Undergraduate architecture portfolio 2010 by Philip Szymanski

undergraduate design portfolio 2010 philip szymanski

philip szymanski Introduction:

This collection of work contains a variety of projects varying in scale, complexity, and underlying logic. To say that each work is complete is not entirely true whereas architecture can always be adjusted and manipulated according to situational constraints. My primary focus is to provide a solid framework for each project in order to spark a discussion, even critique that helps one to (dis)engage in the space and/or performance. To me, it is not only the architecture itself that defines a project rather the continuity of its design. In the realm of architecture, one can be become engrossed by the shear volume of a space just as easily as its connections between joints. One of the keys to understanding a project better is to zoom in and out between scales relentlessly. This allows the masterwork to become a multilayered quantity of information, deeply embedded in its logic... Architecture is a struggle to organize space, information, and physical objects, while linking them together through a system of researched ideology. Often this ideology is rethought, reshaped, and ulimately, disregarded in order to move the project in a different direction. The architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream and nightmare is the search for a perfect system (if it exists) that can provide a way of answering questions in terms of design that fits the scheme of the entire project. While many projects listed can seem open ended, sometimes it is the unsolved ideology of a system that can inspire the future wave of thinking in architecture...

velvet ohio: 01.06

the component: 07.16

casa la roca: 17.24

autocad portfolio: 25.32

Contact Infortmation: Address - 2306 Autumn Creek Path Valley City, OH 44280 Cell phone - 330.241.0922 Email - philipszymanski@gmail.com

Education:

environment perception: 33.38

Knowlton School of Architecture The Ohio State University 275 West Woodruff Ave. Columbus, OH 43210-1138 flexure chair: 39.42

surface: 89.92

commorancy 2008: 115.118

designing apocalptica: 49.64

distortion library: 93.98

object/void: 119.120

dissection/enclosure: 65.70

dissonance house: 99.102

surface ops: 121.122

delaunay spiral wall: 71.78

smokergraphics: 103.104

move/negotiate: 123.124

construction: 79.82

tire junkies: 105.108

crayons: 125.130

warp zones: 83.88

graphics: 109.114

shiskabob: 43.48 Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

VELVET OHIO

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Independent project - Summer 2010 Parameters: Completed with:

Susan Melsop - received the project bid, initial design studies, designed & built waffle frame, helped with final installation Chris Popa - initial design studies, project renders, created 3-D model, developed Process: agriculture images, helped with final We started by creating several study models installation using the ice cream containers as planters, much like the P.S. 1 installion by Young Architect Program. This became too heavy to place dirt inside of the containers for plants to grow, so instead we built a waffle frame in the shape of Ohio and intermixed the containers. The undulating surface represents Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s topography with the highs and lows being the most and least soil fertile parts of the state. We implemented pictures of agriculture on one side along with a Velvet logo. The goal was to get people interested in our design to learn about Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agriculture and give Velvet some advertising. Using ice cream containers sponsored by Velvet Ice Creams Co, we were to create an installation for the Ohio State Fair which promoted agriculture as well as Velvet for the Nationwide Donahey Ag & Hort Building.

Initial project proposal

Waffle frame process

Rear elevation

Model perspectives

Interactive display: can you see the Velvet logo in the ice cream containers?

THE COMPONENT

3d printed models of each site orientation

Final model - axon

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 343: Jane Murphy Studio - Spring Qtr. 2010 Parameters: For this studio we worked with Habitat for Humanity and designed possible Habitat Houses for a low income area in Springfield, Ohio. The goal was to make an affordable, multi-purpose house that can welcome change over time.

WEST

NORTH

SOUTH

EAST

Process:

Instead of making an alternative predictable mass cookie-cutter home with unnecessary space and cost issues, we literally broke down the home (and these issues) with The Component: A comfortable, and affordable scheme, suggesting a more flexible living style with smaller pre-fab self-contained modules organized around a core. In response to placing a one-story home in a two-story neighborhood, The Component calls for separate internal zones (for each specific home) which respond to the external volume. The ability for The Component to welcome modular changes makes it the opportunity for an adaptable architecture.

Creating site built homes based on orientation

Completed with:

Dustin Malenky - plans, sections, renders, fabrication of models Azeez Bakare - renders, graphics, final boards Matt Anderle - architect at Karlsberger, taught us how to use Revit

Final model - elevation

1. Foundation poured on

2. Maximum public space built on

3. Components brought to

4. Driveway + Shed built

5. Landscaping Construction process

asphalt shingle roof

glass and steel mullions

prefab wlfc components

steel support columns

concrete base

Exploded axon of materials

Interior perspective framing light shafts

Rear perspective

section C

Cross section

section B

section A

Public Space

Private Space

Ground plan

Longitudinal section

Interior perspective towards street front

Front elevation N

Longitudinal elevation

2010 2020

2015 2030

23bedroom bedroomunits units

2 bedroom 2 bedroom units units

11core coreunit unit

1 core 1 core unit unit

11courtyard courtyardunit unit

1 courtyard 1 courtyard unit unit

11kitchen kitchenunit units

2 porch 1 kitchen unitsunit

11bathroom bathroomunit unit

1 bathroom 1 bathroom unit unit

1 carport unit

2015 2030

1 carport 1 carport unit unit

2020 2040

2 2bedroom bedroomunits units

3 bedroom 1 bedroom units unit

1 1core coreunit unit

1 core 1 core unit unit

1 1courtyard courtyardunit unit

1 courtyard 1 courtyard unit unit

2 1porch kitchen units unit

1 kitchen 1 kitchen units unit

1 1bathroom bathroomunit unit

1 bathroom 1 bathroom unit unit

1 1carport carportunit unit

1 carport unit

Environmental studies using Ecotect technologies

2020

3 bedroom units 1 core unit 1 courtyard unit 1 kitchen units 1 bathroom unit 1 carport unit

Diagrams that explain the Component house and how it might change over a duration of 30 years. Prefab units can literally be added or moved away when necessary, eliminating unused space and energy costs.

12’

8’

CORE UNIT 1 (BUILT ON-SITE)

BATHROOM UNIT 1

16’

20’

CORE UNIT 2 (BUILT ON-SITE)

BATHROOM UNIT 2

COURTYARD UNIT 1

CORE UNIT 3 (BUILT ON-SITE)

BATHROOM UNIT 3

BATHROOM UNIT 4

BATHROOM UNIT 5

COURTYARD UNIT 2

BEDROOM UNIT 1

Fitting each house into the scale of the neighborhood

BEDR

Component form diagram

KITCHEN UNIT 1

KITCHEN UNIT 2

BEDROOM UNIT 3

BEDROOM UNIT 4

KITCHEN UNIT 3

BEDROOM UNIT 5

CARPORT UNIT

BEDROOM UNIT 6

BEDROOM UNIT 7

Components

Front perspective

casa la roca

Model of brick curtain wall

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 273: Stephen Turk Studio - Spring 2010 Parameters: Similar to the previous graphic sequence, we learned how to combine digital means of modeling with fabrication techniques. We recreated Office Daâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s - Casa La Roca by tracing over floor plans and using Rhino and 3D Studio Max. Then we proceded to lasercut and build a final model out of aircraft plywood.

Process:

What made this project challenging was to really emphasize the transluency of light that permeates the brick curtain walls. Being able to model this at a smaller scale took a great deal of time and energy, section cutting our 3D model and laser cutting many pieces!

Completed with:

Dustin Maleny - lasercutting, graphics, final model Josh Lowrance - creating base for final model Prince Brentuo-Acheampo - 3D model, renders, final model

Study models

Laser cut pieces of aircraft plywood

FRONT TERRA COTA BLOCK WALL

LASER CUT FILE SECTION 1 SECTION 2 SECTION 3

SECTION 1

SECTION 2

SECTION 3

Several different variations of the Casa La Roca, laserprinted and built.

SIDE TERRA COTA BRICK WALL LASER CUT FILE

PART A

PART B

PART C

PART B

PART C

PART D

PART A

Model axon

EAST ELEVATION

SECTION A

SECTION B

SOUTH ELEVATION

SECTION C

SOUTH ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION

SECTION A

SECTION B

SECTION C

First floor

Interior view of stairs

Second floor

Interior view of columns

autocad portfolio

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Larch 665: Charles Cartwright - Spring Qtr. 2010 Parameters: This class was entirely about learning Autodesk Autocad software, covering basic elements, line drawings, drafting, and 2-D and 3-D modeling. For the duration of the class, we were required to create a portfolio of our work.

Process:

We started by taking pictures of an object which we would eventually draft in 2-D and 3-D. Once the line drawings were complete, we learned how to properly dimension and label each drawing according to traditional architectural guidelines. Then we began to make our object 3-D, applying material settings and lighting to make it seem more realistic. We learned how to create perspective renders and videos which captured our objects. Next we grew in scale, working with an actual architectural space, I chose Casa La Roca, repeating the same process. Overall were learned several techniques designers use everyday in Autocad.

ENVIRONMENAL PERCEPTION

Final model

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 442: John Kelleher Studio - Winter Qtr. 2010 Parameters: Our project was to design an Environment Health and Human Ecology building with a variety of programmed space for public as well as private labs and a museum. The site was located in the Case Western Reserve & arts district in Cleveland, Ohio.

Process:

To organize the program, I studied how my clothes are arranged in my closet at home. Through this exercise I found that I place all of my most important items directly within an arms reach. I began thinking of ways that human constraints (the five senses) could shape my project structurally as well as programmatically. Using my reseach I was able to delve into a wide encompassing realm of how architecture can be punctuated by human senses.

taste

sensations green house buildings that walk/ embody movement

garbage/recycling

walls, stairs, roofs, etc garden

smell

cars/noises people bus drop off

touch

windows

deja vu mechinical systems lighting

elevators, escalators bathrooms, labs, cafe

weather

aging? amnesia

floating/ uplifting

sight furniture

gallery, exhibtion space

hearing

Diagramming the senses and how they relate to architectural components.

Translating my orgizational scheme in 3-D. Combining the senses in order to create space.

Final modelÂ

Ground floor plan

Touch: Sight:

1. Wet labs

How gravity is felt. Tilted planes

Framing views, light Ribbon windows

Hearing: Taste: Smell:

2. Wet labs

3. Wet labs

4. Dry labs

Focusing noise(s) Corridors that echo

Combined with smell.

5. Greenhouses

Scented environments. Industrial fans, scents 6. Dry labs

7. Education & Advocacy departments

8. Gallery, Auditorium, & other departments Exterior render

9. Underground parking

Site context

City context

10. Underground parking & services

Cross section

Longitudinal section

Concept model

flexure chair

chair

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Design 797: Susan Melsop StudioStudio - Winter-Quarter Design 797: Susan Melsop Winter2010 Qtr. 2010 Parameters: Parameters: Working with the Transit Arts childrens program, our job was to design multi-functional furniture that could accomodate a variety of different spaces in their community center. www.transitarts.com www.cchouse.org

Process: Process:

After After several several weeks weeks of of working working with with the the Transit Transit Art students, we discovered that our furniture Art students, we discovered that our furniture needed needed to to be be used used in in several several rooms, rooms, mainly mainly the the art studio and the living room space. art studio and the living room space. Our Our chairs chairs needed needed to to take take up up little little space space as as possible possible because of the issue of a limited because of the issue of a limited storage storage area. area. The goal of our project was to create chairs The goal of our project was to create chairs that that are comfortable, performative, easy to use, and are comfortable, performative, easy to use, and take take up up small small amounts amounts of of space. space.

Completed with: Completed with: Fang Yu Chin - intial design studies, helped

Fang Yu Chin - intial design studies, helped construct final model construct final model

Studying study buildingmodels types... Building

Paper Paperstudy studymodels models exploring flexibility exploring flexibilityand and the potential to create the potential to create storage storagespace. space.

Scale comparision of two intial chair mock-ups

Creating a CNC template file for a standard size sheet of 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; plywood. Cutting out the piece of stock.

Left to right: Original two mock-up chairs and three finalized Flexure Chairs, all of which were donated to the Transit Arts program.

shiskabob

SINGLE MASSING

HORIZONTAL

MULTIPLE MASSING

VERTICAL (EXCEEDS FOOTRINT IN HEIGHT)

STACKED

INTERSECTING

LINEAR

SEPERATE BITS

ORTHOGONAL vs CURVED ORTHOGONAL vs CURVED BENT BAR

RESHUFFLED

IN ACCORDANCE WITH TOPOGRAPHY

CENTRAL CORE

PINNED CONNECTION

PRIMARY MASS ATTACHED BY SECONDARY MASSES

PRIMARY MASSES ATTACHED BY A SECONDARY SYSTEM

Highpoint Flats

Linked Hybrid

Habitat 825 Halen Housing

SUBTRACTIVE (i.e. COURTYARD) Schots 1 & 2 Groningen

Mirador Apartments

Marina city

Habitat 67

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 441: Brian Holland Studio - Autumn Qtr. 2009 Parameters: Redevelop the High St. strip in Columbus, Ohio in order to accompany student housing as well as campus amenities, and community space. The site is located directly across from The Ohio State University campus.

Process:

Rethinking the community, I created what I called social stereotypes as well as architectural form types, and tried to link the two in order to create “mixed conditions” which would reassert people into the community. Creating a basic set of rules allowed me to plug-in standardized components which could be duplicated yet modified in order to accompany site specific programs. By taking a set (of categorized people) and forms I began to skewer conditions together that promoted new social spaces and interaction. Studying building form types MASSING + CIRCULATION MATRIX

COMBINED/INTERSECTING

SINGLE MASSING

MULTIPLE MASSING

STACKING

STUDENT VS FAMILY

ORTHOGONAL

NEXUS (OMA)

HORIZONTAL

ORTHOGONAL

SKID ROW

HANSAVIERTEL HANSAVIERTEL

THE WHALE THE WHALE

CURVED

CORRIDOR (HORIZONTAL CORE)

HABITAT 67 HABITAT 67

CURVED

BORNEO SPORENBURG

ORTHOGONAL

VERTICAL

HORIZONTAL

MAX CAPACITY OF PEOPLE

CURVED

POINT ACCESS

FACADE TYPE

BAKER DORMITORY BAKER

UNITE’D UNITE’D HABITATION

BIKUBEN BIKUBEN RESIDENCE RESIDENCE

SIMMONS HALL SIMMONS HALL

SCHOTS SCHOTS

SLITHER SLITHER

TIETGEN TIETGENDORMITORY DORMITORY

MIRADOR MIRADOR

NEXUSHOLL (HOLL) NEXUS

CARABANCHEL CARABANCHEL

HIGHPT HIGHPT

BORNHUETTER BORNHUETTER

HABITAT 825

HALEN HOUSING HALEN HOUSING

MTN MTNDWELLINGS DWELLINGS

SKIDSKID ROWROW

SAISHUNKAN

IIT HOUSING IIT HOUSING

LINKED HYBRID LINKED HYBRID ORTHOGONAL

NAGAKIN NAGAKIN NAGAKIN

VERTICAL

LAKE LAKESHORE SHORE

CURVED

TOWER (VERTICAL CORE)

NA MARINA MARINA CITY CITY

Massing + Circulation... a new way to categorize a building, inspired by FOA’s Phylogenesis.

TOWER (VERTICAL CORE)

CORRIDOR (HORIZONTAL CORE)

POINT ACCESS

COMBINED/INTERSECTING

STACKING

Hybridizing massing + circulation forms in order to create mixed conditions.

Form types + social strategies

Shiskabob concept

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

AUDITORIUM STUDENT LOBBY A RETAIL DINING STUDENT LOBBY B

N HIGH STREET

4. 4.

Plan of zoomed-in component Shishkabob masterplan

Longitudinal section

designing apocalyptica

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

“The reality is either water is so abundant that you build water parks for amusement or it’s so scarce that you fight wars over it. In human history we’ve gone back and forth between abundance and scarcity with water. We’re about to enter a period of structural lack of water as we continue to change our raltionship with out environment.” -Erik Straser

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 603: Ashley Schafer Seminar - Autumn 2009 Parameters: In her Eco-logics seminar, Schafer taught the basics of Ecology and what it means for architecture to be sustainable and ecological. Based off of several lectures my group wanted to create a presentation which might exemplify future conditions - a doomsday simulation and how architecture might respond to a possible apocalypse.

Process:

Similar to a presentation titled Hotel Polonia, The Afterlife of Buildings, we conducted research on possible doomsday scenarios, and produced a number of images that portray our thoughts. Our three doomsday scenarios are: fresh water shortage, flooding caused by global warming, and species extinction due to overpopulation.

Completed with:

Tyler Hardie - fresh water shortage scenario Robert Deering - species extinction scenario

Kobas Laksa, Rondo1, from the series Afterlife of Buildings, 2008

More than 25 million people in seven states — Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming — rely on the Colorado River for water and power. However, the river has fallen aprroximately 60% in capacity. Population booms in the area does not help the shortage as Arizona’s population has grown by 40% and Colorado’s by 30% in the 1990’s. The distribution of the River is done through an intricate, convoluted system of contracts that cost millions of dollars a year to maintain. Re gardless of the distribution system, experts agree the western states have approximately 50 years before the droughts and water shortages become a persistent issue. How can western architecture adapt to become more resoursceful? Architecture isn’t the entire solution but it is possible for architecture to be one of the answers. Photovoltaic technology attached to every structure, the roof would be the key entity to every structure. The roof will be heavily engineered to sustain loads of up to 100 tons of water. Communities will start to build around bigger structures as the water payoff is greater. A new piping system will be in place, it will be primitive but it has to be as the old infrastructure is uselessly tapping the empty Colorado River. Millions of citizens flee but the remaining are thankful that the interventions made are aiding in their survival.

“… humans are the ultimate weed species ... We have shown an incredible ability to invade, change, and inhabit every habitat type on the planet.” ~Richard P. Reading

HUMAN OVER-POPULATION The human population has grown nearly ten-fold over the past three centuries and has increased by a factor of four in the last century.

Approximately 6.6 billion humans now inhabit the Earth. By comparison, there might be 20 million mallard ducks and, among a multitude of threatened and endangered species, perhaps 100,000 gorillas, 50,000 polar bears, and less than 10,000 tigers, 2,000 giant pandas and 200 California condors.

Our present course will lead to the extinction of half of all plant and animal species by 2100

SPECIES EXTINCTION

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Critical

Endangered

Vulnerable

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~Richard P. Reading

The number one cause for the rise in endangered species is due to human demand for either the animals resources or the resources of its habitat.

Roughly, when 90% of the habitat is eliminated, 50% of the species will be lost … The Earth was covered by approximately 14.8 billion acres of forest 8,000 years ago. As a repercussion of human exploitation, only 8.6 billion acres now remain – the highest rates of deforestation occurred during the last 50 years (Rainforest Alliance, 1999).

Some scientists have predicted that unless significant measures (such as seeking out and protecting old growth forests that have not been disturbed)[76] are taken on a worldwide basis, by 2030 there will only be ten percent remaining, [74][77] with another ten percent in a degraded condition.[74] 80% will have been lost, and with them hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable species.

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SPECIES EXTINCTION EDUCATION

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ENVIRONMENTAL BUILDING CODES

Building codes in the future will be much stricter on environmentaly harmful conditions. So a building like the Lillis Business Complex which is currently one of the most environmentally concious buildings in America will meet the minimum requirements in the future. This makes it a perfect building to reuse because no additional devices need to be added to make it pass the environment code.

Critical

Endangered

Vulnerable

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There are currently17,000 species threatened with extinction

SOLUTION Human interation has been the main cause for the increase in species extinction rates and it will also be the only way to reverse the trend. By setting up secured habitats for the endangered species allowing them to repopulate safely before being set back into the wild is the only solution when matters have become this dire.

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SOURCES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List_of_Threatened_Species http://www.earthsendangered.com/search-groups2.asp?search=1&sgroup=R http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillis_Business_Complex http://www.eoearth.org/article/Human_population_explosion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation http://kanat.jsc.vsc.edu/student/callahan/mainpage.htm#defrates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_rainforest http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/env-animalext.html http://news.discovery.com/animals/species-risk-extinction-iucn.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/e/extinction.htm http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=3820 http://www.tropical-rainforest-animals.com/Animal-Extinction.html Critical

Endangered

Vulnerable

Global Warming

HABITAT PROTOTYPE

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“… humans are the ultimate weed species ... We have shown an incredible ability to invade, change, inhabit every habitat Accolades:and In 2005, the building received the U.S.type Green on Building Council's LEED-NC Silver designation, the planet.” ranking it higher than any other business school in the nation. Additionally, it is among the most environmentally conscious buildings on any ~Richard P. Reading college campus in the U.S..

There are currently17,000 species threatened with extinction

Global Warming • Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. • The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850. • Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting—for example, Montana's Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910. In the Northern Hemisphere, thaws also come a week earlier in spring and freezes begin a week later. • Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suﬀering from the sea-ice loss.

Damming

More than 25 million people in seven states — Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming — rely on the Colorado River for water and power. However, the river has fallen aprroximately 60% in capacity. Population booms in the area does not help the shortage as Arizona’s population has grown by 40% and Colorado’s by 30% in the 1990’s. The distribution of the River is done • Dams and reservoirs have stored a large quantity of water over the past through andecades, intricate, convoluted of contracts thatactually cost millions of dollarssurging a year tosea maintain. several so muchsystem so that they have masked levels.ReRather than adding to sea-level rise, theyagree havethe counteracted it byapproximately storing more water on land. gardless of the distribution system, experts western states have 50 years before the• Since droughts andthe waterstorage shortagesofbecome persistent issue. a total of about 1.2 inches 1930 water ahas prevented (3 centimeters) of sea-level rise.

How can western architecture adapt to become more resoursceful? Architecture isn’t the entire • Without dams, sea levels would have risen 30 percent more than they already have, solution but it istopossible for architecture to be oneChao of theof answers. Photovoltaic according research led by Benjamin National Centraltechnology University in Taiwan. attached to every structure, the roof would be the key entity to every structure. The roof will be heavily • Dams and reserviors sea levels toaround a certain extent. engineered to sustain loads ofdo upcounteract to 100 tons of the water.rising Communities willbut startonly to build bigger structures There are several factors that make these options limited such as land use, cost of asconstruction, the water payoffand is greater. A new piping system will be in place, it will be primitive but it has to be as the old designating site-friendly locations. infrastructure is uselessly tapping the empty Colorado River. Millions of citizens flee but the remaining are thankful that the interventions made are aiding in their survival.

Other factors... • Many wetlands have been drained during the past 200 years, which means more water flowing into the oceans. • Deforestation is also believed to influence sea levels. Forests eﬀectively store water, and widespread deforestation can increase the amount of water running oﬀ the land into the sea. But deforestation can also cause a decrease in rainfall. However, scientists think that deforestation raises sea levels rather than lowers them. • But without a doubt the biggest influence on global sea levels is rising temperatures. A warmer world caused by an increase in man-made greenhouse gases not only melts ice, but also results in thermal expansion of the seas – warm water takes up more volume than cold. Dr Anny Cazenave of France's Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (Legos) in Toulouse says that about 50 per cent of the sea-level rise observed over the past 15 years is attributable to thermal expansion. The rest is largely due to the melting of mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets.

Solution. • Research is beginning to show that the several contributing factors such as temperature change and the aﬀects of global warming cannot be changed overnight. • Keeping in mind the global population boom and other conditions, i.e. suburban sprawl, land use is becoming much more limited and designating space for dams and reservoirs should be considered at an expense. • At a certain point, what we do as humans is going to have an irreservable aﬀect on the state of the world and by simply accepting this we can begin to understand our future. • Trying to solve every problem the world faces immediately only leads to new and sometimes bigger ones. Instead suttle ecologically thought out solutions need to be investigated rigorously by scientists, politicians, global leaders, and every day people the same.

Global Warming = Inevitable Greenhouse gases = Rising temperatures = Global melting = Rising sea levels = Damming = Depletion of land masses, resources, space = ... Inevitable!

Taking New York skyscrapers and using them as a supporting substructure for a ‘floating’ New York. Modeled after Mel Chin’s competition entry for the world trade center, this type of large scale super project would allow ocean water below and human continuance above...

Manhattan, New York

Manhattan due to global warming...

Changing the world in order to achieve or regulate the way humans live has been a problem since the first humans created fire. Shaping the land in order to better agricultural conditions, increase efficiency, show human triumph over nature, etc, has caused many potentially destructive and terminal conditions on earth... Sometimes the smartest solution to solving world issues is to literally let nature take its course and leave human intrusion alone. This example of New York embraces global warming as well as rising sea conditions and still encourages life above.

Sources 1. National Geographic 2. planglosstech.com 3. University of Copenhagen (2009, March 11). Rising Sea Levels Set To Have Major Impacts Around The World. Science-Daily. Retrieved December 5, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/ 090310104742.htm 4. http://12degreesofreedom.blogspot.com/2008/03/damthatsea-level-rise.html 5. algore.com 6. http://www.climatecrisis.net/ 7. An Inconvenient Truth - the documentary

DISSECTION/ENCLOSURE

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 343: Robert Livesey Studio - Spring Qtr. 2009 Parameters: ACSA Salk Institute Competition 2008/2009

Process:

The overall concept statement of Dissection/Enclosure consists of a series of cuts that organize program. The cuts splice through the original Salk Institute and open it up, exposing its most critical elements. The original Salk is most renowned for its plaza level communal space with its water channel view towards the ocean. Our objective was to maintain this space and frame it in order to reinforce its dynamic quality. To do so we used a series of cuts based off of the void created in between the two buildings of the original Salk.

Completed with:

Scott McLemore - intial design concept, digital model, renders Robert Deering - physical model, sections .

Housing (unbuilt) Meeting space (unbuilt)

Salk Laboratories (built)

The original Salk scheme by Kahn

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Horizontal cuts: Orange: grand entrance cut Blue: secondary entrances Red: corridors for travel

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Overall parti

Vertical cuts: Light wells

Louvres/skin as a wrapper

Physical Physicalmodel model

Nordic Embassey precedent

Initial concept

Section A

Section B Section B

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Section B

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1. HOTEL LOUNGE 2. HOTEL LOBBY 3. STORAGE 4. STAGING 5. MULTI-PURPOSE 6. KITCHEN 7. DINING 8. STORAGE 9. OFFICE 10. LIBRARY 11. LOCKER

12. BATH 13. LOBBY 14. GYM 15. GYM 16. POOL 17. LECTURE HALL 18. OFFICES 19. STORAGE 20. HAZ MATERIALS 21. CONFERENCE 22. MEETING

First floor

Community center

Housing with view towards Salk

Wooden louvres

Housing tower

View from outside of campus

delaunay triangulation

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 700: Alex Tsamis Seminar - Spring Qtr. 2009 Parameters: In the seminar we interrogated contemporary design, fabrication and material technologies in an attempt to reexamine the notion of traditional tectonics. Through design/fabrication projects we explored topics such fabrication of non-assembly and gradient anisotropic structures. Working with patterns and ideas of self-organization we explored the production of new materials and material effects.

Process:

The first section of the project dealt with Rhinoscripting and developing computer processes to organize information. Then we ran our script and tested it on a variety of materials in order to produce our desired effect.

Completed with:

Matt Canterna - digital diagrams, test models Shiras Muhammad - initial concept, scripting

Using control points to create triangles

Early test model

Delaunay triangulation, an algorithm used to derive patterns

Using milling and lasercutting, we made different scale models using differnent materials.

Structural diagram of a free-standing triangulated wall

Fabrication zone

Our chosen input image

We subdivided our fabricated zone into nine smaller regions for stock purposes

1. Input image

5. Resulting point field

2. Heightfield generation

6. Delaunay mesh

3. Image resolution

7. Centroid push zones

4. Measuring distance from base plane to heightfield

8. Qualifying mesh triangles below area threshold

11. Centroid â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; zones

9. Triangular spiral generation

10. Cut pattern

DELAUNAY SPIRAL WALL SCRIPT Option Explicit 'Script written by <insert name> 'Script copyrighted by <insert company name> 'Script version Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:03:30 PM Call Main() Sub Main() Dim surface : surface = rhino.getobject("flat surface?" , 8) Dim input_srf : input_srf = rhino.getobject("input surface?" , 8) Dim u : u = rhino.GetInteger("number of starting points in u?",75) Dim v : v = rhino.GetInteger("number of starting points in v?",33) Call rhino.SelectObjects(array(surface,input_srf )) Call rhino.command("-reparameterize 0 1 0 1 enter",False) Call rhino.unselectallobjects() Dim i,j,dist,max_dist,min_dist,factor,r,vector max_dist = distance(surface,input_srf,0,0,u,v)(0) min_dist = distance(surface,input_srf,0,0,u,v)(0) Call rhino.enableredraw(False) For i = 0 To 30 For j = 0 To 30 dist = distance(surface,input_srf,i,j,u,v)(0) If dist > max_dist Then max_dist = dist End If If dist < min_dist Then min_dist = dist End If Next Next Call rhino.enableredraw(True) For i = 0 To 30 For j = 0 To 30 vector = distance(surface,input_srf,i,j,u,v) dist = vector(0) factor = (dist - min_dist)/(max_dist-min_dist) r = rnd() If r > factor Then Call rhino.addpoint(vector(1)) End If Next Next Call rhino.HideObject(input_srf ) End Sub Function distance(surface,input_surface,u,v,n_points_u,n_points_v) ''' out array with two elements. first is the distance, ''second is the point on surface Dim n , p , line , intersec , dist n = rhino.SurfaceNormal( surface, array(u/n_points_u,v/n_points_u)) n = Rhino.VectorScale (n, 10000) p = rhino.EvaluateSurface(surface,array(u/n_points_v,v/n_points_v)) n = rhino.vectoradd(p,n) line = rhino.AddLine(p,n) intersec = Rhino.CurveSurfaceIntersection (line, input_surface) 'Call rhino.addpoint(intersec(0,1)) dist = rhino.Distance(p,intersec(0,1)) Call rhino.deleteobject(line) distance = array(dist,p) End Function

Option Explicit 'Script written by <insert name> 'Script copyrighted by <insert company name> 'Script version Friday, May 22, 2009 8:24:33 PM

Next c1 = rhino.AddCurve(p_set_a,1) If Rhino.IsCurveClosed (c1) Then Call rhino.DeleteObject(c1)

Call Main() Sub Main()

End If

Dim triangles : triangles = rhino.GetObjects("meshes?",32) Dim threshold : threshold = rhino.getReal("give a number from 0 to 1 to do the spiral",0.15) Dim spirals : spirals = rhino.getinteger("give a nubmber of spirals",3) Dim inner_triag : inner_triag = rhino.getReal("give a nubmber from 0 to 1 for the inner triangle of the spiral",0.7) '''' this last one works but dont have good controll over it.

c2 = rhino.AddCurve(p_set_b,1) If Rhino.IsCurveClosed (c2) Then Call rhino.DeleteObject(c1)

Dim i , area , factor

End If

Dim min_area : min_area = rhino.MeshArea(triangles(0))(1) Dim max_area : max_area = rhino.MeshArea(triangles(0))(1)

c3 = rhino.AddCurve(p_set_c,1)

For i = 0 To ubound (triangles)

If Rhino.IsCurveClosed (c3) Then Call rhino.DeleteObject(c1)

area = rhino.MeshArea(triangles(i))(1) If area > max_area Then max_area = area End If If area < min_area Then min_area = area End If Next Call rhino.print(min_area) Call rhino.print(max_area) For i = 0 To ubound (triangles) area = rhino.MeshArea(triangles(i))(1) factor = (area - min_area) / (max_area - min_area) ''Call rhino.print(factor) If factor < threshold Then Call make_spiral(triangles(i),spirals,inner_triag) End If Next End Sub Function scale_mesh(mesh,factor) Dim center : center = rhino.MeshAreaCentroid(mesh) Dim new_mesh : new_mesh = rhino.scaleobject(mesh,center,array(factor,factor,factor)) scale_mesh = new_mesh End Function

Function make_spiral(mesh,spiral_num,min_scale) Dim m ,j , factor , p , c1 , c2 , c3 Call rhino.enableredraw(False) For j = 0 To spiral_num ReDim Preserve allpoints(spiral_num+1) factor = 1-j*((1-min_scale)/spiral_num)- 0.1 m = scale_mesh(mesh,factor) allpoints(j) = Rhino.MeshVertices (m) Next Call rhino.enableredraw(True) For p = 0 To spiral_num ReDim Preserve p_set_a(p) ReDim Preserve p_set_b(p) ReDim Preserve p_set_c(p) p_set_a(p) = allpoints(p)( ( 0 + p ) Mod (3) ) p_set_b(p) = allpoints(p)( ( 1 + p ) Mod (3) ) p_set_c(p) = allpoints(p)( ( 2 + p ) Mod (3) )

End If End Function

construction sequence CONCEPTUAL STATEMENT:

OHIO STATE FEATURES...

MAKE THE RADIATING EFFECT AS SEEN IN THE STATE SEAL BY USING EXTRUDED FLINT STONE AND A RED BRICK BACKGROUND. lady bug wall GEM STONE: OHIO FLINT

INSECT: LADY BUG

STATE SEAL

ALONG WITH THE EXTRUDED FLINT, THE WINDOWS AND DOORS ARE ALSO EXTRUDED FROM THE CAVITY WALL. (SEE PLAN FOR DETAILS)

ELEVATION: 1/4” = 1’0”

window assembly face brick

window stool cut block stone sill 40.0625

drip edge sealant op thru-wall flashing cavity insulation barrier as required horizontal joint reinforcement w/ integral wall ties rigid insulation air space mech. fastened termination bar w/ cont. bead of sealant at top

fasteners brick veneer cmu weep vent thru-wall flashing 20.0000

metal drip edge

WINDOW DETAIL

PLAN: 1/4” = 1’0”

L bracket

SECTION: 1/4” = 1’0”

PHILIP SZYMANSKI TA: DUSTIN TODD

WALL SECTION

Jose Oubreire’s class Masonry construction proposal

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 626-8: Mike Cadwell/Jose Oubreire/Jane Murphy - Fall Quarter 2008 Spring Quarter 2009 Parameters: Our construction series taught us three different construction systems: wood light framing, concrete and masonry, and steel and glass. Each quarter we completed several small objectives on our way to creating a competition proposal for each system. We also made detailed plans and sections to better understand each joint and connection. Another part of the sequence that truly helped us learn was to actually build each project, this made us consider structural stability as well as integrity. Not every project that we design is buildable and being able to make them work was key. For Mike Cadwell’s class I created a standing bench that can be rotated into place, as if a hamster wheel. For Jose Oubreire’s class, I developed a masonry detail that embodied an Ohio insect, the ladybug. For Jane Murphy’s class I made a glass skin system.

Mike Cadwell’s class Early bench proposal

Mike Cadwell’s class Final model

DOUBLE-SIDED SELF-CLEANING DOUBLE SKIN SYSTEM -OUTER SKIN: DOUBLE GLAZE WITH LOW-E, SELF-CLEANING, BLUE GLASS, 4’ PANES AT HEIGHTS LENGTHS OF 2’, 4’, 6, OR 8’ DEVELOPED AS A RAINSCREEN WITH AN ALTERNATING DRIP EDGE WHICH ALLOWS PENETRATION OF WATER AND CREATES A WOVEN PATTERN OF RAIN -INNER SKIN: SINGLE GLAZE, CLEAR PVC, 6 x 10 PANES -ALUMINUM SUPPORTS FOR OUTER SKIN ATTACHED TO STEEL STRUCTURE THAT FRAMES THE INNER SKIN -SHADE WITHIN THE CAVITY BETWEEN THE OUTER AND INNER SKINS ALSO ACTS AS A GUTTER SYSTEM SO RAIN WILL NOT FALL DIRECTLY INTO THE CAVITY -NATURAL VENTILATION PROVIDED BY THE REVEALS WITHIN A PANE OF GLASS, AND SIDES AND BOTTOM EDGES LEFT OPEN

AXONOMETRIC SCALE: 1/4” = 1’- 0”

PLAN SCALE: 1/4” = 1’- 0”

ARCH 628-FINAL PROJECT PHILIP SZYMANKSI | NICOLE BROWN TA: ATITA SHETTY

Jane Murphy’s class Glass skin system proposal

warp zones

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 342: Nick Gelpi Studio - Winter Quarter 2009 Parameters: This studio was geared towards interactivity and program mixing - a community center/office building/research library/retail shopping center. The goal was to create devices to organize the mixed use space and to make an infill site in the city much more than simply that.

Process:

Zooming in and out at different scales, I discovered some unique structural concepts which I used to drive my project. I became interested in how circulation and structure can organize space. This enabled me to coordinate my program based around structural “circulation tubes” which pierced through floor plates, similar to Preston Scott Cohen’s Eyebeam project. In order to make the building engaged with public space, the entire facade is transparent glass. This device frames the structural tubes holding up the glass, an abstraction that draws people in.

Eyebeam competition model, 2001

Diagonal tubes that organize program

Final model

RESTAURANT

CAFE

GENERAL CIRCULATION

READING SPACES

JANITORY

RESTROOMS

LOCKER ROOMS

LARGE MEETING ROOM

STACKS

ENTRY

RETAIL

CIRCULATION DESK

WEIGHT ROOM

ADMINISTRATION

STUDY ROOMS

SWIMMING POOL

BASKETBALL

JANITORY

Color-coded circulation tubes indicate specific programs

CI ADMINISTATION RC CIRCUL UL LOCKER ROOMS WEIGHT ROOM AT N ATION CONCESSIONS RR RR JANITORY IO N IO

POOL

T N A L

O I T A UL

C MEETING RM U STUDY ROOMS JANITORYRR STACKS R I C C R RESTAURANT CAFE RETAIL CI N O I T A PARKING CIRCUL

BASKETBALL

Diagrammatic section

Final model

VENDING MACHINES JANITORY

FITTING ROOMS

CONCESSSIONS

RESTAURANT

POOL

RETAIL

CAFE

First floor JANITORY

Third floor

THIRD FLOOR

CIRCULATION DESK LOCKER ROOMS STUDY ROOM

MEETING ROOM

STUDY ROOM

STACKS

ADMIN ROOM

SECOND FLOOR

WEIGHT ROOM

Second floor

FOURTH FLOOR

Fourth floor

ADMININSTRATION

MEZZANINE LEVEL

Second floor balcony

FIFTH FLOOR

Sixth floor

Cross section

Longitudinal section

Front elevation

Exploded axon

Steel truss system designed around structural tubes.

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The tube through the roof brings the sunlight below to the basketball court underneath the large cantilevered space. R

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Model axon

surface

Study model

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 342: Nick Gelpi Studio - Winter 2009 Parameters: Using concrete as a primary building material, we were to design a gymnasium for a site in Columbus, Ohio. This studio focused on introducing a performance concept into the project.

Process:

In terms of concrete (and performance), I began to research different types of concrete bridges and long spanning buildings, i.e. domes. After discovering the formula for the longest spanning concrete arches, I implemented these arch forms into my design. My primary objective was to house all the interior program beneath the long spans, yet open up space to allow access across the entire site. What I sought to create was a park above with telescoping views below into the gymnasium. By creating an undulating surface with the concrete arches, I was able to romanticize a picturesque landscape for all patrons whether it be spectators or not.

Original arches

Secondary arches added

Concrete infill added

Concrete model

Study model

Plan

Longitudinal section

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Primary arches Secondary arches Concrete infill Glass panels added Earth added to create landscape

Study model

distortion library

Study model

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 341: Nick Gelpi Studio - Winter 2009 Parameters:

For this studio we were to design a library using wood as a primary building material. The site was very much isolated and it was recommended that we study a precedent directly to help influence our design.

Bridge

Wall

Process:

After studying Steven Hollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addition and renovation to the American Bibliotech Library in Berlin, I wanted to incorporate similar principles while using wood to create a distorted effect. Researching the properties of wood during shrinking and swelling, I was able to discover performance principles that wood naturally takes on. I used each of the three main reactions that wood undergoes: bowing, crooking, and cupping for each different form type. I also created a browsing circuit for circulation, starting from the top of the library and working downward. This allows one to become fully engaged in the architectural distortion taking place.

Tower Wall

Form types

Browsing circuit

Cupping

Bowing/ twisting

Crooking Distortions that take place in wood during shrinking and swelling

Final model This diagram (lower right) helps explain the overall concept statement of my library. 1. A crooked tower being pulled in tension 2. Two walls or blocks of program 3. A bowed structure that floats above and connects the tower to the blocks. It has a curved floor, perfect for reading or resting on, as if a hammock. The hammock is being pulled in tension from the connecting points of the tower and blocks.

Longitudinal section

3. 1.

First floor

Second floor

Third floor

Study model

American Memorial Library Scale comparison: see upper right

Distortion Library Scale comparison: see lower left

Final model

dissonance house

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 341: Nick Gelpi Studio - Autumn Quarter 2008 Parameters: Using wood as a primary building material we were to construct a simple space for reading or studying. This space must allow seperate zones for sitting, standing, and laying, big enough for three people to occupy simultaneously.

Process:

I began by studying Michael Jantzen’s M House. I liked the idea of creating a structural light frame and covering it with a secondary material. This would hide or blur the original frame. I created a wooden frame and attached horizontal bands for shade. Then I devised two seperate units, one below ground, one above. I treated this as a moment of dissonance, or discord because they weren’t connected - two seperate entities. The rock garden running through these units acts as an earthquake faultline, creating a moment of rupture. The split-level design is a play off of a natural phenomenon.

MIchael Jantzen’s M House

Original frame

Wooden panels added

Plan with section cut

Rock garden

Horizontal banding

Bookshelf detail

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smokergraphics

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Independent project - Summer 2008 Process: During the 60s, niches of architects and designers began experimenting with supergraphics to emulate the spatial effects of architecture. By 1970, this Supermannerist, supergraphic movement had waned, or had morphed into Pop and possibly graffiti art, but the idea that the city could be made bright, even witty, through the judicious application of paint instead of new construction was born and became another tool for developers who had previously advocated demolition as a method of urban renewal. I took these principles which we learned in architecture history and applied them to a standard bookshelf in my room. Because I worked as a cashier at a gas station in 2008 I had access to unlimited amounts of cigarette cartons and decided to emulate the bright colors supergraphic artists used in the 1970s.

tire junkies

Tire bench

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 243: Susan Melsop Studio - Spring 2008 Parameters: The focus of this studio was to create a full-scale installation out of recycled materials. Our goal was to find a practical means of handling waste products with an emphasis on material properties and exploiting their tendencies. In other words trying to find beauty in the mundane...

Process:

I wanted to work with tires because of the challenge we face everyday with the disposing of them. Trying to repurpose disguarded tires could have an immediate benefit to our society. Our argument was something as discernible as a tire could render itself beauteous if handled properly. We dissected the tire and found ways that we can manipulate its elasticity and rigidity. We ultimately composed a tire bench and walkway.

Completed with:

David Ciccone - initial design studies Steven Walker - initial design studies, renders

Wave-like properties of tire treads

Collection of parts, cresent walls

1. Drill into tire wall closest to tread. Stacking/twisting

Space vs. object (connections)

Corbelling

2. Insert jigsaw blade into hole and cut.

3. Rip the tread from a ring into a strip.

Artificial landscapes - tire gardens

Tire bench outside cafe

graphics sequence

Aurel von Richthofen Studio Voronoi plexi model

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 271-3: Beth Blostein/Kivi Sotamaa/Aurel von Richthofen/Isabella Gould Fall Quarter 2007 - Spring Quarter 2008 Parameters:

Our graphics series taught us the primary means of operating design software, as well as scripting, digital fabrication, and even hand drawing. In Fall Quarter 2007, the first half of the class was taught by Beth Blostein and we learned Rhino 4.0 N.U.R.B.S. modelling. The second half we learned Maya 8.5 taught by Kivi Sotamaa. Winter Quarter 2008 we learned Rhinoscripting and digitial fabrication, (i.e. using the laserprinters) taught by Aurel von Richthofen. Finally in Spring Quarter 2008 we learned how to hand draw and sketch with Isabella Gould. This entire sequence helped us implement different design strategies in our studio work, and gave us a general skill set to use in our future careers.

Aurel von Richthofen Studio Rhinoscripting exercises

Aurel von Richthofen Studio Voronoi nest

Knowlton School of Architecutre - Northwestern facade

Isabella Gould Studio - sketch

Knowlton School of Architecutre - Main Space

Kivi Sotamaa Studio - Maya 8.5 sea creature project

Beth Blostein Studio - Rhino 4.0 Yokohama Port Terminal rebuild

Isabella Gould Studio - shading exercises

commorancy 2008

Study model

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 242: Susan Melsop Studio - Winter 2008 Parameters: The focus of this studio was to create a gallery/ loft space for an artist client in the Short North (arts district) in Columbus, Ohio.

Process:

By studying Moshe Safdieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Habitat â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;67, I began to notice how corbelling prefab units can produce a unique and interesting space for each individual unit while also creating a field effect with a multitude of units. The field operation would mask each component by blending the geometry of the form across the site. This process was similar to what digital camoflauge does and the rigid geometry used in the forms was derived from this philosophy. Elevating constituent lofts gives each artist a well lit area of work while the gallery space below is blocked from a large portion of natural lighting. The communal gallery zone is at street grade allowing outside patrons to easily attend during gallery hops.

Final model

Study model

Exterior renders

Final model

Study models

Moshe Safdie’s Habitat ‘67

object/void

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 241: Ben Wilke Studio - Autumn Quarter 2007 Parameters: Research and document a layered system of organization, examples include (animals, fish, birds, and humans). Diagram what allows these systems to work. Construct a model that adopts the same multi-layered system as your precedent. The site will be off of I-270 as a rest stop and recreation hub.

Process:

I began by experimenting with foam models, cutting them sectionally and noticing the object/ void relationship between the air pockets and foam. I wanted to duplicate this system and began making wooden models which were almost shell-like, portraying similar voided spaces for my recreation/relaxation areas. I took the sectional object/void property and extruded my forms creating overhangs and sheltered awnings for patrons to enjoy at the rest stop. Each of the seven shelters were different interpretations of sectional foam models which I created.

Early foam model which I section cut to discover an interesting object/void relationship.

Side elevation of the seven shelters OUTDOOR PICNINC AREA DINING AREA / RESTAURANT WOMEN’S ROOM MEN’S ROOM JANITOR’S CLOSET / STORAGE TELEPHONE BOOTH SEATING AREA LIGHTPOST TRASH CAN TREES PARK BENCHES

Rest stop site model

Roof plan of the seven shelters

SURFACE OPERATIONS

Elevation

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 241: Ben Wilke Studio - Autumn Quarter 2007 Parameters: For this exercise we used paper and created folds in order to develop a spatial logic. Our objective was to produce a structural object using the entire sheet of paper without glue in order to create a self-standing surface.

Process:

By creating several study models I was able to achieve a form that could withstand itself structurally. I then listed each fold and crease in order to reproduce this form in a repetitive fashion, a fabrication technique. When creating drawings for my paper models, it was somewhat difficult to understand where the cuts were being made, so I dipped my paper models into red dye in order to easily understand this. Being able to create a structure using paper models was an easy yet important spatial exercise. It allows one to notice that structure can define a space, and surfaces decide spatial qualities such as privacy.

Process: cutting, creasing, and folding

Final model

MOVE/NEGOTIATE

Form typical across a 15 second interval

Longitudinal section

Final model

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 241: Ben Wilke Studio - Autumn Quarter 2007 Parameters: Record 15 seconds of two people in a mutual or negotiated activity. Consider the following: how can you capture four dimensions in two or three? Find a way to document this movement. Use the technique you have developed as a means to create a new space for negotiating interaction.

Process:

I documented two kids engaged in Slam dancing, a type of dance characterized by aggressive pushing or hitting. I noticed how during certain parts of a song they are either creating violent or non-violent motions towards one-another. I traced their bodies and annotated them based on this observation. I then created a structure which characterized their motions across a frame of time (the 15 second interval). What resulted was an architectural installation which defined the two kids motion in form, displaying soft vs rigid forms that either became places of gathering or not.

Creating an annotation system of violent vs. nonviolent motion

Overhead plan

Final model

crayons

Final modelÂ

Designing Apocalyptica

Response doomsday scenarios predicting the future state of the earth and its architecture.

Arch 202: Ben Wilke Studio - Spring 2007 Parameters: Using a primary building material, one is to create an architectural surface - based off of a chosen image. In other words, creating a 3D surface from a 2D image.

Process:

First I started by selecting a topographic image using Google Earth, noticing different gradients and swatches in the image. Using hand sketches I made three different interpretations of the topography. After superimposing this system together, a chipboard waffle model projected this information together 3-Dimensionally. By taking a metal mesh and draping it over the waffle model, I could begin to produce a terrain on which to start building my material. I chose crayons to emphasize a point, opposite facing sides of a pastel produce varying geometries. By creating a field operation of pastels I was able to depict my information architecturally.

Waffle model cross sections

Study model

Original 2D image

Annotating foliage on image

Annotating landmasses on image

Annotating roadways on image

Chipboard waffle model

Metal mesh screen used to depict artificial topography

Final model

Study model