Rafi Haikal Portfolio (2016-2021)
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01 THESIS PROJECT Spaces of Affordance mediates the tension of identities created by a difference in gender, faith, and culture through nodes that appreciate rather than appropriate identities. Affordance in architecture explores how the atmosphere, form, and ergonomics of a space accommodate the individual’s polarising identity rather than its program. These spaces create a safe environment for non-normative identities, such as those historically displaced by the Dutch colonies,
socially displaced by the dominant Islamic faith, and economically displaced by poverty. Breaking down identity into gender, faith, and culture makes it a driving programmatic factor in developing these nodes. Applying traditional Indonesian vernacular architecture as structural and organizational aspects allows for a familiar approach to introducing Spaces of Affordance in Indonesia’s very conservative fabric.
Instructor: Prof. Deborah Gans Prof. Lawrence Blough Studio
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02 MODULAR HOUSING . A housing studio focused on bringing in a residential typology into the urban scape of Brooklyn, New York. This modular housing project combines the exuberant and compact architecture of the city with programmatic values based on a foreign perspective. This project is an attempt to highlight my adaptation to the spaces I was given during my transition from Indonesia to New York City.
Important aspects of this modular housing include two unique programs that anchor the living nodes. Each apartment is designated its own prayer quadrant, a concept very familiar to Indonesia, as well as a green space, which acts as both a facade and small indoor garden. These spaces are very reminiscent of a home in Indonesia and were the spaces I found lacking in the city's housing fabric.
Instructor: Prof. Deborah Gans Prof. Jim Garrison
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06 SEA PORT LABRATORY The goal for this studio is to create a futuristic, yet realistic architecture that utilizes and cleanses the ocean. Having the ability to choose our own marine site, my partner and I researched a zone that is high in traffic and volatile in movement. Choosing such an extreme site gives us the opportunity to work with specific restrictions that create programmatic opportunities, which ultimately strengthen our architecture.
The condition of the site allows for a unique base to support our laboratory, as the extreme wave patterns make it a perfect site to hybridize a typical oil rig base with a dynamic tidal power dam. The high traffic site also allows us to create a new port that alleviates the shores from this pressure and allows the coastline to rehabilitate. The two resistances work together to promote efficiency and a self sustaining laboratory.
Instructor: Prof. Christian Lynch Prof. Reese Campbell
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03 BOATHOUSE . Sensitivity in architecture is often only seen within its interior spaces but rarely in site interaction. Recent modern architecture has shifted to a form that respects the site as much as the occupants. The main program calls for a large amount of exterior space which adds a layer of exterior resistance.
The Boathouse is designed to have all the spaces—especially the shed that contains the rowing boats—as compact as possible so that it respects the greenery of the site while maintaining a transparent and airy building to respect the visual connections of the architecture and the site.
Instructor: Prof. Dan Bucsescu Partner: Benny Deng
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05 LIBRARY This project calls for a public library set in the urban center of Chinatown, New York. The exuberant quadrant of the city fabric creates its own identity where the city, architecture, and cultural heritage merge into a single entity. The library utilizes amorphis forms that create a fluid space that further blurs the displacement.
. Using the relationship of wax and water as the core inspiration for the architecture, the design embraces fluid-like motion, further emphasized as occupants circulate the space. Here, the directionality of a typical library is removed and is faded by the amorphis spaces within the architecture as well as on the exterior. The library mimics the movement of water flowing and carving out solid wax.
Instructor: Prof. Rychiee Espinosa
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Rafi Haikal Portfolio (2016-2021)
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