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ATH LETIC
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The athletic centre is examined for its ability to engage with issues of enclosure versus exposure, both at the level of p r o g ra m a n d i n t e r m s o f i n s t i t u t i o n ’s e n g a g e m e n t w i t h t h e n e i g h b o u r h o o d . T h e p r o j e c t e x p l o r e s t h e p o s s i b i l i t y t h a t its basic programmatic imperative, to shelter practice facilities for the sports of table tennis, water polo, diving, h a n d b a l l , t a e k w o n d o , a n d a r c h e r y, m i g h t b e p o s i t i o n e d t o r e i n v i g o r a t e d e p r e c i a t e d a s p e c t s o f i t s u r b a n c o n t e x t .
SECTIONAL OVERLAP
S O L I D / V O I D I N T E R P L AY
SITE PLAN
The entrance and the public reception and cafe areas are placed to the rear of the site, encouraging public engagement
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T h e b u i l d i n g ’s m a i n m a s s i n g i s l i f te d a b ove t h e g ro u n d level, where it pulls in to allow open public space and views through the hilltop site to the cityscape beyond. MASSING MODELS
The relationship between voids and enclosing elements explored in the conceptual models is reduced to a continuous planar condition, migrating through t h e a r c h i t e c t u r e a s w a l l , s t a i r, s e a t i n g .
This single entity serves to delineate discrete spaces of enclosure while opening in strategic breaks to allow for natural light and circulatory thresholds, at times as thin as a pane of glass, at others its poche deep and impregnated with embedded program
TRANSVERSE SECTION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
STRUCTURAL CONCEPT MODEL
The structure is conceived as a series of trussed boxes housing specific programs supported by a massive folding wall
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BUNKER HILL
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MEAD STREET
BUNKER HILL
SECOND PLAN
FINAL MODEL
FINAL MODEL
D I S S O LV E / C O M P O S E
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Allen
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text
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Krier
The project emerges from debate concerning recent plans to demolish a row of historic buildings and a 2 0 0 0 - s e a t t h e a t r e o n To r o n t o ’s K i n g S t . , r e p l a c i n g t h e m w i t h t h r e e 8 0 - s t o r e y t o w e r s d e s i g n e d b y F r a n k G e h r y. W h i l e G e h r y ’s a r c h i t e c t u r e i s v i s u a l l y d a r i n g , i t s fo o tprint plugs neatly into the existing street grid. We feel that this moment represents a critical opportunity to go further in questioning the very basis of the a r e a ’s u r b a n f o r m . To t h i s e n d , o u r p r o j e c t u s e s t h e components of the Gehry proposal and those of the e x i s t i n g n e i g h b o u r h o o d , r e s p e c t i v e l y, t o i n v e s t i g a t e a series of hypothetical arrangements of public and priv a t e s p a c e , a c c o m p a n i e d b y e x c e r p t s f r o m L e o n K r i e r.
Proposed towers in existing neighbourhood
A city’s plan is good or bad independently of the quality of its architecture
just the towers
break them down
recompose
just existing
stack them up
recompose To change the legislation of a city’s plan is to change a society’s life, to destroy its very foundation.
These photos all have the same amount of buildings. They show what a city is and when it ceases to exist.
They allow us to examine the correct relationship of buildings to public space.
A complex agglomeration of buildings is not necessarily a city.
Too little public space is a false economy. Too much public space is a false luxury.
N A PA VA L L E Y W I N E R Y
with Suhaib Arnaoot
S i t u a t e d a t t h e m e e t i n g o f t h e M a y a c a m a s M o u n t a i n r a n g e a n d t h e w i n e - g r o w i n g f l a t l a n d s o f N a p a Va l l e y, the project articulates the dual topographies of this transitional zone.
Production Presentation
optimised programmatic circulation
creation of internal courtyards
creation of entrance corridor and double-height overlap spaces
edges sloped to provide access to rooftop public space
Storage Store Dining
integration of winery with site topography
submergion of climatesensitive functions
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This analysis of Herzog & De Meur o n ’s 2 0 0 4 C o t t b u s L i b ra r y i s fo c u s e d on the relatioships established between interior elements of the library and its amoeba-like envelope. While the cylindrical staircores lend themselves to a tangential position with the exterior curves, the orthogonal system of shelves cannot be os seamlessly integrated. An alternate logic of rectilinear cuts through the plan is imposed, creating double-height spaces to which the shelves are instead oriented.
// DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACE // STAIR CORES
// SHELVES ALIGNED WITH DOUBLE HEIGHT
// SHELF ORGANISATION
The analysis of perimeter to interior is finally extended to a formative sequence, whereby a hypothetical original perimeter is deformed by the attractive influence of the stair cores to generate the actual form. The drawing uses the depthless standard of axonometric projection as a means of representing the collapse of transformative sequence into a single image.
Periphrasis House
The task: a transfiguration of the cinematic world of an assigned film onto an urban infill site.
One aspect of Avatar is to be extracted and channeled into the conceptual framework of a residence for five.
The film is split between conditions of:
r i g i d i t y, r e s t r a i n t , d i v i s i o n
liberation, vista, communality
These polarities are communicated by vertiginous trajectories through tunnels of light
This is translated into a programmatic division between a series of private pods, heavily regimented by function, and a communal living space on a continuous floorplate.
A network of bridges spans the rift separating the two systems, articulating the transition between spatial paradigms.
Commercial Single-unit Residential Multi-unit Residential Institutional Religious Roads Bike Lanes Streetcar Stops
In its current configuration, the parkette is arranged as linear promenade, with benches and planting facing a largely bare surface. Though it abuts a major axis of pedest r i a n a c t i v i t y, t h e s i t e i t s e l f d o e s n o t e x p e r i e n c e v e r y m u c h t h r o u g h t r a f f i c , a n d s o t o s u c c e e d a s a p u b l i c s p a c e I a r g u e i t m u s t i n s t e a d b e a t t r a c t i v e a s a p l a c e o f r e s t .
T h e b u i l d i n g ’s m a s s i n g i s u s e d t o d e l i n e a t e t h e s i t e , w h i l e p l a n t i n g i s a r ra n g e d i n s u c c e s s i v e l a y e r s to mediate circulation through the park.
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T h e h o u s e ’s fo r m i s g e n e ra te d t h ro u g h a p ro c e s s o f a n a l y t i c elaboration rather than synthesis, analogous to the grammatical device of periphrasis.
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