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M. S. ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PORTFOLIO 2015-2016
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FULTON
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Influential Effluent
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Long Beach Fast Airport
20-31
Deconstruct to Reconstruct
32-45
EXPOSING
INFLUENTIAL EFFLUENT Description:
The enviromental performance of New York estuaries depends and is affected by NY’s combined-sewage system’s design. 1n 321 Park Avenue, carrara-marble bathtubs with helicopter-views have become the ultimate feature to attract the wealthy to buy high-end condominiums, and therfore contributes to the making of the growing NYC’s social inequality. Pipes are society and contribute to construct society; operating simultaneously at heterogeneous scales. Architecture as a practice, can be challenged by the alternatives we can introduce to pipes, and to the way a number of diverse entities relate to pipes. Pipes are not the domain of plumbers but they affect numerous entities, each one operating in different spaces, with diverse evolutions, interests and materiality. The studio worked with the idea of changing the pipes so the relationship between those numerous entities can be rearticulated. Concept:
Our wastewater treatment system proposes a decentralization from the existing process. Re-organizing the system will allow it to be brought into where we live and inform us in how we use water, along with how society can be brought together. Today wastewater treatment is taken for granted, and ultimately pollutes our environment in several different stages. Influential Effluent takes a portion of that water consumption and devises a way to filter through a natural process from the apartment into the river streams of NYC. The city is a place of toxicity, we are just bringing that toxicity to life instead of trying to hide it. The design is a series of insertions ranging in scale from the plumbing of an individual apartment to the connection of the NYC blocks through our wastewater. Once the urban society accepts the perpetual change needed, we can then re-think the lifestyles by altering them through architecture.
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10 01 | INFLUENTIAL EFFLUENT
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Apartment Bldg. The typical New York apartment building would be reconstructed to accomadate the filtration process, and ultimately has an effect on the lifestyle and hygiene of a New York resident. Bathrooms would be communal spaces for public interaction and be considered a Bath House, taking the Korean Jjimjilbang Bath Houses into consideration. While this will replace apartment units in the exhisting building, there would be some units that would not have and water usage and others that would be considered “Water Units.� Lastely the sewage water will filter through a public walkway after going through the apartment building. Top: Filtration Walkway Middle: New Apartment Unit Bottom: Communal Bathrooms
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Existing Bathrooms and Sewer Pipes
Second Pipe Insertion
No Water Units
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01 | INFLUENTIAL EFFLUENT
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Social Kitchens/Dining Upper Level
Social Kitchens/Dining Lower Level
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16 01 | INFLUENTIAL EFFLUENT
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Water Digestion Exposing the digestion process would begin to inform people of the critical problems that arise when water in massive amounts is being treated. Sludge water would be firstly mixed with the compost sludge accumulated from the kitchens. Then move to solar heated tanks that will collect the methane gas produced by heating up the sludge. The gas would then move to a purifier, and would be able to be redistributed into the city for power. Top: Sludge / Compost Mixer Middle: Sludge Digestors Bottom: Methane Gas Purifier
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Displaced Units
Water Hubs
Elevated Filtration Walkway
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Existing Blocks
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Pelletization Park
Cropping Farms
AGGREGATION
LBC FAST AIRPORT Description:
In the world of the terminal, the relentless and systematic exploitation of “free” or layover time between arrivals and departures has given rise to the advent of the city-like assemblage of uses for the in-transit population. In competition with the more common Central Hub model for such assemblages, an alternate organizational model for the airport terminal has arisen within the last 30 years. Developed for the demands of Low-Cost Carrier airlines, this model makes use of an extended network of smaller secondary airports and metropolitan multi-airport systems rather than singular point destinations. Layover times are reduced dramatically by this mode of operation--these are fast airports. The conventional approach is to make the buildings as architecturally non-existent as possible. Consequently, the architectural experience must be correspondingly short and intense. Concept:
Un-Form identifies this approach by identifiyng itself as an object which situates itseft as a “Very Fast Airport.” Taking advantage of the open floor plan of airports, Un-Form creates grand, illusory spaces for departing and arriving areas of travel. The studio took the approach of using physical models as a way to conceptualize the project and move into an automatic interpretation of the airports form. Un-Form takes an idea of letting circulation create tubes that run through the airport to make a morphing of inside spaces become outside spaces.
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First Floor Plan Arriving & Departing
Exterior Perspective
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Floor Plan 2 | Level -2
Floor Plan 3 | Level -3
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Level 3
Level 2
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Level 1
Level B1
Section 1
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Section 2
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Site Plan
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
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28 02 | LBC FAST AIRPORT
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Structure within Structure
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Steel Structure
Steel Structure 2
Floorplates
Circulation Structure
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Tensile Structure
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REVIVED
DECONSTRUCT TO RECONSTRUCT Description:
Color has maintained a critical role in cultural discussion and the publics eye, continuously evolving, understood through new technologies, changed by production capabilities. The western world is continuously getting closer to becoming colorless, it manifests itself in the many and varied attempts to purge color from culture, to devalue color, to diminish its significance. The study of color is a tricky endeavor that breeds contradictory and different opinions. There is no boundary to color, and the fact cannot be ignored that it has reinvented how architects engage in design. Concept:
The arctic tundra has a wide range of colors that are in constant change from the need of adaptation to the change of climate. Reconstructing the tundra landscape is in need in order for native flora types to adapt to invasive plant types, which are continuing to move northward as seasons become longer and areas are becoming hotter. The different flora types in the arctic are divided in five different areas by type, and location. Centralizing these types into a plantation area that covers the rooftop allows the flora to adapt to eachother for future growth. D to R is a research facility that explores this phenomenon, along with a public growth facility for the indigenous people of Wrangel Island. Having no solar or wind oreintation, the design sits on a site where the sun can circle around the plantation areas 360 degrees throughout summer seasons.
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Floor Plan
36 03 | DECONSTRUCT TO RECONSTRUCT
Roof Plan
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Light Box 1 Time Lapse 2 Hours
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Light Box 2 Time Lapse 2 Hours
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Flora Subzones
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The Flora Subzones go from Subzone A (the nortern most area), to Subzone E (the soutern most area). Subzone E falls into the Boreal Forest where there is an ambundance of invasive plant species, which are capable of overtaking areas of flora vulnerability, for example Subzones A and B. In order to keep the vegetation diversity, the diferent types will have to adapt at a faster pace than the current pace thus far in the Arctic Tundra. Biodiversity is essential for the terrestrial ecosystem to survive in the Arcitc.
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42 03 | DECONSTRUCT TO RECONSTRUCT
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Growth Pod 4 Growth Pod 1
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44 03 | DECONSTRUCT TO RECONSTRUCT
Year 1 after construction
Year 3 after construction
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