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Architecture is the art of resolving a human need using content, form, and experience.
RIJAD R. HELDIC Selected Works 2012-2015 Master of Architecture (M.Arch) University of Tennessee Knoxville
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GARDEN PATH WELCOME CENTER KNOXVILLE, TN Botanical Garden Development
the senses 16-29
THE NEST LEARNING PAVILION, KNOXVILLE, TN Botanical Garden Development
communities 30-35
APPALACHIA MULTI-GENERATIONAL LIVING Appalachia Housing Initiative
CLAY COUNTY, KY
urban integration 36-51
LEAP COLLABORATIVE PARK KNOXVILLE, TN AIA Middle Tennessee Competition
sustainable design 52-57
GO HOUSE WASHINGTON D.C. P3 People, Planet, and Prosperity Competition
cultural identity 58-63
COMMUNITY PARK BOWLING GREEN, KY Thesis Development
an artifact 64-79
OLD WOOLEN MILL - SOUTH BUILDING Cleveland, TN Initiative
CLEVELAND, TN
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garden path
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welcome center
SPRING 2013
PROFESSOR: JAMES ROSE, AIA CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LOCATION: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE BOTANICAL GARDENS
NEED: A Welcome Center at the entry point of the University Gardens that would become an essential part of the UT Garden experience, while housing several programmatic spaces necessary for furthering the Garden’s purposes of Research, Education, and Outreach.
RESOLVE: The 10,000 sq. ft. facility became an extension of the organic garden pathways within the Botanical site. The formal qualities are directional as they guide visitors to points of interest, while simultaneously expressing the programmatic hierarchy of the Garden’s three main pillars: Research, Education, and Outreach. The overall design is responsive to the context on all four sides and stands as a sculpture compliment to the content and surroundings.
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The front entrance colonnade gives the Welcome Center a horizontal reading, it is a responsive design feature to the large open space across the street. The colonnade interconnects with the existing weaving walls to establish a seamless connection. The large round towers are equipped with metal perforated shading to control the amount of direct sunlight.
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Programmatic Organization
Auditorium Conservatory Adult Classrooms Children’s Classrooms Multi-Purpose Rooms Administration Gift Shop
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Full-Service Kitchen On-The-Go-Cafe Courtyard Dock and Storage Mechanical Family Restrooms Lounge Space
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The floor plan is a fluid, but structured design. The transition between a hard edge, street and neighboring buildings, to the soft edges of the garden are transparent in the experience and form. The service rooms are centrally located for convenience and act as a deteriorating garden wall.
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Green Roof System with Sky Lights The dual layered roofing system has over 60 percent vegetated roof cover, the remaining area is occupied with round sky lights to provide the common area with natural light. The point at which the two roofs meet is emphasized with the garden path contour.
Perforated Metal Shading Facade The large glass towers, which are dedicated to the programs most important spaces are equipped with perforated metal shading. These shading features decrease the amount of direct sunlight entering into the space that could make inhabitants uncomfortable or harm vegetated life.
Entrance Colonnade The front entrance colonnade responds to the wide open green space across the street. It gives the entire building a commanding presence and gives a visual bridge between the preexisting buildings and the garden.
Research Conservatory Colonnade
Welcome Desk
Auditorium
This building section highlights the two largest programmatic spaces within the building: Conservatory and Auditorium. This view also gives us the vertical hierarchy expressed with the forms and how the transitional common area is given a homogenized treatment.
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Program and Concept
Served and Servant
This set of diagrams begins with a programmatic block, which represents the total foot print required to accommodate the client’s spatial needs. The next sets of diagrams apply the concept of a garden path through the building and identify programmatic hierarchy with formal cues.
These diagrams identify the noninvasive blending between mechanical, storage, and bathrooms with activity zones. The diagram also shows the desire to penetrate through servant spaces to create fluid circulation.
New Courtyard
Administration Lounge Space
Children’s Classroom Welcome Desk
This building section gives a total view of the stepping stone hierarchy between the organic towers. This view also gives a greater understanding between the quality of transitioning among outdoor, indoor, and tower spaces.
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Formal Responsiveness
Spatial Interconnectivity
This set of diagrams addresses the formal responsiveness to the garden nodes and site circulation. During this stage, the open areas are subdivided and arranged for programmatic needs.
These diagrams reinforce the spatial qualities created with the formal arrangement. The first, highlights the continuous flow between building and site, while the second diagram addresses the pockets of interior gathering spaces created throughout the common zone.
This perspective captures the newly created courtyard that bridges the Welcome Center with the existing campus buildings. Tree planters are elevated to create bench seating with large natural canopies to provide sun shading.
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This view from the Botanical Garden’s captures the fluid and interesting forms of the center. The buildings is fully transformed to a responsive and organic sculpture as visitors experience the garden path.
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SPRING 2013
PROFESSOR: JAMES ROSE, AIA COLLABORATION: WHITNEY MANAHAN CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LOCATION: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE BOTANICAL GARDENS
NEED: A children’s learning pavilion situated deep within the University Botanical Gardens that would serve as the center stage for furthering the Garden’s purposes of Education and Outreach.
RESOLVE: The learning pavilion design incorporates a bird’s nest aesthetic, while rescaling its concept of nurture and development into a human experience. The sculptural qualities of a nest have been retained to create a non-invasive organic extension of its environment, while providing habitable space for program. The Nest pavilion site design provides curved bench seating and other amenities to seamlessly blend the overall context together.
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Outer Skin
Protective Membrane
Inner Skin
Structural Skeleton
Ground Connection
Spatial Organization
Structural Grid
Concept Sketches showcase the layering system embedded with materiality, organization, and experience. These initial ideas were inspired by on-site observations and collaborative design.
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The Nest Pavilion provides a stage for various programmatic uses. The spatial organization, orientation, materiality, and aesthetics combine to create a sculptural element within the garden.
20 Exterior Wood Slat System This slat system is implemented to abstract the Nest aesthetic. Small gaps within the system allow light to penetrate the interior space. The slats are aligned with equal spacing to give balance and order to a typically hectic overlapping layering method.
Central Fabric Membrane A tensile fabric membrane is placed over top the glulam structural skeleton and in between the inner and outer slat systems. This discrete method is implemented to allow the habitable space to be occupied during various weather conditions, without disturbing daylighting and material qualities.
Glulam Structural System Glulam beams provide a durable and strong structural skeleton for the formal qualities expressed within the design. The beams themselves posses wonderful aesthetics and serve a complimentary simplicity that mirrors a natural nest.
Interior Wood Slat System The interior slat system plays an important role in creating a fluid transition between the exterior visual anticipation and the interior experience. Interior gaps provide places for daylight penetration and artificial lighting.
Spatial Organization The spatial lay-out is open and flexible for various uses. A hidden storage element provides a utilitarian application without disrupting the interior and exterior experience.
Concrete Slab Flooring The slab creates a stage-like setting for the pavilion and its inhabitants. The slab also establishes a heightened sense of sound during the transition between a hard and soft surface.
Concrete Sleeve Footing The footing requires a wide footprint to allow for the glulam weight and strain during use.
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The Nest Pavilion site plan incorporates the visual and spatial qualities of its surroundings. The pavilion orientation allows for an interesting daylight experience along with focusing visitors towards other garden nodes. The yellow radial identifies the sun path around the site, while the grey radials emphasize important observational views.
22 2”x2” wood slats at 4”-6” o.c. PTFE fabric-tensile membrane 2”x8” intermediate bracing at 4’ o.c. 2”x8” sampson strong-tie hanger 18” deep glulam 3- point arch at 4’ o.c. 2”x8” sampson strong-tie hanger metal plate bracing at glulam connection moments 2”x2” wood slats at 4”-6” o.c. 10” deep glulam arch secondary member
A1. Glulam + Intermediate Connections
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2”x2” wood slats at 4”-6” o.c. 10” deep glulam arch secondary member 18” deep glulam 3-point arch tapering to 10” deep at foundation bracing 2”x2” wood slats at 4”-6” o.c. PTFE fabric-tensile membrane metal plate bracing at foundation foundation anchor bolts gravel in-fill and ground cover isolation joint placed between slabs and foundation sleeve walls 6” concrete slab with 4” gravel in-fill and rebar foundation drainage 10” wide concrete foundation sleeve wall 4’6” concrete spread footing with rebar combined (3’ single footing width)
A2. Footing + Glulam Connections
23 5" screws 3" screws 2"x2" wood slats at 4"-6" o.c. 2 1/4” wide metal plate 2” wide rubber gasket PTFE fabric-tensile membrane with edge pipe 2” wide rubber gasket 4” wide glulam 3-point arch member at 4’ o.c. 2”x8” intermediate bracing at 4’ o.c. 2”x8” sampson strong-tie hanger
B1. Membrane Connections
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2"x2" wood slats PTFE fabric-tensile membrane with edge pipe 5" screws 2 1/4" wide metal plate 2" wide rubber gasket top and bottom 2"x8" intermediate bracing at 4' o.c. 2"x8" sampson strong-tie hanger 4" wide glulam 3-point arch member at 4' o.c. 4" screws 2"x2" wood slats
B2. Layer Connections
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Spring + Summer
Fall Season
Winter Season
The application of vegetation, specifically Virginia creeper, allows the Nest to respond to seasonal changes and act as a responsive sculptural piece.
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The Nest Pavilion site is outlined with winding gabion benches and an exterior kitchen. These utilitarian applications allow this sculptural piece to be a fully functional site. The ground cover also varies between a hard concrete surface, crunchy gravel, and soft grass, which provide interesting transitional sound sensations as an individual moves throughout the garden.
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Hydrology + Form
Air Circulation
Structure + Order
These sets of diagrams highlight the functional resolve within the formal qualities. It was important that each formal cue had a functional and experiential purpose.
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This view expresses the natural simplicity and blending qualities between the pavilion and the garden environment. The rear opening of the pavilion allows users to travel uninterrupted around the entire site, but also frames an existing sculptural node within the gardens.
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This night rendering of the Nest Pavilion showcases its value as a sculptural and functional beacon of activity. The pavilion is adjacent to a popular green way and vehicular road, the Nest’s lighting qualities highlight its potential as a symbol of nurture and safety.
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SPRING 2014
PROFESSOR: JOHN MCRAE AND DAVID MATTHEWS COLLABORATION: E. GRIFFIN, S. STEIN, E. PRICE CLIENT: RED BIRD MISSION AND APPALACHIA INITIATIVE LOCATION: CLAY COUNTY, KENTUCKY
NEED: The Appalachian initiative sought to bring multi-generational living to an under impoverished area within Clay County. Safe and reliable homes are a scarcity and this project took on the challenge of creating a new community within the constrains of flood susceptible terrain.
RESOLVE: The community is highly influenced by the cultural values within the Appalachian region. Land is distributed according to social order of hierarchy, with the church taking authority over residential dwellings. The homes are raised above the flood zone level and are interconnected with a boardwalk. The dwellings and pathways mirror the land contours to give a continues reference to the land. A bridge over the adjacent river crosses into the Red Bird Mission complex.
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Development Site The site is highly constrained due to flood zone encroachment, flooding from run off and river overflow, sink holes, and large amounts of elevational changes. However, it is also within a close proximity of scarce developments within the Clay County area.
River and Flooding The river on the site is an important design feature and a great constraint. The Flooding that comes from the river is dangerous for any construction project, however, the river and its water play an important symbolic role for the mountain communities. The topography of the terrain will become a key design element.
Marsh land, high ground Dry area Hillside run of flooding Sink Hole FEMA 100 year flood zone Current site entry Development Site River
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The overall site is highly influenced by its flooding characteristics, topographical changes, and pre-existing community buildings. This Appalachian community design connects existing pathways with a pedestrian bridge over the river, a boardwalk, which resolves flooding dangers and elevation changes, and a central pond to build on the cultural relationship with water.
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This rendering showcases the intimate setting visitors and home owners would experience during their journey towards church. The stone path outlines the religious influence throughout the community as it transforms into the church entry tower. This view also gives an overall understanding of topographical hierarchy, flooding resolve, site circulation, and multi-generational living.
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FALL 2014
PROFESSOR: WILLIAM MARTELLA, AIA COLLABORATION: IRENE CHANG CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, LEAP COLLABORATIVE GROUP LOCATION: DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
NEED: LEAP Collaborative is a sustainable consulting firm consisting of architects, engineers, landscape architects, and city planners. The firm is relocating its headquarters to Knoxville, TN and the owners are asking for an environmentally-friendly design project that can best represent the discipline of the firm.
RESOLVE: The site plan identifies the opportunity for internal connectivity between adjacent streets, this urbanistic mentality translated into the building taking it’s trapezoidal shape and creating a constant dialogue with inhabitants. Three elements the design achieves: create a space in which sustainable building methods are on display within the Knoxville community, a courtyard and kiosk that ties the pedestrians and office workers into a single community, and an exterior application of perforated metal sun shading and push out windows to capture and represent solar control. COMPETITION: Middle Tennessee, AIA - Participant
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Parti This diagram identifies the major moves within the design: the trapezoid park shape to direct circulation towards adjacent street-scapes as well as the positioning of service cores at the outer edges of the site to create an inward focus space.
Circulation + Geometry This diagram identifies the major moves within the design: the trapezoid park shape to direct circulation towards adjacent street-scapes as well as the positioning of service cores at the outer edges of the site to create an inward focus space.
Visibility + Exposure The buildings are situated and oriented to maximize pedestrian interaction. The main facades are inwardly focused towards the central park space to create a continuous dialogue between buildings and inhabitants.
The project design recognized its urbanistic potential to create a dialogue with the existing fabric to improve pedestrian experience.
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This entrance rendering is taken from the main road and highlights the inviting characteristics of the design. The proportional balance between building heights to correspond with context is enhanced by the soft, vertical, and colorful trees placed in an organized pattern inside the location’s pocket park.
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Sun Tracking 8:00 am Morning light is broken down by the metal perforated screen. The secondary retail spaces provide morning shade within the courtyard and shopping lanes.
Sun Tracking at Noon Noon orientation illuminates the LEAP Park central zone. During this part of the day much of the shading will be provided by the interior trees.
Sun Tracking 4:00 pm Afternoon light is blocked by the tall neighboring building, which allows the LEAP complex to go through a natural cooling process.
Urban Fabric This diagram highlights the scale and proportion development of the LEAP Park complex. The neighboring context is used as a primary guideline for scale and orientation to create an extension of the existing fabric.
Positioning of the project involved a greater understanding of natural day lighting for pleasant experiences within the buildings interior and outdoor spaces.
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The interior courtyard is a vibrant space, which allows employees and pedestrians to intermingle. The kiosk, retail stores, and restaurants direct their attention internally placing hierarchy toward the gathering space. Multiple seating options, programmatic opportunities, and communal transparency, makes this an enjoyable location within downtown Knoxville.
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The lobby serves as not only a vacuum for foot traffic, but also as a display area, which allows the LEAP company to highlight their work. The lower level Collaborative Lab bridges the art of ‘work in progress’ with ‘finished products,’ giving the observer an inside view of the process.
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The lab picture above is a transparent ‘work in progress’ connecting the pedestrian. The interior highlights the open-work flow concept among all LEAP sectors. The facade is also shown with its perforated skin - balancing natural light. Work stations are open for collaboration and with separate lounge spaces.
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The atrium space creates a vertical dialogue between floors while the furniture selection shows a free-roaming space allowing for unlimited collaboration opportunities.
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Perforated Metal Panel Serves as a Solar membrane to control glazing and natural lighting intensity. The perforated holes create interesting light patterns along with giving a natural dayclock.
Service Catwalk A hidden building necessity for proper maintenance. It also serves as a structural bridge between building and screen.
Metal Bracing Exterior metal bracing connected to the catwalk and metal panels create an interesting dialogue to the observer and interior inhabitant.
Acoustical Ceiling Conference rooms and managerial offices have dropped acoustical ceilings to provide sound privacy.
Spatial Organization The spatial lay-out is open and flexible for various uses. The level of connectivity, open lay out, and organization showcases the functionalities of each floor.
Fiber Reinforced Concrete Panels For increased structural integrity and a robust/solid canvas aesthetic. The building materiality communicates a canvas, which gives the green systems hierarchy.
Preserving Urban Surface The parking spaces are placed underground in order to preserve expensive above ground terrain. By removing vehicles from the scene a greater connection is created between pedestrian and building/park.
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This sectional elevation clearly outlines the regulating lines pulled from the urban context. The small scale buildings on the left compared to the 9-story building to the right - the LEAP Park reflects, but also creates a new identity.
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LEAP PARK - Collaborative Complex
LEAP Park precedents: Hideo Sasaki’s Greenacre Park Renzo Piano’s Beyeler Museum Morphosis’ San Francisco Federal Building
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Knoxville Downtown urban fabric.
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go house
SPRING 2014
PROFESSOR: TED SHELTON, AIA COLLABORATION: P. ATTEA, A. HATCHER, M. IDEN, E. KELLER, W. KESSEL, N. POOR, A. REED, T. RASNAKE, S. SUGIYAMA, S. WHITMORE, M. WRIGHT CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESEE, ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY LOCATION: APPALACHIA REGION
NEED: The project parameters required an innovative design to increase material efficiency, environmental preservation, and civilian prosperity. The design team selected the poverty affected areas of Appalachia to simultaneously address the abundance, but ineffective us of green oak centers as a building material and the need of economic housing.
RESOLVE: The design team developed and tested various forms of green oak connections in order to achieve structural integrities. The team created prototype models to enhance construction consistency, while preserving the ability to customize for individual family needs. The “GO House” is the product of our tests and aesthetic perspectives. The GO House is currently under further testing, but may be the answer for thousands of people.
COMPETITION: Environmental Protection Agency P3 - Person, Place and Planet, Washington D.C. - Winner $90,000.00
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2:1 2 to 1 growth to removal total volume of hardwood in region
White Oak
Querus Alba
Heart Center
Cant within milled White Oak Log with industry standard log cutting lay out. 40” 7”
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The “heart centers” of hardwood logs are an exception to the efficient use of this resource. Because this wood has defects that limit its usefulness for traditional dry lumber products, this portion of the log is routinely sold green (un-dried) as “cants” used to manufacture shipping pallets – an extremely low-grade use for such an otherwise highly desirable resource.
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SAMPLE A This trunk is not pre-cut. Fissure developed along the shortest line between the heart and the bark. This is caused by tangential shrinkage. SAMPLE B Pre-cut was done along the X line, which is the longest line from the heart to the bark. This caused fissure to open along the X line. This shows that strategic pre-cutting can induce major fissure to occur on the visually insignificant side.
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Connections The conclusions drawn from the test frames were that metal fastening systems [A] would prove to rigid for a shrinking frame, and traditional mortise and tenon joints [B] were too labor intensive based on our criteria. The pegged lap joint [C] would prove to be the joint most accommodating to movement and least time consuming to assemble.
SAMPLE E Samples C,D,and E demonstrate the effects of removing of the center as a technique to minimize fissure reaching to the bark. The size of the holes get bigger from top to bottom. SAMPLE F Another demonstration of fissure along the shortest line from the heart to the exposed surface. Distortion is visible.
[B] Traditional mortise and tenon [A]
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[C] Half lap joint with wooden peg
Natural movement is a result in the drying process, but proves a challenge when considering a building’s structural system. The components of the structural system must be oriented strategically to take advantage of the direction of wood to reach higher degrees of stability. This orientation must be considered when considering an overall system as well as when designing each particular joint.
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These bents can be arranged in any desirable 8’x8’ configuration to establish a building skeleton and footprint; the heights of the bents can vary from 10’ to 16’ tall to provide a wide range of desirable space configurations depending on the clients preferences and budget.
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Bent Arrangement Combinations
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The dimensions of the bent are adapted to the requirements for interstate transportation and combined with techniques in flat packing the possibility of off site fabrication can be adopted for optimal budget savings. Because these bents are self stabilizing, assembly of the major components is possible with a mobile truck crane and a small crew of three to four.
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PROFESSORS: MARLEEN DAVIS, JOHN MCRAE, GREGOR KALAS CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, BOSNIAN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY LOCATION: BOSNIAN ISLAMIC CENTER BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY
NEED: Initially approached by the Bosnian Islamic Center, the scope of the project asked for the placement of activity spaces at the Islamic Center. The community leaders needed to reactivate the space to give younger generations a desire to visit the area besides prayer times.
RESOLVE: The project evolved, through the surprise of the client, into a large scale park that branched the journey between the Mosque (God) and Mezari (death). The lifeline between were the activities and experiences created by the members of the community, ranging from children playgrounds all the way to senior gardening. The Community Park’s perspective was to bridge generational assimilation by placing members each generation in the same place in hope of preserving and transplanting cultural values. All activities were strategically placed on map to correspond to noise, age, terrain, and axial relationships toward the mosque to create an undeniable connection towards Allah (God).
ABSTRACT: This project was part of a greater thesis study between Community + Design. The research was directed toward the preservation and transplantation of cultural identity for future generations within a new cultural system.
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1. Existing Site Conditions Property Lines Easements Indicated Sun Tracking Positioning of Existing Features Besides artificially created property lines, the area also faced topographical and hydrological challenges.
2. Orientation and Grid To establish order, balance, scale, and organization, an orientational grid is placed across the site. This grid system is inspired by the existing Mosque orientation and size along with traditional methods of Islamic architecture. By utilizing this grid system, an unbreakable bond between the Mosque and the program structure is created. The observer and user experience is heightened as the presence of the Mosque is emphasized and spread throughout the entire site.
3. Program Placement The program is placed in correspondence to the grid pattern, existing property lines, and easement conditions. Major Added Program includes: Children’s Playground Sand Volleyball Court Basketball Court (1/2 Size) Courtyard Pavilion (Grill, Bathrooms) Children’s Soccer Field Adult Soccer Field Table Tennis Parking Life Size Chess Flower Garden
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4. Connectivity The path creates a philosophical and physical connection between the Mosque and Mezari. The path weaves around program and stitches the entire site together to bridge an uninterrupted experience. It acts as a representation of life’s journey and its two core elements -- God and Death. The Park is also designed to minimize the interaction between people and vehicles. An access road runs opposite of the pedestrian pathway to ensure safety during various parts of the day.
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6. Reinforce The vegetation on the site plays a strategic role in managing the water run-off from impermeable surfaces and other topographic areas.The plants also reinforce the grid system on the site, primarily around the adult soccer fields. The trees also provide layers of protection from ball-based recreational use such as the soccer fields and volleyball courts. The trees create a green-wall, which will help to prevent non-participants from being hit. The vegetation plays another important role in sound management. The trees act as buffer zones to help contain the noise from each recreational area.
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6. Program Intensity Program placement is based according to the intensity and frequency of use. This creates a balanced atmosphere in the park that contains sound and objects away from the Mosque and Gravesite (Mezari).
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Children’s Soccer Field 60 feet x 75 feet
Adult Soccer Field Access Road Parking
This allows vehicular access to the entire site.
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The circular paths are the same dimension as the copper dome on the Mosque to create a final reference between the starting and ending point.
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(Burial Site) Organized into a traditional/religious odd number of sections. Each tree and circular pathway allow for easy identification and accessibility to the burial site. Access roads allow older generations or vehicles to arrive at the gates.
This garden serves as an activation space for older generations of Bosnians. This garden allows senior generations to avoid being isolated at home, but instead spend their time gardening with friends and family. A secondary purpose of this garden is to continuously generate flowers for community members, which they can use to place on their friend’s and family’s Mezari, if they so choose.
The journey throughout the park has strong social, cultural, and religious context. The trees outlining the ‘path’ will be planted with the hands of the community members - each tree symbolizing a household with name tags. The trees, in their natural habitat, always adapting to their surroundings, represent the journey of the refugee families growing into their new roots.
Chess
A life-size chess set with 18 inch x 18 inch squares. This set creates a good bonding time for older and younger generations. This is a reference to a common European park feature.
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Pavilion
Equipped with Grill stations, ADA Restrooms, showers for members to bathe before prayer times and locker rooms.
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Courtyard
This is a traditional element of 47 feet x 50 feet Islamic architecture -- a courtyard or dvoriste acts as a gathering space. Here members can talk and relax prior to prayer times. The courtyard is also equipped with a water fountain that can be used to cleanse before prayer.
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SPRING 2015
PROFESSORS: TRICIA STUTH, AIA COLLABORATION: STUDIO CONTEXT STUDY CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, CITY OF CLEVELAND LOCATION: OLD WOOLEN MILL, CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE
NEED: The City of Cleveland was experiencing a social divide within its city grid along with a transitional phase its historical values. Cleveland has deep roots in the manufacturing sector and the Old Woolen Mill played a large role to shape this identity. Many years after it played the critical role of social and economic benchmark, it currently sits abandoned and purposeless.
RESOLVE: The concept of the building built on the cultural, social, and economic values the building/site once had brought to the city. A social and economic catalyst is the goal of the project, with the use of contemporary program inside an envelope of historical value. The idea was for the Mill to play the role it had played several years ago, but in a new light. Its centralized location will attract visitors and residents to bridge any gaps among them. To once again, bring economic and social relevance to the City of Cleveland.
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South Building
Connecting to Neighboring Buildings
The South Building is situated toward the southern end of Church Street. Across the street is a fire station and several small commercial properties. The South Building plays a vital role in the Church Street facade aesthetic and street response.
Year Built: 1905 Historical Main Mill Building Uses: Clothing Finishing, Carding, Cutting, and Cloth Storage Placed on National Register Buildings of HisConnecting to Neighboring V2 toric Places: April 2001
Neighboring Buildings The South Building is located between the large Middle Building and the Dye House. The Flat Iron or Incubator building is positioned directly behind the South Building.
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1. Middle Building will be designed for residential purposes. 2. Dye House is a future event space/banquet hall. 3. Flat Iron building will become an incubator or workshop space area.
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This diagram identifies the role of the circulation atrium towards the overall site circulation. Pedestrians are able to directly access various points on site, while experiencing a dramatically visual, symbolic, and social passage within the South Building. This design move has declared a tight bond with the development of Church Street, which is seen as the connection to the Cleveland community and experience.
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Map Key Old Woolen Mill Site
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Downtown Cleveland, TN Whirlpool/Maytag Industrial Sites Lee University
Prior to beginning the building design, a greater understanding of the building’s context in regards to physical, cultural, and social levels. The streets and zoning ordinances are shown in the above diagram, which influenced the project development. Specifically, the connector “Church Street,” which would act as the bridge among various points in city of Cleveland.
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Parti - Threshold The initial design move was the creation of an asymmetric void space or passageway to give pedestrian access from Church Street. The Old Woolen Mill spans for a long distance without public opportunity to bridge among spaces, the passageway serves as an interior street, welcoming social activity, while creating efficient circulation paths.
A Social Heartbeat This diagram shows the expansion of the passageway on a vertical plane. Visitors are given freedom to travel horizontally and vertically into dedicated social zones. Visitors from various programs are blended into a diverse social environment to create a powerful experience.
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The programmatic balance between social and private zones occurs on the vertical plane. As visitors travel upward, the program shifts from socially encouraged environments to more private zones. The ground level experiences the most amount of public traffic due to the passageway, restaurant, and bar; this is in complete contrast to the private rooms located on the third and fourth floors.
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The most important drawing of the project is the section cut through the atrium space. The image above, captures the ‘social heartbeat’ and context connectivity that results from the threshold parti. The historical wood structure and exterior brick walls preserved ad on display. The building vacuums Church Street pedestrians into its HUB and onward into the rest of the site.
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Programmatic Organization Level 1 Atrium Core Restaurant (shared) Bar and Lounge Hotel Check-In Gift Shop Cafe Restrooms
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The floor plan is a fluid, but structured design. The transition between a hard edge, street and neighboring buildings, to the soft edges of the transparent interiors. The atrium core acts as a bridge on both the x and y axis as it directs pedestrians to their destinations.
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South Building Branching 1. Event Space - shared restaurant dining space, bathrooms, and commercial kitchen. Interior walls open to remove any boundaries, allowing event guests or hotel visitors to move freely. 2. Incubator - this workshop/craft-making space is given a physical bridge connection on the second level along with a gallery space. Here the artists are able showcase their work and the Cleveland culture of ‘making.’ 3. The Middle Building and the South Building share an egress core. However, for future development, the design allows for a more emphasized connection to be established. 4. Elevator - this external elevator gives visitors a continues view and connection to the rest of the site. It also encourages other visitors to experience the South Building and its program.
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Resurfacing History An important element of the South Building design is the complete preservation and rehabilitation of the current building elements. The thick masonry walls, roof, and openings have all been incorporated into the design to assure the visitor an authentic experience. Any partitions added for programmatic use are treated as contemporary members. The beams, columns, and masonry features are on their prime display in the atrium space.
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The South Building provides programmatic, physical, and visual connections to its neighboring buildings and site. The floor plan design gives visitors the ability to transition between spaces without interruption.
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The exterior facade and its original openings have been preserved, but given a new sense of purpose. The interior structural parts, which are its unique DNA, remain, as the facade, benchmarks to the design. The building acts more than a destination, it is a catalyst for social experiences and conversations.
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Each public zone of the building has a direct line of sight toward the atrium core. This continues anchor-like perception, gives the atrium is hierarchical value. Upstairs lounges and cafe, gallery spaces, and even the transition lounges are all made of the same fabric, but offer individual experiences.
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Programmatic Organization Level 2 Atrium Core Gallery Bar and Lounge Wine/Canvas Classroom Art Store Transition Lounge Restrooms
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The fluidity of the plan is preserved on the second floor, but given another set of opportunities. The Incubator building, which is responsible for the ‘art of making’ has a pedestrian bridge connection, while the South building has a gallery space. The branching of pedestrian traffic has also programmatic benefits for a sense of a campus site instead of individualistic buildings.
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Encouraging Social Interactions This diagrammatic representation highlights circulation paths and their constant contact with social zones. This design move encourages visitors to the city to be introduced to current residents and employees. All tiers within the social structure are encouraged to conversations and experiences together. Internal and external bridges allow visitors to have uninterrupted visual cues towards social zones. The development of an external elevator welcomes people from other programmatic interests to the South Building and add to the social dynamic.
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Bridging Connections The South Building design has prominent bridges that span across floor-plates internally and even connect to the Flat Iron building. These physical connections create interesting moments for the person experiencing the walk as well as the observer. The bridges are situated in a way to maximize social connectivity through visual and social opportunities.
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The South Building design of social interaction is rooted in the historical bi-products of the factory -- the social network established between co-workers, managers, deliveries, and visitors, which may have nothing in common on a personal level, but share the bond of the building. This design concept builds on those ideals as a social catalysts.
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Programmatic Organization Level 3+4 Atrium Core ADA Private Rooms Typical Single Room Typical Double Room Family Suite Transition Lounge Conference Room
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The third level plan is becoming more structured and private. The hotel rooms offer variation, comfort, while containing the building DNA. Transitional lounge spaces offer look-out positions and a unique bridge that crosses the atrium gives visitors an over the top view of the atrium activity.
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Unique Loft Residential Areas These Unique spaces are equipped with a main level entertainment space and an upstairs suite. The rooms not only provide all the amenities needed to make a comfortable stay, they create a one-of-a-kind experience. Atrium Core Clerestory Suite Typical Clerestory Room
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The building’s clerestory level offers rustic beams, columns, and industrial connections. The clerestory views and aesthetics will make visitors find something special on every visit.
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Quality of Light Natural light is an important design characteristic. In the atrium space, light is used as a signifier for social gathering. As a visitor proceeds to more private areas, lighting is reduced to a more intimate setting. To maximize light, the atrium roof has been giving a glass makeover to give visitors crossing the bridges and on the ground floor the beauty of the natural sky and its light. This transparency also works in the other direction as artificial lighting during evening hours showcases a social factory that will attract more residents/visitors to the site.
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The building exterior remained preserved, but due to programmatic use and building code reinforcement, an elevator was needed to accommodate vertical transitions for ADA and visitor comfort. The elevator became an exterior feature, a difference facade, glass walls for complex outlook, and non-competing with the building’s nostalgia.
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The images above showcase the third and fourth level facilities: conference room, fitness, and the unique clerestory suites. The hotel accommodates guests in all areas, as a traditional hotel, with the indulgence of the building’s unique history and aesthetics.
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This rendering highlights the dance between interior and exterior perceptions of space. The green scape in the atrium, the clerestory lighting, and the pedestrian pathways, which merge and diverge from each other, all symbolize exterior characteristics. The interior sensations are the levels of comfort and space planning for social catalysts.
CONCLUSION
journey in life
+ a r c h i t e c t u r e A REFLECTION
BORN: BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (FORMER YUGOSLAVIA) YOUTH: STUTTGART AND KORNWESTHEIM, GERMANY TEENAGE - ADULT: BOWLING GREEN, KY - KNOXVILLE, NASHVILLE, TN, USA
An Architect. As we design, we not only search the context for answers, we also search ourselves. Our memories, challenges, and experiences influence our design process. Within each piece of work, we can find a layer of ourselves embedded within. My life experiences across continents and cultural barriers has not only shown me society’s complexity, but created a unique subconscious perspective. An Architect’s mind never stops dreaming. Our progress isn’t always tangible, it is the result of failed attempts -interetations that seem as solutions, only to be tossed aside moments later. Our minds are in a constant state of flux, solving spacial puzzles and tectonic dilemmas, while holding unrelated conversations. We go through our days hyper-actively observing sounds, lights, textures... door ways, means of egress, and material joints. We stress over things that most people would never think about. An Architect is an unwavering optimist. We study people. How they move, function, and live. We never judge, just study. It is our responsibility to progress society with the built environment and to do so we must understand it for what it is, in order to pursue what it can become. An Architect’s work is never finished. The bond between art and artist is that they always remain a work in progress. As society and environments evolve, we must do so ourselves. We remain vigilant students of this experiential art -- the buildings we build, build us. An Architect is fearless. We perceive boundaries as points of comfort -- we are attracted to edges. We establish perimeter lines and organization, but must hold courage to color outside of them. To relinquish static patterns of logic, with a moment of brilliance...or complete chaos.
With Love,
To my family, thank you for your unconditional love and support. To Neal, for your guidance and belief I remain forever grateful.
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