Humanitarian
Humanitarian Megan Garrick Hailey Ciolino
Bailey Sanford Jeffery Montano
Spiritual Sayeda Islam
Tyler Moulton
Deanna Botkin
Environmental Tony Cautilli Cassidy Deering
Housing
Melinda Anselmo
Jillian Strauss Megan Mueller
Miscellaneous Madison Goff Sophie Johnson Matthew Barden
Megan Garrick My thesis began after wondering what happened to the children that were taken by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the early 2000s to 2017. After researching about why the children were taken by the LRA in the first place I began to learn about street kids in Uganda. Many children were left orphans because of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, their parents did not have the means or wants to care for them, or their parents were killed by the LRA and other war criminals.This project seeks to create a place where these children are and feel safe as well as creating a space where they can develop and flourish before reentering society.
The design porcess for this porject started with a site analysis drawing. My site is located in Kampala, Uganda where there is one of the alrgest population of street children. The site I chose is a soccer field and a basket ball court with vast open areas. It is also located in a very developed and wealthy area. I chose this particular location because this site was already designed for children and play, as well as allowing these children to not feel less than like they are made to feel in the inner city by being in a clean, developed area. Often these children face abuse when living on the streets. Many are human trafficked, forced to beg for money; some are even forced to prostitute themselves to survive. Many of the young boys living on the street are forced to use drugs by older kids. This space strives to create a space for rehabilitation, safety, and peace. Shown on this page are process drawings; the one to the left a tschumi inspired drawing pertaining to section and space. The other set of sketches came from overlap drawings of the site analysis.
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Shown below are model shots of a massing model, as well as a design from a floor plan that was made into a rubber stamp.
The intention of this project is to provide a welcoming environment to the local community at the University of Khartoum. Although it is legal in Sudan for women to pray in mosques, many of them will not go because they are not made to feel welcome by the male population. In 2019 on the eve of the Muslim holiday Ramadan, a protest for equality and safety for the civilians of Khartoum took place. After an initial attempt by men in police uniforms to move a barricade, witnesses said RSF soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesters, instantly killing many. the soldiers rounded up and beat protesters, subjecting them to various abuses and humiliation, burned tents and looted and destroyed property. they also raped protesters and committed other acts of sexual violence. “Shooting was clearly targeted and intentional..; they directed their guns at us... they were shouting kill them, kill them’ all the time. I saw so many bodies hit by bullets while i was running.” - Amir, a witness to the June 3 violent disperal of protesters, Khartoum, August 2019
After doing site research through images on google earth, I decided how I was going to place my local justice center and where. The university offers many students of diversity. The goal of this project is to bring people together and offer a space to come together to help fight towards a more equal society. Drawing my site helped me to further develop my ideas and learn more about the landscape and surrounding environments of my site.
“Shooting was clearly targeted and intentional..; They directed their guns at us... They were shouting kill them, kill them’ all the time. I saw so many bodies hit by bullets while i was running.” - Amir, a witness to the June 3 violent disperal of protesters, Khartoum, August 2019
The creative design of this building is derived from past models and through inspiration of local architecture. Light became a very important detail when designing walls, leading to the layout of space. My design includes a series of buildings connected by outside passage ways. Due to the high temperature Sudan faces year round, creating natural cooling became a topic of great interest through my design process
The program includes a mix of private and gathering spaces in order to offer choice in function for visitors. This center will offer safe and welcoming spaces for women to pray, gathering spaces for women and the community to come together against gender inequality, and offer community gardens as a chance for people to work together and interact.
Hailey Ciolino
Bailey Sanford
Delhi is one of the largest cities in the world facing large problems of overpopulation, air pollution, housing, waste disposal, poverty, and homelessness. Experts measured an air quality equivalent of smoking 45 to 50 cigarettes a day. To combat these problems, multifunctional structures of many programs are to be created, with a large emphasis on poverty, self-sufficiency, gardening, and religion.
Site: 90, Amrit Kaur Market, Opp. New Delhi Railway Station, Paharganj, Delhi 110055, India
The site consists of two buildings located on the area. These two buildings were thought of when designing seperate different models and putting them together to create a building, in which is shown on the left as building number one. The use of repeition was then called to action as the second building shown below took an aspect of the model and was repeated in order to get building number two.
“Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and chang-ing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.” -Le Corbusier
In India, religion is more publicly visible than it is in English speakiing Western countries. This becomes more evident when considering the numerous spaces that are thought to be sacred and holy. These structures contain areas in order to respect the religions located in New Delhi. Hinduism is the majority religion with 81% of the populating practing this, allocating shrines in the buildings programs for those who practice.
The programs of these structures were intended to be multipurposeful. Rooms in the plans show programs such as a tea area, an art studio, a public kitchen, a library, a recycling center, homeless shelters, hostels, and an area of silence. An emphasis was placed on having multiple rooftop gardens in order to bring back the aspect of nature into an overpopulated city area.
Jeffery Montano
Located in Aleppo, Syria this project is having architecture bring peace and revive the well-respected/colliding cultures in War-torn Syria, that was once harmonized in the past. While westernized imperialism occurred, much of the ancestor’s harmonized culture of architecture (Mosque and Churches placed back-to-back) was lost, thus dividing these entanglements, and creating social hierarchy neighborhoods. This community center/neighborhood resembles the intertwining’s of cultures once formed by ancestors and invites the neighboring communities to come together in stead of being separated by power once again.
After some research I stumbled upon a couple of unique artifacts from the site and designed 1/16” models of my interpretation. (Connection. gabled roofs, city markets).
Intersection model, Overlapping building model, demonstrate the peace brought by Syrian architecture, sharing buildings and churches is what brought the people together.
“In Old Aleppo, on religious grounds, you are blessed by being good to your neighbours, and that you earn your place in the community - such is what true belonging consists in: Facing adjoining shops, a shared route under one ceiling that united them, and one sky above them all.”
Largely inspired by ancestry beliefs of clustered culture. This surrounding neighborhoods create an overlapping connection, allowing the community to communicate with each other in person because thats how news was passed around before. These overlapping buildings also played with the idea of light creating these shadows allowing the people to have peace while praying or be a part of the community in group prayers.
The programs for this community center, is centered around the idea of humanitarian help. Places like pray areas, food courts for the homeless creates privates and public areas. The shadows from the opverlapping building helps create this public and private threshold of a program.
Spiritual
Humanitarian Megan Garrick Hailey Ciolino Bailey Sanford Jeffery Montano
Spiritual Sayeda Islam
Tyler Moulton
Deanna Botkin
Environmental Tony Cautilli Cassidy Deering
Housing
Melinda Anselmo
Jillian Strauss Megan Mueller
Miscellaneous Madison Goff Sophie Johnson Matthew Barden
Sayeda Islam The site is very close to my heart and the most populated city that has been the busiest city. This is where my roots are, the place of my ancestors. I grew up here, The place which very few knows This is a beautiful city in Bangladesh which has its own uniqueness This city is called Dhaka. The purpose of this thesis is not only to introduce a mosque as a space for spiritual assembly, but also to create a space for gather-ing people from all other religions or people who do not follow any religion. Regardless of their religious con-text, the complex should spread the idea of an exchangeable understanding among individuals.
I’ve watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridg-ing. The place that Prophet made to worship in, called the Makkah, is not built of earth and water and stone, but of intention and wisdom and mystical conversation and compassionate action. This thesis is also about a place like that
The aim is to ensure that every body may access or watch over the main prayer hall from other spaces around it, so that what happens inside can no longer be concealed and secret to people from other religions. In reality, even those who do not perform participate by visualizing the community prayer and obtaining the essence of the greatness and overwhelming power of community gathering.
“Perhaps it is close behind you – some of that for which you are impatient.” Surah Naml Ayat 72 Ayat 185
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Tyler Moulton The design focuses on creat-ing an internal threshold rather than an external threshold. By focusing on balance within the chakras, I realized that there can be balance between more than just two components. The long and the short, the high and the low, the loud and soft, the before and the after--all are opposites. Each reveals the other. It dulls its own sharpness, and dims its own brightness. Throughout the project the chakras work off of each other, rather than existing for themselves. While seeing into every corner, they are unobtrusive. Too much light blinds the eye; too much noise deafens the ear. Either too soft nor too hard-- All things are in process, rising and returning. We too are part of this great rising, crossing, and setting. and return.
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Even the body is transformed into a set of eyes, providing an empowered path into the future for us to journey along, offering us different ways of looking at our innermost being.The task becomes to “enter” the story, to make it your own, to have it live and breathe though and within you. However, none of us possess the knowledge of this proper order, and thus we are uncertain. With its diverse qualities it cannot be summarized, yet it comprises an essential unity. On the surface it appears incomprehensible, but in the depths it reveals itself. The design is physically empty but does not collapse; as it contracts, it creates. Just as the tide erases the shore everyday, our mind is able to do this as well.
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Deanna Botkin
As many of us go throughout our lives we are often faced with traumas of various degrees. At times difficult to fathom, we dream of peace and of healing even in tumultuous circumstances. This project serves as a place of unity, of grounding, of belonging for all that interact within it. Sueño de humanidad focuses around the idea of universal healing that is able to be transferred across differences and manipulated upon based on the 6 fundamental pillars of sacred space (sanctified, memoriam, quotidian, idiosyncratic, communal, and stereotomic). Recognizing the relationship that each of us have within these spaces, and ultimately seek out, this project offers a culturally boundless design of serenity and peace as an answer to this desire for healing. Expanding off of these main principles the project serves as a holistic design in itself, intended to be taken and manipulated throughout various sites in the world. Within this project, the built and the natural come together to offer a space of meaning, tradition, culture, dreams, and rehabilitation. The sense of space would be achieved through both the sensory experience and human response to the projects. Through our endless search for peace, we find ourselves unified in our endeavor. Así, solo en un sueño estamos en uno.
(left) programmatic drawing illustrating the 6 pillars that are fundamental to achieve sacred space, and are the aspects we seek out as humans. within the center of the drawing illustrates the 3 main sites and shows their connections to each of the pillars. (bottom) initial com-posite drawings to seek form- the process started by overlaying previous plan drawings of the pillars and altering/manipulating them to achieve sacred space.
collages illustrating the traumas within the three sites of Mexico, Thailand, and Afghanistan. focusing on major issues such as political unrest, mexican cartels, femicides, environmental degradation, war, displacement, & refugees. investigation of how our traumas influence the way we experience a space, and how we as a people seek peace from them.
site analysis studies for the three sites. looking into site-specific factors of each area such as threshholds, paths, and boundaries.
(bottom) Initial models for the 6 pillars of sacred space; (top) Initial passes working to combine the ideals of the pillars to achieve space
Enrique Miralles inspired site drawings illustrating buildings, landscape, and diagrammatic flows of the site
(left) diagramatic axon of the 6 pillar components for the proposed project in Patzcauro, Mexico. (right) model shot for Mexico site, larger focus on community, traditions, & interactions of others.
(right) diagramatic axon of the 6 pillar components for the proposed project in Thailand. (left) model shot for Thailand site, larger focus on individuality, procession, & spaces for reflection.
Environmental
Humanitarian Megan Garrick Hailey Ciolino Bailey Sanford Jeffery Montano
Spiritual Sayeda Islam
Tyler Moulton
Deanna Botkin
Environmental Tony Cautilli Cassidy Deering
Housing
Melinda Anselmo
Jillian Strauss Megan Mueller
Miscellaneous Madison Goff Sophie Johnson
Matthew Barden
Tony Cautilli
My thesis is about male crickets in Hawaii (especially on Oahu and Kauai) adapting to this parasitic fly (Ormia Ochracea) by altering their wings from a male field cricket which it more curved to a flat winged cricket in order to become silent and undetectable. They had to “fall silent” in order to avoid getting killed off by this fly. The process of the chirping is very important to the reproduction process of these crickets and to have them adapt to these flies they lose the ability to find a female cricket and reproduce. The main issue is when these crickets chirp the parasitic fly is attracted to the sound and eventually chases the cricket down laying its eggs into it and killing it. So, to help and protect the crickets the process of sound manipulation is entered to mask them in their surroundings.
The point of my thesis is to use sound manipulation in order to disturb or camouflage these crickets whether they are the original cricket or the adapted one by having speakers placed around the site which are set on timers to play cricket sounds/ sound waves to drag these parasitic flies away from these crickets. My idea for the site is to be a learning/Control Center to educate and experience.
Model shot into an abstract drawing into an aerial view sketch. These drawings and shots are to understand space and finding thresholds area and meditation spaces.
From the repetition of model shots inspiration and mix of anatomy I decided to introduce an outside meditation area shaped like a ribcage that goes around the elevated surface to give a, enclosed but still outside area. I also introduced gaps in the pieces to give it an organic feeling have the structure rotate to give movement to it.
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are one of my posters and one of my first preliminary drawings mapping the site and the sound waves coming from speakers around the site and their placements. The poster is diagramming drawings, models, buildings and inspiration to get more of a sense of the project collectively in one piece.
Cassidy Deering For my senior studio thesis, I’ve designed a refugee community and environmental system on the Island of Catanduanes in the Northern Philippines. When working on studio last semester, I felt extremely moved by our project the helped refugees in Beirut following the 2020 explosion, so I wanted to carry that concept of humanitarian aid over to my work this semester. Located in the Municipality of Bato, the community will sustain the lives of those affected by natural disasters, which often hit the island, leaving it in ruins. In November 2020, Catanduanes and a few of its surrounding islands were struck by Typhoon Goni, referred to by locals as Rolly; with Bato being on the western most edge of the island, the area received the hardest impact from the storm, making it the area of primary focus for relief and rehabilitation.
Inspirations from last semesters model studies were included in the overall model plan for the community. by combining the model plan and the site analysis, the spaces and connections that would eventually dictate flow of life within the refugee community slowly started to piece themselves together, reveling two separate yet intertwined environments. Comprised of multiple sectors; some for learning, growth, commerce, and community life; others for finding peace, solace, healing, and eventually strength.
Located on the islands off the shore of the mainland, sits a lighthouse and a system. The first for finding more peace within oneself and appreciation towards the natural environment, all while having an escape. The second is developed to be an early warning system for those residing in Bato and the surrounding municipalities, to alert of any odd changes in weather behavior. This system of early disaster identification will be able to better prepare those living on the mainland for the horrors that are likely to strike.
Designs for the dwelling structures were inspired by light and air, including the interactions they might have within a space. In the Philippines, the climate is rather hot and humid for majority of the year, making living conditions undesirable when the proper heating and cooling techniques are not in place. The adapted spaces(left) feature large openings and cut-out portions that seek to welcome these natural phenomenons.
Analysis of the mainland site; including axis, thresholds, topography, existing structures, and perceived available space.
Housing
Humanitarian Megan Garrick Hailey Ciolino Bailey Sanford Jeffery Montano
Spiritual Sayeda Islam
Tyler Moulton
Deanna Botkin
Environmental Tony Cautilli Cassidy Deering
Housing
Melinda Anselmo
Jillian Strauss Megan Mueller
Miscellaneous Madison Goff Sophie Johnson Matthew Barden
Melinda Anselmo
For my senior thesis project, I am interested in finding a way to build cheaper and more sustainable houses for the homeless due to drastic increase in the rate of homelessness over previous years. There are currently over 500,000 people in the United States who are considered homeless. Some have found shelters, however over 1/3rd are still without any viable shelter. The impact of the pandemic has increased these rates even more. The site for my project will be located in the town next to Los Angeles, California. While a majority of the United States is struggling with homelessness in their cities, Los Angeles is one of the highest in the country. Out of the estimated 550,000 people in this country who are homeless, 66,000 of those people live in Los Angeles, California, which is a 13% increase from the previous year. The address for my site is located in 12000 Hawthorne Blvd in Hawthorne, CA. This site contains an abandoned mall that I plan to re purpose as a community homeless shelter.
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After making several different models, I combined them into different formations in order to get new patterns and ideas for the general structure and layout of my community shelter. From this step, I created these drawings as rough plan views and began assigning programs into the spaces. My program for the shelter needed to be more than just a place to survive, but rather a place for living and thriving.
“Who are we as human beings if we ignore the suffering of others?”
Since Los Angeles currently has more empty bedrooms than homeless people in the city, it was more logical to repurpose existing space rather than creating more buildings in an already overcrowded city. By creating my community homeless shelter where an abandoned mall resides, I can repurpose the land and materials from the previous building.
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This community center contains several different areas to provide a range from private, sleeping areas to public, communal areas. This shelter is not only a place for homeless residents, but also a place to gather with the community, to learn, to shop from a cafe, to enjoy the California weather in the garden area or the indoor/outdoor space, and a place to provide a sense of security.
Jillian Strauss In the middle of my final year, I sat down to do my thesis, and I wanted to choose a study to last a lifetime. I landed on Japan and Japanese culture. Mostly because I felt that this idea was something that I could continue to learn new things about and be fascinated by them forever. Thus began my extensive research of Ja-pan and their culture. I studied every-thing: environment, social, political, vegetation, diet, traditions, architec-ture, and found resonance in Buddhism values of balance, unity, and zen. Their morals and traditions make Japan a common community. Look-ing at all of this information, I started honing in on things that peaked my interest that much more over others. I started to draw cross-sections of sakura, bamboo, sushi, and rice.
section drawings of Japanese rice pods at the molecular level:
In the end, I brought them into the entire rice culture, which is a haven in Japan, and I found it very architectural. So, I decided I wanted to study environmental and social problems in Japan, while finding solutions and answers to them through their culture of Buddhism and food.
bio-mimicry: Japanese rice as architecture
Modular, pod towers were formed based of the structure and anatomy of Japanese rice pods. This drawing was used as a first schematic study on the interior spaces of the pods. To the right is my Tokyo site analysis
This thesis focused on Japanese rice in order to solve the public life problems of Tokyo, Japan due to the overcrowding, and help the water shortages and earthquakes.
Megan Mueller
This project seeks to provide a Homeless Shelter in Moscow. There are 13,000-15,000 homeless people in Moscow, Russia per night according to the Russian Federation. Russian homelessness is mainly due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the repeal of Soviet Union vagrancy laws which prohibited begging and vagrants. Another reason for the uptick in homelessness is the registration system that all residents have to live by in order to travel, live and get a job. Homeless shelters in Moscow, specifically, tend to be scarce and unsuccessful because of the push back from residents of the community and the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ view that the Russian Federation takes towards homelessness. Located right across the Moskva River from the Red Square and the Moscow Kremlin, this shelter will provide the growing homeless shelter with resources to assist them and serve as a first step towards the destigmatization of homelessness
After researching the current lifestyle of the homeless in Moscow, I came across the book, Homeless People and Urban Social Space, by Svetlana Stephenson. She details how urban centers such as railroad stations, public areas, metro stations and green areas and hubs for the homeless because they can create connections with people there that can register them somewhere to live. I created a set of sketches and models that are centered around an urban space or courtyard in order to start the formation of the building I am designing.
“Homeless people are a nuisance. They are like stray dogs that need to be removed by special services.”
This building stems from the previous models based on the community style layout. It includes a series of interlaced forms that serve as an interconnected series of buildings.It includes levels of outdoor stairs inspired by the forms created by Rusian Constructivism and also to promote connections between different areas of the building.
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The program for this homeless shelter is a mixture of private and public space in order to promote the connections that the homeless population are used to. This shelter will also be used as a place that can register its residents in order to provide them with a sense of stability.
Miscellaneous
Humanitarian Megan Garrick Hailey Ciolino
Bailey Sanford Jeffery Montano
Spiritual Sayeda Islam
Tyler Moulton
Deanna Botkin
Environmental Tony Cautilli Cassidy Deering
Housing
Melinda Anselmo Jillian Strauss Megan Mueller
Miscellaneous Madison Goff Sophie Johnson Matthew Barden
Madison Goff
Alzheimer’s. Researchers believe there is not a single cause of Alzheimer’s disease. It likely develops from multiple factors, such as genetics, lifestyle, and environment. There are 150,000 Alzheimer’s patients in Virginia, United States of America. An Alzheimer’s clinic in the capital Richmond, will provide a more accessible clinic for the 150,000 citizens. After conducting research on how certain architecture affects memories, in the terms of preservation and creation it will be incorporated in the design of the clinic.
These are models of the Clinic constructed out of chipboard. These models assist in the presentation of how sunlight is affected by the varieties in heights and thicknesses of walls, which stresses the impor-tance of the sunlight in this project.
These posters were inspired by a Swedish designer who created simple and suggestive posters in the 70s. The drawings in these posters were created from repetitions and different opacities of the illustrator files of the clinic.
The drawing on the left is an elevation view from the west view of the Clinic. The drawing on the bottom is a program map that was created after intense research of programs utilized for the research of Alzheimer’s.
The drawing to the left is a perspective of the Clinic model that was constructed in Revit. This perspective is from the North East angle of the structure. The drawing above are the floor plans from the Clinic.
Sophie Johnson Mental health has always been an on going discussion, however over time has become less taboo to speak about in this up incoming generation. When thinking about my senior thesis project I knew I wanted to design a structure that touched on mental health not only emotionally but physically.
Located in a relatively small narrow park in the center of the University of London’s campus the building purpose is the serve to the pub-lic as a safe place to come and enjoy the rainy city of London in an untraditional way. The building is made up of large collection pools of constantly running water to provide a relaxing and serene environment. The walls within the gallery space are tall concrete fountains to draw and express yourself with chalk and paint only to watch it wash away every hour but the flowing water from the fountains.
During my research I’ve come to realize therapy is a privilege and not iscally as-sessable to all and I wanted to use my thesis project to act as a possible solution to that problem. My buildings structure is composed of twelve large concrete wall fountains that are intended to be interac-tive with the occupants of the space as a
The purpose of a community to me is to create a richer, broader, and deeper experience of life together and having different cultural experiences that there-infor enrich you as an individual. Through my design walls I believe they could have the ability to encompass that feeling of comfort and security feeling in a built space. If we are able to create spaces for these communities to flourish I believe it would be a domino effect in hopefully a very positive way potentially even broader than mental health itself.
Matthew Barden The Young Terrace housing community, located in Downtown Norfolk Virginia, is situated at the threshold of the high density urban core of Norfolk, and the urban low density periphery. Situated between four major roadways, each with a daily traffic out put of over ten thousand vehicles. The external factors around the site, lend itself to enable a catylization for new development to replace the outdated, fiftieths and sixties era two story, multi family housing. My thesis explores challenges that modern urban planning has, when faced with an area that has become socio-econimcial depressed. The homogeneous population, at 95%, of African American residents and their subsided rent of $220 dollars, creates know challenge in redeveloping an area. The primary goal that my thesis explores are ways at which we can design redevelopment plans that enable positive socioeconomic impacts for an area. For years we’ve seen plans that intatie this ideal, but fail face first when in action, that result in the gentefaction of an area.
Site Plan Version’s One, Two, and Three
The three Site Plans above represent possible ways in which usage of the site can be improved. The five-colored annotation allows for clear and easy identification of a parcel land usage designation. The displayed plans are only a small fraction of what the site may have and are to be seen as the maximum amount of built parcel. That is, any new version could have more land usage dedicated to green spaces - gardens, sports fields, open grass fields, playgrounds, etc. - or more inclusion of denser multifamily housing amongst lower density housing, or the intermingling of all five different land usages. Allowing for a quillwork-like plan that has commercial next to municipal surrounded by greenspace and high-density housing, surrounded by lower density spaces.
The current conditions of the site, from current buildings located on the site to the roadways surrounding and with the site, the location’s diverse external factors contribute to a complex composite of underline problems currently present on the site. Some of the problems that are not presently shown on the site are the omission of walkability and the mixture of different program-matic spaces within the site.
A possible solution to this missed matched land usage is the implementation of these “Building Blocks”. The wall collection varies in thickness. Which establishes a framework that architects and designers can use when designing buildings. The buildings can reflect the land usage map and allocated size of the land on the preceding page. These collections of walls were derived from a drawing that was also used as inspiration for the design of the land usage map. The ambiguity of the walls enables free thought towards the manipulation of positioning that they allow. The idea of free-thinking manipulation enables a plethora of design ideas that solve the need for the buildings needed in the designated spaces.
The following page depicts the volumetric extrusion of the forms from the first site plan. This exploration’s intent was to understand the three dimensional relationship that a one to a six-story building would have. In addition, this allows for an understanding of what the site would become if the maximum volumetric structures allowed would be like. This is further seen on the sectional cut.
Arial View of Volumetric forms of building types