works of Rajesh Jose
Observation
Choreography
Activation
Research
Freehand
table of context
Location:
Wissahikon Forest- Philadelphia
Objective:
To provide diagrammatic representation of an existing site prior to design execution
Design:
Hiking into the deep woods of Wissahikon, a group of us, chose a unique site. Analyzing the space with just our hands and feet, we depicted various characteristics of the site including its natural hidden cave through a series of basic plan and sectional drawings
Code
Notation
Space Experiance
Literal Abstract Movement
Exaggeration Repetition
Extention
Light
What goes through the mind of an artist that combines single lines to create a drawing on a canvas? The placement of these lines in relation to each other is not simply art but a combination of reason, emotion, math, memory, history, and character, just as the words on this page are. Which one becomes the masterpiece?
Location:
The Fox Buisness School’s stairway- Philadelphia
Objective:
Design a choreography along a set of stairs and represent the movement through a set of drawings and models
Design:
Choosing simple basketball moves to coordinate the choreography, movements were represented in plan, section, and model form. The Choreography is as followed- dribble, crossover, spin, post-up, spin, punt fake, and fade away to take the shot
Location:
The Fox Buisness School’s main stairway- Philadelphia
Objective:
Design a choreography and observe how body extensions interacts with the surrounding space
Design:
As difficult as it was, extending body parts helped in developing the concept behind the final design. As function is, most of the time, the driving force for designing an area, an exploration of motion played a great role in the concept for design. A space that moves with its function creates an ever changing efficient form
Location: None
Objective:
Create a second layer for a body part in motion
Design:
Created a second skin based on the motion of making a fist
Location:
815 North Capitol Street- Philadelphia
Objective:
“Two sleeping areas, an area for bathing, area for eating, area for the preparation of meals, an area for relaxation, and an area for study. Using this information, you are to build a house that A) explore the relationships between these programmatic requirements as a method of helping you to determine B) the volumes needed and the organization of space�
Design:
For this Philadelphia row home, a formation of evolving diagrams through an analysis of public and private programs were first created. Through this, a new movement of circulation, public to private programs flowing from front to back was then created. Last, apertures were designed based on materiality analysis that ran accross the whole block
Location:
Fairmount Park- Philadelphia
Objective:
After carefully studing the site and the surrounding context create an appropriate and sustainable hotel
Design:
Designed for the homeless Philadelphia community, this hotel allows people with difficult living standards to come and restructure thier lives. The hotel design is derived from the living elements of the park in order to blend in and create a private sense of home
Location:
Philadelphia-Manayunk
Objective:
Create an urban design proposal to restructure the overflooding community of Manayunk
Design:
The concept of constructive disruption is the idea of disrupting the existing conditions to enhance the efficienty and play of water. For the city of Manayunk, a proposal for the return of the historical steams that run down the hills of Manayunk into the Schuylkill River is made. These streams would not only act as a control for the water flow downhill but also create moments of play with the water. By prolonging the flow of rainwater down to the Schuylkill River 1.) flooding along Main Street could be prevented and 2.) the water could be used for fun activities in the public realm. For Venice Island the restaurants, gym, salons, brewery, and cafe’s would expand towards the river in order to take advantage of the water and create their own products locally. Restaurants would grow their own plants, brewery’s would make their own beer, and the gym would filter their own water, all through the collection of water straight from the river.
Playing with simple materials in magnets, music wire, and medical tape I was able to experiment with skin forms created through the reaction of an exterior force arranged in different orders
Location:
Philadelphia- Pier 11
Objective:
Study a certain weather and relate it an architectural design for the public community
Design:
For my weather research I studied Geomagnetic Storms which occurs when a solar wind shock wave, caused by solar flares, strikes the earth’s magnetic field causing auroras. Destructive Beauty is the idea of creating enhancing architecture from destructive forces. A famous German philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “You must have chaos within you to give rise to a dancing star.” As the destructive dancers move, the exterior skin expands, allowing light to permeate the theatre, and is reshaped in accordance to the movements of each individual dancer. Music is composed of a range of layers such as beat, pitch, and tone and as a result the theater’s interior skin ungulates to each of these qualities, therefore enhancing the acoustics.
It is said that this Bernini’s sculpture, part of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi faces Borromini’s Architecture in disgust with its hand up as if the bad architecture is about to fall
The Statue of Giordano Bruno in Campo di Fiori faces the direction of the Vatican in judgment as he was executed by the church for his astronomical beliefs modern scientific ideas
Location:
Philadelphia- Northern Liberty
Objective:
Design a sustainable fitness center
Design:
For the initial study I looked into reflex and its unique properties. Designing a fitness center with active bodies inspired me to go even further into reflex and embed it into the architecture. So the main feature is its central ramp that spiral its way up through the program in attempt to encourage people to walk. Also with its ungulating skin, it allows temperture and sunlight to be controlled to human comfort.
Location:
Tyler School of Art Courtyard
Objective:
At the first Bauhaus school of art, the students were asked to make the furniture that would be used in the school. For this assignment we were asked to go around our school of art and create a needed piece of furniture Design: The courtyard in the Tyler school of Art is currently completely empty. The idea behind this design was to create a piece that could start to activate the courtyard with programs. With the south end facing a cafe and the east facing gallery space, I created a piece that could be activated when the cafe or gallery space was filled.
With the help of a couple of friends, I donated the piece to a local community group in northern Philadelphia called the village of the arts for the use of a bench in its main garden.
Location:
Pennsylvania- Bucks County
Objective:
Competing against the students in the top universities of Pennsylvania, the objective was to design a monastery for The Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance that seeks to explore the notions of spirituality, environmental stewardship, and energy neutrality
Design:
It is said that St. Benedict of Nursia (C.480-547) was so upset by the immorality of society in Rome that he gave up his studies there and chose the life of an ascetic monk in the pursuit of personal holiness. Living as a hermit, in isolation, he settled in a cave, also known as Sacro Speco near the rugged region of Subiaco. Setting as an example with his zeal, he began to attract followers. While the people of the monastery still follows the literal observance of the rule of St. Benedict this modern design allows them to continue that tradition in a more innovative space. The architecture is hidden within the sloped landscape to emphasize the separation from “the immorality of society�. The program utilizes the whole site in order to create a journey to the monastery. As you walk along the path, the history and religion of the monks are reveled and a better understanding for the practice can be acknowledged.