This, That, and the Other! Or, what happens when something doesn’t fit. A compilation of projects by Tyler Boyett done at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Contents 01. A House with Two Parts 02. Hydrant Hybrids 03. Proposal for an Aboveground Pool 04. The House [on a] Corner 05. LEGO 601 06. Stranded Together
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01. A House with Two Parts and Three Things Housing Studio | Grant Gibson & Penelope Dean | Fall 2016 Domesticity in the present age might mean that our social and private lives have become surprisingly disparate. These differences, understood through the things we keep in each space, ultimately determine what our dwellings look like. This project explores the worlds of restraint and release, and what connects them.
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PRIVATE OBJECTS
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DECOR + Site SOCIAL OBJECTS
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The humans of this house live half their lives in a serial fashion. Objects like the couch, dinner table and working desk aren’t placed too close together, helping to keep the occupant’s lives neat and orderly. Predictable. Social gatherings happen at foreseen points along the main space. Yet this offers freedom to move to and fro among groupings of objects. Just do one thing at a time: a little work at the desk, get a snack from the refrigerator, watch some T.V., go back and finish work. DECOR + Objects
The slippery and shiny gold floor helps moving back and forth. While tricky at times, this sacrifice is made for the posh image one must construe. The floor also looks slightly beige, depending on the lighting. Yet, there are moments, specifically at the groupings of objects, that allow you to get off the cold, gleaming floor, and onto something a little more hospitable.
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Views and windows are aligned just perfectly to frame lovely views as you live your life at STRUCTURE each point of objects. The whole volume you occupy and invite friends into is conceived as a singular tube, a soft, relatable extruded vault.
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Downstairs offers a reprieve from a lifestyle of put-togetherness. Hugging the landscape makes the beds feel all the more private because of how spread out each is from the next. Buried, the beds and accompanying belongings can just be barely found in a prairie of burgundy shag carpet. And to be hidden is what is desired. After everything being on display upstairs, it‘s a relief to just relax and hide away in this underworld of secret space. You can put your things within DECOR + Site the walls that arc over and above, like a thick quilted blanket. But they don’t have to be stored: leave your things anywhere within arm’s reach, you don’t want to be getting up out of the carpet anyway. Pin-point windows open up precisely where you could sit and look out through them, but do not offer a revealing glance inside.
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The shag surface transitions to a private garden as you step outside. The messy fern garden offers a continuation of the thick soft surface to the outside. Both the shag DECOR + Objects and garden offer a way of living without inhibitions. The bathroom on the lower level is exposed, yet made private through its dislocation from the two main sleeping spaces (the third will only be occupied occasionally). Only one main entraince allows the secret world to remain as such, and the private lives of the inhabitants to remain hidden.
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Its massing imagined as a still life, the composition is made of two “known” objects resting around a 3rd “unknown” which hugs the ground. Two tubular primitives and a squishy, soft third thing. 9
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Left: Lower level floor plan, depicting the secret world of the free section. Above: View of the world of the single bed room. Lower: North and west elevations. 13
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The secret world is really envisioned as living between two surfaces (akin to a bed), the thick wall-to-wall shag carpet (the mattress) and the tufted squishy roof and ceiling (the quilt).
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The relationship between the two worlds intersects at one conspicous point, the vertical steel tube. Other than that, the worlds remain out of sight from one another. While some spatial qualities carry over, atmospheric qualities remain antithetical.
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02. Hyrdant Hybrids Infrastructure Catalyst | Sarah Dunn | Fall 2015 Hydrant hybrids presents a solution to bridge the chasm between utility and annoyance, and re-inserts the fire hydrant into the daily lives of Chicagoans. Rejuvenating this aging but critical piece of infrastructure will facilitate new community gathering spaces all over the city.
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ADDITION BY HYBRIDIZATION A Chicago icon of human tenacity and preparedness, the fire hydrant exists now antiquated and often illfunctioning. A hidden blight by winter, illicit pleasure by summer, the fire hydrant is largely ignored until an emergency arises or it becomes a nuisance.
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ANNOYING / ENJOYING INFRASTRUCTURE Hybridized programming based on a series of catalogs will serve to make the infrastructure functional and sociable. Each index (site, tank, program) contributes equally to the architectural synergy: the fire hydrant will become a conduit through which a localized reservoir will be maintained to service a communal function.
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SITE CONDITION INDEX Three basic regional typologies were identified: residential, commercial, and institutional. Each region (institutional, commercial, and residential) has a certain set of site conditions which determine program feasibility and relevance, which subsequently determine reservoir type and size.
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TANK INDEX Three basic tank typologies were identified: underground, on ground, and above ground. Secondary functions assist with localized program, yet are generalized enough to be implemented at any site.
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Ice Skating
Fish Pedicures
Water Balloon Fighting
Picigin Arena
Water Park Play
Fish Store
Community Farming
Coffee/Beer Brewing
Fishing
PROGRAM INDEX Two basic categories of program type were injected into the resulting social condenser: water-based activities, and typical vernacular street activities. Through combining two unlike program elements, a diversity in social atmosphere is achieved.
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You-Catch-it Fish Vendors
Bike Parking
Dog Walking
Fried Food Vendors
Street Performers
Thespian Beer Brewers
Outdoor Cinema
Community Theater
Pedicure Cinema
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1331 W. MILWAUKEE
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TANK SPECIFICS: Soft Bladders will be integrated into the vertical trellis used for the community garden. Used for drip irrigation, the bladders support a micro climate during the warmer months.
PROGRAM SPECIFICS: In addition to a lowmaintenance vertical garden, a small deployable water park will be stored on site for community events. Hydraulic power will be derived from the highly suspended bladders.
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03. Proposal for an Aboveground Pool Greenwald Workshop | Collaborators: Juan Suarez, Andrew Jennings, & Spencer McNeil | Spring 2016 1. The project is to design an “architectural” aboveground swimming pool for a community to use seasonally. 2. The aboveground pool’s site is indeterminate. 3. The aboveground pool is temporary and economical. 4. The aboveground pool is an object to be repeated. 5. The aboveground pool is for a diverse group to enjoy.
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AN AESTHETICS OF INDIFFERENCE Envisioned as a pop-up pool, this deployable structure is a self contained world. The need for a surrounding deck is eleminated by floating objects. A gradiented curtain surrounds the pool, producing atmosphere and delimiting bounds of the pool further. A dual layer of patterning is applied for atmospheric effects as well as decor.
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04. The House [on a] Corner Control Studio | Kelly Bair | Fall 2015 Two eerily similar yet distinct masses provide the basic framework for subversive two-and-one relationships found throughout this three-unit apartment. discrete and compound massings are produced, corner Conditions become “inside” or “outside”, and spatial types range from thin surfaces to thick intersections. Halftone rustication softens corners, re-structures edges in perspective, and re-figures the ground floor plan.
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Beginning with the aboriginal M-shaped mass, each object represents indivudual forays into either heightened texturing or more discrete massing. Regardless of rotational orientation, as long as the aft and forward profiles remained in plane, these changes in massing and texture were easily understood.
OFF-AXIS SHEDS Once the picture plane was accounted for in the drawing schema, specific 45-degree rotations were strategically used for the deliberate collusion of three-dimensional form: planes are reduced to lines.
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PROJECTIVE VS. NON-PROJECTIVE GEOMETRIES Studying the drawing as its own artefact, manipulations to bring the profiles out of plane with one another allowed for greater distortions and variations of what was understood in threedimensions versus two.
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RE-FIGURED SURFACE Booleaned objects were studied to produce qualities meant to accentuate or confuse the relationship between corner and surface. Halftoning or rustication provides another means to accentuate or blur edges and corners.
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+24'-0" second floor +20'-6" mezz. level
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05. LEGO 601 MSI Brick by Brick Exhibition | Collaborators: Spencer McNeil, Andrew Jennings, Preston Welker, Jamie Goldsborogh, U Kei Long | Spring 2016 Required to ultilize a set of white LEGO Blocks, we were tasked with imagining the future of cities. We feel that solutions to future conditions can only be discovered through unconventional and disobedient methods. We must identify and challenge preconception to gain escape velocity from contemporary anxieties. Enter the DUPLO. A cropped cube of DUPLO sits upon a literal foundation of the white blocks in the form of canonical architectural elements
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06. Stranded Together Power Studio | Stewart Hicks | Spring 2016 A cultural center, consisting of ballroom, museum, and library spaces. At its most basic, this collection of objects and spaces explores how perception of orientation can affect character, yet in the end, concludes that shape doesn’t really matter.
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Larger radius for a lazier bend
Slight tilting for a curious posture
Stiff and rigid top
Slight tilting for a curious posture
Straight projection for a proud thing
Largest radius to give sturdiness but softness
At once you can gawk at Stranded, majestically splayed up to the heavens. Its wiggly poise and dignity direct attention to the task at hand. Though its origin is clearly understood, we have yet to randomly guess why Stranded’s growth can be to indifferent to our regimented society. Stranded commands respect and admiration from all those who look up to its fingers, as it brazenly gazes off into the depths of the future. 65
Stranded is both dopey and majestic. To emphasize these characteristics, Stranded is put into a troupe with two others, the circle and square. In this trio, Stranded plays the role in comedy known as the “straight man.� All three, when perceived as upright, maintain a dignified character. However, when the curtains close and you blink, Stranded is all the sudden on his back like a turtle, while the circle and square remain upright. Circle and Square act as an exception to the rule regarding orientation and character. Shape does not matter.
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A worm’s eye view of the library interior, the gothic arch repeated ad-infinitum creates the main book stacks, whereas the poche creates the reading rooms with furniture as scattered confetti. 68
Floor plan strategies were generated by collage for their logic. Ballrooms utilised a single distored element for large spaces, the museum spaces relied on medium size elements oodly clumped together, and library spaces strung a single small element, repeated many times, into squiggles. 69
Ballroom, museum, and library are stratified throughout each cast member as layers of sediment. Their elevational shapes act more as cookie cutters, allowing the interiority to remain similar between each segment.
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