SHAKED UZRAD Pratt Institute - Architecture School - First Year - Fall 2011 / Spring 2012
TABLE OF CONTENT FALL 2011 DESIGN WOOD WORD JOINTS 8 x 8 CUBE 16 x 16 CUBE TECHNICS SUPPORTING ACTORS RADICAL EXTENTIONS SUSPENDED BODIES REPRESENTATION FORM TRANSFORMATION
SPRING 2012 DESIGN AGGREGATED TERRAIN LIGHT FILTER REPRESENTATION THE TORUS HOUSE SERIAL TRANSFORMATION
BUILT IDEAS KAIMAKI COMMUNITY SPORT CENTER
DESIGN
Chi-Fan Wong - Fall 2011
WOOD WORD JOINTS
In this project, I investigated the composition and character of three verbs and three adjectives: Fall, Float, Noisy, Defined, Continuos, and overlap , which slowly developed into the construction of a narrative. Focusing on the visual and emotional rhythm of the word pairings, I developed wood joints, which grew into three systematic temperaments. These were then merged together into a final system which, at the size of 16�x16�, is designed to illustrate space that reflects the interweaving and collapsing actions of these systems into each other, presenting new opportunities of occupation .
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01. Defined Float 02. Continuous Fall 03. Noisy Overlap
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Defined Float . Noisy Overlap . Continuous Fall . . . >
DESIGN 8 x 8 CUBE
Chaos is a continuous fall that defines floating elements into one, large noisy overlap.
DESIGN 16 x 16 CUBE
The narrative
Cube’s plan and section at 1/4” = 1’ scale
Too fast to capture, too fast to focus on, shifting up against the gaze, straight lines stretching and blurring in aimless acceleration. The wind is fighting, sound is whis tling, they are all part of the show. Shadows and shapes are mixing together, creating a perfect synchronized dance. In perfect timing it all froze, yet time will remain the only one to exist. Confused and disturbed, you walk within this cave, wishing it all to return to its place. In the first step you took, you became part of this game: the game of conception, the game of time. You will slowly extract into space. From serene to aggressive, aiming for one perfect moment of contact, all for the sake of redemption. In the point that one ends, another begins, bursting to strength and completion. Diagram of the Cube’s Layers.
DESIGN 16 X 16 CUBE
Following the systematic order of the previous cube, the final cube was constructed from three layers around a single core.
TECHNICS
Frank Gesualdi - Fall 2011
SUPPORTING ACTORS
This project focuses on supporting load using only mechanical joinery in order to explore the concepts of tension, compression, and materials .
Body Position
Basswood Models.
TECHNICS SUPPORTING ACTORS
Following the dynamic of the human bodies position, the structure mimics the reliance of one body upon the other.
TECHNICS RADICAL EXTENTIONS
The inspiration for this project was derived from the structural integrity of the human spine as a modular system that has the flexibility to support load between both span and cantilever .
TECHNICS RADICAL EXTENTIONS
Compression member
Tension member
Each module is connected to the following by one moment of pure tenssion in one side, and one moment of pure compression in the other, passing the load path along the structure.
TECHNICS SUSPENDED BODIES
In this project space frame, grid shell, and shell structure perform an active role in supporting one body against another as a prosthetic device which outlines the form of the human body .
TECHNICS SUSPENDED BODIES
Basswood Model.
REPRESENTATION
Sebastian Misiurek - Fall 2011
FORM TRANSFORMATION
The Visible / Invisible Bond Every object in space is subject to experimentation; influenced by motion, time, light and observation. These drawings present the path of transformation and conception from the first introduction of a new object to the point at which it only
Graphite on Bristol Board
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FORM TRANSFORMATION
DESIGN
Frank Gesualdi - Spring 2012
AGGREGATED TERRAIN
This project deals with the ability of tectonics to perform as a landscape and as a site to visual and emotion al experience. By the operation of manipulating light on the landscape, new opportunities are presented for navigation in space .
Wood Moulding Clusters
DESIGN AGGREGATED TERRAIN
Top Plan. Regulating Lines. Elevation and Axonometric Views.
DESIGN LIGHT FILTER
PLAN 1/32” =1’
PLAN CUT 1/32” =1’
PLAN 1/32” =1’
PLAN CUT 1/32” =1’
SECTION CUT 1/16” =1’
Site plan and cut. Sectional shading diagram.
SECTION CUT 1/16” =1’
DESIGN LIGHT FILTER - ROOF HOUSE
At the time of beginning the hour is already late. Every attempt to compete it is doomed to emerge from its end. As you see in the distance, you know it still there, waiting in patience for no one to dare. At the moment of impact of one into other, from base to it’s freedom, the ground seeking up. Each start of escaping is point in between, under movement of light, under movement of wind.
Floor plans and section cut. Ink on mylar.
DESIGN ROOF HOUSE
In the darkness the questions are asked, leading the man to seek his own quest. Born from the water, the man begins to discover the rough ground with his feet. Directed by fear, he finds himself walking in a circular trail made of light, movement, and time. Forcefully determined, he competes against the land, wishing to occupy the horizon through his steps. Short as the day, the trail reaches for its end and the man is doomed to return to the rocking waves. As he sails to a new horizon, he realizes that through the knowledge he gained he is no longer afraid, and through his own conception he is able to give the land the opportunity to defeat the sky and escape as well.
Isometric View. Ink on mylar.
FIRST SEMESTER - TECHNICS TERRAIN
DESIGN ROOF HOUSE
Internal and external views.
REPRESENTATION
Nathan Hume - Spring 2012
Preston Scott Cohen - The Torus House
The Torus House by Preston Scott Cohen is an unbuilt project which presents unique geometry and ar chitectural language. By analysis of the house and production of a series of documental drawings, I have developed my own reading of the house. I have expressed this through transformational drawings that create a new set of geometric order .
Preston Scott Cohen. Torus House West Section
Documental drawings of the West Section and the Southeast Exterior perspective.
REPRESENTATION Preston Scott Cohen - The Torus House
reston Scott Cohen. Torus House NorthWest Interior View Northwest Interior view .
REPRESENTATION Serial Transformation
tt Cohen. Torus House First Floor Plan
Geometric division.
REPRESENTATION i Serial Transformation
Landscape - House Relationship.
BUILT IDEAS Kaimaki (Nicosia, Cyprus) Community Sport Center, Architect: Theo David
As a part of the fabrication team for the “Built Ideas� exhibition, presented at Siegel Gallery, Pratt Institute, March - April 2012, I had the opportunity to build a 1:250 scale model to the Kaimaki Com munity Sport Center at Nicosia, Cyprus .
BUILT IDEASi Kaimaki (Nicosia, Cyprus) community sport center, Architect: Theo David