William James Selected Works
Contents Conjunto Music Center Restorative Justice Center
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Mississippi River Observatory
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Seed Vault & Flood Museum
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Vertical Spa and Greenhouse
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Concordia Seminary Chapel
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Ozark Environmental Research Stations
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Winchester Repeating Arms Archive
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Canal El Carmen Cultural Center
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2 Unit Dwelling Concept
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2 Unit Home
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28 Unit Mixed-Use Housing
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Urban Projects around Florence
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Washington Houses Infill
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Other Works
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Conjunto Conjun to Music Center Cente r in San S an Antonio, TX Instructors: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien w/ Andrew Benner Yale University | Fall 2019 A building for live music performances and a building for music instruction face onto a former alleyway, repurposed into a shaded pedestrian bungalow court.
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The formerly fenced-off alleyway is remade as a brickpaved, tree-lined pedestrian court. Entrances to the two new buildings face this pathway, and new ADUs eventually fill in the other lots on the block.
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The Lerma’s Nite Club building (at left) hosts performance spaces for local and regional conjunto artists, as well as a restaurant and bar. The north end of the original structure is remade as a small outdoor plaza into which the life of the building can extend, amplifying the building’s presence as a site of local cultural importance. A gap in the plaza’s paving traces the path of the original wall as a reference to the history of the building and site. The Culebra Road building (at right) contains space for music instruction and community gathering. It is set to the rear of its lot, protected from the noise and traffic of Culebra Road by a small parking area and earthen dune. A path of decomposed stone parts the two volumes of this building to connect to the main pedestrian court and new buildings alongside.
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Performances in the new Lerma’s space bring life and culture to the remade alley and surrounding area.
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Composite Detail: Plan/Section/Elevation
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The wood-screen and ochre-tinted-concrete facade of the Lerma’s building gently curves to funnel foot traffic toward the new pedestrian court. The glazing and screen system is fully operable, allowing the performance space to convert between enclosed, naturally ventilated, and open states. The collective social life of the building, centered around the conjunto music tradition, can extend into the small, shaded plaza outside, providing a social anchor for the new residences.
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Restorative Justice Center in Middletown, CT Instructor: IĂąaqui Carnicero Yale University | Fall 2018 A community center incorporates spaces for Restorative Justice, which aims to keep local youth out of the traditional criminal justice system.
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Because of the sensitive nature of the restorative justice process, the building requires a high degree of privacy. By partially embedding into the site and providing few apertures at outside eye level, the restorative justice program is protected. To mitigate any potential darkness or claustrophobia caused by this shelter, small courtyards adjoin the restorative justice rooms, acting as private outdoor spaces and lanterns for the rest of the building.
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The building rises in steps from a small public plaza at the corner of the site. The high point of this stepped roof looks out over the bend in the Connecticut River [above]. Parallel rows of space are subdivided by changes in floor and ceiling height, while small punched-out courtyards bring light to the building’s center [left].
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A consistent material palette across the site blurs the distinction between ground and building [top]. Primary structural walls and beams run in linear rows [bottom], to be spanned by simple 1-way structural slabs.
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Observatory on the Chain of Rocks Bridge Instructor: Anna Ives Washington University | Fall 2015 An investigation into ice crystal formation in soap bubbles leads to the development of a device that tests temperature’s effects on evaporative crystallization. These findings inform later explorations into issues of habitation and Mississippi River ecology.
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This device uses a double-boiler mechanism to regulate the temperature of a crystal solution while it evaporates. The water reservoir distributes heat evenly around the removable crystallization tray.
1. Crystals form around edges
2. Crystals form a solid, thicker layer
3. Crystals smooth and vitrify as they dry
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The Chain of Rocks Bridge sits just south of the Mississippi-Missouri confluence, and although the St. Louis skyline forms a distant horizon, the open vastness of the site evokes places far more wild and remote. The project accentuates the unique exposure and scale of the bridge and river by isolating the experiences of the sky, river basin, and roiling water pouring over the chain of rocks.
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The building’s organization reflects the clustered growth and density hierarchies observed in the crystallization experiments. Each public space on the upper level facilitates the experience of a particular aspect of the site, while the lower level consists of a small residence and workspace.
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The building responds to the existing bridge’s structural members, projecting into the river’s airspace while integrating with its pedestrian deck. The roof system pulls apart to form several voids, echoing the organization of heaviness, lightness, and immateriality that defines the building’s interior volumes. Public spaces emphasize the experience of the sky [above left], the sound of the river pouring over the chain of rocks [center], and the expansive view of river and its valley [right].
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Seed Vault in Grand Coulee, Washington Instructor: Amina Blacksher Yale University | Fall 2017 This project involves the selection of a site, real or invented, for a program involving storage and ecological research. A series of cascading volumes meets a cliff face in arid eastern Washington.
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Larger, more public spaces are above ground, set back from the cliff edge. Spaces compress as they descend a winding path, opening up to the canyon beneath upon reaching the cliff face.
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Eastern Washington is crisscrossed by a series of wide, flat-bottomed canyons called Coulees; they formed in a series of cataclysmic floods at the end of the last ice age. The powerful water cut through hundreds of feet of soil and solid bedrock, and deposited it miles downstream. These floods left behind a unique, chaotic topography of sheer cliffs winding through arid grassland. The building both addresses one of these edges to take advantage of the dramatic space it creates, and formally reflects the formation of that space. Its abstracted planes begin wide and shallow at the cliff top and descend an increasingly steep path as they approach the cliff face. Once there, the buildings opens out into the volume of the coulee, and the occupant is re-oriented with a new ground plane, now hundreds of feet below.
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Vertical Spa and Greenhouse in LaSalle Park Instructor: Jaymon Diaz Washington University | Spring 2015 This studio investigates environmental conditions. A terrarium seeks to achieve a specific climatic state, and the site explores this state’s integration into an urban context.
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Bromeliad Terrarium
This terrarium is designed to sustain a Cryptanthus Zonatus Bromeliad. A slatted roof system uses water’s adhesive properties to collect any poured over the top. A water reservoir and heating element help to maintain the ideal warm, humid environment with minimal user intervention.
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The building incorporates a number of the features also present in the terrarium. The water reservoir takes the form of several pools spread over the building’s levels, each at a different temperature in the manner of Roman baths of antiquity. These sources of heat and humidity help achieve the same environment as the terrarium, while concrete panels and translucent glass help to protect the plants from harmful direct sunlight. A slatted glass roof cantilevers beyond the building’s footprint to effectively collect and channel rainwater to the filtration and heating systems housed in the expanded floorplates.
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The front facade is made up of a series of cast panels, with apertures of varying sizes designed to control the amount of light in each space. The panels serve to soften the interior light quality and retain the water that fills the pools on each floor. The roof is made up of bi-directional glass panels that collect water using the same natural properties seen in the terrarium.
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Chapel in Concordia Park, Clayton Instructor: Charles Brown Washington University | Fall 2014 This studio explores the interplay between light and shadow. The curriculum also addresses thresholds between public and private, interior and exterior.
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Modules of slender, diamond-shaped shards aggregate to form a rising, sweeping gesture that imbues the space beneath with a strong directional quality. Shards making up the roof of this form cast shadows onto lower layers, creating a complex angular interplay of light and shadow.
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A light and shadow map of the site in Concordia Seminary. Shadows are projected from each tree at 15 minute intervals, taking account of the sloping topography. The directionality of the drawing at any given point suggests the amount of shade throughout the day. This information informs the choice of a building location.
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Field Research Stations in Southeast Missouri Instructor: Gia Daskalakis Washington University | Fall 2016 A study of the legacy of resource extraction in Southeast Missouri. Research and site planning inform an architectural intervention focused on environmental protection, industry accountability, and time.
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An abandoned quarry on the site and surrounding areas, showing the distribution of quarry waste material as originating from a central source. Drainage lines shown are identified as areas affected by past industrial activity, and areas in their intact natural state. 49
Southeast Missouri in its natural state consists of oakhickory forests, rolling hills, and small streams, but over the last two centuries has been increasingly marked by the resource extraction industry. The lead mines and quarries that have long driven the region’s economy leave scars on the landscape that are visible from space. Waste material created by these industries affects ecosystem, watershed, and possibly human health. Over several decades, these degraded areas undergo a process of re-naturalization as shown in the above diagram. Eventually the evidence of damage is minimized, but hazardous wastes like lead tailings remain. These waste sites offer opportunities for research into their continuing impacts, and possible mitigation strategies. Elephant Rocks State Park is awash with quarry waste, and is centrally located relative to other waste sites in the region.
Quarry and Mine Re-Naturalization Timeline
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DOE RUN SWEETWATER TAILINGS
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THE LARGEST PRIMARY LEAD SMELTER IN THE COUNTRY CLOSED IN 2013 AFTER REPEATEDLY VIOLATING EPA EMISSIONS STANDARDS
QUARRIES, MINES, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
Bonne Terre BIG RIVER TAILINGS SITE
THE BIG RIVER HAS SOME OF THE WORLD’S WORST LEAD CONTAMINATION FROM MINING, LARGELY DUE TO A 1977 FLOOD THAT WASHED 50,000 CUBIC YARDS OF CONTAMINATED WASTES INTO THE WATERWAY
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REMEDIATION OF THIS SITE, BEGUN IN 2008, IS COMPLETE, REDUCING RISK OF EROSION SPREADING CONTAMINANTS
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The project consists of several small residential buildings, a larger workspace on the other side of the park, with pathways and landscaping linking the structures. The organization mirrors that of resource extraction and disposal: hard rigid edges at the nexus of the work, dispersing and loosening as they spread across the site.
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Winchester Arms Archive in New Haven Instructor: Amina Blacksher Yale University | Fall 2017 This studio explores the dialogue between active, public facing program and carefully controlled storage and preservation activities on an urban site in downtown New Haven, CT.
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The upper floor houses a small library and reading room.
The ground floor contains exhibition space for Winchester-related artifacts.
Controlled archival preservation and storage takes place on the lower level.
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Spaces are divided into long, narrow galleries that rotate from floor to floor, evoking the structure and mechanics of the firearm. Stairs, windows, and balconies communicate these directional shifts throughout the building.
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Acequia Instructor: CazĂş Zegers w/ Kyle Dugdale Yale University | Spring 2020 A hillside irrigation canal is reshaped to blur its distinction from the surrounding parkland. Architectural spaces are intertwined with landscape, and the formerly confined canal assumes a new role in their construction.
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The project runs alongside the Canal El Carmen on a steep hillside in Santiago’s Parque Metropolitano. The channel is widened and flattened, slowing the water’s flow and allowing visitors to interact with the canal and the Andean volcanic sediments it carries across the site.
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The canal traces the hillside, held back by a gabion embankment.
Certain interior spaces open out to existing footpaths in the park.
The channel’s profile registers in the ceiling of each interior space.
An open courtyard brings daylight to the building’s center.
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Fluctuations in the canal’s flow allow occasional, controlled overtopping of the channel edge. This water settles in the gabion basket embankments and dry-set stone paving of certain floors, gradually filling in their gaps with river silt. These overflows continually resurface and soften the forms of the project, conferring agency in its construction upon the natural processes of erosion, evaporation, and water flow.
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Cohabitation Instructor: Peter deBretteville Yale University | Spring 2018 A precursor to the Building Project, this project places dwelling units for a small family and an individual within a single, highly constrained envelope.
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The units slot between two existing buildings, allow for passage beneath, and are constrained in both height and depth. The project approaches challenging issues of natural illumination and vertical circulation with a delicate, open central stair that acts as its primary organizing element.
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The switchback stair acts as a lightwell in the center of the house. A glazed roof section above allows in direct sun, diffused by translucent glass treads as it reaches deeper into the building.
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Building Project Instructors: Andrew Benner and Marta Caldeira Yale University | Spring 2018 In partnership with Columbus House, a local homeless services provider, teams of students design a twounit house. One design is selected and built by the class during the summer. Team Members: Gioia Connell, Clara Domange, Eunice Lee, Zack Lenza, Will James, Max Ouellette-Howitz, Manasi Punde
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This design is generated by three key values:
Identity: Each unit takes up one side of the house, and faces out to its own dedicated outdoor space. This sidedness aims to give each unit a sense of control over its own section of the lot.
Privacy: A heavy, dual layered Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) wall conceptually and acoustically isolates the units from one another. The larger windows in each unit face the rear, offering a degree of shelter from neighboring houses and the street.
Connection: Winding through the center of the house is a branching tubelike structure of CLT. It opens out to porches, windows, and a skylight for each unit, and is each unit’s primary interface with the outdoors.
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CLT is expressed at certain points around the house’s facade.
A central vertical tower with two layers for unit separation rises and branches on the upper level.
The design takes advantage of the material’s structural capacity and its beauty as an interior finish.
Careful accounting tracks panel cuts and joints to make the most of a limited supply.
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The CLT tree structure pierces the house’s stick-frame exterior, its ends providing points of connection to the outside.
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Mixed-Use Housing on Delmar Boulevard Instructor: Donald Koster Washington University | Spring 2017 This studio explores dwelling units, aggregation, and the definition and integration of a secondary program. Projects negotiate with densifying context on an urban-suburban threshold.
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This building combines 28 lofted residential units with mixed-use co-working spaces. These aim to bring daytime activity to a busy but disused corner on a street that offers almost exclusively dining and entertainment options.
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1 and 2-bed units are organized around a central kitchen and bathroom core.
Lofted sleeping areas sit atop these cores, accessed by stairs around the side of the kitchen.
Double height windows serve the main living space in each unit.
1-bed units receive additional light from window cutouts, and hallways extend to the building’s perimeter.
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Channels between residential units create space for additional rooms, balconies, and natural light. Glazing and a slight level change separate these units from the workspaces, which include meeting rooms, light fabrication facilities, and sharable desks. An expansive atrium creates a bright and airy work environment on each level.
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Projects on Urbanism around Florence, Italy Instructor: Zeuler Lima Washington University | Spring 2016 A book discusses the preservation of a centuriesold city through pictures; Two public spaces are re-imagined to enhance a long-neglected aspect of the city; A large park seeks to develop an image of contemporaneity for a nearby town.
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Piazza Ognissanti sits on the north bank of the Arno, in the western quarter of the city. While anchored on its north end by the Chiesa di Ognissanti with its renowned paintings and frescoes, the busy Lungarno Amerigo Vespucci cuts it off from the river. This intervention proposes limiting the traffic through this block to public transit and widening the south sidewalk. Pedestrian platforms hang over the river, creating small public spaces that facilitate a connection with the river so often ignored by the city it runs through.
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Piazza Francesco Ferrucci lies just east of Florence’s historic center, on the south bank of the Arno. The space is dominated by a confusing array of roads and ramps to access Ponte San Niccolo, but has significant potential for public use. Reclaiming two roadways as green space brings together a popular cafe/bar stand and riverside walking/cycling paths. This creates a useable park at a transition between city and suburb while only eliminating redundant vehicle lanes.
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Parco Centrale di Prato In Collaboration with: Kelly Dervarics Melina Goldman Ciara Hackman Jade Hubineck
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Alexa Greene Jack Lynch Alicia Morris Lucas Rasmussen Jayne Stein
This 7 acre park is located on the site of Prato’s old city hospital. The park seeks to establish a relationship between the city’s centuries of history and its desire to be known as a city of contemporary art and culture. Two folds in the landscape rise to form an informal theater and a cafe, and sculptural seating arrangements dot the landscape.
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Urbanism Instructor: Aniket Shahane Yale University | Spring 2019 Student teams explore the issues of New York City. A redevelopment proposal for Marx Brothers Playground at 2nd Ave. and E. 96th St. spurs investigations into land use, privatization, public space, transportation, housing, and other current topics. With Miriam Dreiblatt and Zach Lenza
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TRANSFER TO WASHINGTON HOUSES NYCHA 2.0
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6. Related Sites NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS...
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East Harlem has an urban form very different from many of Manhattan’s gridded neighborhoods. The urban renewal era of the 1950s and 60s brought the demolition of many blocks of dense, streetwall oriented urban fabric, and replaced it with the towerin-the-park projects typical of that time. Much of this area is now owned by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
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Left, one representative NYCHA development called the Washington Houses starkly contrasts with the area surrounding it. The extensive open space of these blocks can accommodate housing and important community functions currently included in a redevelopment proposal for the nearby Marx Brothers Playground.
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NYCHA is suffering from a lack of funding and ever increasing repair needs, and has sometimes failed to provide basic services and maintenance. Their plan to address these shortfalls includes allowing private development on the extra space they own as a new revenue source. This project builds upon that premise. New buildings and additions are added throughout the 7 blocks of the Washington Houses. Their development will not only bring revenue for needed repairs, but will allow for much more effective use of NYCHA’s ample open space. The new buildings form new semi-enclosed courtyards and plazas that bring a new urban character to these housing developments, with a ground floor that includes new commercial and institutional spaces. The project’s massing seeks to mediate between the existing diagonally oriented towers and the gridded blocks of midrise apartment buildings elsewhere in the area. The resulting spaces are programmed with features for residents and outsiders alike, to bring activity and vibrance at all times of day and all seasons. At left, Nighttime Plaza.
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Community Farm
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The proposal enlivens not only the Washington Houses themselves but the entire surrounding neighborhood. New ground floor interior spaces can play host to local organizations and businesses, bringing stores and services into closer contact with their customers and users. Two new schools ensure each super-block can help host the children of the neighborhood, and redesigned outdoor areas hold functions like farmer’s markets and movie screenings. The varied programming and more intimate, urban scale bring the life of the city, along with the 1,200 new units proposed for the Marx Brothers Playground site, into the previously poorly maintained, stigmatized, single-use housing projects.
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Formal Analysis Instructor: Peter Eisenman w/ Elisa Iturbe Yale University | Fall 2017 Weekly drawings analyze significant architectural works from the Renaissance through Enlightenment eras to understand and propose ideas about the organization and syntax of their elements.
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Bramante’s S.M. della Pace treats its enclosing walls with a high degree of abstraction, as opposed to the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino. This abstraction allows for the continuity of a column grid, in contrast to the discreet wall ends in Palazzo Ducale.
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Palladio’s two churches in Venice have dualing proportional systems in both facades and interior spaces. In each, a more typical three-part division corresponds with the apsdial chapels, while a secondary system derived from roof lines shows the overall building width.
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Bernini and Rainaldi’s “twin” churches in Rome shape their interiors to very different ends by varying the spacing of pilasters. Bernini emphasizes a single longitudinal axis, while Rainaldi creates two equally weighted cross axes.
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Ghost Town Fuel Holding Tanks andElihu Rubin Instructor:
Industrial Land Use in New Haven Yale University | Spring 2019
New Haven’s industrial history and heritage are Will James explored alongside the legacy of postindustrial decline. Research informs a interpretive reuse proposal for a specific site in a formerly industrial area.
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This project repurposes the tank as a new public space, and a new point of interest to connect the Mill River Trail to Criscuolo Park. Visitors enter via a curving passage between the old concrete wall and a new one, along which interpretive and educational material is inscribed. Inside, the abstract, monumental space is surfaced in a pale yellow decomposed granite, and provides a dramatic stage for live music, art exhibits, or any other small public function.
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Systems Integration Instructors: Laura Pirie, Vicki Arbitrio, Bob Haughney Yale University | Spring 2019 A classmate’s fall semester studio project is developed to be code compliant, constructible, structurally feasible, and incorporate mechanical systems. Student teams meet with architectural, structural, and mechanical consultants. With Rhea Schmid and Camille Chabrol
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PANEL TYPE 1 - 7 RODS, 42” PANEL TYPE 2 - 9 RODS, 56” PANEL TYPE 3 - CORNER PANEL TYPE 4 - PORCH ENTRY EDGE SITE BUILT MASONRY COURSES - NO OPENINGS
The facade consists of brick-over-CMU walls and vision-glass curtain walls, and is wrapped in key places by a lacy, single-wythe prefabricated brick screen. These screen panels tie into the main structure with relieving angles, and are interspersed with solid courses of site-built masonry. The edges of the panels mesh together in a finger-joint pattern, creating an uninterrupted filigree effect, aligned with the building’s concrete structure behind.
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CAST-IN STEEL ANGLE STRUCTURAL FRAMING 24” X 28” CONCRETE BEAM
BOLTED CONNECTION BETWEEN BRICK SCREEN PANEL AND RELIEVING ANGLE SITE BUILT BRICK MASONRY ON RELIEVING ANGLE
5” X 8” GALVANIZED STEEL RELIEVING ANGLE METAL FLASHING 3/8” FLEXIBLE JOINT
PREFABRICATED PERFORATED BRICK PANEL WITH STEEL STRUCTURE 5/8” STEEL RODS IN PANEL ASSEMBLY STEEL ANGLE IN PANEL ASSEMBLY
SITE BUILT BRICK MASONRY SHELF ON FOUNDATION WALL PORCH SLAB ON GRADE
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Art & Fabrication Various Courses/Self Directed Work in assorted materials and media, ranging from functional to contemplative
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Oxidized Steel and Maple Table with magnetic leg anchors
Legs attach to the frame with a neodymium magnet clasp, allowing for hardware-free conversion between assembled and flat-pack states in less than one minute. It aims to reduce the stresses associated with frequent relocation.
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Two disc magnets are held within each leg housing, exposed on both faces. When assembled, a steel tongue slots into the housing and is held steady by the magnets. When in transit, the magnets fix the legs to the outside of the frame, creating a single unit less than 2� in thickness.
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The maple table top bolts to the steel frame to create a flush surface.
Disc magnets hold the leg’s housing secure to the welded tongue.
When set up for moving, the magnets fix the leg to the frame’s outside.
Smaller magnets in each foot add stability and ease during movement.
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The 1966 Flood in Florence, Italy Heavy rain fell in Tuscany the first three days of November 1966, including seventeen inches in 24 hours at Monte Falterona, the source of the Arno. In the early morning hours of November 4, the anniversary of exceptional floods in both 1333 and 1844, the river breached its retaining walls and entered the city. The flood remains broadly known for the immense damage done to thousands of artworks and historical documents. Less memorialized is the humanitarian catastrophe wrought by the powerful waters. 10,000 cars were destroyed. 20,000 people were left without homes. Fatality estimates range from 28 to over 100.
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Año Nuevo State Park, CA Canon T5 200 mm f/5.6 1/125 s ISO-200
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Surfer’s Beach, Half Moon Bay, CA Canon T5 24 mm f/11 1/100 s ISO-100
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Confluence Park, San Antonio, TX Canon T5 55 mm f/20 1/60 s ISO-400
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Holy Trinity Monastery, Santiago, Chile Canon T5 105 mm f/8 1/100 s ISO-800
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Stadshus, Stockholm, Sweden Canon T5 24 mm f/8 1/60 s ISO-400
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Allen Cove, Brooklin, ME Canon T5 100 mm f/13 1/125 s ISO-800
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Año Nuevo State Park, CA Canon T5 24 mm f/18 1/125 s ISO-200
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Sand Beach, Acadia National Park, ME Canon T5 125 mm f/12 1/250 s ISO-200
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