LIVE-MAKE INDUSTRIAL ARTS C E N T E R C I N C I N N AT I
NICHOLAS PAUL DEBRUYNE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO IV PROFESSOR BRIAN WISHNE FALL 2012 An Architecture design competition presented by the Cincinnati AIAS chapter in partnership with the Over-theRhine Brewery District community urban redevelopment corporation
SITE
The Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood and historic Brewery District is situated between the two main commercial districts in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Once famous for its Italianate architecture and beer brewing, the neighborhood has now fallen into decay and suffers from blight and crime. Today Over-the-Rhine has become a community of demolition, renovation, and preservation with a focus on the significance of the neighborhood as a whole and not an individual building. The site for the Industrial Arts Center lies in the Brewery district and contains an existing structure built in 1900 for the Rapid Electrotype Company. The competition seeks to revive this neighborhood by serving as a community magnet and production center as other nearby sites are developed. The main objective is a solution that engages the site’s historic fabric and restores some of the original living and making characteristics of the community.
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Philippus United Church
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IDEA
parti diagram model
Inspiration from Paul Rudolph drawings and architecture
development sketches and diagrams
section perspective sketches
idea in site context
design translation
Ideas of reciprocity and artificial landscape were
characteristics that drove the building design. These ideas became the basis for exploration and the question became how to represent them in the simplest gesture possible. The sloped topography of the site provided an initial and intuitive starting point for the building form. Along with these ideas, the notion of a living and working community in close proximity was investigated and explored.
program adjacency and sizing
C R E AT I O N
section model
section sketch
section perspective sketches
early concept and massing modeling
early plans
topography translation
massing model
topography models
A “hybridized� approach was developed in the
architectural exploration that accommodates an oscillation between computerized technology and the more intuitive acts of physical making. This was in response to a critical issue in current architecture debate; how do we reconcile advance technological methods with the significance of intuitive methods in the more traditional role of architect as maker? A more thoughtful hybridized approach can be a way to assure that intuition and creativity are allowed expression in design. This is a process that explores the opportunistic intersections within this supposed split, and can be a way to allow for the unknown to shape an idea.
section slices and sectional model with topography
SOLUTION
view from public promenade
context axonometric
view from sculpture terrace
view from beer garden view from community garden plots view from Findlay Market
housing
studios
public landscape
main circulation
wood and metal workshop
digital labs
existing structure
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lobby member storage light industrial unit storefront and reception bathroom storage metal shop mechanical
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finishing room wood shop egress stairwell and freight elevator studio digital fabrication lab computer lab conference room fab lab storefront
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tools storefront office shipping and receiving housing sculpture terrace public landscape
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housing unit plan
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building form translation
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The Cincinnati Industrial Arts Center
a living and working community in close proximity.
playful “artificial” landscape, this public space is
explores the potential of a historically significant
A healthy relationship of living and working means
an urban gesture that extends all the way from
but neglected context to revive a neighborhood
the way one lives reflects the way one works and
Findlay Market up the hill to Bellevue park, bridging
and create a haven for artists and designers to
vice versa. This idea of reciprocity was examined
the physical and perceptual divide between
come live and work. Beyond bringing new life to
through form and program, using the topography
Cincinnati’s neighborhoods, while reconsidering the
a key area for future development for the city of
of the hillside as a form giver and natural divider
relationship of living and working in day to day life.
Cincinnati, this project examines the relationship of
between living and working. Envisioned as a
section model
section relief red oak 10x18x3 in.
building model
final board
studio workspace
final critique