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MACRAME MACRAME TECTONICS TECTONICS
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TABLE TABLE OF OF CONTENTS CONTENTS
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MURPHY’S MURPHY’S CROSSING CROSSING
PEELS PEELS
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HOUSE^3 HOUSE^3 05.40m-08.10m p25-26 05.40m-08.10m
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RITUAL RITUAL ENSAMBLE ENSAMBLE 05.40m-08.10m 05.40m-08.10m p15-18
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WORK WORK AND AND PLAY PLAY
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00.50km 00.50km 00.50km
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KURGI KURGI OBSERVATION OBSERVATION p36 05.40m-08.10m 05.40m-08.10m
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NOMAS NOMAS DETROIT DETROIT 02.70m-05.40m p31-32 02.70m-05.40m
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CYCLICAL CYCLICAL COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES p37-38 05.40m-08.10m 05.40m-08.10m
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BWB BWB
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NOMAS NOMAS NY NY p39-40 05.40m-08.10m 05.40m-08.10m
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Line Choreography Professor: Athanassios Economou Beltline Supercharger FA_2020
playful nature of lines creating continous intersections that converge and diverge atmospheric sonder_eddy in time amongst the varying currents of [performers] The dissection of line one is the beginning and end of another -intersections of line create a territory or event horizon [above_inbetween_below] -implication of circulation through the layering of materiality upon territories to become both catalyst & audience
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Critic: Vernelle Noel FA_2019 Partner: Isabelle Williams
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Professor: Charles Rudolph Construction Tech 1 FA_2020
Materials: Laminated Veneer Lumber [LVL] sandblasted acrylic sheets steel tubes
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Martial Arts Dojo Atlanta, GA SP_2019 Critic: Julie Kim
edge condition condition edge
Nature as an instrument, palate cleansing throughout the in(s) and out(s) of a spatial procession.
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[Re]present Professor: Peter Pittman SPR_2019
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RULES: x9: 3x3” Poplar wood 3/4” Thick 3x3 grid [volumetric 16x16x16“] Poplar is spliced to 2x 3/8” Thick Miter Cube placement Connection: Spline+Dado Joint No Glue No addition/subtraction to original wood
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Murphy’s Crossing Perkins and Will Summer Mentorship Program SUM2021
Adjacent to the beltline and railway, how plug and play architecture re-purpose Atlanta’s historical former farmer market into an active hub of artists and life.
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2021 Venice Bienalle Open Call Competition [Finalist, 7th Place]
water as a catalyst for interaction
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Venice is a city that will inevitably be submerged as another treasure of the hidden world, due to the onset of climate change and being at the tipping point of a global phenomenon. finger joint intersecting point of wood blocks to the 1” thick acrylic panel establish a sense of timelessness within traditional Japanese tectonics. red highlights intersection points of connection
motion motion composite composite of of seasaw seasaw in in action action (traditional (traditional wood wood joinery joinery side) side)
How can we evoke this notion of the sea level rising as a result of climate change, and create symbolic metaphors that can garner awareness through reacting to changing environmental conditions. It isn't an aspect of "if" but "when" Venice will be submerged within the near century. The whole city is vulnerable to becoming engulfed as another hidden artifact beneath the depths of the sea - San Marcos square, a cultural center of Venice, succumbs to over 100 floods per year. Heights of the floods vary from 1 to 4 feet, and these numbers are to only rise further.
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Despite being a bench, our project responds adeptly to the situation. Activated during non-flood scenarios, it’s a gesture to repurposing and upcycling materials sourced from pavilions in the 2020 Venice biennale. Corresponding countries of Japan, UAE and Canada become a material mixing pot for an enriched palette of humble yet sustainable materials.
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From traditional Japanese house wood joinery, deconstructed into a structure encased within the transparent (acrylic) membrane of the bench, then fastened by steel studs. This materiality gradience is celebratory and further evoked by the structural feat of the balance beam; gradual but Is balanced on the pivot point of the bench which becomes activated in the event of flooding. If installed, the bench provides a romantic experience that forms a deeper connection with the rising issue of water. The very perception of a flood and the connotations in water in venice will have new meaning - and this bench is only one application. This design could be mass-applied to other flood spots, and we hope that this could give new life to Venice.
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While the bottom rectangle composed of 2500 clay bricks encased in an acrylic box ground it to earth, the buoyancy of the nested hollow acrylic unit provides over 5800 pounds of upthrust to the upper bench that rises seamlessly with the water levels. Thus the sea becomes the datum for activating the bench into a new persona, a see-saw like one. Once again, a flood arises, but this time instead of worrying, a playful element is born to celebrate this phenomenon and act as a final dance to the sinking ship, named Venice.
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Construction tech I Critic: Charles Rudolph FA_2020
Celebrating reinforced site caste concrete through an inception of scales of 3 pavilions: S M L.
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FA_2020 Nisshin Kyogo International Comp Collab: Song Zhang Reimagining a future that nourishes work with play.
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Meet Me By the East Side 2021 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition Location: Detroit, MI NOMAS GT Team: Daisy Acosta, Frank Ajanel, Song Zhang, Spica Liu, Niko Gulyamov, Christian Waweru FA_2021
Located just outside of downtown Detroit, the former site of the Brewster-Douglas Homes seems destined to fail. Physically disconnected from the surrounding environment and its resources through the construction of the adjacent highways, a site rich in culture was abandoned. Previously, known as the “Motor City,” Detroit is receiving recognition as the “Bike City” due to its implementation of Greenways--corridors of land intended to facilitate connections between places and people. Logistically, the existing Midtown Loop and Dequindre Cut would serve as points of connection for various modes of transportation including bikes, scooters, people, animals, and natural resources. Ultimately, the architectural design proposal aims to weave itself into the city’s infrastructural plans for the future of Detroit in order to create a fixed connection between the NOMA Legacy Headquarters and everything it represents.
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BWB Surf Shed Enviro Systems Project Location: Big Wave Bay, Hong kong SUM_2021
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Design Build Advisor: Tristan Al-Haddad, Jake Tompkins Team: GT Student Group
Will Reynolds, Caite Canfield, Ben Mayo, Chaz Clark, Christian Waweru, Katelyn Dimopoulos, Kathi Tran, Kymani Hall, Natalie Rose, Victoria Olaogun, Thoman Bray, Wes Byerly
Location: GT IC Building SPR_2020
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Bringing new life to wood harvested from Georgia Tech’s fallen trees.
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Kurgi Observation Tower Northern Latvian Biosphere Reserve FA_2019 Bee Breeders Observation Tower
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Cyclical Communities Atlanta Watersheds Studio Professor: George Johnston SPR_2021
Water is ever changing. “You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." -Bruce Lee
But while water may rest within the stable state of the container, a closer inspection reveals its dynamic liquidity. Water is constantly chasing a state of internal equilibrium. That is the principle of convectional fluidity. So, if we now reframe our site as the cup , how can we celebrate this quality of water, ever changing in a constant cycle within it? This proposal for a new Riverkeeper Community aims to activate the convectional fluidity of water across the site, both metaphorically and programmatically, in both public and domestic spheres.
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MI X E D US E C O M M E RC I A L R ESI D E N CI A L P U B LI C O TH E R ME T RO S TO P S
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NOMAS National Student Competition_NY GT_NOMAS FA_2019
Brooklyn, New York has a long-standing history of being an epicenter of culture and that continues to ring true in Flatbush. The area is known for its rich cultural diversity, particularly its West Indian influence. As of recent years, due to an exponential growth of population and opportunity, the city now faces huge demands for housing. This has caused an economic gap between its residents and their ability to maintain a domicile in the area.
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Therefore, The Terrace provides a home for all of the Flatbush community with roots and culture at the foundation. The Terrace provides public, residential, and commercial spaces that form urban theaters aiming to draw locals and residents to the fruitful identity embedded in Flatbush’s fabric. This is accomplished through the implementation of playgrounds, stoops and urban gardens which present a visibility to the entire project. Through this transparency visitors and residents are granted a view to all that takes place on the people’s stage.
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The residents of Flatbush constantly face the threat of being pushed out by new developments. With this in mind, the project creates a space that extends the community relationships made on the street and the stoop into the design. We intend to draw in the community of East Flatbush and begin building a stronger community relationship within. The Terrace says to the people of Flatbush, Come on in, you belong, you are home. N
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Open call: “Recreate Concrete Outdoor Picnic Furniture”, Public Space Design Competition
A beach is many things. A beach, the natural disaster/joy to people. A beach, the place in which garners and gathers rubbish. A beach, the hearth which supports dozens of ecosystems. A beach, the place where people go to perform watersports. But is a beach known for anything else, other than sandy shenanigans, and burnt flashbacks?
Tide Wave Bay, CA, USA _proposal
It is peculiar, for decades, the picnic has so much been widely accepted as properly performed where it is situated at a scenic park with grass, people beside to converse with, and often a form of typical activity to accompany.
With such perilous times ahead of us, and the doubt manifested by covid in our future’s possibilities to be able to experience what could be deemed “normality” in a picnic, we have decided it is time to question: In this new day and age, how can we define a picnic?
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Our furniture our rocks on a beach, unbeknownst to the naked eye, they are designed as so to blend with the beautiful shifting sand that is the architectural fabric. They are movable via interactions of force, to best suit and adjust to the user’s needs, whether it be gatherings, or private times. They are a constitution in which facilitates an entire experience. Through drawings, literature, and visions, we hope we have communicated our humble idea of what a picnic could, or should be in this new era that awaits us.
A beach – the place in which houses the art of enjoying future picnics. We believe the beach is a blank canvas, which should be redeemed for not only It’s naturally modular typography but should be further celebrated for its capability in bringing people together. Our vision sees to the utmost ecological ways of constructing and manufacturing based on precedents, and to see modular furniture that would redefine the concept of a picnic.
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ZHU HAI ZhuWINERY Hai Winery ZHU HAI, CHN Winery Complex Competition Location: Zhu Hai, China SPR_2019
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Blur Building Professor: Athanassios Economou FA_2020
A Highway Crawler on the I75. Georgia Tech Maker space and enviromental data research center constants America’s automobile culture below.
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Using the pivoting motion of a desk lamp as an armature for a joint structure that will function as a parkour pavilion.
The labyrinth shape-shifts
Hanging from a cliff face, performers [parkourist] are able scale the labyrinth.
The facade follows, and as does light.
Every movement and transfer of weight from performer to structure is evident in the ephermeral play of light as the facade dances in celebration to the art of motion.
Kinesthetic Playground Art of Movement Professor: Zamila R Karimi FA_2018
with every force applied to different nodes.
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Redesign Hinman Recycling Bins
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Bottles of Life Material Diversions Workshop Elective Professor: Deborah Mesa SPR_2021
An object of suffocation transformed into a monument of life.
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Professor: Herman H Howard FA_2021 Partners: Colin Woodham, Christian Waweru
This project seeks to connect Georgia Tech, the Trap Music Museum, and Microsofts new development in the most honest and direct way. The overall master plan plays off rotational symmetry and repetition of courtyards off the Beltline. Beginning on Mean Street's side, the bridge touches down within a park adjacent to the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center. As one crosses the bridge, they encounter views of downtown,mid town, and the museum. Each end is marked with towers that call out important landmarK, becoming important landmarks themselves. Once the bridge is crossed, a courtyard is connected to a ramp which navigates the various levels from Donald Lee Hollowell Dr. to the Beltline. The trap Music Museum was moved north on the site so that it is situated on a more prominent location. It features exhibities for famous artists and moments in Trap's history. Housing provides shelter and places of communion for people living on the Beltline.
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