2. Michael Stinnett
Contents
9. Scripting
10. Photography
1. Canopy Barcelona
2. Floating Rock Helsinki
3. Migratory Housing Ilwaco
4. Flow Housing St. Louis
6. Data
5. Water Pause
Barcelona, St. Louis
Phoenix
8. Material Exploration
7. Technical Documentation
Helsinki, St. Louis
Helsinki, St. Louis.
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3. Canopy
Reactivating Historically Significant Public Space
Career de l’Allada Vermell is a prime example of the placelessness introduced by
Barcelona’s aggressive clearing of open spaces in its incredibly dense, historic urban
fabric. Higher speed public traffic punctures this square, while residents use the
existing space as an ad-hoc sports field.
Introducing a canvas canopy over the public space creates a link that connects the
corner of the square. Canvas recalls the streets softened by window-hung laundry.
Softening the ground material slows the traffic. Adding a second anchor within
the square as an observation area frames the ad-hoc public space and formalizes
residents’ use.
Program supporting the uniquely Catalonian phenomenon of human towers (now
acknowledged by UNESCO) defines the four levels of the rising structure. The first
level is a hard concrete space with operable panels that expand lockers, restrooms,
and storage into the square. Above this are observation and office levels. The large,
long-span tree-like columns offer increasing amounts of deflection to the higher
levels. On the top level, accessible only by wire ladder, observers experience an
unstable sensation similar to being on the top of a human tower.
Approach to the square.
Aerial rendering.
Concept sketches in Rhino.
Professors Adrian Luchini, Elena Canovas, Mariona Ribelles
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Section A
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Elevation with urban context.
Long section of enclosure and canopy-covered space.
Clockwise from top left
Main canopy-covered assembly space.
Looking up from the main stairs.
Main stairs and ground floor entrance.
Site plan.
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Section A
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Office space, third level. Detail of long section.
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Top floor, instability duplicating the wavering
experience of being on top of a human tower.
Office space, steel tension.
Ground floor connection.
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8. Professors Philip Tidwell, Matti Rautiola
Floating Rock
Corporate Identity and Urban Relationships
Artek, evolving from its origins with a single design team, has become an institution
that protects and promotes good design. The Artek brand does not serve one aesthetic
style or one target market, but rather encompasses that which makes the world pleasant
to inhabit. The brand enables designers to experiment and innovate within their field. It
is this image of Artek that is promoted in this proposal. The monolithic upper building
protects the designers and teams within, insulating their creativity from the world to
the degree they see fit. As an education center, however, this project also demonstrates
Artek’s reaching out into the community, which resonates with the transparency of the
gallery at street level. Together, the monolithic feeling of shelter and the transparency of
permeability define Artek and so provide the origin of this proposal
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Dark copper draws the otherwise strange surface of the façade into dialogue with
Helsinki’s architectural past. The dimensions of the façade’s undulation are likewise
approximated from cantilevered bay windows. As part of an intensely pedestrian-
accessible part of Helsinki, the emphasis on transparency on the first floor promotes
connection to nearby green spaces and boulevards. A central atrium draws this tension
between closed and open upwards into the more private spaces, while floors that come
short of touch the exterior walls subvert the expected visual and, in some cases, acoustic
privacy of the usual office building. This openness allows more natural light to penetrate
the building, even while the skin retains good insulation and solid-void ratios. The voids
that are present act as a box-type double façade, reducing heat lost through glass.
Elevations
SouthWestAcross Ratakatu
Across Ratakatu & Yrjonkatu
East North
A. Gallery.
B. Light well floor plate gap.
C. Concept.
D. Concept.
E. Glass under rock.
Urban relationships.
Down the street, many rocks.
Activation overlaid with window patterns.
A B C D E
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Sauna & studio apartments.
Office and conference space.
Classrooms.
Upper gallery.
Main gallery.
Reading room.
Archive.
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Clockwise from top-left
View down through atrium.
Upper gallery.
Bedroom.
Glass-enclosed conference room.
Main gallery stairs.
Facing the public park.
Open office and conference room.
Bedrooms and corporate sauna.
Gallery, view to reading room, exterior connection.
Southern facade.
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11. Glass Panel
Flexible attachment
Space and Bolt Connection
Finished Gypsum Board Surface
Mullion Support
Roof Truss
Spacer to create Incline
Insulation as part of STC-60-rated Wall
Double Gypsum Board
Gympsum Board
Metal Attachment Plate
Rigid Thermal Insulation
Moisture Barrier
Aluminum Facade Support Bracket
Fire Stair Slab
Concrete Masonry Unit Fire-Rated Wall
Sidewalk
Metal Flashing
Drains to City Sewer
Exterior Bolt Panel Attachment
Aluminum Support
Aluminum Support (Orthogonal)
C Steel
Facade Support Connection Bolt
Finished Gypsum Board Surface
Metal Attachment Sheet
Hanging Metal Wire Support
Aluminum Support
Thermally Isolated Mullion
Stabilized by Column Connection
Concrete
Dark Concrete Tiles
Fireproofing Board
Metal Deck
Primary Structural W-Beam
Beam-Column Bolt Connection
Main Floor Slab
Reinforced Concrete
Finished Interior Surface
Concrete Foundation Wall
Plywood
Subfloor, Bolt-Connection to Slab
Foundation Insulation
Moisture Barrier
Concrete Spread Footing
French Drain
Finished Floor
AVEC / Artek-Vitra Education Center
Proposal for Yrjönkatu
Monolithic / Transparent
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12. Professor David Ruy
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Migratory Housing Typology in Ilwaco, Washington
Ilwaco, Washington is home to a large commercial fishing fleet, employing most
of the town’s 2,000 residents. Together with the nearby beach towns, this coastal
area is home to about 10,000 people in low-density typologies, mixed in with high-
density hotels. Tourism and fishing exports together are the leading economic
drivers, but the peak tourism season is short: only from midsummer to fall.
Taking advantage of the resonance between peak tourism and peak fishing, this
housing project offers residents a migration from higher density units to combined
units housing multiple families together and offering hotel space in vacated units.
Multiple-family living situations increase the possibility for group childcare and
reduce the loneliness of a family separated for months at a time. These group-
housing typologies operate along a spectrum from higher density down to
individual housing that shares kitchen and bath space with more distant neighbors.
In the least dense condition, units are separated by 300’, which is the sight distance
during the frequent heavy fog in this area. In the highest density condition, private
space is achieved through traditional opaque materials, but the corridors are
quadruple-loaded, ensuring a variety of interactions in the community.
Fishing
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Communal 2
migration
Peak Tourism
Temperature
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Section and plan cut axon.
Program resonances.
Site relationship, connection with ocean.
Migration sections.
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13. Third floor plan, main set of buildings.
Ground floor plan, main set of buildings.
Pairs and integrated units with exterior
hallways.
CMU disintegration.
Undulating corridor provides privacy and
connection.
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14. A. Interior of partially integrated unit with compressed image plane. Totally integrated unit.
Partially integrated unit / pair.
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Conventional unit.
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15. Flow Housing
Using Combined Live/Work/Retail/Produce Units and Circulation to find flow
The primary obstacles to adopting public transportation are long commuting
distances and daily necessities. Chief among these obstacles in a world of
increasingly single-parent, multiple-care-taker households is finding child care to be
able to work. To solve this, this project proposes live work units that connect child
care providers to a child care space as well as various levels of care for the elderly.
Employment in the form of workshop spaces, tutoring spaces, and integration into
the child care center enable productive use of time and contribution of value to the
housing community.
Live-work will occupy an increasing amount of economic productivity, while job
complexity will require more specific work-related assets at home. Can housing
provide a Level-5 lab for a telecommuting pharmaceutical researcher, a still to a
craft beer maker, a quiet space for an author, and a shop for a woodworker? Hyper
specificity will increase supply chain complexity. Density provides an opportunity
to join the supply chain as a genuine entity to supplement the inadequacies of
walkable options.
As society moves toward ever greater specificity and division, we lose community.
Simmel suggests that chance encounter provides one avenue. This project provides
spaces for individual users, tailored to their needs, but attempts to coerce these
hyper-specific individuals into a community? A quilt of subjective experiences
might unify under common, essential activities like social food preparation, or
physical activity, or even communal reading spaces.
But, each connection erodes the psychological sense of private space. Can we
reintroduce what the Situationists would call “life” into the process of circulating
through these hyperspecified spaces?
Can we willfully initiate individual ontology? Can we achieve this while breaking the
duality of the split Cartesian human being, and unify body and mind? What if one’s
commute engaged actively with both one’s mind and one’s own assertion of one’s
existence?
The circulation corridors of this project engage in a rhythm of mental challenge and
restoration, mutating the walking commute into a psychologically active experience.
Some users, however, do not require a circulation that invokes the psychological
construct of ‘flow’ and find their psychological center in another way, on or off site.
Site connections. Circulation.
Early massing model.
Solar exposure.
From left
Circulation and zones of activity.
Circulation and street connection.
Nodal site occupation.
Environmental borders.
Commuter activity.
Professor Ersela Kripa
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20. Water Pause
Using Topography to Create Naturally Cooled, Humid Space in the Desert
Parts of labs have strict HVAC requirements. However, many functions in labs, like
eating, meeting, and writing papers, are less sensitive. These spaces can be kept
cool and warm through lighter interventions than a traditional full-building HVAC
system. In Mountain Park, Phoenix, artificial arroyos serve as the moisture for
natural cooling for less technical space in a lab complex.
First, investigating site topography reveals moments of opportunity in lower grade and
more vegetated spaces. These opportunities will be recreated and reinforced with the
design of the intervention.
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Water flow. Moments of opportunity. Time of day and solar exposure correlation.
New terrain and hard space. Variously conditioned spaces. Circulation and public / private spectrum.
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23. Across Barcelona
Open/closed doors at +7.5m, history, and occupation
A small book correlating subjective and
objective dimensions of experiencing a city. The
topography line passes from the defensive hill
at Parc Mirador del Poble Sec to Jean Nouvel’s
Torre Agbar and through the Gothic Quarter,
revealing a full cross-section of Barcelona’s
diverse urban history.
Experiential collage
Historical annotations
Section of apertures every 50m
All street level apertures
Street geometry
Active/resting occupation
Plaça de les Glòries CatalanesStreets for Cars
Carrer de la Marina
Tall Buildings
Threshold of Occupation
Density and Artificial Open Space
Plan
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Arc de Triomf Parc de la Ciutadella
The old city wall provides the space for this monumental axis.
Occupying the historical border between city and
country, this street defined the entrance to the 1888
World’s Fair, with the Arc de Triomf as the gate proper.
This edge of the city has seen some of the greatest
urban reconfigurations.
Large scale is coupled with
relatively opaque facades to
reinforce the monumentality of
this space. The street is a park,
not commercial or residential in
the way that the old city is.
Passing through.
1706 1855 1878 1885 1900 1902 1930 1930 1967
North
Car Parking
Moped Parking
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This part of Sant Martí is not for pedestrians but
for cars. Gone is the crowded throng, replaced by
another layer of static enclosure.
Pedestrian friendliness is further
reduced by abandoned buildings.
The streets have an inconsistent scale
with many closed facades.
Cerda meant to relocate the center of the city away
from Placa de Catalunya and La Rambla in the 1850
plan. Since then, the square has struggled to gain
relevance in Barcelona. It is now being redeveloped as
a park with a local-first attitude, burying the infrastruc-
ture underneath the new green space. Efforts are also
being made to mitigate the scale of the area.
Glorias formed in the order brought to the chaos of
the countryside.
After the busy density of the
old city and the park, arriving at
Carrer de la Marina marks the
end of highly occupied spaces.
There are many fewer cafes
and pedestrians and street
users generally, and those that
there are usually are moving to
somewhere else.
The ground texture of the park supports the preferred
activities of sitting and lounging. This is the first turf on
the contour line.
soft
soft
soft
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soft
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CarrerdelaMarina
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density
density
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density
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density
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density
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density
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open
The winding dense streets of the old city give way briefly for
the new square.
Creating open space has been important for more than 100
years—the city walls started to disappear in 1854. It remains a
contemporary priority.
Barcelona is a dense city, but the Gothic Quarter is particu-
larly confining. Moments of expansion are quite welcome in
this area.
ifiable places carved out
riking change encoun-
ess, and density that
ter space with many fewer
the street level by the
their opacity.
et work together with
pression and expansion.
olors the street geometry
of the space. Activity is a
bution of the city, but, on
ory and urban form.
streetwidth
open
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balcony
hicles
dynamicpeople
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The monumental axis. The wide multilayered park section.
Short, opaque buildings define the street here.
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Large plazas and larger buildings.
glistening, gleaming
polished metal, polished glass
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Design Museum of Barcelona
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Across Barcelona
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The streets of Barcelona exhibit a
rhythm. Following the +7.5m contour
line from the new, iconic Jean Nou-
vel-designed Torre Agbar to Parc del
Mirador del Poble Sec, this line docu-
ments a subjective/objective experi-
ence of the city.
We start at the midpoint:
Carrer de l’Allada Vermell
Our home for the first
two weeks, these streets
also lead to studio.
Narrow, with worn
cobblestones and dense
with activity.
Narrow = light/dark
Via LaietanaOld City Typology Carrer de l’Allada Vermell
Carrer de l’Allada Vermell is a
cleared square in the fabric of the
Old City. The relatively young
intervention (finished only in 2008)
marks the efforts of Barcelona to
reinvent itself, to create vibrant
spaces for its citizens.
Via L aietana is a divide between
two parts of Barrio Gotico. The
high traffic and infrequent crossing
lights combine with large scale and
high opacity.
Narrow street with heavy
shadow line. The brightly
lit half of the street
exposes plants and open
apertures.
Plants play a large role in
defining the softness of
parts of the contour line.
Laundry likewise softens
the otherwise hard
buildings. The presence
of these elements can
make even relatively
opaque stretches of the
contour line feel more
comfortable.
Expansion at Placa George Orwell
1990
Contraction on Carrer des Escudellers
The Old City is an enclosure of facades on the street.
La Rambla
Parque Mirador del Poble Sec Poble Sec Carrer d’Obradors
plants
plants
plants
plants
bright
bright
sky
sky
sky
shadowshadow
plants
laundrylaundry
1250: shipyard
1750: military zone
1850: disorganized
1950: organized
1997: present state
An end of the +7.5m walk is this
new park. Built in 1997, this is a
large forest-like space that
defines an edge of the city. This
is a particularly old part of the
city: the defensive mountain is
uphill, the city walls are only a
few meters away. There were
many wells here, feeding textile
mills and shipyards before
working class housing.
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Cerda
Gothic
Military
Forest
Forest
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City
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City
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1440: starts becoming a street
1703: trees planted
1766: street form
alized
1778: becomes main thoroughfare
1850: gaining prominence as a center
1924: metro
South
All the stores here are open,
laundry and plants disappear,
replaced by open balconies in
grand stone buildings.
There is a constant stream of activity along the tight but
commercially intense streets of the old city. Turning the
corner to Rambla intensifies an already dense amount of
people.
Turn the corner and the number of static inhabitants
remains high but the dynamic inhabitants are gone.
Vehicles become more important to the definition of the
street.
LaCanadenca
2003
Tres Xemeneies Gardens
LaCanadenca
Pass through the park of the
historical site of La Canadenca.
Here there was a power station and
site of the strike in 1919 that
brought the 8 hour work day to
Catalonia.
Parks like this provide an edge to the
relentless hard surface of the city. This
contour line has parks outside the
ancient walls on both sides, reflecting
the strong desire to prioritize green
space whenever space is available.
open
1855 1902 1967
dappledlight
dappled light
stone
hard
old
worn
durable
treestrees
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crowd
crowd
The jostling,
loud, charged,
gulf between
neighbor-
hoods. Grand
buildings,
calm trees,
and ocean
breeze
contrast the
density.
La Rambla is a dramatic example of
the stone-based public space that
pervades Barcelona. Soft space
becomes precious because of these
large expanses of stone.
The threshold between the new grid plan and the old wandering city. Cars
already take priority in the first block at the edge.
New New New Old
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1855
Pedestrian Crossing
cars
cars
cars
cars
cars
cars
cars
cars
moped
moped
cars
cars
Our home for the first
two weeks, these streets
also lead to studio.
Narrow, with worn
cobblestones and dense
with activity.
Narrow = light/dark
Narrow street with heavy
shadow line. The brightly
lit half of the street
exposes plants and open
apertures.
The Old City is an enclosure of facades on the street.
La Rambla
Poble Sec Carrer d’Obradors
plants
plants
plants
plants
bright
bright
sky
sky
sky
shadowshadow
plants
laundrylaundry
1250: shipyard
1750: military zone
1850: disorganized
1950: organized
1997: present state
1706 1878
Cerda
Gothic
Military
300: Roman wall
1440: starts becoming a street
1703: trees planted
1766: street formalized
1778: becomes main thoroughfare
1850: gaining prominence as a center
1924: metro
All the stores here are open,
laundry and plants disappear,
replaced by open balconies in
grand stone buildings.
There is a constant stream of activity along the tight but
commercially intense streets of the old city. Turning the
corner to Rambla intensifies an already dense amount of
people.
Turn the corner and the number of static inhabitants
remains high but the dynamic inhabitants are gone.
Vehicles become more important to the definition of the
street.
2003
meneies Gardens
of the
nadenca.
r station and
that
k day to
dappledlight
dappled light
stone
hard
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worn
durable
treestrees
crowdcrowdcrowd crowd crowd crowd crowd crowd crowdcrowd
crowd
crowd
The jostling,
loud, charged,
gulf between
neighbor-
hoods. Grand
buildings,
calm trees,
and ocean
breeze
contrast the
density.
La Rambla is a dramatic example of
the stone-based public space that
pervades Barcelona. Soft space
becomes precious because of these
large expanses of stone.
The threshold between the new grid plan and the old wandering city. Cars
already take priority in the first block at the edge.
New New New Old
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ld
O
ld
1706
1878
1855
Professors Elena Canovas and Antonio Sanmartín
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24. Phenomenological Mapping
Diagramming View Corridors & Obstructions, and Types of Activation in St Louis. Group with Micah Stanek
Each of these diagrams corresponds to another type of phenomenological
investigation. These include event activations, time of day activations (as
measured by counting users of the space), prevailing winds, distance to trees,
topography that exceeds a threshold, and circulation. These phenomena are
fed into a Grasshopper script to create the final diagram.
The first map, made with a partner, is an Arch-D sized paper collage. Each
point was measured and photographed on site, after which a sector of colored
paper circle was cut out and placed to indicate the ability to view different
phenomena. Emerging from this diagram are the moments of topography and
large trees that define the site.
Work was equally divided throughout concept and construction. The script-
generated mappings on the opposite page are entirely my own.
Frequency of ActivationIntenstiy of Activation
Scale 1” = 200’ Circulation
100’
Density of Traffic Flow
More
Less
Winter
Summer
Scale 1” = 200’
100’
Data from Glenn, Vanessa, and Eric.
Prevaililng Wind
High Activation and Low Circulation
Steep Edges
Scale 1” = 200’
100’
Composite Edges
Professor Natalie Yeats
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25. Punctuate/Undulate
Environmentally Responsive Script-Generated Facade System
In Helsinki, there are few warm days every year. Those few warm days can be
handled with a minimum of energy input if sun shading is carefully considered.
What happens if sun shading becomes an integral focus of the design process?
These shades are made of undulations of the load-bearing concrete facade.
Apertures of three sizes set the overhang distance required by Helsinki’s summer
sun angle. Grasshopper provides the new surface matched to the windows (which
are also generated in Grasshopper with a circle packing algorithm).
The first iteration provides more dramatic undulation due to the larger difference
betwen the smallest and largest apertures, but the resulting wall is too material
intensive. Using smaller apertures with less difference between them, the second
iteration achieves adequate sun shading with relatively efficient use of material.
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finish floor
fan coil return air vent
hanging bar lights
floor supports
fan coil water supply
heating/cooling mode valve
water for building use
fan coil water return
city hot and cold water supply
drain to city
pan and joist concrete slab
radiant heating tubes
insulation
window assembly
metal angle clips
fan coil intake cover
cnc-formwork concrete facade
plaster board
operable inner window
assembly shell
insulation
cnc-cut insulation cap
operable ventilation
plaster surface
fan coil intake cover
exterior operable window
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Section Heating Mode
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finish floor
fan coil return air vent
hanging bar lights
floor supports
fan coil water supply
radiant slabs
bar lights heating/cooling mode valve
water for building use
hot and cold water mixing
adjustable valve
pendant lights
fan coil water return
fan coils pre-heating air
recessed lights
city hot and cold water supply
drain to city
pan and joist concrete slab
radiant heating tubes
insulation
window assembly
metal angle clips
fan coil intake cover
cnc-formwork concrete facade
plaster board
operable inner window
assembly shell
insulation
cnc-cut insulation cap
operable ventilation
plaster surface
fan coil intake cover
exterior operable window
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ARCH 439H . Environmental Systems II . Chandler Ahrens
Section Cooling Mode
Section Heating Mode
Generic Building
DAYLIGHTING ANALYSES
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West Elevation 1’ = 1/16” South Elevation 1’ = 1/16”
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finish floor
fan coil return air vent
hanging bar lights
floor supports
fan coil water supply
fan coil water supply
radiant slabs
bar lights
cooling tower
refrigerant loop
pump
heating/cooling mode valve
heating/cooling mode valve
water for building use
fan coil units
hot and cold water mixing
adjustable valve
pendant lights
fan coil water return
fan coil water return
fan coils pre-heating air
recessed lights
ducts
city hot and cold water supply
drain to city
pan and joist concrete slab
radiant heating tubes
insulation
facade-supported slab
Responding to the over-illumination of
the generic office space, the proposed
facade system uses thickness calibrated
to block summer sun from hitting
windows of various size.
Starting with a set of openings that vary
in size based on the program behind
them, the facade undulates in front of
the punctuated openings. The shade
allow minimal air conditioning use when
supplemented with natural ventilation.
slab-supported facade
return air
window assembly
metal angle clips
fan coil intake cover
cnc-formwork concrete facade
plaster board
operable inner window
assembly shell
insulation
cnc-cut insulation cap
operable ventilation
plaster surface
fan coil intake cover
exterior operable window
Group with Keri Mate and Joan Walbert
Professor Chandler Ahrens
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Punctuate/Undulate
26. 508’
524’
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
534’
545’-4”
FOURTH FLOOR
ROOF
555’-4”
TOP OF PARAPET
557’-4”
STUD @ 2' OC
SOLID SURFACE SILL
SLAB REINFORCING WOVEN WIRE MESH
SPACER STUD
CONTINUOUS VERTICAL CURTAIN WALL MULLION
VAPOR BARRIER
GYPSUM BOARD
BENT PLATE
W9
ALUMINUM COATED BRACING
GYPSUM BOARD
MULLIONS
BENT PLATE
TUBE STEEL
ROOF DECK
ROOFING MEMBRANE
SUBSTRATE BOARD
PRECAST CONCRETE BASE
C HANGER
FIRESAFING ANNODIZED ALUMINUM PERFORATED BLADES
GYPSUM BOARD
RIGID INSULATION
VAPOR BARRIER
METAL DECK
BRICK
ANODIZED ALUMINUM SUNSHADE OUTRIGGER
VAPOR BARRIER
W9
L BEAM
SPACERS
RIGID INSULATION
FORMED ALUMINUM COPING
SHEATHING
SPANDREL GLASS
ALUMINUM CLIP ATTACHMENT
VAPOR BARRIER
INSULATION
C HANGER
PAINTED STEEL OUTRIGGER
INSULATION
ALUMINUM PLATE
ZINC COATED COPPER DOWNSPOUT
ZINC COATED COPPER GUTTER
ALUMINUM PANEL GLAZED
TEMPERED GLASS
STEEL ANGLE
#5 CONTINUOUS
BATTED INSULATION
CONCRETE MASONRY UNIT FULLY GROUTED
FILTER FABRIC
EXPANSION JOINT
Lexi White & Michael Stinnett
Patrick Brown
Delmar Housing Wall Section & Digital Model
5 December 2013
Scale 3/4” = 1’
Lexi White & Michael Stinnett
Patrick Brown
Delmar Housing Wall Section & Digital Model
5 December 2013
Building Study
Documenting Loop Lofts in St Louis Group with Lexi White
This model reconstructs the structural and facade systems of a new building in St
Louis.
Work was completed together simultaneously, alternating between 2D and 3D.
Professor Eric Hoffman
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27. Plywood Chair Professor Julie Tolvanen
Starting with a precedent analysis of an existing chair, this project developed a new
take on the now quite old tradition of plywood chairs. Inspired by the comfortable
curves of the Clash chair, this chair is comfortable, with soft curves inviting users to
try it out. Hidden connection hardware gives an illusion of lightness, reinforcing the
approachability of the chair.
445mm
407mm
820mm
394mm
503mm
179mm
203mm
Connection:
4x #6 T-Nut
with M6 Screws
510mm
543mm
102˚
93˚
438mm
353mm
445mm
407mm
820mm
394mm
503mm
179mm
203mm
Connection:
4x #6 T-Nut
with M6 Screws
510mm
543mm
102˚
93˚
438mm
353mm
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28. Material Exploration
Material Studies Assembling Steam-bent Basswood
Hand drawing of connection types.
Final bent form.Completed assembly.
Early explorations.
Professor Natalie Yeats
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29. Scripting Geometries
Pieces of Projects and Experiments
Arrays an arbitrary geometry along an arbitrary
curve and orients the top to face another
arbitrary curve.
Uses a graph to bias the division of a curve and
then constructs an algorithmically generated
rectangular prism on this points.
Computes an extrusion distance based on
arbitrarily sized circles and fits a new surface to
that minimum distance.
Working under Lavender Tessmer, I was
responsible for extracting computed geometry
and creating the curves the CNC would follow,
including connections.
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I believe in controlling the tools of practice. Computer based design process has
opened complexity many orders of magnitude beyond the variables that tools
provided in the pen and vellum era, but with it has come a profusion of design
possibilities. While software is never a design driver, knowing which tool can help
achieve a design goal requires broad knowledge of the available tools at all scales.
Python and VB scripts bring the potential to implement new algorithms without the
associated cost and time of commercial software release. Programming is the new
literacy and understanding the computer as the tool of design is one of my primary
career goals.
Digital design and fabrication enables iteration, collaboration, and computation
that is changing the industry. Workflow tools are beginning to handle the
complexity of multi-firm, multi-role architecture projects and the results are already
compelling. At this stage in my process I use macros, scripts, and Grasshopper
definitions to compute precise but dynamic geometries, make progressive changes,
and iterate parts of designs closer to deadlines. Algorithmically driven design
using Python is my next area of interest, with workflows involving Excel and
custom software. Distributed workflow and multi-user files are the most exciting
developments on the horizon for me, especially leveraging existing collaboration
tools like Git and its ability to handle the text-as-geometry of the IFC file.
In school, it has become clear that true collaboration offers speed, accuracy, and
creativity well beyond that available to individual designers. The cost of this
collaboration is in the clarity of the concept at all scales and the tools to implement
dependent parts of the design simultaneously. The first problem is solved in
practice and the second is solved in software.
