Live-Make Industrial Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

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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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

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main circulation

wood and metal workshop

digital labs

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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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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