Selected Works from 2002 - 2011 by XMANIFOLD A.D.R.L.

AP P L I E D DE S I GN RES EARC H L AB O RATO RY

selected Works from 2002-2011 Dimitri Kim / xmanifold applied design research laboratory

â&#x20AC; All works are produced by Dimitri Kim, unless noted otherwise. xmanifold applied design research laboratory (A.D.R.L.) is a design and research practice of Dimitri Kim. All works associated with xmanifold is produced solely by Dimitri Kim, unless noted otherwise. Reference to other works are produced by the respected authors.

Index Comprehensive 1. Polymorphic Stasis - Seoul Design Olympiad Competition 2. Serpentine Station - AIM Cable 8 Design Competition 3. Future Proof - M.Arch Thesis

Concise (a) Porto Terminal (b) AUL (c) Zero Tower (d) XMOD (e) Arabian Night (f) 6-PAC (g) OSC-h (h) xmanifold

Excess “Your great, glorious, dreadful city of Metropolis roars out, proclaiming she is hungry for fresh human marrow and human brain and then the living food rolls on, live steam, into the machines room, which are like temples...” The Master of Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

Generosity

and the history of fear I nt r oduction b y ma rcos novak

Indeed, architecture has been the slowest to respond. I regret to say this, since I love architecture, but it is true. To be fair, though, there are at least two architectures, the architecture of accommodation, and the architecture of excess. Accommodation produces buildings, excess produces ‘Architecture.’ This is not a question of extravagant expense, but one of vision and generosity. The architects of excess have always been leading visionaries of their times. The trouble is that we live in a world where accommodation outnumbers excess and generosity, as training outnumbers education and learning. I have had to fight with this all my life, and I expect that this will not change, since I am committed to keeping myself open and agile. The critiques are predictable and banal, on the order of “this is not architecture.” What is worth noting, however, is that the critiques do not change: the same fears are articulated again and again, true to the tiresomeness of the thinking behind them, with only the name of the ‘enemy’ changing. The fear of computer-aided design has been replaced by the fear of cyberspace, but the negative rhetoric is identical. If I had a few more lives to spare, I’d write a history of fears. It would very unimaginative, tedious, and repetitive. Marcos Novak, 1995

Polymorphicstasis If your work is not debated, questioned, or hated, than it is an unworthy work. Los Angeles, Aug, 2009

Autonomous urbanism

2 0 0 8 S e oul Design Olymp iad Entry

* Biofuel derived from photo reactive algae

Artificial Equilibrium How do you invent a new future of city, while preserving vast wealth of cultural heritage ? The new must overcome the limitation of the old, yet do not encompass it. The new city must stand for the future without covering the past. Through intelligent materialism, forms can vary in its dominance and passivity, allowing those that demands to be noticed to seen, while allowing the new buildings to perform its function during the day. At night when the history cannot be optimally viewed, the new buildings will give light and illuminance to the old, while taking its own shape and subtlety to its heights to take advantages of the modern marvel and spectacles that it carries. The next phase of urbanism should be ready to face the challenge of the future, while resolving the problems of today. This new urbanism will take every advantage of the emerging technology, embrace nature, and promote sustainable and economically viable city life.

LAYERED URBANISM Imagine a city where traffic flows are controlled autonomously, imagine a building that can create all the energy it needs to function; like a living, breathing, and thinking organism, the future Seoul will be self-sufficient, intelligent, and adaptable. Layered Urbanism is a new approach to thinking about the way urban environment is constructed, through the genesis of multiple or layered components that exists in equilibrium. like the outer layer of cephalopodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skin with its complex mixture of organic matters designed to function and react to environmental and biological changes. Polymorphic Materials~ Emerging materials of the 21st century such as Smart Glass, Transparent PV, OLED display provides a new opportunity for building facades to function that is previously un-imagined. When combined and optimized, all the systematic, mechanical, and electrical functions of the building can be provided trough the faĂ§ade, leaving broader opportunity for interior space. Impulsive Communication~ Communication and media technology will continue to grow and Seoul is poised to sustain this path, transforming majority of their economic assets to intellectual property and technology development. Industrial and manual labor based industry will decrease and like Tokyo, majority of Seoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inhabitants will become educated workforce. The new media and information technology will also change the way people will work. More and more, people will be able to work away from their office as they will have access to ubiquitous channels of digital communications, including fiber-optic broadband, cloud computing, and portable media that will soon give everyone a desk-less office.office.

Energy Pollination~ A sustainable city should be able to provide all the power necessary to its inhabitants by its own means. Reliance on coal and fossil fuel is no longer a viable option for a sustainable future. The new Seoul must embrace alternative energy generation and limit energy waste. Seoul has 3 readily available alternative energy source, the sun, wind, and water. By harnessing all three source and making the energy directly available where and when it is needed, central power plant can be removed. The Seoul will be equipped with Eco pylons, intelligent, autonomous, energy generating droids capable of harnessing energy from all 3 sources. It is equipped aqua turbine, PV, and discreet wind turbine. It is mobile and submersible droids capable of optimally harnessing energy; During the day, the droid is above water, harnessing sun energy. During windy day, the turbine opens up to harness the wind energy, and at night, the droids submerges to harness the flow of water to harness energy from its aqua turbine. It is an intelligent system that will detect surrounding environmental condition to maximize its energy harnessing opportunity.

Sense Net Terrifying natural disaster of recent events such as Tsunami and Hurricane of East Asia and New Orlean was a demonstration of further things to come if global warming cannot be curbed. What was more unfortunate about those events was that the much of the lost of lives could have been prevented if the government was able to respond quickly and able to warn people of the dangers ahead and provide much more efficient rescue efforts based on intelligence on the field. Imagine a city that is as intelligent as its new building, capable of providing all the data necessary to the central network, including circulation, traffic, and demographic data, allowing the government to respond quickly and intelligently in case of emergency. The polymorphic city will have all buildings capable of communicating vital information about its inhabitants though sensory and feedback devices, design not to invade individuals activities, but the information of the mass to provide vital information to the government.

Polymorphic Stasis, materialism

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Polymorphic Stasis / Project Description

Seoul will continue to grow, which means, spaces for nature must digress as the need for expansion and population will continue to grow. But people will continue to miss the nature and green space. Fully autonomous, polymorphic space will have its own integrated green space, capable of filtering air, provide natural cooling during warm summer and shades during the afternoon. By integrating green space as a natural layer for the building, it can harness all the benefits of having a space for a separate park without sacrificing precious space for expansion and additional built environment.

Polymorphic Stasis is a new approach to thinking about the way urban environment is composed, through genesis of multiple or layered components that exists in equilibrium. By designing buildings and municipalities with automation and intelligence, capable of symbiotic and cooperative relationship, the new Seoul will be able to meet all the challenges of the growing, sustainable future city

Polymorphic Living

Program Seoul Municipality Republic of Korea COORDINATE: N37° 33.9921’, E126° 58.6782’ Floor Area: N/A Height Limit: N/A Zone: N/AA

POLYMORPHIC Urbanism POLYMORPHIC System POLYMORPHIC Materialism POLYMORPHIC City Polymorphic Seoul

Photosynthetic Tram PnP Modular Scraper Biomechanical Tower Demonic Pier Deployable Mobile Command Center POD Residential Complex

Pa r a c ity artificial intelligence and urbanism

19th century Seoul

21st century Seoul

Seoul is poised to become a dominant transglobal city of the 21st century through its continual progress in global economics, acceleration of communication technology, and by its media savvy population who are ready to welcome the next evolution in urbanism. Like many large cities such as Manhattan, Tokyo, or London, Seoul is reaching a density cap where any significant proposal for urban expansion or renovation is difficult if not impossible without serious halt to existing infrastructure, such as transportation and interstate commerce. A typical urban plan will not prevent future density cap that faces current metropolis such as manhattan where plans for major infrastructure or renovation to increase density will mean the prolonged absence of service of the existing infrastructure.

Urban Cluster 2.0~Future projection for Seoul

There is a severe hindsight to current plan based on progressive growth where infrastructure is built as needed due to the fact that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take into account of the problems that we will face today and in the future such as global warming and energy crisis and implication of the emerging technology that are rapidly changing the way live, the way we communicate, the way travel, the way we work, and the we govern.

The next phase of urbanism should be ready to face the challenge of the future, while resolving the problems of today. This new urbanism will take every advantage of the emerging technology, embrace nature, and promote sustainable and economically viable city life.

Metabolic process Metabolic process within materials and structures

Seoul will continue to grow, which means, spaces for nature must digress as the need for expansion and population will continue to grow. But people will continue to miss nature and green space. Fully autonomous, polymorphic space will have its own integrated green space, capable of filtering air, provide natural cooling during warm summer and shades during the afternoon. By integrating green space as a natural layer for the building, it can harness all the benefits of having a space for a separate park without sacrificing open space for expansion and additional built environment.

Biomechanical Tower + Metabolic process

POD Residential Complex + Metabolic process

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Polymorphic Stasis / Metabolic Process

Symbiotic process Symbiotic parasite for energy generation and waste processing

A sustainable city should be able to provide all the power necessary to its inhabitants by its own means. Reliance on coal and fossil fuel is no longer a viable option for a sustainable future. The new Seoul must embrace alternative energy generation and limit energy waste. Seoul has 3 readily available alternative energy sources, the sun, wind, and water. By harnessing all three sources and making the energy directly available where and when it is needed, central power plant can be removed. The Seoul will be equipped with Eco pylons, intelligent, autonomous, energy generating droids capable of harnessing energy from all 3 sources. It is equipped aqua turbine, PV, and discreet wind turbine. The pylons are mobile and submersible droids capable of optimally harnessing energy; during the day, the droid is above water, harnessing solar energy. During windy day, the turbine opens up to harness the wind energy, and at night, the droids submerges collect energy from its aqua turbine. It is an intelligent system that will detect surrounding environmental condition to maximize its energy harnessing opportunity.

Echo Pylons + Symbiotic process

Submerged Pylon + Symbiotic process

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Polymorphic Stasis / Symbiotic Process

Morphologic process Generative and kinetic building envelope

Seoul is reaching a density cap where any large proposal for urban expansion or renovation is difficult if not impossible without serious halt to existing infrastructure, such as transportation and interstate commerce. Any existing urban plan will not prevent the future density cap that faces cities such as Manhattan where any form of new construction will mean destruction of the existing plan. There is a severe hindsight to current plan based on progressive growth where infrastructure is built as needed due to the fact that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take into account of the problems that we will face today and in the future such as global warming and energy crisis. Another important factor to consider is the implication of the emerging technology that are rapidly changing the way live, way we communicate, way we travel, the way we work, and the we govern. Imagine a building facade that provides light and media information where and when it needs it, while providing shades, comfort, energy generation and privacy. Emerging materials of the 21st century such as Smart Glass, Transparent PV, OLED display provides a new opportunity for building facades that was previously un-imagined. When combined and optimized, all the systematic, mechanical, and electrical functions of the building can be provided through the facade, leaving new and innovative opportunities for interior space.

Plug n Play Modular Sky Scraper + Morphologic process

Demonic Pier Arrival Station + Morphologic process

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Polymorphic Stasis / morphologic Process

Cognitive process Metabolic process within materials and structures

Seoul is poised to become a dominant transglobal city of the 21st century through its continual progress in global economics, communication technology, and its media savvy population who are ready to welcome the next evolution of urbanism. Like many dense cities such as Manhattan, Tokyo, or London, Seoul is reaching a density cap where any large proposal for urban expansion or renovation is difficult if not impossible without serious halt to existing infrastructure, such as transportation and interstate commerce. Any existing urban plan will not prevent the future density cap that faces cities such as Manhattan where any form of new construction will mean destruction of the existing plan. There is a severe hindsight to current plan based on progressive growth where infrastructure is built as needed due to the fact that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take into account of the problems that we will face today and in the future such as global warming and energy crisis. Another important factor to consider is the implication of the emerging technology that are rapidly changing the way live, way we communicate, way we travel, the way we work, and the we govern.

Photosynthetic Sky Tram + Cognitive process

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Polymorphic Stasis / cognitive Process

+ Deployable Mobile Command Center (DMCC) for Disaster Relief + Cognitive process

Hang River Cultural Center + Polymorphic Stasis

POD Residential Tower and DMCC + Polymorphic Stasis

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Polymorphic Stasis / Exterior final

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no fine line between radicalism and moderatism. Draw your line in the sand you cowards and prepare to face the consequencesâ&#x20AC;? To friends and enemies of architecture, 2010

SerpentSkirt

Urban Service pack 2 0 1 0 AIM F actory 8 Design C ompetition

*Factory 8, Beijing

Re-appraisal of the renovated Space Modernization is a delicate and slow moving process; it is nearly, always followed by painful and often difficult adjustment period where resolving one problem, opens window to another problem... China is modernizing at an unprecedented rate, far beyond predictable manner and pace of much earlier urbanized cities, such as London, New York, and Tokyo. Despite the tremendous economic and social gains this brute force method of developing world class cities have accomplished, China have not over-come the all too common and difficult problems that comes with urban development, including, congestion, pollution, and urban reconciliation (i.e. how to connect work, living, and public interest)

Interestingly enough, the symptoms faced by Cable 8 Factory Complex in Beijing are all too common in over-developed cities, specifically, LA and NY. The method utilized in these cities are very similar to what has been done in the factory block, that is, ‘adaptive reuse’; renovation and revamping of the space for new use, such as conversion of industrial factory into an open platform, loft residences or offices.

Competition brief Design the Last Factory Block in Beijing’s CBD Participants are asked to come up with strategies and mechanisms that will improve Cable 8, making it more susceptible to the rapidly changing urban landscape, and perform better as a cultural carrier that helps to diversify the otherwise homogeneous nature of the CBD area. Participants can either improve the existing buildings in Cable 8 or introduce new architecture. We also highly encourage the design to go beyond the confinement of the existing site into the urban scale of the CBD area, and try to form a new relationship between site, program, form and technology. We hope to see interesting and thoughtful ideas that will perform urban cultural infusion in Beijing’s CBD, allowing it to achieve the status as a rich and dynamic urban center.

as a cultural carrier that helps to diversify the otherwise homogeneous nature of the CBD area CBD District 8 Authority, Beijhing

Factory 8, View From Parking

If the renovation of factory space into loft space has brought new breath of life into a dead space, we need another renovation to revive the integral, but often misunderstood, public space, or more specifically, social space. From the perspective of urban juxtaposition, factory 8 complex is nestled within the heart of the capitol, where both face and heart of the modernized china is represented with glittering towers, stadium, and opera house by worlds leading architect. Cable 8 is positioned to become a mediator of contemporary culture and the new modernized china All the components are aligned together, yet fragmented by missing gap; what Cable 8 complex needs is an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;intersectionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; where the economy (business) and culture (the art) can meet.

C8 Park C8 Outdoor Theater C8 Exhibition Space and Gallery C8 Cafe

Material & Structural comp. Hybrid Bridge Structure 1. Steel Frame Hybrid Bridge Envelope 1. Carbon Fiber Laminated Body Hybrid Bridge Complete* 1. Assembled with landscape formation Rooftop Park 1. Modeled landscape with 2. Integrated Lighting System Bridge Rail 1. Trasnparent polymer rail with integrated lighting system

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Serpentskirt / Program

Urban Service Pack

Program

On the fringe of the bustling downtown LA is the idiosyncratic and rejuvenated art district, home to communes of artists who came to the abandoned industrial park, seeking new creative freedom (code changes in LA allowed industrial complex to be converted into residential space) and cheap rents in the decommissioned factory buildings near little Tokyo where once booming manufacturing industry of LA once occupied. However this blessing in disguise maybe, there is a drawback. Downtown LA, especially the art district is devoid of much of the infrastructure to maintain an after work culture. Art District is almost entirely devoid of public space, greenery, and other social glue (parks, recreation center, restaurant, bar and etc) to draw the workforce from downtown, from outside the city, and even within the district itself.

If you can get them to work, how do you get them to sTay? If you can get them to live, how do you get them to play?

Precedence

Rooftop Rail 1. Flexible OLED with integrated display system

Concept sketch for C8 Program

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Serpentiskirtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; an elevated landscape and social complex with connecting bridge between adjacent buildings is a re-appraisal of the renovation approach, taking an existing infrastructure to create a new. The aligning low rise towers with both living and workspace is devoid of social friendly attractors, yet the potential for human traffic is tremendous, counting the population within the capitol.

Concept sketch for C8 Hybrid Bridge

Concept sketch for possible structural morphology

The point of departure of this project is to create a physical bridge and an architectural space above the existing factory 8 buildings to create a sustained infrastructure of social and creative interaction. Named, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Serpentskirtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for its wrapping/coiling forms; it will first provide a rare park space for the Cable 8 district with a spectacular views of the Beijing skyline. Accessible to both residents, tenants, and public, the park will encompass the 5 aligning buildings within cable 8, via bridge and architectural space that includes a cafe at the east end, exhibition and gallery space at the north end, and an outdoor theater space; all wrapped within an exuberant and open landscape.

Program CBD Cable 8 Factory block Beijing China COORDINATE: 39 54’31.15 N 116 27’43.46 E Floor Area: 17,600 SF Height Limit: N/A Zone: Mix-USe industrial and residential District

C8 Park C8 Outdoor Theater C8 Exhibition & Gallery space C8 Cafe

12000 SF

TOTAL NET AREA

17,600 SF

3000 SF 1600 SF 1000 SF

Pa r a fo r m a A park in the sky or pie in the sky

Hybrid Bridge Envelope + Carbon Fiber Laminated Body

Hybrid Bridge Structure + Steel Frame

Bridge and Rooftop Rail + FLEXIBLE OLED rail with integrated DISPLAY system

Rooftop Park + Modeled landscape with Integrated Lighting System

components Breakdown of complete parts to whole

axo parts and whole

A C8 Serpentskirt Cafe B C8 Serpentskirt Exhibition & Gallery Space C C8 Serpentskirt Outdoor Theater D C8 Serpentskirt Park

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Serpentskirt / configurations

Hybrid Bridge Complete + Assembled with landscape formation

C8 Serpentskirt + Elevation / south

C8 Serpentskirt + Elevation / east

C8 Serpentskirt + Elevation / north

C8 Serpentskirt + Elevation / west

02 Deployment

Serpentine configuration on site

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Serpentskirt / site context

C8 Serpentskirt + Sight Plan

Sites to whole

A C8 Serpentskirt Cafe B C8 Serpentskirt Exhibition & Gallery Space C C8 Serpentskirt Outdoor Theater D C8 Serpentskirt Park

03 Development Serpentskirt @ Factory 8

Final Render on Site

C8 Serpentskirt + Site Perspective

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Serpentskirt / render views of the serpentine station and factory 8

C8 Serpentskirt + Exhibition & Gallery space

The Serpents head; piteous amends, unless Be meant, whom I conjecture, our grand Foe Satan, who in the Serpent hath contriv’d Against us this deceit: to crush his head [ 1035 ] Would be revenge indeed; which will be lost By death brought on our selves, or childless days Resolv’d, as thou proposest; so our Foe Shall scape his punishment ordain’d, and wee Instead shall double ours upon our heads Book X, Milton’s Paradise Lost

Illustration by Gustave Dore

Brothers, we have arrived at the global city of our god, in this post~avant garde age of information and new media. We glide through the corridor of these pixilated streets and isometric views of the digitized mass with our gui enhanced electric diode displays and wireless/wired, multithreading data cruncher/extractor. Our visions are augmented, our senses hyper active, and our fingertips restless. There are no paths we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t subjugate. There are no spaces we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t occupy. The gravity of the city generating machine; part economy, part culture, part aesthetic, part nature, part digital; we are no longer making city out of steel and mortars; we fuse live data with hyperwire, modeled, parametricized, and rendered; we are making city out of thin air. We have sullied the purity of civilization with globalization and the innocence of our humanity is lost beyond redemption. Our religion is mutation of nature with concrete, steel, and semi~conductors; we have over~rationalized the unrationable, the indestructible nature of human spirit against the mechanized, jail~broken, virtualized byproduct of post~consumerism. What is there left to do but build more walls, roads, and cell towers. If this diabolism be our fate, then let it burn to the ground in a swift, lamentable chasm of self~destruction. Like Sodom and Gomorrah, let us be clean again, let us be innocent again. FUTURE PROOF, A Manifesto, DIMITRI KIM, MM1X

FutureProof

Lamentation of Global Urbanism SCIArc Master of Architecture Thesis, 2009 Thesis advisor: Peter Zellner, Jean Michelle

* Brughel, The Tower of Babel

Paradise ALL lost Modern utopian vision was a product of market-based capitalism of the 19th century where an ideal society based on free market would drive society to its optimal potential. Therefore, a modern city centered around production of capitol must regulate human culture and value system in order to achieve social control, thereby maintaining optimal efficiency in commerce. Consequently, contemporary urbanism driven by modernist vision (rational cannon and capitalist cannon) is inherently indifferent to human values and culture.

Rebirth is needed to rid the decay. Death is needed to start the rebirth. My thesis is a critical examination of global urbanism, which I perceive as an extension; a superego of modernism. Through superimposition of superstructure to supercity, the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary datum and point of departure will be an urban front, a transnational gateway and a symbol of human achievement and economic progress. Like the Sodom and Gomorrah and the Tower of Babel, its destruction will signal the end of the age of wayward civilization and the beginning of the return of mankind to innocence...

“Superstudios Histograms of architecture and Archizoom’s No-Stop City were derived from the modernist concept of the uniform grid. But it extended into an idea of ‘total global urbanization’ through an infinitely spreading urban system. Through this threatening idea, architecture was seen as ‘socially critical act’. Its identity was debated and it became regarded as an attempt to transform reality. Superstudio and their contemporaries were critical of the ubiquitous nature of global capitalism, a very current concern.” Neil Spiller, Future City 2007

Globalization or globalism “Globalization is changing the form of regions, cities and localities at a rate unprecedented in history. “Governments and international development agencies have advocated that globalization policies are the best way to overcome underdevelopment” “The velocity of spatial changes has become unpredictable, but it is also the speed of political and cultural transformations of society. Many important researchers have explained the appearance of the informational society, the global city, the competition of cities and the emergence of the sub-national markets, and hypothesis has been formulated about urban convergences between Northern and Southern cities.

National boundaries are rapidly loosing their importance as trade barriers and cities have become more autonomous economic units which open up their manufacturing, commercial and financial services to international competition.

Foundations for a Super city

Rosemann, ‘Globalization, Urban Form & Governance’, TU Delft

Super Terminal for super city The proposed project on the city will attempt to establish connections between impact of globalization in social, cultural, and economic domain and its urban domain. Through narrative of the city as told through the eyes of various inhabitants and players (proletariat, bourgeois, magistrates, revolutionaries), limitations, implications, and blow backs of globalized habitat will be explored through poetic satire. Like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or PKD/Scotts’s Blade Runner, the fantastic vision of the future is not only meant to inform of us of the possibilities, but warn us of the danger of our current progress/regress.

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Future Proof / Project Description

“The time-space compression created by globalization, through which rapid technological and social changes seem to surpass the character and nature of the built environment, demand a new explanation regarding urban transformation processes and the impact of large projects and programs. “

Many researchers express preoccupation for the unforeseen prospects of such events, and ideas about the risk society emerges, about environmental depletion, about the increasing gap between rich and poor, and specifically concern has arouse over private appropriations of newly created values resulting from Large Urban and Infrastructure Projects. ” Rather than seeing the city purely as a macro-economic imperative, the city is seen as a social process of building and negotiations, in which different actors state their interests, propose solutions and generate decisions”

Exodus, Koolhas

Free-Zone 3-2, Woods

Imagines an idealized cold-war scenario as a catalyst for production

Exodus ~ City as generator and instigator of diverse contemporary culture Product: Conceptual expression of the walled (imprisoned) metropolitan London as satire for modernism in cold war era

of diverse culture, when in fact, this scenario produces a degenerative subculture. Koolhas is neither explicitly nor implicitly stating that modernism is harmful or negative. The context in which the subject matter is portrayed is entirely indifferent to the apparent psychological and sociological implication of the imagery.

Free-Zone ~ Buildings are in a constant state of flux, reflecting external condition of the city, particularly, war, decay, and violence. Product: Stylized representation of buildings penetrated and mutated by empathy of the city.

Playtime

Meta Narrative: In Tatiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Playtime, modernity comes alive into a dizzying height as the denizens and visitors of Paris attempts to reconcile with their overmodernized built environment. It is considered a masterpiece of modern cinema and one of the most critical objectification of modernism through its use of narrative satire and highly choreographed sets and cinematography. While normal narrative follows random patrons of the Tatiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hyper modern universe, metanarrative points to the drawback of modern city and its often humorous consequences on its inhabitants.

Map of North America

Banner of NAU, North American Union

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) established a free-trade zone in North America; it was signed in 1992 by Canada, Mexico, and the United States and took effect on Jan. 1, 1994. NAFTA immediately lifted tariffs on the majority of goods produced by the signatory nations. It also calls for the gradual elimination, over a period of 15 years, of most remaining barriers to cross border investment and to the movement of goods and services among the

three countries. Over half of the merchandise for sale in U.S. markets comes from abroad. In 2007 the total value of all imports into the U.S. was more tha $2 trillion. For CBP, whose mission is to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the U.S. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;processing these imports meant handling 22 million entry summaries with over 102 million lines, and collecting $32 billion in revenues.

NAU state of ‘Mexas’, the confederation of Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas

Mega Structure over Manhattan, ‘The Continuous Monument’, Super Studio

Meta-Narrative tells the story of a city amidst of its birth, told from points of view the city’s morphology, politics, history, and its inhabitants

Scale and density is one of the most important aspect of this project; a supercity for superstate. Using texture and obscured perspective to create distorted view of the images while creating abnormal depth

Program Patriot Super highway/ Mexas North American Union COORDINATE: N31° 46.172’, W106° 30.3042’ Floor Area: 9,000,000 SF Height Limit: N/A AGENDA 21 SPECIAL DISTRICT: NAFTA 2.0 FREE TRADE ZONE

NAFTA 2.0 Terminal 1136 Urban & Transportation Hub Industrial Plaza Executive Housing Low Income Housing Commercial Real Estate Tri-Nation Gateway Park Shipping Dock

TOTAL NET AREA

75,000 SF 50,000 SF 800,000 SF 1,200,000 SF 750,000 SF 500,000 SF 75,000 SF 120,000 SF

3,570,000 SF

S o d o m a nd Go m o r r a h REFLECTIONS AND WARNINgs

Superhighway + Terminal / schematic render

Propaganda Poster

01 Timeline Project for the new American Century

Rise of the global city

*concise Timeline of NSH I10

New Spain lost Florida to Great Britain but gained Louisiana from France~Expulsion of Jesuits~Governor Bernardo de Galvez from New Orleans fought British and regained the Floridas during the American War of Independence.~French Revolution: its doctrines spread to Latin America where Creoles wanted to supplant Gachupines (Peninsular-born whites) in office~Napoleon took Louisiana back from New Spain but sold it to the~United States~Napoleon deposed Spanish king and replaced him with his brother, Joseph, precipitating revolution and the Peninsular War and, ultimately, his own downfall~Aztec Club of 1847 organized in Mexico City with General John A. Quitman, of Mississippi, as its first President~Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the War. Terms of peace included payment by the United States of $15 million for Mexico Cession...

Superhighway + Terminal / underpass

Superhighway + Terminal / vehicular and pedestrian lane

US-Mexican War. Four campaigns -- Taylor in Northern Mexico, Kearny in New Mexico, naval blockage of both coasts and Scottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign from Vera Cruz to Mexico City~A new constitution and a liberal victory, but three years of civil war followed until Benito Juarez emerged as liberal leader and President~Texas joins the Confederate States of America. European intervention during the American Civil War by Great Britain, Spain and France. First two withdrew shortly thereafter.

Superhighway + Terminal / elevation

Confederates in Texas win the Battle of Galveston; a major confederate victory. French army captured Mexico City and Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Hungary, a Hapsburg, proclaimed second Emperor of Mexico~Texas rejoins the United States of America. The Civil War ended, the United States sent troops to the border, the French withdrew and Maximilian is executed at Querétaro. Empress Carlotta goes mad~Juarez is again President of Mexico; died in office~Population expands greatly in Texas. Porfirio Diáz dictator of Mexico for all but four years. Encouraged foreign exploitation of Mexico’s natural wealth, but Mexico City becomes a metropolis~Mexican Revolution~The U. S. National Guard is sent to the Mexican border. U. S. withdrew on eve of its entry into World War I. New Mexican constitution adopted~U.S. Stock Market Crash...

Superhighway + Underpass

Superhigahway + Gateway Park / interior

Bush is elected 43rd president of the US~WTC bombing~2nd War in persian gulf~GW Bush is elected for the second term. SPP, precursor to North American Union Treaty is signed~Barack Obama from Illinois defeats republican nominee, senator Jahn McCain of Arizona to become the 44th president of the United States. Mortgage crisis escalates to the wall street. NAFTA Superhighway I-94 begins in Texas with little notice from the public~U.S. Economy goes on deep recession. Government lead by Obama and democrat majority proposes 3 trillion dollar stimulus bill to revive the economy~ Construction of Terminal city 1136, Code name â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lazarusâ&#x20AC;? begins...

Propaganda Poster II

Hybrid Tunnel + interior

02 The terminal Our Lady of Guadalupe Super terminal 1139

Core Shell w/ terminal structure and transportation nodes

A Composite Shell Body B Terminal Complex A C Terminal Complex B D Primary Transportation Lane E Special Purpose Closed Lane F Multiple Deck Full Lane G Complete Vehicular Circulation

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Future Proof / Project Description

+ Terminal with ground level transportation nodes + perspective render

Composite Shell Body + Terminal 1139

Structural Frame showing Shell Body + Terminal 1139

Structural Frame and Transportation Nodes + Terminal 1139

Ground Level Terminal Access + Terminal 1139

Complete Transportation Nodes + Terminal 1139

Terminal Body and Transportation Nodes + Terminal 1139

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Future Proof / Core structure

Complete Terminal Body + Terminal 1139

Complete Structural Frame + Terminal 1139

Superhighway + Terminal / Road Circulation

Superhighway + Terminal / complete road system

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Future Proof / Primary Circulation and facade

Superhighway + Terminal / roof plan

Lamentations Projections and allegories

Introspective views

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Future Proof / Roof plan

Superhighway + Terminal / northern elevation

Selected Design Works 06-11 | Future Proof / Elevation

Superhighway + Terminal / physical model

Introspective Rendering + THE FALL II

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Future Proof / Introspective view 2099

Introspective Rendering + THE FALL III

Introspective Rendering + THE FALL IV

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Future Proof / Introspective view 2099

PortoTerminal

porosity/reciprocity Compe tition e nt ry for Portugal Naval te rminal

LAR/F e rnando Ro m e ro

Principal in charge: Fernando Romero Lead Designers: Prabhu Sugmar + Dimitri Kim Porto Terminal was a competition entry for the new international, naval gateway in Portugal. Working under LAR/Fernando Romero, my responsibilities for the entry were designing and programming of the roof and window facade, consisting of porous patterns of various nodules. The procedure to create the patterns consisted of writing scripts to produce circles on a flat surface geometry and projecting them on to the 3D surface geometry. The process was later developed into parametric format (Revit) for the later phase of the project to be continued by Design Development (DD) team

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Porto Terminal / exterior render

blobwall

Robotic mason S CI-Arc Galle ry Installat ion

Gre g Ly nn fo rm

Principal in charge: Greg Lynn 3D Robot Programming: Ben Buckalew, Jeongsun Oh, Dimitri Kim An installation by Greg Lynn Form for SCIArc Gallery in 2008. My responsibilities for this project was CNC programming of 6 Axis CNC Robotic Cutter, coordinating installation efforts across different team members, and help to assemble the canopy from the pre-cut, polymer masonry.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Porto Terminal / exterior render

Boredtodeath

active urban landscape / s.e.a.l.1 Comp e tition e nt ry for gre e n inche on

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Principal in charge: Dimitri Kim â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bored to Deathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is a bold attempt at injecting green and open landscape to congested urban territory by retrofitting an elevated landscape to the environment. Patrons have the option of open, green space, while keeping the amenities of the city, such as shops and restaurant. Consisting of jogging route, pedestrian ramp, and public space, the elevated landscape is assailed by an over arching canopy that adds an additional level while providing shades to the level below.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Bored to Death / perspective render

zerotower

de-panelization pane lization de sign and facad e consultation

TWINC / xm ani fo ld adrl

Principals in charge: Peter testa/devyn weiser (twinc) Consultant: Dimitri Kim (xmanifold) Year long investigation into developing panel-less surface envelope for Cloud Tower by Testa/Wesier. Panelless solution was originally developed to enhance the performance of the inflatable/pre-preg system (also developed by xmanifold) consisted of high strength polymer envelope and carbon fiber branching system (developed by TWINC) that held both the core and the skin of the tower. It later became a performance feature to increase transitivity of the envelope and to decrease dead loads from the branch system.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Zero Tower / paneless solution

xmod

mobile shelter for nomadic community installation for S outhe rn cal ifornia bie nnale

xm ani fo ld adrl

Principal in charge: Dimitri Kim Mod is a re-appropriation of an old idea, popularized in the 60s of creating new product from retrofitting an original product using customized parts. Built for 2009 Southern California Biennale, XMOD shelter attempts to reconcile the act of retrofitting and customization, which is commonly a post-construction procedure, into the initial design process, where different anatomic and pseudo conditions can be met through various â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;modsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the shelter can manifest.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | xmod / completed installation

ArAbiAnlight

Autonomous,SelfSustaining Robot Comp e tition e nt ry for art Ge ne rato r In itiative 2010

xm ani fo ld adrl

Principal in charge: Dimitri Kim Arabian Night / Light is about production of rich creativity through independence or autonomy. By mimicking nature; by setting simple rules and allowing production to take its course via autonomy, the installation modules becomes infinitely kinetic and non-static, capable of interacting with one another to create complex forms or more subtle differentiation through individuality.

B. Eco-Resin Encasing G. FLEX-LED Tube lights

D. Top Encasing for Operational POD wit microprocessors and wiring

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Arabian Light / assembly solution

A. Embedded Translucent PV Cells

E. Mid Section for battery encasing

F. Bottom cap for water seal

B. Anchor

Sâ&#x20AC; .Stephen

the arc of the Jesuit fe asibility stud y for a church in macao ch ina

xm ani fo ld adrl

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Sâ&#x20AC; . Stephen / Design Drawings

Paraflex

Sensation through performance fe asibility stud y for the Be rke le y M use um

xm ani fo ld adrl / KHJD Co lle ct i v e

Principal in charge: Dimitri, Hiro, Karim, ALAN Group competition entry for the New Berkeley Art Museum. The collaborative project was the result of efforts between XMANIFOLD and KHJD Collective. xmanifoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contribution to the project included design optimization, panelization, and visualization. The Robust forms, programs, and implementations are result of series of conceptual executions of architecture as a body of performance systems.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | Paraflex / perspective render

6pac

Portable Modular Canopy for the Urban Mass Compe tition e nt ry for aa drl pavilion

xm ani fo ld adrl

Principal in charge: Dimitri Kim Competition for AA, a portable, modular canopy system for urban environment. The modular system is based on expanded hexa-grid, generated through MEL script and enforced by parametric restrictions. The resulting â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;twistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on the canopy maintains the structural stability of the honeycomb shell while pushing the limits of formal and spatial possibilities.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | 6-Pac / roof plan

Osc-H

oscillated surface harmonics Re se arch for BAM mus e um compe tition

xm ani fo ld adrl

Principal in charge: Dimitri Kim Research into performance application of surface envelope design through hierarchical, generative, and recursive iteration of surface geometry. Various iteration of the surface design was applied to macro and micro components of the building systems, using lined points along nurb surface, multitude of variations can be explored, including perforation, viscosity, convolution, tear, skew, undulation, bifurcation, and etc. All permutations can be controlled through atrophic points along neutral axis where differentiation can be catalogued. These permutations can then be put to a virtual test to see how light, air, water, and other elements are admitted and altered.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | OSC-h / Prototype III

REx

Waste re-engineering center S tudy for L os Ange le s U rban De ve lop e me nt

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Principal in charge: Dimitri Kim Generation of environmentalistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s notion of waste and energy and its impact on the environment have not prompted the concept of a built environment as greatest generator of waste and inhibitor of energy. REx attempts to challenge both conceptual notion of a building by imagining the building as an interceptor and negotiator of waste through buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physical, structural, and programmatic morphology.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | REX / Plan and section

xmanifold

computational Modular System for architectonics Arch ite ctural facad e xm ani fo ld adrl

Principal in charge: Dimitri Kim (x)manifold is a modular pattern for architectonic applications based on viral and parasitic behavior of microorganisms. Each modules have attractor and cluster behavior that gathers and separates based on density, color, and external factors (custom control). Although not autonomous, the limited behavior allows for intelligent applications of modules for architectural purpose, including wall, facade, and structure.

Selected Design Works 06-10 | xmanifold / wall solution

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does not... by any means seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt; but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race, however, could not be improved in this way without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable that an attention to breed should ever become generalâ&#x20AC;? An essay on the principle of population, Reverand Robert Malthus

fin selected Works from 2006-2011

AP P L I ED DES I GN RE S E ARC H L AB O RAT O RY

Recent Works from 2011-2012 Dimitri Kim / Advanced architectural design

†All works are produced by Dimitri Kim, unless noted otherwise. *Images and texts for ‘Rethinking BIM’ was produced in cooperation with Matt Celmer, Scott Chung, and George Dolidze. Images and texts for ‘Parametric Realization’ was produced in cooperation with Paola Echegaray and Sherry Yang. Images and texts for ‘Beyond Prototype’ was produced in cooperation with Reza Zia, Michelle Ku, and Joori Shim.

Index Comprehensive 1. Xterraforma - Reiser & Umemoto 2. Barra Da Mixtura - Kaseman 3. Allegory of the Tank - Bell

Concise (a) SEAL Tower Phase 2 (b) Call of the Cthlu (c) Rockwall (d) Sonic Couture (e) WASP

Steel â&#x20AC;&#x153;There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always, do not forget this, Winston, always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, foreverâ&#x20AC;? Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

Microchip

POst-Globalized empire and the city In tr o d u cti on b y E d K eller

“Are there still borders? More than ever! Every street has is border line. Between each plot there’s a strip of No-man’s land, disguised by a hedge or a ditch. Whoever dares will fall into the booby traps or be hit by laser rays. The trout are really torpedoes. Every home owner, or even every tenant, nails his name plate on the door, like a coat of arms, and studies the morning paper as if he were a world leader. ...Everyone carries his own state with him, and demands a toll when another wants to enter. So much for the border... but one can only enter, with a password.” Himmel Uber Berlin, Wim Wenders and Peter Handke

The city comes to life through the overlapping ambiences it hosts: as a kind of software, in cultural movements, or a kind of hardware, in the physical forms of the architecture of the city itself. The unique nature and identity of any urban location emerges in an irreducible resonance that is produced between that ‘software’ and ‘hardware’. In the case of the contemporary global city, the intensification of this relationship has produced a more radical set of bifurcations, no longer resolved as the outcome of a binary logic (‘physical versus virtual’), but rather as a cascading construct of parallel realities, life worlds, and temporalities. Design of the city now has to ask how we can harness globally networked systems of capital, transnational entities, and technologically enabled relationships and use them to energize the city. In truth, design of the city today means more than ever the design and construction of an entire world. Ed Keller, 2007

Advance Studio V

Xterraforma Urbanism through Mobility + CALIFORNIA HIGH SPEED RAIL Critics Umemoto & Reiser // TA Neil Cook Summer 2011

Los Angeles Union Station, Circa 1940

Concept for Trans-continental Super Maglev Rail

inter+operable and seamless MASS TRANSIT Need for linear, multi-nodal mass transportation system with high speed rail as the core component opportunities for veritable, flexible, branching system for hybrid space and architectural programming... High Speed Rail, while far from an entirely new technology of travel, is being pursued actively by Federal and State governments. The technology is evolving rapidly, and the potential of the system to affect patterns of urbanism is unprecedented. The notion that an architectural project for High Speed Rail technologies might concentrate only on buildings or stations is anachronistic and short-sighted. Since the nineteenth century, infrastructure has been overtly utilized as a model resulting in the amplification of systems of movement, distribution, and control. While the proliferation of these systems has necessarily been attendant to modernization, they are rarely questioned or seen as anything other than discrete components of a hierarchy no greater than its parts. The great potential of taking on the design implications of new transportation technologies lies in the wider implications and effects of the system. The implementation of high-speed- rail technologies creates a spectrum of possibilities and effects ranging from the global to the local, from the level of regional planning and development to the local

local structures that such technologies carry forward and promulgate. Contrary to a more limited view which would understand the introduction of high-speed rail as merely being able to provide a faster connection between point A and point B, these technologies will have unprecedented effects on urban and ex-urban development.

the New wild west A streamlined transportation through california The State of California is committed via amendment to the State constitution to construct a high speed rail system that will connect San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento. This project, supplemented by an additional $8 billion federal commitment contained in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Actâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, represents the most significant public infrastructure project in California since the construction of the State Water Project in the 1960s. This premise offers the studio the opportunity to undertake critical speculation about the future of high-speed travel, and its performance and potential contributions to the built environment across the nation at a moment where new ideas have the opportunity to enter public discourse.

scale of the investigation can range from urban to architectural scale, from modes of transportation to transportation hubs Reiser and Umemoto, California High Speed Rail

Veritable+multi-purpose surface condition @ Yokohama terminal

Territory When a new technology of this sort becomes available, it is not a question of whether it should or should not happen, but how it will happen. The ethic of the studio and our task will be to explore the quantitative and qualitative possibilities produced by this new system. It is our position that the outcome of these developments is far from certain and certainly- line through systems of repetition, both geometrical and at the level of construction that will both inform and be informed by differential fields. The intention of this return to regularity is two-fold: first, from the pragmatic point of view, most construction (despite the still utopian claims towards complete flexibility in computer aided fabrication) still demands upon mass- produced elements that are

A B C D E F G

Train Station Station Interiors Ticketing Train Platform Egress Ingress Vehicular Access

5 different sites 1. Modesto 2. Los Angeles 3. Other Rural Location 4. Other Terminus 5. Other Branching Location

TYPES OF HIGH SPEED RAIL 1. CITY TO CITY 2. CITY TO RURAL 3. CITY TO HUB

GSAPP Collected Works | Xterraforma / project description

The High Speed Rail technology not only increases the speeds of the trains but more importantly it increases the ability of the rails to proliferate over a vast territory. Firstly, by increasing the servable distances from already existing cities and secondly by creating and promulgating new types of development artificially. As servable distances from cities increases, new connections with other modes of travel are enabled, and new types of development are made possible in combinations of densities as radical as those permitted by the initial subway unification of New York a century ago.

Project typography

The implications of speed in relation to areas served and capacity is not new. The mainline electrification of the Northeast corridor during the 1930â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resulted in shorter travel times and more trains on the tracks. This acceleration of connectivity contributed to the formation of the northeast mega city. Bearing in mind that this development occurred predominantly along already existing railways connecting existing cities, development mainly occurred along these lines, filling the spaces in-between cities.

Disperate/non-linear mass transit system (LA/ California) vs. interoperable/linear mass transit system (metropolitan Japan)

HIgh ? Speed

The new government backed, high speed rail system will redefine the concept of commuting for millions of cal state residents and visitors. The immediate impact of this development will effect the way people work, creating new influx of workers, visitors, and players from across the city boundaries. This will create new platforms for commercial, municipal, and public spaces Strategies for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Play and Workâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; after high speed rail, TeRRAfoRmA

not preordained. There is, however, a predictable developmental pattern and morphology which through inertia and lack of imagination could fall in to place. Our task is to develop new flexible strategies, both locally and globally. These necessarily would link large scale strategies with small scale structures. In this sense, architects are possibly the best equipped to develop these models and make them visible.

Typologies We are interested in extending notions of architectural repetition and regularity. These notions are already inherent to the subject matter, and we will look at alternatives to the standard definitions. The use of typology here enables us to establish aspects of difference in both degree and kind of a series of generic elements. These range in scale from the regional patterns for development of the right-of-way to the scale neighborhoods, down to the scale of stations, guide ways and their building systems. Regularity in architecture should not be a fully discredited notion, in our time. The diversity that is witnessed in complex systems, whether it be in nature or architecture, is dependent not on a perfect irregularity or regularity, but upon sophisticated expression of forces in matter. Further, the elements of these interactions however indifferent to the accidents of form are productive of complex organizations at larger scales. We are intrigued by the idea that projects would exhibit regularity at the macro and micro scales, while incorporating high capacities for differentiation and variability at the middle scales. Proceeding from the general to the specific, we will examine the relationship of the range of typologies associated with the High Speed Rail

Each student or group will begin by researching a design modeling precedent from the list below, and transforming it into crude types capable of the above influences and modulations. Multiples may occur, but each must be represented by at least one student / group in the studio:

1. Cathedral and Great Mosque at Cordoba 2. Venice Hospital (Le Corbusier) 3. Roman Bath (Diocletian, Caracalla,...) 4. Geodesic Dome / Wellington Bomber 5. Konrad Wachsmann Spaceframe 6. Hangar dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Orly (EugĂ¨ne Freyssinet)

The High Speed Rail line and the zone around it will be understood as one great attenuated site (narrow in width and long in length). Traditionally, such right-of-ways and the transportation systems that they carry are at best indifferent and many times violently intrusive of the sites they cross. The imperatives of the engineer, in this case, are focused solely on the internal operationality of the transportation corridor only. We, on the other hand will seek not only to make the system functional, but to actively harness and promulgate the interactions between system and site. The site therefore should be understood to be at once global in its system and character, yet able to interact with the local while at the same moment potentially creating its own internal locales. These demands must be addressed systematically, not only in transportation per se, but conceiving the site, the right-of-way and any construction as participating in an extended organization; integrating and modulating systems of landscape; systems of construction; systems of flow. It is in only repetition that modulation and integration among systems can occur resulting in a robust and flexible solution.

Through the above design research, students will understand formal and organizational relationships that will hold latent architectural potentials to be unlocked by pushing them through the filters of site, context, program, and intention. Each student / group will interrogate the existing planned High Speed Rail Line, its proposed stations and their contingent geographies, and further develop their crude types into actual proposals. Umemoto+Reiser

GSAPP Collected Works | Xterraforma / project description

We will develop a variety of crude typologies associated with the elements of the High Speed Rail development with the understanding that these typologies should display a range of change and capacity for influence in order to be deployed in a highly specific yet flexible manner.

SITES, zones and polemics

predominately regular. The second, and perhaps more profound reason, must deal with the question of regularity itself, both as a philosophical and ultimately as a primary architectural issue.

Program Los Angeles, California United States COORDINATE: 34°03’11.50”W, 118° 14 Floor Area: N/A Height Limit: N/A Zone: N/A

XTERRAFORMA Union Station XTERRAFORMA Microstation XTERRAFORMA Elevated Park XTERRAFORMA Live/Work XTERRAFORMA Promenade

Transportation Hub Train Stops and Terminals Greenroof Public Garden Recreational Park Residential Complex Commercial Space Indoor/outdoor Shopping Center

artic u latio n better urbanism through mobility

*Los Angeles Union Station Exterior

New division of vehicular space including terraforma

New programs for new space created by terraforma

Work

Play

1. Examination of LA/California Rail system vs. the competing high speed rail system in europe and Asia, including disparate/non-linear mass transit system vs. interoperable/linear mass transit system 2. Resolved the need for linear, interoperable, multi-nodal mass transit system with high speed rail as the core opportunities for varieties of flexible nodal/branching/surface system, including architectural, landscape, and infrastructural use. 3. Use of emerging materials and technology for optimal structural efficacy and speed (composite materials with latest generation of magLev technology).

The influx of new travelers will create new platforms for commercial, municipal, and public spaces, as well as opportunities for rigorous expansion of rail infrastructure, from local to citywide developments, including outdoor and indoor spaces, residences and commercial complex, as well as new type of para-permanent urban environment for large, interstate travelers and workers.

Existing rail transportation through Union Station

The new government backed, high speed rail system will redefine the concept of commuting for millions of cal state residents and visitors. The immediate impact of this development will effect the way people work, creating new influx of workers, visitors, and players from across city boundaries. This influx will create new platforms for commercial, municipal, and public spaces, as well as opportunities for rigorous expansion of rail infrastructure, from local to

citywide developments. The influx of new travelers will create new platforms for commercial, municipal, and public spaces, as well as opportunities for rigorous expansion of rail infrastructure, from local to citywide developments, including outdoor and indoor spaces, residences and commercial complex, as well as new type of para-permanent urban environment for large, interstate travelers and workers.

01 xterraforma Rail Conditions | Rail Projections

overpass plus Landscape expansion

Exis

sting road and rail contour initial transformation

GSAPP Collected Works | Xterraforma / typology

+ Existing road and rail contour with landscape

Transformed road and rail contour

Transformed road and rail contour with landscape

A Formal Typologies + Surface Formation for Architectural Space

B Formal Typologies + Surface Articulation for Architectural Space

C Formal Typologies + Surface Formation for Landscape

D Formal Typologies + Combined Landscapes and Architectural Space

B Site elevation + South

C Site elevation + West

GSAPP Collected Works | Xterraforma / typology and site context

A Site elevation + North

D Site elevation + East

02 xterraforma Rail and station FORMATION

A Exterior Body B Primary Structure C Mechanical and Service Ducts

STRUCTURAL PROTOTYPE

D Hybrid Mechanical and Structural System

03 xterraforma A Elevated Landscape

Rail and station FORMATION

B Indoor and Outdoor Architectural Space and Circulation C Sub-Level Architectural Space and Circulation

Envelope PROTOTYPE

04 xterraforma URBAN context

A XTERRAFORMA Union Station B Existing Built Footprints C Existing Roads and Vehicular Circulation D Existing Parcels

exploded site axo

E Xterraforma Rail and Transportation Hub

Northern axis chunk + Mall Level

western axis chunk + Primary Thoroughfare

xterraforma

site context

Site Map

GSAPP Collected Works | Xterraforma / site context

06 xterraforma Exterior views

perspective render

GSAPP Collected Works | Xterraforma / exterior views

07 xterraforma Exterior views

Physical model

GSAPP Collected Works | Xterraforma / physical model

sealtower

SPace, earth, aether, landscape Taiwan Tower Idea Compet ition 2 0 1 1

xm ani f o ld adrl

visual studies: digital craft instructors: david Fano + Joshua uhl An on-going investigation into developing seam-less solution for urban, landscape and architectural system. Emphasis on ecologically driven tectonics, via systematic reduction of physical and local differentiations between landscape, architecture, and local environment. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;S.E.A.L. Towerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was re-modeled, rendered, and presented for Digital Craft Seminar

GSAPP Collected Works | S.E.A.L. Tower for Digital Craft / project description

Stretegies of Representation Computing in architecture has changed methods of representation, retooled construction techniques, and made communication of complex information instantaneous. In this state of ubiquitous computing, the architect is asked to not only grasp these new technologies but to shape them into the built environment. As the edge between the virtual and real become increasingly thin, the architect must not only be proficient in this interactivity, but tool it toward new ideas and potentials that are rife within this expanding territory.

Digital Craft Digital Craft investigates the concepts, techniques, and working methods of computer aided ‘drawing’ in architecture. Students will study the operative relationship between 2d and 3d data, exploring the reaches of their analytic and representational potential. While the class is a foundational course in architectural computing, it will build on the student’s advanced ability to question, shape, and interrogate space and time. The full-semester course will be focused on a project that is generated primarily with the use of Rhinoceros and 3dsMax. After the initial development of a virtual model, we will investigate tools to further the analytic and representational capacity of the data within the model. Studies will be in the form of drawings, physical models, images, and animations. S.E.A.L. TOWER + LAYERED ENVIRONMENTAL SKIN

As a companion to the course lectures, the class will have weekly Tutorial Sessions. Tutorial Sessions are two hour ‘hands-on’ sessions led by the course TAs with the aid of the courses online video tutorials. The tutorials will cover the concepts and techniques covered in the course lecture However, the specific content of the tutorial assignments will only be covered only during the tutorial sessions. Tutorial times will be coordinated with your studio TA/DA and will start the first week of classes.

Requirements for the course -Attendance at the lectures, tutorials, and guest lectures -Tutorial assignments -Posting of all assignments and projects on course website -Submission of archival quality images (2000x1500 pixels) and animation on CD or DVD Grades will be based on the following criteria 10% Completion of the Tutorial Assignments 10% Assignment 01A 20% Assignment 01B 20% Assignment 01C 40% Assignment 01D

Final Images and Animation Recommended Text, Blogs, and Links : Architectural Geometry by Helmut Pottmann, Andreas Asperl, Michael Hofer, Alex Kilian Digital Lighting and Rendering by Jeremy Birn Inside Rhinoceros 4 by Ron K.C. Cheng The Grasshopper Primer – Second Edition by Andrew Payne and Rajaa Issa bldgblog.blogspot.com/ dezeen.com/ evermotion.org 3dtotal.com creativecrash.com

GSAPP Collected Works | S.E.A.L. Tower for Digital Craft / project description

Structure

S.E.A.L. TOWER + LAYERED ENVIRONMENTAL SKIN PROTOTYPE

1 Environmental Layer is essentially a green roof designed for vertical function. Each mesh screen can be custom to carry and grow a specific types plant life including food crops and plants for fuel source including algae and switch grass. The modular mesh provides channels to access plants for harvest and extraction for energy generation. The Environmental Layer irrigated and held by EMS (Environmental, Mechanical, Structural) Tubes.

2 EMS, Environmental, Mechanical, Structural Tubes are hybrid component that combines complete structure to mechanical systems . Tubes runs along the front facade to fasten environmental layer to the building exterior. It also carries mechanical components, including gas, fluid, air, and steam. Lastly, tubes circulates water to the environmental layer for irrigation.

01 S.E.A.L. TOWER Environmental Skin

A S.E.A.L. Environmental Layer for agriculture and greenscape1 B S.E.A.L. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;EMSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kevlar+Carbon Fiber re-enforced steel tubes2 C S.E.A.L. Carbon Fiber Mesh Panels for Environmental layer D S.E.A.L. Galvanized steel hexagon system for structure3

Exploded assembly

E S.E.A.L. Hybrid concrete floors and interiors

GSAPP Collected Works | S.E.A.L. Tower for Digital Craft / Structural logic

3 Versatile Hexagon System provides vertical and horizontal structural support for the skyscraper. Galvanized Steel mesh are attached to each floor using girders. Through hexagon system, both vertical and horizontal loads are distributed equally, minimizing the needs for multiple columns and beam truss system. Lastly, the mesh acts as a panel and mullion system for for glazing and PV cell modules.

02 S.E.A.L. TOWER Assembled Prototype

Physical Model

GSAPP Collected Works | S.E.A.L. Tower for Digital Craft / physical models

03 S.E.A.L. TOWER Exterior views

perspective render

A insensatez Que você fez coração mais sem cuidado Fez chorar de dor o seu amor um amor tão delicado Ah porque você foi fraco assim assim tão desalmado Ah, meu coração quem nunca amou não merece ser amado Vai meu coração ouve a razão usa só sinceridade Quem semeia vento, diz a razão, colhe sempre tempestade Vai meu coração pede perdão perdão apaixonado Vai porque quem não pede perdão não é nunca perdoado Insensatez, a famous *bosa nova song by Antonio Carlos Jobim

Bossa nova is a well-known style of Brazilian music developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s. The phrase bossa nova means literally “New Trend”. A lyrical fusion of samba and jazz, bossa nova acquired a large following in the 1960s initially from young musicians and college students.[2] Since its birth, it remains a vital part of the standard jazz repertoire.

Advance Studio VI

BArra DA MIXTURA studio sangue bom + OPEN PROGRAM FOR RIO BRAZIL Critics KASEMEN & SMITH // TA LEIGH SALEM FALL 2011

Base jumping off Christo statue, Rio de janeiro, Brazil

*Favela Los Pedras

Megamix Rio Unique in the nature, magnitude, complexity, profundity, and diversity built into its infinite intensitiesand cultural varieties Rio de Janeiro is both truly amazing and impossible to suitably describe.. It has been widely broadcast that significant transformation to its deep fabric is inevitable especially with the World Cup of Soccer coming to Brazil in 2014, and the Summer Olympic Games to be hosted by Rio in 2016. That, coupled with Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upward trend towards positive economic development and expanded geopolitical influence, Rio has never been better poised to leverage its distinctive potential against its intrinsic urgencies than it is at this moment. Though how Rioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s myriad challenges, constraints, conflicts, forces, ambitions and interests ultimately interweave over time is yet to be determined, the one sure thing is that the complexity in play is uniquely perplexing at almost every level.

This studio’s pursuits will incisively tap into a host of questions that emerge from the uniquely exciting momentum at hand. For example, what new spatial and urban typologies may emerge from this developmental fervor? Or, how might we participate in imagining potential futures for Rio beyond 2016? To what degree might ideas developed from the outside sincerely mix and expand upon exchange on the inside? What can we as a studio bring to the table to spark and perpetuate such exchange? Specifically geared to inject high levels of architectural imagination and experimentation into the ongoing and varied discourses in Rio de Janeiro regarding its spatial potentials at impactful scales, this studio will navigate a multitude of operational modes in an effort to cultivate questions which would otherwise not be raised, and develop architectural evidence that constructively points to spatial futures not yet imagined for Rio.

BARRA DA TIJUCA Our endeavor will focus on and be fueled by Barra da Tijuca, a vast sector of Rio that eludes comprehensive explanation. Originally planned by Lucio Costa in 1969, Barra’s fabric has been somehow overrun by developer-driven legislation over the past decades, and as a result of this incredibly rapid growth, is now characterized by gated communities, condominium towers, shopping malls and immense automobile congestion, all flanked by an absolutely splendid beachfront to the south and amazing views to tree-covered mountains in all other directions. However, while the description of such a physical fabric may seem all too familiar an infinite multitude of nuanced urban perplexities unique to Rio emerge upon scratching Barra’s surface. Additionally, and as is the case with Rio de Janeiro at large, the challenges

and opportunities tied to the 2014 World Cup and especially the 2016 Olympic Games have thrust Rio into a current state of rapid transformation at an immense urban scale, thus providing both optimism and anxiety with respect to the larger set of possible ramifications at hand.

TERRA ENCANTADA An abandoned amusement park critically located in the geographical center of Barra da Tijuca will serve as engine through which we will develop and project all explorations in this studio. Opened for business in the late 1990s, Terra Encantada (“Enchanted Land”) proved to be both a doomed business model (for various reasons to be discussed in studio), and an incredibly unfortunate source of tragedy: the park ultimately closed after a 61-year old woman lost her life after having been thrown from one of the rides. This recent incident fueled a larger investigation that revealed multiple engineering and maintenance failures, ultimately leading to the closing of the park. Terra Encantada has sat dormant for the most part since then, except for its use as a set-location for a Brazilian soap-opera and other miscellaneous purposes. Now, this surreal 170,000m2 ghost-town peppered with amusement rides and eclectic architectural hints on its Main Street (including references to, of all places, Centre Pompidou!), is poised for a complete re-birth, this time as a massive development project in response to the immensely complex financial and zoning pressures inherent to Barra at large. As such, Terra Encantada signifies the first true second-generation large-scale project in Barra da Tijuca since its rapid urban expansion described above. Additionally, Terra Encantada’s geographical situation adds immense intrigue to the exploration of urban and spatial issues at hand in this studio trajectory

OPERATION BARRA MEGAMIX sets out to develop new exploratory opportunities through a customized collaborative and multi- disciplinary working model – a new studio paradigm. Exercising the positively charged network that has been cultivated through Studio-X Rio, boosted by a team of special interdisciplinary GSAPP forces, OPERATION BARRA MEGAMIX is

OPERATION BARRA MEGAMIX weaves together an Advanced Architecture Studio (Studio Sangue Bom) with a small but diverse fleet of independentstudy GSAPP research projects, such that all participants may exploit the positive momentum built into this endeavor towards specific areas of research and interest. By intensively tapping into our vast network or resources, friends and colleagues in Rio, we will collectively set out to develop incisive, constructive and inventive projects and provocations that may infect and inform work developed within Studio Sangue Bom, and vice-versa. Ultimately our goal is to spark new forms of collaborative support and resistance through a highly fluid operational exchange model (see below) in order to deliver a diverse package of productive “goods” to Rio, including analyses, reports, case-studies and other forms of compiled documentation. As such, we are not setting out to enforce cohesion between all efforts. Rather, we intend to facilitate a wide-reaching collection of newly formed spatial questions and insights surrounding Barra da Tijuca’s current state and potential futures, such that our critical imaginations may prompt productive exchange and varied discourse upon delivery to Rio. In preparation for this unprecedented endeavor, a hand-picked team traveled to Rio for an incisive reconnaissance workshop from June 24 to July 1, 2011. As each team member was pre-loaded with various degrees of intimate experience with Rio’s diverse fabric, we were able to hit the ground running and gained immeasurable insight. A comprehensive

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / project description

OPERATION BARRA MEGAMIX

essentially a highly charged collaborative framework geared to spark a multitude of interests and research pursuits explored in parallel and intermingled across a collective thrust.

- its proximity to the 2016 Olympic Village, the Yellow-Line (the major freeway that connects Rio’s North Zone to Barra), two of the largest lakes in Rio and the primary crossroads in Barra, etc. In short, Barra da Tijuca is a wild mix of pros and cons like no other, comprised and perpetuating a series of perplexities that continue to baffle planners and architects alike, and Terra Encantada is in the heart of it all. As OPERATION BARRA MEGMIX sets out to develop spatial questions and responses that have yet to be imagined, there is no lack of investigative fuel embedded in our site and region of focus! Further woven into the incredible exploratory potential at hand, we are in a privileged position for our insight to be boosted by EBX, a group of Brazilian companies immensely invested in both Rio and elsewhere in Brazil. Founded and presided over by Eike Batista, one of the most influential entrepreneurs at global scales, EBX has recently acquired the property of Terra Encantada and is spearheading its redevelopment. An enthusiastic supporter of Studio-X Rio, Mr. Batista has opened up his team to provide ours with knowledge and support that will uniquely contribute to the cloud of issues through which this studio will navigate. Perhaps most exciting for this studio, participants within our mix will have the opportunity to present their work to Batista’s team, putting experimental projects on the table with those at the forefront of largescale development in Rio.

STUDIO SANGUE BOM Studio Sangue Bom enters its fourth mission focused on Rio with OPERATION BARRA MEGAMIX. Launched in the spring of 2009 by Keith Kaseman and Raul Corrêa Smith, the driving force behind its thrust is an ambition to cultivate and deliver spatial questions to Rio that would otherwise not be raised or explored. Through a working atmosphere imbued with various channels for cultural exchange and agile approaches to the exploration and development of ideas, we are fortunate to have sparked, sustained and perpetuated a multitude of varied dialogues within a vast web of partners, friends, colleagues and other curious Cariocas, always regarding potential futures imagined for Rio. (Sangue Bom = “Good Blood”)

STUDIO-X RIO Located in the heart of Rio Centro, Studio-X Rio is among the most recent cultural spaces to open on the historically significant Praca Tiradentes in quite some time. Integral to the transformative potential at hand within Rio Centro and the city at large, Studio- X Rio has gained significant momentum as a robust participant in re-thinking Rio. Symposia, exhibitions, mixing sessions, lectures, pop-up events and other forms

Specifically geared to inject high levels of architectural imagination and experimentation into the ongoing and varied discourses in Rio de Janeiro regarding its spatial potentials at provocative scales, through multitude of operational modes in

synopsis of our research will be compiled for the kick-off to the Fall 2011 semester – it will be geared to get all participants (studio participants, independent-study students, associated advisors, special guests) up to speed regarding an array of pertinent issues and topics tied to Barra da Tijuca.

MISSION [New Urban & Spatial Typologies for Barra da Tijuca] SITE [Terra Encantata] Our studio trajectory will be characterized by 3 distinct phases of work and exploration, PHASE I will involve an obsessive and systematic development of spatial / programmatic mixes on our site, developed with rigorous play through a host of primarily manually-driven techniques. While we will initially kick into action in a productive vacuum with respect to site inputs, adjacent forces and parameters will be injected into the work as projective scenarios develop and accumulate. Students will work individually to build up a catalog of resources to be exploited and / or questioned by the collective group. PHASE II involves a six-day exchange oriented and research / reconnaissance immersion in Rio (see below). In PHASE III we will shift gears into strategic modes of scenario development and analysis, in parallel with the modes of exploration that we will maintain from the initial thrust of PHASE I. Through this phase of exploration and work, we will inject automated and parametric techniques into the mix in order to develop new maps of insight(s), with which architectural and urban projections may respond, and vice-versa.

Kaseman+Correa-Smith

STUDIO OPERATIONS

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / project description

of exchange signify Studio-X Rio as both a place and an endeavor geared to incubate productive exchange and innovative thinking on multiple levels. We are privileged to embark upon OPERATION BARRA MEGAMIX with special Studio-X funding and support.

Program Barra Da Tijuca Rio De janeiro, Brazil COORDINATE: 22° 59’57.84”S, 43° 21’56.75”W Floor Area: N/A Height Limit: N/A Zone: N/A

BRT Terminal Gondola Stop/Tower Mix-use Low rise Towers Public Forum/Event Center Mix-use High rise Towers

BRT Stops Gondola Stops Ticketing Booth Transportation Terminal Outdoor space with seating Outdoor Theater Outdoor Performance Space Semi-Outdoor space for Kiosks Indoor Shopping Mall

mediatio n Sambas and stories from rio

*Favelas at Barra

Favelas close to inland in Barra da Tijuca

View from a private home in a heavily gated affluent neighborhood near costal areas in Barra da Tijuca

In the inner city, in favelas, public and social activities take place on the streets. In the newly developed suburbs, high rise apartments, and inclusive gated communities, all activities takes place within; behind walls, gates, and guard posts. There is a tremendous undercurrent of Rio populations, not only the affluent populous, but low income and impoverished pop as well, pushing for greater development of security measures for their homes and communities. Electrified fence, armed guards, and presence of military police are a reminder of Rioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turbulent past and persistence with drugs, crimes, and gangs. However, statics reveal a sharp decline in violent crimes over the past several years along with eradication of much of the gang activities in Favelas. With the additional pressure from the federal government to curb crime rates, in preparation for 2014 Olympics, Brazil is witnessing a landmark in their intervention against crime. Despite this new

The Site~Abandoned Amusement Park, Barra da Tijuca

trend, fervor over personal safety, protection, and gated communities have only garnered greater affluence. A recent tour of key sites in urban, suburban, and impoverished communities in Rio reveals an interesting phenomenon: a genuine ownership of the street by the resident is taking place in inner cities and favelas, where social activities weaves deeply into streets and public activities such as street concerts and festivities takes on independent

authorship without authoritative intervention. The rich and the newly affluent are eager to author their own public/private space with aspirations toward greater homogeneity and isolation (from the outside). Despite this polarizing trend, the Brazilians love of soccer, beach, and Samba dancing perpetually lends the people of all class, race, and gender a common ground. If 2 groups of people who are otherwise separated each other through different use of public space,

01 BARRA DA MIXTURA FAVELA TO LAPA TO DOWNTOWN

DEMOGRAPHICS mix

A design of truly hybrid space, indoor/outdoor, artificial/ natural, horizontal/vertical, exclusive/inclusive, common/ separate space for interchange, exchange, and communication between all residents of Rio. Instead of sharp, contrasting grouping of space, the program will be mixed together through gradual connection between different programs, building materials, colors, and textures.

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / project description

How will the 2 groups take ownership of another kind of public space with shared social activities?

a genuine ownership of the street by the resident is taking place in inner cities and favelas, where social activities weaves deeply into streets and public activities such as street concerts and festivities takes on independent authorship without authoritative intervention.

02 BARRA DA MIXTURA Spatial Typologies

A Carved-Out Space through Boolean Operation B Fiberous Space through Weaving C Ramps through Meshing D Envelope through cross hatching

Physical Models

E Thoroughfare through Boolean Operation

A High Speed Rail through the interior B Vertical and Horizontal access for interior C Ramp/Escalator/Stairs

03 BARRA DA MIXTURA Spatial Typologies

D Partially enclosed envelope E Vertical and Horizontal access for exterior

Digital Prototype of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fun houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Mixtura | “The Superbox” the Interplay House version 1

04 BARRA DA MIXTURA Megabox megamix

the superbox

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / MIXTURA V.1

Site Strategies | SITE CONTEXT SHOWING EXISTING TRANSIT SYSTEM

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / potential new traffic and circulation

05 BARRA DA MIXTURA maximize junction for mixing

BUILDING SPACE TO STREET RATIO

3 forces are at play. Mass transit made up of Gondola, and BRT Bus line, street vendors, and high end shopping and leisure space. BRT is used by favela and low-middle class residents while gondolas are used by both, the affluent and the poor. Street vendors are visited by the favela residents while high end shops are used exclusively by affluent citizens. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mixturaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is essentially an urban game, designed to increase possibilities for both group of residents to enter into play together by direct and indirect interventions of architectural forces through gradient mixing of different typologies.

2 BRT + 1 Gondola

0 BRT + 1 Gondola

1 BRT + 1 Gondola

Mixtura A

Mixtura B No BRT Lines Gondola Line at the center Vehicular Parking below the Gondola Stop Unevenly distributed high end space Evenly distributed street Low to minimum mixing possibilities

MIXTURA T

MIXTURA B

MIXTURA C

MIXTURA D

Mixtura C

Single BRT Line on the opposite edge Gondola Line on the opposite edge of BRT Line Vehicular Parking between Gondola and BRT Line Unevenly distributed high to low end space Evenly distributed street Low mixing possibilities

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / STREET TO SPACE RATIO

Two BRT Lines on the opposite edge Gondola Line at the center Vehicular Parking below the Gondola Stop Evenly distributed high to low end space Evenly distributed street Middle to high mixing possibilities

Mixtura D Single BRT Line on the opposite edge Gondola Line on the opposite edge of BRT Line Vehicular Parking below the Gondola Stop Unevenly distributed low to high end space Evenly distributed space Low mixing possibilities

Gondola Stop

Rooftop Garden

Outdoor Theater

Main Level Arcade

Sky Light

Internet Cafe

Cross Training Path

Sublevel BRT Line

Upper Level Gallery

Vehicular Access

Concierge Service

Cross Training Ramp

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / ‘Interplayhouse’ BMX transit hub and public center [ section ]

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / ‘Interplayhouse’ BMX transit hub and public center [ roof plan ]

creative typologies | RENDERED IMAGES OF A SINGLE SECTION OF THE MIXTURA

GSAPP Collected Works | Studio Sangue Bom / ‘Interplayhouse’ BMX transit hub and public center

creative typologies | RENDERED IMAGES OF INTERIOR OF INTERPLAYHOUSE

cthlu

Cinematic representation Ordinar y v iew , extraord inar y perception

xm ani f o ld adrl

visual studies: Faking it instructor: JOn Szot To create a live able, believable distortion to reality, you must pay utmost attention to the smallest details. Architects distort reality to create false or speculative sens of space in their designs. This perception is given, therefor, the audience to architectural reality expects and sometime, demands fantastic and physics defying perspective, lights, and space. For this visual studies exercise, we shall turn our attention toward a deliberate and real distortion of perceived space, so we can begin to understand what we can perceive what we normally do not see or imagine.

distortion | Animated models of lurking bush

GSAPP Collected Works | CTHLU / CINEMATIC REPRESENTATION

distortion | Animated models of cthlu

GSAPP Collected Works | CTHLU / CINEMATIC REPRESENTATION

theRockwall

pARTS TO wHOLE

Freef orm, parametr ic su rf ace and panels

D i m i t ri Ki m / Mat t Ce lm e r / Sc o t t Chung Ge o rg e D o li dze

visual studies: Rethinking BIM instructor: mark Green The Rockwall attempts to establish a fully 3-dimensional (XYZ), parametric wall components with parameters for variation in panelization (external skin) and parameters for variations in wall shapes. The concept for the project is derived from hybrid of the Golden pattern found in sunflowers and freeform shapes such as rock climbers wall.

Building information model | Parametrically linked support frame for the wall

GSAPP Collected Works | The Rockwall / building information model

Building information model | Exploded Assembly

01 ROCK WALL PARTS TO WHOLE

A Rubberized Polymer Grip B Pre-Cast Concrete Wall Surface C Steel Structure D Assembled Rockwalll Module

Exploded assembly

E Rockwalll Module on Site

GSAPP + GSAPP Collected Collected WorksWorks | The|Rockwall The Rockwall / building / digital information model model

soniccouture

modular sound absorbers Analog sy nt hes is D i m i t ri Ki m / P ao la Ec he g aray / She rry Yang

visual studies: parametric realizations instructors: bridgette borders, mark berek Using analog techniques to produce digitally based physical models using rhino, grasshopper, and traditional sowing methods. The end result is an unpredictable variations of a normally highly calculated approach.

Spatial Typologies Methods and process | Iterations | From digital through prototype physical to models hand-made constructions

GSAPP Collected Works | Sonic Couture / Final Model

wasp

manifold tesselation f inicky geometry di m i t ri KI m / Re za Zi a / Mi che lle Ku / Jo o ri Sh im

visual studies: Beyond Prototype instructor: Jason Paul Ivaliotis MANIFOLD: A surface with many different parts or forms, in particular; mathematics a collection of points forming a certain kind of set, such as those of a topologically closed surface or an analog of this in three or more dimensions. tessellation: to cover (a plane surface) by repeated use of a single shape, without gaps or overlapping.

Module prototype | Folds. tessellations, porosity, and cavity

GSAPP Collected Works | wasp / procedures

fabricated prototype | Transformative modules in various modes

GSAPP Collected Works | wasp / 1 to 1 fabricated prototype with plexi and steel hardware

Advance Studio VII

allegory of the tanks infrastructure architecture Critics michael bell // TA zak kostura + chad konrad spring 2012

Oxychem vinyl manufacturing unit showing pressurized 02 gas chamber, Houston TX

*Rothko Chappell in Houston, TX

chemical emission The studio will seek new proposals for a 2-mile long segment of Navigation Boulevard as it parallels the Houston Ship Channel, in Houston, Texas. Our work will re-examine a history of infrastructural and architectural planning where the integration of architecture and infrastructure was understood to be near total, meaning, that full precincts of cities were designed as one. We will study several infrastructural scale works of architecture and urbanism in German and France at mid century and explore what new options exist to again imagine works that fuse the two scales. Abstract: The cleft between architecture and infrastructure in the United States has long meant that the deep resources of the public sector invested in infrastructure have rarely affected architectural design in any significant way. Housing, retail, commercial spacesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is, buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is almost universally an adjunct of infrastructure and segregate from its means, methods or materials.

Economy of scale It is the financial segregation that seems today to be urgently in need of change: the public invests immense sums in its infrastructure, collectively owning roads, rights of way, materials and productive instruments that often bear little value on architecture and that are in essence under-utilized. Surely roads are full, and traffic congestion is the standing crisis of forty years, but there are also vast amounts of the built environment that were funded and constructed at immense sums that today are often dormant. Space beside, above or next to infrastructure often stands empty foregoing the ability of infrastructure to bear and sustain new architectural and development even as this capacity is immense. Whole categories of architectural and urban theory have emerged to address these spaces in the past half century: from Ignasi de Solà-Morales theories on “terrain vague” to newly pragmatic forms of operational efficiency or performance we has seen these spaces as valuable because they are both less or more productive. Useless or useful. Today, the large scale urban project faces a social and political (if not practical) divide: the segregation of public and private funds, spaces and protocols of architecture vs. infrastructure makes the large scale project almost impossible even as immense scales of investment are made. Forming a parallel city of everyday life that is latent with capacities but often devoid of development. It is a segregate world of two types of spending: trillions of dollars produces myriad infrastructures that in their simultaneous but divided means stand apart from architecture and its often urban ambitions. Infrastructure and architecture are separate legal and spatial entities. What is possible if you begin to fuse the capacities of infrastructure and architecture?

At the time of its design and construction The Berlin Free University by the architects Candilis-Josic- Woods did not overtly reveal the vulnerability or doubt that the architects were facing about the scale and social ambition of their work. In the mid 1960ʼs as the housing project at Toulouse le Mirail was under construction—halfway completed—Candilis expressed his doubts about how long the development for 20,000 people was taking and how centralized the control over its design was. Faced with criticism from both within and without the Team X group there was a sense that the work of the groupʼs work was being realized with too much top down control. Realized by state organizations and of a scale that was often immense the project at Toulouse could be re-cast as counter to the ideals of the emergent and self- organizing social life that the architects imagined. In 1968 Aldo Van Eyck, an important member of Team X, and architect and professor at Delft University, was called a “lackey of capitalism” by student: Toulouse-Le Mirail was ten years into its design and execution: it now served 20,000 people—and according to Candilis could now be examined to gage how this experience had turned out and how their relationship to the political environment was effecting the work and people’s lives. The histories of Team X are often re-analyzed, especially in the realm of housing, but the more private histories of how the architects saw their own work as it emerged reveals a self imposed critique of scale, and especially control that pre-seeded later forms of post-modernism or renewed forms of existentialism: critical forces that dominated the intellectual milieu of schools in the 70ʼs and 80ʼs and that constructed how an architect viewed their own forms of control but also their engagement and ability to alter the forms of power that shaped their work. Today, its possible to claim a new generation has eagerly sought new modes of engagement with finance, with power, in part because we use computation

Post Apprehension: Fear of Planning is Total: No Zoning This studio will take a pivotal example of a divided city of immense means and parallel formation. The Houston Ship Channel and its immediate surrounding development will serve as our case study for exploring how urban infrastructure can fuse with or support new architectural development. The site in Texas serves as an indicator of how United States investment in infrastructure (from freeways to water supply to shipping) often is immense but is virtually un-coordinated and thus poorly situated to offer efficiency in new development. It essentially does very little to actually support housing or architectural development. Mobility and housing account for a tremendous amount of household income today, and the Houston site is a key zone where new design is urgently needed. Affordable housing in the United States in this case becomes specific to Southeast Texas but more so specific to how housing affordability is based in issues of transit and energy but also new forms of materials science and construction. The fragmented landscape was made with careful attention to materials and money. At the Detroit Economic Club in 1944 the Secretary of the Treasury

Michael Bell, Infrastructure

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / project description

The case of Navigation Boulevard

What then for architecture, which attempts to organize material-to shape space, to organize social life and to enter into the highest levels of civic/political, thought? Can it persist in such a realm, can it compete with modes of efficiency in finance. Or does it have options to become less persistent meaning less materially boundor less tied to plastic or tectonic organizations of space as derived from organized materialâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from modes of form

to abet a more responsive and emergent means to work in immense scales while not demonstrating a top down form of control. That is architects seems to have come full circle in having recoiled from immense works and the social aspects of their scale but have returned to this arena again in part knowing we have no choice. Housing in this light is poised to be renewed as an academic and professional project and its future financial securityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;its securitizationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; requires that it be new because the older forms are not stable enough to sustain investment. At least not sound investment.

described a need for ten billion dollars a year in exported goods if the U.S. expected full employment after the war. During the 1940’s, after the signing of the Bretton Woods Treaty a new United States landscape that was driven with a new level of integration of the duel mechanisms of production and finance. Production was understood through a lens of efficiency; while finance advanced towards the forms of structured leverage that are now common (and in crisis). Yet both finance and production still operated at local levels despite the international trade. Nations were largely segregate economically even if connected and the relationship of materials, goods, products and labor were partitioned into relatively local zones. They would of course become increasingly connected—and connected. You could call this the ductile era: the spectacle of cities, commerce, development, and jobs revealed itself in a tensioned constellation of cities—in the lights at night photograph above. While a common attribute of this new landscape was a United States that could no longer provide full employment without exporting what it produced it was still a United States based in material and labor. The country was deterritorialized by labor and economic issues but still a producer of hard goods— material economics.

deterritorialization Today this equation is virtually reversed—it is finance that seems to have driven production and while material is still the final equation of presence — material itself is sited at the final of many tiered steps— tranches— (far away from the real motivation which is virtually finance itself). Material is inevitable but if it can be isolated from the production of surplus all the better. So too actual labor or a paying customer. Is there an architectural result that would not critique this at its philosophical Patrochemical refinery

A B C D

Vinyl Foundry Loft Petroleum Art Institute Houston Chemical Co-Op Music Hall

Program Open loft style Residence Plastic Formwork studio Design Studio Art Gallery for Plastic Art, design, and product Miniature Petroleum Processing Factory Office Outdoor Gallery Space Design and craft workshop Conference Center

highlight Native to interpretive typology Innotations to connotations Internal to external morphology

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / project description

Led by Professor Michael Bell, this work will tie in with Bell’s research and design for the 2012 Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream.” During this project, Bell has lead a research team of engineers, social scientists, and real estate developers in studying how Tampa, and its small neighboring city of Temple Terrace, can provide new housing models to a constituency that is still reliant on cars for travel and mobility but who increasingly realize they must create newly dense walking areas of the city to diminish the cost of mobility as well as the cost of cooling private dwellings.

Project typography

Historically, the architect and the engineer often worked in sequence, but today architects, engineers and a wide range of technical consultants often work with near simultaneous and immediate engagement and each affects the other at fundamental levels. More so, new levels of engagement in materials science and environmental engineering move the foundations of design and innovation to a technical level that dramatically changes the horizon for both practice and education, instigating a change in how industry, practice and academia engage each other.

The Americans Drive-in movieDetroit, 1955: Taking the inside spectacle outside. The movies offered the car as a new seat; the outdoor nap seems destitute by comparison or perhaps mildly disorienting.

level: that is, not criticize. Research supported by the Vinyl Institute (VI) and situated within the wider network of its partners who work in infrastructure materials will focus on the need in the United States for affordable housing and in particular the potential relation of housing to infrastructure where mass transit is lacking. The studio research and design focus will propose new alternative forms of housing that are integrated into new infrastructure investment in ways that fuse the financial and formal aspects of housing and infrastructure; they will propose a new form of urban living and transportation that takes infrastructure and the significant public investment and ownership of infrastructure as its basis.

Program houston, lone star United States COORDINATE: 24°45’32.32”N, 95°20’10.11”W Floor Area: None Height Limit: None Zone; no zoning requirement in texas

Vinyl Foundry Loft Petroleum Art Institute Houston Chemical Co Op Turntable Academy

Open loft style Residence Plastic Formwork studio Design Studio Art Gallery Petroleum Processing Factory Outdoor Gallery Space Design and craft workshop Conference Center Office Outdoor Performance space Indoor Concert Space Basement Concert Space

alleg o ry domesticating industrial landscape

*UNIon Chemical factory Exterior, Houston, TX

Mapping ‘habitable’ fronts within Houston shipping channel and industrial complex

Made to seem legitimate as the new master architect, or made to seem illegitimate as “Dirty Harry” or ironic later day post modern architect Gehry became the privately left publicly right architect: working for the rich private client and institution Gehry was accused by Mike Davis of becoming the Dirty Harry of architecture. His Frances Howard Goldwyn Regional Branch Library was seen by Davis as providing: “15-foot security walls of stucco-covered concrete block... anti-graffiti barricades covered in ceramic tile... sunken entrance protected by ten-foot steel stacks... stylized sentry boxes perched precariously on each side.”

Ubiquitous chemical and industrial landscape

The drive or demands for computational integration and platforms is often substantiated by way of cost savings or efficiency or higher levels of risk aversion and control. But it also constitutes a deeper drive in architecture and engineering—something note entirely new—to understand “what is now”— what is occurring in materials, in assemblies, in our work.

What are the conditions: what is the weather, the temperature and the climate within material; within the spaces formed by material; within the economics of the materials. This is a new level of awareness that nonetheless may reflect century old problems of addressing risk, addressing the unseen.

recontextulization | Oxy College of Design + From Shipping Container Transport Dock

Recontextualization Figural to Metaphorical

How do we begin to reconcile the displacement between habitat, industry, and the environment? If Industry holds supremacy over habitat, how do we mediate domesticity, artistry, and play? Metaphorical to allegorical interpolation of landscape Industrial types as the new iconic types of Houston

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / project description

recontextulization | Oxy College of Design + From Shipping Container Transport Dock

Partial architectural systems via surface modulations / perspective

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / OXYCHEM COLLEGE OF DESIGN

recontextulization | Technics Playhouse

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / technics audio playhouse

recontextulization | Technics Playhouse

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / technics audio playhouse - Exterior to interior

recontextulization | Petroleum Art Institute

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / Petroleum Art Institute

recontextulization | Petroleum Art Institute

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / Vinyl Factory Loft

recontextulization | Vinyl Factory Loft

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / VINY FOUNDARY LOFT - interior

recontextulization | Oxychemical Creative Campus

GSAPP Collected Works | Allegory of the Tanks / VINY FOUNDARY LOFT - Exterior

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should naturally suppose that a nation in distress would take counsel with the wisest of its sons. But, on the contrary, great men seem never so scarce as when they are most needed, and small men never so bold to insist on infesting place, as when mediocrity and incapable pretence and sophomoric greenness, and showy and sprightly incompetency are most dangerous. Fraud, falsehood, trickery, and deceit in national affairs are the signs of decadence in States and precede convulsions or paralysis. â&#x20AC;?

Morals and Dogma, General Albert Pike

fin Recent Works from 2011-2012