Bryan Sportman Advanced Design Portfolio University of South Florida
School of Architecture + Community Design
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Museum of Amalgamated Art Chicago, IL
Art Center Manatee Bradenton, FL
St. Armands Private Residence St. Armands, FL
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Tampa Theater Hotel Tampa, FL
Olympic Sculpture Park Extension Seattle, WA
A Neighborhood In Havana Havana, Cuba
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Content of Work Advanced Design Portfolio Spring 2015 - Spring 2016
Museum of Amalgamated Art Chicago, IL Advanced Design A Professor Michael Halflants Spring 2015 8 Weeks
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Cross Section Looking South
Verticality and Space Located in Chicago’s Near North Side neighborhood, the site is a small plot at the corner of Delaware and DeWitt. Given this condition, in addition to a 45,000 squarefoot program, a vertical layout of space was inevitable.
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Cross Section Looking North
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DeWitt
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Theater This 250-seat theater space serves as a performing arts space, and is fully equipped with a light and sound booth, and backstage preparation area.
Entry The main entrance to the building is on the south facing elevation bordering Delaware Place. On the ground floor is coat check, reception, a cafe, and museum store. Upon entry, guests are greeted by the stair, where only guests with admission will have access to any other levels.
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Administrative Levels 2 and 3 serve house administrative spaces to keep the mueum up and running, along with several office spaces, conference rooms, and restrooms.
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Portable Planetarium Sarah Sze
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Intermittent Signals El Anatsui
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Trash Mirror Daniel Rosin
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Exhibition Spaces Amalgamation in terms of art is the process of combining many components that once made up other commonly found objects; in other words repurposing these materials to become a part of another whole. There are six amalgamated art pieces that will permanantly be installed in the exhibition spaces. Levels 5-10 hold a piece of the collection in the Northwest corner of the plan. Adjacent to the exhibition spaces is the main stairwell serving all levels of the museum. The rendering to the left illustrates the typical experience on a gallery floor. Artwork protected in the background, the stairwell to the right of the pieces, protecting them from natural light, and the void revealing other spaces above and below.
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Like a Bird of Passage Kaarina Kaikkonen
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Colder Darker Matter Cornelia Parker
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Everything All at Once Forever Aurora Robinson
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School
Sky Lobby
The museum doubles as a school of arts opposite the exhibition spaces. The artwork is displayed on the north end of the plan, and the studio spaces are located at the southern end of the plan. Visitors to the museum have the ability to tour not only the art installations, but can also access studios and observe students working on their projects.
On level 10, visitors ascend into a ‘buffer zone’ at the top of the building. After viewing all aspects of the museum/school hybrid, the sky lobby provides a place of rest and reflection onto the city of Chicago. Boasting views of the Hancock Tower, Lake Michigan, and neighboring Lakeshore Apaprtments.
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Night View Looking Southeast
Responding to the Context Focusing on the party wall shared with the resiedntial builidng directly west of the site, the western facade is designed around the shared wall of the existing building. The cafe space and sky lobby receive natural light, while the levels in between are protected symbolically revealing the location of the exhibition spaces. Directly above the existing building are reveals of the studio spaces and sky lobby.
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The image to the left shows how opaque materials are used to protect the gallery spaces within the musem from direct sunlight. These large panels are strategically placed depending on the program behind them. The image to the right shows a birds-eye view of the final model in its context, focusing on the spatial dialogues occuring between the white extruding volumes on the facades.
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Elevation View of South and East Facing Facades
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With the volumetic elements blocking a copious amount of natural light from reaching the amalgamated pieces, the gallery spaces became too dark with little to no natural lighting. In the image to the left, the panels and curtain walls are removed, exposing only the structural concrete walls directing circulation paths. In order to bring controlled amounts of light into these exhibition spaces, the conctrete walls behind the panels contain apertures placed in such a manner playing with the behavior of light. This play with lighting achieved the precise amounts of natural lighting depending on the art piece being protected.
Elevation View [Walls Removed]
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Longitudinal Section Looking West
Lighting The section above further illustrates the purpose of the apertures cut into the concrete structural walls, as well as shows the circulation path of movement through the building. The tonal values reveal how much natural light is channeled trhough the series of panels and walls.
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Art Center Manatee Bradenton, FL Advanced Design A Professor Michael Halflants Spring 2015 6 Weeks
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Meeting at the Art Center To begin this project, a visit was made to the existing art center in Bradenton, FL where we met with the executive board. We discussed their vision of what the new art center needs in order to grow out of its already cramped studios and galleries. The new program included more studios, more galleries, a larger artist’s market space, a children’s center, and more office spaces. Ultimately, the decision was made to demolish the old art center and create a completely new and unique building for the Art Center Manatee to grow into. The image above is the final model of the design for the new and improved art center. The design occupies a large percentage of the property, but leaves a large outdoor area for larger events to be held in the comfortable Florida winters. With the drastic increase in space available to the art center, holding events, displaying work, and grabbing the attention of passing traffic will make a greater impact on the community and promote involvement.
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Axonometric View Looking Southwest
Streetview Perspective Drawing
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Floor Plan: Level 1 The first level of the project has a very public and welcoming feel to it. There are three entrances to the art center. A gallery entrance in the southwest corner, a main entrance in the atrium space, and a market entrance in the northern portion of the plan. This level of the design contains gallery spaces and three studios for three-dimensional artwork such as sculptures and pottery.
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Floor Plan: Level 2 The second level contains several studios spaces for two-dimensional artwork such as drawings, paintings, photography, etc. Also, the children’s center where children enroll in courses offered to promote the arts and provide a healthy hobby to today’s youth. The plan opens to the first level, granting a greater sense of community which already exists in the old art center. Opening studios not only welcomes visitors but strengthens the sense of community within the art center members as well.
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Wall Details One of the most noticable details of this design are the large spansive walls scattered throughout the plan. In terms of plan, these walls help separate and bring order to the separate spaces and functions throughout the building. The walls made of wood denote a place of work, whereas the concrete walls denote display of work. These details can be used as a navigational tool when walking through the new art center. These walls serve as landmarks specifying the program of the given space.
Section Model Detailing Walls
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Exterior Rendering
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Gallery Space Rendering
Lobby Rendering
Below are longitudinal sections cutting through the most public spaces of the design. Section A-A shows the entrance lobby and the main stairwell leading to the studio spaces. Section B-B shows the gallery spaces on the first level, and the artist’s market and children’s center spaces. The sections also illustrate how light penetrates through the articulated walls. The tonal studies shown below give a sense as to how light can impact the spaces. Clay Model
Section A-A
Section B-B
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After designing a new art center for downtown Bradenton, the idea of growth within the artist community led to the development of an additional program to the overall design; a housing tower to board visiting artists and generate income for the neighboring Art Center Manatee. The idea is for the art center to invite world-renowned artists to the area and provide them with a place to stay. During their stay, they will work with the community to inspire new styles and directions for art, while also delivering lectures open to the community. The additional units will give members of the Bradenton community to call the Art Center Manatee home.
Art Center Manatee Bradenton, FL Advanced Design A Professor Michael Halflants Spring 2015 2 Weeks Overall Site Plan
1 Bedroom - 1 Bath Unit 1140 SQ. FT. The one bedroom unit offers a spacious, open-concept living space equipped with kitchen and dining island. The bedroom boasts views of downtown Bradenton and features an outdoor balcony space.
2 Bedroom - 2 Bath Unit 2050 SQ. FT. The two-bedroom unit offers an eat-in kitchen with breakfast nook, formal dining space, and large living space. The master bedroom includes outdoor balcony space, and views of the Bradenton River in the distance. The secondary bedroom has easy access to second bathroom and a private outdoor space.
Massing Model
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St. Armands Private Residence St. Armands, FL Tropical Architecture Professor Michael Halflants Fall 2015
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This project is about designing a private residence in St. Armands, Florida, a gulf coast beach town near Sarasota. The house has four bedrooms, 3 baths, kitchen/dining space, living space, and an office nook. Exterior feature include a pool, glass curtain walls, tropical landscaping, and a two-car port. The goal of the design is to introduce tropical living in a neighborhood made up of airconditioned, sun-shading homes common to Florida as a whole. This home embraces the natural light, natural ventilation, and copious rainfall, contributing back to the environment.
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Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
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The floorplans at left demonstrate the layout of spaces throught the home. The main entry opens up to the living space and the stairwell to the kitchen and dining spaces above. A libraryhallway leads to the outdoor terrace and master suite entry. The outdoor terrace serves as buffer space between the bedrooms and main living spaces. The fourth bedroom, or guest suite, is located on the first level prior to the main entry of the home giving privacy to the guests from the rest of the house.
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Axonometric View Looking Northeast
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Axonometric View Looking Southwest
The section to the left shows the functions of each of the spaces. The left-most side of the section is where the living spaces are found. Next is the bridge leading to the private spaces, or bedrooms. Under which is the entry and front door to the home. The right-most portion of the section is the private spaces with the guest bedroom on level 1 and the master suite on the second level.
Longitudinal Section Lookinh South
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Huge Elevation Photo
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Tampa Theater Hotel Tampa, FL Advanced Design B Professors Levent Kara + Mark Weston Summer 2015 4 Weeks Teammate: Jefferey Yeasting
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The Tampa Theater Hotel project served as an aid in developing a project in an entirely digital approach. In the early stages of the project, we began working with sections of existing buildings in order to generate a beginning to a new project to sprout from these studies. The graphics shown at right and left are sectional studies suggesting possibilities of space to occur. Using these section studies, we began working toward narrowing down the possibilities and closing in on a final section of the tower. Below is the final section drawn from these earlier studies. This was the form generator for the tower throughout the course of the project.
Precedent Section Studies
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Experiential Montage
Diagrammatic Models
After developing a section to work off of based on precedent studies, we began to develop the architecture within this tower. The tower is an extension to the historic Tampa Theater, and serves as a hotel for visiting tourists to the area. The above diagrams show the several components of the design. The skin system is shown in the left-most diagram, followed by the floorplates, the spatial void, and lastly all three components combined.
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Birds-Eye View
The graphic to the right shows a birds-eye view of the tower in its context. Programmatically, the hotel room blocks are located where there are skin elements [dark gray pieces]. The transparent spaces serve as public gathering spaces serving as multi-functional space. Lastly, the void [shown in light purple] is the heart of the design. At its base is the hotel lobby and front desk. The grand stair well climbs up the voided space, making the void an experiential architectural element.
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Olympic Sculpture Park Extension Seattle, WA Advanced Design B Professors Levent Kara + Mark Weston Summer 2015 10 Weeks Teammate: Jefferey Yeasting
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Olympic Sculpture Park The Seattle Olympic Sculpture Park is one of Seattle’s most iconic architectural pieces, as well as the home to a collection of wellknown artworks. The public space is a popular one amongst locals, not just tourists; a crucial observation when implicating a mixed-use tower complex adjacent to the park. During the daytime, especially on weekends, the park is filled with Seattle locals strolling, observing art, walking their dogs, children playing, and countless other outdoor activities. The park truly is a unique and worthy contribution to the Seattle culture. Perhaps one of the most memorable parts of visiting this vibrant city was the fresh smell of nature and the Puget Sound in the air.
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Southeast Axonometric View
Final Elevation Looking East
Responding to the Context Above is an elevation view of the final scheme of the project, a 1.7-million square-foot multi-use complex of eight buildings. The site is located north of downtown adjacent to the Olympic Sculpture Park. The sculpture park funnels visitors from the right, via a seamless connection from the park’s existing pedestrian overpasses preventing interruption of street and rail traffic below. The site contains a dramatic slope in the cross section. Given this condition, two plaza-levels were introduced to handle the majority of pedestrian foot-traffic, ‘park level’ and ‘commercial level.’ Park level aligns with the scultpure park in section, while commercial level is aligned with Elliott Ave, an existing street.
Elevation Looking West
Elevation Looking West
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Final Longitudinal Section Looking East
Mobility and Public Access Given the very large scale of this project, one of the major design problems was providing easy accessibility for pedestrians and visitors walking throughout the site. In response to this design problem, a network of channels were introduced in the early stages of the design to transport people from one building to another. The main channel is found on the first and second levels beneath the ‘park level.’ As seen in the section above, this part of the project is the most complex and reads as the heart of the design. The second channel is a floating element extending from one building to the next, interacting with each buidlings facade and spatial structure. Both channels are connected by a series of vertical circulation wells [elevators, stairs, escalators, etc.].
Parking Garage [Typical Floorplan] Not all traffic entering the complex is pedestrian traffic. Therefore, it was crucial to incorporate a parking garage to accomodate the vehicles of not only visitors, but permanent residents. The cores of the towers extend into the garage levels providing easy vertical circulation wells to quickly bring people from the underground to aboveground. For residents with special access, the elevators can lift them to their homes directly from the garage.
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Defining Urban Space The graphic above shows the relationship between the project and downtown Seattle. begins to extend the boundaries of the downtown district, while at the same time striving new urban district, utilizing the already existing community features such as the sculpture is an experiential montage expressing the various spatial conditions incorporated within
The project to pursue a park. Below the design.
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Theater Pod Atrium Experiential Montage
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Commercial + Entertainment Levels The most public levels of the entire project are the commercial and entertainment levels, beneath the park level. Within the plans of these levels are ample retail and commercial space available for vendors of any trade, a fitness center, nightlife venues, entertainment centers, and theater pods. Three theater pods [located on the right side of the plans below] invite visitors to experience performances of many kinds. These multi-level structures are the centerpiece to this promenade, providing plenty of open indoor functional space for interactions among guests. The spansive open concept of this atrium space is exposed to natural light apertures carved into the park level above. Guests can easily find their way to this space utilizing the vertical circulation cores or entering from Elliott Avenue.
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Cultural Center Seattle is culturally rich in that there are high concentrations of various ethnic groups making up a diverse community of people. The cultural center will serve as a gathering place for people of all backgrounds to come together. The floorplan consists of a large expansive space in contrast to separate rooms. One large space brings people together in one place rather than creating a separation effect. Culture is not only defined by ethnicity and/or religion. The way of life in Seattle is a culture in and of itself, therefore the center will host classes and seminars on subjects such as gardening, the arts, physical fitness, etc.
Park-Level Floorplan
Park-Level The idea behind the ‘park-level’ is to invite the visitors to Olympic Sculpture Park into the tower complex. The park level is unique in that it can be described as a floating slice of the earth. Supported by angled columns below, the thick slab of ground makes it possible for trees and various plants to grow, creating a continuity of nature and green space in relation to the sculpture park. The slab interacts at the impact points with buildings. As shown in the renderings below, the slab slices through each building.
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Rendering of Office Complex Looking North
The section [left] and renderings [right] discuss the transition from park-level and entering a building. The pair of buildings make up the office complex. This region of the project will serve as a hub for the everyday worker. In the section, both channels are shown developing the sectional qualities of the buildings. The channels sculpt the space resulting in a greater experience for the inhabitant. The renderings give a sense of approaching a builidng from park level and gauge the experiences of the space surrounding a building’s exterior.
Rendering of Office Complex Looking West
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Efficiency Apartments Apartment homes that are affordable. 1 bedroom apartments with private bath and open-concept living space. Each level features an outdoor area behind the exterior screen system allowing residents to share an outdoor space and decorate with plants, thus creating a vertical garden.
Circulation Hub Located between the office complex and high-end residential buildings, the circulation hub contains vertical circulation for quick and easy access to all public realms of the project.
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Artist Live-Work Two buildings adjacent to one another with access bridges connecting higher floors between buildings. One building serves as studio space for local and visiting artists, while the other serves as studio lofts used as living spaces.
Office Space Two buildings side-by-side with connecting bridges for accessibility between buildings. Large core shared by both buildings along with grand architectural staircase on channellevel. Offices have views to Puget Sound and the Seattle Space Needle
Luxury Apartments
Typical Floorplan
With only two units per floor, and being the tallest building on-site, these spacious apartments offer 2 bedrooms, 2 baths along with spectacular views of Puget Sound and downtown Seattle.
The Channel As shown in the floorplan above, the floating channel is highlighted in dark gray. The channel serves as a mediator controlling the volume and flow of visitor traffic. This lively, linear space is imperative to the overall design, allowing transportation from tower to tower without going outdoors. Also making transitions between buildings smoother, faster, and more efficient.
Channel-Level Floorplan
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Rendering Looking From Olympic Sculpture Park
Cross Section Overlooking Puget Sound
Mixed-Use Tower In order to illustrate the structural systems incorporated into the design of each tower, the largest tower was chosen to be fully detailed. Programatically, each tower in the project has a similar layout. The first few levels are public and contain public program while the remaining levels contain repetitive program such as housing or office space. The program of this tower in particular begins with performance, retail, and open promenade space below park-level. At park-level, guests will find a multi-level shopping complex. At channellevel is a restaurant combined with the atrium space for the private residences. All levels above the channel contain luxury apartments, except on level 26 is a public observation center.
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Skin Structure The skin system applied to this design is comprised of several layers of secondary and tertiary structural systems. As shown in the diagram above, the first layer of structure is a curtain wall glass envelope with a mullion web being the second layer. From there, suspension members attach a webbed structural membrane that fits the materialtiy of the screen. The screen itself is a semi-transparent perforated metal, providing privacy and protection from the sun, but also allowing scenic views to be visible from inside the towers.
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Rendering Overlooking Puget Sound From Balcony
Rendering Overlooking Northern Seattle From Balcony
Folding + Revealing Furthermore, the screen system shifts directions in section, creating a folding effect. In some instances of the facade, the folds peel outward revealing space within the structural shell. These spaces between structure double as habitable balconies for private residences. As shown in the rendering to the right, the folding of the screen system is visible, along with the revealed balcony spaces.
Worms-Eye View
The section at left depicts the longitudinal section of the mixeduse tower. In addition to the layout of space, this section also reveals a connection between the skin and the spaces. The skin has large apertures of glass, or holes in the mesh material, allowing direct light to penetrate into the spaces within.
Exploded Axonometric Diagram
Structural Systems Above is an exploded axonometric diagram representing the structural systems throughout the entire project. The bottom-most layer shows the street level structural foundation. Next is the park-level ground slab, channels, and volumetric representations of space within the buildings being supported by a grid of columns. To the right and left of this layer are the skin structures pulled away from their hosts. Lastly, the upper-most layer shows the curtain wall glass systems enveloping the buildings.
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Schematic Model The model pictured demonstrates the basic functions on the elements within this large scale project. The most critical components being the cores of the structures. These elements play a major role in terms of both circulation and structure. Secondary to the cores are the skins as they serve as the envelopes of the buildings. Lastly, the tertiary system shown in this model are the floorplates, allowing habitation to occur at numerous levels.
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Axonometric View Looking North
Elevation View Looking Northeast
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Aerial ‘X-Ray’ View
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A Neighborhood in Havana Havana, Cuba Advanced Design C Professor Jan Wampler Spring 2016 4 Weeks Teammates: Vanessa Marin + Steven Arrubla
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Studying Madrid’s network of open spaces and plazas
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Madrid, Spain To begin drawing ideas for our urban design in Havana, a more developed urban design was studied to interpret the networks of which make up a successful urban setting. Madrid was chosen mostly for it’s pedestrian accessibility. Much of the pathways within this city cater to pedestrians rather than motor vehicles. This type of urban model would greatly benefit the people of Centro Havana. In the map to the left, the abundance of open public space is shown, calling out the plazas and parks and how they are connected. It is crucial that our design for Centro Havana contains a similar public framework.
Urban Scale Comparison In order to grasp the scale of an urban design, we also studied the scale of Madrid’s framework. The graphic to the right shows an aerial view of Madrid with an overlay of white. The hole cut away from the white overlay matches the dimensions of the Centro Havana site in comparison to the dimesions of the selected area of Madrid. This allowed us to get a sense of just how large our site is, giving ideas as to how much open space and plazas can be incorporated into the design.
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The Space Between: Madrid The space between model takes a very different approach to representing elements within a model. It is an ‘inverted’ model, meaning the negative space shows where physical buildings are located and the plexiglass represents space. This public, open-air space is defined by stacking the material. Furthermore, where the material is stacked higher represents higher intensity of public space. In the model shown above, the highest intensity spaces are Puerta del Sol, and Plaza Mayor. The space between model also contains a secondary system, having to do with the intensity of pedestrian paths. The darker the color orange, the higher intensity of pedestrian activity and accessibility. Puerta del Sol
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Much of Centro Havana buildings utilize the courtyard to provide proper natural ventilation
Buildings that were once designed to house a number of families now houses five times as many. Counting the electrical meters upon entering a building tells how many families call it home
The streetroom is crucial to life in Cuba. Streets belong to the pedestrian, not the car
Cubans have a great share of innovation and skills, with little or no value given to these attributes
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Axonometric graphic mapping special programmatic elements
Plan view of area of study
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Visiting Cuba With Cuba recently opening its borders to American tourists, we were able to embark on a journey exploring this culturerich territory. Each team was assigned a plot of the site to experience and study inside and out. We walked the streets, visited the homes of locals, climbed to the rooftops of buildings, gathering as much information as possible on the everyday life of a resident of Centro Havana. Architecturally, we focused on building heights and special programmatic elements we encountered. Ultimately finding a nursery, historic hotel, playground, performance space, and corner markets. As for building heights, it was discovered the building heights increased further north and closer to the Malecon. The tallest buildings found were approximately 80 feet, while some of the shorter buildings found were approximately 20 feet in height. One of the most unique finds on our area of study was the only space with naturally growing trees, a pocket park. When considering a new design for Centro Havana it was clear Madrid needed to be used as a precedent for incorporating open public space.
Section depicting building heights
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The Junk Model Agriculture Node
Transportation Hub
Cultural Node
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Keeping in mind our visit to Centro Havana, and using our studies of Madrid as a precedent, we set out to accumulate old antique pieces such as typewriters, adding machines, telephones, radios, etc. Breaking apart these objects and separating their small components we arranged these pieces in such a way to develop a schematic ‘sketch’ model of what our design could be. In Madrid, we found there to be five key plazas that make up the public framework. In Havana, we wanted to achieve a similar approach toward our design. Using the junk pieces, we created five nodes that would contribute in one way or another to the overall feeling of our neighborhood. The centralized node, pictured below, became the innovation node. The powerhouse of this design would be the innovation center where the people who already have the skills and trades to innovate could come together, giving Cuba a place to harness these skills and put them to use.
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The Space Between: Havana The space between model of Havana focuses heavily on the concept of five nodes contributing to the overall framework. The innovation node is the powerhouse of the design, explaining its centralized location on the plan. All other nodes branch off from the innovation node, giving way to a network of pedestrian paths, depicted in orange.
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Introducing Buildings Following the space between model of Havana, the model below focuses on the opposite elements of the design, physical buildings. Now that the open space and pedestrian pathways were developed, the buidlings that make up the urban design were designed by bridging the gap between existing structures and open spaces created through the public framework design.
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Innovation district buildings
Public Framework The map above illuistrates the network of public spaces, pathways, axis, and mobility. After incorporating the five nodes into the existing structures of Havana, connecting them brought about a major design challenge. Our solution to connecting these nodes was to introduce a bold angle into a very orthogonal existing grid. This axis would serve as a major thoroughfare for Centro Havana, featuring public transit, pedestrian-only access, and high concentrations of commercial development.
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Sustainability There are several components of sustainability included in the urban design for Centro Havana. It is crucial neighborhoods be self-sustaining going into the future. The entire eastern side of Centro Havana will be devoted to producing energy, food, water, and educational opportunities for the people. The board to the right examines the many components that contribute to the sustainability goals.
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Wave and wind power harvested from the Maleon contribute greatly to providing energy to the Centro Havana neighborhood. The space will be repurposed into an entertainment complex to avoid unsightly untility development.
Energy Production
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Energy created is then sent to housing dwellings for energy consumption.
The agriculture node is where food is produced from the energy harvested from the Malecon. There will be space for livestock, gardens, parks, etc.
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Elevation Studies The above models place emphasis on the facades of the buildings. At this point, the project shifted from macro scale to micro scale. The elevation models zoom into the buildings and begin to generate a language of architecture throughout the urban model. Materiality, threshold, and relating to the existing buildings were drivers in developing said architecture.
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Typical Housing Block The section above cuts through a typical block of mixed-use housing development. This block in particular is located in the agricultural node, explaining the abundance of greenery throughout the space between buildings. This block was once three separate blocks of the existing grid. Each existing block within the new, larger block was assigned a different level of density. From left to right, the blocks are ordered low, medium, high density respectively. In order to provide sufficient housing for the neighborhood, the density of the entire site needs to increase ten fold, thus the dramatic heights of buildings when compared to the existing context. The rendering to the right shows the highest density block and the medium density block. As far as program, both contain mostly housing, however there is also mixed-use development in certain buildings. The highest density block borders Neptuno, Centro Havana’s most commercialized street. This block is also designed to provide a nursery, commercial retail, and an elderly day care center. The medium density block also has mixed-use development. This block is designed to have both residential and commercial development on street level, but one building is devoted to serve as a community library. The library is located adjacent to the border between the innovation and agriculture nodes. Programatically, this library provides a seamless transition between the two districts, while also providing gathering space for the surrounding community.
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Secton through Typical Housing Block
Rendering of High Density Block
Rendering of Medium Density Block
The highest density block is designed to have a larger scale urban feel. The ground condition lifts pedestrians above street level to keep commercial development at street level, bringing open space above retail space.
The medium density block is special in that one of the pedestrian paths from the main scheme terminates within the block. This condition brings about a highly public and lively feel.
The above model is a representation of the typical housing block of the new Centro Havana. Since the overall scheme of the urban design is about pedestrian pathways and open space, the housing blocks contain similar elements on a smaller scale. Within this block is a pedestrian path, as well as pocket parks along the path.
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The low density block contains the least amount of open space. However, the space between buidlings is utilized to provide smaller scale pocket parks as well as the rooftop of an existing building for the public and residents to enjoy.
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Rendering of Low Density Block
The image to the left shows the small scale pedestrian pathways along with the pocket parks within the housing blocks. The aerial image at right shows how the buildings work together on the plan to give way to open spaces.
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The overall final model of the final stage of this urban design is shown above. The original intervention is shown in white, the existing context is shown in gray, and the housing component of the intervention is shown in white and gray hybrid models. This model includes every element of the overall schematic design. The ground conditions in dark gray and beige call out the open spaces and pedestrian paths. The housing portion of this model is the latest development made in the entire project. The housing smoothens the transition between existing and intervention making the design less harsh on the existing orthogonal grid.
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Final 1:64 Model
Cultural Node Detai View
Public Transportation Hub
The cultural node is an example of how a The transportation hub connects Zanga and the major axis of the pedestrian path can serve as a pedestrian- design. This joint between two major public axis is crucial in bringing only thoroughfare for a district. The the life of Centro Havana into the newly introduced angle of the project. narrow pathway opens up into a public plaza promoting gathering of people.
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School of Architecture + Community Design