VBaranova Architecture Portfolio 2010 by Vera Baranova

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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

ARCHITECTURE STUDIO PROJECTS 01_LOCK_MECHANISM_GSD 02_DIHEDRAL_CAVERN_GSD 03_BOSTON_LIBRARY_GSD 04_THE_ELEVATOR_PROJECT_GSD 05_HIDDEN_ROOM_GSD 06_ANT_FARM_GSD 07_LODGED_HOUSE_GSD 08_TRANSFORMER_TCAUP 09_DETROIT_TRANSPORTATION_HUB_TCAUP 10_PROJECT_RUNWAY_TCAUP 11_MEDITATION_PAVILION_TCAUP

LOCK MECHANISM

LOCK MECHANISM Harvard Graduate School of Design Core I Yael Erel

In this project viewing relationships intertwine to establish a theater of the absurd utilizing the hinging movement that the building engages in to allow for the passage of the boat through the lock. One part of the building is an auditorium, while the stage is located across the canal. Those crossing the canal become part of the performance, acting as backstage. The boaters are also engaged in the performance as well as being able to see the show. The form of the building was established from a shifting square. The entire building evolves seamlessly from one form of movement to another. Only the pedestrian bridge across the canal physically moves between two positions. The open and close positions meet up with the stationary parts of the building on either side depending on whether the pedestrians can cross or have to wait.

THIRD LEVEL PLAN SCALE: 1’ = 1/8”

SECOND LEVEL PLAN SCALE: 1’ = 1/8”

FIRST LEVEL PLAN SCALE: 1’ = 1/8”

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SITE PLAN - CLOSED SCALE: 1’ = 1/16”

SITE PLAN - OPEN SCALE: 1’ = 1/16”

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upper level gallery

lobby

backstage

upper level gallery

lobby

upper level gallery

lobby auditorium access stair

restrooms

backstage

stage entrance

restrooms

upper level gallery lobby

lower level gallery

backstage

upper level gallery

upper level gallery returns to ground level

lower level gallery

lobby

upper level gallery

lobby

stage

auditorium

auditorium access stair lower level gallery

stage

upper level gallery

lobby

lower level gallery

upper level gallery

lobby

upper level gallery

entrance

upper level gallery

lobby

auditorium

stage

lower level gallery

lobby

lower level gallery

stage

lower level gallery

upper level gallery

lobby

backstage

lobby

auditorium stage

lower level gallery

upper level gallery

lobby auditorium access stair lower level gallery

lower level gallery

stage

upper level gallery

stage entrance

lower level gallery

upper level gallery

auditorium stage

backstage

auditorium stage

lobby

auditorium

entrance

stage

lower level gallery

viewing aperture

lobby

lower level gallery

entering lower level gallery

DIHEDRAL CAVERN

Harvard Graduate Schoool of Design Core II Michael Meredith Typically we think of the systemic organization as weightless networks, non-figural fields constructed from parts which form a diffuse whole. -Michael Meredith This project deals with a systemic aggregation technique to produce a figure related to its own construction based on a set of connections between modular units. The aggregate system focuses upon ideas of performance on a structural and spatial level. The resulting load bearing structure is an enclosed room for two people with a definable interior and two seats composed out of the modules. The module was cast out of Rockite to think about the physicality of the unit, its weight, shape and surface qualities.

DIHEDRAL CAVERN

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC FIGURES SLIDING BETWEEN THE WALLS

SECTION CC

BOSTON LIBRARY

LIBRARY

Harvard Graduate School of Design Core II Michael Meredith

This design for a rare books library in downtown Boston is based on a system that swells at various degrees to engulf the program within it. This concept developed into a planometric drawing where the walls organize the building into strips within which the program is contained. Structurally these walls support each other with reinforcements while the figures are suspended between the walls held by the steel tieback system. The reading results in figures placed within walls/strips that organize the building. The figures of the library are spaces for stacks, circulation, cafe, reading rooms, computer rooms, offices, bookshop, a conservation laboratory, and a gallery to display documents as well as scholarly research.

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SCOLAR PUBLIC

FIRST LEVEL CIRCULATION

SECOND LEVEL CIRCULATION

THIRD LEVEL CIRCULATION

ROOF LEVEL CIRCULATION

SERVICE

03_BOSTON_LIBRARY Approaching the library from the street, the building façade is offset to one side to create a plaza and invite the person into the public space, which extends through and around the building. The offset is generated by an imaginary figure that represents the plaza, or the exterior space. The façade also has a prominent entry demarcated by a figure to mark it as an entrance.

SECOND LEVEL PLAN SCALE: 1’-0” = 3/32”

FIRST LEVEL PLAN SCALE: 1’-0” = 3/32”

THIRD LEVEL PLAN SCALE: 1’-0” = 3/32”

ROOF PLAN SCALE: 1’-0” = 3/32”

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From the back side the auditorium becomes a prominent feature with the view extending to the public park.

SECTION AA

SECTION BB

SECTION CC

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A sectional cut through the building shows structural walls and figures containing program.

STAIR/LANDING

ELEVATOR

DOOR

ROOM

TWIST

INDIRECT

DIRECT

Harvard Graduate School of Design Core I Yael Erel

DIHEDRAL CAVERN VESTIBULE

THE ELEVATOR PROJECT

LEVEL FIVE

LEVEL FIVE A

LEVEL FIVE

LEVEL FOUR

LEVEL THREE

LEVEL TWO

LEVEL ONE

THRESHOLD TYPES

NEW THRESHOLDS OVERLAPPED

LEVEL FOUR SECTION A

LEVEL FOUR A

SECTION B

Levels of thresholds have been established to counter the opposite side of the building where the circulation route is rather simple. The elevator, on the other hand, is the fastest route up the building, imitating the continuation of the street.

NEW THRESHOLDS OVERLAPPED (NO VESTIBULE)

OVERLAPPED VERTICAL CIRCULATION C

LEVEL THREE

EXISTING THRESHOLDS OVERLAPPED

LEVEL THREE A

B LOWER LEVEL

LOWER LEVEL

THRESHOLDS EXISTING

LOWER LEVEL

THRESHOLDS WITH INTERVENTION

LEVEL TWO

LEVEL TWO A

INDIRECT STAIR PROJECTION

DIRECT STAIR PROJECTION

SECTION C

INDIRECT STAIR PATH UNFOLDED C

LEVEL ONE

LEVEL ONE A

DIRECT STAIR PATH UNFOLDED

SCALE 3/32” = 1’- 0”

ELEVATOR PATH UNFOLDED SECTION D

LOWER LEVEL

LOWER LEVEL A

DIRECT/INDIRECT/ELEVATOR CIRCULATION

JOINTS WITHIN THE BUILDING

Hidden Room:

The hidden room is created when three systems are overlapped. The system overlaps to create an anomaly in the whole. The hidden room is not directly accessible from the fourth room floor. It only becomes accessible from the active circulation route. Only the exterior balcony is seen from fourth room. The wall from the enclosure system blocks the hidden room and gives it an appearance of the exterior wall.

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I am planning on treating any wall that is not enclosed by a wall from the system as fenestration. 6

2 System 1:

System 2:

System 3:

Path along which the ramps for the rooms form

Two paths mediating two other systems (System 1 and System 3). This system creates the enclosure for the whole building - walls and ceilings. Each side of the surface can only connect to the other surface once. The top and bottom are connected between two paths. The condition of hidden room becomes an anomaly due to the connections in that location.

Circulation that follows the ramp path of four rooms, becoming the path along which all of the rooms are accessible to each other.

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Diagrammatic roof plan showing the overall diagram of the building in plan. Dashed lines in the hidden room are the wall surfaces around the room.

System 1:

System 2:

System 3:

Ramping Floors - Passive Circulation

Enclosure

Active Circulation

HIDDEN ROOM

Harvard Graduate School of Design Core I Yael Erel

This project involves designing a group of five rooms, one of which seems to be hidden from the other four. The program requires providing a means of access to the hidden room while controlling the degree to which the room becomes vulnerable to disclosure. On the one hand, the hypothesis of concealment requires consideration of the relationship between the visual, experiential and conceptual bases of architecture. On the other hand, it elicits the interpretation of a specific idea and the processes by which it is given three-dimensional form and represented in architectural drawings, namely the plan. There are three systems through the interlinking of which the hidden room is derived. Using an art gallery as a hypothetical programmatic condition, the first system is the passive circulation route through the galleries. A set grid generates the modules within which the passive circulation is established. A set of rules were established to create a sloping circulation path that derived four ramped surfaces defining four galleries. The landings between ramps aid in the definition of four rooms. The second system is the active circulation route placed on the inside boundary of the gallery path. This active circulation route is the one that also connects all rooms to one another. The third system is the wall surface derived using a separate set of rules. The path of the passive circulation, placed at the ceiling level for the galleries is connected with the active circulation paths to create a wall that separates two circulations. Without the third system, the hidden room would not exist. Within a given paradigm for a gallery, the hidden room would take upon the role of a storage space for the art. Appearing to be related to the idea of the Klein bottle, a simple volume with a central void has been cleaved into two parts to allow passage to an interior void that is an â&#x20AC;&#x153;invertedâ&#x20AC;? extension of the exterior.

The loft between the red and blue arrows (in three dimensions) create the wall surface that separates two circulations. The red path would be placed at the height of the ceiling for the galleries. Because the wall starts at the center axis for all galleries, it also partially acts as a ceiling for them.

GALLERY 3 HIDDEN ROOM

GALLERY 2

GALLERY 4 g

GALLERY 1

ENTRANCE NO NEED FOR STEPS ANYMORE, I HAVE CHANGED THE SCALE BACK TO GRID BASED ON A 12 X 12 FT SQARE AS A UNIT. THE ENTIRE MODEL IS MADE OUT OF SIXTEEN OF THOSE SQUARES.

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The goal was to design an integrated system of modules operating at different proportional scales. The modules were to be part of the facade system, book stacks and reading carrels. The modular wall system is made from a grid of metal book shelves eighteen feet wide. The stacks are carved with circulation routes which allow access to eleven reading carrels of different sizes. The carving routes were developed from the layout of carrels where the most public carrels are located toward the bottom of the system while the more private ones are located higher up. Within the grid of bookshelves, only certain ones are accessible based on the circulation routes. The overall effect that is created from this design is that of a cloud like play between transparent and opaque. The pedagogical goals were to use a material system to produce a method of repetition and allow for variation and scalar shifts. The material system was designed to be structural, perform acoustically and allow for lighting.

ANT FARM

Harvard Graduate School of Design Core II Michael Meredith

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LODGED HOUSE LODGED HOUSE

Harvard Graduate School of Design Core I Yael Erel The site for a residence is a narrow site of seven feet wide located between two existing buildings in Cambridge. The approach for the project is sectional, where one strip of structure organizes all of the zones necessary for a house. The structure is designed in a way that allows the entire structure to fold down and be transported to another location. The hinges between the joints thus also allow the house to be unfolded in multiple ways to suit different gathering situations. The door acts as a shelf that transforms into a stair when open. The stair that allows one to move through the house as well as relax upon can unfold onto the street to transform into a walkway to allow guests in. The window that allows views onto the backyard also unfolds to create a glass terrace, allowing for additional dining or contemplation space. The structure of the bathroom sink upstairs meets with the kitchen sink on the lower level to create space for plumbing pipes.

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unfoldable exterior terrace

washing

courtyard

cooking sleeping

dining

working

living

living space below

entry below

exterior rooftop terrace

TRANSFORMER

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning UG3 Steven Mankouche

The site of a waning power plant has been transformed into multi-programmed ballast water cleaning research facility and a water leisure center. A ship is a very important feature to the city of Sault Ste. Marie. It is a defining element of the town. The Soo Locks, being such a prevalent threshold between the Great Lakes and the rest of world carries a significant amount of cargo each day. There rises a problem of the foreign species introduction into the Great Lakes, thus endangering the ecosystem of the surrounding region. The empty lot located next to an old Union Carbide and today an Edison Power Plant is a perfect site for the park that can house several pools for dumping ballast water from the ships, water that has been collected overseas for balanced floating upon travel. The slot that exists on the eastern part of the site is perfect for the barge to fit in upon the ballast discharge. The site is also a perfect location for ballast cleansing, since it is located before the entrance into Lake Superior through the Soo Locks.

08_TRANSFORMER sitting room

reading room conference room

pool

athletic pools

pool

offices

sample library power plant library

reception/ rentals

sitting area/cafe

bathrooms laboratory

reception

third floor -- 1:32nd scale

A bathrooms

kitchen

bathrooms

storage

steam room

restaurant

sauna changing rooms

hatchery

third floor -- 1:32nd scale second floor -- 1:32nd scale

C C

generators

pool

reception

baths bathrooms

pool

power plant

steam room

reception/ rentals entrance

sitting area/cafe

bathrooms

A restaurant

sauna showers

sitting area changing rooms

entrance

hatchery hatchery

to beach

second floor -- 1:32nd scale

first floor -- 1:32nd scale

entrance

generators

reception

baths A

showers

bathrooms A

sitting area

entrance hatchery

to beach

first floor -- 1:32nd scale

longitudinal section -- 1:32nd scale

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The empty lot located next to an old Union Carbide and today an Edison Power Plant is a perfect site for the park that can house several pools for dumping ballast water from the ships, water that has been collected overseas for balanced floating upon travel. The slot that exists on the eastern part of the site is perfect for the barge to fit in upon the ballast discharge. The site is also a perfect location for ballast cleansing, since it is located before the entrance into Lake Superior through the Soo Locks. Ballast cleaning is a developing practice. The main chemical used for killing small bacteria usually found in the ballast water is ozone solution called hydroxyl radical. Only two cubic feet of hydroxyl radical would be necessary to kill the bacteria found in an average cargo ship ballast. The site houses a park where the ballast pools are located. When the pools are not in use in the dry weather conditions, they are used for skateboarding. In the wintertime, the grounds are used for snow dumping (for snow accumulated from roads cleaning during the winter storms: Sault Ste. Marie has the highest snowfall rate in the Midwest). The snow can be pushed around, where snow mountains would be formed to create a snow playground. The half pipe can be used as a snowboarding half pipe. In the spring, the snow melts and drains through the landscape on the northern part of the site. Because one of the main goals of the site design was to adjust to the seasons throughout the year, part of the parking lot transforms into an ice rink during the winter. The bike paths transform into the snowmobile paths to accommodate the Snowmobile 500 race that takes place every winter in the city of Sault Ste. Marie.

plumbing diagram

ships

ice

cars

bikes

snowmobiles

people

winter

summer

parking

snowmobile parking

beach ozone lab ballast pool

ozone lab water drainage

snow mountains

parking skate park

snowboarding half pipe ice rink

benches

benches park

park

bike path snowmobile path

The building itself is transformed in parts, or literally in halves. The generators remain in the western half of the building to produce power for the town. The power plant is managed on the second floor. The third floor is occupied by the dry research laboratories working in adjunct with the ballast cleaning facility on maintaining a healthy natural environment in the Great Lakes region. The eastern half of the building is separated into a community center. There are private baths located on the ground floor, open to the canal and facing the beach. In the wintertime, they are heated to continue servicing the community. On the second floor, there are a number of pools and a social area for families to gather to spend time with friends. On the top floor there are six swimming lanes 400 meters long.

added stairwell added stairwell

existing elevator existing elevator

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existing elevator existing elevator

4 4

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3 3

added stairwell added stairwell

5 5

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4 4

existing elevator existing elevator

3 3

VAV control box VAV control box

added stairwell added stairwell

existing elevator existing elevator

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6 6

4 4

5 5

3 3

existing elevator existing elevator

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Student:Vera VeraBaranova Baranova Student: UniqueName: Name: verabar verabar Unique OriginalDate: Date: 02.21.08 02.21.08 Date DateRevised: Revised:03.06.08 03.06.08 Original LABInstructor: Instructor:Nicole NicoleEisenmann Eisenmann LAB

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added stairwell added stairwell

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added stairwell added stairwell

existing elevator existing elevator

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branch ducts branch ducts

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material section -- 1/8th scale LEGEND: LEGEND: 1. boiler and chiller rooms 1. fan boilerrooms and chiller rooms 2. 2. vertical fan rooms 3. shaft 3. VAV vertical 4. boxshaft 4. diffusers VAV box 5. 5. exhaust diffusers air louvers 6. 6. exhaust air louvers

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3. vertical shafts 3. vertical are connectedshafts to are connected the fan rooms,to the fan rooms, chillers and boilers chillers and boilers

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added stairwell added stairwell

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Heatingand andCooling Cooling Heating SecondFloor FloorPlan Plan/ /Scale: Scale:1:60 1:60 Second

diffusers diffusers

material section -- 1/8th scale

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longitudinal section -- 1/16th scale

2 x 4 `` wood blocks

Scale: 1:2

Student: Vera Baranova Unique Name: verabar Original Date: 01.17.08 Date Revised: 02.11.08 LAB Instructor: Nicole Eisenmann

setting block

Student: Vera Baranova Unique Name: verabar Original Date: 02.21.08 Date Revised: 03.06.08 LAB Instructor: Nicole Eisenmann

double safety glazing

waterproof membrane

Scale: 1:2

Scale: 1:16

04.05

concrete slab internal insulation

plaster board

window unit

concrete slab

column bracing

concrete column

Arenas and Exhibition Halls can use Variable Air Volume, Single-Duct Constant Air Volume and Fan-Coil Terminals. The variable air volume and the single-duct constant air volume show up for both, so I will choose between those two. Because the building contains laboratories and assembly spaces, there are a lot of air that needs to be circulating to maintain a healthy environment. Because the building is quite large, the expenses of operating costs would be rather large, so minimizing operating costs is beneficial for the building. VAV heating and cooling systems as well as the CAV system are qualified in that regard. Maximized control of air velocity and air quality is beneficial as well due to the numerous chemicals and organisms present in the labs. VAV heating and cooling systems as well as the CAV system are qualified in that regard as well. Maximizing individual control over temperatures in not necessarily required. Minimizing system noise would be beneficial in the laboratory environment due to several research study rooms as well as conference rooms, but it would not be as helpful in the noisy assembly spaces on the second and third floors. (VAV heating and cooling systems as well as the CAV system are qualified in that regard as well.) Visual obtrusiveness can be minimized on the third floor, by placing the systems in the trusses above, which does not reduce the height of the occupied space; however the ducts can complement the industrial feel of the building. VAV and CAV systems both minimize visual obtrusiveness. They also maximize the flexibility of rental space as well as minimize system maintenance. VAV system is better for my mixed use building over the CAV system because “VAV is the most versatile and most widely used system for heating and cooling large buildings.” (Studio Companion) Because it is versatile, it is probably a lot cheaper than the systems that would have to serve different areas. CAV serves spaces that have large open areas, few windows, and uniform loads. Although my building is large, the space is not uniformly loaded. The space is very long and narrow with quite a few windows on every floor. When comparing the two systems in other categories, their differences seem irrelevant to the project. Given that one difference stated earlier, the VAV system is the most suitable for my building. The VAV box is usually concealed above a suspended ceiling. It is no more than 18 inches high for zones up to 7000 sq. ft. Its horizontal dimensions vary with capacity, up to a maximum length of about 5 ft. This system layout works very well on the first floor and the second floor. The truss on the third floor allows for enough space for the boxes to be hidden up in the spaces of the truss.

boiler room

Heating and Cooling Section/ Scale: 1:16

insulation

Structure -Details Detail Sectional Diagrams / Scale: see drawing

structural silicone

fair face concrete

Laboratories can use Variable Air Volume systems, VAV Reheat, Dual-Duct VAV, Single-Duct, Constant Air Volume, and CAV Reheat

cooling tower is located on the roof of the addition

The VAV box is concealed above the suspended ceiling, along with the lighting. The plenum height is 18 inches.

steel angle

vapor barrier

SELECTION FOR THE HEATING ANG COOLING SYSTEM

3 layers of tempered glass

silicone

thermal insulation

The Main Occupancies: Laboratories, Assembly (using Arenas and Exhibition Halls in The Studio Companion)

silicone

setting block

bitumen roofing felt, two layers

fan room chilled water plant

boiler

06.03

The alcoves on the first floor are designated for the boiler, chiller and the fan room spaces. The duct work between them is located along the walls and through openings.

Student: Vera Baranova Unique Name: verabar Original Date: 02.21.08 Date Revised: 02.29.08 LAB Instructor: Nicole Eisenmann

structural axon

curb rail

substrate for planting

VAV system is better for my mixed use building over the CAV system because “VAV is the most versatile and most widely used system for heating and cooling large buildings.” (Studio Companion) Because it is versatile, it is a lot cheaper than the systems that would have to serve different areas. CAV serves spaces that have large open areas, few windows, and uniform loads. Although this building is large, the space is not uniformly loaded. The space is very long and narrow with quite a few windows on every floor. Given that one difference stated earlier, the VAV system is the most suitable for the building. The VAV box is usually concealed above a suspended ceiling. It is no more than 18 inches high for zones up to 7000 sq. ft. Its horizontal dimensions vary with capacity, up to a maximum length of about 5 ft. This system layout works very well on the first floor and the second floor. The truss on the third floor allows for enough space for the boxes to be hidden up in the spaces of the truss.

post-tensioned rod

shim pads and nonshrink grout

Heating and Cooling Section and Narrative / Scale: 1:16

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post-tensioned anchor cast into footing

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Enclosure

Student: Vera Baranova Unique Name: verabar

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material section -- 1/8th scale

DETROIT TRANSPORTATION HUB

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning UG2 Nondita Correa-Mehrotra To create a more sustainable mode of transportation for commuters between Detroit and Ann Arbor, this project focuses on a design for a train station in downtown Detroit. In order to understand how a train station can benefit the commuters of southeastern Michigan, a study was done on current modes of transportation. In an effort to reduce the use of the all-time favorite Motown mode of transportation, the automobile, research was done on creating a transportation hub where the commuter train system can connect multiple dense neighborhoods of the Detroit and Ann Arbor area, including the Metro Airport. The study was done to understand how many tracks and stops would be needed to make the most efficient commuting system. The existence of the current train tracks was taken into the consideration. Co-authored research: Melissa Sia

TRANSPORTATION HUB

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The train station that was designed for Detroit included various circulation routes for different means of transport. To further the goal of creating a communal transportation hub, a bus depot and a pedestrian path were added. The train station also includes a market, a post office, a laundromat and commercial space on the lower level in order to ease oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commute to and from work. The outdoor park along the tracks has been designed not only with the commuters in mind, but also to revitalize the neighborhood.

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PROJECT RUNWAY

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning UG1 Stewart Hicks The project encompasses the challenge of designing a building to house the production of the nationally televised cable program Project Runway. The building is to serve the city in two ways: the city is to be featured in the filming of the show as well as to be a public amenity and an icon to the fashion industry within the city of Ann Arbor. The function of an existing alley adjacent to the site is to be preserved. The relationship between the observing and the observed is established using the accordion folding technique to mediate views and to show relationships within the city and the site. The siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship to the surrounding clothing stores in the area played a role in the establishment of its connection to Liberty Street, where a lot of Ann Arborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clothing stores are located.

PROJECT RUNWAY

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Final model shows the accordion folding technique wrapping the building from the facade backwards, turning direction and transforming into the ceiling of the space where the runway is located. Similarly to the public views mediated between the city and the building through the skin of the facade, there are internal views being created between the private spaces of the second and third stories and the semipublic runway space on the ground floor. The accordion wall also represents the progression from the public spaces at the front of the building to the private spaces and production spaces at the back.

MEDITATION PAVILION

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning UG1 Stewart Hicks A space of solitude and a space of gathering were to be contained in the form. Particular characteristics of each of the spaces were to determine the arrangement of the spaces and their interaction. A balcony influenced the space of solitude while a reflection pool was interpreted to be a place of gathering, which at the same time can be understood as a generator of contemplation. Although these two spaces were characterized separately, one of the goals was to find a way to unite the two and to provide for an experience that would allow one to see the interconnection of the two such different yet alike spaces. The design of the roof plays an important role in the shadow it leaves on the floors of the pavilion. The shadow, reflected in the pool and projected further down creates patterns not only on the floor plates but also on the surface of the water. The pool, upon entrance, can only be seen at eye level. One has a choice of either continuing up the stairs or down. A stripe of translucent horizontal windows separates an open space upstairs from an enclosed underground space downstairs, where one can experience the patterns created by the roof form and thus contemplate. The circulation within the pavilion provides for the connection between the space of solitude downstairs and the space of gathering upstairs. The final model is the result of the study of the spaces of gathering and solitude, the characteristics of these two spaces, the conflicting relationship in the experience of the two spaces, and their interconnection with each other and the overall volume.

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WATER PAVILION

Plan and Unfolded Elevations

Scale: 1/8`` = 1`- 0``

Plan and Unfolded Elevations

wood shingles 3/4 `` plywood decking ventilation cavity sealing layer 3/4 `` plywood decking 2 `` thermal insulation vapor barrier 3/4 `` plywood sheathing

2 x 4 `` wood rafters 4 x 48 `` timber beam

2 x 15 `` timber beam

2 x 4 `` timber truss

Scale: 1/8`` = 1`- 0``

wood shingles 3/4 `` plywood decking ventilation cavity sealing layer 3/4 `` plywood decking 2 `` thermal insulation vapor barrier 3/4 `` plywood sheathing

2 x 4 `` sole plate

1`` oak beams

3/4 `` plywood sheathing

2 x 10 `` joist

Corner Axonometric

6 ft

Scale: 1/2`` = 1`- 0``

Corner Axonometric

6 ft

Scale: 1/2`` = 1`- 0``

4 3

2 x 10 `` joist

2 x 10 `` rim joist

double 2x top plate

1/2 `` plywood sheathing

wood shingles 2 x 8 `` double header

timber casing trim glazing

2 x 4 `` rough sill

2 x 4 `` sill plate

Below Ground Assembly - 12 x 24 ``concrete footing with a key - 8 `` concrete foundation wall - sloped 4 `` ground slab for water run-off - waterproofing under the slab - mudslab - gravel

Window Opening Assembly - 2 x 4 `` rough sill and double header for rough opening - glazing for window - 2 x 4 `` timber studs - ½ `` sheathing - cedar shingles for siding finish

Glass-Covered Ceiling - timber joists support the glass surface

Roof

Below Ground Assembly5

Retaining Wall and 2 Ground Window Opening Assembly

- timber truss holds up the sawtooth roof - 12 x 24 ``concrete footing with-a8key `` concrete retaining wall - 2 x 4 `` rough sill and double header - timber beams span the length of the roof - 8 `` concrete foundation wall - gravel covered concrete for ramp rough opening - 2 x 4 `` rough openings with rough sill and -double landscaping slopedheader 4 `` ground slab for waterforrun-off - glazing for window for windows - waterproofing under the slab - 2 x 4 `` timber studs - 2 x 4 `` rafters - mudslab - ½ `` sheathing - ¾ `` plywood decking - gravel - cedar shingles for siding finish - vapor barrier - thermal insulation - ventilation cavity - wood shingles

Glass-Covered Ceiling

Roof

5 2

- timber joists support the glass surface

- timber truss holds up the sawtooth roof - timber beams span the length of the roof - 2 x 4 `` rough openings with rough sill and double header for windows - 2 x 4 `` rafters - ¾ `` plywood decking - vapor barrier 1 - thermal insulation - ventilation cavity - wood shingles

2 x 4 `` sill plate

Retaining Wall and Ground 2

- 8 `` concrete retaining wall - gravel covered concrete ramp for landscaping

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The Horyu-ji Pagoda and Golden Hall in Japan as well as the Swiss Pavilion in Hanover at Expo 2000 by Peter Zumthor served as architectural precedents for the wood structure assembly. The layering of the wood members played a role in the way the roof structure was assembled. The sawtooth roof of this Water Pavilion was influenced by the Kunsthal gallery ceiling. The diffused light from the vertical members of the roof illuminate the spaces below.

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Scale: 3/4`` = 1`- 0`` Vera Baranova ARCH 317 - Construction 1 Instructor: Mick Kennedy 12.07.2006

RESEARCH 12_AEROTROPOLITAN_YOU:_A_MISCONCEPTION?_TCAUP 13_PORTAGE_ARCHITECTURE_TCAUP 14_VOLUME_DEFORMATIONS_TCAUP 15_FIELD_DEFORMATIONS_TCAUP 16_AGGREGATED_VARIABLE_STACKING_TCAUP 17_SURVEYING_THE_GREEN_IN_ZURICH_TCAUP 18_GLOBAL_APARTMENTS_TCAUP

CULTIVATING ARCHITECTURE’S ROLE IN ESTABLISHING A SENSE OF A PLACE WITHIN THE CONSUMERIST, GLOBAL AIR-DOMINATED ECONOMY. AETROPOLITAN YOU: A MISCONCEPTION? IS THE –POLIS FOR YOU OR FOR THE CROWD?

AEROTROPOLITAN YOU: A MISCONCEPTION? AEROTROPOTITAN YOU: A MISCONCEPTION? -- DESIGNING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning UG4 Dawn Gilpin

I have been interested in cultivating my techno-manifesto over the course of the last semester at TCAUP, defining architecture’s role in establishing a sense of a place within the consumerist, globalized air-dominated economy. Is there a future for a crowd in a city, or is a metropolis destined to become a place for individualist “settlements”. How does the economy influence the architecture which ultimately affects the lifestyle patterns and the identity definition on multiple scales? In my apology at the end of the semester, I was expecting to justify through architectural means the identity of a crowd or an individual in an aerotropolis urban model within four local conditions - Bangkok, Amsterdam, Belo Horizonte, and Detroit, Michigan. Tancredo Neves / Confins International Airport

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Bangok has a long history of Buddhism, and its religious architecture in the city is representative of its relevance. Even today, in a higly modernized and commercialized society, monks wander the streets. “Thailand has the world’s fastest growing economy between ‘85 and ‘95, and its glittering commercial buildings symbolized the promise of national prosperity. After 1997, they turned into the countersymbol of economic depression, as hundreds of commercial developments in central Bangkok were idled by bankruptcy, shoppers disappointed, and the city became known for its hollow concrete shells. The fears of isolation and abandonment identified by Lacien Hank here became manifest in the symbolic heart of a modern city. [Perspecta]” When Thaksin (telecommunications billionaire) introduced consumerism a few years later, he made shopping a national duty at all levels of society.

Images were taken from “Re-Urbanism, Perspecta, The Yale Architectural Journal” http://norman.walsh.name/1998/04/bangkok www.envixion.com

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Amsterdam is one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world and is a centre of bicycle culture with good provision for cyclists such as bike paths and bike racks, which are ubiquitous throughout the city. There are an estimated one million bicycles in the city. In the city center, driving a car is discouraged. Parking fees are steep and a great number of streets are closed to cars or are one-way. The streets are very narrow, often only one car wide (historic city center only). Public transport in Amsterdam mainly consists of bus and tram lines, however, there are four metro lines; with a fifth line, the North/South line, under construction. Three free ferries carry pedestrians and cyclists across the IJ to Amsterdam-Noord, and two ferries go east and west along the harbour. There are also water taxis and a water bus that transport people along Amsterdam's waterways. Images and text were taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam http://chowtimes.com/photos/2007/04/_MG_3609_edited-1.jpg

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BIKEOLOGY

Since the beginning of evolution of man, he/she was developing tools, and I interpret those as technology for that age, that allowed him to ease his/her way within the surrounding condition. Technology has been aiding us to developing better communications with each other as an entire human population. At first a man develops tools to work in his settlement. Then he develops tools and equipment for travel. Afterwards, he establishes a sense of ownership of land. Then he develops technology to protect that property, with HAARLEM an urge to obtain more. Wars are waged; the land is slowly being conquered. Horses (note the natural) to chariots to ships to train to cars to airplanes (using the resources to create something that aids us in our tasks = technology). As it becomes easier to communicate between nations, states, and individuals, the economical pressures cause nations with deep cultural histories to westernize. That breaks down the identity and the culture. The impact of consumerism (this modern economy can be compared to trade back when first settlements were being established) has been the result of that globalized economy, and in the past few years the air navigated trade has been sustaining the consumer culture. I believe that the air navigated trade would grow stronger over the next fifty years as the manufacturing industry would shrink. The digital manufacturing would overtake human manufacturing.

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“There are unmistakable elements that can be understood as the collective Dutch identity. These elements are characterised by several matters that have manifested themselves in various ways among our people throughout the ages. These elements include the following: a sense of liberty, openness to new things, people, ideas, places, an orientation to the outside: trade, travel, discovery, live and let live, being wealthy while acting as if resources are few, an endless tendency to complain about the other without taking these complaints too seriously. ... A journalist, a publisher and a non-conformistVan Randwijk was deeply troubled by four matters: the heavy influence of public media, which were increasingly content to follow the almighty ratings and subscription numbers – in other words, to be led by that which was of commercial interest, governmental information that continually failed to explain existing conflicts to the people, the fact that the majority of the population had no interest in facts about or background to the major societal conflicts of their time, the interactions among all of these factors and their consequences for a free society.”

Images and text were taken from the Speech by Job Cohen www.iamsterdam.com picasaweb.google.com www.dvorak.org

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It floods in Belo Horizonte every time it storms. The amount of water on the roads amounts to an average of a foot and a half, which runs down the paved landscape of the city. Because there are poor control methods for storm water treatment as well as sewer water, it causes significant pollution as well as circulation problems. Some of the residents settled on the slopes of the hills and on the river banks without thinking about the risks. The town still suffers from these dangerous settlements, and every time it rains, lives are lost in the devastated favelas (shantytowns). What would the design be of a space that is constantly affected by storm water?

BAROLOGY

The digital age disconnects us from one another physically, connecting us in a digital world. That individual identity is strengthened with consumer economy which drives the consumer culture. We define ourselves with the objects we own. This brings me to the generalization that the more digital we get, the more individualistic we become. The individualistic breaks down the collective. Where does that leave the city? The city as we know it to be is a collective establishment. The architecture within design means, allows us to manipulate the relationships between collective and individual. As the population increases, the urban growth increases. Taking a model of the city as we know it today – the typical typologies of the downtown with surrounded sectors for housing work and play, and transportation networks tying it all together, we have a model for a condition around which to work. Time has allowed for cities to develop at certain speeds. Amsterdam was founded in 1275, Detroit in 1701, Bangkok in 1782, and Belo Horizonte was first settled in 1700s and planned and constructed in 1890s. These cities that have been established at different times in history. The economics, politics and religious affairs of each time frame affects the foundations and the forms of those cities. Bangkok, a city with deep Buddhist urban problem history is now a consumer driven megalopolis. Amsterdam is the oldest of all four cities, but yet the smallest in size.

FLOODOLOGY

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Images and text were obtained from Fernando Lara Montreal Urban Ecology Center (Belo Horizonte Section) Flickr

Belo Horizonte’s international anonymity was born of no coastline, no beaches, and no famous Carnival. So what happens in Belo outside the daily work routine? The city’s claim to fame is being the bar capital of Brazil. “Not bars as in slick hotel lounges or boozy meat markets, but bars as in botecos, informal sit-down spots where multiple generations socialize, drink beer and often have an informal meal.” [NY Times] It is a city where the outdoors are treasured. People take advantage of eating outside. Even the new Tancredo Neves International Airport, forty kilometers outside the city, is fully open to the outside. Because the majority of the upper class spends their time off inside (usually the mall), the outdoor bars are more commonly populated by the lower class. To merge the two ends of the social spectrum, it is necessary to design at the edge of the condition - to merge outdoors with indoors, to mix the commercialism and the social classes together as well. Images and text were obtained from Fernando Lara NY Times “A Town Where All the World Is a Bar” by Seth Kugel

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Abandoned warehouses and empty lots in downtown Detroit are representative of the waning manufacturing industry in the metropolis. The increasing unemployment rates in automotive industries have been affecting the city and the economy in the state of Michigan. As manufacturing industries are going to disappear with the development of the digital technologies, the service sector has a better chance of brining jobs. The downtown population has been decreasing for the past fifty years, and is likely that would continue to do so in the future fifty years. The automotive sector would most likely continue to function, more efficiently, but it would not dominate as much as the air traffic industries. Since the population has been shifting away from the downtown, north and west, toward the airport, it is likely that the city center would shift. Images were taken from http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/charrette/aerotropolis06.html http://www.yoswat.com/foto/old-warehouse.jpg

MOBILEOLOGY

When air travel was becoming obsolete for people to travel around the world, the construction and the placement of the airport was crucial. Ideally, it had to be placed outside the main boundaries, with enough clearance for the planes to land. Due to the future urban expansion the growth can potentially occur vertically and horizontally. Although I prefer vertical urban growth, with the developments of personal air transportation (personal airplanes and later potential air cars) the growth of the city might not even be contained within a boundary. But my interests lie not at defining a new urban model, nor planning a new airport, but rather analyzing though design how the aerotropolis urban typology and the continuation of a connected, globalized world can sustain the cultures that we have been holding on to and preserving in the past. I have been interested in investigating whether cultural differences can exist in the world of brands and commodities, and whether architecture can bridge the gap in the next fifty years. I have been interested in cultivating my techno-manifesto, defining architecture’s role in establishing a sense of a place within the consumerist, globalized air-dominated economy. Is there a future for a crowd in a city, or is a metropolis destined to become a place for individualist “settlements”? How does the economy influence the architecture which ultimately affects the lifestyle patterns and the identity definition on multiple scales?

SHIFTOLOGY

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We know Detroit as the automobile capital of the world, but with the continuous unemployment troubles in the automotive industries, the car passes on its powers to the airplane, as the city shifts its economy driven transportation services. The image shows the city of highways on the left, with the view of Detroit from the car in the center. The right hand side image is a collage of an old view from the inside of a car into a new age of the airplane – the new near future profit-driven transport for the city. The condition allows for the design to move outside the automobile services, to the scale that services airplanes and airports. Thus the production shifts from the scale of the automobile to the scale of an airplane.

Images were taken from www.detroitrising.com www.williammckeen.com/images/HIGHWAY

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PORTAGE ARCHITECTURE

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning UG3 Steven Mankouche This exercise was done to use portage as a method for dismantling, relocating, demilitarizing, deindustrializing, re-industrializing, mitigating, reusing, demolishing, undoing, forgetting, remembering, archiving, tracking, controlling, counting, taxing, recycling, collecting, scrapping, producing, reproducing, reprogramming, and ultimately integrating architecture.

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VOLUME DEFORMATIONS

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Parametric Architecture Karl Daubmann

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Curved plates are arranged to touch one another at the top surface center point. This variation shows the field composed of plates with a small width setting and a low curvature.

Upon creating a simple shape, and giving it several parameters, just a few rules can digitally manipulate a shape of several of those units put together, creating a variety of forms for multiple functions. 1. one spline in one sketch 2. another spline in another sketch 3. in each of the sketches, the height of the curve is set to a parameter 4. the splines are offset to a parameter of a certain length 5. this offset corresponds to a profile line which was used to create a surface 6. surface became a thick surface 7. each of the above parts were put together in a product, being attached with certain coincidental points 8. they were lined up with other parts to which they were attached on the bottom (having the same configuration)

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atached surfaces with coincidence constraints in the same way, the parts were attached sideways

The apertures are arranged to control the amount of light that can enter the bu ing. The apertures are smaller on the south side to cover the larger surface area shading purposes, while the northern side is more open for diffused light. The sh of the apertures varies as the form changes.

SKYSCRAPER PARAMETRICS o

Angle.3 + n*`varying angle 2`

o at midpoints

height - n ft

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height - n ft o o

o Angle.1 -n*`varying angle 1`

points on the surface edge floor plane

plane circle

spline

thick surface

The skin is composed of apertures, represented with splines and thick surfaces. This adds to the structure and it represents the skin of the building. The apertures were made to adjust to the form when the whole shape is manipulated. The apertures were placed to be able to control the amount of light that would enter the building. There are more openings on the hypothetical north facing side for diffused light to enter. The hypothetical south side is covered with smaller apertures for shading purposes. If the surface is twisted, the apertures can vary from small to large to respond to the surrounding condition.

The apertures were placed on points established from the floor plane structure. Less points generate larger apertures.

o at midpoints Angle.2 - 40deg

LARGER APERTURES

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METAMODEL

elevator length long

RANOVA ggregated Variable tacking 2.006

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The apertures were placed on points established from the floor plane structure. More points generate smaller apertures.

o at midpoints

height - nft

The floor plane consists of a square and triangles on each side with four rectangles within the main square to represent structural cores. The size the amount of light that can enter the building. The apertures are smaller on The apertures are arranged to control of has surface a the each south geometrical side to coverfigure the larger area for shading purposes, while the northern side is more open for difparameter it, andofitsthe numbers fused light.set Thetoshape apertures varies as the form changes. can vary to manipulate the shape of the floor plane. A few additional parameters were added for the angles between the triangular protrusions. Those angles add to the variety of the floor plane manipulaitons. An initial goal was to be able to calculate the floor area of the whole building, adding the areas of each floor.

SMALLER APERTURES

height - n ft

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AGGREGATED VARIABLE STACKING

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Parametric Architecture Karl Daubmann

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Within the sketch, height line is set to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;height - n ft.â&#x20AC;? N changes with each floor above decreasing by 2, thus decreasing the area of the higher floors. This resembles the tapering effect of a tall building. The n witin the formula of the angles varies in a similar fashion with each of the above floors.

o o at midpoints

base elevator length long

Angle.1 -n*`varying angle 1`

o at midpoints

height - n ft

ETAMODEL

height - n ft

A floor plane is made from a square and four triangles on each side. Their size varies with set parameters. There are additional angle parameters that vary the shape of the floor plane. The floor planes are stacked above each other in sketches, with varying relationships in every sketch. As the parameters vary, the overall form changes.

Angle.3 + n*`varying angle 2`

FORM 3

height - n ft

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FORM 2

Angle.2 - 40deg

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o at midpoints

height - nft

FORM 1

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16_AGGREGATED_VARIABLE_STACKING A floor plane is made from a square and four triangles on each side. Their size varies with set parameters. There are additional angle parameters that vary the shape of the floor plane. The floor planes are stacked above each other in sketches, with varying relationships in every sketch. As the parameters vary, the overall form changes.

elevator length short

SURVEYING THE GREEN IN ZURICH

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning “Seeing Switzerland” Study Abroad Program Julie Larsen + Roger Hubeli

GLOBAL APARTMENTS The housing solution for the 21 st century Moscow apartment does not differ much from the rest of the contemporary urban centers around the globe, being populated by hundreds if not thousands of high rises. Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housing evolution from the vernacular izba to the modern apartment block and the contemporary 21 st century apartment is quite unique in its comparison to other urban center developments in the rest of the world. This research explores a few various characteristics of typical housing solutions, including apartment layout, size and its development over the last few hundred years. Evaluating the data, we can understand how a typical modernist housing approach is adopted to the Russian lifestyle. The questionnaires sent out to several households in Moscow allow for an investigation on the issue of domesticity and spatial utilization within those apartments. The surge in the construction of the new upscale high rise apartment towers is quite a jump from the quite ordinary Stalinist apartment blocks of the 20 th century. This new development in the housing sector suggests the changes that are now occurring within the urban center and possibly the changes the way a typical Russian family may now live. (diagrams on the right and the dissimilarity index were produced by Fernando Lara) http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ferlara/people.html

GLOBAL APARTMENTS

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning UROP Fernando Lara