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INDEX | PROJECTS
FIFTH FACADE | NORTH OAKLAND PAGE 1 | PAGE 11
PLANETARIUM AND EARTH OBSERVATORY | BILGER QUARRY OAKLAND PAGE 13 | PAGE 25
GOOD FOOD
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SOMA SAN FRANCISCO PAGE 27 | PAGE 33
FIFTH FACADE | NORTH OAKLAND UC BERKELEY
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ARCH 100D
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SPRING 2017
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INSTRUCTOR : METE SONMEZ
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IN COLLABORATION WITH : IRENE LIORA
In 1929, J.L. Gleave, a young Scottish architect won the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse Competition by proposing a concrete and cross shaped building. Apart from its extraordinarily monumental language and size, what was unique about the project was its introduction of the idea of an aerial viewing subject for architecture. Considering the aerial view as the most important feature of the building not only emphasized the significance of an aerial experience over a bodily one for architecture, but more importantly, it presented the roof of the building as a new faรงade, or the fifth faรงade, seen from above. The project explore the design of a clearly articulated architectural proposal of artist live-work units, studios and galleries on a project site in North Oakland in an area where several other art developments are taking place. The project will seek to benefit from these relationships as well as to contribute to its imidiate context.
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ROOF TYPOLOGY | GABLE ROOF Gable roof and pithced roof are categorized by the sloping side of the roof. The cost effectiveness and the resistance to weather makes gable roof the most common roof typology in housing. The most common house type that uses gable roof is shotgun houses. Looking at the shotgun houses, the shape of the house corrolates with the shape of the roof, which is straight and longitudinal. This creates the idea of the new re-intrepretation of gable roof by introducing curve, which is commonly found in gable roof. Keeping the characteristic of gable roof, the curve itself is achieved by changing the elasticity of gable roof to further elaborate its spatial quality.
Oblique Diagram
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TANGENTIAL COMPOSITION The project proposed the artist live-work units, studios, and galleries to be composed by series of gable roofs. These gable roofs are arranged in tangential movement where they don’t intersect each other. These gable roofs only meet at one point tangent at the curve. The tangential composition of gable roofs resulted the formation of the space in between these gable roofs volumes where the space are formed when three curves meets together and also when the curve meet the straight line. These in between spaces formed a series of courtyard throughout the project, some are open and connected to the sidewalk and some are hidden inside.
Site Plan and Floor Plan
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Oblique Exterior View
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THE GAP INDSIDE | OUTTSIDE As the gable roofs are arranged in tangent where they are only meet each other at a tangent. This creates the opportunity to have the experience of ‘walking in museum gallery’ in the project where one gallery space leads to the other gallery space, and since these gable roof are not intersect each other, the result of creating the pathway from one gable roof to the other gable roof is the ‘gap’ in between the spaces. This gap happens on the pathway from one gable roof to the other gable roof where it allow a visual connection between the inside space and the outside space.
Interior View
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View of the ‘in between’ gable roof courtyard looking up to the sky
Exterior View
View from above looking down to the ‘in between’ gable roof courtyard
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SECTION The experience of the tangential quality is also introduced in section where the gable roof is booleaned or subtracted by a curve which is tangent to a line that formed the space for the lobby. The booleaned or substraction provide not only a form for the outdoor, but also curved wall for gallery used and carved the entrance to the project.
Section Oblique and Elevation
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Section Oblique and Elevations
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A diagram showing the activities inside the artist live-work units, studios, and galleries visible form the aperture
Elevation Diagram
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Model
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Model
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PLANETARIUM AND EARTH OBSERVATORY | BILGER QUARRY OAKLAND UC BERKELEY
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ARCH 100C
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FALL 2016
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INSTRUCTOR : RENE DAVIDS
A quarry is an excavation where rocks, sand, or minerals are removed from the surface of the earth, essentially an open-pit mine for building materials. Quarries are industrial sites which alter their environments by displacing huge quantities of soil, plants and wildlife, but the work which takes place in them often produces landscapes with compelling spatial qualities which create striking visual representations of the continuum between earth and sky. To reconnect the quarry with its immediate environments as well as the larger landscape, the design is a building complex including a planetarium and an earth observatory devoted to the study and observation of the surrounding geology, landscapes and skies.
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Top View
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Site Plan
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INITIAL STONE ABSTRACTION Oakland’s location near the dynamic interface between the North American and Pacific Plates has produced a variety of stones suitable for construction applications which are readily obtainable from surface deposits or outcroppings, and local landscapes include the remains of many disused quarries abandoned without full remediation of the damages to their surroundings. The configuration of fossilferrous limestone is formed by a very active coastal setting mixed with the sedimentary rok clasts.
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BART and Amtrak Station BART and Amtrak Station Rail Road Bus Road
Rail Road Bus Road
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Site
BART and Amtrak Station BART and Amtrak Station Rail Road Rail Road Bus Road Bus Road
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Constellation
Constellation
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Constellation
Constellation
SITE ANALYSIS
Site Site Underground CulvertsUnderground and Drains Culverts and Drains Creek Creek Engineered Channel Engineered Channel Water Body
Water Body
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Curvy Road
Curvy Road
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Curvy Road
Curvy Road
Water Body
Site Site Underground CulvertsUnderground and Drains Culverts and Drains Creek Creek Engineered Channel Engineered Channel Water Body
Stone Abstraction and Mapping
The site is surrounded by the Rockridge Shopping Center, St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, the California College of the Arts, and the Claremont Country Club, which uses water from the old pit filled by a branch of the Glen Echo Creek to irrigate its golf course. The site analysis explore the surrounding elements and alternatives to its presenneglect which repurpose the old quarry site and incorporate it into the urban fabric.
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SKY | EARTH | WATER This project is about connecting the three main elements of the museum, which are the earth, the sky, and the water. The museum is sheared, tilted, and inhabits the angle that is significant from the site in order to break the normal 90-degree angle that reinforces gravity and to start loosing the sense of gravity, and so it started to create an ambiguity to the location of the sky, the earth, and the water, where these three elements started to synthesis and connect to one another.
Conceptual Diagram
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The museum is arranged as sets of pavilions that are divided into three categories, the sky (Planetarium), which are elevated above the ground, the earth (Geological exhibition) where the pavilions are submerged underwater to get closer to the earth, and the water (Administration and CafĂŠ) where the pavilions are floating at the water level. Floor Plan
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Elevation and Sections
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BRIDGE AS TRANSITIONAL SPACE The bridge acted as a transitional space from one pavilion to the other. Each category of the pavilion has different characteristic of transitional experience. The Sky or the planetarium will have the bridge with slits of light coming from above and from the side giving the dark and light experience when walking from the first planetarium to the second one. The Earth pavilion bridge is an outdoor open bridge with the overhangs on top giving the view to the surrounding quarry and site. The water or the earth exploratorium bridge will be have glass opening to create the experience of going down closer to the earth and have the visibility of what is going on under the water of the quarry. Perspective View
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As the sky, the earth, and the water pavilions are separated, they are connected by a strand of bridge that weaving through the quarry connecting these pavilions from corner to corner. Section Diagram
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Structural Diagram
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Perspective Views
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Sectional Model and Conceptual Model
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Sectional Model and Conceptual Model
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GOOD FOOD UC BERKELEY
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ARCH 100B
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SOMA SAN FRANCISCO SPRING 2016
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INSTRUCTOR : DOMINIQUE PRICE
The Good Food program is about the enlightment of local food awareness and education. The building is a conjunction of multiple and varied programs centered around a common set of interests, which could generally be described as food awareness and education, challenging the norms of mass food production, advancing food research, slow food, promoting and supporting urban farming and food production, and the celebration of good, healthy, local food
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POSITIVE SPACE | NEGATIVE SPACE
The Good Food project explores the experience of inhabiting space inside the volumes and on the volumes.The project is divided into three simple volumes where the experience of in and on condition of the volumes affect the reading of space. These three simple volumes will be INhabited by the program with a high technical requirements and specification. The space in between these volumes will be experience ON the volume where it will have no only visual connection but also interaction throughout the space. The concept of experiencing in and on resulting in the play of positive and negative space between the two sets of volumes where the positive space for one set of volume is actually the negative space for the other volume and vice versa, and so both space created one another. Outdoor Renderings
9TH ST
WASHBURN
GRACE
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HOWARD ST
SAN FRANCISCO SOMA The site is located on the intersection of Howard Street and Grace Street. The surrounding context of the site is not a pleasant site where there are a lot of chaotic situation happening everyday. The design proposal is to create a safe place separate form the outside situation by approaching the design in a simple and calm approach where the peacefulness and calmness could increase the stimulation and sense to taste food even better. Site Plan and Model
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HIGH TECH | ELEMENTAL
The project divide the varied programs into two categories, the high tech and the elemental. As the project affect the way of reading a space, these two set of programs started to unite in a way that each of the program category create the space for the other program category. This means that as people walk INSIDE the elemental program, they also walk ON the high tech program, and vice versa. And both of these program does not meet each other.
ON | OFF
The conceptual cut diagram shows the two facade ( West and South) of the design and the section cut at the corner of the building. The south facade uses vertical fins not only for daylighting but also use as a structure. The West and East facade uses fritted and different glass translucency based on the program behind it.The high tech part of the program use backlit channel glass in order to radiate bright light during the night to attract people from the street, on the other hand the Elemental part of the program will attract people from the street during the day from the light that are visible through the fritted glass.. Diagram and Conceptual Cut
CONCEPTUAL CUT
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1st FLOOR
Sections
2nd FLOOR
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3rd FLOOR
Elevation Diagram
4th FLOOR
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Food Hall and Auditorium Rendering
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Food Hall and Laboratorium Rendering
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Teaching Garden and Office Rendering