orienting element within the work, having the circulation and main programmatic spaces functioning directly off of its radius. The building is designed to be inviting by framing the Beaux Arts’ roofscape between two solid cores, the curved mass on the north side and the rectangular mass on the southern
View to the City
Direct Link from street to Museum
side. This “picture frame” , so to speak, allows for public access to the extraordinary views of the Brussels cityscape. Once inside, the occupant has a direct line of sight to the new entrance addition of the Beaux Arts and can pass down the grand staircase along the curve to enter directly into the Beaux Arts building.
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Entrance Addition to Beaux Arts Museum the entrance addition seeks to add a new presence within the stoic, masonry-stacked context that it resides by allowing glass to permeate its main programmatic spaces. This substantial amount of transparency enhances the public’s awareness of the below-grade Beaux Arts building, a historic wonder of the city, by fraiming its beautiful roofscapes between the entrance addition’s two cores. The addition essentially becomes an extrusion of the roofscape, allowing the presence of the building to be modernized as it establishes itself within the royal quarter.
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The “picture frame is the key parti of the entire project, allowing for direct line of sight to the entrance of the Beaux Arts Museum as well incredible views of Horta’s roofscape and entire city of Brussels. from the entrance as well as the suspended auditorium
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(Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Advanced Design D
Nathan Mickelson 2016 Professor Halflants
BAY HOUSING
Designing a social housing project that nestles within one of Rotterdam’s harbors
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Wijnkade 47 Wijnkade 47 is located on an island in the leuvehaven district, the oldest dug port in Rotterdam. The project site called for a social housing project on the water’s edge that reflected the character of both the netherland’s contemporary social housing advancements and the industrial qualities of the port.
Site Pano
Contextual Inspiration
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A Unit in Rotterdam The concept for each unit in the Bay Housing project was to remove most of the walls and separate the entire unit through floor and ceiling manipulation. This maximizes the light from both sides of the unit while also creating direct line of site from the bedroom (the raised portion) to both views; The bedroom is intentionally placed away from public circulation to add an extra level of privacy to the open unit. The materials of the unit are a reflection of the port in which it resides: reclaimed wood, iron rails, and concrete bases.
Understanding the Unit Semi-Private Space/Space claimed by occupant Sunken Kitchen Fire Stair and Elevator/Core/Main Circulation
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Communities within Communities The larger goal of the Bay Housing project is to create communities within the community, meaning having fading levels of intimacy between residents. This means that your location in the project isn’t so much defined by your room number as it is defined by your proximity to your intimate community. This logic is based off of Dunbar’s Number, which suggests a cognitive limit to the number of stable social relationships (being aware of their actions and their relationships) that one can have. This logic is applied in factors of two throughout the project: two units to a floor, four units side by side, eight units within a double-height, 16 units within the upper level, 32 units per dual block and so on. By designing an environment for cohesion, the project becomes an argument for designing socially to enhance the sense of place and belonging.
To maximize the available space for a park in the center of the project, the units are pressed directly against the waterside. Because the cores are made of glass, the general public is able to view the waterside from within the project.
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Photo from: Tampa.gov.net
(Tampa, Florida)
Advanced Design B
Nathan Mickelson
Claudia Porras
Chase Meyers 2016
Professor Kara and Weston
ENHANCING THE CORE
A mixed-use tower with multilevel public integration
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A New Tower for Tampa The Tampa Tower was a three week project that called for a multi-function, mixed-use mid to high-rise building in the downtown Tampa sector. Because much of downtown Tampa is office buildings and hotels, this iconic new tower has an implicit requirement to activate Tampa by inviting people to experience the city vertically. With an ideal location in close proximity to the Riverwalk and the waterfront, which is essential to Tampa Culture, the Tampa Tower has the potential to change people’s perceptions about how tall buildings can enhance the character of a place beyond objecthood.
39 Photos from: Tripaadvisor, Streetlaced, Archdaily, Tampa Bay Riverwalk, Business Journals
Studies of Verticality By understanding the nature of the city and how a tower can become an extruded expression of that. The evolution of the tower became less about how the tower can become a spectacle on the skyline and more about how it can functionally impact a growing city.
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circulation Main Columns
skin Metal Plate
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circulation Main circulation public nodes
Program Educational Residential
The Amalgamate
The project revolves around two distinct programmatic volumes- a school for the arts and a market rate housing component- that merge at public nodes throughout the tower. The commercial corridor filters throughout the height of the tower, allowing public acces to views toward the bay as well as to the experience of the city from above. By nestling a school of the arts with housing, the amalgamate facilitates interest in the arts by providing the opportunity for dynamic interactions between students and residents.
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Advanced Design B
Nathan Mickelson
Claudia Porras Professor Kara and Weston
THE VERTICAL COMMUNITY Applying known advantages of horizontal communities and extruding them within a high-density environment
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BUILDING DIAGRAM MASSING SKY BRIDGE IMPORTANT MEANS OF ACCESS
CONCEPT With a large footprint on Chicago’s waterfront, the project naturally had to claim most of its lot to maximize square footage. However, in order to allow sunlight to penetrate the mass of the building, the project had to be broken into four separate buildings. As with the Tampa Tower, public integration within the upper levels was paramount to the concept, so the creation of a sky bridge became crucial to give the public a means of access without intruding upon residences or office environments.
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Chicago Allure The sky bridge is essentially an extended ramp with greenery, allowing the general public to experience a park atmosphere while also having incredible views from the elevated perspective. Along this bridge is are also basic services, such as a grocery store, barber, and other types of retail to promote public thoroughfare and interaction. The slit that divides the tallest building is the division between the residential corrdior and the below office space. The slit itself is a renowned restaurant.
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COMPONENTS The Vertical Community consists of 4 programmatic spaces: the school, which is a trade school/college; the office sectors; the residential blocks; and retail and services. These sectors are mixed, but their functional needs require careful consideration: residential is a fully private sector with minimal access and views from the public for safety and comfortability; the office sector often meshes with the retail sector in order to promote business between the two; the school attaches to both the beginning and end of the sky bridge, providing fluid circulation to and from the school’s most public realms.
Skin Diagram Metal Louver System
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Access Diagram Public Access
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Sectionally Speaking The sections of the vertical community designed to be as spatially diverse as possible still maintaining replicability within similar This allows for split-level access to certain The school is centered auditorium/staircase, which section both above and
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Advanced Design A
Nathan Mickelson 2016
Professor Russell
RESETTLEMENT PROCESS A layered approach to modernizing ancestral grounds
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Theoretical Southwest The theoretical southwest is a design proposal that focuses on design process, using the four corners region of the American Southwest, with its many picturesque landscapes and its rich history with Puebloan architectural innovation, as a catalyst for thinking and making. Within the loose restraints of this process are three key components: the Earthwork, The Kiva, and The Community. The first stage of the proposal was to diagrammatically encompass the site with as much information as could be pulled from various sources, from cultural understandings and diagrams, to star and weather maps, to topographical features, to landmarks, to masterplan information, to insitu photographic information and so on in order to create a topographical palimpsest that would become the basis for all further design interventions.
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Earthwork Kiva Community As the project progresses, new layered information fixates on potential intervention zones to narrow the project scope while still adhering to the rules of preexisting adaptations. By extruding this intervention into multiple iterations, the first spatial potentials for the Earthwork, one of the many sculpting methods employed by ancient architects to ground their work, are experimented.
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Kiva The Kiva, a spirit house traditionally used for religious rites as well as impromptu accomodations for the ancient puebloans, is separate from other domestic or commercial structures and is a sunken structure with 4 distinct levels that represent the ages of man.
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Community Returning to the beginning stages of the design, the Community became an outcropping of a tried-and-true design process. The lines were based from projections of the palimpsest and were shaded based on preference and proximity. After resolving the idealized
shape, the drawing was then simplified into constructivist work for diagrammatic purposes and the original linework was extruded into a 3D form to have a formal and spatial representation of the idealized community.
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Process Returning again to the drawing-model hybrid style, All three components were adjoined together in a large-scale extrusion to start to understand proximity and scale from a macro perspective.
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Modern Puebloans all the components are speculated to the best of their ability. The earthwork is the anchor between the Kiva and Community, becoming a floodplain during the short rain season and creating a direct separation that serves as a ceremonial rite of its own.
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Kiva The spirit house has four distinct levels, the lowest being
the entrance from the earthwork. This level submerges during the rain season and also serves to collect water for the community. The kiva allows light in from a massive skylight that serves to not only illuminate the space, but also act as a visual cue for sun-based ceremonies. on the top of the kiva , the material change serves as a visual metaphor for the fourth age of man (the current age).
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Community The community was designed to be porous within itself, blending together public and private life to emulate the ancient lifestyle. The descent into the earthwork (shown left) is designed to be a grand descent from the community into the Earthwork, finally emerging within the base of the Kiva and circulating upwards
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(Aberdeen, Scotland)
Advanced Design C
Nathan Mickelson
Maisey Rawe
Tyler Dobson 2017 Professor Robles
BISECTING THE UNION Sculpting a new urban core
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ABERDEEN PROPOSAL From a historical standpoint, the area surrounding Union Square in proximity to the train station and harbour had an active, busy atmosphere due to the presence of industry and industrial appeal. However, the creation of the Union Square created a transport hub that has lead to poor access from the waterfront area to the rest of Aberdeen, further weakening the memory of the place. However, this isn’t the crux, rather a symptom, of the problem with Aberdeen. A series of developments along guild street, particularly hotels, wareshouses, office buildings and the trinity Centre Mall, coupled with the intense traffic of the area and the Union Square, have all contributed in making Aberdeen’s center immemorable and difficult to navigate.
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To better understand the spaces within aberdeen, a series of phantom photographs were created to view pedestrian and vehicle traffic, use patterns, occupancy, and weather across multiple time frames throughout the day.
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AFTER GAINING AN UNDERSTANDING OF PLACE, THE PROPOSAL BECAME CLEAR: REVITALIZE THE DOWNTOWN CORE THROUGH ICONOGRAPHY, NEW PATTERNS OF USE, MIXED-USE, AND PROMOTE THE CULTURE OF ABERDEEN. DESPITE ITS PRISTINE HISTORIC BUILDINGS, ABERDEEN SUFFERS FROM IMMEMORABILITY BECAUSE THE CITY HASN’T CONTINUED TO INFLUENCE ITS CHARACTER IN A MEANINGFUL WAY, WHICH ALLOWED MALLS, HOTELS AND TRAFFIC TO DISRUPT ITS CHARM. BY EXTENDING THE SIDEWALKS, REDUCING TRAFFIC, ADDING BIKE LANES, INTEGRATING CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS THAT WORK WITH THE CONTEXT, AND DEVELOPING LANDMARKS AND OUTDOOR SPACE, ABERDEEN WILL REVITALIZE ITS IMAGE
THE CHALLENGE IN WORKING WITHIN ABERDEEN IS THE AWARENESS THAT MOST BUILDINGS OF THE BUILDINGS ARE HISTORICALLY LISTED CLASS A(INTERNATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT), CLASS B(NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT), AND CLASS C (LOCALLY SIGNIFICANT). WHEN CHOOSING TO REDEVELOP A PLOT, ONE MUST BE AWARE THAT ALTERING EVEN A CLASS C BUILDING IS GOING TO BE MET WITH RESISTANCE FROM THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS WHY THE PROPOSAL WAS CENTERED AROUND THE TRINITY CENTER, AN UNLISTED, DYING MALL BUILT IN THE 1960’S
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FOREST OF ABERDEEN A NEW RESIDENTIAL HOUSING BLOCK, CULTURE CENTER, LIBRARY, AND COMMERCIAL BUILDING HAVE REPLACED THE OLD MALL TO REVITALIZE THE PLOT INTO AN URBAN-FRIENDLY, MIXED-USE DOWNTOWN FOR ABERDEEN.. SPANNING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE BUILDINGS IS A LARGE GLASS CANOPY THAT SHIELDS ABERDONIANS AND TOURISTS FROM THE CONSISTENT, TEMPERMENTAL RAIN THAT CLOAKS THE CITY WHILE STILL MAINTAINING OPENNESS TO THE OUTDOORS AND THE SUN. THIS COPPER-PLATED FORREST WILL BECOME A NEW ICON FOR THE CITY, ALLOWING FOR MASS CONGREGATION, WAYFINDING, AND ALL-HOURS USE FOR PEDESTRIANS.
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MANY OF THE NEW BUILDING PROPOSALS WERE DESIGNED WITH INSULATED GLASS. THIS DECISION WAS MADE BECAUSE THE GRANITY CITY IS OFTEN TOO SOLID AND NONPOROUS, SO THIS NEW LEVEL OF TRANSPARENCY WILL ALLOW THE CITY TO BREATHE WITHOUT DISRUPTING ITS CHARACTER. THE “TREES” WERE DESIGNED TO TRANSITION
FROM COLUMN TO LIGHT POST TO SEATING, ALLOWING THE SUPPORTS TO DIRECTLY INFLUENCE THE OCCUPATION WITHIN THE SPACE. THE INTEGRATION OF A SOIL RETENTION CONCRETE SYSTEM, OR DRIVEABLE GRASS, ALLOWS THE GREY, GRANITE CITY TO HAVE A SEASONAL QUALITY WITHIN THE CITY CENTER. IT ALSO OPERATES AS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MAIN PUBLIC REALMS FROM THE TRINITY CENTER TO GUILD STREET.
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Trinity Plaza DESPITE ALL OF ITS HISTORICISM, ABERDEEN LACKED A PUBLIC PLAZA FOR LARGE GROUPS TO GATHER. REPLACING THE FORMER THREE-LANE CARRIAGEWAY, THE TRINITY PLAZA OPENS THE CITY AND GIVES THE CULTURE CENTER A GRANDER PRESENCE FROM UNION SQUARE AND THE STREETLEVEL. IN THE SPIRIT OF ACCESSIBILITY, THE GRAND STAIR THAT JOINS GUILD STREET TO THE PLAZA HAS AN INTERNALIZED SWITCHBACK RAMP THAT ALLOWS DISABLED PERSONS TO CIRCULATE THE SPACE THE SAME WAY AS EVERYONE ELSE. THE STEPS OF THE GRAND STAIR WERE ALSO DESIGNED TO BE A SEATING AREA FOR LOCAL PERFORMANCES. THIS GIVES ARTISTS A LITERAL PLATFORM TO START INFLUENCING THE SPACE ACOUSTICALLY. SIMILAR TO THE MANY CATHEDRALS IN ABERDEEN, THE CULTURE CENTER RISES ABOVE THE SURROUNDING ROOFTOPS TO BECOME A VISUAL ICON IN ABERDEEN. FROM THESE LEVELS IN THE MUSEUM, ONE HAS DIRECT LINE OF SITE TO THE HARBOR AND BEYOND.
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THE MIDSECTION OF THE CULTURE CENTER IS OPEN TO THE ELEMENTS, ALLOWING THE SCALE OF THE TRINITY CENTER TO BE LOWERED AND GIVING THE CULTURE CENTER MORE PRESENCE WITHIN THE CONTEXT. THIS ALSO ALLOWS SOME OF THE EXHIBITS TO BE EXTERIOR AND PEDESTRIANS TO INTERACT WITH MUSEUM GUESTS. THE COPPER PLATING IS THE MATERIAL OF CHOICE FOR THE COLUMNS BECAUSE OF ITS VISUAL AGING. IN A CITY MADE OF GRANITE, WITNESSING AGING WILL BE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
CANTILEVERS MAKE UP A MAJORITY OF THE PROJECT BECAUSE THE PROPOSAL ALSO AIMED TO SUSPEND THE VISUAL WEIGHT OF THE CITY. WITH VISUALLY HEAVY MATERIALS FLOATING AMIDST A CITY OF STONE
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GUILD STREET WITH THE STREET WIDTH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED AND TRAFFIC REDUCED TO SINGLELANE BUS TRAFFIC, GUILD STREET BECOMES A DIRECT
VISUAL AND WALKABLE LINK BETWEEN ABERDEEN ITS HARBOR. BECAUSE THE TIVOLI DOES NOT HAVE AN INTERNAL AREA FOR LARGE GROUPS TO CONGREGATE BEFORE A PERFORMANCE, THE FORMER DUAL CARRIAGEWAY IN FRONT OF THE TIVOLI AS WELL AS THE EXPOSURE TO THE WEATHER MADE COMFORTABLE, PREPEFORMANCE GATHERING IMPOSSIBLE FOR PATRONS. WITH THE NEW CANOPY AND URBAN BENCHES, FORMAL
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Design Development Nathan Mickelson 2017
Professor McKenna
Extension of the Morgan
Taking a schematic design through the second stage of project development
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Environment The Expansion of the Morgan Library is located in the historic district of Chelsea Manhattan, New York, and is south from the Hudson Yards. Chelsea is primarily a residential area with art galleries
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Due to Subway transportation being limited, the site’s main advantage for accessibility is its adjacency to the Highline Park. Because Highline access tends to be few and far between, The Expansion of the Morgan Library aims to create public library and museum with an accessible path between the Highline and the street to allow for further public engagement. The surrounding low to mid-rise context affords the site access to sun angles for natural light and also allows for a view to the Hudson River.A sturdy rock formation isn’t too far from the surface of the topography, so the structure of the midrise shouldn’t have to worry about heavy settlement of the foundation. The driving force behind this project was to create a multi-height crossroads between the Highline and 25th street that carefully
splices together a new form of urban mobility with the old form, creating a new level, both literally and figuratively, of public engagement. Because the site is slim, the air rights given 30’ above the highline were imperative in order to maximize each floor’s potential.
Building Codes: Occupancy 303. 1 Assembly Group A-3 Counstruction Type I-B Fire Resistant Non-Combustible 2-Hour Steel Frame 2-Hour Bearing, Interior, and Ext. Walls 2-Hour Floor Construction 1-Hour Roof Construction Allowable Height Allowable Floor Area
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Plans and Circulation The main concept behind the tower became an idea of the tower blossoming as one traveled up the “stem�. In this way, the tower is maximizing its occupiable area while also creating a spectacle for pedestrians walking down the linear stretch of the Highline next to the site.
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Fire Stairs Elevator Main Circulation Plan 6 7100 SF
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Plumbing Main system that supplies hot and cold water to the building as well as discharging refuse. The water is pumped from the basement level from the city water main and stored in tanks on the rooftop to maintain pressure through gravity. The water is then siphoned into a chiller, a boiler, or a cooling tower to supply the building with water.
The Aerco AM 1000 Boiler is a “high-efficiency condensing unit” that is able to run at 399,000 to 1,000,000 BTU/hr with efficiencies that rate upwards at 98% compared to other boilers. I chose this unit because it has great reliability, low nitrous-oxide and carbon dioxide emission, quiet operation, interchangeability between gas and propane, easy access and maintenance with a small footprint, and it has the ability to be linked with multiple additional units should the need arise.
Reserve Water Tank/ Storage Tank Cooling Tower
Chilled Water Vent Stack-Soil Stack Connection Point Hot Water
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The YLAA Air-Cooled Scroll Chiller is a light, small, efficient, low maintenance vaporcompression system. I chose this unit because it will reduce my client’s energy costs by as much as 40%, reduce my client’s environmental impact (zero-ODP HFC-410A refrigerant and up to 50% less refrigerant charge) and reduce the cost of ownership by minimizing my client’s installation, electric and service expenses due to the system being compact and efficient.
5244-ET Kohler Steward
Funnel eliminates splashback, ultra low consumption (0.125 gpf), and product can help a building earn Water Efficiency points in the LEED Green Building Rating System
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Fire Suppression Automatic, wet system pression of
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Reserve Water Tank/ Storage Tank Dry Standpipe Dry Standpipe Dry Pipe Wet Pipe Victaulic StandardResponse Sprinklerhead
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Fire Pump Dry Standpipe Alarm Check Valve Shutoff Valve Backflow Prevention Fire Dept. Connection
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Electrical Electrical system that powers the equipment and daily requirements for the building. A single line runs from the transformer to the maindistribution panelboard from the city main power, then the power is dispersed into three separate lines with an electrical panel at each floor per line.
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Mechanical Each floor is provided a VAV box for heating and cooling. To cool the floor, chilled water is siphoned from the rooftop chiller into the mixing box to cool the air. To heat the floor, electricity is used to generate heat for dispursement through the supply (blue) air vents.
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Structure The Wide Flange Beams are used to connect the steel column supports to distribute the load from the floor plates and the cantilevered edge.
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Thinking and Making “The Bar provides the nocturnal map of the city” What is a nocturnal map? How does one navigate in the dark? Lights, chatter, and echoes give us a sense of the spatiality and character from moments in the night, giving us memory of movement and location in the dark plane. This is essential to our night perception because, unlike the day, we cannot perceive the entire location; we can only see and understand what the location has culturally deemed important. the nocturnal map uses mental constructions of location and organization in the spirit of Kevin Lynch’s “image of the city,” This map then becomes and amalgam of vision and planbased orientation to capture the sensory perspective of a place in the night.
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