SELECTED WORKS Orion Keith Portfolio 2015-2017
ORION KEITH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER 1216 NE 68th St. Seattle, WA 98115 orionkeith@gmail.com 206.354.0068
I am a driven designer that thrves in collaborative environments and enjoys iterative design processes that test new ways of approaching a problem. Whether this takes the form of using advanced parametric design systems or an analogue hand modeling process, the end goal is a concept that is presents a unique approach to the client’s needs.
EDUCATION
ACHIEVEMENTS
PROFICIENCIES
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE, 2017 University of Washington Study Abroad - Mexico City Thesis: Palimpsest & The Computational Environment
SCANDESIGN FELLOW, 2015 Received award to study abroad in Denmark from the ScanDesign trust.
DESIGN Hand/Mass Modeling Sketch Photography Rhinoceros 3d
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE, 2011 University of Washington Study Abroad - Summer Study in Scandinavia
EXPERIENCE ZGF ARCHITECTURE Architectural Designer, 2012-2016 Worked with lead designers on multiple pursuits for new clients, developing presentation drawings and high level physical models. Produced graphics and drawings for Design Review on three projects, as well as coordinating presentation models and booklet design. Designed details, researched facade systems, coordinated vendor meetings and worked to produce a high level design development set.
ROYAL DANISH ACADEMY, 2015 Copenhagen, DK Studied Architecture at KADK with specific interest in phenomenology and the theory of “place”. AARHUS ARKITEKTSKOLEN, 2016 Aarhus, DK Studied in the Digital Transformation department, integrating technological advancement with cultural significance and history. AIA STUDENT AWARD NOMINEE, 2017 One of two thesis projects nominated by the Unversity of Washington for the AIA Student award 2017. UW END OF YEAR SHOW, 2017 Thesis was selected to be presented at the all-school end of year show.
GRAPHICAL Illustrator Photoshop InDesign VRay DRAFTING Revit Autocad ANALYSIS Grasshopper Diva for Rhino Ladybug / Honeybee C# / Python TECHNICAL Detail Drawing Concept Design Schematic Design Design Development
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CONTENTS
Palimpsest & The Computational Environment
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Meulengracht Market
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Overlake Village Master Plan
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Locus For Learning
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PALIMPSEST & THE COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENT Seattle, WA | Spring, 2017
This project explores the traces of human interaction on the built environment through a forensic study of the Metropole Building, a historic site in the center of Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. The spatial data of the existing conditions was gathered through a series of forty LiDAR (Light Distance and Range) scans. This becomes the foundation for a designed intervention that takes the form of an experiential timeline through the building. This series of architectural interventions into the existing space form a conversation between the building’s history and inherent memory inscribed on our surroundings.
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This engagement with the tapestry of human endeavor on the built environment is not in itself new. Layers of human intervention, or “witness marks” on the architecture define an abstract timeline of the building’s use and inhabitation: The hole left from a wooden beam no longer present, graffiti on a wall, scars on a wood floor from a chair continually pulled back and replaced. These tell an incomplete, multilayered and momentary history of the building separate from the architectural drawings that underscored its construction. LiDAR scanning produces a forensic analysis of this momentary history that describes a timeline that is alternative to traditional historical narratives.
CONSEQUENCE
SECTION PERSPECTIVE: EAST-WEST LOOKING SOUTH
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8 Soule, John P. Skid Road After the Fire. 1889. Historic Photograph. University of Washington Library Photo Collection. Seattle. Bowen, Alfred D. H.K. Owens Building. 1900. Historic Photograph. Seattle Times Publishing Company. Mabel, Joe. Metropole Building. Nov. 23, 2007. Private Holding. Metropole Building. April 7, 2017. Photo by Author.
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Digitally scanned, preserving record of building’s status.
After building sits vacant for years, local artist jeff “Weirdo” jacobson begins a kickstarter campaign to fund mural An Ode to Dedication.
Hip hop club Shongo Village opened, with notable acts playing here including kanye west Fire from a cigarette butt results in major damage to the first floor of the Metropole building, and closing it pending an insurance dispute.
Basement is transformed into The Superhighway, an all-ages club serving the rave community during the “teen dance ordinance” of the nineties.
Ray McWade opens a gallery space
G.O. Guy Pharmacy Closes
John Considine Gets in an Altercation with Chief of Police Meredith, in ensuing fight Meredith is killed
First moving pictures shown in Seattle in theater in basement of H.K. Owens (now Metropole) building to prospectors in Box House
G.O. Guy Pharmacy Opens for Business
H.K. Owens Building Constructed, designed by architect Elmer Fisher
Great Seattle Fire
BUILDING HISTORY: A TIMELINE
SITE INFORMATION
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DOCUMENTATION PROCESS FIRST SCAN LOCATION
LiDAR (Light Distance And Range) scanning works through the emission low energy pulses of light at high speeds. When the pulse makes contact with a surface, a portion of the pulse is directed back to the scanner. The time that it takes for the signal to return, and the intensity of the pulse on its return is translated into a Cartesian point in space. The intensity value gives specific surface information such as reflectance, finish, etc. At the end of each scan, the device takes a high definition photosphere. This information is used to attach a color to the scanned points, giving 3-dimensional photographic detail to the digital environment. This technology is accurate to millimeters of hundreds of meters, and each scan provides up to forty million points of data. The true power of this technology lies in multiple scans assembled to give a full projection of space. This can only be achieved if scans overlap each other so that they can be referenced. Each scan does not need to “see” the other to be effective, however the greater number of shared points and surfaces the more accurate the assembly of scans.
FIRST SCAN LOCATION
LiDAR
SECOND SCAN LOCATION
Light Distance And Range Scanning
330˚ Vertical Rotation DIAGRAM: SCAN ASSEMBLY
SHARED POINT SURFACES FIRST SCAN LOCATION
Faro X330 360˚ Horizontal Rotation
SECOND SCAN LOCATION
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
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DESIGN INTERVENTION
The purpose of this intervention is to re-integrate the building with the city it has been disconnected from during the decade that the Metropole has been abandoned. Through the process of inviting the public back into the building, it is the intent of this project to begin a conversation into the meaning of restoration, historicism, memory and inhabitation. This took the form of an experiential timeline that weaves a path between four identified “witness marks.� These marks become specific frames from which to view the environment within the Metropole Building. However, while the four interventions are framed references, the path itself provides a shifting perspective to the viewer, developing their own interpretation of the spaces experienced.
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INTERVENTION 4: OVERLAY OF THE CITY
INTERVENTION 3: REFLECTION
INTERVENTION 2: THE INCISION
INTERVENTION 1: THE FIRE
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INTERVENTION 1: THE FIRE
A building that has been uninhabited for a decade takes on a certain forgotten quality. Life moves on in the city—office workers hurredly walk by on their way to lunch, tourists stare at Smith Tower or take a selfie in front of the mural. The Metropole is more monument than inhabitable space. There are no storefronts, no doors. It could be a solid mass. The first intervention into the site is a cut into a portion of the mural and installed in its place is a small aperture surrounded by translucent polycarbonate. There is an odd juxtaposition between the aging mural and this new addition that immediately reframes the experience of those walking by. Something feels different in the daily routine of passersby. It is a stark transition, from a street full of the sounds of the city to a darkened volume of thick air and the now distant muffled sounds of the sidewalk. The basement, exposed below, has a platform suspended slightly above the floor. From it one can see the area that was affected by the fire.
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INTERVENTION 2: THE INCISION
Whereas the first position of the path is defined by saturation of time, material and history, the second is desaturated, curated and framed. A translucent, dematerialized structure blends light streaming through the existing windows making the panels of polycarbonate glow, the structure a perceptible blur behind. The floor is slightly below the original mezzanine, exposing the holes where the beams once stood. These indistinct and ordinary elements, along with the south wall where floors were stripped away to provide for a makeshift crane during the first reconstruction become central figures in the space.
PERSPECTIVE OF INCISION. ALTERATIONS MADE TO THE BUILDING ARE FRAMED, WHILE OTHERS ARE BLURRED BY POLYCARBONATE PANELS
IMAGE FROM 3D SCAN OF AREA OF INCISION
PLAN: LEVEL 2
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SECTION: LOOKING EAST THROUGH THE INCISION.
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INTERVENTION 3: REFLECTION
A sign represents a time that has been forgotten. The context of the faded words, SHAW & RAOMER have been lost to time. Now it is an artifact, an embellishment that almost seems staged. Law firm, Tailor, Dental office. The story becomes immediately true, the sign shifting to fit the narrative of this new reality. In this way we write ourselves into the history of our surroundings. Speculation becomes circumstance, the tenuous becomes concrete. By defining a narrative of the space, we immediately re-found its relevance. The point of history is not that it is in every way true, but that we still consider it relevant to discover it. Reflective glazing stands between viewer and wall, placing the viewer into the room as a participant, and onto the sign as an actor in the re-founding of their own historical narrative.
AXONOMETRIC: REFLECTION
POINTS FROM A SINGLE SCAN LOCATION
3D PRINT OF VOLUME OF A SINGLE SCAN AND ITS NEGATIVE
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INTERVENTION 4: OVERLAY OF THE CITY
The final witness mark is aspirational: the completion of that which never came to pass. The building, structured for loads of up to eight stories, never realized its potential. What began as a journey through history and memory on the site of an abandoned building culminates in a new addition to the cityscape. The addition of a representative tower to the existing core elevates the perspective of the viewer. The city becomes the site of witness marks and historical overlay. Each direction corresponds to a historic overlay: Skid Road in 1868, Smith Tower in 1913, Seattle Harbor after the Great Fire in 1889. ER
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PERSPECTIVE: LOOKING WEST THROUGH IMAGE OF HARBOR AFTER 1889 FIRE
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From the street, only shadowy outlines of the boxed spaces behind walls of translucent polycarbonate material are faintly perceptible. Punched openings are directed toward historic views, translating through the facade, a fritted image overlays the view integrating the current state with its historical past.
PHYSICAL MODEL
AXONOMETRIC: OVERLAY OF THE CITY
SECTION: LOOKING EAST THROUGH 1860S SKID ROAD
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MEULENGRACHT MARKET
Aarhus, DK | Spring, 2016 | Aarhus Arkitektskolen
The project design was required to integrate a restaurant or food element into the old Meulengracht warehouse built in 1809, is located in the center of the Latin Quarter on Pustervig Torv. Each of us were tasked to employ digital design elements to produce a result that integrates digital technologies with historical relevance. The warehouse is currently inhabited by a fabric store at the ground floor and is still used as a warehouse above. Meulengracht was constructed of heavy brick load bearing walls and heavy timber construction to hold the sizeable weight of the products originally stored. Because of its age, style of construction and historic significance, it has been listed as a landmark building. While its landmark status tightly regulates what can be added and subtracted from the building, there are elements that must be addressed to allow the building to be brought to modern use. The floor-to-floor height above the ground level would not allow it to be re-purposed into usable space, and the building has shifted considerably overtime because of its insufficient foundation. The roof has fallen into disrepair and lacks any insulation at all.
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DENMARK
AARHUS
KĂ˜BENHAVN
GERMANY
*Photographs in collaboration with Daniel Birch
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PUSTE RVIG TO RV
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3d Laser Scanning is a technology that has only recently become a tool for the building industry. Portable, highly accurate LiDAR scanners produce three-dimensional spatial representations through the collection of data from millions of points. These points are imbued with color and tone information to convey not only spatial data, but also texture and pattern. In these large-scale scans, artifacts are left over, detail is aggregated where one would usually not look. The ghostly figure of a man unloading a Fadøl beer truck, an out-of-place light fixture, a dent in a wall from a car. These elements become as much the focus of the scans as the building itself. Rather than being strictly a measure of the structure and envelope of a building, it becomes a monument to the inhabitation of the building, the street, the city. The density of information is given without bias. Where little information is known, there exists fewer points. Where nothing is known, there is left only empty white space. Much like a photograph, the scan is curated, picked. The moment decided. It is not a catelogue ofwhat is “true,” but what is present at a particular moment in time. A snapshot.
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Percent of Danish Farmland Held By Conglomerate Farms*(Greater than 200 Hectares)
In 2000:
16%
421,000,000 Hectares
Mercado Roma, Mexico DF
In 2013:
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1,157,000,000 Hectares
Making up over 26% of the total area of Denmark
Papirøen, København
UNIQUE DINING EXPERIENCE
Melrose Market, Seattle
SMALL FARM CULTURE AND PRODUCTS
LOCAL RESTAURANT PROCUREMENT
Sosio’s, Seattle
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LOCAL OUTREACH
MARKET CUSTOMERS
DESIGN GOALS In recent years, there has been a resurgent interest in where our food comes from, how it is produced and where. This has led to interest in heirloom varieties of plants and grains, as well as an understanding of the processes that go into the meat that we consume. While this revolution is going on, there is a counter-movement from small farms in Denmark to large conglomerate farming corporations growing monocrops. As younger generations are drawn to urban centers, deep knowledge of diverse crop structures are lost. Part of the problem is visibility of these resources. This project intends to convert the Meulengracht Warehouse into a pop-up marketplace that showcases the small farm products that are found all across Denmark. These growers and producers gain visibility both to the general public as well as to chefs and restaurant owners, opening up a powerful connection to the local community through the space provided. Thus, the Meulengracht warehouse becomes the Meulengracht Market.
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PROGRAMMING OF USES Initially, spatial studies were formed through utilizing Grasshopper and Galapagos to cut away portions of the building’s inner structure to allow for access of light, movement, and experience of vertical space [Right]. These areas were then programmed for various uses. As the design developed, these diagrams became simpler and spaces became more fluid.
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STRUCTURAL TYPOLOGY
Over the past few years, the 3d printing revolution has moved from small controlled environments outside, with digitally fabricated bricklaying, concrete, and most recently printed steel structures. As computational power increases and the resolution of our modeling grows, design environments can more closely interface between printing and modeling. Lead Pencil’s structure, Non-Sign uses structure to highlight what is void rather than what is structured. The density of steel becomes a frame, much like Hiroshi Sugimoto’s famous Theaters series. What is missing is as important as what is represented. Whereas Non-Sign is a highly choreographed installation with no direct purpose, MX3D’s Bridge Project does the opposite. It’s exact purpose is to create infrastructure for the people of Amsterdam. The robot becomes an automaton, toiling away as the citizens nap in the grass of the park. The method of development of Lead Pants is analogue, MX3D is highly digitally driven. However, they meet in rigid material knowledge and testing allowing for a rich environment for design.
Lead Pencil Studio - Non-Sign
MX3D Steel Printing Project
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The complexity of an open 3d printed structure makes it difficult to generate a structural model. To represent the geometry, a solid form is imported into Kangaroo, a generative structural modeler
The solid is intersected with a linear grid of 60,000 points.
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Each point is given a charge and a bounce strength from the enclosing solid. The points arrive at an equilibrium from the balancing of forces, becoming equidistant from each other.
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BUTCHER The script finds the seven closest neighbors to each point, drawing a line. The list is then culled for redundant data. This system is then piped to create solid geometry.
PRODUCE
CREAMERY / DAIRY
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2013-Present
OVERLAKE VILLAGE
ZGF Architects Redmond, WA 2013-Present
tegrated into the plan is an urban hillclimb that separates the pedestrian from the street and integrates with a planned 2.67 acre park. We are now in Design Development on the first of five office towers, called Block 3.
forward design development.
Located on the former site of Group Health Hospital of Redmond, the Overlake Village is a twelve-block Master Plan. The project focuses on bringing a new urban core to Redmond to capitalize on the planned Light Rail stop opening in 2021. An urban hillclimb separates the pedestrian from the busy street and connects to a new three acre park at the center of the plan. Working with lead designer Randal Bennet and project manager Justin Rabe, I developed iterative study models and options while simultaneously delivering a high quality drawing set to the client.
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Later on in the project, I was tasked with developing the presentation materials for the Redmond Design Review Board, including the booklet, boards and physical model. This challenge required me to balance design narratives with client needs and city expectations. The Overlake project gave me the opportunity to build design skills while working to produce the work needed to move the project forward. This juggling of simultaneous tasks gave me a greater understanding of what it takes to bring a quality project to fruition.
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BEL-RED COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR
1/32” Scale Presentation Model In Collaboration with Derik Eckhardt
Plan Experiential Site Diagram Diagram Site &Master Hillclimb
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BLOCK 3
BLOCK 6A
6-STORY OFFICE 225,000 GSF / 202,500 GFA
BLOCK 2A | 2B
6-STORY OFFICE 250,000 GSF / 227,500 GFA
BLOCK 6B
6-8 STORY OFFICE
8-STORY OFFICE 255,000 GSF / 227,500 GFA
379,000 GSF / 345,000 GFA
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BLOCK 10
RESIDENTIAL
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SPLIT CONCEPT HOTEL 180 ROOMS
2.67 ACRE PARK
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BLOCK 8 RESIDENTIAL
BLOCK 4 MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL
BLOCK 7 MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL
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The Overlake Village Zone 4 Neighborhood mixes a range of uses into an active, urban, walkable neighborhood surrounding a Park/green space amenity. The south and west facing slope provide great solar orientation and distant views to downtown Bellevue and Seattle. The neighborhood is organized around both
DRB Presentation Drawings for Hillclimb
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Facade Modulation Diagram
Simple Block Unit
Facade Modulation Diagram
Preliminary Design Model - 1/32”
Later Design Model exploring Facade Modulation - 1/32”
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Facade Modulation Diagram
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Open Sides To Views Facade Modulation Diagram
LaterBlock Design Model exploring 3 Massing Models Facade Modulation - 1/32”
Block 3 Parti Diagram
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Preliminary Design Model - 1/32”
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VIEW OF SOUTHWEST CORNER FROM PARK / HILL CLIMB Exterior
Presentation Render. *Image by Christian Shoup
1/32” DRBPresentation PresentationModel Model 1/32” Scale In Collaboration with Derik Echardt In Collaboration with Derik Eckhardt
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LOCUS FOR LEARNING Mazar-i-Sharif, AF | Fall, 2016
Axonometric Site Plan NTS
The learning environment extends far beyond the classroom, the surrounding social, cultural and spatial context serve as secondary instructors for the students. While safety, propriety, budget and other factors are highly important, this project suggests that the most important factor is the ability for a robust, yet natural engagement between the girls using the existing school and those that will be using the dormitory. Therefore, the layout of the site is meant to create areas for unplanned connection and conversation, while giving the girls from rural Afghanistan a feeling of ownership over their personal space. Thus, the interaction between the rural and the urban space happens at a smaller scale through the site itself. The negative space beecomes as important as the built environment, and the learning environment benefits from a respect for the secondary and tertiary spaces that will make up the daily lives of the girls that attend this school.
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Perspective - Dormitory
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Site Response Diagrams
Move Initial Site To Corner
Create Boundary Through Program
Identify Site Circulation
CLASSROOM LATRINE ADMIN/CLASS/HEALTH
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Infill Dormitory Elements
Extend Form To Educational Campus
ADMIN/HEALTH
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Site Circulation The project was imagined as a conversation between rural and urban life, of private and public space. This begins in the dormitory rooms themselves: access to light and air within the dorm rooms allows newly arriving girls a safe space for study and leisure. Just outside the door, a generous two meter porch provides incidental interaction with benches and seating for impromptu conversation. These porches are connected vertically by social spaces that can be used by groups for studying and gathering. The spaces between the dorm buildings become areas for activity, gathering and conversation. Beyond the gates to the dormitory area are schoolwide amenities in classrooms, a library, cafeteria and computer rooms. Each interaction and space allows for girls to have a choice in their level of social interaction. Material
Precast on-site concrete screens imagine a porous addition to sun shading allowing the circulation of air while at the same time providing a formal connection to the social spaces provided within. Environmental Response Deep porches provide direct sunlight in the Spring and Fall, while protecting from the most direct rays in the Summer. Protected social spaces serve as areas of refuge from summer heat, yet can be enclosed during temperature drops. Each dormitory room has access to a solar chimney to flush out hot air in the evenings. The Bioclar system used on-site produces grey water that can be used for irrigating planting areas and a garden.
The choice of brick was based on three main factors: First, the proximity of Mazari Sharif to a brick manufacturer reduces high transportation costs as well as referring to the strong influence of brickmasons in the area. Second, it provides greater thermal mass that mitigates large temperature swings over the course of the day. Finally, the scale of the brick adds a human scale to an otherwise massive project that works on an institutional scale.
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CONSEQUENCE
Perspective - Site Entry
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Perspective - Class Room
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CONSEQUENCE
Section Perspective - Longitudinal Looking East
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Thank You!
©Copyright Orion Morya Keith
2017
All images created by Orion Keith unless otherwise noted.
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