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Located in the heart of Oxford University, the school is on a prominent and architecturally signiďŹ cant site. The building needs a strong form to sit within its complex arrangement respectfully, while also ensuring its own presence and identity. Our proposal started as a series of shifted discs, pure geometric circles, developed from the parameters of the site and plot boundaries. The proposal maintains a difference to the orthogonal and rectangular form of the surrounding buildings as a primarily curved building form, a form just as geometric and purposeful as its neighbors yet distinctly individual. The main entrance is located, in a classical manner, in the middle of the Walton Street elevation underneath an orthagonal form which addresses the historic facade of the Oxford University Press across the street. The facade of the school was developed as a contemporary interpretation of the university’s surrounding classical buildings. A double skin of glass and concrete allow transparency in the interior but also lend the building a robust, mineral quality on the exterior.
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Museum Plus will be built along the harbor in the the kowloon district of Hong Kong. It will be a center for contemporary visual culture including art, design, architecture and the moving image. As such it requires a wide range of display opportunities ranging from the conventional white cube, to reconfigurable spaces, screening rooms, multipurpose spaces and raw space. It was the requirement for a ‘raw’ space that provided the impitus for our design. Directly underneath the site of the proposed museum exists a railway line. We proposed unearthing this infastructure to create a spectacular space for display. It is the heart of the design, and roots the building into its site. Above this excavation hovers a horizontal plane which houses all the conventional display spaces. This plane is intersected by a vertical tour which is comprised of more resource spaces, administrative offices and roof gardens which connect the museum to the skyline of Hong Kong across the harbor.
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Designed for a prominent art collector in Dallas, the Highland Park Residence is designed as a house where art and life are encouraged to coexist. Through an interplay of space, areas are clearly deďŹ ned as either for living or for viewing, yet can overlap and enrich each other. On the exterior, a solid concrete mass hovers over and shelters an open living room which invites views across the large suburban lot. Spaces for living and entertaining are at ground level and spaces for sleeping are placed above. A large void in the second oor connects the levels and creates a dramatic double height space in the heart of the house.
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Masdar Headquarters will be the world’s first mixeduse, positive-energy building, using sustainable design strategies and systems to produce more energy than it consumes. The project is the centerpiece of Masdar City, a zerowaste, zero carbon-emission development outside Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The seven-story, 135,000 square-meter structure (including landscaped areas) will accommodate commercial, retail and cultural uses. The building’s form, sculpted in response to extensive environmental analysis, adapts the ancient science and aesthetics of Arabic wind towers, screens and other vernacular architecture, which emphasize natural ventilation, sun shading, high thermal mass, courtyards and vegetation.
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Based on the City of Austin’s ‘Creative Austin Cultural Master Plan’, the building provides young companies with the resources to prosper while supporting the artistic culture of Austin. At 80,000 square feet, the building is designed to be have both an institutional presence and a casual attitude. The building is conceived as a series of thresholds - facade, enclosure and interior. From a distance the incubator is meant to appear rather monolithic, providing a backdrop to the street. A rich tapestry of layers and components reveal themselves only upon closer inspection. The facade is made up of operable exterior shades, allowing the appearance of the building to be in constant flux while providing the inhabitants protection from the intense Texas sun. A break in the 400 foot facade invites street life into the building’s public courtyard where the building reveals its main hall, communal gathering spaces, individual work spaces and resource labs. Covered exterior walkways provide the main circulation allowing the user to experience the building’s courtyards and create an intimate relationship to the surrounding environment. The enclosure layer, comprised of glass and mirror plated columns, creates ambiguous reflections, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior. Programs requiring rigorous specifications - the lecture hall, fabrication lab and recording studio - are individual volumes placed within a sea of ultra flexible work space.
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The University of Texas Club provides a space that allows members to connect with fellow members, the community and the traditions of The University of Texas. This unique program calls for both insular, private spaces, as well as transparent, open spaces. The site is surrounded by three of Austin’s most crucial attributes: the Texas Capitol, the Governor ’s Mansion and Congress Avenue to the east. The vertical organization of the building minimizes the building footprint and allows for a generous extension of the preexisting public park located to the east. The skin, comprised of precast panels, is the antithesis to a highly saturated interior world. This skin dissolves as it moves upward, allowing for a pool terrace and the exposure of a glass hotel block. The interior of the building is an assemblage of paths, volumes and voids creating a Parnassian space, where the unexpected is celebrated. Two significant rooms, the great hall and the dining room, have a large degree of exposure to the exterior which promote visual links to the Capitol, University Tower and the city. These significant rooms have a series of smaller, more intimate spaces attached to them to provide a variety of environments. These adjacent spaces are more transparent, exposing the innards of the building, the city and providing a unique relationship of seeing and being seen.
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This project explored how material properties can be exploited to generate intriguing form and unexpected uses. We tested the elasticity, strength and nature of paraffin wax over the course of several weeks. Using the information we gathered from numerous physical studies, we designed a conical plastic armature which acted as stable form for the wax to react with. After studying patterns of aggregation, we developed a formwork for the armatures that allowed for a high degree of variation in size and density. The wax was then repeatedly poured onto the formwork until the holes in the formwork were filled. The radius and the length of the armature determined how much wax was able to flow through each hole before becoming plugged. While the process is repetitive, the result is always unique so infinite variations could be created. Light then filters through in unexpected ways resulting in a highly varied play of light and shadow.
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The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas is an invaluable public asset. The institution is partners with the University of Texas and pioneers research in the native plants and prairie of Texas. As part of their ongoing research, large portions of surrounding land is dedicated to test plots where baffling patterns of controlled burns, mowing and simulated droughts are performed. Our studio focused on creating a rain shelter over one of these plots where a variety of more specific drought tests could be carried out. The unstable nature of the immediate landscape inspired a solution that incorporated ideas of fluidity into the design. The canopy’s shape reflects the control of rainwater runoff, and dictates episodic spaces underneath. The undulations of the roof are mirrored in the bare ground below, emphasizing the inseparable union of architecture and landscape. The frame that supports the roof varies in depth according to solar and structural needs. The project is the elegant compromise of multiple, often opposed, natural and building systems.
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The seed bank has been relatively unexplored as an architectural typology. Yet as biodiversity continues to decrease at alarming rates, cataloguing, protecting and promoting awareness of the species that remain becomes an increasingly critical endeavor. Austin Seed Bank is designed to be a register of the natural forces on site, both to protect existing site features and to display them to the general public. The form of the building is a platonic solid hovering above the ground against which site irregularities can be read, such as the slope of the land, the location of trees and the patterns created by light filtering through the tree canopy. Trees actually puncture the mass of the building, blurring boundaries between interior and exterior and allowing natural features to play an active role in creating architectural space. The interior of the project is then what remains between the trees and the exterior shell of the structure. These spaces are organized into loosely programmed zones, but the patterns of use are not prescribed. Instead, a range of scales and associations are provided which allow for the often unscripted events that can occur in the fluid process of scientific collaboration.
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previous left - building section through research labs and seed bank previous right - interior of research labs left - building elevations right - building plan at research labs
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