SELECT WORKS FALL 2010 - FALL 2012
N A G R O D R M WILLIA
FALL 2010 EARTH ARCHITECTURE INSTRUCTOR: BETH TAUKE
THE EARTH-SKY CHAMBER (Phase III of IV) Objectives: Using land surveyed by a previously developed tool, make an incision into the earth and develop a space which will house three sacred bodies and reference the horizon.
DESIGN PROPOSAL The basic idea of the chamber is to challenge the standard conventions of observing the dead. The earthworks become a place where the user engages the sacred bodies and is essentially a space of play, where the user can do anything he or she wishes.
The form of the Earth-Sky chamber is based on a relationship with the Earth. Two of its three paths follow the most notable feature of the site, a depression in the landscape. The third path serves to bisect the other two, avoiding linearity and creating the potential for continuity in circulation through the space. All three mimic the landscape they occupy, allowing the user to experience walking over the same terrain at their side.
The sacred bodies housed within the incision are actual deceased bodies encased in stone caskets. Their varying positions within the site serve as both obstacles and enabling objects to movement, to be climbed under and over, to be both avoided and engaged.
SPRING 2011 THE LIVING WALL INSTRUCTORS: BRUSCIA, HUME, NAZARIAN, ROMANO
THE LIVING WALL Objectives: Transform a 6" x 6" x 8" cube, removing internal mass in order to accomodate six sleeping spaces and circulation, while providing for the existence of neighboring structures on either side. Design transitions from massing, to programming, culminating in a final full-scale wooden structure.
DESIGN PROPOSAL The driving concept of this single unit of the living wall becomes to create a space within the "interior" of the original mass, which functions as an exterior space. Circulation functions cyclically, where one may move in either directon through the project around the aforementioned exterior space.
SPRING 2012 FORT NIAGARA THEATER INSTRUCTOR: MATT ZINSKI
THEATER & VISITOR CENTER (PHASE II of II) Objectives: Develop a proposal for a theater and visitor center located at Fort Niagara in New York using a previously constructed bundle and resulting analyses as inspiration. Proposal should be framed as a continuation of bundle analysis and contain an artifact display room, rare book room, map room, service space, ticketing space, and bathrooms.
DESIGN PROPOSAL A diagrammatic analysis of the previous figureground calls out two distinct circulations which intersect and integrate into one another at various points. This dual circulation becomes the focus of the Fort Niagara design proposal. In the steel site model, "poche" is defined as anything man-made within the fort and recreated out of wood. The Visitor Center design proposal creates two seperate circulations which deal with this poche. The Theater design works through a circulation entitled as "Inhabiting the Poche", while circulation throughout the rest of the fort is entitled "Observing the Poche."
The site plan identifies and categorizes three different typologies of interaction between the two circulations. Intersection occurs where the two circulations meet or cross but do not interact beyond visual connections. Integration occurs where the two circulations meet and the opportunity to exit the fort and integrate into a larger system is present. Porosity occurs where the two circulations intersect and the opportunity is present for them to leak into one another.
Site plan representing design proposal in black over lighter pre-existing poche.
The Theater circulation, entitled "Inhabiting the Poche", follows the preexisting poche of Fort Niagara. New instances of poche conglomerate onto the old poche, pushing into existing structures and opening up new viewpoints and perspectives into them. The pre-existing structures then become individual stages for re-enactments to be viewed from the new structures conglomerating around them.
Plaster is cast in fabric over the existing structures to create the massing for new structures.
THEATER - INHABITING THE POCHE FRENCH CASTLE INTERVENTION
THEATER - INHABITING THE POCHE BUNKER INTERVENTION
VISITOR CENTER EARTHWORKS
Plaster study models were cast to explore interior conditions of the new forms. Framework mimicking an important linear model from the bundle phase is used to cast concrete, creating a distinct interior texture upon removal. This study in materiality originates in the poche texture used to illustrate plans and sections and explores the potential for that texture to generate an actual material condition within the final design.
MANUFACTURING
FALL 2012 GATED COMMUNITY INSTRUCTOR: STEPHANIE VITO
MAXIMUM SECURITY YARD
MEDIUM SECURITY DINING/KITCHEN
MINIMUM SECURITY LAUNDRY/LIBRARY
GUARDS SALES
PUBLIC 12 PM
12 AM
LIGHT PARKING OUTDOOR REC COMMUNITY MARKETS
FOOD DELIVERY CLASSROOMS
LOW SECURITY SUITES
CHAPEL
ADMIN OFFICES MARKET OFFICE MED. SECURITY SUITES UNIT STAFF OFFICES
GYM INDOOR REC
DINING HALL
MEDICAL ROOMS
PRODUCTION HIGH SECURITY CELL
LIBRARIES
DINING STAFF ROOM
COMPUTER ROOM KITCHEN
LAUNDRY MAIL ROOM
INMATE ARRIVAL BARBER FOOD STORAGE MARKET STORAGE
MAIL SORTING
LAUNDRY STORAGE
FOOD STORAGE KITCHEN
SHOWERS
DARK
UTILITIES UTILITIES
GYM
DINING HALL
PRIVATE
PUBLIC LOW OCCUPANCY DURATION
LOW SECURITY SUITES
LAUNDRY STORAGE LAUNDRY
HIGH OCCUPANCY DURATION
INDOOR REC MARKET STORAGE MARKET OFFICE CLASSROOMS COMMUNITY MARKETS CHAPEL
MEDICAL ROOMS
MED. SECURITY SUITES
SHOWERS
HIGH
COMMUNITY MARKETS
HIGH SECURITY CELL ADMIN OFFICES
PRODUCTION SHOWERS
MAIL ROOM
UNIT STAFF OFFICES MAIL SORTING
PARKING
PRODUCTION
CHAPEL
HIGH SECURITY CELL MEDICAL ROOMS
BARBER
INDOOR REC
INMATE ARRIVAL
VISITATION
GYM CLASSROOMS
MARKET OFFICE
INMATE ARRIVAL
LOW SECURITY SUITES COMPUTER ROOM KITCHEN
MAIL SORTING
OUTDOOR REC
COMPUTER ROOM
DINING HALL OUTDOOR REC
MED. SECURITY SUITES
LIBRARIES
DINING STAFF ROOM
VISITATION
SURVEILLANCE
PARKING
FOOD DELIVERY
VISITATION
FOOD DELIVERY
LIBRARIES
UTILITIES
MAIL ROOM BARBER DINING STAFF ROOM
ADMIN OFFICES UNIT STAFF OFFICES FOOD STORAGE MARKET STORAGE
LAUNDRY
LAUNDRY STORAGE
LOW
UTILITIES UTILITIES
PRIVATE
PUBLIC LOW PUBLIC ACCESS
HIGH PUBLIC ACCESS
GATED COMMUNITY (PHASE III of IV) Objectives: Taking into account both micro and macro analyses of prison precedents done in past phases, an experimental prison program must be developed and organized. Based in Buffalo, the prison must be designed for 100 inmates and show an emphasis on prisoner-public interface.
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DESIGN PROPOSAL Sited in the Lovejoy District of Buffalo, a low value residential area, the goal of the experimental prison becomes to dissolve an obvious boundary between east and west neighborhoods and strengthen both sides economically with the introduction of a prisoner-public market, where the surrounding community can purchase prisoner-produced goods at the source for cheap, and can also install their own markets to not only sell to the public, but to allow prisoners to reinvest their wages in the community as well. This is accomplished by bisecting the site with two pathways. $520,000
$102,200 $98,000
$204,000
$96,500
$95,000
$100,000 $116,000
$86,900
IDENTIFIED LACK OF MARKET PRESENCE
CONNECT DEPRIVED AREAS WITH PRISON MARKET STREET
RESULTING BALANCED MARKET PRESENCE
Centered around the intersection of these two pathways, the prison develops radially around a dedicated purely public park space. A central tower in the center, holding the prison's highest security prisoners (red), also contains a dedicated floor for public program at ground level. Because of the need for both security walls and market interface between prisoner and public along both pathways, a folding market wall is developed, where prisoner shops push into public space and community shops do the opposite. As a result, this concept of folding becomes the driving force for the structure and circulation of the prison itself.
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ADMINISTRATIVE WING
SERVICE WING D
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PROGRAM WALLS
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EDUCATION WING
CIRCULATION WALLS
STRUCTURAL WALLS
MEDICAL/REC WING
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C MARKET WALLS
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1 - DOUBLE BEDROOM 2 - BATHROOM 3 - PATIO 4 - DINING HALL 5 - KITCHEN 6 - STORAGE 7 - CIRCULATION HUB 8 - LAUNDRY 9 - MAIL ROOM 10 - GYM 11 - INDOOR REC 12 - OUTDOOR REC 13 - PHARMACY 14 - WAITING ROOM 15 - DENTAL CLINIC 16 - OUTPATIENT CLINIC 17 - LAB 18 - X-RAY
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PLANS
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EXAM ROOM MEDICAL OFFICE PRISONER MARKET PUBLIC MARKET CHAPEL LIBRARY COMPUTER ROOM CLASSROOM VISITATION HOLDING CELL PROCESSING CONFERENCE ROOM ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE SECURITY OFFICE HIGH SECURITY CELL SHOWERS PRODUCTION FLOOR OUTDOOR TOWER REC
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SECOND FLOOR
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THIRD FLOOR
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FOURTH FLOOR
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SECOND FLOOR - ADMINISTRATIVE BRIDGE (1 OF 2)
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FIFTH FLOOR
SECTION A
SECTION B CIRCULATION
SECTION C
SECTION D UTILITIES
SECTION E
SECTION F
A view from the market street shows the pedestrian path along the market wall and under one of the administrative bridges to reach the high security tower with its public-dedicated ground floor.