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Nick Faller
nfaller89@gmail.com B.S. Architecture University of Texas: San Antonio 2007-2013
ARTIST LOFT FOR A STREET DRUMMER The street drummer is not your average musician. Using the urban fabric of the city he creates rhythm, pattern, and tempo. Thus with the use of these conventional design methods the house is able to merge into the existing fabric of the city. The idea of rhythm is used to lay out the programatic spaces, while making a statement about the music created by the drummer.
INTERACTIVE MUSIC
By creating a sound stage at the top of the loft, the drummer is able to create a rhythmic beat that will flood out to the existing river walk. Likewise the court and ally act as a soundstage to throw sound out into the street side and river side of the Loft. 2nd Floor
MUSICAL MARCHE
Using the facade windows and structure of the building I have created a rhythm in the marche as you pass through the ally of the house.
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MUSEUM TO THE HISTORY OF CEMENT It is the very nature of man to frame that which is important; therefore framing becomes the driving force of the museum. Using lines of sight and line of passage the gallery space is experienced as one experience. While a reflecting pond serves as a seperation of limestone when it is cut from the earth, while metephorically framing the spaces below. In the end it is all tied together through light.
The site used to be an old limestone quarry that has been transformed into the Japanese Tea Gardens. The overall scheme of spaces is concieved from the method of extraction of limestone from the earth. The limestone is broken up into blocks and then further processed. The limestone is then crushed down and processed for the use in cement. Thus the massing for the museum is inspired by the process of cement.
FRAMING LINES OF SIGHT FRAMING LINES OF PASSAGE On site is three historical buildings that I wanted to frame from the inside of the museum, the old house, gazeebo, and kiln are all frameed from the southern side of the building. Furthermore I wanted the gallery spaces to be connected visually and physically. By using lines of sight and passage I was able to frame art from multiple points of view.
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ORGANICS OF THE RIVER
The search for a hotel came about by joing the form of the river with the form of the city. By looking at the form of the river and translating the sinuous nature of it into a rectalinear grid the spaces for the building are created. The idea of natural movement or organic growth can be found at the heart of the design. This can be seen in the interaction between the verticality of the program space and the horizontality of the land. This interaction occurs at selected levels between roof terraces. Thus in the end you are left with a building that grows on and out of the landscape.
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By studying Louis Kahns architecture we are able to bridge a connection between classical architecture and modern architecture. Using his theories on light and the idea of the ruins, a new academy of visual arts is concieved for the town of Urbino
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FRAMING LIGHT
The spaces are created by a seperation of space and light. Light being the enabeling element. Through the use of light; form and texture come together to create the spaces within the building. Furthermore the building is concieved as the ruins or ruble of a past. Thus the building takes the form as a monolithic tower using concrete to form the main structure. the facade of the building uses wood as a type of infill material while adding some warmth to the building.
FORM DIAGRAM
The form of the building draws inspiration from the Roman Amphitheature. Furthermore space are seperated into private and public spaces.
DIGITAL MOVEMENT OF INFORMATION
Today we live in a world of vast technology, so much so that we are begining to see the death of books... Books have transformed our civilization; it was in Egypt that the first library was made to house knowledge from around the world. Today we are able to recieve this knowledge in faster and more efficient forms found on the web. With our phones and computers we are able to access almost anything with the click of a button. With this new revolution of information: society demands a new form of library, one that can combine the web and the communal feel of the library. Thus the digital research center is a building to house the functions of both. With it’s digital walls multiple people are able to utilize virtually any online form of information at the same time. This will allow for collaborative research based information where people are able to work together to gain knowledge. With this being said the new architype is able to become a place and a community center for the surrounding Alamo Heights. People are able to access any form of information in the world at any time with the click of a button, on any one of their personal devices. In the near future everyone will be linked into the web, utilizing cloud based storage and various forms of social sites even more so than now...
Green Roof Assembly
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Raised Flooring System to Supply Digital Walls
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Legend 1. Parking 2. Community Center 3. Coffee Shop 4. Learning Rooms 5. Bookstore 6. Services/Staff 7. Digital Walls
COMMUNAL GROUNDS
The objective was to create the library of the future or rather a digital archive/hub capable of interactive research through the use of digital technologies and communal green space. Thus the inside and outside of the building are concieved as communal spaces or rather common ground to share knowledge and other various forms of information.
URBAN CONDOS
San Antonio is on the cusp of transformation. And with this transformation comes growth in the form of residential, commercial, and social spaces. I forsee the future development of Lonestar; along with the the expansion of Southtown. As more money moves into the surrounding areas of downtown, there will be a demand for more places to live. This project is designed as a response to the forseeable growth, thus it incorporates residential and mixed use spaces. These mixed use spaces are to become another point of origin within Southdown. Centralizing itself within the lower corridor of Southtown it has the potential to become something great and similar to adjacent places with in Southdown.
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STACKING LIVING
The massing for this project was inspired by the desire to have views facing into the downtown skyline. In order to achieve this goal and get the skyline view from all of the apartments I had to stack the spaces; as well as cross them over and ontop of the apartment below. This scheme can be seen in corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation allowing for cross ventilation of views and air. The other thing that I wanted to define as a place was the parking. My massing scheme created a carved out space or rather a void for the vehicle. This not only creates a unique entrance, but by using the form of the gable roof I have represented the symbolic idea of the house.
HEIARCHY OF MATERIALS
Lastly I wanted to represent the specific spaces and functions within the building through the use of materials. In order to do this I played with extrusions of mass and hierarchy. Using the standing seam metal siding like a skin I was able to wrap the building together and tie the commercial and the residential spaces together. Hardie board was used to represent the the residential aspect of the project and is a material commonly found in the area. Cedar Siding was used as an accent material.