Stephen Chou Projects, GSAPP 2009-2012 by Stephen Chou

STEPHEN CHOU PROJECTS 2009-2012

Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University

Table of Contents Design Studios Advanced Studio VI

Getting lost at the Delancey Underground Advanced Studio V

Made In L.A., 2040 C-BIP: Integrated Design Studio: - Building Retrofit Strategy

Recirculating 60 Broad Street

2 18

- Building Element Design

Climatarium 44

Core Studio III: Housing Studio

Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Core Studio II:

Museum of Diaspora 68 Core Studio I:

AirLab NYC 78

Labs/Workshops China Lab: International Workshop

Beijing Super South 88 Thessaloniki International Workshop

Augmented Territories 96 Architectural Technologies and Fabrication Surface/Screen/Structure

Crinkle! 107 Visual Studies / Formworks:

Filtro-Kiosk 116 Living Architecture

Overheard 122 Advanced Curtain Wall

The Dual Square Grid Facade

124

Architectural Technologies V

The New Tilt-Up 130 Architectural Technologies IV

Analysis of David Ingalls Rink by Eero Saarinen 136

DESIGN STUDIOS

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Getting Lost at the Delancey Underground Planned Spontaneity in the Post Web 2.5 City ADVANCED STUDIO VI Spring 2012 Critic: Site:

Juergen Mayer + Marc Kushner Delancey Street Underground Trolley Station New York, NY

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The Delancey Underground is an ever-changing urban public space that constantly renews its appeal to the post Web 2.5 public. Web 2.5 when user generated content surpassed critical amounts and dominates web activities; when surfing the web mainly become experiences of platforms for interaction with other human and/or artificial intelligence.

Enabled by hand-held devices, the new urbanite is infinitely more knowledgeable and capable than the urban wanders decades ago. As the city is transformed into a landscape of banality and predictability - the Delancey Underground is posed to stimulate the spontaneous, re-adjust our senses, and bring back the possibility for surprises in the city.

Getting Lost at the Delancey Underground

What happened to the urban wanderer? He bought an iphone.

While accumulated experiences and opinions has generated interest and motivated our travels in the city, it has also influenced - and to a certain degree - predetermined our experiences. In an effort to eliminate unpleasant surprises, we have also diminished the possibility for interesting discoveries and encounters. The tendency of us being the knowledgeable, tech-savvy, I-know-where-Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m-going urbanite more and more prevails over us being the openminded, slow-paced urban wanderer.

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Getting Lost at the Delancey Underground

The view of the city as defined by personalized experience.

The view of the post Web 2.5 City - overlaid with Google Map! Layered with overflowing information and shared experiences of others. Arguably one of the most familiar views of the city to the contemporary urbanite.

An ever-changing labyrinth of spaces, programs and events is added to the picture, at the Delancey Underground.

Taking “planned spontaneity” as strategy for urban intervention.

On the other hand, in order to impress and surprise the seasoned, sophisticated customers, pop-up stores and commercial campaigns had become increasingly popular in the city. “Planned spontaneity”, (serendipity, even) has become an effective new way to project curated quality experiences onto the expecting and un-expecting urban market.

The new Delancey Underground takes on “Planned Spontaneity” as a strategy for creating new urban public experiences. It is designed to stimulate and host pop-up programs, spontaneous usages and transient activities in the post-Web 2.5 city.

IKEA Hans Vredeman de Vries Archizoom

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This is a map of Lower Manhattan that depicts a condition that may not be directly visible in physical space - yet has grown exponentially important to urban motion.

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Each Bar Value represents: Yelp Review Count x Review Rating This map visualizes the accummulated intensity of online opinion (specifically Yelp) on a certain geographic location. It also represents the level of visiblity of these locations on a virtual information network.

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Ippudo NY

Count: 3,383 Rating: 4

Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shanghai Count: 1,646 Rating: 4

Pommes Frites Lombardi's Pizza Count: 2,075 Rating: 4

Count: 1,942 Rating: 4

Katz's Delicatessen Count: 2,370 Rating: 4

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Getting Lost at the Delancey Underground

A field of changable space/ program makers installed in place to accelerate program cylcles and inspire spontaneous uses.

Architecturally, the design consists of a field of rotating elements that pivot around the existing column grid. It is meant to provide four basic space- and program-making capabilities: • • • •

Enclosure (room/building scale) Tables or seating (furniture scale) Regulation of ambience/light Information display

The goal is to provide just enough infrastructure that could facilitate the interchanging of programs and usages, while being able to provide a variety of diverse spatial conditions, circulation paths, and user experiences.

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Getting Lost at the Delancey Underground

enclosure

filtering

campfire configuration

revealing light and sounds from a program!

hanging out in a maze

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letting light straight through from skylights

projecting, and being projected on

Diffuse light: Artificial lighting on top edge of fins, random configuration

Getting Lost at the Delancey Underground

access to Delancey St. Station

access to street level

ESSEX ST. STATION To Williamsburg Bridge

access to street level

Clinton St.

access to street level

Suffolk St.

Essex St.

Norfolk St.

Delancey St.

access to street level

Typical Transit: Delancey Underground

Subway

Lower East Side Lower East Side

Lower VISITORS East Side VISITORS

Subway

Delancey Underground

Subway

Delancey Underground

Seward Park

Delancey Underground

Lower East Side Lower East Side

Lower East Side

Seward Delancey Underground

Seward Park

VISITORS

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Subway

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Typical Underpass:

Lower East Side Lower East Side

Park

Subway

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Seward LOCALS Park

Seward Park

Lower East Side

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The Delancey Underground is simultaneously a pop-up hotbed, a transit hub, and a community space.

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The location of the Delancey Underground is at the heart of the Lower East Side and Seward Park communities, making it a destination of ever-changing attraction for locals and visitors alike. Its symbiotic relationship to a major transit hub further brings uncertainty and discovery into the trajectories of many.

While the macro layout of the space would be mainly curated and changed throughout the year (a similar agengy exists for the High Line for curating annaul programs and providing management), the space may have an endless amount of micro configurations, and/or further be divided to host many programs simultaneously.

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Getting Lost at the Delancey Underground

Being within a transit hub and underground, the Delancey Underground is a 24 hour, all-year, all-weather public space - a feature which existing pop-up/ seasonal events (such as the Brooklyn Flea Market right across the bridge) can already tap into. Utilizing the features provided, the Delancey Underground may bring new characters and new experiences to these existing events. Furthermore, the introduction of existing events may serve as trigger to new ideas adating to the new setting, explore new ways in using the infrastructure, and generate new programs.

(top) A sunburst layout spreads natural light from the light wells deeper into the underground space. (right, top) Markets and fairs may start to populate the linedup enclosures along alleys. (right, bottom) Smaller enclosures may also be created to create a more intimate experience.

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Made in L.A., 2040

Future Manufacturing Districts in Downtown L.A. ADVANCED STUDIO V Fall 2011 Critic: Site:

Laurie Hawkinson + Christian Uhl Downtown Los Angeles, CA

With the emergence of new manufacturing trends (clean, small scale, data-driven hypercustomization, service oriented), factories and spaces of material production could once again take advantage of the urban environment not only as source of labor, but also for its connectivity, accessibility and proximity to markets, intelligence, and exchange. Downtown Los Angeles provides a prime opportunity for a new center of future

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manufacturing with its existing and proposed infrastructural connections, its leading and growing importance in logistical flows and cultural production. A relatively underdeveloped and under-defined area, it is a site to experiment and exploit the new relationships between the city and the spaces of production and consumption, and call for new infrastructural strategies, building interventions, and urban experiences.

Made in L.A., 2040

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PORT OF LOS ANGELES + PORT OF LONG BEACH Rodondo BNSF Railyards Junction

Passenger Rail Networks (Regional)

High Speed Rail

Indust the Cit

Freight Rail Networks

PORT OF LOS ANGELES + PORT OF LONG BEACH

LARGEST CONTAINER PORT IN THE UNITED STATES

UP Rail Lines BNSF Rail Lines

Industrial Zones in the City of Los Angeles

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MR2 M2; M2(PV) Port of L.A.

and Long Beach LARGEST CONTAINER PORT IN THE UNITED STATES

Downtown L.A. - a site of connectivity, accessibility and proximity to a wide spectrum of labor, capital, and intellect.

Port of L.A. and Long Beach

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(CCS; LAX; SL)

Downtown L.A. is a major confluence of flows crucial to sustaining the city, the region, and the nation. It is adjacent to major freight rail junctions and heavy industrial areas for facilitating the flow of physical materials and goods. The Redondo Junction marks an important node that regulates goods from the Port of L.A. and Long Beach - the largest in the nation - flowing into the national freight rail network. The area also have convenient access to major multi-modal transportation nodes (Union Station, HSR), allowing for tapping into the regional skilled labor and intellectual networks of California.

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Made in L.A., 2040

The Fashion District situated between the financial, residential, and greenmanufacturing centers - pose a new opportunity for a new urban industrial identity.

The Los Angeles CRA has designated the industrial land adjacent to the L.A. River as the L.A. Greentech Corridor - an ambition to launch production of clean technologies and transform the existing industrial landscape. Although the demand for industrial spaces were constantly high (vacancy rate is among the lowest in the country), the buildings and infrastructures in Downtown L.A. are not able to support more advanced

SILVER LAKE ECHO PARK

industrial operations. Most industrial floor space are currently used for wholesale retail activity - a prominent and popular economic activity, yet highly redundant in its spatial usage and visitor experience. Intensity of urban activity cannot be sustained throughout the sprawling expanse of the Fashion District - partly due to the highly repetitive nature of the products and services being sold and lack in programmatic diversity.

DODGER STADIUM

Dowtown L.A. Zoning 2010

DWP CLEAN-TECH RESEARCH CENTER

Residential Commercial

Union Station

M2 Light Industrial M3 Heavy Industrial BUNKER HILL

SCI-ARC

STAPLES CENTER LA CONVENTION CENTER

FASHION DISTRICT

USC

â&#x20AC;&#x153;L.A. Clean-Tech Corridorâ&#x20AC;?

CLEAN-TECH MANUFACTURING CENTER

Redondo Junction

VERNON UPRR

Alameda Corridor

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Made in L.A., 2040

The Orsini 5F, 297 units

Residential Real Estate Developments in Downtown Los Angeles

Lucia Tower 31F, 200 units

(past decade, built+proposed)

Union Station Apartments Lengends:

5F, 278 units

Grand Ave Plan

Mixed use development, 2600 units

New Developments Adaptive Reuse

1027 Wilshire

The Piero

48F, 402 units

6F x 6, 632 units

655 Hope St. 17F

FIDM Tower 19F South Village

53F, 548 units

Packard Lofts Hanover Tower 7F, 116 units

27F

4 phases, 1190 units

717 Olympic

8F, 264 units

12F, 80 units

Union Bank Bldg

Hope Condos

10F, 60 units

Figueroa South/West Tower

7F, 60 units

34F, 324 units

12F, 153 units

Evo South

Olive St Lofts

23F, 311 units

17F, 105 units

Elleven

13F, 176 units

1100 Grand Lofts

El Dorado Lofts

12F, 84 units

12F, 65 units

Mercantile Arcade Bldg

12F, 139 units

Alexan Savoy Apartments 4F, 303 units

Bridge Lofts 2F, 8 units

12F, 143 units

Teramachi Senior Housing 8F, 127 units

Alexan Savoy Phase II+III 18F & 25F, 497 units

SCI-ARC Towers 40F x 2, 400 units

Hikari

6F, 128 units

Shybarry Bldg 12F, 84 units 13F, 168 units

East Columbia Lofts 13F, 147 units

8F, 82 units

19F, 236 units

11F x 2, 370 units

Bartlett Building

City House and The Olympic 60F & 50F Broadway Plaza

Luma

22F+6F x 3, 750 units

The Medallion

Security Bldg

Chapman Building Reserve Lofts

Block 8 Little Tokyo

Rowan Bldg 10F, 135 units 12F, 200 units

10F, 90 units

18F, 200 units

Higgins Bldg

Shybarry Tower

Brockman Bldg

34F, 324 units

5F, 100 units

12F, 55 units

12-22F, 132 units

28F, 156 units

Figueroa South/East Tower

City Lights on Fig

Mandell Bldg

Sky Lofts

27F x 2, 627 units

The Met Lofts

Rives Bldg

13F, 99 units

Concerto

Trinity Towers 34F

40F, 300 units

12F

Library Court 6F, 90 units The Milano

Metropolis Phase II

Vibiana Lofts

Title Guarantee Bldg

16F, 222 units

37F, 214 units

Metropolis Phase I

Victor Clothing Lofts 5F, 38 units

Roosevelt Building

9th and Flower St.

47F, 288 units

5F, 40 units

50F, 302 units

17F, 240 units

The Medici

UNION STATION

Pan American Lofts

Zen Tower

8F, 225 units

1010 Wilshire

308 E9th St. 5F, 38 units

Main Mercantile Bldg 6F, 40 units

Santee Court Phase II

Barker Bros. Convertion 5F, 230 units

Molino Street Lofts

4bldgs, 165 units

Santee Court Phase III

3F, 91 units

9bldgs, 445 units

Santee Court Phase I 12F, 64 units

Sixth Street Lofts 2F, 63 units

8F, 66 units

Glass Tower 25F

Biscuit Company Lofts 7F, 104 units

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Booming residential real estate speculation and industrial zoning limitations led to disinterest in investing and developing advanced industrial operations.

Residential real estate speculation in even manufacturing in nature - for surrounding areas has led to a disinterest the city to expand its revenue source, JUNCTION in industrial land owners to invest in REDONDO promote employment, and provide an industrial activities - one of the major exemplary model for urban industrial sources of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tax revenue - in development. hopes of converting into residential developments in the future. The area is in need of an updated identity, vision, and branding - industrial, or

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Made in L.A., 2040

Precedent Urban Factories:

GENERIC + ECONOMY OF SCALE The Starett-Lehigh Building New York City, NY, USA

EFFICIENCY + SPECTACLE Buckminster Fullerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Geodesic Cotton Mill

SPECIFICITY + COMPOUND The Fiat Lingotto Factory Turin, Italy

Site Building Typologies:

Wholesale Retail Alley Santee Alley

Wholesale Retail Courts Santee Alley Extension

Wholesale Retail Megablocks Stanford Mart

Retail and Roof Parking Hybrid Santee Alley Periphery

High Density Showrooms California Market Center

Historic Industrial Lofts The Bendix Building

Single-Storey Storefronts South Main Street

The Big Chair: Mega Displays California furniture trading center

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Fancy* Manufacturing Districts of Downtown Los Angeles: Niche products + Production space as attraction

Jewelry District

California Market Center

Custom Fabrication District

Farming District

The productive landscape of Downtown LA, 2040 takes full advantage of the intellectual and skilled labor made accessible through its proximity to existing urban centers and its connection to regional transportation networks.

Fashion District 2040

Santee Alley

Tissue & Organ District

City Market of Los Angeles

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Fancy Packaging District

Personal Mobility District Custom Electronics District

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Diversification The freed-up land should provide accommodation for other industries that may take advantage of this prime location - adding diversity to not only the produce but also labor population and visitor experience.

Densification Activities that were consolidated and condensed should be accommodated by up-zoned buildings with adequate infrastructural support, while incentivizing development interest.

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Silver Lake Echo Park

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REDONDO JUNCTION

A Hybrid Infrastructure Network Access + Mediation + Services

- New opportunities for synergic relationships and programmatic activities - Providing physical framework for future infrastructural overlays

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Fuller’s Cotton Mill Model: Textile Recycling Plant + Education/Exhibition Institution

Bio-Waste-Power: Bio-waste Processing + Energy Generation

The Fiat Lingotto Model: Testing + Demo + Entertainment

Fancy Bar of the Industrial “Past”: Locally Produced Beverages + Remodelled Industrial Setting

Synergic Energy Programs: Refridgerated Warehouse + Heated Public Pool

Fancy Gastronomy Lab: Product Sampling + Exclusive Dining

The Sofa Hostel: Overstocked Furniture + Frugal Accommodation

Fancy Packaging Plant: Product Sampling + Exclusive Dining

The Spandex Pavillion: Fabric Material Research and Display + Public Space

Wind Tunnel Facility: ProductTesting + Spectacle

Building Slot: Inter-connected Sky Plane + Old Building Stimulator

Prototype Museum: Prototype Testing and Display + Market Reaction Research Stephen Chou

Made in L.A., 2040

Industrial “flagship” spaces and demonstrative energy infrastructures accelerate the proliferation and hybridization of public programs into industrial and infrastructural spaces.

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As the popularity for lower carbonemission living and consuming locally produced and morally produced products increase, the spaces of production can now become the ideal “flagship” spaces for branding. The proximity to the urban centers and connections to broader networks furthermore make Downtown L.A. an ideal place for a new generation of didactic “factories” to take place. It also sets the environment for demonstrative public and private infrastructures to open to the public.

Made in L.A., 2040

Infrastructural interventions are phase-based, responsive, adaptive, and provisional.

Mega-infrastructural Clusters take advantage of economy of scale. With large enough of a development justifying the cost for built-in, fully integrated, massive shared infrastructures. Neighborhood Facilitators and Distributed Sharing Systems are formed through more collective efforts, evolving

through different phases. The Old Building Adaptors strategically place interventions so old structures may interface with new infrastructural advancements, while also activating and altering program within the building.

Mega-infrastructural Cluster

Neighborhood Facilitators

Old Building Adapters

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Made in L.A., 2040

MADE IN L.A. DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES

SOUTH MAIN ST.

L.A. FASHION DISTRICT

2040

S LOS ANGELES ST.

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SANTEE ST.

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SANTEE ALLEY

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Recirculating 60 Broad Street C-BIP | Building Retrofit Strategy C-BIP Integrated Design Studio: Building Strategy Phase Spring 2011 Critic: Team: Site:

Laura Kurgan Collin Anderson Alexis Burson Stephen Chou 60 Broad St., New York, NY

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60 Broad Street suffers from poor natural daylighting and air circulation - a problem known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;sick building syndromeâ&#x20AC;? - which is prevalent in many glass towers constructed during 1970s in New York City. Affiliated single-client leases are fractured among various floor levels, creating working conditions that inhibit collaboration and flexibility.

and natural daylighting to recirculate people and recirculate air. The goal of the retrofit strategy is to positively alter the internal life of the building, drive down energy costs and decrease carbon emissions. This is accomplished via a double-skin cladding that houses perimeter stairwells and programmatic breakout nodes.

This retrofit strategy pairs new methods of inhabitant connectivity with passive ventilation

C-BIP Building Retrofit Strategy: Recirculating 60 Broad St. RECIRCULATING 60 BROAD STREET EXISTING PROGRAM STRUCTURE + SITE CONDITIONS

ZONING: C5-5 YEAR BUILT: 1961 NUMBER OF FLOORS: 38 BUILDING FAR: 21.78 MAX ALLOWABLE FAR: 15 BUILDING AREA: 975,000 SF COMMERCIAL AREA: 975,000 SF

PRIVATE SECTOR TENANTS

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES (STATE + CITY)

NYC: +40.71째

PRIVATE SECTOR TENANTS + GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL

RECIRCULATING 60 BROAD STREET

27F LEVEL 7,873 sqft

19F LEVEL 3,926 sqft

19F LEVEL 8,580 sqft 15F LEVEL 771.2 sqft 11F LEVEL 1,589 sqft

LEVELS 1-5

11F LEVEL 12,650 sqft

15F LEVEL 1,716 sqft

LEVELS 6-10

LEVELS 11-14

LEVELS 15-18

Many old air-tight glass towers suffer from sick building syndrome.

Circulation problem: Dominant core size, blockage of cross-floor circulation, and high dependence on elevators. 38

LEVELS 19-26

LEVELS 27-38

Conventional building construction practices advocate air-tight building envelopes, but if not paired with adequate HVAC systems, building-related illness can develop for the inhabitants due to sick building syndrome. Due to changes in regulation or without upgrade over a long period of time, many glass towers in the city may promote sick building syndrome. The tallness of the building and its enormous amount of inhabitable square footage resulted in a large, dominating solid core, blocking cross-floor building circulation.

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C-BIP Building Retrofit Strategy: Recirculating 60 Broad St. RECIRCULATING 60 BROAD STREET RECIRCULATING AIR

RULE OF THUMB: FOR EVERY 20 ft. OF OCCUPIABLE FLOOR DEPTH, THERE SHOULD BE 1 ft. OF CAVITY DEPTH

DOUBLE SKIN TO INCREASE NATURAL VENTILATION

Recirculating Air

The goals of recirculating air of 60 Broad Street is achieved through re-skinning by adding an extra layer to form a double skin facade. The air space sandwitched between the original facade surface and the new skin is regulated seasonally - storing hot air to assist the building HVAC in winter, reject heat in summer, and promote natural ventilation in the shoulder seasons through stack effect.

D w D= depth of the floorplate (from core to perimeter) d= depth of the cavity w= width of the module THE DEPTH OF THE OCCUPIED SPACE DRIVES THE CAVITY DEPTH

RECIRCULATING 60 BROAD STREET RECIRCULATING AIR AHU

AHU

HEAT HARVESTED FROM CAVITY AIR VIA HEAT EXCHANGER

KNEE WALLS HOUSE DUCTS TO AHU

WINTER CONDITIONS

SPRING/FALL CONDITIONS

SUMMER CONDITIONS

HEATING DRIVEN VENTILATION

OPTIMAL CROSS-VENTILATION

COOLING DRIVEN VENTILATION

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C-BIP Building Retrofit Strategy: Recirculating 60 Broad St. RECIRCULATING 60 BROAD STREET RECIRCULATING PEOPLE

INTER ON H PERIMETER WALL CIRCULATION TO INCREASE INHABITANT FLEXIBILITY

Recirculating People

- SMA - PLE

PATIO SPACES 27F

RECIRCULATING 60 BROAD STREET REPROGRAMMING NEWLY ACCESSIBLE SPACES

7,873 sqft

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19F

8,580+2,926 sqft

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15F

1,716+771 sqft

11F

RECIRCULATE AND REPROGRAM TO ACTIVATE OUTDOOR PATIO SPACES

Reprogramming Newly Accessible Spaces

48.61%

12,650+1,590 sqft

The goals of recirculating people in 60 Broad Street is achieved through strategic perimeter circulation paths that connect to different floors and shared patio green spaces that are newly activated.

OF TOTAL OCCUPIABLE SPACE CONCENTRATED IN LEVELS 1-11

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Circulation Intervention Permutations Vertical Perimeter Stairwells

Promenade Instantiare

Local Zip Lines

circulation efficiency

programmatic qualities

circulation efficiency

adaptability to existing floor plans

structural efficiency

aesthetic

programmatic qualities

adaptability to existing floor plans

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programmatic qualities

structural efficiency

programmatic qualities

circulation efficiency

adaptability to existing floor plans

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structural efficiency

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programmatic qualities

circulation efficiency

structural efficiency

circulation efficiency

adaptability to existing floor plans

structural efficiency

Hybrid

structural efficiency

programmatic qualities

adaptability to existing floor plans

aesthetic

Optimize with stucture, internal programs, and even distribution of connected green space square footage.

aesthetic

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C-BIP Building Retrofit Strategy: Recirculating 60 Broad St.

The exterior form of the double skin facade may be configured differently for different affects and environmental purposes. Variations can be generated in relation to its distance to the core, provide shading, or to orient towards/away solar radiation, etc. Parametric relationships were also developed between the pathway element and the double skin element - optimizing programmatic intent, structure, air cavity size, and form.

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C-BIP Building Retrofit Strategy: Recirculating 60 Broad St.

Beyond metrics: interventions that achieve positive change in lifestyle or behavior may impact building performance more in the long run, while improving the experience of inhabiting the building.

The perimeter pathways offer connections to patio green spaces, but they are also attractions by themselves, providing break out spaces and connections to other floors. Longer, promenade formations can be desirable at higher levels to take advantage of the excellent views the building has to offer, but previous inaccessible to most. While the building was mostly occupied by large tenants each occupying multiple floors, there was no connection between them. By providing these perimeter pathways allow for a pleasant circulation path while reducing the heavy reliance on elevators. Stephen Chou

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C-BIP Building Element Design: Climatarium

Climatarium

Improvement in glazing quality and quantity

C-BIP Integrated Design Studio: Building Element Design Spring 2011 Critic:

Reclaiming site environmental factors for user's own purpose/comfort

Reduction in heating and cooling loads

ENVIRONMENTAL Amount/scale of change to existing structure

User configurability and flexibility

Laura Kurgan PROGRAM

ELEMENT

STRUCTURE + INFRASTRUCTURE Integratedness between element and existing building infrastructures

Enhancement to existing programs

SYSTEMS The ability to influence at multiple scales The flexibility to respond to changes

The Climatarium adds to the building envelope an inhabitable buffer space between interior and exterior climates. Climatarium adds extra square footage while its form (in plan and section) can be adjusted to orient towards or away from the sun exposure for different environmental purposes. When aggregated across the facade it has the potential of altering the overall orientation property of a building.

Ability to exist independently but also aggregate/expand to entire building

The element seeks to bring the dwellers of air-conditioned spaces closer to the NYC climate. The user should be able to customize the usage and comfort levels of this buffer space, therefore achieving better building performance not only through improved metrics but also through lifestyle and programmatic changes.

PRARMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS INPUT PARAMETERS Orientation_Angle SRF_Ratio

Element_Depth Top_Panel_Depth_Ratio Offset_TOP Offset_BTM Offset_LEFT Offset_RIGHT

-30deg 0.6

-15deg 0.6

0deg 0.6

15deg 0.8

30deg 0.4

30deg 0.8-0.6-0.4

6ft 1.2 0ft 0ft 0ft 0ft

3ft 1.2 0ft 0ft 0ft 0ft

10in 1.0 0ft 0ft 0ft 0ft

6ft 0.75 0ft 0ft 0ft 0ft

4ft 1.1 3ft 0ft 0ft 0ft

4ft 1.1 -2ft 0ft 5ft 0ft

OUTPUT PARAMETERS / EFFECTS Output_Area Output_Volume

2.942 m2 9.583 m3

The buffer air space can either be inhabitable, or reduced in depth to form a double skin facade.

Change in overhang to introduce more sun exposure into element.

The width and height of the element are user-definable to create a variety of spaces for different uses and performances.

The percentage glazing can be controlled to meet desired conditions.

Stephen Chou

C-BIP Building Element Design: Climatarium

Application Scenarios East Facade

Element orientation changes with floor level. The higher the element, the more chance of over-exposure: Element plan and main glazing surface orient away from the sun. The lower the element, the more chance of under-exposure: Element plan and main glazing surface orient towards the sun. Aggregation seeks to minimize blockage to other windows.

Stephen Chou

C-BIP Building Element Design: Climatarium

South Facade Element orientation seeks to avoid direct sun exposure to main glazing surface to reduce cooling loads. Element form (in section) seeks to increase shading with larger overhang. Aggregation seeks to provide shading for both the other elements and existing windows.

North Facade Element orientation seeks to increase sun exposure. For instance, morning or late afternoon in New York City. Elements can be used discretely and independently.

Stephen Chou

C-BIP Building Element Design: Climatarium

The climatarium adds new programmatic opportunities to existing programs.

According different seasons, the climatarium may also be attached to other systems to become light shelves.

Collaborative Developments

543 3rd. AVENUE (Highrise Residential)

Simon McGown + Omar Morales-Armstrong + Stephen Shaun Salisbury Climatarium used in conjunction with Mary McConnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Light Shelf element to be integrated into a larger building infrastructure system that provides fresh air supply and increases natural light penetration. Stephen Chou

1980 LAFAYETTE (Stevenson School)

Kelly Danz + Rikki Frenkel + Garth Priber Climatarium used as additions of a variety of new programmatic spaces. An external knowledge pattern was used to further control the total amount of inhabitable area created.

Stephen Chou

Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate Housing for Entrepreneurship CORE STUDIO III: HOUSING Fall 2010 Critic: Team: Site:

Michael Bell Stephen Chou Allison Rozwat Hoboken, NJ

Stephen Chou

The focus of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Circulate, Delaminate, Incubateâ&#x20AC;? is exploring how architecture and spatial form may influence social interactions - a topic that has a long history in architecture discourse. We proposed to create a mixed-use development specifically for harboring startup companies and entrepreneurs in the master

planning phase. As the scope concentrates onto housing, we seek to create a new spatial form - different from the existing hallway model - that not only adequately regulates public/private in an entrepreneurial, extrovert environment, but also respond more to the richness of contemporary human interactions.

Washi ngton St.

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Washi ngton St.

Hoboken

Observ

Washi ng

“Historic Urban Village” - Hoboken Master Plan, 2004

ton St.

er Hwy

Observ

Main Blvd

er Hwy

Observ

Main Blvd

Washing

ton Blvd

er Hwy

ton Blvd

INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES

Washing

Retail Restaurant Service Industries Offices

CORPORATE/CHAIN BUSINESSES

ton Blvd

Jersey City

Retail Restaurant Service Industries Offices

Washing

“World Class Center” - Jersey City Master Plan, 2000

(commercial listings on google map)

INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES Retail Restaurant Service Industries Offices

CORPORATE/CHAIN BUSINESSES Retail Restaurant Service Industries Offices

Two cities, two visions.

The 76-acre site sits between Hoboken and Jersey City - two cities with very different visions - Hoboken seeks to preserve its historic character and small, intimate scale, while Jersey City aspires to become a center for world-class corporations and business activity.

An entrepreneurial environment that responds to both cities’ aspirations.

Recognizing the relationship between the scale and type of business and its associated spatial characters and needs, we propose to create a mixed use development for entrepreneurship: accommodating the scale and interactions of small startup companies, while nurturing “world-class” creativity and business potential.

(commercial listings on google map)

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Using both program and spatial setups to promote the dissemination and exchange of Weak Ties information and ideas.

InThe Strength of Weak Ties, sociologist Mark Granovetter demonstrated a model of understanding human relationships through “strong” vs. “weak” ties. He argued that strong ties connect people through similarity and tend to form closed loops, while weak ties (acquaintances) more often propagate new ideas and opportunities.

Strong Ties

Granovetter, Mark “The Strength of Weak Ties”

However, all relationships are important in their own ways in the entrepreneurial process.

Weak Ties Strong Ties Weak Ties Strong Ties

Granovetter, Mark “The Strength of Weak Ties”

information (small startup)

Granovetter, Mark “The Strength of Weak Ties”

SEMINAR

OFFICE

Weak Ties StrongThe Ties proposed development, in addition

Weak Ties Strong Ties

TRANSIT

information

to housing and offices, will encorporate “programs of dissemination” strategically selected and placed so that it may accommodate and facilitate meaningful interactions across different forms of relationships. information

information

Strong ties Teamwork, camaraderie, strong support systems Hoboken Population

Using information to attract weak ties and facilitate meaningful interactions between them.

Entrepreneurers

MEETING ROOMS

Commuters

Neutral condition for testing, experimenting, and broadcasting ideas

Programs

Mentors Entrepreneurers VCs Employees

Jersey City Population

HOUSING

Hoboken 7,400,000 sqft

Hoboken Population

Dissemination COFFEE SHOP

5,400,000 sqft

SEMINAR of

Hoboken Population

OFFICES

MEETING PUBLIC ROOMS THEATER

Entrepreneurers

RETAIL

Commuters

Commuters Visitors

500,000 sqft Commuters

Employees

Mentors VCs Employees Jersey City Population

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Jersey City Population

Dissemination COFFEE SHOP

MEETING ROOMS SEMINAR

OFFICES

PUBLIC THEATER

- Scale of interaction - Specificity of the information being exchanged

Visitors

OFFICES

5,400,000 sqft

SEMINAR 5,400,000 sqft

HOUSING Programs

7,400,000 sqft

THEATER SHOP

OFFICES

HOUSING

RETAIL

TRANSIT

Dissemination

HOUSING PUBLIC COFFEE

COFFEEEmployees SHOP

Visitors

Differentiated by:

Visitors

Mentors VCs

500,000 sqft

Programs Jersey City Population

Entrepreneurers

MEETING ROOMS

Programs of SEMINAR Dissemination

TRANSIT Mentors VCs

Population

RETAIL

500,000 sqft

7,400,000 sqft

PUBLIC THEATER

TRANSIT

500,000 sqft

RETAIL

500,000 sqft

TRANSIT

500,000 sqft

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

“...it would be foolish to suggest that a HALL CHAMBER #1

HALL

CHAMBER

HALL

CHAMBER #1

CHAMBER CHAMBER

HALL

CHAMBER #2 CHAMBER #2

(architectural) plan could compel people to behave in a specific way towards one another, enforcing a day-to-day regime of gregarious

CHAMBER

sensuality. It would be still more foolish, SITTING ROOM

SITTING ENTRY ROOM

ENTRY SITTING

ROOM

CHAMBER CHAMBER #4 #4

SITTING ROOM

GREAT DINING GREAT DINING ROOM ROOM

CHAMBER #3 CHAMBER #3

prevent people from behaving in a particular

16th14TH Century Italian CENTURY ITALIANVilla VILLA

19th Century 19TH CENTURY VICTORIAN HOME Victorian

Home 19TH CENTURY VICTORIAN HOME of hallways as The introduction social regulating device

14TH CENTURY ITALIAN VILLA

We seek a new spatial framework that can respond to the richness of human interactions. Free Grid

however, to suggest that a plan could not

The Hallway

Hierarchical

way, or at least hinder them from doing so.” - Robin Evans, Figures, Doors and Passages, 1978

The spatial framework described by a plan can be used as a device to organize public/private, to influence ways people manage and engage with other people. The free grid and the total hierarchical rooms are here taken as two extremes. The hallway is interpreted as an existing solution to a middle ground between the two extremes. To seek for a new spatial framework, plans are operated, transformed, and reinterpretated.

DELAMINATION

OVERLAY SCALESCALE OVERLAY

DELAMINATION DELAMINATION

PERFORATION OPERATIONS PERFORATION OPERATIONS SHIFT

DELAMINATION DELAMINATION

STRETCH + SHIFT STRETCH + SHIFT

DELAMINATION

STRETCH + SHIFT

DELAMINATION

PERFORATION OPERATIONS

DISTRIBUTE DISTRIBUTE

SHIFTSHIFT SCALE OVERLAY

DISTRIBUTE

DELAMINATION

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

STUDIO

1 BEDROOM

2 BEDROOM

3 BEDROOM

A wall has two surfaces, each having its own distinctive qualities - materiality, public/ private, opacity, etc. These qualities and their relationships are re-defined by delaminating these two surfaces.

Stephen Chou

The apartment unit is here examined more closely - the relationships between interior and exterior surfaces were inverted by the delamination operation. By reconsidering the public/private and materiality of the inverted unit, we propose an atrium complex in which units looks into each other and the dissemination programs below. All units of the atrium are connected by a spiral ramp system on which residents and guests may circulate through blurred private/public zones of each unit as they head to the incubators below, or to the outdoor amenities on the roof level.

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Mediating publicness and privacy through circulation, views, opacity, and height relations.

The new atrium units povides a variety of semi-public conditions throughout the unit. The choices between the interior and the exterior are no longer binary (on/off, open/closed).

SEMI-PUBLIC ZONE

People living in the units may now have multiple relationships of seeing and being seen, and by which audience. There is also always a direct visual, acoustic, and path connection to the dissemination programs below.

1 BEDROOM

STUDIO

Changing mediating surface Ramp circulation constantly changing vertical relationship with unit

g it un it un

2 BEDROOM

unit g

PUBLIC SPACE

3 BEDROOM

Each unit would have multiple layers of views into the dissemination program.

INFLECTION O

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

DISSEMINATION PROGRAM

Each cross-shaped stack share a central structural and elevator core

Structural Transfer Level negotiating between housing-level grid and track-level column grid

Dissemination Program

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

The site plan grid is formed first by extending the Hoboken street grid to connect to Jersey City. Strips are further divided into blocks that enclose regularized rail track patterns. The fabric of atrium housing complexes blankets over the wide

Stephen Chou

expanse of dissemination programs and public spaces. Atriums may change in size and height, influencing the relationship with the programs below.

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

FREE SPACE

PUBLIC RAMP

S PUBLIC RAMP S PUBLIC RAMP

PUBLIC RAMP

ONY PUBLIC BALC

FREE SPACE

PUBLIC BALCO

Studio

PUBLIC RAMP

1BR

FREE SPACE PUBLIC BALCO NY

PUBLIC BALCO

STUDIO

1’-0” = 0’-1/4”

1 BEDROOM 1’-0” = 0’-1/4”

2 BEDROOM 1’-0” = 0’-1/4”

PUBLIC RAMP

FREE SPACE

PUBLIC BALCO

2 BEDROOM 2BR 1’-0” = 0’-1/4”

33BR BEDROOM 1’-0” = 0’-1/4”

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

A three-panel system using light weight Panelite panels to mediate opacity and transparency of the bed room to the rest of the atrium. Inhabitants can have visual privacy but still be aware of the activity outside. 64

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Stephen Chou

Housing Studio: Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate

Stephen Chou

The Museum of Diaspora Atmospheric Environments, Curated. CORE STUDIO II Spring 2010 Critic: Mark Wasiuta Site: Chinatown, New York, NY

Stephen Chou

The Museum of Diaspora provides curators and museum goers the opportunity for an extra dimension of sensory experiences: the atmospheric environment - a parameter that greatly effects us, but has long been neutralized with the wide-spread of airconditioning technologies and notions of â&#x20AC;&#x153;modernâ&#x20AC;? comfort.

Architecturally, the project seeks to disintegrate conventional air-conditioning technologies and building envelops to create and contain diverse atmospheric environments in the museum.

The Museum of Diaspora: Atmospheric Environments, Curated.

Macro

Fire pla Mid ce / H wes e t US ar th A

Meso

Onse n Japa n

Micro

Macro

Meso

Micro

Dessert Shop Singapore

Sauna d Finlan

Kang Northern China

Islam ic Cour tyards Middl e East

The diaspora of air-conditioned environments has neutralized the atmospheric diversity of everyday experiences.

We live in a world of atmospheric diversity - countless human creations, traditions, rituals, behaviors, and sensibilities of different groups of people can be directly or indirectly related to the atmospheric environment of a certain time and place that they inhabit in.

72F, 50%RH, neutral light.

However, the global diaspora of airconditioned environments has greatly neutralized many of these experiences with the wide-spread notions of â&#x20AC;&#x153;modern comfortâ&#x20AC;? and modern environmental control equipments.

The air will now carry curatorial purpose.

Museum environments are among the most controlled, conditioned environments. The Museum of Diaspora challenges the normative enironment by providing curators the opportunity to integrate the atmospheric environment of the museum into the curation process.

le shi Temp Meenak i, India Madura

Ice Cream

Vendor in Dis ney World Florida

The Museum of Diaspora challenges curators to include another sensory dimension to the museum experience. The air can enhance, contrast, induce comfort/discomfort, produce physiological effects for museum exhibits, the air can even be the exhibit itself.

Stephen Chou

The Museum of Diaspora: Atmospheric Environments, Curated.

Inhabiting the AHU.

AHU AHU

The air-conditioning process itself exists a diverse set of atmospheric conditions - all within the air handling unit! The Museum of Disapora seeks to inhabit the AHU.

Exterior Exterior

Full Control Full Control

No Control No Control

Interior

Fan

Interior

Filter

Fan

Heater

Filter

Cooler

Heater

Cooler

Active Control Humidity Control Humidity Control

Active Control

Passive Control Passive Control Exterior

Rain Screen/ Filter Rain Screen/ Filter

Air Space/ Insulation 1 Air Space/ Insulation 1

Exterior/ No Control Exterior/ No Control

Polyurethane/ Insulation 2 Polyurethane/ Insulation 2

Vapor Barrier Vapor Barrier

No Control

Exterior Full

Galleries

Control

Interior/ Full Control Interior/ Full Control

Exterior

Full Control Full Control

No Control No Control

Interior Interior

Interior Exterior

Exterior

Cafe Seating + Lounge

Outdoor Garden

No Control

Seasonal Gallery

Full Control

Galleries

Human Residue Space

Contolled Air Exhibits

Exterior

Cafe Seating + Lounge Lobby

Full Control

No Control

Kitchen + Storage

Interior

Exterior

Edu. Offices

Social Spaces Full Control

No Control

Classrooms

Admin. Offices

Interior

Stephen Chou

No Control

Lobby + Reception

Full Control

Multimedia Gallery Interior

The Museum of Diaspora: Atmospheric Environments, Curated.

Stephen Chou

Dessert Shop Singapore

Fan

Filter

JUL

F RH

JAN

Mechanical Zone

Materials Process Room

Storage

Ice JUL Cream F RH

JAN

JUL

Vendor in Dis ney World Florida

Reception

Lobby

F Gallery

Gallery

Exterior/ No Control

Chr

Gallery Bubble

JAN

Central Heating/Cooling Source

JUL

Mechanical Core

Admin. Offices (Seasonal)

Kitchen

Office Equipment Room

Admin. Offices

Cafe Seating

F Social Spaces

Cafe Seating

Courtyard

Classroom Multimedia Gallery

Education Offices

Supplementary Heating/Cooling Source Mechanical Gardens

Stephen Chou

Gallery

JAN

Auditorium Gallery

F RH

Gallery

Mechanical Core

JUL

Gallery

Mechanical Core

ysti

Bow ery

The formal logic of the building is the separation of wall layers creating pockets of different types of containments.

Event Space + Gallery

JAN

Air Space/ Insulation 1

Changing Rooms

Gallery

JUL

Rain Outdoor Screen/ Garden Filter

JAN

Mechanical Core

mple kshi Te Meena , India Madurai

Kang

China Through the separation of the Northern conventional (stacked) systems, new containments could be formed to house a variety of conditions between the exterior/interior and no-control/fullcontrol zones.

Heater

Mechanical Core

The environmental control systems of architecture consists of: - Active control system - mechanical systems that condition atmosphereMacro - Passive control system - material Meso systems that control the containment/ Micro separation of atmospheres.

Mechanical Core

The Museum of Diaspora: Atmospheric Environments, Curated.

Event Space

Rooftop Garden

The Museum of Diaspora: Atmospheric Environments, Curated.

The museum takes advantage of the piecewise active control with the layers of passive control systems to create curated environments.

Air will be filtered and taken in from the Chrystie Street faรงade and will be ventilated through layers of different containments in piecewise conditioning processes at each level. Curators are not only able to generate specific atmospheres for curatorial purposes in the fully enclosed, controlled Bowery side, but may also selectively utilize the New York City atmosphere (exterior/ Chrystie st. side) along the air processing sequence.

Stephen Chou

The Museum of Diaspora: Atmospheric Environments, Curated.

The Chrysite St. facade is composed of a grid of filters that would register the air condition of the site as it filters air into the building.

The exterior space can utilize the climate of NYC to hold seasonal exhibits, it can also serve as an mixing air space to exhibit the effects when the curated air comes in contact with the exterior.

Stephen Chou

The Museum of Diaspora: Atmospheric Environments, Curated.

While participating in a tropical event in the main exhibition hall, visitors can also see through into a layers of different atmospheric and lighting conditions of other exhibits.

(Right page) Conceptual model of the museum illustratiing transparency of its expression, and the intensity of HVAC infrastructure distributed within the building.

Stephen Chou

The Museum of Diaspora: Atmospheric Environments, Curated.

Stephen Chou

Airlab NYC

Urban Density for Science Research CORE STUDIO I: Degrees of Uncertainty Fall 2009 Critic: Site:

Janette Kim The High Line Chelsea, NYC

Stephen Chou

Airlab NYC is a research institution dedicated to climate and environmental research. The field of study itself has significant implications to the public and has grown to become some of the most publicly debated genre of science in recent years. The institution building, located in Chelsea next to the High Line, should therefore take

advantage of the densely populated urban site. Besides of providing interconnected, multi-functional public and disaplay spaces, the building also has symbiotic programmatic relationships to its urban surroundings, maximizing opportunities for active public engagement with science.

Airlab NYC

15,480,194 2.7%

8,141,878 2.4%

557,860,307

331,103,022

8,363,710

760,009,500

830,565,100 3,279,304 1.3%

87,479 + ( ? )

= 10,000 people

248,974,836

368,003 11.22%

55,372,860

China

India

USA

Urban Population Growth (USA)

Science research benefiting from urban density? The sharing of resources + the increased interaction between people

New York City

Chelsea District

As a result of the rapid, continual population growth and other economic, social, political forces, the massive, global trend of urbanization extending into the coming decades has become a certainty. High density urban areas may become preferable for its ability to maximize the sharing of resources (internally and externally) and the increased interaction between people to generate new social conditions.

diverse population living or traveling through the site. As an urban building, it can share space to the public while attracting interest or new urban functions in return. It can also strategically utilize existing site conditions to activate different public programs. By further investigating program timetables, airlab may effectivelt achieve the sharing of resources both internally and externally.

The airlab as a science institution in an urban setting can benefit through promoting its work to the dense and 80

Stephen Chou

Airlab NYC

Time-sharing between different programs and providing flexibility in divisions for multiple public/ private configurations.

Internally, programs are organized according to its determinacy to generate more flexible spaces that could be adopted for the use of different publics at different amounts. A system of wireframing is used to divide, sub-divide, and connect spaces, while different enclosures can still exist in parallel by

adding glass or solid divisions. The screening capability of the wireframe also provides different moments of interaction between the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different users.

Wet Lab Ad-Hoc Dry Lab Stationary Dry Lab Administrative Offices Principal Offices

Conference Room

Library Stacks Reading Room Outdoor Observation Area

Scientists + Staff

Generator Room Materials Storage Hub Photography Work Station Data Storage

Tourists

Kitchen Lab Toilets Common Room Deck

Elevator

Visitors

Vehicle Garage

Public Toilet Public Elevator

Neighbors

Observation Deck

Auditorium Auditorium Toilets

VIP 24hr Public Cafe Convenience Store

Rest Areas Nighttime Public Open Space

Monitoring Station

Stephen Chou

Lab

Lab Data Storage

Data Storage

Airlab NYC

FAR = 6 RF

10F

Wet Lab

Lab

Equipment Storage

Data Storage

Materials Storage

Seminar Room

Rest Area Wet Lab

Public Toilet

Data Storage

10F Wet Lab

3F 7F

Wet Lab

Public Toilet Seminar Room

Materials Storage Wet Lab RF

10F

FAR = 6 Wet Lab

Wet Lab

Wet Wet Lab Lab

Equipment Storage Rest Area Data Storage

Wet Data Lab Storage

4F9F

Wet Lab

10F 5F 3F

Wet Lab Public Toilet

Materials Storage 3F

Wet Lab

Seminar Room

Public Toilet

Wet Lab

Materials Storage

Wet Lab

Stephen Chou 6F

Airlab NYC

The bottom levels provide public access to the Highline, while sharing the garage space to mobile facilities in the city (food trucks or bodega carts for instance). The mid-levels provide an auditorium that connects to the highline for public use, while taking the Highline as stage of visual attention.

RF 10F 9F 8F

Stephen Chou

Airlab NYC

By utilizing the existing High Line auditorium, Airlab becomes a stage to communicate science or environmental issues to the broader public, with its top levels offering the opportunities for large scale display that will face the Highline.

Stephen Chou

Airlab NYC

The ground level provides an inviting entry into the building, as well as a covered public stairway directly connecting to the High Line. Space is provided to accommodate different urban programs - in this case, food trucks.

Stephen Chou

LABS/ WORKSHOPS

Stephen Chou

Beijing Super South Infrastructure, Logistics, and Urban Expansion China Lab: International Workshop Summer 2010 Instructors: Lawrence Liaow Jeffrey Johnson Yu-Fang Zhou Team:

Stephen Chou Shuang Liang Xinxin Liu Sarah Ng Mengni Wang

Site:

Beijing, China

Stephen Chou

Over the past two decades, Beijing had experieced unprecedented population growth and physical expansion. Many plans were made and implemented Olympic Parks to the north, international airport and CBD to the east, historic preservation and recreation to the west; the south of Beijing, however, remains relatively undefined.

With a focus on transportation infrastructures, we envision the south of Beijing having the opportunity to become a vital logistics center that would support the rest of the city and influence its future growth. The workshop is a collaboration between GSAPP, Central Academy of Fina Arts (Beijing, China), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

INFRASTRUCTURE 基础建设

基础建设

Beijing Super South: Infrastructure, Logistics, and Urban Expansion

infrastructures carry the Can infrastructure respond to Transportation The basic organizational structures and services INFRASTRUCTURE flows of people and commodities - flows the dynamism, complexity and that are cyclic, fluctuating, andthe anticipate needed for operations of the city. Thetrends basic structures and services INFRASTRUCTURE short and long-term of organizational change. growth of the flows of people needed foronce thebuilt, operations of the city.virtual, natural). However, the infrastructures, and commodities? The management of flows (physical, LOGISTICS remain relatively static, depending on policy and constant to Themanagement management of flows (physical, virtual, natural). LOGISTICS respond to any changes in flows.

PEOPLE PEOPLE

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dwellingROAD ROAD working

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2 3 4 average

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DAILY CYCLES

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maximum

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maximum average

average Daily Cycles

TIME People Freight TIME

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CHINA From Beijing to most major CHINA HIGHSPEED Chinese cities within 8 Hrs. HIGHSPEED Beijing - Shanghai: 4Hrs RAIL Beijing - Guangzhou: 7 Hrs RAIL SYSTEM SYSTEM

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HARD HARD

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Rail capacity according to time of year

Freight

(10,000 cars) (10,000 cars)

2010

50% Increase 50% Increase 2,000 New Cars Sold in Beijing / Day 2,000

in Private Car Ownership 2006-2009

MORE THAN 2010 2020 AIR PASSENGER 2020 AIR PASSENGER MORE MORE THAN 2010 THAN 2010

NEW AIRPORT NEW AIRPORT in Beijing South

AUG

Rail capacity according to time of year

TIME

3 TIMES MORE THAN 2010 3 TIMES

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JUN

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INCREASE OF RAIL PASSENGER 2020 INCREASE OF RAIL PASSENGERTHAN 20202008

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10:00 10:00

PEOPLE

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PERIODIC CHANGE PERIODCAL CHANGE

in Private Car Ownership 2006-2009

(Jan - Jun 2010)

New Cars Sold in Beijing / Day (Jan - Jun 2010)

2012 2012 Expanded Expanded BEIJING BEIJING SUBWAY SUBWAY SYSTEM SYSTEM

Beijing has grown substantially over the past two decades, its transportation infrastructures (largely road networks) rapidly constructed and extended to keep up with the speed of expansion. Stephen Chou

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Beijing Super South: Infrastructure, Logistics, and Urban Expansion

Southern Beijing has been, and will continue to be, Beijing’s main interface to the rest of China. Due to Beijing’s geographic location, most of the city’s passenger and freight traffic going into and out of the city are from the south, forming clusters of logistic and storage facilities in the area.

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36% 49%

13%

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6th Rin

Logistic Facilities Warehouses

Current Condition: Low-density, under-utilized sprawl of unorganized logistical facilities that are rejected to the periphery of the city.

Stephen Chou

While concentrated at several locations, most of these logistic/processing facilites are spread out on a vast land area. The disproportionate scales between the road infrastructure and human concentration makes large portions of the area vacant closed facilities, uninhabited residences, abandoned commercial developments, etc.

Deemed as undesirable, these facilities, while crucial to the functioning of the city, will be again expelled further out to the periphery as new regulations restrict heavy freight traffic from entering the 6th Ring Road since 2009.

Beijing Super South: Infrastructure, Logistics, and Urban Expansion

Create concentrated logistic buffer zones, freeing other parts of the city for priorities other than efficiency.

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In conjunction with the newly planned/ under construction infrastructural networks, logistic zones can be created at points of multiple convergences. These high-density, high-efficiency zones should accommodate population and incubate related industries, making them economically viable while servicing the rest of Beijing.

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Connectivity + Programmability Hard + Soft A spatial structure that connects but also promotes programmatic concentration. Host to multiple programs that can mediate between the cycles of people/product flows and the time cycles of the city.

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Beijing Super South: Infrastructure, Logistics, and Urban Expansion

Multi-scale, time-oriented interventions can be implemented across the city. Concentrating efficiency at multiple scales - allowing other priorities to take precedence at various

Small scale efficiency boosters - facilitating people and commodity flow with minimal intervention. Ex: foot bridge shortcuts, conveyor belts, etc.

Logistics Megastructure that fully exploits the high-connectivity to the rest of the city. Accommodates storage, processing, and adminstrative programs, as well as dwellings, hostels, hotels (buffers for people flows). Retrofitting existing structures to partially become efficiency hubs for the district.

Stacked multi-mode transportation infrastructures with penetrable programs.

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Beijing Super South: Infrastructure, Logistics, and Urban Expansion

When the new infrastructure intervenes the existing fabric, Megastructural Existing Structures it should compensate what the area is lacking. Intervention Intervention

Whenflows the new infrastructure intervenes theflows existing Managing at the city Managing at thefabric, district it should compensate what the area is lacking. scale. scale.

Minimal Intervention Managing flows at the neighborhood/building scale

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Programs embedded in the new structures should help absorb or facilitate flows, that more smartly account for cyclic and future changes.

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Workshop exhibition at Avery Hall.

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Augmented Territories Speculating Ecological Futures at the Axios River Delta Thessaloniki International Workshop Summer 2011 Instructor: Lydia Kallipoliti Team: Site:

Alexandros Charidis Stephen Chou Thodoris Kyttas Eliza Montgomery Anna Obraztsova Vassilis Papakonstantinou Thessaloniki, Greece

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The Axios River Delta is a region of evershifting boundaries - boundaries between the wet and the dry, between freshwater and saltwater, between different habitats, between the city and the rural. The city of Thessaloniki has experienced substantial growth over the past half a century, as population increase and productive activities expand, the boundaries between intense human

habitation and natural reserve come clashing. Augmented Territories is a research project that seeks to understand the scopes and behaviors of these boundaries, and propose opportunities for the Delta to become a productive site for energy/algae production, formulate enhancements to the natural habitats, and reintroducing the region as a site of public interest to the people of Thessaloniki.

Augmented Territories: Speculating Ecological Futures at the Axios River Delta

The Axios Delta Region is a region of shifting boundaries: between the wet and the dry, freshwater and saltwater, human production and natural reserve.

As Thessaloniki expands its city boundaries, the Axios River Delta has come in conflict with the expansion of industrial and agricultural production. While some areas within the region were desolated, new habitats also emerged along with human activity that are rich in biodiversity, becoming new homes to different species.

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Rice Fields Redistributing water between different habitats

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Tidal Marshes Provide structures for potential colonies

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Shoreline

Relieving draught during dry seasons

Lagoon

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Augmented Territories: Speculating Ecological Futures at the Axios River Delta

The Axios River Delta consists of shifting boundaries of land and sea, with much gray zones in between.

It serves as home to migratory animals as well as year-long inhabitants with shifting territories.

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Mediterranean Halophilous Scrubland Reed Beds Thermo-Mediterranean Riparian Galleries Mediterranean Salt Meadows

Agricultural Runoff

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Currents of Thermaikos Bay

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Shifting and Overlapping Boundaries

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Influenced by Shallow Waters, Topography, and the Confluence of Multiple Flows

Algae bloom: periodic phenomenon related to the biological content in the water and intensity of human activity present in the water.

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Augmented Territories: Speculating Ecological Futures at the Axios River Delta

Water and matter are the defining parameters in the characters of each micro habitat. Redistributing them may activate old/new conditions and bring diversity to the region.

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Human production surrounding the site has greatly changed how water and matter are distributed on site, and therefore transforming the landscape. The goal of redistribution is not to â&#x20AC;&#x153;restoreâ&#x20AC;? a certain nature that has already been modified by human activities. Instead, it is to identify moments in which productive activity can form alliances with biodiversity, whether these conditions existed on site before or not.

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Algae may be used for biofuel production and serve as agent for water and matter redistribution.

As a living matter carried and distributed by water, algae may be used for biofuel production while its byproduct (algae pulp, processed to have similar properties as paper pulp) may become a biodegradable material for casting spaces. By establishing minimal infrastructure to harvest and redistribute algae, the site may

pose an opportunity for energy production, habitat creation (native and non-native), and a site of interest for visitors from the city.

dynamic insect habitation

matter accumulation

formwork structure redistribution tubes

processing machine

fluid transportation

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Crinkle!

Surface/Screen/Structure SSS: BUILDING TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE Fall 2011 Instructor: Team: Site:

Joseph Vidich Stephen Chou Kelsey Lents Allison Rozwat Adidas Performance Store 610 Broadway, New York, NY

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Crinkle! is a sunscreen system developed for the Adidas Sports Performance Store on 610 Broadway. It consists of lasercut stainless steel sheet metal units that aggregate into a 3-dimensional, undulating, porous system that not only dissolves the severity of the original gridded facade, but also wraps around the building to accentuate the top levels of the street corner.

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Crinkle!: Surface/Screen/Structure

A unitized panel system that creates a 3-dimensional, undulating, porous surface that does not conform to the mullion grid. The current facade of the Adidas Sports Performance Store is a regularized glasss curtain wall system. We wanted to introduce a united system that has the potential to create a more sculptural, engaging screen to break the severity of the current mullion grid, and take advantage of the wide street crossing - a prime opportunity for the viewer to see the entire facade at street level.

aggregation to create basic bean dashed line showing fold pattern

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Re-accentuating the building corner to the BroadwayHouston St. crossing.

The overall aggrgation wraps around the building to re-configure the uniform 1. standardized perforation pattern allows glass curtain wall facade by purposefully 6 potential revealingplacements the top of levels of the building pipe on each street corner. triangle As a wide crossing gathering a large amount of traffic, it would serve 4. to example showing bring visualcreation attention and suggest different of 6. continuous pipe armature programs with the building. 5.

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CNC-Bent pipe armature system that not only supports the panel system, but also supplement the overall sculptural quality.

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The laser cut-stainless steel panels are also perforated with a dotted pattern that would serve as rivet points for the connecting ties to the armature system. The ties are special laser cut joinery pieces that fit the panel perforation pattern and accommodate the armature pipes to pass through on multiple directions.

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Crinkle!: Surface/Screen/Structure

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Construction Diagram working drawing for construction of fabricated metal panels showing: pipe bend angles panel bend angles pipe and perforation pattern

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Filtro-Kiosk FABRICATION: FORMWORKS Fall 2010 Instructor: Team: Site:

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Filtro-Kiosk is a specially developed brick system to construct a wall that is able to carry the flow of water through cascading levels and multiple filtration units. These filtration kiosks are sited in a school in Malawi, where water infrastructure is under-developed and main access to water are through water kiosks. The goal is not only to provide for useable water, but to also visualize the filtration process, and create a visually and ambiently compelling space.

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Formworks: Filtro-Kiosk

WATER INFRASTRUCTURES

Lake Malawi

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WATER INFRASTRUCTURES Lake Malawi

Water kiosks present ancommunity effective way ofassociations operate, maintain, The intervention for bringing Self-organized delivering safe drinking water and collect revenue.to urban fresh water will be at the scale communities LILONGWE of population where there is a basic Water kiosks present an effective way of It is often inappropriate to sink wells or and type similar to existing supply (2004)network in place. The has access to safe domestic water delivering safe drinking water to urban drill boreholes in urban and semi-urban supply network may lack the capacity water kiosks, presently the communities where there is a basic neighbourhoods as conditions of to overcrowding support the connection of individual domestic supply network in place. The and poor waste disposal predominant water source in households water kiosks offer a way supply network may lack the capacity to can lead tobut groundwater contamination rural population to and dispense drinking water using existing support the connection of individual pollution of these sources. Lilongwe. of has access to safe water (2004)

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Unsafe sewage disposal,water through filtration, but also serve an educational purpose by visualizing the agricultural runoff, flow of water and filtration process. and soil erosion due to deforestation combine to contaminate much of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh water.

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Unsafe sewage disposal, agricultural runoff, and soil erosion due to deforestation combine to contaminate much of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh water.

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configurations used in water kiosk

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AGGREGATION POSSIBILITIES

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Formworks: Filtro-Kiosk

Aerated concrete is a light weight structural concrete, created by a mixture of concrete and aluminum powder, which generates hydrogen bubbles during the curing process. The trapped bubbles of hydrogen ultimately evaporates and creates small closed cell air pocket in the concrete. We hypothesize that by manipulating the amount of aluminum added into the mixture, the density of the cell structures can then be manipulated, allowing flow of water at a rate to be determined.

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The filtro-wall system may tap into existing grey water facilities on site, and take advantage of the terrain to introduce naturally flowing water. Given the educational purpose of the site, and the evaporative cooling effects and acoustical ambience of flowing water, the water kiosks may extend beyond utilitarian use, and become a place that is communal, educational, and compelling. 119

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Top to bottom: Material studies in aerated concrete - concrete mixture with aluminum powder at different ratio mixtures. CNC milling of the two part mold. Finial casting result.

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Living Architecture: Overheard

Input

Processing

Spoken words

Output Elevator mood change

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“fantastic!”

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“awesome!” “ewww!” e!” “dammit!”

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David Benjamin Soo-In Yang Momosuke Araki Stephen Chou Kyle Hovenkotter

Through the integration of speech recognition technology, internet live feed services, and responsive architectural outputs, the “Overheard” project seeks to transform qualities of our physical space - such as mood and atmosphere - according to our spoken words, creating an environment that would actively respond and participate with the conversations of its inhabitants.

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In Overheard, students in studio engage in a conversation about a particular topic (“output shop!”), certain keywords, such as exclamations (“good!”,“bad!”), are constantly monitored, collected, tallied, and updated onto Pachube (an online service which provides live data storage and broadcasting through the internet).

+ Positive Tally

Data collected from overheard conversations are used to transform the qualities of a space - activating new moods, actions, and conversations.

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Living Architecture: Overheard

The data will then be downloaded to alter the color, pattern, and intensity of lighting in the elevator (remote site), transforming the mood of this confined space and activating new moods, actions, and conversations for people who circulate through it.

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alarming, intense, blink

Functioning prototype installed in the elevator of Avery Hall.

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The Dual Square Grid Facade ADVANCED CURTAIN WALLS Spring 2012 Instructor: Robert Heintges Site: New York City

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The concept of the facade design for the 24 hour active exhibition/ social center is the changing mediation of transparency, opacity, and geometry between two squaregridded planes: the inner glass curtain wall plane and the outer louver plane, translated from Jack Tworkovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Knight Series paintings.

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The louver plane is consisted of prefabricated 6’ x 6’ square panels that hold electrically controlled operable aluminum louvers. These panels are installed onto a structural and electrical supply grid frame hung from the roof of the building and stiffened by outriggers throughout the facade. The inner glass unit-system curtain wall has a matching 6’ x 6’ square mullion grid.

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Right above the entrance an distortion of the grid is created through cold-bent panels, subtlety highlighting the entry while opening a view to look straight above between the two grid planes. The transparency and geometric expression of the building is actively changing through the changing louvers as well as activities through the day and light from the interior at night.

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LOUVER FRAME SUPPORT BOLT-CONNECTED TO STEEL PLATE EMBEDDED AT SLAB EDGE OF ROOF SLAB

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OUTRIGGERS AS WIND LOAD TIES FOR LOUVER FRAME CONNECTED TO PLATE, BOLT CONNECTED TO MULLION

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DATA AND POWER CABLES SUPPLYING LOUVER MOVEMENT

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PLAN SECTION DETAIL AT LOUVER FRAME SUPPORT

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The New Tilt-Up: A Composite Tilt-Up Panel Industrial Building

The New Tilt-Up

A Composite Tilt-Up Panel Industrial Loft ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES V Spring 2010 Instructors: A J. Hibbs + Pat Hopple + Elias Dagher Team: Benjamin Brichta Stephen Chou Rubah Musvee Allison Rozwat

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For the Bunker Loft in the Bronx, New York, we revisit the notion of load-bearing masonry construction through exploring the possibilities of precast concrete construction. Rather than the stacking of purely generic, mass-produced â&#x20AC;&#x153;blocksâ&#x20AC;?(such as bricks, stone blocks or CMUs, as traditionally used), we

propose exploiting the contemporary ability to manufacture highly-designed building components, and seek to simultaneously address building functions other than structure such as the enclosure and mechanical systems through masonry construction.

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The New Tilt-Up: A Composite Tilt-Up Panel Industrial Building

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The New Tilt-Up: A Composite Tilt-Up Panel Industrial Building

1/2” INCH STEEL PLATE, FIELD WELDED 1/2” INCH STEEL PLATE, FIELD WELDED CONNECTOR BETWEEN INSULATION AND CONCRETE INTEGRATED MECHANICAL AIR DUCT (HIDDEN) RACEWAY ELECTRICAL CONDUIT AND RADIANT SYSTEM (HIDDEN) 1/2” INCH STEEL WINDOW SEAT AND SILL 28’ 0”

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3’ 0”

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

3 P1.0

2’ 4”

4’ 2”

3. TYPICAL PANEL SECTION

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

9’ 0”

3. GROUND FLOOR PANEL SECTION

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

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Radiant Heating/Cooling Supply and Return Pipes Connects to Boiler/Chiller Radiant Heating/Cooling Manifold Access Box

Air Intake

AHU

Air Exhaust Supply Air Diffusers

Supply air feed into Termodeck

Supply air delivery through panel

Radiant Heating/Cooling System Embedded in Topping Slab

3’ 1”

14’ 0”

1-3 . TOP FLOOR PANEL PLAN

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

3’ 1”

1’ 1”

11’ 11-1/2” 28’ 0”

1’1”

1’0”

1’ 1”

7’ 0”

14’ 0”

8’ 9”

14’ 0”

4. LIGHT WELL PANEL PLAN

2-3 . SIDE WALL PANEL PLAN

3-3 . CORNER PANEL PLAN

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

23’ 8”

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

3’ 1”

4’ 10”

8’ 9”

1’ 3-1/2”

11’ 11-1/2”

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

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4’ 2”

3 P4.0

3. LIGHT WELL PANEL SECTION

3-2 P5.0

1-2 P5.0

1-1 P4.0

2. LIGHT WELL PANEL ELEVATION

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

13’ 9-1/2”

16’ 10”

5’ 2”

9’ 7”

1-2 P4.0

1-1 P4.0

1-2 . TOP FLOOR PANEL SECTION SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

1-1 . TOP FLOOR PANEL ELEVATION

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

3-2 . CORNER PANEL SECTION SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

3-1 . CORNER PANEL ELEVATION

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

2-2 . SIDE WALL PANEL SECTION SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

2-2 P5.0

2-1 . SIDE WALL PANEL ELEVATION

SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

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Analysis of David Ingalls Rink by Eero Saarinen ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES III Fall 2010 Instructors: Robert Condon Team: Stephen Chou Adrian Coleman Idan Noar Allison Rozwat

Sidewalls tilted at a 15 degree angle may reduce moment induced from cable pull.

Three struts run across the building foundation to hold both side walls in place, stablizing the overall structure.

The buttressing of the bleacher structure and the bracing of the plates of the peripheral walkway both act to resist sidewall movement.

UR VA TU RE

SECTION A1 EX NV CO

ANTI-CLASTIC CONCEPT

WIN

CONC AVE

CUR VATU RE

FTx FTy

UCTI

RVE

EX CU

CONV

WIN

WIND PRESSURE RES

TYP. FASTENING B FT FTx

SUR

CONC

AVE CU

RVE

FTy WIN

UCTI

FT (pre-tension) FC

TYP. FASTENING A

FT (pre-tension) FT (pre-tension)

FC FT (pre-tension)

WIN

RES

SUR

WIND SUCTION

FTx FT FTx

Side walls thicken as foundation bracing or buttress supports disappear

FTy

Side walls stabilized both by buttress supports from the bleachers and foundation

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FTy

TYP. FASTENING AQ-1

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D STRE

MANSFIEL

CABLE ROOF WOOD

DIVIDE

R STRIP

SAND

SLATE ON COMPACTED

GROUND COVER

43 42 41

CENTRAL ARCH

43 44

39 40 41 42

PROPERTY LINE

SACHEM STREET

GRASS

36 37 38

SLATE ON COMPACTED

SAND

WOOD

DIVIDE

DRIVE

R STRIP

EXISTING RESIDENCE

44 45

45 46

GRASS

EXISTING SIDEWALK DAVID S. INGALLS RINK YALE UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN, CONN.

PROSPECT STREET

EERO SAARINEN

MAIN FLOOR PLAN 1’ = 1/16”

ALLISON ROZWAT_STEPHEN CHOU_IDAN NAOR_ADRIAN COLEMAN

CURVED EXTERIOR WALL HVAC

Loads (Snow, wind, etc.) applied on concave will cause uplifting force at the middle/top of the arch.

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HIGHER REBAR DENSITY: HIGHER STRENGTH IN TENSION

Top longitudinal cable attached to arch: When resisting flutter, cable causes tension forces on the top of arch, therefore needing higher rebar density at the top.

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