Yasmin Goulding Metropolis Future 100

Yasmin Goulding

Expose

Location : Philadelphia, PA Fall 2021

Proffesor : Daniel Markiewicz

Elevation (above) | Aerial (right)

Our project embodies the interaction between the natural and the manufactured through 3 elements of design:

Our plan is influenced by city organization, our materials by the native environment. The ambience is influenced by how humans, in various states of undress, might interact with the bare environment.

We first looked at the opposing approaches to garden organization in traditional French and English design. While the French imposes an order and geometry to the natural environment, the English style opts to mimic nature, to work with it instead of against it. The site is a swath of wild parkland nestled within a larger cosmopolitan grid, so we determined to incorporate both attitudes towards garden design in our scheme.

The interactions of existing bedrock and built stone-paneled walls create spaces that vary in intimacy so that our guests, as nude as they choose to be, can find a place within our world where they feel comfortable and at peace.

In collaboration with Michaela Dawe

Interior Pool (top) | Axon (bottom) | Wing Pool (left)

Outlook (top) | Wing pool (bottom) | Plan and Section (left)

Altered Perspective

Location : West Philadelphia, PA Spring 2021

Proffesor : Annete Fierro

Teatro Olimpico, famous for it’s forced perspectival performance space, creates a moment where the stage becomes the street, and vantage point determines the performance derived from interaction within the space. Through this applied notion, perception of space is falsyfied to create a catalog of moments initating scaling profiles cutting through space, and section qualaties of the facade condition. Depending on the profiles axis, context, and power they transform the environment, igniting different sites of intervention that occur within the marketspace and how these cuts extend across the site.

These three spaces are tied together through a central perspectival pathway that lies upon the track level, the majority of the building mass is lifted to the existing platform level and many forms of egress start your venture up to the platform. Resting on the ground plan there is immediate access to the office space and transportation hub, the greenhouse egress will feed from the east end of the site where 3 cores bring you to each growth platform. Upon the platform level you begin to see the perspecival pathways that are cut through the track and across the site. Roots and vegetables grow in the greenhouse while the platform space in connection with it allows casual performance to be viewed from the tiered seating in the eastern corner. The market level bridges what is grown in the greenhouse and how it is sold in the stands of the market, within the space there is many opportunities for tasting and experiencing the many different cultural foods represented within the space.

cut-away axonometric focuses on the connection between the three public common spaces and their accesibility

Enterance (top) | Track plan (top) | Ground Plan (bottom)

Resting on the ground plan there is immediate access to the office space and transportation hub, the greenhouse egress will feed from the east end of the site where 3 cores bring you to each growth platform. Upon the platform level you begin to see the perspecival pathways that are cut through the track and across the site.

Market Plan (above) | Market (right)

The market level bridges what is grown in the greenhouse and how it is sold in the stands of the market, within the space there is many opportunities for tasting and experiencing the many different cultural foods represented within the space. From there any food not sold in market will be taken to the food pantry located to the bottom of the plan. Here resources can be given back to the community.

Vendors outside the community would still have the ability to sell in the space but would be taxed at a higher rate. The Market booths would be very informal, during the summer the booths could be wheeled outside to the lot behind the greenhouses. food vendors would also be set up during the evening. The market will act as an ethnic hub sharing culture with the community, the types of vegetables, fruits, herbs, roots grown in the greenhouses will be dependent on the cultural makeup of the community and what they feel is needed. The marketplace and dining space becomes a learning experience in itself, exposing other members of the community and outsiders to their experiences and flavors.

Dining (above) | Greenhouse and Ampitheatre (below) | Site Axonometric (right)

Acting as three independent spaces that provide for each other. The three greenhouses will be accessible to the community based on residency in the area, community members will be issued access passes to work in the gardens. By establishing children’s plots within the garden and invite young people within the community to participate. Also considering marketing the youth plots to local scout troops, day cares, foster grandparent programs, and church groups to increase the number of people in the garden and decrease the amount of time it is vacant. The harvest of these crops would be accessible to any member who partakes in the work put into the gardens.

Longitudinal Section (below)

Graduate | University of Pennsylvania

Dichronic Microscopy

Location : Philadelphia, PA Fall 2020

Proffesor : Danielle Willems

Chamber Layers (above) | Axonometric Rendering (right)

When viewing a slide under a microscope there can be significant divide between molecules. This molecular framing creates a single molecule which can be interpreted as an object. Through research of tesselation of the rectified prism, the fram between each point creates a divide between the next object. The result is a series of hexagonal rectified tesselations acting on the artifacts at different scales and orientations.

By using the faces of the tesselations in some instances as discronic glass, optical differences can occur on the chambers exterior surface. This bubbling can create warping and distancing of the view of the artifacts, while still being within the viewport. This creates a more personal interaction with the media. Forcing the viewer to only recieve glimspes of the surfaces condition from the exterior, while creating an intimate viewing platform from within the chamber.

In collaboration with Emily Shaw & Carrick Reider

Swatches (top left) | Elevation (bottom left) | Site Axonometric (top right) | Plan (bottom right)

The chamber has three openings in it, allowing for continual circulation of patrons, the vessels are places at eye level, or lower to create different interpretations of the objects through the discronic surface. The tesselation blurs the perception of where that is, while also creating light distortions across the surface.

Detail (top left) | Section (bottom left) | Axonometric (right)

In geometry, a rectified prism (also rectified bipyramid) is one of an infinite set of polyhedra, constructed as a rectification of an n-gonal prism, truncating the vertices down to the midpoint of the original edges. This creates infinite posibilities in the organization of the prisms. Upon the surface of the tesselation rests randomized mirrored pieces. This helps the discronic matierial that is blown out to mimick the effect of bubbles. The discronic shell becomes denser in certain instances rendering the geometry fluid, in these situations, the surface takes on a natural layering of serverak discronic materials. The section showcases how the artifacts can be nested not only inside each tesselation, but can rest upon the mirrored surface for a more strategic view.

Calcitic Natures

Location : Lower Manhatten, NYC Fall 2021

Proffesor : Hina Jamelle

Nested between the giants of Lower Manhatten rests a late 18th century relic of the old New York. Guided by its sliver of a site, it peers toward the excitement of a new city. The building makes for the most of its placement creating a unique relationship as it hugs the corner, that it now shares with the fulton center. The arched windows that control each bay width determent the extent of the figures that will rise off of the existing building. The arch is inverted and pools space just about the threshold of the existing facade.

These bundled created by the existing facades overal symmetry creates clusters of unit types, alongside pooling of common space shelters from the bustling city. Through research devulged from the clustering of various stalagmite formations, the building takes on characteristics that create clustering of unit types, as well the spaces nested within. Acts of layering, clustering, and gravatation can be seen through the surface qualities of the new facade.

In collaboration with Monte Reed

Plan (top left) | Formations of Unit type (top right) | Stalactite Study (bottom right)

Stalactite Formations

Stalactite Analysis Interrelationship Analysis Formation Diagram

Branch of Opportunity

Location : Lower Manhatten, NYC Fall 2021

Proffesor : Hina Jamelle

Elevation Strategy (top left) | 3D Section (right)

The proposed addition programatically and formally drapes into and onto the existing Corbin Building. The design uses the techniques of draping and overlapping to graft the new and existing together. The technique of overlapping in plan uses circulation, openings and context to find moments of opportunity to drape the new housing units into the existing Corbin floorplan. When cross-referencing with the elevation diagram, the relationship bewteen the original detailing and proposed tectonics become more clear. The addition is required to react and drape along the original building elementswhile the addition begins to influence the Corbin building through the heavy draping elements.

The new addtion overtakes the auxilary circulation building, to the North and adjacent to the Corbin building in order to capture important program space, circulatory/egress space and Manhattan sight lines. With the Manhattan context in mind, infill site constraints and density being major design priorities; overtaking the auxilary building and draping in and onto the Corbin building allows the design to graft to the Corbin and increase its presense by vertically rising to meet with its lower Manhattan context. Draping and overlapping the Corbin building allows the design to decrease circulation space, innovatively re-use a historic building connected to a transit hub, create unique relationships bewteen spaces/tenants through spatial and facade overlapping techniques and define a new identity for the financial distrcit by grafting bespoke contemporary design with a very unique New York City historical landmark.

Perspective (above) | Building Section (right)

The plan showcases the characteristics of bundling that are pulled through the section. As the units become smaller near the bottom of the building, the formations within the facade of the building bundle. This creates unique niches within the public commons. Acting as dining nooks and armours in the top floors, and becoming clusters of shelving within the public commons. Creating a tranquil undertow to the bustling exterior of NYC.

Sixth Floor Plan (top left) | Detail View (top right) | Elevational Perspective (bottom right)

Kissing Correlation

Location : Philadelphia, PA Fall 2020

Professor : Danielle Willems

Details of the Kiss (above and to the right)

Sylvia Lavin’s book ‘Kissing Architecture’ articulates a new relationship between the interior and exterior boundaries. “Kissing confounds the division between two bodies, temporarily creating new definitions of threshold that operate through suction and slippage rather than delimitation and boundary” (Lavin 36). Kissing when initiated in my work begins to perform topological inversions, renders geometry fluid, interrupts how faces and facades communicate, also substituting affect and force for representation and meaning. This is defined as how the size of spaces allows for the “squeeze”.

These ideas of the kiss are articulated on the interior through creasing and movement. But also through contrasting the interior and exterior geometries by creating a softened outer membrane. This wraps the links to soften the creases to a more fluid form. Allowing moments of slippage that engage the links with circulation space that exists between the fluid form and the linked form.

The relationship between the links is redefined by smoothing the seams, thus creating an infinite loop of program that expresses the seams through separation of interior spaces. Forcing the viewer throughout the links. The creases between linkage defines moments of rest. It is characterized by a consistency of movement and distracting forms of attention.

Interior Stair Detail (above) | Enterance (bottom left) | Portal View (bottom right) | Explode Axon (right)

Details of the Kiss (above and to the right)

The links now engage in the motion of the kiss, slipping between each other and softening the crease to create larger, more obscure links. These ideas of the kiss are articulated on the interior through creasing and movement. Sylvia Lavin’s book ‘Kissing Architecture’ articulates a new relationship between the interior and exterior boundaries. “Kissing confounds the division between two bodies, temporarily creating new definitions of threshold that operate through suction and slippage rather than delimitation and boundary” (Lavin 36).

Chunk (below) | Elevations (left)

The drip that emerges from the links dribbles down the form obscuring the identity of what a link is. Cascading across the facade it informs apertures and begins to initiate walkable space within the site. The contrast of the hard linkage against the reflective drippage, renders the geometry fluid, thus interrupting how faces and facades communicate with each other