SIMIRAN SINGH School of the Architecture ssingh9@saic.edu
Art
Institute of Chicago Interior Architecture 312-918-9772
CONTENTS
1. The Playcrate
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2. Troublemaker
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3. Wayside Oasis
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4. Block Party Pavilion
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5. A Table for 100
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6. Chamber Live
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7. Tower tower
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THE PLAYCRATE This project is an exploration of what a civic center is and what it could be in this renaissance of architectural boom. In this exploration of spaces and their relationship, this design consists of three distinct spaces during the winter, a greenhouse, Ice-skating rink, and produce market that emerges as a result of the greenhouse farming which during the summer transforms into a pool, basketball court and a cafe. The major challenge was how we as architects have
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a responsibility of keeping in mind the life cycle of the civic while make efficient use of the space. Reimagining the idea of what defines “The Civic” and how we as architects can change the public’s relationships between bodies and spaces. This illustration is the big idea of what the future of “The Civic” could articulate towards. Where spaces of play, perversion, corporate and residential together coexist in harmony.
THE PLAYCRATE
ELEVATION: NORTH
ELEVATION: SOUTH
ELEVATION: WEST
81.73’
53’ 41.7’
69.6’
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SECTION AA SECTION AA
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SECTION BB SECTION BB
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THE PLAYCRATE
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THE PLAYCRATE
THE PLAYCRATE
This collage is an exercise that explores the mode of representation using the "21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art� by SANAA architects as a precedent. The mode of analysis and representation follows two trajectories - the flattened and the delaminated. The flattened is the expression of the multiple spatial systems compressed, but not simplified. The delaminated is the expansion of parts through depth and measurement. The delaminated representation depends on context and adjacencies, and exposes activities and operations and translating each of these elements to create a new pattern; repeat, separate, add, grow, scale, etc. Patterns on the right are translations of elements both from nature, concrete as well as the exhibitions at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.
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THE PLAYCRATE
VERBS AND PLAY
Figure and ground is a metaphor for verbs and adjectives for the description of its relationship to the ground. These series of experimental models of the civic center based on verbs/adjectives were built prior to intensive design so that our understanding of the three dimensional space is a clear articulation of design, where six of the models were defined by a single verb/adjective, the remaining three are an in between hybrid of any two of the six individual verbs. The photographed models are: Griddy and flexible, open and shelter diverse and multifunctional, words that are a formal hypothesis in relationship with the “search of a civic center�.
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TROUBLEMAKER A SCI-Arc brat, the troublemaker is a multifaceted creature in itself. Its body, consisting of faces that expose, enclose, and coil in to create a secret nook within itself. The troublemaker sits as it please. It is a process that began as a two dimensional paper, distorted from its original two dimensional into a three dimensional form. The contour paper now photographed, focusing on composition, color, pattern, form, shape, and function is edited into halftone pattern to create intersections of details of lines that radiates illusion of the desert. The troublemaker was born out of the idea of two dimensional surface that begins to articulate the interiority of the host. 7
WAYSIDE OASIS A “forgotten element” of the 606restrooms. As we have observed, living in a city requires fundamental infrastructure, the most crucial being managing water, waste, and hygiene within the metropolitan area. These restrooms units will be part of the idealized community that crowd-sharing helps provide in today’s society, helping us unite neighborhoods as one moves through the city of Wayside Oasis. This project is an army of 6 units of restrooms that sits on the 606 and cantilevers over the street. The bathroom units upon sunset turns into a public movie screening pad that helps illuminate the street beside and below the cantilever, further including public safety and efficient of multipurpose use of traditional restrooms. 8
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BLOCK PARTY PAVILION
As Summer has drawn to a close here in Chicago, so do the city’s ubiquitous block parties. Chicago is famous for its neighborhood street festivals. During these occasions, the street becomes property of the public realm. People congregate along the city’s infrastructure: roads, parks, and sidewalks, to enjoy the weather, gather with friends, and traverse the streets. The prompt was to design a pavilion to be sited along the 606 for a theoretical block party. The pavilion, also referred to as a folly, is to be a system of enclosure that should be no more than 120 square feet in size. While there is no specific program to accommodate, the nature and scale of the spaces created should reflect the possibility that a single person may want to sit, stand, or lie down in your pavilion. Thus the enclosure system will operate as a threshold through which light, view, and passage are mediated from the exterior to the interior.
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Speculating on the temporal nature of the structure. The block party will last no more than a month, so selecting a mode of construction and disassembly of the pavilion is highly necessary. Derived from the design process of sugar cube mountain, the folly is constructed with materials such as cork and plexi-glass for not only their biodegradable and reusable properties but also for their strong and light weight properties. The aggregated cork pieces twist and turn to stick with one another casting cool beautiful shadows for the public to relax.
A TABLE FOR 100 “The beer channel� is a table that explores the idea of the preparation and consumption of a communal meal for one hundred people. In contrast to the organization of a restaurant or reception, which divides guests into smaller social groups, this table facilitates an event that is participatory and collective. Reimagining how a singular object accommodates two distinct activities with their own constraints, requirements and outcomes, how form, scale, and material organize space so the guests interact as a community of one hundred 12
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CHAMBER LIVE Chamber Live consists of co-located housing and library components. The concept lies in a sound specific context, where the level of sound decreases as one travels up the circular staircase beginning from the noisy street music festival on the ground floor to the quiet top floor on the musician residence. The building seems as though it floats upon the ground in order to evoke a sense of curiosity, and to allow the passage of the public from one side of the street to another The housing accommodates twelve bedrooms where the micro-library provides focused resources on music books, instruments to check out, musician residency, public availing concerts and other resources to serve its community. 13
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COWORKING 2018 TOWER-TOWER
Tower tower is a living fully functional lifestyle hotel. To pose a proposal to the question of “What is the future of co-working in the next ten years?”, to that a new tower inserted into a long narrow existing tri-parti building was the answer; this vertical life was the answer. Like delirious New York and other lofty spaces such as SOHO, this was not to be one, but to propose a space where the average community of Chicago can afford this vertical life. A life where community is a firsthand, where lifestyle is a priority, by exploring the idea of designing a co-working space without a co-working space. The tower includes amenities crucial to any working individual such as healthcare, childcare, laundry service, boutique offices, shared kitchen, common social spaces, common living, private living, a swimming pool and event space, all co-living within the inserted tower which is surrounded by an ethos of co-work. Co-working spaces today don't exist in a void where offices are in honeycomb cubicles but rather open plan spaces where members of the community benefit from one other; creating this inter-dependency of both work and companionship. The blob like event space crashing into the tower is a grand gesture that breaks away from the convention of the rectangular block, looking out to the heart of the city, tantalizing the very many individuals to want to experience the space.
Work is worship
EAST WEST SECTION 1/8”-1’-0”
NORTH SOUTH SECTION 1/8”-1’-0”
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COWORKING 2018 TOWER-TOWER