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COMMUNITY CENTER
MICRO- HOUSING PROJECT
CINEMA PROJECT
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OPEN DWELLING
OTHER WORKS
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COMMUNITY CENTER Creating porous yet continuous spaces. Community Center in the Rockaway which also acts as an emergency center for the flood prone area.
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Critic: Ane Gonzalez Lara
Partner: Cameron J. Clark
Semester: Spring 2020 Semester 6
Tools: Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
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Community Center
Semester 6
Spring 2020
AVERNE EDGMERE
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Fig 01 [Top Left] Site Plan 01 Site is located in the Rockaway penninsula, between Averne and Edgmere.
Fig 02 [Bottom Left] Site Plan 02
Fig 03 [Below] North West Aerial View
Plan showing Building Form located within site boundary. Site is located specifically between Beach 62nd street and Averne Boulevard.
Aerial view from north west street corner.
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Fig 04 [Left] South East View
Aerial
Aerial view from South East street corner.
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Circulation
Kitchen Spaces
Locker rooms and Bathrooms
Dining Spaces
Lobby, Classroom Office and Gym spaces
Fig 05 [Left] Program Diagram Diagram showing building programs. Fig 06 [Right] Exploded Program Diagram
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Exploded Diagram showing Building program types.
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Community Center
Roof Observation Deck Office
Indoor Dining Gym / Dance Studio Outdoor Dining Outdoor Market and Kitchen Auditorium
Parking
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Classroom Indoor Dining Outdoor Dining
Vegetable Garden Lobby / Public Meeting Place
Fig 07 Exploded Floor Plate Diagram Exploded Diagram showing Building program floor by floor.
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Community Center
Design 302
Spring 2020
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Fig 08 [Left] Front (West) Elevation
Fig 09 [Left] Section A-A
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Section showing atrium through building. Building has two atriums which merge at the ground level to form an indoor botanical garden. The indoor garden also serves as a teaching instrunment through which students can learn to grow and cultivate crops. They also make it porous and allow for ventilation and inlet of light.
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Fig 10 [Above] Indoor Garden
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Fig 11 [Above] Back (East) Elevation Elevation showing outdoor market area and dining areas.
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Fig 12 [Bottom] Section B-B Section through Building showing how gathering spaces blend into eachother into a long continuous spaces.
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Spring 2020
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14 Fig 14 [Above] Exterior view into Indoor Dining Area In Floor Plate Model
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Fig 15 [Left] Detail Floor Section at Indoor Dining Area Infloor storage provides space for the storage of beds and sheliving to be used for housing during emergency occupation of dining space.
Fig 16 [Left] Detail Section
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Fig 17 [Above] Plan View of Floor Plate Model
Design 302
Spring 2020
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Fig 18 [Above] South East view of Floor Plate Model
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MICRO HOUSING PROJECT Introducing Communal Green space as an amenity to urban living. It is important to contrast the dense urban fabric of the new york cityscape with large scale public green space. The provision of communal roof gardens every three floors creates an almost park like space through which inhabitants can socialize, unwind and generally escape the busy city atmosphere.
Critic: Ron Didonno Partner: Caleb-Joshua Spring
Semester: Fall 2019 Semester 5
Tools: Rhinoceros 3D, Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
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Micro housing Project
Semester 5
Fall 2019
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DUMBO
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Fig 02 [Below] Site Section
Site is located in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, New York City. As seen in the plan, the site is near the water’s edge and is next to the tourist filled and ever growing Dumbo neighbourhood.
Site section showing building height relative to neighbouring buildings. Building is 15 stories tall.
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05 Fig 05 [Above] Diagramatic Floor Plan Housing Units as well as floor lounges organized linearly around main path of egress.
Fig 04 [Left] Form Diagram
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Floor plan form rotated 180 every three floors. Rotation of floors creates outdoor area used for communal roof gardens.
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Micro housing Project
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Fall 2019
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Fig 06 [Top] Ground Floor Plan
Fig 07 [Top Right] Typical Floor Plan 01
Ground Floor plan showing public garden space at entrance.
Typical Plan of floor with direct access to communal garden. Fig 08 [Bottom Right] Typical Floor Plan 02 Typical Plan of floor overlooking communal garden.
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The vertical and horizontal gaps in the building form provide avenues for ventilation and distribution of fresh air through out the building
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Fig 10 [Right] Structural Diagram
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Fig 09 [Above] Interior Garden View Interior view showing Communal Garden Space.
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Fig 11 [Top Right] Facade Diagram Facade system consists of Operable Fins whcih wrap around building form and change from horizontal to vertical depending on building face. Horizontal inoperable fins arpositioned on North and South Building faces, while operable vertical fins positioned on East and West Building faces.
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Fig 13 [Above] View at Communal Garden
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Facade Detail Section and Elevation showing inoperable horizontal fins.
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Fig 14 [Left] South Building Elevation Building Elevation from from Walter Street Showing entrance area and communal garden spaces.
Fig 15 [Right] East Building Elevation Building Elevation from from Gold Street Showing entrance area and communal garden spaces. 15
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THE CINEMA Using Atrium element to organize theatre blocks. The main organizing feature here is a prism like atrium which pierces through the building acting as a massive lightwell as well as a means through which the building form is subdivided and organized. In addition to this, the movement of the atrium through the cinema helps to enhance and dramatize the experience of moving through the building.
Critic: Micheal K. Chen
Semester: Spring 2019 Semester 4
Tools: Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
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Cinema Project
Fig 01 [Above] Site Plan
Fig 02 [Right] Street View
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Spring 2019
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Fig 03 [Left] Analysis of House VI Diagram analyzes Frank Lloyd Wrights House VI and how it uses the movement and deletion of columns and floor slabs across a grid to create and inform space.
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Fig 04 [Below] Transformative iteration Using some of Wright’s transformative operations, such as shifting, sliding and deleting, a 3-dimensional grid is manipulated to create a form similar to House VI. This simulation studies the ways in which such operations qualify and diversify adjacent spaces.
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Fig 05 [Above] Transformative Iteration Diagram 2 This diagram is a continuation of the study on transformative operations. It looks at how the shifting and sliding of columns and walls creates intricated and interesting spacs.
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Fig 06 [Above] Atrium Diagram Using the study on how sequential operations alter and create new intereting spaces, the building’s atrium subdivides and reorganizes portions of a solid in such a way that parts of the solid are made to aligh with the edges and faces of the atrium.
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Ground FL
4th FL
2nd FL
1st FL
5th FL
6th FL
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Theatres
Fig 07 [Above] Floor Plans
Atriums
Floor Plan Showing relationship of atrium space to the theatres and office spaces within the building.
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Fig 08 [Top Left] Program Diagram Diagram shows 3 dimensional relationship of atrium form to theatre and office spaces.
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Fig 09 [Top Right] Theatre Blocks Exploded Diagram showing theatre blocks.
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Fig 10 [Left] Interior View at Atrium Interior View at ground floor showing central atrium
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Open Dwelling Multi-level open space dwelling area.
Multi-level dwelling space located in residential housing area. The use of transitions between varying space forms creates an intricate and interesting labrynth meant to create an experiential journey by evoking different motions and feelings. Building spaces are modelled after body in motion studies and were intended as much as possible to fit the scale of the average person.
Critic: Carlyle Fraiser
Semester: Spring 2018 Semester 2
Tools: Rhinoceros 3D, Physical Modelling
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Fig 01 [Below] Site Plan Dwelling area located between two townhouses. From plane view it is clear how spatially open the project is.
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Fig 02 [Below] Aerial View View shows and emphasizes multilevel nature of project as well as transitions from open areas of uninterrupted space, to narrow, slanted passages with tall surrounding walls.
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Fig 04 [Above] Building Analysis 2 Analysis of existing adjacent townhouse in relation to the scale of the human body respresente by highlighted rectangle and squares.
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Fig 06 [Left] Body in Motion Diagram Analysis of Bodies exacting movements such as jumping, swinging and sliding. These movements subsequently assist in designing the dwelling space to the scale of human movement.
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Fig 07 Body in Motion Simplified Diagram This diagram is a simplified iteration of the motions identified in the earlier body in motion study. These motions are then turned into tangible forms which then inform building spaces and shapes.
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Spring 2018
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Fig 09 (Top) Study Model
Fig 10 (Top) Study Model
Fig 11 (Bottom) Study Model
Fig 12 (Bottom) Study Model
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Other Works
Other Works
Design 102
Spring 2018
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NENGI NJERE Pratt Institute Selected Works 2017 -2019 nnjere@pratt.edu ncnjere@gmail.com +1 929 370 1336