Architecture Portfolio Oscar Barnes, LEED Green Associate University of South Florida, M.Arch
[Portfolio] Oscar Barnes, M. Arch 2017 Univeristy of South Florida
Isseido Bookshop Addition
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Japanese Monastery
Amalgamated Art Museum
Portfolio Contents
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Context-------------------------------------[8-11]
Section/Plans---------------------------[22-23]
Program-------------------------------------[12-13]
Living&Auditorium--------------------[24-25]
Process--------------------------[40-43]
Museum/ Cafe--------------------------[14-15]
Rock Garden----------------------------[26-29]
Final
Auditorium---------------------------------[16-17]
Garden------------------------------------[30-33]
Structure------------------------[46-47]
Wood Shop & Studios----------------[18-19]
Showers-----------------------------------[34-37]
Mechanical---------------------[30-33]
Model--------------------[44-45]
Context-----------------------------------[66-67]
Unity Park--------------------------------[68-69]
Reliquary----------------------------[86-87]
Context-------------------------------[52-53]
Garden&Communal
Areas-------[70-73]
Room Within the City----------[88-89]
Plans&Sections--------------------[54-55]
Sections-----------------------------------[74-75]
Collages----------------------------[90-93]
Final
Admin&Veteran
Center------------[76-79]
Boston Seaport-------------------[94-95]
Model-----------------------------[80-81]
Drodle-------------------------------[96-99]
Model-------------------------[56-57]
Interior&Exterior------------------[58-61]
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Spatial Linkages
Faith House [Group]
Manatee Art Center
Speculative Studies-------------------[64-65]
Final
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Amalgamated Art Museum
Professor:
Michael Halflants
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STEEL/ GLASS
BUILDING INTERIOR
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Context: Located in Chicago, Illinois, the site of the Amalgamated Art Museum is near the shore of Lake Michigan and across the street from the famous Lakeshore Drive Apartments by Mies van der Rohe. I have decided to combine the glass/steel structure of the Lakeshore Drive Apartments with the brick building materials of the historic Chicago buildings. With this combination of building I want to make a transition between the older brick buildings to the new steel and glass buildings. The podium for the tower is made of tombasil panels that give form to the podium, while a glass volume extrudes from the podium and becomes shown at the upper level floors provide panoramic views.
The context around the site contains many historic buildings from the Willis Tower to the John Hancock Center. Since museum exhibits rely on controlling the lighting of the space I have decided to make the volume in which the museum is located, dark with selective openings to the outside. To control the lighting within the museum part of the tower I decided to make a solid base with slim cuts of glass coming into existence as the podium’s fold begins to present slits and openings within the design. Since the Auditorium is such a large characteristic about the building, I decided to allow the auditorium to dictate the form.
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Image to the left is an axo view of the entire model with the building’s shell. . The four images to the right are detail shots of the museum entrance and exhibit spaces. To capture these spaces the shell is removed to reveal the interior. | 10
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Longetudinal Section Cut
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Program: - Museum cafe - Museum Bookstore - Museum Exhibit Spaces - Studio Spaces - Woodshop - Student Lounge - TA Offices - Faculty Offices - Curatorial - Management Offices - Front Desk - Audiorium - Student Galleries - Copier Room -
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Colder, Colder,Darker DarkerMatter Matter
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Rendering of cafe and bookstore areas. The top space begins the art exhibits for the museum.
Rendering of museum exhibits. The double height spaces allow for visitors to view selective art works from different angles while natural light allows some transparent works to glow.
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Trash TrashMirror Mirror
Basement Basement
Portable PortablePlanetarium Planetarium
Floor Floor1 1
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Intermittant IntermittantSignals Signals
Floor Floor3 3
Everything, Forever Everything,AllAllAtAtOnce, Once, Forever
Floor 4 4 Floor
Floor 5 5 Floor
Entrance/ Museum Exhibitions: Since the Amalgamated Art Museum is located on a corner lot, I decided to use the Poetry Foundation building as inspiration for the entrance. Just as the semi transparent wall pulls in visitors walking along the sidewalk to enter into the building, the entrance to the Amalgamated Art Museum provides an opening that reveals itself as you walk along the sidewalk. The entrance is revealed by a slit of glass created by the folded form of the stereotomic mass. The entrance is designed to compress the inhabitants entering the museum and as they descend towards the front desk. The space begins to open up to them as they stand within the atrium. Located on this floor are the lobby, coat room, and bookstore. The open plan allows the visitors of the Museum to see the multiple spaces above them. The lighting spaces are controlled due to the light sensitivity of each project. The main staircase provides access to the second floor cafe— which overlooks the bookstore on the first floor— and the museum entrance to the exhibits that are showcased on floors three through five. The Amalgamated Art Museum houses permanent works of amalgamated art, as well as the featured artist Doris Salcedo. Spaces are also allocated for temporary traveling works to be presented within the museum. The open plans and connecting double height spaces allow the works of art to be seen at different angles and elevations in order to understand the work of art that is being presented.
Entrance Entrance
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Auditorium:
Floor 6
Amalgamated Art is the combination of many different pieces placed together to create something new. It can be viewed up close as an inspection of how the pieces fit together, to being viewed far away to examine the new transformation of the different pieces. The skin system I used for the auditorium uses the amalgamated technique to create a lighting system that is composed of triangular panels that are placed together to contract and expand in order to filter the light that shines in the space.
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Ceiling Panel Structure Wall Wall Panels Wall Panel Structure
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Studios & Woodshop: The Logan Center for the Arts School is located in the University of Chicago. For this project we wanted to give the art department of the University of Chicago a presence in the downtown area. For this reason we attached a satellite school to the Amalgamated Art museum. Here classes can draw inspiration to world class art installations, while gaining diverse exposure from the temporary art exhibits available within the museum. Since it is a school, the area would be closed to the public for parts of the week to allow the students to concentrate, but becomes open during a few days out of the week for the public. This would allow the students to gain publicity
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and exposure to people from all over. Student galleries would be located on the upper levels along with open studios and a wood shop. The top volume of the building where the studios are located become opened up as the building rises above the neighboring buildings and views of Lake Michigan and the John Hancock Center become visible. This open scenery compared to the closed off and selective views allow for students to draw inspiration from around them and not close themselves off from the world. This connection to the surrounding will improve the works of art that the students for so hard to complete.
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Floor 8
Floor 9
Floor 10
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Japanese Monastery
Professor:
Stanley Russell
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Garden Level
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Living Dormatories: The dormitories of the monastery consists of two wings — a men’s wing and a women’s wing— that are located on the boundary edge of the site closest to the city. As the visitors begin their daily ritual, they walk outside of their rooms to a hint of what is to come, with the greenery of the banzai tree in the outdoor atrium. This first glimpse of nature is a clue about what they will experience as they progress throughout the day will result in a growing presence of nature as they continue their day.
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Auditorium: The auditorium is designed to hold guest speakers, or faculty of the monastery. The public has access to these lectures with a large public space created between the monastery and urban environment. This large public space creates a city room with reflecting ponds and views of the monastery’s garden for residents of the surrounding neighborhoods to take a break from their busy lifestyles to reflect and meditate on their day. Views from inside the auditorium provide the reflection pond and Rikugien Garden as a backdrop from the lecturer. The side wall of the auditorium extends past the boundary and to the edge of the gardens to denote the separation of the public and private spaces.
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Rock Garden: The Japanese rock garden is intended to be an intimate place for one to reflect and meditate on the constructed landscape of raked gravel and large rocks. Within the Japanese tradition of rock gardens, the larger rocks may be contemplated as mountains while the small pebbles that are raked symbolize the rippling of water. Since this area is supposed to become an aid to reflection and focus on the garden the backdrop of a barren concrete wall obstructs the distracting views of the garden and allows the visitor to focus only on what is in front of them. Located in a quiet space next to the library, this area is the perfect place to reflect and meditate or read a book.
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Garden: The famous Rikugien Gardens is located in the Bunkyō-ku district of Tokyo, Japan. The name Rikugi-en means Garden of the Six Principles of Poetry which comes from the idea of the six elements in waka poetry while en means garden or park. The park consists of a small pond, trees, and a hill. Since the site for the Japanese Monastery is located on the corner edge of the park, it can be a main transitioning element between the built urban environment and the natural landscape. The monastery is lifted in certain areas to allow the continuation of the park towards the boundary edge of the city. The flow of the park underneath the monastery allows visitors to walk throughout the natural landscape of the monastery as they continue their daily routines in the monastery making them constantly surrounding by the zen nature.
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Showers: Since the last routine the visitors of the monastery does is take a shower, and the concept behind my design is a gradual progression of increasing nature’s presence within our lives, the showers are located in the northern corner of the site. In this location it is the farthest away from the urban environment and is an open air shower facility. The bath house is dug four feet into the ground with a reflection pond surrounding the areas of the showers. To keep the privacy of the residents taking a shower and allowing them to be exposed to nature, the four foot wall protects them from people that may be passing by. Their heads are just above the surface of the water while the shower heads are located above them as they sit on a wooden stool. This gives them an impression of rainfall while being completely surrounded by a water feature. During the day the sunlight reflects off of the water to create a dancing light that is projected on the cantilevered ceiling and back walls of the showers.
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Isseido Bookstore Addition
Professor:
Stanley Russell
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Images of Process Model used to design the Isseido Bookshop.
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Floor 1
Floor 2
Floor 3
Floor 4
Floor 5
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Images of Detail Model depicting a reading space located in the Isseido Bookshop. | 43
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Project Overview: The rise in popularity of bookshops across Tokyo Japan has led to the opening of many new bookshops in the district of Jimbocho. People would line up the night before and camp outside of each new bookshop that was opening. With this in mind the project addresses this popularity craze by allocating space for people to spend the night in a bookshop and read or sample many books as they spend the night in the bookshop. Having spent time in Japan and sleeping on the tatami mats, I have developed a strategy of small book rooms throughout the bookshop for people to lay a matress on the ground and spend the night in any section of the bookshop they please. The images to the left portray a model style I had seen in Japan while looking at Fumihiko Maki’s work on display in the museum by his office. It is all plexi and frosted in the areas of circulation throughout the building. By looking at the top view of the model it shows the depth and layering used to create the spaces designed for the bookshop.
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Floor W-Wide Floor Plates Platesw/w/ W-Wide Flange: Flange: 24x36@ 24x36 @30’ 30’O.C. O.C.
Shear ShearWalls Walls
Structural Columns
Retaining RetainingWalls Walls
Foundation
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[ELECTRICAL] [ F I R E ] [PLUMBING] [ H V A C ]
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I used the boiler and chiller method for the HVAC system. With one air handling unit on each floor with a vent stack that attaches to the cooling tower at the top of the building. The first diagram show the entire system, while the last two diagrams show the layout of the supply ducts and diffusers with the return ducts and diffusers.
The connection to the city water is underneath the alley located behind the building. The boiler is used to heat the water which is then connected to the water softener and the hydrolic pumps then move the water up the pipe stack to the multiple levels. Circuit vents are used for the toilet connections and wye fittings are used for soil and vent stacks. The connection to the city sewer first uses a sump pump and then a building trap to keep the toxic fumes from entering the building.
Centrifugal pumps are used to transport the city water to the fire suppression system throughout the building. Alarm check valves and shutoff valves are used as a precautionary measure. Firehose connections are located on every floor on the standpipes. The first figure shows the entire system throughout the building, while the last diagrams show the location of the firstairs and a close up look at the fire protection branch system.
Electrical connection is done on the side of the building through the alley with a meter. A grounding rod is placed just below the meter and connects to the service switch which is then connected to the transformer. 120V, 240V, and 480V Panel boards are used and placed on each floor. The connection from the transformer continues to the switchboard. The switchboard allows the electricity to reach the multiple levels with a backup generator located on the top floor.
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Manatee Art Center
Professor:
Michael Halflants
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Context: The Manatee Art Center is located in Bradenton, Fl. To the north of the site is the Manatee River, where the future site of the Bradenton Riverwalk is located. The proposed Riverwalk will have multiple activities such as a skateboard park, docks, fishing piers, amphitheater, family pavilions, recreational parks, beach volleyball areas, museums, aquariums, outdoor living rooms, kayak/ boat launches, and beach volleyball.
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On the site is the existing Manatee ArtCenter with space allocated in the lot adjacent to the existing building. The Manatee ArtCenter is a membership facility for people to take art classes ranging from drawing, sculpture, painting, jewlery making, pottery, and a gallery showcasing the work that was created by the students of the ArtCenter. Directly located on a highway in a corner lot the Manatee ArtCenter is a place for every age.
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1 STUDIO 2 POTTERY 3 AUDITORIUM 4 BOOKSTORE/ FRONT DESK 5 CAFE 6 JEWELRY STUDIO 7 CHILDREN’S AREA 8 SECURITY 9 OUTDOOR CAFE 10 OUTDOOR GALLERY
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Image on the left is an axonometric view of the entire model. The two images on the right are detail shots of the double layered roof and the outdoor cafe and courtyard located in the back of the building closest to the highway. The landscaping created by the trees and water fountains acts as a buffer to the noise and views of the street. | 56
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Studio/ Gallery: To deal with the connection of the old wing with the new wing of the ArtCenter I decided to provide a long corridor with a sculpted wall to provide a gallery of the students’ work in the ArtCenter. The addition is designed to provide an open view of the studios. As you walk along the corridor from the old to the new you can see the final works of the students to the left and the process of students working on prjects to the left. The double layered wall of the corridor allows for the final works to glow in the sunlight while the double layered technique is continued on the ceiling to allow for natural light to flow into the studio spaces below. The mobile walls allow the spaces to be divided up and adjust the size of the studios. The walls could also be completely removed during a gallery showing to turn the entire space into an art work gallery. The rendering on the opposit page shows the lighting effect of the double layered wall and ceiling to allow the ArtCenter to be a beacon of light during the night. The rendering below shows the studio spaces with the movable walls on the left, while the interior gallery space is on the right sitting in the sculpted wall.
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Rendering of interior gallery without the movable walls that create the studio spaces.
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Faith House [Group Project]
Group Member:
Hala Bakarat Professor:
Josue Robles
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Speculative Longetudinal Section of the Faith House.
Speculative Cross Section of the Faith House.
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Context: The Faith House is located in a transition neighborhood where distractions outside of the campus can lead the residents of the Faith House to become discouraged and quit the progress they have made. Since the amount of drug overdoses in the nearby park and homeless attraction of the soup kitchens located nearby allow for the streets to be unsafe, my group devised a plan to fill the streets with activity and people. We discovered that a larger police prescence would not solve the problem, but with people policing their own neighborhood, it could allow the crime and drug usage in the streets to become less involved. In order to give the streets back to the pedestrians we developed a series of tabletop crosswalks along the main one way road. As the car begins to cross over the series of cross walks it begins to slow down as they reach the busiest area of the park. This series of crosswalks also allows the park to easily flow from one side of the street to the other.
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Unity Park: The adjacent Unity Park and area underneath the nearby interstate highway has been a problem for the community where the Faith House is located. The homeless and availability of drugs on the street have led to multiple overdosing in the park and can become a major distraction for the residents of the Faith House who have come there to better their lives. We learned that increasing police prescence would not help the situation but the best crime deterent would be the residents of the area itself. With more people on the streets and the neighborhood’s citizens policing themselves, we have come to understnd to be the best crime deterrent. Therefore we proposed more walkable streets and an open air vintage market. | 68
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Kitchen & Community Areas: The adjacent Unity Park and area underneath the nearby interstate highway has been a problem for the community where the Faith House is located. The homeless and availability of drugs on the street have led to multiple overdosing in the park and can become a major distraction for the residents of the Faith House who have come there to better their lives. We learned that increasing police prescence would not help the situation but the best crime deterent would be the residents of the area itself. With more people on the streets and the neighborhood’s citizens policing themselves, we have come to understnd to be the best crime deterrent. Therefore we proposed more walkable streets and an open air vintage market.
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Rendering of the courtyard and main garden of the Faith House. Surrounding the garden are the shipping containers that have been transformed into living units.
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Admin & Veteran Center: The Veteran Center is located off the main site across the street from the admin building. Using the techniques of our design from Unity Park we decided to make a cross walk connecting the Veteran’s Center to the main campus of the Faith House. As the person makes their way past the entrance they walk through the vegetable garden which is the main staple of the Faith House and acts as a symbol of community and growth within oneself.
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Rendering of the Veterans Center with views of the Veteran’s living units from the main building..
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The large image on the right shows the site of the Faith House in axonometric view. Large image to the right show the top view of the Faith House. Here you can see the interior courtyard as well as the connection from the main campus to the satelight Veterans center with the connection of the crosswalk over the street. The smaller thumbnail images depict detail model shots of the spaces located throughout the campus of the Faith House.
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Professors:
Judith Birdsong Martin Gunderson Robert MacLeod
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Reliquary: The reliquary was designed from a set of cufflinks given to me that were my grandfather’s who was in the Navy. He passed away when I was young and I was recently given possession of his cufflinks. The first drawing shows a technical section drawing of the cufflink with a canary outline of a pathway composed through the drawing. I wanted to begin to break down what made a cufflink and how it worked with this drawing. In this series of drawing the canary color starts off as a subtle aspect of the composition and gradually begins to take over the drawing.
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The next drawing begins to zoom out of the cufflink and display the many different aspects of dressing up. from shoe lace tying, to pocket square folding, to types of cuffs made for shirts. In this drawing the yellow begins to represent the movement used to tie a dress tie. The area created by the line allows for a field to be created for the reliquary to sit in. The movement from the first drawing to this one begins to take the detail of the cufflink away and diagram the shape needed for cufflinks. This diagramming will allow me to break down the cufflink and transform it into something different.
The third drawing in this set completely transforms the object from a technical section into an organic and different representation of what a cufflink is. The two wings on the left of the drawing represent the connection of the cufflink to the cuffs itself. The larger drawing on the opposite page is constructed by the combination of the three drawings. Moving from the left to the right of the final drawing transforms itself from a technical drawing into an organic representation of itself.
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Collage Study on Scale “Destination Space�: The series of collage studies were done as a study of scale. With photographs taken of the pervious model which was a study of a room within the city. These studies focused on the scalar relationships of spaces from the large to small and how to filter down into the small spaces. The largest collage is a collection of smaller collages that are placed within a whole to create a diagramatic relationship between the various collages. The large white space allows the drawing to breath and the formation of larger moves that begin to trickle down into smaller details.
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Collage Study on Scale “Embedded Movement�: Second series of collage studies taken again from multiple drawing diagrams of the cufflinks merged with model moments of the room within a city. The largest collage is the final media print with graphite lineweights depicting the relationship between three moments embedded within a large gesture.
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Boston’s Seaport District: Using the collages developed by the drawings and models, I created a masterplann of the developing Boston Seaport District and the movement and conection between three elements :the bridge, the site, and the alley. In order to travel to the new Seaport District in Boston, people either drive, take the silver line, or walk along a highway bridge that is focused on the automobile and not the pedestrian. Right beside this walk way is an old swing bridge that has been closed down and needs repair. I have decided that a pedestrian accessway to the new Seaport District would bring to life the street with pedestrians and make Seaport a popular destination in Boston. The section below show the relationship between the automobile access compared to the proposed pedestrian access and extension of the bridge itself.
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Drodle: The drodle is a combination of a drawing and model. It begins to construct the speculative two dimensional drawings of the cufflinks and tranform them into a three dimensional spatial construction that investigates the transition of spaces and the study of scale that can be used in order to specify significance within a moment. From the large movements of its connection to the ground to the delicate tectonic connections of the spatial components. It allows for a flow and movement between three spaces embedded within a larger construct. | 96
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[Fin]