PETTY ISLAND
FOOD INNOVATION CENTER
During the present years, Philadelphia has been through a major architectural transformation that has raised interest in reclaiming the piers as part of the city. This project embarks on the idea of reclaiming the island to the Philadelphia context.
The edges of the existing Philadelphia piers were and influential force that originated a guideline and generator for field operations and building on the site. These grid lines would serve specifically as field operations that such as irrigation systems, electrical sytems and landscape features that would help sustain the cultivation fields.
SITE STRATEGY
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In order to provide better circulation between each strip of the grid, the cultivation fields morphed from 90 degree axis on thex and y axis to a tilted axis that is more flexible and allows for a better flow within different cultivation fields.
Its important to mention that each of the fields were designed specifically to be experiencend from south to north. The reason for this was to allow the visitor to experiance the fields for a longer amount of time in a syncromatic manner and also to provide a viewing relationship between Philadelphia and Camden.
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Specific activities were assigned to different strips. This allow for the master plan to function as a vegetable cultivator and also a public space park. The idea of walking and learning about different cultivation processes was important in the project.
BIOREMEDIATION: Is a process that uses microorganism to eat up pollutant. This natural process was explored in order to clean up the site and bioremediation zones were created in which this process would occur.
MASTER PLAN
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The projected lines that turned into an spatial grid serve to provide cultivation devices at diffrent point of the master plan. Irrigations, electricity , wind turbines and water facilies would run in the direction of these lines.
MASTER PLAN
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SECOND LEVEL
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1. Dry Process 2. Cold Assembly 3. Refrigeration 4. Storage 5. Washing 6. Oven Aera 7. Mechanical 8. Bathroom 9. Elevator 10. Client service Area
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11. Agricultural Exhibition 12. Classrooms 13. Communal Education
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GROUND LEVEL
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Ground Floor Plan scale: 1/16”=1’-0”
GROUND LEVEL SCALE: 1/16”=1’-0”
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1. Hot Process 2 . Cold Process 3. Refrigeration room 4. Loading Dock 5. Mechanical Room 6. Bathrooms 7. Elevator 8. Art Exhibition 9. Resource Center 10. Parking 11.Loading Area
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12. Lobby 13. Demostration room 14. Agricultural Exhibition 15. Communal Education 16. Mechanical Room 17. Bathroom 19. Kitchen Exhibition 20. Bar 21. Outdoor Restaurant 22. Prep room 23. Mechanical room
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SECOND LEVEL SCALE: 1/16”=1’-0”
Three strips of programatic space linked by 2 fifteen foot wide corridors. The central space allows for circulation and acts a common point for the different programatic strips.
FLOOR PLANS
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that act as as amphitheaters. All views within each of the bars are strategically framed. A central corridor at the ground floor allow for clear circulation through the building.
RELATIONSHIPS
The restaurant bar links the two volumes though a ramping system that carries the HVIC system. The linkage of program at the Educational Bar occurs because linkage is the main exhibition space. The relationship between the FIC and the RESOURCE CENTER occurs at the top where two ramps take the circulation to the IC offices.
Mechanical
The design of the building relied on the idea of the pier projection and the relationship that the perimeter of the building should have to these projections. With this idea of creating a banding field, the original scheme of the building was to emulate the field banding into programatic banding d i s t r i b u t i o n .
3The main AMPHITHEATERS conceptual ideas is to create 3 main interior spaces
Private Dinning
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Demostration Room
Cold proces Art Exhibit
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Within each of the strips a central volumetric moment occurs in order to create a main exhibition space.The reason for this was to allow for the different program to have view of the exhibition space, in other words the exhibtion space would be the epicenter of each of the strips.
PROGRAM ANALYSIS
PRIVATE DINNING LOUNGE
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PROGRAMATIC SEQUENCE
The Cornell University architectuer building was used as a case study in order to understand the structure. A super truss system was utilized in order to allow for the volumes to cantiliever and project outwards toward Philadelhia and Candem.
STRUCTURAL FRAMING
HVAC SYSTEMS
Reemkoolhas uses a super framing truss system that has triangular columns that never meet at an specific point. This allows for the manipulation of this columns to accomodate various circulation p o i n t s .
DIAGRAMS
FLOOR SLABS
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1. Truss system is applied in order to catilive the main volumes out into the river and cultivation fields 2. The circulation band is covered by a roof that has two super trusses that run the whole lenght of the corridor. A series of angles run on top of the trusses in order to support the load of the roof decking.
3. The corrugated roof decking is applied, also walls and other systems in order to enclose the space. 4. A rain screen system is clamped to the exterior wall in order to conceptually follow the grid lines of the master plan, and also acts as a sun shade s y s t e m .
BUILDING SEQUENCE
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MORPHOSIS
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Five strips of program, ranging from restaurant, educational and food processing were designed. These three programmatic spaces were united by two corridors.
BUILDING SECTIONS
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SCALE: 1/8”=1’-0”
The building had to be raised up six feet from the ground due to high increase of tide on the Delaware River. This allowed for the building to project out landcape platforms that would join the ground througha ramping device.
The HVAC system was designed to run from one side of the building to the other. This system would run from the second floor slab providing air to the second and ground level. To do so the duct systems ran accross the the two ramping platforms.
BUILDING SECTIONS
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BUILDING SECTIONS
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WALL SECTION 1. Composite Decking system 2. Metal Deciking 3. Denseshield 3. Steel angle 4. Polycarbonate roof panel 5. Aluminum ties 6. Perforated Zinc mesh 7. Aluminum skeleton frame 8. Truss system 9. Steel angle
10. C-chanel 11. Aluminum base 12. Steel flashing 13. Steel mountings 14. HVAC system 15. Radiant floor system 16. Timber wood floor 17. Exterior glaze system 18. Piers
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RESTAURANT 1. Composite Decking system 2. Metal Deciking 3. Steel angle 4. Aluminum perforated ceiling mesh 5. Super Truss system 6. Mehcanical Duct 7. Truss Framing system 8. Timber floorboard 9. Interior glazing system 10. Exterior glazing system 11. Radiant Heating Tubing 12. Perforated rain screen system
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DINNING
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1. Composite Decking system 2. Metal Deciking 3. Steel angle 4. Aluminum perforated ceiling mesh 5. Super Truss system 6. Mehcanical Duct 7. Timber floorboard 8. Interior glazing system 9. Exterior glazing system 10. Radiant Heating Tubing 11. Perforated rain screen system
3D SECTIONS
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1. Super Truss system 2. Metal Deciking 3. Custom Steel Truss 4. Steel Angel 5. Waterproof Timber floorboard 6. Platform 7. Perforated Ceiling component 8. Truss System 9. Interior timber floor 10. Composite Decking sytem
FIC/EDU
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1. Composite Decking system 2. Metal Deciking 3. Steel angle 4. Aluminum perforated ceiling mesh 5. Super Truss system 6. Timber floorboard 7. IExterior glazing system 8. Perforated rain screen system 9. Steel truss sysytem 10. Interior glazing sytem
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RESOURCE 1. Composite Decking system 2. Metal Deciking 3. Steel angle 4. Aluminum perforated ceiling mesh 5. Super Truss system 6. Timber floorboard 7. IExterior glazing system 8. Perforated rain screen system 9. Steel truss sysytem 10. Interior glazing sytem
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WALL SECTION
INTERIOR SPACE
It was important for the building to read as part of the generated grid pattern obtained by the projection of the piers. The landscape features of the building are platforms that ramp down to the ground. There is a common point of circulation accross the strips at the same elevation.
EXTERIOR SPACE
One of the corridors ramps all the way down to the ground and becomes a stair that circulates people from the ground to the green roof. While this procession occurs the visitor will be able to obser the library through and the main exhibition space through a curtain glass system.
EXTERIOR SPACE
PHYSICAL MODEL