Thesis Proposal Book Rhode Island School of Design Xiaohan Lu Interior Architecture, Mdes 2019 1
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Paying It Forward A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Design in Interior Studies [Adaptive Reuse] in the Department of Interior Architecture of the Rhode Island School of Design By Xiaohan Lu 2019
Approved by Master’s Examination Committee:
________________________ Jonathan Bell Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, [Primary/ Secondary] Thesis Advisor ________________________ Markus Berger Associate Professor, Department of Interior Architecture, [Primary/ Secondary] Thesis Advisor & Thesis Chair ________________________ Jeffrey Katz Senior Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, [Primary/ Secondary] Thesis Advisor ________________________ Liliane Wong Department Head, Department of Interior Architecture, [Primary/ Secondary] Thesis Advisor
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Acknowledgments:
Ernesto Aparicio Critic, Department of Graphic Design, Consultant, Graphic Design Nick Heywood Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Adviser, Writing and Thesis Book Donald Sansoucy, P.E. Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Consultant, Structural Engineering Stephen Turner Critic, Department of Interior Architecture, Consultant, Energy, Systems and Sustainability [external advisor] [official titles, departments/ institutions, role]
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CONTENTS thesis statement addition description precedents historical background brwonstone facade analysis site documentation site analysis program botanic garden and basement precedents sketches design concept floor plan&section&superposition rendering annotated bibliography 7
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Thesis Statement The Merchants Bank Building (1855-1857, Morse and Hall, architects) is a six-story brownstone Italianate commercial structure located on Westminster Street in Providence. The historical quality and small scale of the building compared with the context of larger contemporary office buildings, makes the site unique, and suitable for significant growth. This Design Thesis examines the discipline of adaptive reuse and proposes that projects could provide “stages� for future design. In other words, the intervention with some degree of extra infrastructure could not only satisfy current programming, but also allow varied possibilities to happen in the future to help solve social, economic, or climate related issues.
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Addition Description The Merchants Bank Building (1855-1857, Morse and Hall, architects) is a six-story brownstone Italianate commercial structure located on Westminster Street in Providence. The historical quality and small scale of the building compared with the context of larger contemporary office buildings, makes the site unique, and suitable for significant growth.
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PRECEDENT
IMPORTANT PRECEDENT
Quinta Monroy Housing Designer: Alejandro Aravena, Andres lacobelli, Alfonso Montero, Tomas,Cortese, Emilio de la Cerda Design/Construction period: 2003-2004 Building Area: 3,620 m*m (93 housing complex) Intial Apartment: 25 m*m Expanded Apartment: 72 m*m Density: 162.5 houses/ha Location:lquique, CHILE
“We identified five design conditions that belonged to that more difficult first half and created an open system that families could complete afterwards themselves. Our second point was that all of us , when buying a house , expect it to grow it’s value over time...” — Alejandro Aravena
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PRECEDENT Designer: Serie Architects/ Chris Lee, Kapil Gupta Address: Keshva Rao Khadye Marg, Mahalakshmi, Mumbai,India Client: DeGustibus Hotels Pvt. Ltd. Completion:2009 Building type: banqueting hall, restaurant, bar. Gross floor area: 2500m*m
“A series of disused buildings from Mumbai’s colonialpast set within the Mumbai Race Course have been converted into a series of restaurant and bars. “
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PRECEDENT Architect: Hamonic+Masson Address: S16,rue Saint-Nicolas, France Structural engineer: Peyronnel Client: Investir Immobilier Completion: 2009 Building Type: apartments and offices. Gross floor area: 3024 m*m
“The architects’- mixed-use office and housing building is part of an initiative to preserve and reuse the industrial heritage of the southern quarters of Le Havre. Through its scale, rhythm, shape and materials, the project forms an integral part of a re-envisioned harbor landscape”
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BROWNSTONE FACADE Brownstone—the building material—is a specific type of sandstone that is, as its name implies, characteristically dark. The trademark color is due to a high amount of iron in the stone. A brownstone— the structure—first popped up in New York City in the early 19th century and is typically a city rowhouse clad in the eponymous sandstone Built for the burgeoning middle class, these single-family houses employed the stone, usually quarried in nearbyNew Jersey, as a cheaper alternative to marble or limestone. In fact, many of the earlier rowhouses have only a brownstone facade—the rest of the structure is brick—while later houses are made entirely of the sandstone. Today, the majority of brownstones can be found either in Brooklyn or in Manhattan on the Upper West Side or in Harlem. Note: Over the years, the term “brownstone” has become accepted to include almost any city rowhouse, but thewidespread use of the term is technically incorrect. If the building is not made of brownstone, then the house is not a brownstone; it is, instead, a townhouse or a rowhouse.
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PLANS & EXISTING DETAILS
Typical plan floors2-6
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SITE ANALYSIS
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5-min car area
10-min car
5-10-30minutes walking area
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SITE ANALYSIS
Population analysis
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SITE ANALYSIS
Traffic line, red dot indicate the area that usually has crowded traffic.
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SITE ANALYSIS
This map shows the facilities surrounding the site. Even thourgh there couple hotel around the site, but there no botanic garden in the city. Also, most of these hotel has a limit green area. So my proposal will be the first hotel which combined the botanic garden and open to both visiters and citizens. hotel
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* For whole project programming see next page, this one focus on hotel 36
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PROGRAMMING
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PICKED AS “turning point”
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Thus, fundamentally, this project pursues the design methods of adaptive reuse from the time value. Its focus on create opportunities to capture the turning point of architecture life. Trying to get connections with the next-generation designer who is going to reuse the space again. To think in this way, adaptive reuse is no longer only adapting the host conditions, but also the pure space without any intervention and boundaries. Accumulating all the value from changing users and programming of space into the new proposal. The projects seek to challenge the general life-span of an architecture or ruin from the adaptive reuse perspective.
DESIGN CONCEPT
With the increasing adaptive reuse projects, our living society changes dramatically. Every generation designer try to combine the client’s needs, modern material and techniques into their proposal. Adaptive reuse in the architecture field has the main principle to adopt the host conditions. However, if thinking architecture was not only a unit for people to use but also contains the specific value to accumulate human experience, memory, and history. The process of architecture turns to ruin, and rebuild repeat again, every time the architecture lost the certain value of history and memory.
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Image Credits “Quinta Monroy / ELEMENTAL” 31 Dec 2008. ArchDaily. Accessed 8 Dec 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/10775/quinta-monroy-elemental/> ISSN 0719-8884 Photographs Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma , Tadeuz Jalocha Image credit: ELEMENTAL S.A.
serie architects / chris lee and kapil gupta: the tote, mumbaiall images by fram petit / courtesy serie architects https://www.designboom.com/architecture/serie-architects-chris-lee-and-kapilgupta-the-tote-mumbai/
“The Docks Dombasles / Hamonic + Masson architects” 12 Dec 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed 8 Dec 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/43394/the-docks-dombasles-hamonic-masson-architects/> ISSN 0719-8884 Photographs Jean-Christophe Masson, Herve Abbadie
“Intervention In The Basins Of The Mudéjar Palace Of Real Alcázar De Sevilla by Francisco Reina Fernández-Trujillo.” Accessed December 08, 2018. https:// www.gooood.cn/intervention-in-the-basins-of-the-mudejar-palace-of-real-alcazar-de-sevilla-by-francisco-reina-fernandez-trujillo.htm.
“Sustainable Hothouse / C.F. Møller Architects” 24 Dec 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 8 Dec 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/460470/sustainable-hothouse-c-f-moller-architects/> ISSN 0719-8884 Photographs Julian Weyer, Quintin Lake
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Website Perry, Luke W. “Chile. Quinta Monroy.” The INCREMENTAL House. January 01, 1970. Accessed October 03, 2018. http://incrementalhouse. blogspot.com/2008/10/chile-quinta-monroy.html.
Info@redfundamentos.com. “Blogfundamentos | Quinta Monroy.” Redfundamentos.com. Accessed October 03, 2018. http://www.redfundamentos.com /blog/e/obras/detalle-143/.
“Arquitectura En Acero.” Inicio. Accessed October 03, 2018. http://www.arquitecturaenacero.org/ proyectos/recuperacion-restauracion-y-reciclaje/tote.
“Gallery of The Docks Dombasles / Hamonic Masson Architects - 28.” ArchDaily. Accessed October 03, 2018. https://www.archdaily.com/43394/the-docks-dombasles-hamonic-masson-architects/501208cf28ba0d55810002d0-the-docks
“Patrick Dougherty’s Work.”Accessed December 08, 2018. https://www.gooood.cn/patrick-doughertys-work.htm. Plants Profile for Cicuta Maculata (spotted Water Hemlock). Accessed December 08, 2018. https:// plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=COSE16. “EN by ARCHIEE.” Accessed December 08, 2018. https://www.gooood.cn/en-by-archiee.htm.
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Book Most book can found in RISD FLEET LIBRARY Uffelen, Chris Van. Re-use Architecture. Berlin: Braun, 2011
Reporting from the Front 15. International Architecture Exhibition: La Biennale Di Venezia. Venezia: Marsilio, 2016
Aravena, Alejandro. Alejandro Aravena. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2004.
Riewoldt, Otto. New Hotel Design. London: Laurence King, 2006.
Penner, Richard H., Lawrence Adams, and Stephanie K. A. Robson. Hotel Design: Planning and Development. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013.
Ching, Frank. Building Construction Illustrated. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2014.
Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden. New York: Garland Pub., 1978. McGary, Mary Jane. Rock Garden Design and Construction. Portland: Timber Press, 2003.
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