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from Joe Avellino's Portfolio (2023)

The Rewarding Waters Design Fundamentals 2 - Spring 2022

The Rewarding Waters is a bathhouse carved into the side of a cliff along the Hudson River. It’s a spa spot for travelers to unwind in various temperatures: hot, warm, and cold. You arrive at the entrance via ferry and ascend to each level of the bathhouse through flights of stairs, thus being “rewarded” with a new section at each level to relax in and enjoy.

To summarize this semester’s studio project, we extracted a variety of shapes from an old painting made by French architect/ artist Le Corbusier. These shapes essentially became the rooms that we would use for the bathhouse. The main rooms range in temperature, and so the water programs within them range in function.

Colors directly relate to the function of each space. Yellow (The warm color) represents the Steam Room, the hottest room. Gray (The cold color) represents the Frozen Observatory, the coldest room. Red (the color in-between) represents the Cozy Holder, the warm room.

The site is located on a cliff alongside the Hudson River near Palisades, NJ. The rule for this bathouse was that it needed to be at least mostly submerged underground. Each room was to be excavated from the ground to make one giant, continuous hole.

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Steam Room

The WeDesign Un-House Architectural Design 1 - Fall 2022

The “Un-House” is the advanced elaboration of the typical house for the typical family. It is much bigger in size (108’ x 108’) and is much more exposed to natural elements. It generally serves a purpose beyond giving clients a place to eat and sleep, so it can’t just be called a house or even a residential structure. The concept of the “house” is technically deconstructed and tampered with, thus it earns the title of the “Un-House.”

The WeDesign Un-House is the house of remote workers. This building would be available for workers to rent as a place to not only work, share ideas, and professionally converse, but also to casually hang out, dine, and sleep.

PRECEDENT 1: Maison Des Gardes Agricoles

Architect: Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Design Date: 1784

(Proposed) Location: France

SouthWest Standard / Exploded Axonometric

PRECEDENT 2: The Goldenberg House

Architect: Louis Kahn

Design Date: 1959

(Proposed) Location: Pennsylvania, USA

South Standard / Exploded Axonometric

This semester’s project started from two pre-picked precedents for me to research and explore: The Goldenberg House and the Maison Des Gardes Agricoles. After researching the architects and their philosphies, I began to draw “inferences” and “assumptions” of the buildings’ patterns and geometry via a series of sequences. From here, I formed an official concept, called a matrix, to base the Un-House around.

This sequence came after dozens of others that led to failed concepts.

Main Types: Central Corners Rotation

The site is a 108’ x 108’ box. The goal was to blend the matrix into the boxed site as smoothly as possible.

Type refers to the main theme of the Un-house. In my case, there are 3 main types.

Matrix in Site (West Section 1)

Matrix in Site (South Section 2)

West Section 1

Matrix in Site (West Section 1)

West Section 2

South Section 1

Pavilion Design: Enneagonal Prism

Visualization 3 - Fall 2022

The Gear Pavilion is a continuous pattern pavilion made of enneagonal prisms. It’s a steel structure surrounded by strategically placed trees in an open field. The shape of the prism makes it look like a pavilion made out of gears/bolts.