Alexander Holloway Design Sheets

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ALEXANDER HOLLOWAY DESIGN SHEETS | 2022

Knoxville, TN 37916 Memphis, TN 38128 Contact: (901)-412-0721 ahollo10@vols.utk.edu

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THE COURTYARD OF EXPLORATION PARTNERS | Qian Cai

Adaptive reuse, biophilic architecure, and renovation was the goal set for this project. Du Su Bois is an elmentary school precedented in Quebec City, Canada and was set as the focus. Biophilia was a key term and concept used throughout this semester. The intention of biophilic design served as an introduction to other key concepts such as studies of sun, wind, energy, surroundings, and more. These few concepts are used as a tools of knowledge to implement later in the design.

This project relies heavily on revit software and some in rhino as well.

The overall site is very landlocked with a dense layer of residential homes surrounding it. Within this boundary lies a layer of decidous trees providing shading and screening for the elementary school. This encompasses an aspect of biophilic incorporation to aid the design.

Three specific intentions drove this design and read as follows: Biophilia, Connectivity, and Energy. Between creating interstitial spaces for users, cultivating healthier relationships for the surrounding communites and school, and to achieve an overall efficient quality of energy-use for the building.

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METAMOPHOSIS PARTNERS | Kati Lamb

Braddock, PA, the starting place for the revolutionized steel process, is now a landscape filled with decaying buildings, and relics of the past booming economy. With the industry as the heart, the building type moves into other large businesses, smaller businesses, and then residential areas. Through the documentation of this decaying city, one beings to question why we construct the way we do, and why we do not accommodate future economy within design. Therefore, within this project we distinguish time as an important factor and responding to time through flexible program.

With an abandoned river front and an industrial landscape holding most of the property within Braddock, the site sets in between the two landscapes. The river front, to this day, is polluted with small industries, therefore the placement of our large superstructure adds a precedent of beautifying the river front. Hopefully, pushing those industries out, and bringing things like green space, education, and small businesses to boost the economy and life to the river. The industrial landscape, i.e. the Edgar Thomson steel mill, leaves a large footprint within the landscape, so for our building to compete with the sheer size of the mill, the superstructure spans over 2,000 feet by 175 feet and 45 feet high.

The implementation of four gantry cranes promote this idea of change throughout the time span of a day. They are placed on top of the building connected to a track, allowing the cranes to move across the superstructure to implement program, place relics into display, and remove structure.

All in all, the project provides a connection between two landscapes that did not exist before, and follows precedent of industrialization by accommodating change throughout the span of a day through the span of years according to what Braddock’s economy needs.

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AVALANCHE CONTROL PARTNERS | Kati Grostefon

“With such sites and territories of complexity as Alta/ Little Cottonwood Canyon, there is often difficulty in acquiring/directing intervention, funding, and process for the projective metamorphosis of a future state of operation. The goal of the study is to experiment with, and “re-adapt”, the present maintenance, ecological, recreational, and disturbance regimes to provide grounds of activation for projective uses and interactions of the site as it is and can be a manifestation of the territory in which it lies.” -Andrew Madl [Professor] We adopted infrastructural techniques being currently used today in our project such as the wyssen tower, gazex exploder, and howitzer 150mm. This equipment is utilized to passively create mutations in the landscape that begin to spatialize areasfor further intervention. A series of robust, exaggerated berms tread down the mountainside manifesting microclimatic conditions along the way. Local fauna serve as agents as they translate from habitat to the next, further sustaining the ecology of the landscape. The larger picture is that little cottonwood canyon is further protected from avalanche occurences.

TRANSIENT MORPHOLOGIES TRANSIENT MORPHOLOGIES Infrastructure(s) of Avalanche Intervention

Infrastructure(s) of Avalanche Intervention

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RUINS OF REBIRTH Knoxville College is home to an HBCU that once was a functional institution operating as a private, church-related, four-year, coeducational, liberal arts institution. Throughout the 20th century, this College has been in a constant financial flux of decline often resulting to a near closing of the institution. In today’s current conditions the college has digress into a state of disrepair as a by-product of this financial flux. Furthermore, this presents a political stance in the lack of cultivation of black culture and lack of general landscape remediation as well that helps frame my “why” do anything to this site. Located north of downtown Knoxville in the Mechanicsville community, the college is situated on 39 acres, containing 17 buildings on its campus. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, Knoxville College has resulted to 17 vacancies left on the site as it has manifested into a dross landscape of impurities and potentials. This signifies an aim to reanimate the land in my project.

I seek to reanimate the landscape through a series of ambiguous interventions of cultural and historic overlaps with the site. My project is aimed to promote low-intensity outdoor recreational use, ecological reclamation processes and captured moments of historic relevance. The overall reanimation follows a master-planning narrative of the landscape and is structured to gradually change with time allowing for a new landscape to continuously emerge.