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3 .1 T H E D O U B L E N E G AT I V E | | U N D E R S TA N D I N G T H E T H I R D C O N D I T I O N BERKELEY || 3RD YEAR A R C H 1 0 0 A | | F A L L 2 01 4
3.2 T H E S TA I R | | E X P LO R I N G T H E P O I N T - G R I D BERKELEY || 3RD YEAR A R C H 1 0 0 A | | F A L L 2 01 4
3.3 TH E LI B RARY || ARCH ITECTU R E AS NON-B I NARY BERKELEY || 3RD YEAR A R C H 1 0 0 A | | F A L L 2 01 4
3 .1 T H E D O U B L E N E G AT I V E | | U N D E R S TA N D I N G A N E W C O N D I T I O N UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY || 3RD YEAR U N D E R G R A D U A T E S T U D I O , A R C H 1 0 0 A | | F A L L 2 01 4 The production of architecture is often a compromise between pr ivlaging the aspects of for m and function. The Double Negative project str ives to avoid either approach. It posits another whereby the design of space and for m are thought of together as a complementar y and subtractive process. The Double Negative, for this project, is defined as at least two subtractive voids that intersect in a solid to create a third condition.
A large par t of this project is the creation of a digital model. The model is to be generated through the strategic introduction of these voids to a solid that is 8” by 16” by 4”. The voids are to be subractions from the solid volume, developed so that the third condition is produced through their interaction. The voids should not o n l y t r a n s f o r m e a c h o t h e r, b u t s h o u l d a l s o t r a n s f o r m t h e m s e l v e s a n d t h e s o l i d , a n d t h e s p a t i a l e f f e c t o f t h e i r intersections must be for mally different than what is produced by any single void. The pur pose of this is to design the intersection.
T h e p r o j e c t i s o n e o f i n h e r e n t f o r m a l c o m p l e x i t y. I n t e r e s t , h o w e v e r c o m e s i n t a k i n g t h a t c o m p l e x i t y a n d c r e a t i n g s i m p l i c i t y. W h i l e e a c h v o l u m e i s a c o m p l e x a g g r e g a t i o n o f f a c e t s , t h e i r i n t e r s e c t i o n b r e a k s t h a t f o r m a l q u a l i t y. T h r o u g h t h i s e x e r c i s e m e t h o d s a n d c o n v e n t i o n s o f a r c h i t e c t u r a l r e p r e s e n t a t i o n b y d i s s e c t i o n a r e lear ned, explored, and enhanced.
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Understanding the New Condition The third condition is a bridge between solid void, a negative
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3.2 T H E S TA I R | | E X P LO R I N G T H E P O I N T - G R I D UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY || 3RD YEAR U N D E R G R A D U A T E S T U D I O , A R C H 1 0 0 A | | F A L L 2 01 4 S a n F r a n c i s c o i s i n a s e n s e a v e r t i c a l c i t y, d e f i n e d b y i t s h i l l s , a s a c o n s e q u e n c e o f i t s g e o g r a p h y, a s m u c h a s f o r i t s f a m o u s b r i d g e s a n d b u i l d i n g s . S a n F r a n c i s c o ’ s s t e e p s t r e e t s a r e l e g e n d a r y and immor talized in film and television. The public stairs that connect those streets are spaces woven through the urban context providing unique oppor tunities for public interaction. This project requires a reconsideration of the stair as a type.
The stair is more than circulation defined by limitations [height and access] but an occupiable public space within the urban environment that provides oppor tunities for program and experience.
To r e d e f i n e t h e s t a i r a s a n e x p e r i e n t i a l f o r m o f a r c h i t e c t u r e a s e r i e s o f f o r m a l r e g u l a t i o n s
needed to be put in place. The use of the point-grid was decided upon, as it would create, not o n l y t h e f r e e d o m , b u t t h e c l a r i t y t o d e s i g n f o r m a l c o m p l e x i t y w i t h o u t c o m p r o m i s i n g S o l i d - Vo i d relationsips.
U p o n c o n n e c t i n g p o i n t s i n t h e g r i d a n d , s u b s e q u e n t l y, l o f t i n g b e t w e e n t h e c o n n e c t i o n s , f o u r t y p e s of triangluar openings are created, thereby characterizing the project as a series of triangular thresholds. The inital box becomes disfigured to the point that it is no longer identifiable. The project is centered around the connection of these thresholds and how that connection creates and infor ms movement.
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Creation of Volume Through a Point - Grid Solid-Void condition is created through the linear process of snapping to points and lofting between curves. This process yeilded four typologies each with unique experiential properties. The combination and necessary dilution of these yeilded the project.
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Orthographic Representation of Solid-Void Manifestation Plans and Sections at 1/8� scale of the project’s solid void condition.
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S I T E P L A N (1/16 � ) Site Plan at 1/16th� showing the projects elationship to surrounding buildings, as well as the projects roof condition
3.3 TH E LI B RARY || ARCH ITECTU R E AS NON-B I NARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY || 3RD YEAR U N D E R G R A D U A T E S T U D I O , A R C H 1 0 0 A | | F A L L 2 01 4 L i b r a r i e s h a v e i n c r e a s i n g l y b e c o m e a n i n t e s i f i e d p l a c e f o r p u b l i c i n t e r a c t i o n a n d s o c i a l e n c o u n t e r. C o n t e m p o r a r y l i b r a r y d e s i g n r e v e a l s attitudes that have developed over the consumption of infor mation – either as a realm for new exper iences, or in its resistance to programmatic transfor mation. The str ucture of librar ies reflects the wor king relationships and processes that take place within as well as act as a test bed with which to celebrate an evolving public/pr ivate set of relationships.
The public-pr ivate binar y is one that is ver y common in librar y design. Often, they are separated by a wall, creating two cores: one being open, accessible and inherently public and the other being closed, inaccessable, and inherently pr ivate. This binar y fails to a c c o m m o d a t e t h e n o n - b i n a r y n a t u r e o f p e o p l e , t h a t i s t o s a y, i t f a i l s t o f a c i l l i t a t e a n e a s y t r a n s i t i o n b e t w e e n t h e t w o a t a n y p o i n t . T h i s p r o p o s a l s e e k s t o b r e a k t h a t b i n a r y r e l a t i o n s h i p.
I t d o e s t h i s w i t h t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n o f t w o i n t e r t w i n i n g c i r c u l a t i o n a l p a t h s t h a t i n v o l u t e t h e p r o j e c t f r o m t h e i n t e r i o r. T h i s i n v o l u t i o n i s not purely for mal in that it creates a switch in public and pr ivate programs (or an A-B Switch). For the pur pose of this project, public ( A ) w i l l c o n t a i n r e a d i n g r o o m s , a c h i l d r e n ’s p l a y a r e a , a n d a c o m m u n i t y m e e t i n g r o o m ; a n d p r i v a t e ( B ) c o n t a i n s DV D s t o r a g e a n d m i c r o f i c h e, a d m i n i s t ra t i o n , a n d a c o m p u t e r l a b. T h i s sw i t c h h a p p e n s a t eve r y 9 0 d e gr e e t u r n i n t h e c i r c u l a t i o n a l vo r t ex w h e r e t h e r e i s a possiblity for occupliable program. At the center of the vor tex a lightwell is created, giving people the oppor tunity to look down upon an open space with viewing tables, to allow people to obser ve other people in the space. It becomes a burden to the diagram of breaki n g t h i s b i n a r y t o d e s i g n t h e s p a c e s o f A a n d B d i f f e r e n t l y, s o t h e v o t e x p u l l s s y m e t r i c a l l y o n b o t h s i d e s o f t h e p r o j e c t c r e a t i n g s i m i l a r spaces that can be occupied in both A and B contexts.
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C O N C E P T U A L A X O N O M E T R I C R E P R E S E N TAT I O N S (1/16 T H � ) Axonometric representations of void generated by the involutional vortex (left) and the vortex’s pull on the exterior envelope (right)
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I NTE R IOR R E N DE R SHOWI NG BOOKSH E LF SCR E E N I NG (LE FT) AN D SECTION PE RSPECTIVE (R IG HT) Interior rendering showing the relationships of void-circulation-bookstacks (left) and Section Perspective at 1/16� Showing the projects relationship to the surrounding environment
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